Cain stalks his archenemy’s wife to find his elusive opponent, not knowing how his growing obsession with Olivia will change the rules and the battle.Cain Jones is the leader of a paranormal crime task force dedicated to protecting mankind from the revival of evil and the dawning of a second Dark Age. The team under his command uses their seven forbidden arts secretively to fight their archenemy, Godfrey Reid, a man who is set on turning immortal and wiping out the...

Das Barttragen ist eine kulturelle Praxis, die seit Jahrtausenden Teil der menschlichen Geschichte ist. Bärte haben in verschiedenen Epochen und Kulturen als Symbol für Macht, Weisheit, Religion, Männlichkeit, Rebellion und Mode gedient. Ihre Bedeutung und die bevorzugten Stile haben sich dabei im Laufe der Zeit immer wieder verändert. Das erste Kapitel beleuchtet die Entwicklung des Barttragens von der Antike bis zur heutigen Zeit und zeigt, wie eng Bärte mit gesellschaftlichen, kulturell...

The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. "One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life" ( LA Weekly).Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving . . . and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of being a "homo" would routinely be beaten up, Monette kept his secret throughout his adolescence. He wrestled with his sexuality for the first thirty years of his ...

DS Jim Walsh is an experienced and once brilliant detective who has a tendency to drink far too much. However, what he sees as an innocent habit that doesn’t harm anyone but himself and maybe his marriage, is about to cause him some serious problems.Waking up with a pounding head and a mouth as dry as the Sahara after another night on the tiles is nothing new and nothing that a few tablets can’t fix.The bigger problem is the dead girl lying in bed next to him.In an ...

A novel exploring war in an alternate post–9/11 America "is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter" (Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books)From Paul Auster, a "literary original" ( Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.Seventy-two-year-old Augu...

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning.In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and philanthropy. His passion, curiosity, and intellectual rigor-combined with the resources to launch and support new initiat...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throughout from Joanne Woodward, George Roy Hill, Tom Cruise, Elia K...

'Riveting... Everyone should read it' Observer'Nothing short of sudden death will distract you from The Jigsaw Man' Independent'Compelling... Fascinating... Britton has done hugely important work that saves lives' Sunday Times___________________________________________The award-winning true crime classic.Forensic psychologist Paul Bri...

Game Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double murder in Dead Man's Wake, a thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron.On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake. When they arrive at the scene, their spotlight reveals a gruesome sight: a severed arm floating j...

Na een reeks traumatische gebeurtenissen zoekt August Brill afleiding in zijn eigen verbeelding. Slapen gaat hem moeilijk af, dus ontsnapt hij aan de werkelijkheid in een zelfontworpen dystopie. Hij beeldt zich een wereld in waarin de Twin Towers nog overeind staan en waarin de verkiezingen in 2000 leiden tot het uiteenvallen van de Verenigde Staten. Zelfs een burgeroorlog maakt deel uit van zijn verhaal. In het diepst van de nacht raakt hij echter de regie kwijt en belandt hij via ingewik...

Washington, DC, 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nation's capital, and Joseph Stalin's death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Soviet Union.The CIA, meanwhile, is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets, compromising missions around the globe. Undercover agents have been assassinated, and anti-Communist plots are being cut short in ruthlessly efficient fashion....

Edward Hunter har allt en kärleksfull fru och dotter, ett bra jobb med goda inkomster, en ljus framtid och ett mycket mörkt förflutet. För tjugo år sedan fångades och dömdes en seriemördare som sedan dess suttit inspärrad i Nya Zeelands mest ökända högsäkerhetsfängelse. Den mannen var Edwards far. I hela sitt liv har Edward kämpat för att lägga mardrömmen som var hans barndom bakom sig. Men under dagarna före jul kliver det nakna våldet på nytt in i hans tillvaro. Är det Edwards öde att bl...