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He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter’s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery. This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.

In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television.

This modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today, and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of research, Neil Postman suggests that childhood is a recent invention. But now the division between child and adult is eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into entertainment and pitches news and advertising at the intellectual level of 10-year-olds.

In a world where an anti-aging cure is available worldwide, immortality comes with its own unique problems. John Farrell is about to get "The Cure". Old age can never kill him now. The only problem is, everything else still can.

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.

The Peace of Amiens has left Jack Aubrey with no ship, no enemy to pursue, and no possibility of prize money to supplement his meager income. His decision to seek refuge from his troubles, and creditors, in France proves doubly disastrous.

It’s time to end the apology tour for traditional masculinity. A generation of young men and boys are being raised in self-loathing, taught that the core of their identity as men is not only abhorrent but the fountainhead of humanity’s ills. In No Apologies, veteran author and professor Anthony Esolen issues a powerful defense of the virtues of masculine strength.

Four young women have been found murdered—tortured and strangled in their own beds—all victims of the same brilliant monster. Using a skilled hand and the latest technology in forensic medicine, Kay Scarpetta begins the process of gathering the microscopic clues the latest battered body has to give.

In Nineteenth Century Iceland, communication over any distance was difficult, at best. Íslandspóstur and the author's great-great-great grandfather, Jón Magnusson, changed that. From an orphan to a trailblazer to an immigrant to America, Jón Magnusson, known better as Jón Póstur, led an extraordinary life - one that is still remembered in Iceland and America a century and a half later.

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution; a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a best seller.

Join Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell as they bypass pleasantries and promotional banter to deliver raw, unfiltered conversations with some of today’s most influential figures. Featuring titans across a spectrum of professions (from Olympic gold medalists to trailblazing Fortune 500 CEOs and everything in between), The Unusual Suspects with Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell pulls back the curtain to offer listeners unprecedented access to the minds of the world’s most extraordinary individuals and their distinct paths to success.

Kate believed she had it all. A loving husband, two beautiful little girls and a million happy memories still to collect. Everything was how it should be—a family, together. But Kate discovers she has been living a lie. Her husband, Michael, has betrayed her in the most unimaginable way, tearing all love and trust to pieces. Feeling lost and alone, Kate doesn’t know what to believe anymore. With Michael’s secrets exposed and her marriage hanging by a thread, she fears that life may never be the same again.

As the head of an FBI Behavioral Science team, Anne Burge hunts serial killers. With twenty-two captures and convictions, her team is among the best in the Bureau. In Florida, a series of gruesome killings is escalating. Nicknamed “Pussy Venom” on the internet, Anne’s latest serial killer rapes and then injects snake venom into his victims’ bodies. Anne’s ability to track and find serial killers is because of her father, a notorious serial killer called The Postman. For the first nine years of Anne’s life, her father used her as bait to lure his victims. She saw how it was done ...

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

On a December night in 1978, Courtney Lund O'Neil's mother, teenaged Kim Byers, saw her friend Rob Piest alive for the last time. At the end of his shift at the pharmacy where they both worked, fifteen-year-old Rob went outside to speak to a contractor named John Wayne Gacy about a possible job. That night Rob became Gacy's final victim; his body was later found in the Des Plaines River. Kim's testimony, along with a receipt belonging to her found in Gacy's house, proving that Rob had been there, would be pivotal in convicting the serial killer who killed over thirty young men and boys.

In The Viral Inquisitor, media theorist Andrey Mir takes you deep into the hidden forces that shape our digital lives, public debates, and political polarization. This isn’t another book about fake news, AI, or social media scandals. It’s about the structure of digital media itself—what it does to our minds, our society, and our sense of truth. Martin Gurri (author of The Revolt of the Public) calls Mir “the most profound observer of media writing today”—and for good reason. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Mir unpacks the biggest ideas behind the internet age: from ...

To Catch A Predator, You Need Prey. Anne Burge knows what it means to fail. The public fallout surrounding the revelation of her real identity as the daughter of the notorious serial killer known as The Postman has forced Anne to leave the FBI in disgrace. She has moved to the middle of nowhere, as far as she can get from the demons that haunt her. A new home, a new love, a new town, but Anne will always hear the siren call of her past. Meanwhile, young teenage girls are disappearing in the Heartland. One by one, the girls vanish without a trace. Someone is taking the girls in broad ...

A year after the events of The Dollmaker, disgraced former FBI behavioral science profiler Anne Burge is faced with the inevitability of her own dark history as Lily Randolph, the last of the Mailboxes, tracks her down and begins the hunt. Meanwhile, an old college friend reaches out to Anne about a young boy he believes may be a pure psychopath. The third and final installment of The Postman’s Daughter series pushes Anne toward a decision that changes everything.

A postman's mundane routine takes an unexpected turn when John MacGregor finds himself entangled in a web of crime and artistic passion. From the grey streets of Nottingham to the vibrant beaches of Koh Toa, his journey unfolds against the backdrop of tattoos and shadows. "Fragments of the Canvas" traces the contours of his life, exploring the intricate interplay between redemption and the darker hues of human nature.