A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world's most powerful religion.From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent in the Christian Church.As the author traces the Church's attempts at enforcing orthodoxy, from the days of Constantine to the modern Catholic Church's lingering conflicts...

Dr. Victor Equerry is an experienced virologist, contracted to the CDC. He's been tasked to create a serum which will render all humanity immune to viral infection and disease. It's a lofty goal and one he is making headway on. That is, until the mornng the FBI raids the facility and accuses him of manufacturing bioweapons. Interrupted in the process of performing animal trials, Victor believes the unannounced raiders are foreign agents and injects himself with the serum rather than have i...

In the 23rd century you can jack into the web, shop at a mall floating half a mile above the street, kill yourself with the drug of the week, and wake up in a new body.The rich can have what they want -- and they want immortality. What they get is gHost, generic Host Somnambulant Transfer. The dead become re-animated hosts for the living. The trade is controlled by megacorps and is highly regulated. Getting on the list is the perk for any corporate ladder-climber. But the ...

If a Lycan loves you he will take you and ravage you with intense passion, make you come all night, and leave you exhausted and satisfied. In return for your love and your unquestioning obedience he will protect you, cherish you, and love you forever. He will fight to the death to keep you.A vampire will seduce you with detached casualness and make you come until you scream. He will not stay with you, but will depart smiling, uncaring, having satisfied his own selfish desires and l...

A different kind of hero… A lifetime ago on a dark and lonely night back in the jungles of South East Asia, a hole was torn in the curtain that divides Here and There. A handful of men survived that night to fight the evil. Joe Horn is one of them.Shadows in the City (Joseph Horn Prequel)Horn’s spent the past twenty five years running, always one step ahead of a nightmare. He has no home, and he never sleeps. He roams the streets, always alert. He does not need emotional co...

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREA BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB)ONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)A man disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he expectedIn Rouiba, a nondescript suburb of Algiers, an unnamed man with a troubled past escapes his everyday life to find himself caring for an ol...

Elevated homocysteine is a powerful, independent risk factor in more than 100 major medical conditions, including heart disease, strokes, and Alzheimer's disease. The authors discuss factors that contribute to high homocysteine, tell how to detect it if it's too high, and explain how to dramatically lower it.

WINNER OF THE 2019 PRIX DE LA LITTÉRATURE ARABESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONA sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt andHani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo’s Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month...

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURE ~ WINNER OF THE KATARA PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONA stunning and luminous novel of modern Lebanon, a deeply human portrayal of men and women longing for change“This novel transcends the limits of its own setting in space and time to unveil a general human reality for those of us in contemporary society who live in cities that stifle souls and kill dreams.”—Sarah Enany, ...

Rituals 1: Shadow ManHe had it all. A house in the country. A beautiful wife he adored. A baby on the way. Everything a man could ever hope for. He lost everything in the flash of a thin silver blade, a bloody sacrifice in an ill-conceived ritual designed to raise an ancient god.Now David Bone is a man in search of himself -- he walks, he breathes, but he's lost in the shadows, somewhere between the dead and the living. Then he meets a woman who wakes savage feelings in him...

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (THE NATIONAL)"Exquisitely lyrical language."—Financial TimesAn epic of love and revenge in a time of war and slaveryAt the close of the nineteenth century, freed slave Bakhit is let ...

Translated by Jonathan Wright, Taxi by Khaled Al Khamissi is a sharp, engaging portrait of Cairo told through 58 fictional monologues from its taxi drivers. Blending humor, frustration, and resilience, these voices reveal the complexities of modern Egypt with raw honesty and deep humanity. A bestseller in the Arab world, Taxi offers global readers a rare glimpse into the heart of Egyptian street life.