Shortlisted for Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers' AwardsLonglisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker PrizeTHRILLER OF THE YEAR in GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH AND DAILY EXPRESS'Totally addictive. Like Fight Club, only darker' S.J. Watson'I loved this book. Dark and at times almost comical, a great blend of crime thriller and the darkest imaginable dom...

In the space-faring future of a Humankind without life to live with other than descendants of Earth for their entire history, the loneliest individuals of Humanity will go to the edge of the galaxy to fulfill the dream of knocking on the door of their first intelligent interstellar neighbors, to realize the legend of alien life. First impressions are crucial to building positive relationships, but Humans have never been famous for their understanding of strangers. Good intentions are prone...

It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization. In theory, he argues, the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO want to see all nations developing into modern industrial societies. In practice, though, those at the top are 'kicking away the ladder' to wealth that they themselves climbed....

sa·mar·i·tannoun /səˈmærɪt(ə)n/A compassionate person generous in helping those in distressBritish investigative journalist Gabriella Reuben—Bree to everyone but her mother—has worked hard to build a new life in Düsseldorf and put the past behind her. That is until she opens her front door to find the corrupt woman who publicly outed Bree as transgender—the same woman now begging for Bree's help.Petra Keller is a despicable...

Un pezzo d'uomo alto due metri, addominali da paura, occhi di un verde lussurioso e selvaggio, Samaritan è appena arrivato su un aereo bimotore dall'Amazzonia direttamente al cuore della famiglia Saxton. Porta con sé un dolore da dimenticare, una maledizione con cui convivere e una vendetta da compiere. Quando Linda Tanner, vita grigia animata solo a sprazzi da un dispettoso diavolo personale, affronterà il pilota dalla pelle color miele non avrà altra possibilità: dovrà fare appello a una...

Authoritative introduction to the Samaritan tradition from antiquity to the presentMost people associate the term "Samaritan" exclusively with the New Testament stories about the Good Samaritan and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Very few are aware that a small community of about 750 Samaritans still lives today in Palestine and Israel; they view themselves as the true Israelites, having resided in their birthplace for thousands of years and preserving unchanged the re...

A battle cry to rise up against the ACLU's attempts to destroy our freedom of religion—from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Obama Nation.Liberty in America has always depended upon one thing: a citizenry who believes in God. Our founding fathers understood that without faith in God, rights and morality could not last. Without religion, true freedom cannot long endure. So for those who seek to take those rights away, transferring th...

Etienne Nodet examines the Samaritans and their religion, using Jewish and Christian sources, including rabbinic literature and the latest archaeology. Nodet tells the story of the Samaritans and their religion, showing how they were faithful to a classical form of monotheism.Nodet traces the Samaritan story from more recent to more ancient times. He begins by looking at the importance of the Samaritans in the time of Josephus and the New Testament, taking in the area formed by Gal...

The Samaritan Book of Joshua was first brought to the notice of European scholars by the eminent Orientalist, Joseph J. Scaliger, who obtained a manuscript of it from the Samaritans of Cairo, in the year 1584. This MS. was deposited by him in the library of the University of Leyden, and for a long period remained the only copy of the work in Europe; in fact, it is only within the last half of the present century that other MSS. have been obtained; one of these is now in the possession of t...

One crossed wire, three dead bodies and six bottles of bleach. Seth Beauman can't sleep. He stays up late, calling strangers from his phonebook, hoping to make a connection, while his wife, Maeve, sleeps upstairs. A crossed wire finds a suicidal Hadley Serf on the phone to Seth, thinking she is talking to The Samaritans. But a seemingly harmless, late-night hobby turns into something more for Seth and for Hadley, and soon their late-night talks are turning into day-time meet-ups. And then ...

Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to Detective Nerese Ammons, a friend from childhood, who now sets out to unlock the secret of his reticence. Set against the intensely realized backdr...

You can live a radically inclusive life without compromising your beliefs or the truth of the gospel.Humanity is more divided now than ever, gridlocked over social issues, race, gender, climate change, immigration, and our responsibility to vulnerable people. How did we get here? And what can we do to build bridges where walls exist?As a pastor committed to building deep relationships with people whose life experiences are different than his own, Terry Cris...