Showing results by author "Samuel James" in All Categories

On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today's most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman's insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, listeners will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a "scrolling ourselves to death" world.

In 1773, 63-year-old literary giant Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell, a 32-year-old Scottish lawyer, on an historic horseback expedition across the Scottish Highlands to the Western Islands. The unlikely duo's travelogue records their fascinating conversations and encounters with great wit and incredible detail. Johnson, one of the 18th century's most celebrated writers, provided an elegant and stately account of everything from Loch Ness's medicinal waters to Scotland's puzzling lack of trees.

This Audiobook contains the following works: "The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money" [P.T. Barnum] Starts at Chapter 19, "As a Man Thinketh" [James Allen] Starts at Chapter 40, "The Science of Getting Rich" [Wallace D. Wattles] Starts at Chapter 49, "Morning and Evening Thoughts" [James Allen] Starts at Chapter 67, "The prophet" [Khalil Gibran] Starts at Chapter 131, "Dollars Want Me: The New Road To Opulence" [Henry Harrison Brown] Starts at Chapter 159, "The Art Of War" [Sun Tzu] Starts at Chapter 166.

Initially published in 1775, A Journey to the Western Isles recounts a three-month trip to upper Scotland that Samuel Johnson undertook with James Boswell a couple of years previously. During their adventure, they discover a novel culture, stunning landscapes and welcoming locals – all described in Johnson's captivating prose.

Audible presents The Heartful Life with Daaji, an Audible Original. Life often demands of us that we juggle not one, but many roles at a time. When we are young, we can be both the playful child, and the curious student. As we grow, we mediate between being the supportive partner, the irreplaceable employee, and the enabling leader.

With advancements in internet technology, people can get instant answers to just about any of their questions, connect long distance with family and friends, and stay informed with events around the world in real time. In Digital Liturgies, tech-realist Samuel D. James examines the connection between patterns in technology and human desires. Everyone longs for a glimpse of heaven; James argues they are just looking for it in the wrong place—the internet.

From the makers of the award winning TV series comes a new story following the women inmates of Wentworth Correctional Facility. Maddie, Scarlett and Anna are three 18-year-olds on the threshold of the rest of their lives. Or they will be, once they finish serving their sentences at  Mockridge Juvenile Centre. With release dates fast approaching, the girls are out of chances - one more altercation with the law and it’s adult prison.

HARD KILLS A Reid Stone Thriller – Book One By Samuel James “They used him. Now he’s going to bury them.” Reid ‘Breaker’ Stone is an ex-SAS operator with nothing left to prove — and no one left to trust. When a call comes in from an old unit contact, Stone is pulled back into the shadows. The job is simple: eliminate a terror finance courier quietly, cleanly, off the books. But nothing about this mission is what it seems. Within hours, the hit team sent to clean up the scene turns on Stone. Betrayed and hunted, he goes off-grid, forced to use every skill the Regiment taught ...

The 18th Century Classics Collection steps into the vibrant and tumultuous world of 18th century Europe. With this captivating anthology of some of the most influential works of 1700s literature, we encounter biting satire, passionate romance, and political tumultuousness. From the philosophical musings of Candide to the dark, gothic suspense of The Monk, this collection provides an eclectic mix of narrative styles and genres, capturing the essence of an age marked by intellectual revolution, social upheaval, and profound artistic expression.

🔥 Burn Notice – A Hunter Thriller (Book One) You don’t leave the Regiment. Not clean. Not when you know the things Joseph Hunter knows. When a high-value target slips through the cracks in a covert Ethiopian mission, ex-SAS operator Joseph Hunter takes the fall. Discharged. Disavowed. Left to rot with nothing but regrets and a drinking habit that won't let go. But when an old enemy resurfaces—linked to a VX nerve agent and a string of shadow assassinations—Hunter is pulled back into a game he thought he’d escaped. Tasked with tracking a traitor buried deep within the UK ...

“I’m deconstructing.” Yet another social-media post announces departure from the Christian faith. The cause could be sex, race, politics, social justice, science, hell - or all of the above. For many, Christianity is becoming implausible, even impossible to believe. While it might be tempting to leave the church in order to find answers, Before You Lose Your Faith argues that church should be the best place to deal with doubts.

This is a collection of remarkable personal accounts of a variety of American Civil War incidents, from both Union and Confederate perspectives. These vivid and absorbing reminiscences provide an inside view of many fascinating events of the time, shedding light on our shared past and illuminating the character and point of view of those who lived through an extraordinary time in our nation's history. Enjoy these excursions back through the mists of time, recounted by those who were there.

KILL SIGNAL A Reid Stone Thriller – Book Two By Samuel James “He vanished after Spud’s death. Now he’s back — and someone’s going to pay.” Months after the events of Hard Kills, ex-SAS operator Reid ‘Breaker’ Stone is living off-grid, a ghost with a Glock and a grudge. His only ally, Spud Wallace, died in the line — and Stone’s not looking for justice. He’s hunting the truth. When a coded message arrives at an old dead drop, it sets Stone on a one-man warpath. The target: a former MI6 controller turned covert arms broker, now laundering weaponised pathogens through ...

Blood Covenant Tom Rourke Thriller – Book Two A year after killing the man who ordered his mother’s death, ex-SAS operator Tom Rourke is a weapon without a war. Officially burned by the British state. Unofficially deployed by MI5’s most dangerous handler. When a quiet gun-running route through the Irish midlands erupts in violence, Rourke is sent to observe. But his target list changes the moment he sees the truth — this isn’t just another smuggling chain. It’s the same network Angela Rourke uncovered before she was murdered. From Belfast backstreets to Boston’s gang war zones...

HUNTER – FALSE LIGHT Book Two in the explosive Hunter thriller series You don’t walk away from the Regiment clean. And when you’ve crossed the wrong people—people with the power to rewrite history—your past doesn’t just catch up… it hunts you. When a young informant is gunned down in Manchester, ex-SAS operator Joseph Hunter finds himself dragged back into the shadows. The tip-off she died for points to a rogue operation buried inside the British intelligence community—code name: False Light. A programme so secret, even the spooks thought it was a myth. As Hunter uncovers a ...

Revenge Inbound She uncovered the truth. They let her die. Now her son is coming for all of them. Tom Rourke was forged in the SAS — sharp, silent, and surgical. But when a mission in Latvia triggers a memory from his past, everything changes. A whispered phrase. A buried trauma. And a truth he was never meant to find. His mother, Angela Rourke, was killed in a car bomb during the Troubles. The official story? A tragic civilian caught in the crossfire. The real story? She uncovered a covert arms pipeline — one linking ex-IRA fixers to sanctioned British intelligence operations. The ...

Tara Quinn is dead. Liam Connell isn’t. And now it’s war. Joseph Hunter buried the woman he loved in a closed casket, her body shattered by an explosion that was never meant to leave survivors. Everyone thought Connell died that day too—swallowed by fire, drowned at sea, gone. They were wrong. When a grainy dark web video surfaces months later, showing Connell alive—and mocking—Hunter vanishes from MI6 oversight without a word. No orders. No backup. Just vengeance. From the blood-soaked backstreets of Brooklyn to the scorched remains of a CIA black site in Arizona, Hunter carves a...

He killed him once. Or so he thought. Ex-SAS operator Joseph Hunter is done with the shadows—until an off-grid tipoff drags him back into the fight. Liam Connell, the man Hunter executed in a covert op years ago, is alive. And this time, he’s not hiding—he’s hunting. When a black-site safehouse is breached and bodies start surfacing in London, Hunter is pulled into a cold trail gone white-hot. Someone is tying up loose ends from the Ethiopia mission. Someone who knows every move he makes. Tara Quinn is the first casualty. Burned alive in a fire that was no accident. Now it’s ...

The ballad is one of the oldest poetic forms in English and are simply poems or songs that tell a story. Maybe it’s because of childhood associations or that we all enjoy a cracking good story told in rhyme but as this volume demonstrates, the ballad has endless appeal. We include favourites such as Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee as well as classics such as Sir Patrick Spens, the Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde and La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Keats.

The Book of Rolo is an oracle of simplicity and wisdom. These Poetic-Sepets are portals into a state of No/Mind. This journal of a journey is one of a kind. A guaranteed thought/mind stopper.