Biography & Autobiography - Religious

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Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl a...

Christy Wilson Beam

In time for the motion picture event from the production team that brought us Heaven is for Real-starring Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah-Miracles from Heaven is the inspiring true story of healing and family love.A remarkable memoi...

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Published: Nov 2015

Crazy Quilt: Pieces of a Mennonite Li...

Cynthia Yoder

Twenty-six and grappling with depression, Cynthia Yoder leaves her husband of two years and their life in New York City to embark on a search for meaning that will take her to a rural hill in eastern Pennsylvania and back to her Penns...

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Published: Jan 2003

God Underneath: Spiritual Memoirs of ...

Edward L. Beck

A delightfully different approach to religion and spirituality, this collection of engaging personal tales transcends specific doctrines to reveal the presence of God in everyday life. Father Edward L. Beck spins tales like a master, ...

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Published: Jul 2002

David Livingstone: Africa's Trailblaz...

Janet Benge

The lion's jaws gripped David Livingstone's arm. Razor-sharp teeth pierced his flesh as the lion savagely shook David in the air like a rag doll. A gunshot rang out. 'God help us,' David moaned, as the lion dropped him and turned to c...

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Published: Jul 1999

George Mueller: The Guardian of Brist...

Janet Benge

George Muller stared at the beggar girl. She was no older than five and was piggybacking her little brother. Her mother had died in the cholera epidemic sweeping England. Her father had never returned from the mines. Standing in the m...

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Published: Jun 1999

Jim Elliot: One Great Purpose (Christ...

Janet Benge

Jim and Pete turned to see the Auca men, their deadly spears raised, running toward Nate, Ed, and Roger. Jim stood in the river, his hand on his pistol. Should he defend himself? He already knew the answer. Each man had promised the o...

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Published: Jan 1999

Not By Might Nor By Power: The Great ...

Lonnie Frisbee

Not by Might, Nor by Power is the authorized biographical series of Lonnie Frisbee the controversial “hippy preacher” of the late sixties and early 1970s. In Book Two, The Great Commission, Lonnie leaves California in 1978 and em...

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Published: Aug 2016

Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in M...

Gayle Haggard

On November 2, 2006, Gayle Haggard's life changed forever. That was the day that her husband, Ted Haggard, founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and the President of the NAE, confessed to her the truth. In W...

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Published: Nov 2010

From Atheism to Christianity: The Sto...

Joel Heck

 C.S. Lewis was one of the most famous atheists of the twentieth century. Before he returned to the Christian faith and wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series and Mere Christianity, Lewis struggled with anger toward God. This is the s...

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Published: Jan 2017

John Knox: Fearless Faith (Biography)...

Steven J. Lawson

John Knox is one of the most colourful figures in church history and his impact is still felt around the world. The real story of Knox surpasses the best fiction novels. Five hundred years after his death, Steven Lawson seeks in this...

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Published: Dec 2014

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts...

Donald Miller

This contemporary classic gets a limited edition makeover with movie art and a new preface from Donald Miller.In print for nearly a decade, Blue Like Jazz has earned a coveted spot on readers' shelves and in their hearts. Many have sa...

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Published: Jul 2003

Cross and the Switchblade, The, 45th ...

David Wilkerson

Fifty years ago, when a lanky country preacher stepped onto the gang-ridden streets of New York City, most people thought he had gone over the edge. But David Wilkerson had faith that God was leading him and never looked back. Today h...

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Published: Apr 2008

G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Comm...

Dale Ahlquist

G. K. Chesterton was one of the most well-known and beloved writers of his time. Yet he has been strangely neglected today. This book is the perfect introduction to Chesterton. Ahlquist is an able guide who takes the reader through tw...

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Published: Feb 2003

A Circle of Quiet

Madeleine L'Engle

This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.

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Published: Jan 1984

I Will Carry You: The Sacred Dance of...

Angie Smith

In 2008, Angie Smith and her husband Todd (lead singer of the group Selah) learned through ultrasound that their fourth daughter had conditions making her "incompatible with life." Advised to terminate the pregnancy, the S...

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Published: May 2010

Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story...

Raymond Arroyo

In 1981, a simple nun, using merely her entrepreneurial instincts and $200, launched what would become the world's largest religious media empire in the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery. Under her guidance, the Eternal Word ...

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Published: May 2007

The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of ...

Joanna Brooks

From her days of feeling like "a root beer among the Cokes"—Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her—Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain...

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Published: Aug 2012

The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Ja...

Janwillem Van de Wetering

A small and admiral memoir that records the experiences of a young Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery.

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Published: Apr 1999

Rosanna of the Amish

Joseph W. Yoder

The thrilling narrative of Rosanna McGonegal Yoder, the Irish Catholic baby girl, who lived with an Amish woman, Elizabeth Yoder. All the episodes of Rosanna of the Amish are based on fact. Joseph W. Yoder gives an honest, sympathetic...

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Published: Dec 1995

Miriam's Kitchen: A Memoir

Elizabeth Ehrlich

Like many Jewish Americans, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with the institutions; she had fond memories of her Jewish grandmothers, but she found their rel...

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Published: Sep 1998

The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Jo...

Mary Jordan

Like Dead Man Walking and The Cloister Walk, this stirring book is a story of spiritual transformation, one that is all the more remarkable because that transformation took place late in life. For nearly thirty years, Mother Antonia...

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Published: Jun 2006

King David: The Real Life of the Man ...

Jonathan Kirsch

David, King of the Jews, possessed every flaw and failing of which a mortal is capable, yet men and women adored him, and God showered him with many blessings. A charismatic leader, exalted as "a man after God's own heart," ...

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Published: Aug 2001

The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

Madeleine L'Engle

This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying.

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Published: Jan 1984

Love in a Fearful Land: A Guatemalan ...

Henri J. M. Nouwen

This is Henri Nouwen's personal account of a pilgrimage to Santiago Atitlan, a Mayan town in the highlands of Guatemala. It was there that an American priest, Father Stanley Rother, was murdered by a death squad in the parish where he...

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Published: Mar 2006

Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One o...

Frank Schaeffer

By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on ...

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Published: Sep 2008

Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis ...

Donald Spoto

Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true story of a man who has too often been obscured by pious iconography. Drawing on unprecedented access to unexplored archive...

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Published: Sep 2003

Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey t...

Sue Bender

'I had an obsession with the Amish. Plan and simple. Objectively it made no sense. I, who worked hard at being special, fell in love with a people who valued being ordinary.' So begins Sue Bender's story, the captivating and inspiri...

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Published: Oct 1991

An Infinity of Little Hours: Five You...

Nancy Klein Maguire

This riveting chronicle of an unimaginably difficult spiritual journey offers an unprecedented look inside a secretive world unchanged since medieval times In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the lar...

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Published: Mar 2007

Choosing My Religion: A Memoir of a F...

Stephen J. Dubner

A personal account of the author’s discovery that his devoutly Catholic parents were in fact Jews, along with the details of his spiritual journey and identity transformation. The result of an overwhelmingly well-received "...

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Published: Nov 2006

Where Rivers Change Direction

Mark Spragg

Growing up in rural Wyoming, Mark Spragg learned early to read the stars. At 11 he was instructed to quit dreaming, and he went to work for his father on the land. 'I was paid thirty dollars a month, had my own bed in the bunkhouse, a...

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Published: Aug 2000
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