Biography / Autobiography

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that Americans in the early 1970s were smoking upwards of 35,000 pounds of marijuana per day. By the time the decade drew to a close, Time magazine reported that reefer had become “the most widely accepted illegal indulgence since dri...

New York Times best-selling author, Stephen Mansfield, traces the fascinating and influential life of Oprah Winfrey, profiling her quest for spiritual enlightenment―a well-publicized journey featuring a caravan of experts, mystics, and gurus―all claiming to have a prescription for inner...

Marta, con diecinueve años, tuvo que hacer frente a un cáncer inoportuno y terminal que se llevó sus sueños por delante. Su madre desde la cercanía y la experiencia nos va contando paso a paso cómo fueron aquellos días en los que sentía que todo lo conocido se iba a desvanecer y cómo, a...

En 1936 Francisco Franco se instauró como cabeza del gobierno bajo el amparo de una iglesia católica nacionalista e intransigente cuyos vasallos pretendieron recristianizar España a la fuerza, imponiendo la pureza de fe y de costumbres en la sociedad. La breve libertad de culto de la II...

Nuestro mundo hispano precisa de elementos y recursos didácticos cuya pedagogía nos brinde enseñanzas claras y concisas, pero que al mismo tiempo presente aspectos prácticos que nos ayuden en el desarrollo de la Gran Comisión. Es por ello que precisa la publicación de este excelente est...

In his twenties, Fydor Dostoevsky, son of a Moscow doctor, graduate of a military academy, and rising star of Russian literature, found himself standing in front of a firing squad, accused of subversive activities against the Russian Tsar. Then the drums rolled, signaling that instead h...

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State in this riveting true story from America’s history. Just as the Civil War draws to a close, President Abraham Li...

WHO BETTER TO FACE THE GREATEST EVIL OF THE 20TH CENTURY THAN A HUMBLE MAN OF FAITH? As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from ...

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires, uniquely illuminat...