Biography / Autobiography

Una conmovedora historia de terror, intriga política y decisiones impensables. Hijo de Hamás es la conmovedora historia verdadera de un miembro del movimiento Hamás que rechazó su violento destino y ahora lo arriesga todo al exponer los secretos de la organización extremista islámica pa...

  “When I first discovered the grainy picture in my mother’s desk—me as a towheaded two year old sitting in what I remember was a salmon-orange-stained lifeboat—I was overwhelmed by the feeling that the boy in the boat was not waving and laughing at the person snapping the photo as much...

“Your mother and father are running away," said a voice piercing the warm air. I froze and turned toward home. To a Hutterite, nothing is more shameful than that word, running away, Weglaufen...”In 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony in Canada wit...

Abby Sutherland grew up sailing. Her father, Laurence, a shipwright, and her mother, Marianne, wanted their kids to develop responsibility, to see other cultures, to experience the world instead of watching it on TV. So they took them sailing down the coast of Mexico... for three years...

We learn about life through the lives of others. Their experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Chu...

Two-and-a-half centuries after his death, the complex life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach continues to fascinate. Bach's colorful life was anchored in his belief that "music has been ordered by God's Spirit"―so much so that he began each composition by scrawling Jesu, juva (Jesus, ...

Reagan’s greatest virtue wasn’t allegiance to country, but allegiance to God. With warmth and insight, this best-selling book by Mary Beth Brown delves into the spiritual journey of America’s 40th president and offers profound stories of the provisions God made in Ronald Reagan’s life...

All the furniture in the house got wrecked except this one old wooden china cabinet in my grandmother’s kitchen, which somehow remained standing despite all odds.  One night, in the midst of a prayer, I glanced over at it and thought, If this cabinet could talk... What madness it had se...

The remarkable true story of a young Billy Graham and his best friend who walked away from the faith. We all know how the story ends but how did it begin? Before he became a household name, and America's Pastor, he was simply known as Billy.  When he wasn't playing baseball, he was di...