When You Can't Come Back: A Story of Courage and Grace
By: Ken Gire , Dave Dravecky , Jan Dravecky
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his first book, Comeback, the former San Francisco Giants pitcher told of his dramatic fight aga…
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1. The Lady's Confession (Hampshire Books)
By: George MacDonald
4.14
Format: 287 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When the newly arrived and beautiful stranger Juliet Meredith becomes seriously ill in Glaston, tal… read more
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- christian
2. Jerusalem: The Biography
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.07
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from Kin… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Necessity is very often the mother of romance."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"In 312, Manichaeanism and Mithraism were no less popular than Christianity. Constantine could just as easily have chosen one of these - and Europe might today be Mithraistic or Manichaean."-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
"What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divide…"-Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography
3. Stepping Heavenward
By: Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
4.25
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"Stepping Heavenward" is the fictional coming of age story of a young Christian girl named Katherin… read more
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- christian
"Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!"-Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward
"Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward."-Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward
"Go home and say to yourself, ‘I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and…"-Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward
"...God notices the most trivial act, accepts the poorest, most threadbare little service, listens to the coldest, feeblest petition, and gathers up with parental fondness all our fragmentary desires …"-Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward
4. My Son, My Son: A True Story
By: Bernard Palmer
3.73
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
The Palmers were at a loss - their son, Barry, was out of control. All of their efforts to raise… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
6. When You Can't Come Back: A Story of Courage and Grace
By: Ken Gire , Dave Dravecky , Jan Dravecky
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his first book, Comeback, the former San Francisco Giants pitcher told of his dramatic fight aga… read more
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- baseball
- christian
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- sports
7. The Pilgrim's Progress
By: John Bunyan
4.06
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more
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- christian
"Follow your heart"-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
8. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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9. The Curate's Awakening
By: George MacDonald , Michael R. Phillips
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
A young minister's honest search to discover the truth of Christianity. read more
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10. The Wrong Stuff
By: Richard Lally , Bill Lee
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
The return of a sports classic with a new foreword by the author Finally back in print after many y… read more
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11. Through Gates of Splendor
By: Elisabeth Elliot
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to e… read more
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12. Mary Slessor: Forward Into Calabar
By: Janet Benge , Geoff Benge
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
While many missionaries died within months, this fiery mill worker from Scotland labored in love am… read more
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13. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more
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14. In His Steps
By: Charles Monroe Sheldon
4.00
Format: 204 pages,
A classic short Christian novel about the events that ensue when a preacher challenges his congrega… read more
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15. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
4.05
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more
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- nonfiction
"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
16. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
17. A Gambling Man (Archer, #2)
By: David Baldacci
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riv… read more
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"You have to give it thought when you’re changing your whole life."-David Baldacci, A Gambling Man (Archer, #2)
18. So Help Me God
By: Mike Pence
4.03
Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition
The autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence. Loyalty is a Vice President’s first duty;… read more
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- nonfiction
- christian
- biography
- memoir
19. Rescue Story: Faith, Freedom, and Finding My Way Home
By: Robert Noland
4.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
From a hard-rocking life fueled by substance abuse to a hope-filled life of freedom and joy--this i… read more
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- nonfiction
- christian
- biography
- memoir
20. The Light in Hidden Places
By: Sharon Cameron
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by … read more
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21. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
By: Loren Grush
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
22. When We Had Wings
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses station… read more
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23. Ann Judson: A Missionary Life for Burma
By: Sharon James
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Previously published as My Heart in His Hands, this book is fully revised and updated and is the … read more
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- biography memoir
- christian
- biography
- nonfiction
"A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ."-Sharon James, Ann Judson: A Missionary Life for Burma
24. What We Hide (Tupelo Grove #1)
By: Colleen Coble
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Savannah Webster is trying to find her way forward. She and her husband, Hez, have been separated s… read more
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- christian
25. D. L. Moody: The Greatest Evangelist of the Nineteenth Century
By: Faith Coxe Bailey
3.76
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Fascinating biographies of men who lived for God. read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
26. Never Say Die (Stories of Faith and Fame)
By: Cyril Davey
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A short, straightforward biography of Gladys Aylward, the London parlour-maid whose mission work in… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Rachel, Beloved of God
By: Agnes Scott Kent
4.26
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
Read this story of a young, tender, Jewish bridge, whose longing for the truth about the Messiah, b… read more
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28. Touching the untouchables
By: Laura Belle Barnard
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
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29. The story of Billy McCarrell
By: Dorothy McKay Martin
3.30
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
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30. All the Day Long: True-Life Adventures of Missionaries in the Amazon
By:
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Format: None pages, None
All the Day Long shares the joys, trials, and adventures of an ordinary family used in extraordinar… read more
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31. Treasures from the Dark
By: Dwight Reighard
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author, a Baptist minister, explains how he came to terms with the deaths of his wife and unbor… read more
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