Category: Biography

This astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending -- literally -- to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer events, he became a leader in the French Resistance and survived the horrors at Buchenwald.
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John Dryden and His World

By: James Anderson Winn, Professor James Anderson Winn

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: September 1989

Seller ID: 273575

ISBN: 0300045913

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Alfred C. Kinsey : A Public/Private Life

By: James H. Jones

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: November 1997

Seller ID: 181401

ISBN: 0393040860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones shows that the public image Alfred Kinsey cultivated of disinterested biologist was in fact a carefully crafted public persona. By any measure he was an extraordinary man and a man with secrets. Drawing upon never before disclosed facts about Kinsey's childhood, Jones traces the roots of Kinsey's scholarly interest in human sexuality to his tortured upbringing. Between the sexual tens...
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Luther the Reformer

By: James M. Kittelson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Fortress Press: September 1987

Seller ID: 337206

ISBN: 0806623152

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years

By: Jane Goodall

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2002

Seller ID: 210097

ISBN: 0618257349

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind The Theory of Everything

By: Jane Hawking

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Alma Books: November 2014

Seller ID: 297563

ISBN: 1846883474

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl

By: Jase Robertson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Howard Books: May 2014

Seller ID: 269740

ISBN: 1476763534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The straight-faced, funny man of "Duck Dyanasty "has a real story to tell. Not a repeat of the previous "Duck Dynasty "books, Jase opens up about his personal family life, his childhood days with a drunken father, and how he came to faith. This open book from Jase may surprise some fans who love him for his dry humor and rivalry with younger brother Willie. This hilarious, yet thoughtful book, is structured around lessons of faith in the blind on topics like respect, passion, forgiveness, generosity, humility, kindness, and honesty. Chapters discuss: the highlights of Jase's memory of the ...
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Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl

By: Jase Robertson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Howard Books: May 2014

Seller ID: 295637

ISBN: 1476763534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Escape

By: Jessop, Carolyn, Palmer, Laura

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Broadway Books: December 2008

Seller ID: 346317

ISBN: 0767927575

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small...
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The life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By: John Dickson Carr

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble: January 1994

Seller ID: 289350

ISBN: 1566194083

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

By: John Lahr

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2015

Seller ID: 296649

ISBN: 0393351653

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Breaker's Mate: Will Ogilvie in Australia

By: John Meredith

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Kangaroo Pr: April 1997

Seller ID: 337171

ISBN: 0864178255

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The story of "Breaker's Mate" is the story of Will Ogilvie, a Scottish writer who lived side-by-side with Breaker Morant. This book includes the best of Ogilvie's verse and prose, plus a collection of short stories which have rarely been reprinted. These selections present an entertaining and vivid firsthand account of the harsh life encountered in Australia.
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The Sitwells: A Family's Biography

By: John Pearson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 1980

Seller ID: 333838

ISBN: 0156826763

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

John Pearson has sympathetically portrayed the often turbulent private lives of this remarkable English family of poets, memoirists, critics, and patrons, and has evaluated their literary output, in a book that is as entertaining as it is knowledgeable. Index; illustrations.
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The Death of Innocence : The Untold Story of JonBenet's Murder and How Its Exploitation Compromised the Pursuit of Truth

By: John Ramsey, Patsy Ramsey

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: March 2000

Seller ID: 214480

ISBN: 0785268162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Since the murder of their daughter on Christmas night, 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey have lived a nightmare of grief, fear, and persecution. Throughout the onslaught, they have remained quiet, patiently trusting that the focus would finally turn to finding the person who committed this heinous crime. "The Death of Innocence" contradicts the myths, half-truths, and outright lies that have been published as fact in this tragic case. It also tells of the Ramsey's faith in God, their trust that He is in control, and their relationship with Him that has seen them through this tortuous ordeal. From...
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Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797 (John MacRae Books)

By: John Sugden

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: October 2005

Seller ID: 317313

ISBN: 0805079343

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The most authoritative and captivating account ever written of legendary British naval commander Horatio Nelson's early career and rise to prominence Among military and naval commanders, Horatio Nelson stands as one of the finest examples of inspirational leadership. The historian John Sugden charts the period of Nelson's career neglected by earlier writers-from childhood to his breathtaking victory against the Spanish fleet at Cape St. Vincent when he became an admiral, lost an arm, and won international fame. Like Alexander of Macedon, Nelson led from the front (not always a sensible cu...
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