Rebel With A Cause

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

C.S. Lewis · 238 pages

Autobiography of the English theologian, novelist, and scholar, concerning his early years. The author's spiritual journey from Chrisitanity to atheism and then back to Christianity.

Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman

Gladys Aylward, Christine Hunter · 160 pages

The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt

Parley P. Pratt · 480 pages

Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing

Stormie Omartian · 188 pages

Hudson Taylor

James Hudson Taylor · 160 pages

The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

Joanna Brooks · 209 pages

Story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith. Explores the author's journey through her faith, and the experience of being a Mormon.

The Autobiography of St. Teresa Of Avila: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus

Teresa of Avila, Benedict Zimmerman, David Lewis · 516 pages

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Barbara Ehrenreich · 272 pages

"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part mem

The Persecutor

Sergei Kourdakov · 254 pages

His job in the Russian police was to inflict terror and suffering on Christians, and he did it well. Sergei Kourdakov, whose daring escape from a Russian naval ship made headlines throughout the free world, tells the unforgettable story of his life in the Russian secret police and his remarkable flight to freedom. This book is an eye-opening, first-hand account of one man's journey to freedom and

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Stanley Hauerwas · 319 pages

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman · 301 pages

Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very, definition of humanity.Now, in a poignant and insightful memoir, Jane Goodall explores her extraordinary life and personal spiritual odyssey, with observations as profound as the knowledge she has brought back from the forest.

Father and Son

Edmund Gosse · 264 pages

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Karen Armstrong · 336 pages

The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.

In the Presence of My Enemies

Gracia Burnham, Dean Merrill · 320 pages

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

Dan Barker

After 19 years as an evangelical preacher, missionary, and Christian songwriter, Dan Barker 'threw out the bathwater and discovered there is no baby there.' Barker, who is now co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (America's largest organization of atheists and agnostics), describes the intellectual and psychological path he followed in moving from fundamentalism to freethought. The

Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession

Anne Rice · 256 pages

In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel ***Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt***, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith. ***Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana*** followed. And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of the spiritual transformation that produced a complete change in her literary goals. She b

The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill · 241 pages

The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author) "At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister a

Choosing to SEE

Mary Beth Chapman · 292 pages

From the beginning, Mary Beth Chapman's life was not how she planned. All she wanted was a calm, peaceful life of stability and control. Instead, God gave her an award-winning singer/songwriter husband, crazy schedules, and a houseful of creatively rambunctious children. And then, she experienced the tragedy she never could have imagined. In Choosing to See, Mary Beth unveils her struggle to allow

Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

Lauren F. Winner · 272 pages

Living with the Himalayan Masters

Swami Rama · 486 pages

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda · 502 pages

The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation.The famous opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci said about the book:"Amazing, true stories of saints and masters of India, blended w

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Immaculee Ilibagiza · 215 pages

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other

A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph

Sheldon Vanauken · 240 pages

Something Other than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It

Jennifer Fulwiler · 253 pages