Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing

Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie TJ Stepanek by Jeni Stepanek

Jeni Stepanek · 344 pages

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah · 297 pages

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often ab

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Jill Bolte Taylor · 188 pages

Lucky Man

Michael J. Fox · 304 pages

This memoir discusses Michael J. Fox’s life--growing up in Canada and then becoming a national television star in the U.S. at the age of 19. Fox reveals the excess and temptations he fell into as a young star, and how with the help of his wife, Tracy Pollan, he quit drinking and drowning in self-pity. He tells of noticing the first tremors of Parkinson’s disease, which he ignored; finding out at t

Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

Margaret Feinberg · 224 pages

Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy

Stephanie Nielson

Everybody's Got Something

Robin Roberts, Veronica Chambers · 263 pages

Embraced by the Light

Betty J. Eadie, Curtis A. Taylor · 147 pages

On the night of November 19, 1973, following surgery, thirty-one-year-old wife and mother Betty J. Eadie died.... This is her extraordinary story of the events that followed, her astonishing proof of life after physical death. She saw more, perhaps than any other person has seen before and shares her almost photographic recollections of the remarkable details. Compelling, inspiring, and infinitely

My Journey to Heaven: What I Saw and How It Changed My Life

Marvin J. Besteman, Lorilee Craker

90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

Don Piper · 304 pages

Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man Who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received

Dannion Brinkley, Paul Perry · 204 pages

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Todd Burpo, Lynn Vincent · 192 pages

Presents the story of the four-year old son of a Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby · 141 pages

The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes the rare stroke to the brain stem that left his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body.

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Eben Alexander · 196 pages

"A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul"

Letter to My Daughter

Maya Angelou · 192 pages

For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, po

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.

Tramp for the Lord

Corrie ten Boom · 202 pages

For the past twenty years Corrie ten Boom has crisscrossed the globe, slept in more than a thousand different beds, and lived out of suitcases...all to fulfill her God-given mission to tell people everywhere that Jesus Christ is reality, that He Lives, that He is Victor. This remarkable woman of eighty-one years served time in a German concentration camp during World War II for the "crime" of h

Ice Bound: One Woman's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers · 362 pages

A physician stranded at the South Pole describes how she discovered a lump in her breast, treated herself with a biopsy and chemotherapy, and was rescued by the Air National Guard, and reflects on her experiences and her colleagues. The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes or boats and the only connection

I'm Just a Person

Tig Notaro · 240 pages

In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Days after her diagnosis, Tig took her grief onstage, opening an unvarnished set with, "Good evening. Hello. I have cancer." The set went viral instantly and was later relea

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

Terry Ryan, Brendan Ryan · 375 pages

The author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s.

The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive

Marvelyn Brown, Courtney E. Martin · 233 pages

The surprisingly hopeful story of how a straight, nonpromiscuous, everyday girl contracted HIV and how she manages to stay upbeat, inspired, and more positive about life than ever beforeAt nineteen years of age, Marvelyn Brown was lying in a stark white hospital bed at Tennessee Christian Medical Center, feeling hopeless. A former top track and basketball athlete, she was in the best shape of her

On My Own Two Feet: The Journey from Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life

Amy Purdy · 256 pages

Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria

Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines, Alison Stokes · 224 pages

The extraordinary life of Britain's 100-year-old teenager Hayley Okines is like no other 13-year-old schoolgirl. Born with the rare genetic condition progeria, she ages eight times faster than the average person. In medical terms her body is like that of a 100-year-old woman. Yet she faces her condition with immense courage and a refreshing lack of self-pity. In Old Before My Time, Hayley

Elsewhere

Richard Russo · 251 pages

This work is the author's memoir of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with the author's fiction will recognize Gloversville, New York, once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather. This is where the author grew up, the only son of an aspirant mother and a good-time, second-fiddle father