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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Life of Frederick Denison Maurice
Frederick Denison Maurice · 580 pages
Rees Howells, Intercessor
Norman P. Grubb · 309 pages
C.S. Lewis: A Biography
A.N. Wilson · 334 pages
The Small Woman
Alan Burgess · 238 pages
Spurgeon: A New Biography
Arnold A. Dallimore · 252 pages
Daughters of Arabia: Princess 2
Jean Sasson · 320 pages
Ruth, A Portrait: The story of Ruth Bell Graham
Patricia Cornwell · 294 pages
A biography of Ruth Bell Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, discussing her childhood in China as the daughter of medical missionaries, her contribution to her husband's work, and her efforts to keep their home and family life intact.
Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned
Brian Moynahan · 400 pages
Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved Friend" of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and the sponsor of the most powerful officials in Russia. He had become, a society lady wrote, "a dusk enveloping all
Tolkien: Man and Myth, a Literary Life
Joseph Pearce · 242 pages
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings took first place in a recent national poll to find the greatest book of the century. He may be the most popular writer of our age, but Tolkien is often misunderstood. This major new study of his life, his character and his work reveals the facts and confronts the myths. It explores the background to the man and the culture in which he wrote. Tolkien: Man and
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Eric Metaxas · 615 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace, a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of the monstrous evil that was Nazism. After discovering the fire of true faith in a Harlem church, Bonhoef
Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
Yangzom Brauen · 324 pages
Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet. Growing up in a remote mountain village, she married a monk and gave birth to two children. But then the Chinese army invaded, and their peaceful lives were destroyed forever. Thousands were tortured, prison camps were set up and Kusang's monastery was destroyed.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Eberhard Bethge · 957 pages
Biography of a German theologian who opposed Hitler, and who was executed in the Flossenburg concentration camp.
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Black Elk, John G. Neihardt · 298 pages
This is the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. It is at once a tale of Lakota life, a history of a Native nation, and an enduring spiritual testament, wherein the author conveys Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth. Black Elk met the author, a distinguishe
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Linda King Newell, Valeen Tippetts Avery · 394 pages
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Dava Sobel · 420 pages
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveInspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on the man Albert Einstein called “the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science al
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
George Pendle · 368 pages
A lonely misfit born into a wealthy Pasadena family, as a boy Parsons read science fiction and launched rockets in his backyard. By his early twenties, he was a leader of Caltech's "Suicide Squad," the motley band of young enthusiasts who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. But his visionary imagination also led him into the occult community thriving in 1930s Los Angeles, and when fantasy's pul
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Gregory A. Prince, William Robert Wright · 520 pages
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism is an insightful and detailed account of the exemplary life and remarkable influence of the 1st 'modern' Mormon prophet, David Oman McKay. Significantly enhanced by access to the private journals, office records and prolific correspondences kept by President McKay's long-time secretary, Claire Middlemiss; this book is a more intimate and personalized
Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
David Chadwick · 448 pages
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To create his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students, friends, a
John Paul The Great: Remembering A Spiritual Father
Peggy Noonan
Jonathan Edwards
George M. Marsden · 640 pages
"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century." "In this biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George M. Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in
The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills · 278 pages
This book is one journalist's memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access they gave her to share the story of their lives. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists h
Captain Phil Harris: The Legendary Crab Fisherman, Our Hero, Our Dad
Josh Harris, Jake Harris, Blake Chavez, Steve Springer · 240 pages
Joseph Smith the Prophet
Truman G. Madsen · 202 pages