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George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)
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Include books by the same authorHana's Suitcase: A True Story
Karen Levine · 111 pages
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Melissa Fay Greene · 480 pages
Offers a revealing study of the human cost of the AIDS pandemic in Africa in a portrait of Haregewoin Teferra, a widowed recluse in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who has become the caretaker of sixty children orphaned and abandoned by the AIDS crisis. "There Is No Me Without You" is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds
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
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
Eve LaPlante · 312 pages
Dorie, the girl nobody loved
Doris Van Stone
"Someone has said that when you have nothing left but God, you realized that God is enough. God had stood beside me when no one else wanted me. He was not going to abandon me now. God would have to heal the emotional pain that throbbed through my body." As a child, Dorie was rejected by her mother, sent to live in an orphanage where she was regularly beaten by the orphanage director, was beaten ti
There is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce
Thomas Joseph Sugrue · 453 pages
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
Fawn M. Brodie · 536 pages
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
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Linda King Newell, Valeen Tippetts Avery · 394 pages
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Eberhard Bethge · 957 pages
Biography of a German theologian who opposed Hitler, and who was executed in the Flossenburg concentration camp.
Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley
Lawrence Sutin · 483 pages
"Aleister Crowley was a groundbreaking poet and an iconoclastic visionary whose literary and cultural legacies extend far beyond the limits of his notoriety as a practitioner of the occult arts.". "Like many self-styled illuminati of his class and generation, the hedonistic Crowley gravitated toward the occult. An aspiring poet and a pampered wastrel - obsessed with reconciling his quest for spir
Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley
Richard Kaczynski · 705 pages
"Perdurabo traces Aleister Crowley's remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as one of the most notorious men of his day. Crowley, a tireless magician, prophet, poet, and adventurer, has inspired generations of social and spiritual truth-seekers and has shaped modern popular culture through his philosophy of "Do what thou wilt sh
Spurgeon: A New Biography
Arnold A. Dallimore · 252 pages
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
John G. Turner
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been disto
The Boy from Baby House 10: From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America
Alan Philps, John Lahutsky · 288 pages
A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall
Catherine Marshall · 376 pages
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Richard L. Bushman · 776 pages
To the Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson
Heidi S. Swinton
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
Roland H. Bainton
Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God
David McCasland · 336 pages
Fire in the Bones: William Tyndale – Martyr, Father of the English Bible
S. Michael Wilcox · 255 pages