The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

Twenty Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad

Ali Dashti, `ly dshty · 228 pages

John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology

Burk Parsons · 257 pages

As the five hundredth anniversary of John Calvin’s birth approaches (2009), Burk Parsons, editor of Tabletalk magazine and minister of congregational life at St. Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Fla., has brought together an impressive group of pastors and scholars to reconsider Calvin’s life and legacy. Contributors include Jay Adams, Eric Alexander Thabiti Anyabwile, Joel Beeke, Jerry Bridges, Sincla

Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration

Pope Benedict XVI · 431 pages

In his first book written as pope, Benedict XVI offers a portrait of Jesus based on the Gospels and encourages Christians to better understand the central figure of their faith.

Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You

John F. MacArthur Jr. · 219 pages

Learn more than fascinating information about the women of the Bible-- you'll discover the unmistakable chronology of God's redemptive work in history through their lives.

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage

Paul Elie · 565 pages

"In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing - in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story - a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.". "Thomas Merton was a Tr

History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith

Lucy Mack Smith, Preston Nibley

Muhammad : A Biography of the Prophet

Karen Armstrong · 288 pages

This biography attempts to strip away centuries of distortion and myth and present a balanced view of the man whose religion continues to dramatically affect the course of history.

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

Richard L. Bushman · 776 pages

No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith

Fawn M. Brodie · 536 pages

Saint Thomas Aquinas

G.K. Chesterton, Anton C. Pegis · 116 pages

" St. Thomas Aquinas is enriched by the author's unique ability to see the world through the saint's eyes, a fresh and animated view that shows us Aquinas as no other biography has. Acclaimed as the best book ever written on Aquinas by such outstanding Thomists as Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, and Anton Pegis, this brilliant biography will completely capture the reader and leave him desirous o

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

Roland H. Bainton

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

Christopher Hitchens · 98 pages

Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine? In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status besto

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 Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg · 177 pages

(Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum) The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet (SAW)

Safiy al-Rahman al-Mubarakfuri · 588 pages

Jesus The Christ

James E. Talmage · 358 pages

The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church

Gregory A. Boyd · 213 pages

On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century

Pope Francis, Abraham Skorka · 236 pages

For years Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Argentina-- now Pope Francis-- and Rabbi Abraham Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason. They both sought to build bridges among Catholicism, Judaism, and the world at large. This work, originally published in Argentina in 2010, brings together a series of these conversations where both men talked abou

A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

Elisabeth Elliot · 382 pages

A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as "Amma," or "mother," as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. Amy's life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Reza Aslan · 336 pages

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee gathering followers to establish the "Kingdom of God." He was tortured and executed as a state criminal. Within decades, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens

Searching for God Knows What

Donald Miller · 312 pages

The Jewish Book of Why

Alfred J. Kolatch · 325 pages

* Why do Jews eat gefilte fish? * Why is a glass broken at the end of a Jewish wedding ceremony? * Why must the chapter of curses in the Torah be read quickly in a low voice? * Why are shrimp and lobster not kosher? * Why do Jews fast on Yom Kippur? * Why are some Matzot square while others are round? If you’ve ever asked or been asked any of these questions, The Jewish Book of Why has all

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Bart D. Ehrman · 416 pages

New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells th

Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ

Mark Driscoll · 246 pages