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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWith God in Russia
Walter J. Ciszek, Daniel L. Flaherty · 329 pages
A Pennsylvania-born Jesuit priest tells the story of his twenty-three years in Russia, fifteen of them spent in prison, indicted as a "Vatican spy."
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
The World Is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's Release from Captivity in North Korea . . . A Remarkable Story of Faith, Family, and Forgiveness
Euna Lee, Lisa Dickey
Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea
Kenneth Bae, Mark Tabb · 247 pages
"Driven by his passion to help the people of North Korea, Bae moves to neighboring China to lead guided tours into the secretive nation. Six years later, after eighteen successful excursions in and out of the country, Ken is suddenly stopped at the border: he inadvertently brought his hard drive, that reveals the true nature of his visits, to customs. He is arrested, brought to Pyongyang for furth
The Pastor's Wife
Sabina Wurmbrand · 218 pages
In God's Underground
Richard Wurmbrand · 270 pages
The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
Paul Hattaway, Brother Yun · 352 pages
Brother Yun is a entrepeneur leader in the underground Christian church of China. He lives now in Germany and this book is a biography of his life and inspiring walk with Jesus.
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
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Kathleen Norris · 343 pages
Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
Muhammad Ali · 256 pages
Dancing in the Light
Shirley Maclaine · 432 pages
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Eboo Patel · 189 pages
fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science
Lucia Greenhouse · 302 pages
Chronicles the author's coming-of-age in a family whose Christian Science faith forbade consultations with doctors or the use of mainstream medicine, a belief system that caused doubt and bitter divides when the author's mother became seriously ill.
Deconverted: a Journey from Religion to Reason
Seth Andrews
Hiding in the Light
Rifqa Bary · 240 pages
The compelling personal story of a teenage girl who stood against her family's faith to convert to Christianity and who gave up everything in her flight from religious persecution. In 2009 the story broke in national media of a teenage girl who had run away from her Ohio home, claiming that her Muslim father had threatened to kill her for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. Her parents denie
Letters & Papers from Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 437 pages
This new, greatly expanded version, while omitting nothing found in the earlier edition, shifts the emphasis of earlier editions on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological reflections to the private sphere of his life. His letters now appear in far greater detail, and show his daily concerns and the enormous warmth and humanity of the young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his par
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Donald Miller · 255 pages
I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model
Kylie Bisutti · 290 pages
Twenty-one-year-old Victoria's Secret model Bisutti stunned the fashion industry when she chose faith over fame and fortune and made the switch from supermodel to role model. She shares her story--from making her big break to her decision to support modesty and her Christian beliefs.
Now And Then
Frederick Buechner · 112 pages
Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Asra Q. Nomani · 320 pages
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Alex Haley · 484 pages
Seal of God
Chad Williams · 306 pages
Days before Chad Williams was to report to military duty in Great Lakes, Illinois, he turned on a television and was greeted with the horrifying images of his mentor, US Navy SEAL Scott Helvenston, being brutally murdered in a premeditated ambush on the roads of Fallujah, Iraq. Steeled in his resolve, Chad followed in Scott's footsteps and completed the US military's most difficult and grueling tr
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty · 240 pages