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The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
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Include books by the same authorSacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty · 240 pages
This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgiveness
Gilbert Tuhabonye, Gary Brozek · 275 pages
Devil at My Heels
Louis Zamperini, David Rensin · 271 pages
A former POW recounts his athletic southern California childhood, participation in the 1936 Olympics, imprisonment and torture by an abusive Japanese guard, descent into alcoholism, and salvation by preacher Billy Graham.
Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith
Gabrielle Douglas, Michelle Burford · 223 pages
The U.S. gymnast all-around gold medal winner at the 2012 London Olympics tells her story of faith, perseverance, and determination.
Focused: Staying on Track, One Choice at a Time
Noelle Pikus Pace · 144 pages
Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar
Shawn Michaels, David Thomas · 176 pages
The Closer: My Story
Mariano Rivera, Wayne Coffey · 312 pages
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Lopez Lomong · 240 pages
This is a story about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a barefoot lost boy of the Sudanese Civil War to a Nike sponsored athlete on the US Olympic Team. He shares his commitment to keep moving forward and find God in each step.
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.
Captive in Iran
Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh · 296 pages
Converts from Muslim, Rostampour and Amirizadeh were arrested in Tehran for promoting Christianity-- a capital crime in Iran. When denying God would have meant freedom, they brought God's light into one of the world's darkest places, giving hope to those who had lost everything, and showing love to those in despair.
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.
For the Right Reasons: America's Favorite Bachelor on Faith, Love, Marriage, and Why Nice Guys Finish First
Sean Lowe · 237 pages
"After The Bachelorette broke his heart, Sean Lowe suspected his 'nice guy' image hurt him. The show never emphasized it, but Sean committed to living according to Biblical standards of sexuality, even as producers emphasized the risqué and promiscuous. A Texas boy from a Baptist home, Sean tells the story of how he went from a Division I college football player to a fan favorite on reality televi
Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir
Donna Johnson · 278 pages
A compassionate, humorous story of faith, betrayal, and coming of age on the evangelical sawdust trail. Johnson was just three years old when her mother signed on as the organist for tent revivalist David Terrell. She brings to life miracles, exorcisms, and face-offs with the Ku Klux Klan-- and that's just what went on under the tent.
Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl
Jase Robertson, Mark Schlabach · 261 pages
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.
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
Unashamed
Lecrae Moore · 212 pages
The two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, holds nothing back as he divulges the most sensitive details of his life, answers his critics, shares intimate handwritten journal entries, and powerfully models how to be a Christian in a secular age.
The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul
Noelle Oxenhandler · 282 pages
One New Year's Day, Noelle Oxenhandler took stock of her life and found that she was alone after a long marriage, seemingly doomed to perpetual house rental and separated from the spiritual community that once had sustained her. With little left to lose, she launched a year's experiment in desire, forcing herself to take the plunge and try the path of Putting It Out There. It wasn't easy. A skepti
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
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
Etty Hillesum · 281 pages