Biography-Memoir
Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
This book is the modern Christian classic that has inspired millions. Countless people have been moved by the tragic story of how young Jim Elliot and his four friends were martyred in the Amazonian jungle in 1956 as they attempted to build a relationship with a remote tribe. But more…
Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure
The fear of stagnation at age 50 drove Katz, a nonfiction writer (Virtuous Reality) and author of the Suburban Detective series (Death Row, etc.), to buy a rundown cabin he couldn't afford at the top of a mountain in New York State's rural Washington County. Here he spent long periods…
Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love (Hardbound)
Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and celebrating the great Catholic cultural tradition, he disseminated literature extolling the virtues of the white race, and calling for the banishment of all…
God Among the Shakers: A Search for Stillness and Faith at Sabbathday Lake (Hardbound)
In the tradition of "Plain and Simple" and "The Cloister Walk", this book offers a rare, intimate account of one woman's journey into the world of the Shakers -- a radical Christian sect whose belief in a Mother-Father God, equal rights for all, and direct interaction with the spirits of…
Saint Monica: Model of Christian Mothers
The famous persevering mother whose prayers, patience and good example at last obtained the conversion of her wayward son -- the great St. Augustine -- as well as her pagan husband and her mother-in-law. Includes her childhood, difficult marriage, anguish over Augustine, constancy and -- in the end -- her joy…
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