My Bondage and My Freedom is the second of three published autobiographies from one of the most brilliant and eloquent abolitionists and human rights activists in American history.
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives -- mostly written by men -- published before the Civil War.
In a time of declining mainline Protestant church attendance, Bouman reminds us that the Holy Spirit is still very much at work in our communities and in the world.
The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.
While most churches offer 'new member classes' and genuinely seek to welcome visitors, too often the end result is a rush to assimilate the newcomer into formal membership and all of the invitations to participation in committees, choirs, or fellowship groups that go along with it.
Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission made history, this book tells the epic story of the astronauts, flight controllers and engineers who made it happen.
William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish nationalist and naturalist who led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-04) as well as participating in or leading many other polar expeditions from 1892 through to 1919, particularly to Spitsbergen.
In this international bestseller, father and advocate for Autism awareness Arthur Fleischmann blends his daughter Carlys own words with his story of getting to know his remarkable daughterafter years of believing that she was unable to understand or communicate with him.
In the bestselling tradition of Augusten Burroughs, a compassionate, witty, and completely candid memoir that chronicles growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby and Jackie comes the riveting, true story of the passionate, volatile relationship between baseball great Joe DiMaggio and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe.
In a searingly candid memoir which he authored himself, Grammy Award-winning pop icon Rick Springfield pulls back the curtain on his image as a bright, shiny, happy performer to share the startling story of his rise and fall and rise in music, film, and television and his lifelong battle with depression.
';860 glittering pages' (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actressesher work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century.
The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: ';authoritative and enormously engagingEyman takes you through Wayne's life, his death, and his legend in a detailed, remarkably knowledgeable yet extremely readable way' (Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review).
As the host of the immensely popular America's Most Wanted, John Walsh has been instrumental in the capture of nearly four hundred and fifty of this country's most dangeroues fugitives.
An inspirational memoir from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, who, after hitting rock bottom, gathered the strength to put her life back together.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A ';thoroughly captivating biography' (The San Francisco Chronicle) of American icon Arthur Ashethe Jackie Robinson of men's tennisa pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.
Working Girl meets What Remains in this New York Times bestselling, behind-the-scenes story of an unlikely friendship between America's favorite First Son, John F.
WARNING TO READERS: The Author of This Book is Kind of Crazy, Kind of Delusional, and All Kinds of Hilarious Whether shes driving a limo for former Family Ties star Justine Bateman, dancing in the dark for a rarely seen Bob Dylan music video, or stalking a bachelor reject from TVs Love Connection, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is kind of a big dealat least in her own mind.
From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to ';rough it' as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.