Biography & autobiography

Winston Churchill

by John Perry

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all,...

A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe

by Geoffrey Hartman

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his...

Adventures in Darkness

by Tom Sullivan

In Adventures in Darkness, Tom Sullivan takes readers through the adventures of his monumental eleventh year. Blind since birth, Tom lived in a challenging world of isolation and special treatment. But he was...

A Table in the Presence

by LT Carey Carey Cash

On April 10^th, 2003, the 1^st Battalion, 5^th Marine Regiment, faced with the task of seizing the presidential palace in downtown Baghdad, ran headlong into what Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North called, "the worst...

In the Words of Ronald Reagan

by Michael Reagan

As one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century, Ronald Wilson Reagan succeeded in renewing pride in America, strengthening the principles of family, faith, and freedom on which this nation was founded,...

Black Sheep One: The Life of Gregory Pappy Boyington

by Bruce Gamble

Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington. In 1936, Boyington became an aviation cadet and earned the “wings of gold” of a naval aviator. After only...

Diary of an Anorexic Girl

by Morgan Menzie

Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this...

Drunken Angel

by Alan Kaufman

Alan Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of the alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the PTSD that drove him to the edge of madness, and the love that brought him back. Son of a French...

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

by Alice Bag

The birth of the 1970's punk movement as seen through the eyes of Chicana feminist and punk musician Alice Bag.

Saint Francis

by Robert West

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all,...

Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go

by Lucille O'Neal

Lucille O'Neal shares her public battles and personal struggles as a young, single mother of NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal.

Lucille O'Neal would one day have it all, but not before fighting the public battles...

Unbroken

by Tracy Elliott

One thing, a cupboard, was the only thing in Tracy Elliott's life that didn't get shattered. As a stripper, Elliot lived hard and suffered the consequences. In Unbroken, she tells the deeply impacting story...

The Poet of Baghdad: A True Story of Love and Defiance

by Jo Tatchell

In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a series...

Thunder Dog

by Susy Flory, Michael Hingson & Larry King

Faith.  Trust.  Triumph.

"I trust Roselle with my life, every day.  She trusts me to direct her.  And today is no different, except the stakes are higher." - Michael Hingson

First came the boom- the loud,...

Unsinkable

by Abby Sunderland & Lynn Vincent

Abby Sutherland grew up sailing.Her father, Laurence, a shipwright, and her mother, Marianne, wanted their kids to develop responsibility, to see other cultures, to experience the world instead of watching it...

Whole Lotta Led: Our Flight With Led Zeppelin

by Ralph Hulett & Jerry Prochnicky

In September 1968, four English lads gathered together for the first time in a small, stuffy London rehearsal room in a basement filled with wall-to-wall amplifiers. It was their first big tryout as musicians,...

Wife of the Chef

by Courtney Febbroriello

Wife of the Chef is at once a no-holds-barred memoir of restaurant life and a revealing look at married life. For Courtney Febbroriello, the two are intertwined. She and her husband own an American bistro in...

She: The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life

by Kathryn Tucker Windham

This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from...

The Publisher

by Alan Brinkley

Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.

As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce...

Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

by Dara Torres & Elizabeth Weil

From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.

Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans...