"Magnificent.... Metaxas's work will stand as a living landmark." -- From the foreword by the Reverend Dr. Floyd Flake, president of Wilberforce University Amazing Grace tells the story of the rema ... [more]

Based on the life of the author and members of her tribe, these stories provide a revealing glimpse into the world of the Dakota-Sioux at the turn of the last century. "There is no great; there i ... [more]

"It does a man no good to be free until he learns how to live." These were the words of Amos Fortune, born the son of a king in the At-mun-shi tribe in Africa. When Amos was only fifteen years o ... [more]

Andrew Carnegie, whose lifetime spanned the era from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the First World War, was America's first modern titan. In this magnificent biography, celebrated hist ... [more]

A beautifully written and scholarly look at the lives and the knitting of women on the tiny Shetland island of Fair Isle. This book traces the development of Fair Isle knitting from it's beginnings as ... [more]

"Dabba! Dabba! Dabba!" Manuel Bonilla taunted me, standing inches from my face and mimicking my poor speech as the rest of the class watched. "Dabba! Dabba! Dabba!" Manuel stopped the "dabba-dabba-dab ... [more]

She is a one-name legend, a global icon, the ultimate diva. Yet most of what we know about Barbra Joan Streisand is the stuff of caricature: the Brooklyn girl made good, the ugly duckling who blossome ... [more]

David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point-of-view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Bef ... [more]

"Heartfelt...speaks to people in trouble. It provides edifying advice, intimately given, like the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie." --The Dallas Morning News "This is a beautiful book full of ol ... [more]

They were called Easy Company-but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe in an unparalleled record of bravery under f ... [more]

In 1988 Forbes magazine hailed Chuck Feeney as the 23rd richest American alive. No one knew until then that he was extremely wealthy. Or was he? Born during the Depression in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Fe ... [more]

"What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control? How else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? I decided I w ... [more]

In 1966, just as the American military buildup in Vietnam was going into overdrive, a working-class 22-year-old from Chicago was drafted into the army. Larry Heinemann served one year of combat duty w ... [more]

Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab, preparing herself for what was to come. Entering a room with stainless steel tables topped by corpses in ... [more]

The Three Doctors -- Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt -- discovered early in their friendship that they shared one disturbing trait: as children, they had to navigate life in inner- ... [more]

Pat Tillman was seen by many as an American hero. A star college football player turned pro, he walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract after the 9/11 attacks, choosing to enlist in the U. ... [more]

As the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon over thirty years ago, Charles Colson influenced the most powerful government in the world - and was an instigator in one of the most devastating polit ... [more]

Known by his troops in World War II as "The Soldier's General" because of his care of and compassion for the soldiers under his command, Omar Bradley commanded the U.S. Twelfth Army Group in Europe. B ... [more]

From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his gun-toting grandmother's air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk Hayhurst steps out of the bullpen to deliver ... [more]

As part of the elite 101st Airborne paratroopers, Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton fought in the critical battles of Normandy and Market Garden and in the freezing cold of Bastogne. Easy Company, immortalized ... [more]