Biography & Autobiography

Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors to the majors, all of the plans for Josh went off the rails in a moment of weakness. What followed was a 4-year nightmare of drugs and alcohol, estrangement from friends and family, and his eventual suspension from baseball. 

Debbie Macomber calls Knit Together the project of her heart. Whenever she speaks, her theme is simple--don't be afraid to dream. Through personal stories, insights, and inspiration, Debbie draws alongside readers and moves them onto the path to joyful, purposeful living. As the Bible says in Psalm 139: "You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb." God created us for a reason, and when we come to recognize our deepest longing, we can discover that purpose.

La hija menor de Mackenzie Allen Phillips, Missy, desaparece durante unas vacaciones familiares. En el proceso de su busqueda se encuentran evidencias de que pudo haber sido brutalmente asesinada en una cabana abandonada en lo mas profundo de los bosques de Oregon. Transcurridos cuatro anos, Mack recibe una extrana carta, firmada por Dios, que la conmina a reunirse con el en el lugar donde la nina murio. A pesar de lo aparentemente absurdo de la situaticion, decide acudir a la cita y sumergirse de nuevo en su mas oscura pesadilla; lo que alli sucede camibara su vida siempre.

In The Closer, Rivera takes readers into the Yankee clubhouse, where his teammates are his brothers. But he also takes us on that jog from the bullpen to the mound, where the game -- or the season -- rests squarely on his shoulders. We come to understand the laserlike focus that is his hallmark, and how his faith and his family kept his feet firmly on the pitching rubber.

Harvard graduate Jeremy Lin recently became a New York Knicks phenomenon  and he's the NBA's first American-born player of Taiwanese descent. The  book will chronicle Lin's high school, college and early career in the  NBA with particular emphasis on the media explosion surrounding his  success as starting point guard with the Knicks.  It will explore how  Jeremy's Christian faith, family, education and cultural inheritance  have contributed to his success.  The book will also include interviews  with basketball experts on Jeremy's future in the NBA, Asian-American  thought leaders on the role of race in Jeremy's rise to stardom, and  renowned Christian athletes and pastors on the potent combination of  faith and sports.

On April 19, 1995, Kathy Sanders' life was changed forever when a bomb exploded and destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, killing her two grandsons Chase and Colton. For months, Kathy struggled with coping and wondered if the God she'd worshipped all her life even existed. After battling bitterness and contemplating suicide, she turned to the Lord and asked what He'd have her do.

The Day Satan Called is Bill Scott's account of an excruciating 18-month period in his life. Out of Christian love he and his wife invited a young lady who was demon possessed and the member of an active satanic network into their home. They prayed the sinner's prayer with her and believed that they could help redeem someone who had witnessed and experienced unimaginable rituals and abuses.

Balance is the theme of Nik's life: between his work and family, his faith in God and artistry, his body and soul. It resonates from him when performing and when no one is looking. When walking across Niagara Falls, he prayed aloud the entire time, and to keep his lust for glory and fame in check, Nik returned to the site of his performance and spent three hours cleaning up trash left by the crowd.

In 2007, Chrissie Wellington shocked the triathlon world by winning the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a newcomer to the sport and a complete unknown to the press, Chrissie's win shook up the sport. A Life Without Limits is the story of her rise to the top, a journey that has taken her around the world, from a childhood in England, to the mountains of Nepal, to the oceans of New Zealand, and the trails of Argentina, and first across the finish line.

In 2006, Abby Rike lost the life she knew and loved when her husband and two young children were killed in a car accident. Devastated and numb, she shut down. For nearly three years she walked through life like a spectre, present in body only. As she descended, so did her health.

Special Heart is a deeply touching personal story told through the eyes of a journalist as he faces the most daunting challenge in life - far more frightening than reporting from battlefields, infinitely more momentous than interviewing newsmakers of the day: caring for his critically ill newborn son.

In this remarkable audiobook, Ramsey reveals how he was sustained by faith during the long period of spiritual darkness, and he offers hope and encouragement to others who suffer tragedy and injustice.

Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.

When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, they knew that the process might be challenging. Nothing, however, could have prepared de Blecourt for the twisted nightmare she would endure. During her year-long struggle to extricate her newly adopted little boy from that post-Soviet country's corrupt social service and judicial systems, de Blecourt was insulted, physically assaulted, and arrested. Worse, her months of loneliness, worry, and fear drove her to the brink of spiritual despair. But God had no intention of abandoning de Blecourt or her family. Her amazing story-culminating in a spine-chilling race to freedom-offers dramatic proof that God's light shines on even in the deepest darkness.