The Best General Biographies & Memoirs 2025

1. Created for Commitment, (Paperback)

The fascinating true story of A. Wetherell Johnson, a relentless missionary and founder of Bible Study Fellowship. From its humble beginnings in 1952 as a study group of just five women led by Miss Johnson, Bible Study Fellowship has grown into a worldwide organization of more than 100,000 members--men, women, and young people meeting in nearly 300 groups, studying God's Word. This autobiography shows how God prospered this ministry and explains why Bible Study Fellowship today is so well known for its careful study methods, for its astonishingly effective organizational style, and especially for the Bible study notes written by Miss Johnson and read daily by thousands all over the globe. Most of all, Created for Commitment tells a story so many have wanted to hear: How God rescued Wetherell Johnson from agnosticism Her time spent as a missionary in China just before the outbreak of WWII Her deliverance from the terrors of a Japanese internment camp The strength and wisdom God gave her to lead thousands into a deeper knowledge of Scripture and Jesus Christ Christians will be inspired by this remarkable woman and her example of walking by faith to accomplish the Lord's work.

Created for Commitment, (Paperback) Author: Tyndale House Publishers ISBN: 9780842304436 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1989-10-31 Page Count: 400

2. Report from Engine Co. 82, (Paperback)

From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.

Report from Engine Co. 82, (Paperback) Author: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 9780446675529 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1999-04-01 Page Count: 240

3. CAT MOUSE

AUTHOR: JAMES PATTERSON COVER: PAPERBACK CONDITION: USED - GOOD

With the same drug-addled alacrity and jaundiced wit that made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a hilarious hit, Hunter S. Thompson turns his savage eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for President.He deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of idealist George McGovern and political hack Richard Nixon, ending up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic.A classic!

4. The Passion of Ayn Rand, (Paperback)

This bestselling biography of one of the 20th century's most remarkable and controversial writers is now available in paperback.Author Barbara Branden, who knew Rand for nineteen years, provides a matchless portrait of this fiercely private and complex woman."

The Passion of Ayn Rand, (Paperback) Author: Anchor Books ISBN: 9780385243889 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1987-08-18 Page Count: 480

5. Ghost Girl

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Ghost Girl

6. Walks in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler, (Paperback)

Walks in Hemingway's Paris is the perfect travel companion to the most romantic and fascinating of cities for those who want to experience Paris beyond the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Covering all the area of Paris that Hemingway and his fellow expatriates once roamed from Left Bank to Right, Noel Riley Fitch provides an intimate visit to major Parisian landmarks as well as to out-of-the-way cafes, hotels and residences immortalized by "Papa" and his friends.

Walks in Hemingway's Paris: A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler, (Paperback) Author: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 9780312071134 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1992-03-15 Page Count: 208

7. House of Light, (Paperback)

This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? --Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.

House of Light, (Paperback) Author: Beacon Press ISBN: 9780807068113 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1992-04-08 Page Count: 96

8. The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, (Paperback)

Patrick Kavanaugh uncovers the spirituality of twenty of music's timeless giants, revealing legacies of the soul as diverse as the masterpieces they created. Warmly written, beautifully illustrated, and complete with listening recommendations for each composer, "Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers" is a fascinating look at the inner flame that lit the works of these masters.

The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, (Paperback) Author: Zondervan ISBN: 9780310208068 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1996-03-19 Page Count: 256

9. Still by Your Side: A True Story of Love & Grief, Faith & Miracles (Hardcover) by Marjorie Holmes

9780824516314. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 132. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 132 p. When she lost the love of her life, Marjorie Holmes found herself alone for the first time. How she came to learn that love is stronger than death makes for a reading experience you will not forget. Holmes is the bestselling author of such classic books of inspiration as I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God, Two from Galilee and The Messiah.

ISBN: 9780824516314 Condition: New Hard cover Language: English Pages: 132 Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 132 p. When she lost the love of her life, Marjorie Holmes found herself alone for the first time. How she came to learn that love is stronger than death makes for a reading experience you will not forget. Holmes is the bestselling author of such classic books of inspiration as I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God, Two from Galilee and The Messiah.

10. Nietzsche: Life as Literature, (Paperback)

More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views-the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, the master morality-often seem incomprehensible or, worse, repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that is powerful in figures as diverse as Wittgenstein, Derrida, Heidegger, and many recent American philosophers. Alexander Nehamas provides the best possible guide for the perplexed. He reveals the single thread running through Nietzsche's views: his thinking of the world on the model of a literary text, of people as if they were literary characters, and of knowledge and science as if they were literary interpretation. Beyond this, he advances the clarity of the concept of textuality, making explicit some of the forces that hold texts together and so hold us together. Nehamas finally allows us to see that Nietzsche is creating a literary character out of himself, that he is, in effect, playing the role of Plato to his own Socrates. Nehamas discusses a number of opposing views, both American and European, of Nietzsche's texts and general project, and reaches a climactic solving of the main problems of Nietzsche interpretation in a step-by-step argument. In the process he takes up a set of very interesting questions in contemporary philosophy, such as moral relativism and scientific realism. This is a book of considerable breadth and elegance that will appeal to all curious readers of philosophy and literature.

Nietzsche: Life as Literature, (Paperback) Author: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674624269 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2003-02-14 Page Count: 288