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Billy Graham: A Tribute from Friends

By: Vernon McLellan

Price: $5.50

Publisher: WarnerFaith: May 2002

Seller ID: 26460

ISBN: 0446529095

Condition: Used - Very Good

Regarded as the most influential Protestant leader of the past century, Billy Graham has touched over 210 million lives in more than 185 countries and territories. He has been a counsellor to presidents, an example for pastors, and a shepherd to parishioners. Now, as this pinnacle of the Christian church enters the twilight of his public life at 82 years of age, his legacy is celebrated in a collection of poignant tributes and memories as leaders from the worlds of government, business, sports, entertainment and religion share their personal stories and remembrances of this remarkable man. Con...
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Vines: My Life and Ministry

By: Vines, Jerry

Price: $6.50

Publisher: B&H Books: June 2014

Seller ID: 344223

ISBN: 0805466746

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dr. Jerry Vines accepted the call to pastor First Baptist Church, Jacksonville, FL, in July 1982 and retired in February of 2006. He was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in both 1988 and 1989. He traveled the country preaching and teaching the Bible at churches, conferences, and denominational meetings.

Now, in his autobiography, the pastor, Baptist statesman, and father tells his story that begins in Carrollton, GA, takes him to Jacksonville, FL, and whirls through the fiery controversies of the conservative resurgence.Readers gain perspective on some of a deno...
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Mary Slessor: The White Queen

By: W. P. Livingstone

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton:

Seller ID: 187455

ISBN: 4247065456

Condition: Used - Very Good

America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation

By: Wacker

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Belknap Press: November 2014

Seller ID: 275074

ISBN: 0674052188

Condition: Used - Very Good

During a career spanning sixty years, the Reverend Billy Graham's resonant voice and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of millions of Americans with a message that called for personal transformation through God's grace. How did a lanky farm kid from North Carolina become an evangelist hailed by the media as "America's pastor"? Why did listeners young and old pour out their grief and loneliness in letters to a man they knew only through televised "Crusades" in faraway places like Madison Square Garden? More than a conventional biography, Grant Wacker's interpretive study deepens our ...
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Soul of the Lion: A Biography of General Joshua L. Chamberlain

By: Wallace, Willard M.

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Butternut & Blue: July 1996

Seller ID: 353819

ISBN: 1879664011

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

By: Wallach, Janet

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Anchor: July 2005

Seller ID: 348459

ISBN: 1400096197

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This "richly textured biography" (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, soon to air on public television.

Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the...
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Outrageous Love

By: Walsh

Price: $3.50

Publisher: J. Countryman: April 2004

Seller ID: 118689

ISBN: 1404101101

Condition: Used - Very Good

A dynamic speaker and vocalist, Sheila Walsh has developed a strong following through her appearances on The 700 Club and Women of Faith conferences. Her latest book, Outrageous Love, invites readers to look at the bold choices that God has made to draw us to Him and the lavish ways that He cares for us each day. As we acknowledge and respond to His outrageous love, we enter into a joy that surpasses any trouble the world might present.
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

By: Walter Isaacson

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: July 2003

Seller ID: 40564

ISBN: 0684807610

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America's best writer...
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Pass It On: Work Hard, Serve Others . . . Repeat

By: Watson, Deshaun

Price: $26.99

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: September 2020

Seller ID: 350951

ISBN: 0785232044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson is one of the most promising young players in t
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Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way

By: Wayne, Jimmy

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: October 2014

Seller ID: 302477

ISBN: 0849922100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

* NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER*
Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover.
That's the real life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It's a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. But he didn't just overcome great adversity in his life; he now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere, especia...
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Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way

By: Wayne, Mr. Jimmy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: November 2015

Seller ID: 315509

ISBN: 071807730X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

* NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER*
Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover.
That's the real life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It's a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. But he didn't just overcome great adversity in his life; he now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere, especi...
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I Am Redeemed: Learning to Live in Grace

By: Weaver, Mike,Scherer, Jim

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Worthy Books: September 2019

Seller ID: 337370

ISBN: 1546033580

Condition: New

Mike Weaver, lead singer of Big Daddy Weave, shares from personal experience how when all we can
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Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality

By: Welch, Brian

Price: $6.50

Publisher: HarperOne: November 2010

Seller ID: 337704

ISBN: 0061555827

Condition: Used - Very Good

This 40-Day devotional from Brian "Head" Welch, former lead guitarist of Korn and the New York Times bestselling author of Save Me From Myself, is an intimate tour through the Bible passages that have meant the most to him on his trying journey from substance abuse to salvation. Save Me From Myself, Welch's self-effacing story his against addiction and his reawakening to divine love, has made the metal band icon into a hero of Christian rock. Uncompromisingly honest about his demons, and equally fervent about his faith, Head and his impassioned devotional offer a uni...
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Messenger of Hope: Remembering the Life and Legacy of Billy Graham

By: Wellman, Sam

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Barbour Books: March 2018

Seller ID: 319805

ISBN: 1683225767

Condition: New

Remembering Billy Graham: the Humble Man, Dedicated Pastor, Dynamic Preacher--America's Evangelist

You know his name, ministry, and legacy--now get to know the life of the man himself. This easy-reading biography honors the great American evangelist, Billy Graham. Now having received his eternal reward in heaven, Billy Graham stood as a beacon of faithfulness, integrity, and hope in a dark and dying world.

For those who have followed his career for decades, or those who are just now learning of the man's amazing faith journey, Messenger of Hope: Remembering th...
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Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart

By: Wert, Jeffry D.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 2009

Seller ID: 327763

ISBN: 0743278240

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now in paperback, this major biography of J.E.B. Stuart--the first in two decades--uses newly available documents to draw the fullest, most accurate portrait of the legendary Confederate cavalry commander ever published.

- Major figure of American history: James Ewell Brown Stuart was the South's most successful and most colorful cavalry commander during the Civil War. Like many who die young (Stuart was thirty-one when he succumbed to combat wounds), he has been romanticized and popular- ized. One of the best-known figures of the Civil War, J.E.B. Stuart is almost ...
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Atlas Girl: Finding Home in the Last Place I Thought to Look

By: Wierenga

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Baker Books: July 2014

Seller ID: 270726

ISBN: 0801016568

Condition: Used - Very Good

Disillusioned and yearning for freedom, Emily Wierenga left home at age eighteen with no intention of ever returning. Broken down by organized religion, a childhood battle with anorexia, and her parents' rigidity, she set out to find God somewhere else--anywhere else. Her travels took her across Canada, Central America, the United States, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. She had no idea that her faith was waiting for her the whole time--in the place she least expected it.
Poignant and passionate, Atlas Girl is a very personal story of a universal yearning for home and the assur...
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The Cross and the Switchblade

By: Wilkerson

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Jove Publications: November 1986

Seller ID: 29529

ISBN: 0515090255

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope...
David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God: go to New York City to speak to seven young gang members on trial for murder.
But something much greater was to come. Once in New York, David was inspired to stay for a lifetime of helping troubled teenagers get free of drugs and crime. With the word of God in his ears, he founded an inner-city ministry still known as the Teen Chal...
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Falling Into the Face of God: Forty Days and Nights in the Judean Desert

By: William J. Elliott

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Thomas Nelson: May 2006

Seller ID: 87272

ISBN: 0849900719

Condition: Used - Very Good

"In early June of 2002, I left the United States and traveled to the locus of my own soul. If one were to look at a map, they would say that my destination was Israel (specifically the Judean Desert) and that I had traveled 6,497 miles. But in actuality, I traveled much farther than that-upon a road whose traversing is not measured in miles, but by the deepening of the human experience, love and acceptance; and not by direction (for there is only one direction-inward). And whose perilous mountains, cliffs, and valleys were not composed of stone or sand, but of one's own psyche (the most dan...
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Success Is in the Details

By: Williams,

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Revell: May 2019

Seller ID: 331978

ISBN: 0800727398

Condition: New

For nearly 20 years, John Wooden ran scores of summer youth basketball camps, imparting wisdom and teaching skills to thousands of boys and girls between the ages of eight and fifteen. Most would not grow up to play professional or even college ball, but all of them found their lives changed by their interaction with the greatest coach who ever lived. In those camps, Coach Wooden also impacted hundreds of camp counselors and assistant coaches. This one-of-a-kind book shares their inspiring stories, highlighting six fundamental lessons from Coach Wooden for a life of success and unforgettable i...
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Success Is in the Details

By: Williams,

Price: $8.97

Publisher: Revell: May 2019

Seller ID: 333721

ISBN: 0800727398

Condition: New

For nearly 20 years, John Wooden ran scores of summer youth basketball camps, imparting wisdom and teaching skills to thousands of boys and girls between the ages of eight and fifteen. Most would not grow up to play professional or even college ball, but all of them found their lives changed by their interaction with the greatest coach who ever lived. In those camps, Coach Wooden also impacted hundreds of camp counselors and assistant coaches. This one-of-a-kind book shares their inspiring stories, highlighting six fundamental lessons from Coach Wooden for a life of success and unforgettable i...
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Category: Biographies