Biography & Memoirs

In this powerful and personal reflection, a New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives.

Four influential women we thought we knew wellJane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Watersand how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement

Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, courageous defender of free speech, and owner of San Franciscos legendary City Lights bookstore.

"Poetic musings on a life well-livedone that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel'shistory is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story."
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The Priest Who Left His Religion follows the life of an ordained of a Catholic priest, idealistically destined by his American family prophecy to be the first American Pope. Ordained in 1965 he quickly becomes caught up by the reversals of the Second Vatican Council which attempt to undo many of the liberalizing movements of the Church.

An intimate and uplifting book about finding renewal and hope through grief and loss.

It was a terrible life; it was an enchanted life; it was a blessed life. And, of course, one day it ended. Sharon Butala