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"Did they tell you stories about the saints of old,
stories about their faith?
Stories like that make a boy grow bold,
stories like that make a man walk straight..."
—Rich Mullins, Boy Like Me, Man Like You

Stories about people have a way of affecting us in ways other stories can't. The Bible is primarily stories about people, and it is through these multiple biographies that we understand human nature, the history of redemption, and even to a great extent God Himself. The purpose behind any other biography is largely the same—to help us understand what it means to be human from the examples (sometimes even the bad examples) of those who have preceded us.

The biographies we have chosen for this section represent those of great leaders in history, social and military heroes, and Christian saints past and present who struggled to conform their lives to Christ's perfect example. We have avoided for the most part biographies of history's villains and chronic immoralists, not because they aren't interesting but because they don't represent lives worthy of imitation. We've also decided not to focus on athletes, actors, and celebrities, unless they've made important contributions outside their fields. That's not to say everyone found here was above reproach or even a Christian, but they all demonstrated real human virtues for which they are remembered.

Biographies are also useful for better understanding of a given historical period. While history books can provide good overviews of a period or events, the intimate detail of a good biography can better illustrate a time period and what it was like to be alive then. This also serves to demonstrate the universality of human nature, that people will behave basically the same during any given period and in any given place. Sometimes we get the impression that people of the past, especially people like missionaries and ministers, were somehow more pious than we are—the personal view offered by a good biography dispels this myth and offers encouragement that not even the best men and women are any closer to perfection than we are.

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	Born Again by Charles W. Colson First Edition from Chosen Books for 10th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $8.00 (2 in stock)
	Captured! A mother's true story of her family's imprisonment by the Vietcong by Carolyn Paine Miller 1^st edition from Christian Herald Books for Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Cheer the Lonesome Traveller The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois: by Leslie Alexander Lacy, illustrated by James Barkley from Dial Press for 9th-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Choosing Brave How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy, illustrated by Janelle Washington from Roaring Brook Press for 1st-4th grade 2023 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $19.99
	Cry of the Kalahari Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness by Mark and Delia Owens from Houghton Mifflin for Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.80 (1 in stock)
	Dorothea Dix Hospital Founder A Discovery Book by Mary Malone from Garrard Publishing Company for 4th-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour 2nd Printing from Bantam Books for 10th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Eighth Moon The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China by Bette Lord from HarperCollins Biography for 11th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Forward March to Freedom The Story of A. Philip Randolph by Barbara Kay Greenleaf from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Girl From the Tar Paper School Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield from Abrams Books for Young Readers for 1st-4th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins, illustrated by Wil Clay from Dial Books for Young Readers for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat and Renewal by Richard Nixon 1^st edition from Simon & Schuster Macmillan for 10th-Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	John F. Kennedy New Frontiersman A Discovery Book by Charles P. Graves from Garrard Publishing Company for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns A Reporter's Story by Wilborn Hampton from Candlewick Press for 5th-9th grade 1998 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Life Sentence by Charles W. Colson Second Printing from Chosen Books for 10th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $5.00 (2 in stock)
	Lifetime of Wisdom by Joni Eareckson Tada from Zondervan Autobiographies & Memoirs for Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Lost Executioner A Story of the Khmer Rouge by Nic Dunlop 1^st edition from Walker and Company for 10th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
	Lost Peace Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953 by Robert Dallek from HarperCollins for Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
	Martin Luther King, Jr A Biography for Young Children by Carol Hilgartner Schlank, Barbara Metzger, illustrated by John Kastner from Gryphon House for Kindergarten-2nd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Meet John F. Kennedy by Nancy Bean White from Random House for 1st-4th grade in Step Up Books (Location: VIN-STEP)
	Monuments to Glory The Story of Antonio Barluzzi, Architect of the Holy Land by Daniel M. Madden, illustrated by Lili Réthi from Hawthorn Books, Inc. for 6th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Patrol An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi from HarperCollins for 3rd-6th grade in Vietnam War (1957-1975) (Location: HISA-20VIE) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Picture Book of Rosa Parks by David A. Adler; illustrated by Robert Casilla 1^st edition from Holiday House Picture Book Biography for Preschool-3rd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	Roots The Saga of an American Family Book Club Edition from Doubleday & Company for 11th-Adult in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower Signature Books #38 by Arthur J. Beckhard, illustrated by Charles H. Geer from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of President Kennedy Grosset & Dunlap Signature #50 by Iris Vinton, illustrated by Carl Cassler from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Tall American The Story of Gary Cooper by Richard Gehman, illustrated by Albert Micale from Hawthorn Books, Inc. for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	This Promise of Change One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy from Bloomsbury Publishing for 6th-12th grade 2020 Robert F. Siebert Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $17.99
	Three Days in January Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission by Brett Baier with Catherine Whitney from William Morrow & Company for Adult in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS) $4.80 (2 in stock)
	Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges, Compiled and Edited by Margo Lundell from Scholastic Inc. for 1st-4th grade 2000 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award in Biographies (Location: BIO) $17.99
	Thurgood Marshall Rookie Biography by Carol Greene from Children's Press for 1st-3rd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO)
	To Far Places The Story of Francis X. Ford by Eva K. Betz, illustrated by Peter Landa from Hawthorn Books, Inc. for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Twilight Struggle The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Barbara Harrison, Daniel Terris 1^st edition from HarperCollins for 7th-12th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged! by Jody Nyasha Warner, Richard Rudnicki from Groundwood Books for Kindergarten-3rd grade in Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) (Location: HISA-20CIV) $6.50 (1 in stock)
	Wurmbrand: Tortured for Christ The Complete Story by Voice of the Martyrs from David C. Cook for 9th-Adult in Biographies (Location: BIO) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Yankee Sails the Nile Exciting Adventure Sailing from the Mediterranean to the Second Cataract by Irving and Electa Johnson 1^st edition from W. W. Norton and Co. for Adult in Nautical History (Location: VIN-NAUT) $9.00 (1 in stock)

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