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Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
1964
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
373 p.
Language
English
Description
Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso's...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 271 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the author's Amish childhood, his departure from his community at age seventeen, his struggles to return to the Amish way of life, and his final acceptance of his own identity and his past.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xvii, 233 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former Palestinian sniper discusses his subsequent life in America, the religious experience which resulted in his conversion to Christianity, and his founding of a humanitarian organization which works toward a reconciliation between Palestinans and Jews.
Author
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Melissa Ohden was fourteen when she learned she was the survivor of a botched abortion. In this memoir she details her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment.