Hilary Cotterill was eighteen when she took her first steps through the snow toward her dream of becoming a nurse. Whether she's comforting a newly bereaved wife, babysitting a friend's hamster, or struggling with a misbehaving uniform, Hilary's compassion, keen observation, and cheerful good humor keep breaking through.

This gorgeous, full-color book introduces readers to the histories, locations, and personal lives of sixteen extraordinary people who have impacted the world and changed the author's life.

(History Makers Illustrated)

The History Makers is a new, color-illustrated series that focuses on the lives and legacies of religiously significant historical figures who have influenced the world in significant and lasting ways, including politics, social action, and the arts and sciences.

Today known as the author of the mega-seller The Bondage Breaker and the founder of Freedom in Christ ministries, Neil Anderson didn't always know that he was called to serve the Lord as a Christian minister. Though he is sure of his calling now, he readily admits that he has never sought a position in ministry and though he has founded and led a successful international parachurch organization, he refuses to spend a minute of his time to keep it in business.

The son and grandson of Norwegian farmers, Anderson grew up in rural Minnesota. He was a fun-loving, sports-crazy child, and no one suspected that God had planted a seed in him that would lead first to years as a pastor, then to teach in seminary, write or coauthor sixty books, and found a global ministry. Here he honestly shares his journey, complete with struggles and trials as he learns to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Though he still asks God, "Why me?" he continues to set people on the path to true freedom in Christ.

Robert Leon Davis was a street kid from a tough community. Raised on the brink of poverty, he and his siblings often went hungry, but with the help of a family in the neighborhood, he beat the odds and studied criminal law at Loyola University and joined the New Orleans police department in 1975.

He began his career with aspirations of being a great cop, but before long he was exposed to a darker side of law enforcement. While partnered with a veteran, Davis first witnessed an officer violating the very laws he had vowed to uphold--and he shared in his crime. One compromise led to another, and Davis soon was caught and faced a substantial prison term. Cops in prison don't last long. He fled.

Fear of being abandoned keeps nineteen-year-old Harmony Dust trapped in an abusive and cruel relationship. She thinks she has hit bottom—tens of thousands of dollars in debt, struggling to get by, and so controlled by her boyfriend that she doesn’t protest when he begins openly sleeping around. Things can’t get worse . . . until someone tells her how much money she can make as an exotic dancer. For the next three years, Harmony lives a double life as Monique, a dancer in a fully-nude strip club.

The personal stories of forty-eight historic scientists and an overview of their contributions to their field and faith.

The continuing true story of John Robinson, the abandoned boy reclaimed by God's infinite grace as first described in Nobody's Child.

“For me, Mother Teresa of Calcutta embodies Christian love in action. Her face shines with the love of Christ on which her whole life is centered, and her words carry that message to a world which never needed it so much.”