Biography & Memoir
Inspirational biographies teach us how other brothers and sisters in faith have sometimes overcome overwhelming odds with their spirituality still intact. Our prayer journals are important for recording your reflections on the Divine.
God's Global Mosaic by Paul-Gordon Chambers
Paul-Gordon Chandler highlights themes from each world region and tells inspirational stories from believers worldwide that help us see God as big as the whole world.
$18.00
Light of Assisi: the Story of Saint Clare by Margaret Carney, Osf
This book will introduce St. Clare of Assisi to those who do not know her and those who wish to know her better. It leads the reader from Clare's birth to her death
$16.99
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: the Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Compiled and presented by Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., who knew Mother Teresa for twenty years and is the postulator for her cause for sainthood and director of the Mother Teresa Center.
$19.99
The Longest Goodbye by Helena Farrell
This cautionary tale will fascinate people from their twenties to their seventies. This is not the usual story of romance, love, marriage, and deceit but an introspective into life's choices, with its consequences and its learning lessons.
$14.99
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather than of the lovers” about the author’s marriage and search for faith.
$15.99
Celebrant's Flame: Daniel Berrigan In Memory And Reflection by Bill Wylie-Kellermann
Daniel Berrigan (+2016+) is most notorious for dramatic anti-war actions at a Catonsville draft board and a Pennsylvania nuclear weapons plant in the ‘60s and ‘80s.
$23.00
The Old U(Va) And I 1961-1965 by Frank Briggs
The author lays the foundation in his account of his own life as a student during the last years of the "Old U"-a period that came to a natural end.
$27.00
Desmond Tutu: a Spiritual Biography of South Africa's Confessor by Michael Battle
The first biography of its kind about Desmond Tutu, this book introduces readers to Tutu's spiritual life and examines how it shaped his commitment to restorative justice and reconciliation.
$50.00
Night by Elie Wiesel
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.
$11.00
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom
The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and pow
$17.00
The Sunrise of the Soul by Gerard Thomas Straub
Meditations on Prayerful Stillness, Silence, Solitude, and Service in the Spirit of St. Francis of Assisi.
$19.99
Hallelujah Anyhow by Barbara Harris
The memoir of the Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris, the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion. A role model tells her story—and that of the nation and the church.
$14.95
Faith Unraveled by Rachel Held Evans
Rachel Held Evans shares her experiences growing up in Tennessee during the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925.
$15.99
Prayer Journal
Written between 1946 and 1947 while O'Connor was a student far from home at the University of Iowa, "A Prayer Journal "is a rare portal into the interior life of the great writer.
$18.00