Biography & Memoir

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.

Meditations on Prayerful Stillness, Silence, Solitude, and Service in the Spirit of St. Francis of Assisi.

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

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

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.

The author shares his own story and reflects on the nature of scholarship showing how this vocation has changed over the past half-century and where it might be going in the future.

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.

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.

Great pictures of St John Paul's entire life and his biography is included as well as other info.

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.

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.

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.

From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of

“Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” —The Washington Post

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man

Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a co

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.