Biography: general books

From muddy football fields to Tibetan plateaus, Johan Depraetere's journey shows how daring choices open doors to...  Read More >>

Eight Septembers: a Woman on Wall Street From 9/11 to Lehman is a gripping memoir that captures the tumultuous landscape...  Read More >>

Inspired by a true story, The House That Fell is a moving tale of endurance and an overcoming faith.  Read More >>

Her story is as old as the hills and common as grass. She was ""illegitimate"" - such a punitive word for the innocent;...  Read More >>

This gripping memoir fuses true crime with personal transformation. At its heart is a chilling encounter with a...  Read More >>

In Echoes of Her Strength: A Life of Forgiveness and Resilience, Joycelyn invites readers into the intimate story...  Read More >>

The 13 Steps To Riches Are you a student of Napoleon Hill's classic from 1937 Think and Grow Rich? Has your...  Read More >>

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A rescued wild filly and a woman rebuilding her life find healing in each other. Their journey reveals the profound,...  Read More >>

In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and...  Read More >>

Mountain Men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramatic, and truly significant...  Read More >>

This book explores Thomas Edison's activities and influence in Fort Myers, Florida, over 45 years, an important...  Read More >>

After George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1992, John Robert Greene’s verdict on the 41st...  Read More >>

Harwood's spirited biography of an audacious, persistent woman brings to the forefront the largely unheralded contributions...  Read More >>

In Karen Blixen's Search for Self, Patti M. Marxsen presents a twenty-first-century reconsideration of Blixen's...  Read More >>

Women have been shaping the conservation movement in Texas since the nineteenth century, though their stories are...  Read More >>

Kenneth W. Noe's Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth...  Read More >>

A biography of Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil, Marquise de Sade, revealing how for decades she endured not only the...  Read More >>

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story...  Read More >>

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

The full-career autobiography from one of Ireland's greatest ever jockeys  Read More >>

A gripping, definitive account of one man's battle to reckon with the horror of the Holocaust, by Jack Fairweather,...  Read More >>

""Chuck Feeney is a remarkable role model, and the ultimate example of giving while living."" (Bill Gates)  Read More >>

Set in Paris, an audacious philosophical novel that brings Jean-Jacques Rousseau's investigations of human nature...  Read More >>

Find encouragement for extraordinary faith in an ordinary world. Faithful Then, Faithful Now is a forty-day dose...  Read More >>