Biography
Real lives unfold on these pages as visionaries, leaders, and everyday heroes share their transformative journeys through success, struggle, and profound change. These intimate portraits and personal stories illuminate the human spirit while offering wisdom, inspiration, and powerful lessons drawn from lived experience.
Biography Book Summaries
Catch a Wave
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Music
Biography
History
Unveiling Grace
The Story of How We Found Our Way out of the Mormon Church
Christian
Biography
Memoir
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters
The Battle for the Soul of American Business
Business
History
Economics
More Than the Tattooed Mormon
Religion
Lds
Biography
Behind the Cloud
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Math and the Mona Lisa
Science
Mathematics
History
Women Who Risk
Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World
Christian
Biography
Faith
Life Of Crime
Law
Biography
True Crime
The Latehomecomer
A Hmong Family Memoir
Memoir
Book Club
History
Not Forgotten
The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea
Memoir
Christian
Biography
Crisis and Command
A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
History
Politics
Presidents
ER Nurses
True stories from the frontline
Medical
Medicine
Memoir
Wouldn't it Be Nice
Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
Music
Biography
History
Life Beyond Measure
Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Sinatra's Century
One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World
Biography
Music
Why We Love Pirates
The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
History
Pirates
Historical
Diaries 1969-1979
The Python Years
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
The Cartiers
The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
History
Biography
Fashion
Escape from Saddam
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
Biography
History
Middle East
On Pluto
Inside the Mind of Alzheimer's
Memoir
Psychology
Science
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
History
Biography
Race
A Piece of Cake
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Psychology
Memoir
Mental Health
The Fifth Vital
Biography
Memoir
Autobiography
Faith Under Fire
What the Middle East Conflict Has Taught Me about God
Christianity
Christian
Biography
Swedenborg
An Introduction to His Life and Ideas
Biography
Religion
Mysticism
American Turnaround
Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA
Business
Biography
Autobiography
Finding My Balance
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
A History of Islam in 21 Women
Islam
History
Religion
Love Thy Neighbor
A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
Memoir
Religion
Biography
Education of a Felon
Biography
Crime
True Crime
I'm a Joke and So Are You
Reflections on Humour and Humanity
Humor
Psychology
Science
How to Think Like da Vinci
Biography
Art
Self Help
Paper Girl
A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Memoir
Politics
Biography
Einstein of Money
The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Biography
Finance
Business
The Magnolia Story
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Magnificent Rebels
The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
History
Philosophy
Biography
Aristotle
Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher
Philosophy
Biography
History
When Broken Glass Floats
Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
History
Memoir
Asia
Guitar Lessons
A Life's Journey Turning Passion Into Business
Music
Business
Biography
We Were Dreamers
An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
The Unlikely Disciple
A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Religion
Memoir
Christianity
Storyteller
Writing Lessons & More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop
Writing
Memoir
Reference
Fail Until You Don't
Self Help
Biography
Personal Development
Cooking as Fast as I Can
A Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Memoir
Food
Biography
What's It All About
Biography
Autobiography
Memoir
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History
Civil War
American History
Yoga Girl
Finding Happiness, Cultivating Balance and Living with Your Heart Wide Open
Health
Memoir
Spirituality
Already Toast
Caregiving and Burnout in America
Memoir
Self Help
Health
The Lincoln Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
History
Biography
Politics
