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
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Science
Biology
Textbooks
A CHANCE IN THE WORLD
An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
12 Notes
On Life and Creativity
Music
Biography
Self Help
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
A Memoir
Memoir
LGBT
Feminism
Atatürk
The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
History
Biography
Politics
Until We Are Free
My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
Iran
Memoir
Politics
Basketball Junkie
Memoir
Sports
Basketball
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Science
Physics
Biography
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Biography
Medicine
Book Club
Alexander Hamilton
History
Biography
American History
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Memoir
Biography
Book Club
John D. Rockefeller on Making Money
Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
Business
Biography
Finance
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
History
Biography
Business
Catch Me If You Can
The True Story of a Real Fake
Biography
Memoir
True Crime
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
History
Autobiography
Onward
How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Business
Biography
Leadership
England's Mistress
The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
History
Biography
Historical
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge
George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
Biography
History
Middle Grade
Steve Jobs
Biography
Business
Technology
Son of Hamas
A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
Biography
History
Memoir
Outcasts United
A Refugee Team, an American Town
Sports
Soccer
Book Club
What It Takes
Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Business
Biography
Finance
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Martial Arts
Philosophy
Biography
On Sparta
History
Classics
Ancient History
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
History
Leadership
Biography
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
History
Biography
Business
Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
History
Adventure
Biography
Defenders of the West
The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam
History
Christianity
Religion
A Smile as Big as the Moon
A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through U.S. Space Camp
Education
Disability
Memoir
Timothy Keller
His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
Biography
Christian
Theology
The Fall of Heaven
The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
History
Iran
Politics
The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris
History
France
Biography
Meet the Frugalwoods
Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
Finance
Memoir
Personal Finance
The Education of a Value Investor
My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
Finance
Business
Economics
King of Capital
The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
Business
Finance
Biography
How to Be Alone
If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
The Road to Character
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
Tantric Quest
An Encounter with Absolute Love
Spirituality
Sexuality
Hinduism
Life and Death in Shanghai
China
History
Memoir
A Year of Living Simply
The joys of a life less complicated
Self Help
Nature
Biography
The Bond King
How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
Finance
Business
Biography
The Journal of Best Practices
A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
Memoir
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Godless
How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Religion
Atheism
Philosophy
Between Two Kingdoms
A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Memoir
Book Club
Biography
Bibi
My Story
Biography
History
Politics
Dying to Be Me
My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Spirituality
Memoir
Biography
The Wise Men
Six Friends and the World They Made
History
Biography
Politics
Hit Refresh
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
Business
Biography
Technology
The Art of Power
My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Politics
Memoir
Biography
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Biography
Memoir
Humor
