History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, Lucy Mack Smith

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

Roland H. Bainton

Muhammad : A Biography of the Prophet

Karen Armstrong · 288 pages

This biography attempts to strip away centuries of distortion and myth and present a balanced view of the man whose religion continues to dramatically affect the course of history.

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

Richard L. Bushman · 776 pages

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Eric Metaxas · 615 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace, a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of the monstrous evil that was Nazism. After discovering the fire of true faith in a Harlem church, Bonhoef

No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith

Fawn M. Brodie · 536 pages

(Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum) The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet (SAW)

Safiy al-Rahman al-Mubarakfuri · 588 pages

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Reza Aslan · 336 pages

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee gathering followers to establish the "Kingdom of God." He was tortured and executed as a state criminal. Within decades, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens

Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet

John G. Turner

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been disto

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage

Paul Elie · 565 pages

"In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing - in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story - a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.". "Thomas Merton was a Tr

Twenty Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad

Ali Dashti, `ly dshty · 228 pages

Saint Thomas Aquinas

G.K. Chesterton, Anton C. Pegis · 116 pages

" St. Thomas Aquinas is enriched by the author's unique ability to see the world through the saint's eyes, a fresh and animated view that shows us Aquinas as no other biography has. Acclaimed as the best book ever written on Aquinas by such outstanding Thomists as Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, and Anton Pegis, this brilliant biography will completely capture the reader and leave him desirous o

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg · 177 pages

A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

Elisabeth Elliot · 382 pages

A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as "Amma," or "mother," as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children. Amy's life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires

Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge: The gripping true story that inspired the movie

Booton Herndon · 199 pages

Jonathan Edwards

George M. Marsden · 640 pages

"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century." "In this biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George M. Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable · 601 pages

Of the great figures in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better

The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism

Deborah Baker · 246 pages

What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West.

Brigham Young: American Moses

Leonard J. Arrington

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search

Martin Sixsmith · 442 pages

"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena's son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he h

Actes and monuments

John Foxe · 589 pages

The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

Susan Jacoby · 256 pages

This book is a biography that restores America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism to our still contested twenty-first-century public square. From the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism comes a provocative portrait of Robert Green Ingersoll, known as "the Great Agnostic" and the foremost spokesman during America's Gilded Age for secularism and the

The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad

Lesley Hazleton · 336 pages

The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited-- and remade.

American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans

Eve LaPlante · 312 pages

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

Deborah Heiligman · 282 pages