My Years with John Paul II
It is an extraordinary posthumous work that gathers the experiences of the spokesman of the Sala Stampa for more than 20 years during the pontificate of Saint John Paul II (1984–2005). As the subtitle...
Biographies
Tolkien's Faith. A Spiritual Biography
Holly Ordway has written an original biography of the author of The Lord of the Rings. She has succeeded, although it was not easy. The biography Humphrey Carpenter wrote in 1977 is still regarded today as...
Framed. Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, coauthor with John McCloskey of this nonfiction book, delves—well documented—into the description of 10 cases of wrongful convictions in the United States. Grisham tells five of them, and...
An Improbable Friendship
The biography of two unlikely friends, Ruth Dayan, an Israeli Jew, and Raymonda Hawa Tawil, a Palestinian Christian. Their story begins in 1917, when Ruth was born in Haifa, and follows the tumultuous...
Cicely Saunders
In Cicely Saunders: A Life and Legacy, David Clark explores how she pursued her own goals through the complexities of her life, the skepticism of others, and the persuasive influence of her religious faith...
Decision Points
Decision Points is the memoir of former U.S. President George W. Bush, in which he reflects on key moments in his personal life and presidency. The book covers crucial decisions such as the response to 9/11...
Father Ed
This book is a biography of a Jesuit priest who died in 1960.
Thanks to the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson, many people have recovered from various addictions (mainly alcohol) — with...
The Man who got even with God
Going from a Texas "cowboy" to a Trappist monk is a transformation hard to imagine in any case, but almost unbelievable when that "cowboy" is a very violent, vengeful, and stubborn man.
This is the...
Life
"We must not forget the most important lesson: we can reread the story of our life in order to remember it and be able to transmit something to those who listen to us. But to learn to live, we all have to...
Gorbachev
Gorbachev continues, even after all these years, to attract interest. He was faced with difficult and uncertain times, with many open fronts that did not rule out a confrontation—even nuclear—between blocs...