The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family Audiobook

Quotes

• “A sumptuous read, as funny, erudite, and energizing as a chat with a conversational intellectual, as engrossing and moving as a medical detective drama…The book leaves all of us who’ve read it feeling a little stronger and brighter ourselves.”

  — Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Adam

• “A truly interesting, engaging, and fascinating memoir.”

  — Joe Lansdale, World Fantasy Award–winning author of Edge of Dark Water

• “Wildly quirky memoir of facing down his ferocious Tourette’s tics…Hanagarne’s account manages to be very gag-full and tongue-in-cheek…highly engaging…Reconciled with Tourette’s, Hanagarne never let the disease get the upper hand.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Throughout, Thorne reflects Hanagarne’s droll wit—a coping mechanism for his Tourette’s syndrome and life in general. With his optimistic and irreverent attitude, Hanagarne’s experiences may be interesting to Tourette’s sufferers and to others dealing with difficult personal problems.”

  — AudioFile

• “Forthright, affecting, and sometimes surprisingly funny.”

  — Library Journal

• “Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder.  All human beings suffer and struggle. Through the lens of his own miraculous experiences, Mr. Hanagarne illuminates the path to joy and the infinite possibilities of transcendence.”

  — Melanie Rae Thon, award-winning author of Sweet Hearts

• “As a gym rat myself, I can attest to the power of hurling one’s sinews against heavy stuff that keeps wanting to slam you back into the floor. The difference with Josh Hanagarne is he has lifted much weightier impediments—Tourette’s, loneliness, geekitude, and the calling to be a writer. That he is, and a talent to savor, to emulate, and to be inspired by.”

  — Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of The War of Art

• “Just like the library has every funny, beautiful, moving, wise story you’d ever need in it, so too does this book. This is not just your ordinary memoir: it is a soaring, inspiring elegy to the small and big miracles of parenthood and friendship and marriage and how they triumph over the not so small challenges of life. It is a perfect, perfect gem of a read, unputdownable, unforgettable, unmatchable.”

  — Pam Allyn, author of What to Read When

• “Josh Hanagarne inspires in his pursuit to break the shackles of Tourette Syndrome and live his life to the fullest, as a husband, a father, and a librarian. Insightful, heart-wrenching, and delightfully humorous, The World’s Strongest Librarian is a triumph!”

  — Cory MacLauchlin, author of Butterfly in the Typewriter

• “Josh’s special struggles to deal with his own doubts, Tourette’s, and society give his journey a patina of honesty, resilience, and a flavor of humanity that truly inspires. Josh has a unique voice, and I was privileged to read and be empowered by his story.”

  — Stephen Abram, vice president of Gale Cengage Learning

• “A funny, profound, emotionally generous, and wonderfully human story.”

  — Lou Schuler, author of The New Rules of Lifting

• “Everything about this book is big…I found it impossible to put down; save a day to read this.”

  — Dan John, author of Intervention

• “Josh Hanagarne is a giant of a man and a giant of a writer…This guy is the real freaking deal in a very fresh and exciting way.”

  — Larry Brooks, author of Story Engineering