The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir Of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength And The Power Of Family

"Forget every stereotype you have about librarians. Josh Hanagarne, who works in the Salt Lake City Public Library, is 6 feet, 7 inches and can tear a telephone book in half. The World’s Strongest Librarian isn’t just one of the most interesting books of the year because of the author’s incredible story — he started weightlifting as a way to manage his Tourette syndrome — but also because of his considerable charisma and charming prose. “I only knew that everything coming toward me had the potential to wreck me, to derail any plan I could make,” Hanagarne writes of his disorder. But he doesn’t let it, and his chronicle of his fight is as defiant and inspiring as the (strong) man himself."