7 best inspirational autobiographies for 2019
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Best inspirational autobiographies
1. I'll Push You: A Journey of 500 Miles, Two Best Friends, and One Wheelchair
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2018 ECPA Christian Book Award Winner2018 Christopher Award Winner
Two best friends, 500 miles, one wheelchair, and the challenge of a lifetime.
Friendship takes on new meaning in this true story of Justin and Patrick, born less than two days apart in the same hospital. Best friends their whole lives, they grew up together, went to school together, and were best man in each others weddings. When Justin was diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease that robbed him of the use of his arms and legs, Patrick was there, helping to feed and care for him in ways hed never imagined. Determined to live life to the fullest, the friends refused to give into despair or let physical limitations control what was possible for Justin.
So when Justin heard about the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile trek through Spain, he wondered aloud to Patrick whether the two of them could ever do it. Patricks immediate response was: Ill push you.
Ill Push You is the real-life story of this incredible journey. A travel adventure full of love, humor, and spiritual truth, it exemplifies what every friendship is meant to be and shows what it means to never find yourself alone. Youll discover how love and faith can push past all limitsand make us the best versions of ourselves.
2. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A meditation on sense-making when theres no sense to be made, on letting go when we cant hold on, and on being unafraid even when were terrified.Lucy KalanithiBelongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithis When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawandes Being Mortal.Bill Gates
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of Gods disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward blessing. She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son.
Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.
The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with a surge of determination. Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you cant do and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before.
Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live.
Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason
I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and grippingshes like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kates story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Rising
3. Unashamed
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Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversitychildhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
Along the way, Lecrae attained an unwavering faith in Jesus and began looking to God for affirmation. Now as a chart-topping industry anomaly, he has learned to ignore the haters and make peace with his craft. The rap artist holds nothing back as he divulges the most sensitive details of his life, answers his critics, shares intimate handwritten journal entries, and powerfully models how to be a Christian in a secular age.
This is the story of one man's journey to faith and freedom.
*Cover/Interior design by Alex Medina, photography by Mary Caroline Mann
4. Racing to the Finish: My Story
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.s only authorized book revealing the inside track on his final year of racing and retirement from the drivers seat.
Time was running out on my charade My secrets were about to be exposed to the world.
It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didnt know was that it would also end his driving for the year. Hed dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes, no two are the same. And recovery can be brutal, and lengthy.
When NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired from professional stock car racing in 2017, he walked away from his career as a healthy man. But for years, he had worried that the worsening effects of multiple racing-related concussions would end not only his time on the track but his ability to live a full and happy life.
Torn between a race-at-all-costs culture and the fear that something was terribly wrong, Earnhardt tried to pretend that everything was fine, but the private notes about his escalating symptoms that he kept on his phone reveal a vicious cycle: suffering injuries on Sunday, struggling through the week, then recovering in time to race again the following weekend. For the first time, he shares these notes and fully reveals the physical and emotional struggles he faced as he fought to close out his career on his own terms.
In this candid reflection, Earnhardt opens up about his frustration with the slow recovery, his admiration for the woman who stood by him through it all, and his determination to share his own experience so that others dont have to suffer in silence. Steering his way to the final checkered flag of his storied career proved to be the most challenging race and most rewarding finish of his life.
5. Beastie Boys Book
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inclues rare photospieces from Amy Poehler, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, & more
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe perfect holiday gift for fans of the iconic banda panoramic experience that tells the story of BeastieBoys, byband members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson,Luc Sante, and more.Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam ADROCK Horovitz and Michael Mike D Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; the debut album that became the first hip hop record ever to hit #1,Licensed to Illand the albums messy fallout as the band broke with Def Jam;their move to Los Angeles and rebirth with the genre-defying masterpiecePauls Boutique;their evolution as musicians and social activists over the course of the classic albumsCheck Your Head, Ill Communication,andHello Nastyand the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits conceived by the late Adam MCA Yauch;and more. For more than thirty years, this band has had an inescapable and indelible influence on popular culture.
With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie Boys album,Beastie Boys Bookupends the typical music memoir. Alongside the band narrative you will find rare photos, original illustrations, a cookbook by chef Roy Choi, a graphic novel, a map of Beastie Boys New York, mixtape playlists, pieces by guest contributors, and many more surprises.
Praise for Beastie Boys Book
A fascinating, generous book with portraits and detail that float by in bursts of color . . . As with [the bands] records, the books structure is a lyrical three-man weave. . . . Diamonds voice is lapidary, droll. Horovitz comes on like a borscht belt comedian, but beneath that he is urgent, incredulous, kind of vulnerable. . . . Friendship is the books subject as much as music, fame and New York.The New York Times Book Review
Wild, moving . . . resembles a Beastie Boys LP in its wild variety of styles.Rolling Stone
As nutty, irreverent, and fun as you think it would be.Vogue
As freewheeling and funny as their albums . . . a beautifully messy (and large) talisman containing within it many of the great joys and surprises that come with listening to the Beastie BoysThe AV Club
6. Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
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Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators.
When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didnt know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistanbut he was ready. In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, he wrote, Im not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.
Fearless is the story of a man of extremes, whose courage and determination were fueled by faith, family, and the love of a woman. Its about a man who waged a war against his own worst impulses, including drug addiction, and persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military. In a deeply personal and absorbing chronicle, Fearless reveals a glimpse inside the SEAL Team SIX brotherhood, and presents an indelible portrait of a highly trained warrior whose final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice.
Adam Brown was a devoted man who was an unlikely hero but a true warrior, described by all who knew him asfearless.
As a rule, we dont endorse books or movies or anything regarding the command where I workand Adam Brown workedbut as the author writes inFearless, you have to know the rules, so you know when to bend or break them. This is one of those times. Read this book. Period. It succeeds where all the others have failed. -- SEAL Team SIX Operator
7. I'll push you
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