Books like Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful
12 books with a reading profile close to Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful by Katie Davis Majors. Practical, inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Michael J.
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Tramp for the Lord
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Following her release from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom spent twenty years traveling as a global itinerant speaker.
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Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Jackie Hill Perry details her personal history of same-sex attraction and her subsequent conversion to Christianity.
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A Street Cat Named Bob
by James Bowen
Also practical and inward-looking · memoir, inspirational
James Bowen was a recovering heroin addict living in sheltered housing and busking on the streets of London when he discovered an injured ginger tabby cat in his apartment hallway.
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The Vow: The Kim & Krickitt Carpenter Story
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Kim and Krickitt Carpenter had been married for only ten weeks when a high-speed car accident left Krickitt in a coma with severe brain trauma.
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Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
by Todd Burpo
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Four-year-old Colton Burpo underwent an emergency appendectomy that nearly took his life.
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by Vicki Myron
Also practical and inward-looking · memoir, inspirational
On a frigid morning in 1988, library director Vicki Myron discovered a tiny, nearly frozen kitten wedged into the Spencer, Iowa, book return slot.
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Joni: An Unforgettable Story
Also practical and inward-looking · memoir, inspirational
After a diving accident in the Chesapeake Bay leaves seventeen-year-old Joni Eareckson a quadriplegic, she faces the sudden loss of her physical autonomy.
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
by Ina Garten
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In this memoir, Ina Garten traces her path from a restrictive childhood to her role as a nuclear budget analyst in the Ford and Carter administrations before pivoting to culinary entrepreneurship.
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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
by Simu Liu
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In this memoir, Simu Liu recounts his family’s move from Harbin, China, to Ontario, Canada.
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
by Don Piper
Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1989, a semi-truck crushed Don Piper’s car, leading medical professionals to pronounce him dead at the scene.
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