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Breaking the Surface

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By Greg Louganis, Eric Marcus — 2025

Champions aren’t born, they’re made. The haunting, searingly candid New York Times bestselling memoir of Greg Louganis’ journey to overcome homophobia, colorism, and disability to become one of the best Olympic athletes in the world.

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My Shot: Balancing It All and Standing Tall

Elena Delle Donne, 2015 WNBA MVP and 2016 Olympic gold medalist, shares her inspirational story of being a young basketball prodigy who gave up an impressive basketball scholarship for family and self-discovery.

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Elena Delle Donne
2019
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Educated: A Memoir

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Tara Westover
2025
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Show Up: A Motivational Message for Muslim Women

A personal story of the author reflecting on her journey of life with references to quotes from the Qur’an, Hadith and contemporary thinkers. Robert skillfully interweaves her own journey with chapters on showing up for yourself, your relationship, your family, your children and your dreams.

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Na’ima B. Robert
2025
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Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You’re a Girl (and Other Truths about Winning)

This is what your coaches would have said to you if you were a boy, told through the story of a small-college team that won more games than it ever had a right to win.

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Dan Blank
2014
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Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance

Simone Biles’ entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a field trip in her hometown of Spring, Texas, but her God-given talent, along with drive to succeed no matter the obstacle, are what brought her to the national spotlight during the Olympic Games and have catapulted her ever...

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Simone Biles
2025
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Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

In a society that is digging deep into the misogyny underlying our traditions and media, the world of sports is especially fertile ground.

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Julie DiCaro
2022
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More than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

Part-manifesto, part-memoir, from the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue, an exploration of what it means to come into your own—on your own terms Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings...

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Elaine Welteroth
2019
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De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity.

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Elizabeth Martínez
2025
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas.

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Rebecca Solnit
2021
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Untamed

Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live.

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Glennon Doyle
2020
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