Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women

5 best books like Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women (Roseanne Montillo): The Light Years: A Memoir, 26 Marathons: What I've Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life From Each Marathon I've Run, Wild by Nature: One Woman, One Trek, One Thousand Nights, The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life, The Devil in the Marshalsea

The Light Years: A Memoir

Author	Chris Rush
ISBN	0374294410

The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history

Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the...

26 Marathons: What I've Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life From Each Marathon I've Run

Author

Meb Keflezighi

Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in his storied career.

When Meb Keflezighi ran his final marathon in New York City on November 5, 2017, it marked the end of an extraordinary distance-running career. As the first person in history...

Wild by Nature: One Woman, One Trek, One Thousand Nights

Author	Sarah Marquis
ISBN	1250081971

From National Geographic's Explorer of 2014, featured in The New York Times Magazine, Wild By Nature is the harrowing and nearly unbelievable story of Sarah Marquis' solo 10,000-mile hike across the remote Gobi desert from Siberia to Thailand, then transported by boat to complete her hike at her favorite...

The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life

Author	Mark Synnott
ISBN	1101986646

The climbing community had long considered a "free solo" ascent of El Capitan an impossible feat so far beyond human limits that it was not worth thinking about. When Alex Honnold topped out at 9:28 am on June 3, 2017, having spent fewer than four hours on his historic ascent, the world gave a collective...

The Devil in the Marshalsea

Author

Antonia Hodgson

London, 1727, and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors' prison.

The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort....