Olympic Reads

In honor of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, check out these picks!

Updated July 18, 2024
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By the sword : a history of gladiators, musketeers, samurai, swashbucklers, and Olympic champions
Cohen, Richard
Paper Book
Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who would cross swords with Bess after school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ’s divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was...
Far beyond gold : running from fear to faith
McLaughlin, Sydney
Paper Book
What fears are standing in your way or holding you back? How do you want to become stronger? Olympic and World champion hurdler Sydney McLaughlin wants to help you answer these questions as she shares her personal story of struggles and victories, of faith and transformation. Sydney...
Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
Montillo, Roseanne
Paper Book
The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized...
Freedom to win : a Cold War story of the courageous hockey team that fought the Soviets for the soul of its people--and Olympic gold
Scheiner, Ethan
Paper Book
A classic David & Goliath tale, complete with colorful heroes, cold-hearted villains, and nail-biting games--with the hockey rink serving as an arena for a nation's resistance. During the height of the Cold War, a group of small-town young men would lead their underdog hockey...
Olympic pride, American prejudice : the untold story of 18 African Americans who defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Draper, Deborah Riley
Paper Book
Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South. Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated...
The suspect : an Olympic bombing, the FBI, the media, and Richard Jewell, the man caught in the middle
Alexander, Kent
Paper Book
A based-on source for the Warner Bros. film Richard Jewell, starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser​ "Meticulously reported, bracingly written, full of memorable and bizarre characters, the book casts a...

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