Honest and heartfelt, frank and funny, Aly's story is enhanced with never-before-published photos, excerpts from the personal journals she's kept since childhood that chronicle memorable moments with her teammates, and hard-won advice for readers striving to rise above challenges, learn to love themselves, and make their own dreams come true.

Untold until now, here is the story of Black sprinter and long-jumper Willye B. White, who went from picking cotton as a child in Mississippi to competing and winning in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics.

Dramatization of the life of Louis Zamperini, 5000-meter runner at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. After his bomber crashed in the Pacific in 1943, he survived 47 days adrift in a small boat before being arrested by the Japanese and held in prisoner-of-war camps until the end of the war in 1945.