His world is one without sound. But Kenny Walker made his own noise through his actions growing up in Texas and Colorado. Deaf since suffering meningitis at age 2, Kenny went on to become an All-American at the University of Nebraska before playing five years of professional football, including two with the Denver Broncos in the NFL. The road was never clear for Kenny Walker. But through hard work, perseverance and surrounding himself with people...

A motivational autobiography by Olympic Greco-Roman champion wrestler Rulon Gardner (Gold Medal, 2000; Bronze Medal, 2004). This athlete achieved arguably the greatest upset in individual sports history when he defeated the Russian Alexander Karelin--three-time Olympic champ, undefeated and unscored upon for a decade before his match with Gardner--in the 2000 Gold Medal match. Gardner tells of his impoverished upbringing as one of nine children in...