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Extract: We Can Do Hard Things by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle

1 month ago | penguinrandomhouse.co.za | Glennon Doyle |Abby Wambach |Amanda Doyle

We Can Do Hard Things is a guidebook for navigating life’s hardest roads – love, grief, parenting, aging, and everything in between. Glennon Doyle, alongside her sister Amanda and wife Abby, turned to honest conversations during a year of crisis, asking 118 remarkable people to share hard-won wisdom. What they found is simple but profound: no matter what we’re going through, someone else has been there too.
The Wolfpack Way|Hardcover

Aug 21, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Abby Wambach |Debby Rahmalia

The Wolfpack WayHowl loud and proud with the Wolfpack and U.S. Soccer Olympic Gold Medalist, FIFA World Cup champion, and #1 New York Times-bestselling author Abby Wambach in this inspiring and uplifting picture book perfect for gift giving all year round. It’s a great big world out there, full of amazing people and adventures. It may be scary at times – and confusing, too – but you will find your way.
EXCLUSION AND THE CHINESE AMERICAN STORY

Mar 26, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Sarah- SoonLing Blackburn |Abby Wambach |Tori Sharp

Deftly written and informative; a call for vigilance and equality. An examination of the history of Chinese American experiences. Blackburn opens with a note to readers about growing up feeling invisible as a multicultural, biracial Chinese American. She notes the tremendous diversity of Chinese American history and writes that this book is a starting point for learning more. The evenly paced narrative starts with the earliest recorded arrival of the Chinese in America in 1834.
REMEMBER MY STORY

Jan 9, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Claire Sarnowski |Saundra Mitchell |Abby Wambach

Sarnowski, a Catholic girl who’s cued white, met octogenarian Alter Weiner when, at age 9, she attended his presentation in Portland, Oregon, about his experiences during the Holocaust and its aftermath. Polish Jewish immigrant Weiner spent years as a teen in Nazi slave labor camps, enduring starvation and nearly being worked to death. After the war, he learned that more than 100 members of his family had been murdered in the concentration camps.
Game-Changing Sports Biographies and Memoirs

Oct 19, 2023 | celadonbooks.com | Stephanie Brown |Roland Lazenby |Andre Agassi |Abby Wambach

These winning reads smash the competition. A great sports story gets everyone on their feet — whether you just finished your 10th marathon or you prefer to race through your TBR stack. The following sports biographies and memoirs are packed with athletic drama that every reader will enjoy, from underdog wins and buzzer-beater finishes to the off-court scandals and triumphant personal comebacks of the greatest athletes of our time.
OF ALL TRIBES | Kirkus Reviews

Sep 26, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Joseph Bruchac |Abby Wambach |Tori Sharp

A well-balanced, visually appealing, and well-contextualized account. Alcatraz was not just a prison, but also a place where an idea became an Indigenous movement that persists today. The latest from Bruchac (Abenaki) focuses on the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz. The book delivers a brief history of the San Francisco Bay Area, beginning with the Ohlone Tribe, the original occupants of the region.
SLAVERY AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STORY

Sep 12, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Abby Wambach |Tori Sharp |Patricia Williams Dockery

From the Race to the Truth series A valuable introduction for budding historians exploring complex aspects of American history. The Black presence in the Americas began hundreds of years before the establishment of the Colonies and the practice of chattel slavery. In her exploration of how slavery has impacted the United States throughout its history, Williams Dockery begins her narrative before colonization.
COLONIZATION AND THE WAMPANOAG STORY

Sep 12, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Abby Wambach |Tori Sharp |Linda Coombs

From the Race to the Truth series A poignant and powerful look at identity, change, and resiliency. An Indigenous perspective on the impact of European settlement. Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) uses two distinct voices to share information. The alternating chapters prefaced with “When Life Was Our Own” demonstrate the intergenerational sharing of knowledge about Wampanoag life based on oral traditions and research.
FACING THE MOUNTAIN

Aug 26, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Daniel Brown |Abby Wambach |Tori Sharp

An unforgettable account of an appalling chapter in American history. A gripping history of Japanese American fortitude in the face of racism and incarceration during World War II. Hudson’s adaptation of Brown’s acclaimed 2021 adult original depicts the experiences of four young Japanese American men against a backdrop of wartime hysteria.
Women’s World Cup: How women broke gender barriers to play football and become superstars - Gulf News

Aug 1, 2023 | 1africafocus.com | Abby Wambach

Bayern Munich’s Senegal forward Sadio Mane has joined Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr after one season with the Bundesliga champions, both clubs said on Tuesday. Mane has signed a four-year contract, Al-Nassr added on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Financial details were not disclosed but media reports said the Saudis paid 40 million euros ($43.85 million) for the 31-year-old who had two more years left on his Bayern contract.