Surfing in Far Rockaway, romantic obsession, and Moby-Dick converge in this winning and refreshing memoirJustin Hocking lands in New York hopeful but adrift—he's jobless, unexpectedly overwhelmed and disoriented by the city, struggling with anxiety and obsession, and attempting to maintain a faltering long-distance relationship. As a man whose brand of therapy has always been motion, whether in a skate park or on a snowdrift, Hocking needs an outlet for hi...

As skateboarding has grown in popularity, the venues built specifically for skating have grown in number, too. Much like earlier generations built baseball fields and basketball courts, modern-day municipalities and other entities are building skate parks. In this book, readers will discover how there has rarely been as good an era to skate street courses and obstacles at local parks, which provide the challenge and variety skaters used to only be able to find on the streets. This book pro...

Skating half-pipes is one of the most thrilling aspects of the sport of skateboarding. This books introduces relative skating novices to half-pipes, also known as ramps, starting with safety equipment and measures, and then moving on to beginning tricks and techniques, finally working up to more complicated and advanced maneuvers. The book gives succinct, easy to follow instructions on how to successfully pump on a half-pipe, drop in and then move on to grinds, slides, stalls, fakies, flip...

Justin Hocking grew up in a part of Colorado where so many things happened beneath the surface—mining exploits, underground nuclear testing just thirty miles from his family's home, and geothermal activity that heats one of the world's largest hot spring pools. His homelife, too, was plagued by hidden patterns of abuse and virulent masculinity. A Field Guide to the Subterranean charts the author's lifelong process of unearthing the past and reclaiming his own identity and connecti...

Riding bowls and pools is another challenging and exciting genre of skating. This book gets readers comfortable with riding in pools and takes them from simple techniques and tricks through to more advanced ones. Whether skating empty pools or enjoying the smoother ride skaters find in specially built concrete or wooden bowls in their local skate parks, skaters at all levels of expertise can enjoy this built terrain. Once readers are schooled on safety gear and how bowl and pool skating di...

This award-wining novel inspired by the Emmett Till murder is "a masterful, penetrating retelling of an American tragedy" ( Boston Globe ).An ALA Notable BookWinner of the Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for FictionIn Wolf Whistle, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killing...

In her previous books Chris tells of her move to the tiny Feudal Island of Sark, in the British Channel Isles with her husband Ken, to run their guest house and smallholding. They then journey out to New Zealand to explore and finally settle there. Over the years the marriage starts to falter and in the opening chapter of 'So You Returned to Sark' it comes to a dramatic head. Chris returns to Sark with 'the love of her life,' Peter, and begins a very different existence. She becomes involv...

Chris tells of her years as a district nurse, first in London in the early sixties and then New Zealand in the late seventies. She tells of the rough living conditions in London, where we meet people like the solo mother dying of cancer and longing to give her children a good Christmas and the 90 year old blind lady who refuses a proposal of marriage. In New Zealand she has a large area, is on 24hour call as the only nurse and where most of the roads are not tar-seal. We meet the disfuncti...

After seven years of running their guest house and smallholding on the tiny feudal Island of Sark in the British Channel Islands, Chris and Ken Davies decided to have a two-year break.In 1972 they packed their suitcases and booked passage, with young son Roy,to New Zealand, calling at many exotic places en route.Arriving in Auckland, they bought a Bedford 18cwt delivery van and the three Davies set off to drive all over the two Islands, from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island, li...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How shou...

* NOW WITH A NEW CHAPTER *'A hugely enjoyable romp through the pleasures and pitfalls of setting up home in a foreign land.'- GuardianGiven the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: Denmark, land oflong dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries, was the happiest place on earth.Keen to know their secrets, Helen gave herself a year to uncover t...

What you don't expect when on a world cruise could fill a book. And it did!On our first try we crashed off Egypt. The second try, we made it, but not without some wild stuff happening.I promise this book will make you laugh!