Way High Kick Turn

An art book about skatboarding

Down Syndrome has never defined Suzy Beckham. Unlike many kids her own age, the bubbly High School Senior is comfortable in her own skin, content with who she is. If you’re fortunate enough to engage in a conversation with her, you’ll be hard-pressed to leave without a smile on your face and a bear hug from the hug master herself. Sherry Tinsdale is a star in the cheerleading world. Leading her squad to three national titles in only ten years, there simply is not anyone with a better resume among high school coaches. She and her husband have built a nice home in the small town of Gilmerton, Georgia. But personal tragedy has strangled the life out of the once vibrant coach. At only 33 years of age, life has become more grind than gift. While striving to keep up a good front to those around her, she immerses herself into the job, hoping that - as she stays constantly occupied - the deep hurt within will one day fade away. Sherry's world takes a surprising turn when a Special Ed teacher asks if one of his disabled students could fulfill her personal dream and join the elite cheer squad. After initially rejecting the idea as absurd, Sherry has a change of heart, allowing the girl with the endearing smile to join her team. While the Coach battles the pain of her past, the new cheerleader has her own challenges to overcome if she is to ever see the field. Ultimately it seems beyond coincidence that their paths have crossed, and no one could ever imagine the profound impact this Down Syndrome girl would have on her coach as she becomes part of the Legend of Suzy High Kick.

CLICK HERE to download the chapter on "Uphill Movement" from Backcountry Skiing (Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox) * For intermediate-to-advanced backcountry skiers * Includes trip planning, navigation, fitness, and avalanche safety information, in addition to techniques * Provides advice on how to make well-informed backcountry decisions Martin Volken and his co-authors provide skiers with all the tools and knowledge they need to safely and successfully travel in the mountain backcountry. The guide features intermediate-to-advanced techniques for ski touring and ski mountaineering, from planning backcountry trips to perfecting turns in rolling terrain and mastering uphill climbing. For those skiers ready for a more technical, high alpine environment, they draw on traditional mountaineering skills, including roped climbing, setting protection anchors, using ice axes, climbing on bare rock, and more. In addition to mastering techniques, Backcountry Skiing also features information on recent evolutions in ski equipment; avalanche safety tips; a primer on mountain weather and glaciers, trip planning tools, a discussion of emergency situations, nutrition and fitness advice, and winter camping basics. Throughout this guide, a special emphasis is put on being well-informed and making good decisions -- whenever you strap on your skis and skins and head out into the backcountry.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana” (People). A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler’s Pulitzer Prize–winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soaring prose, Butler’s haunting and powerful stories blend Vietnamese folklore and contemporary American realities, creating a vibrant panorama that is epic in its scope. This new edition includes two previously uncollected stories—“Missing” and “Salem”—that brilliantly complete the collection’s narrative journey, returning to the jungles of Vietnam to explore the experiences of a former Vietcong soldier and an American MIA. “Deeply affecting . . . A brilliant collection of stories about storytellers whose recited folklore radiates as implicit prayer . . . One of the strongest collections I’ve read in ages.” —Ann Beattie

He’s content in his life as a scholar, until they make him a hero. It costs him everything… And then she finds him. Together, while growing a love that defies the laws of the mages, they must face and defeat an evil that threatens to consume all the life of the Islands. From an austere scholars' tower to sun-soaked beaches, from desperate hillside battles to seas full of danger, come join Esavas and Leshi on an adventure filled with magic and romance. This omnibus collection contains all four books of the Mage of Storm and Sea series: Prequel: Dreams of Magic Book 1: Winds of Magic Book 2: Sea of Magic Book 3: Storm of Magic Contains violence, language, mature subject matter, and sensual content.

After a terrible mistake in his youth, Esavas Daruvias has found a home at the secluded Tower as a Master of weather magic, vowed to celibacy, self-mastery, and non-violence. Then, without warning, the troubles of the past resurface to disrupt his quiet life. The Mardavian Islands are threatened by a rebellion led by a mage with strange and terrible powers - his sister Rayaluna, the person hurt most by his long-ago mistake. Though Esavas has been hidden away at the Tower for more than twelve years and is sworn to a life of peace, the crown prince calls on him to help put a stop to the rebellion - and refusing isn't an option. Treated as a prisoner and traitor by the king, caught between the king's and the prince's conflicting goals, baffled by his sister's impossible powers, and bound by his oath to never raise a hand in violence, Esavas must risk everything he knows, everything he is, even his own soul, to stand against Rayaluna's terrifying magic and save the people of the Islands - and Rayaluna herself - from her destructive madness. From an austere scholars' tower to sun-soaked beaches, from desperate hillside battles to seas full of danger, come discover a new magic-filled adventure in Mage of Storm and Sea. Note: Mage of Storm and Sea is an epic fantasy series with a prominent romantic storyline in the later books. There will eventually be an HEA for the characters, but they have to work for it first! Mage of Storm and Sea is set in the world of the Wildings saga, in the Islands of Silas's mage ancestors, but stands alone and can be enjoyed if you haven't read the Wildings books. Contains strong language, violence, and mature subject matter, including sexual references and content.

Link Williams is a handsome and brilliant Dartmouth graduate who tends bar due to the lack of better opportunities for an African American man in a staid mid-century Connecticut town. The routine of Link’s life is interrupted when he intervenes to save a woman from a late-night attack. Drinking in a bar together after the incident, “Camilo” discovers that her rescuer is African American and he learns that she is white. Unbeknownst to him, “Camilo” (actually Camilla Treadway Sheffield) is a wealthy married woman who has crossed the town’s racial divide to relieve the tedium of her life. Thus brought together by chance, Link and Camilla draw each other into furtive encounters that violate the rigid and uncompromising social codes of their own town and times. As The Narrows sweeps ahead to its shattering denouement, Petry shines a harsh yet richly truthful light on the deforming harm that race and class wreak on human lives. In a fascinating introduction to this new edition, Keith Clark discusses the prescience with which Petry chronicled the ways tabloid journalism, smug elitism, and mob mentality distort and demonize African American men.