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  Adventures on the Water - The...

  Jo Moseley

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  Why do so many of us find peace and contentment while on open water?
  Adventures on the Water: The power of paddleboarding to change lives explores the uplifting and restorative power of stand-up paddleboarding (SUP). Compiled and edited by passionate paddleboarder and adventure advocate Jo Moseley, it features personal stories and collected wisdom from a wide range of Jo's fellow paddlers. Immerse yourself in the physical and mental health benefits of paddleboarding, as well as the warm and inclusive community around the sport.
  If you're a new paddler, you'll learn about the diverse and welcoming SUP community in Shilpa Rasaiah's story, who paddled the length of the Grand Union Canal at the age of nearly sixty. Experienced boarders and wildlife lovers will be interested in world-record adventurer and charity founder Cal Major's story, as she describes encounters with orca and her feelings of fear while paddling at night on a traverse of Scotland's coastline. Find out about SUP yoga from Kathy Marston, who recounts how it gives her the space to process her anxiety and move through life with more resilience. If you want to see what adventures are possible on a paddleboard, read about extreme sports enthusiast Dean Dunbar who, despite being registered blind, took on a daring Atlantic Ocean paddle from North Uist to St Kilda.
  Wherever you are on your paddleboarding journey, these stories will uplift you and inspire you to get out on the water.

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  A Grand Slam for God - A Journey...

  Burke Masters

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  Burke Masters had the perfect game plan for his life: he was going to become a Major League Baseball player. As a star infielder for Mississippi State with a game-winning grand slam to help his team reach the College World Series, he was well on his way to the career of his dreams. But little did he know that his life-changing call would not be from a recruiter to join the Major Leagues—it would be from God to become a priest.   In this page-turning memoir, Fr. Burke takes readers on an intimate personal journey—from his childhood outside of Chicago, to his success in baseball, to his conversion to Catholicism, and finally, to his acceptance of his vocation. Amid severe doubt and personal loss, he learned to embrace his fundamental identity—not as an athlete, but as a beloved son of God and a spiritual father to God’s people. Fr. Burke’s story is a powerful reminder that God’s plan for us is so much greater than our own; that it fulfills our dreams in ways greater than we could have imagined; and that if we only have the courage to say yes, every moment is an opportunity for a grand slam for God. 

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  Working IN - The Elite Athlete's...

  Kamala Nellen

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  Elite athletes regularly face fear, injury, packed schedules, exhaustion, distractions, and team discord. WORKING IN: The Elite Athlete's Guide to Working Out from the Inside provides an alternative to career-compromising supplements, steroids, and drugs. These yoga techniques, honed over millennia, enable athletes to sustain champion performance by using the most natural and cost-effective means.
   
  WORKING IN presents the true stories of six athletes and the yoga techniques that helped them overcome their problems. See how a baseball player pulls out of a slump, another gains control of his personal life and improves his performance, a free diver overcomes his fear, and a cheerleader combats her terror of making a mistake. Specially tailored yoga practices allowed them to overcome their problems, and they went on to achieve success in their disciplines.
   
  Kamala Nellen's knowledge is based on her career as a dancer and fifty years of study, practice, and teaching time-proven tools from yoga. She is also a credentialed life coach and practitioner of nonviolent communication. Her knowledge and experience are ready to help you on and off the competitive field.

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  Chasing the Grid - An...

  Kenneth Posner

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  Discover the transformational journey of a conventional-minded runner to a minimalist, mountain-climbing, adventure-seeking ultrarunner determined to conquer the Catskill Mountains challenge known as the "Grid.”After a successful career on Wall Street, the Catskill Mountains beckoned. In Chasing the Grid, author Kenneth Posner, a seasoned corporate worker and intrepid but non-elite runner, sets out after an ultra-distance mountain-running record which nearly destroys him. Along the way, he stumbles upon an obscure peak-bagging tradition known as the "Grid,” which becomes his new obsession.The Grid is a project where a determined athlete must run, hike, or climb a list of peaks in every month of the year, the purpose being to get to know the mountains intimately, in every season. For New York’s Catskill Mountains, where this story takes place, the formula requires more than 400 separate ascents. For Posner, the Grid turns out to be not just another running challenge; it's a pilgrimage. It offers a retreat from the spirit of modern running, often reduced to a one-dimensional activity driven by ego and moderated by clocks, in favor of how our ancestors moved through nature in days gone by—purposefully, patiently, and mindfully. Posner emerges from the experience as a radically different kind of runner—now running barefoot across trails and shirtless in the winter, leaving behind food, water, lights, navigational gear, and even bug spray.By following Posner in his quest to complete the Grid, readers will feel sandstone fragments under bare soles; pad across a bed of moss as luxurious as a Persian carpet; squelch with him through cool black boreal mud; dance across snow and ice; and participate in discoveries about the passage of time, the energy of nature, and the sense of self.

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  Boathouse Treasure

  William D. Van Atta Jr.

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  Boathouse Treasure is a touching story from William D. Van Atta Jr.'s memoir series, sharing a special summer he spent in the Canadian wilderness. As a young college student working as a helper, he traveled to a quiet lake surrounded by forests, where days were filled with building, exploring, and enjoying the peaceful beauty of nature. When he discovers an old sunken boat, what starts as a search for a lost propeller becomes something more a journey into the past and a reminder of what truly matters. Full of heartfelt memories and gentle storytelling, Boathouse Treasure shows how simple moments can become treasures we carry for life.

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  Between Square Buttes

  Terry Courtright

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  Between Square Buttes is 35 short pieces that chronicle the American West over the last 50 years.  It is bird hunting, fly fishing, dog breeding, dog trialing, decline of habitat, loss of access, but mostly it is the story of the greatness that still exists in America today.  It started as a tribute to the last best place, Montana.  But in the end, it may be the beginning of the end of the last best place.  Told anecdotally, it brings to life the rivers, the plains, and the dogs that hunt these vast stretches of prairie.  And finally, it tells of the changes in land ownership in the West as more and more of it is being eaten up by developers and new landowners from all over the world who want a piece of it before it all goes away.  Revel in the rare beauty and incredible richness through the eyes and understanding of a man who has been there and done that.  Between Square Buttes will make you happy, make you sad, lift your spirit and break your heart as you follow the life of a serious fly fisherman and bird hunter who hunted and fished the best when it was the best and left the rest behind in search of more rivers, and newer land to hunt.

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