North Point Press

Daniel Duane's memoir of a year spent surfing in Santa Cruz. Literary, self-aware, and honest about the gap between the surfer he wanted to be and the surfer he was. One of the few surf books that reads as well on land as it does in the water.

Markham grew up in Kenya, trained racehorses, and became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Hemingway said she could write rings around all of them. He was right.