Breakaway Books: 40 books
Mud, Sweat, and Gears
A Rowdy Family Bike Adventure Across Canada on Seven Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
“Mud, Sweat, and Gears is not only an incredible human-powered journey, but it’s also about the intricate, poignant and often hilarious family dynamics that result. The Metal Cowboy’s most compelling book yet.” —Heidi Swift, The Oregonian
After...
The Runner's High
Illumination and Ecstasy in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The runner’s high is a marvelous side-effect of running, though mysterious and elusive. Sometimes you get it; usually you don’t. These forty-seven personal stories explore it in depth and detail, from euphoria to religious visions and mindblowing out-of-body experiences. One constant through these...
Penelope Down East
Cruising Adventures in an Engineless Catboat Along the World's Most Beautiful Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
Penelope Down East is a collection of stories about sailing the Maine coast in a small catboat with no engine. This is cruising the way it was done a hundred years ago—and it takes a high level of seamanship to get anywhere. If the wind or the tide is against you, you must adapt, change plans, tack...
The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails
A How-To Handbooks for Owners and Builders
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Make your modern sailboat look (and work) like a salty classic. The Golden Age of Sail is long past, sadly, and much of its lore is nearly extinct. Sailboats now almost uniformly use the Bermudan sloop rig—a triangular jib and a triangular mainsail. But that rig evolved mainly to meet esoteric...
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Personal Stories of Obstacle Course Racing
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Obstacle course racing: good crazy masochistic fun A collection of dramatic first-person stories about the experience of competing in obstacle course races. In the style of First Marathons and Becoming an Ironman, these stories give the personal experience of participating in...
The Runner's Literary Companion
Great Stories and Poems About Running
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
A collection of all the best fiction and poetry about runners and running.
An inspiring book, brimming with courage, exaltation, fear, pain, sweat, hope, and elation.
"Animates the spirit of running better than any other book." —Runner's World "Battista has gathered...
Red Dirt
A Tennis Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
“An ace of a novel, an ace of a writer.” —Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Red Dirt is the story of Jaxie Skinner, an unlikely professional tennis player from a blue-collar family in the sticks of rural Georgia who takes up the game at the age of three when his father...
by Jenny Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
* Horses, adventure, and mystery *
Tia and her pony Gable are inseparable. When her father proposes a visit to a remote island to research the ancient legend of shipwrecked horse, Tia is reluctant until she realizes that Gable can come, too. Riding alone on the cliffs of the island, Tia meets...
by Jenny Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
* Horses, mystery, and adventure *
Tanglewood, the stable Liz loves, is facing financial ruin. But Liz won't give up, not on Tanglewood, nor on Toshak, the spirited thoroughbred mare, nor on Darren, the boy whose family owns the stable. Tanglewood, and the way of life that goes with it, is...
by Ralph Hurne
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2016
“This is sports fiction at its very best. Mr. Hurne has a cool, downbeat style descended from Lardner and Hemingway, and a fine hand with the hairpin turns of suspense.” —The New York Times Book Review “The greatest cycling novel ever...
Ultimate
The Greatest Sport Ever Invented by Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
ALL NEW 3rd Edition!
Some still say ultimate is the most misunderstood flying disc field running team sport on the planet. Most people think it’s Frisbee football played barefoot and without boundaries. Those people are wrong. Ultimate is a sport played by 4.7 million people a year in North...
American Miler
The Life and Times of Glenn Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Glenn Cunningham set the world record for the mile in the 1930s. But as a boy, he had been terribly burned in a schoolhouse fire, a fire that took the life of his older brother Floyd. And that is when Glenn’s life quest began. He was bed-ridden for months. The doctors thought he might never walk...