Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

My Notes from the Road

With this all-access pass, Tony Hawk shares the joy, the exhaustion, the adrenaline, and the pain of life on the road. Between Boardslides and Burnout puts you right on the edge of the ramp and on the road with him -- from competitions to demos, to store openings, to autograph signings, to movie sets, and back home.

Never before has a professional skateboarder offered such a complete look into his life -- and mind.

Between Boardslides and Burnout

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Fearless Athletes

To the Extreme 

Doug Werner

Steve Badillo

Photographs correspond to text for added visual reinforcement of information.
Ex-library book in excellent condition with the exception of library stickers on the front cover and spine. ￼

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

A Beginner's Guide to Skateboarding

Briefly traces the history of skateboarding, safety guidelines, and the anatomy of a skateboard, and demonstrates basic skills and tricks.

Skateboarder's Start-Up

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Erin Falligant

Florida

In the second book in her series: Joss Kendrick is always looking for new ways to soar. So when her cheer team needs a new flyer, she can't wait to step up (literally). Her high-flying skills on her surfboard and skateboard make her a natural for the role. But when her skateboarding act at the talent show turns into a total catastrophe -- make that a dogtastrophe -- Joss loses her confidence all around, even at the cheer gym. The cheer competition is coming up fast, though, and her team is depending on her to nail a tricky stunt. The problem is, Joss doesn't trust them not to drop her. She wants to do an easier stunt, but if she plays it safe, can her team still win? And if they don't, will her team ever forgive her?

Joss Girl of the Year 2020 Book 2

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Some white scuff marks on back edge. #paperback #mattchristopher #skateboarding #sports #sportswriter #juvenilefiction #fiction

Michigan

As soon as Brett Thyson steps on "The Lizard", the mysterious skateboard he unearthed in his backyard, he can feel its power. It glides smoothly and effortlessly, but Brett can't shake off the feeling that there's something not quite right about it.

Skateboard Tough

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Dan Gutman

Sticker inside front cover with a name on it. Edges are a little worn. 

They can rule the half-pipe, but can they survive this?

Jimmy, David, and Henry are psyched. It's summer, school's out, and they are on their way to California, where they will be able to do some major skating. But on the plane, the unthinkable happens: They are hijacked by terrorists. As frightened as they may be, they take action and they succeed. Sort of. They may have beaten the terrorists, but now their plane has crashed in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden, their summer vacation is about finding food, shelter, and a rescue. Can three normal twelve-year-old boys find a way to get by without fast food and skate parks?

Getting Air

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Alice Dieterich

Kelli Chipponeri

My brother was all things skateboarding, not so much about reading. This book is unread! It is a level 3 read. It has waited a long time for someone to read it. Pages are clean and unmarked. 

Ride to the Top

Traces the skateboarding careers of two of the sport's legends.

Tony Hawk and Andy MacDonald

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Former school-issued text, never read. Has blacked-out label on back.

South Carolina

Jake Maddox: Longboard Letdown

Light shelfwear & aging and slight crease in cover (see photos), otherwise in great shape.

Minnesota

Snowboard Maverick

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Dispatches from a Skateboard Life

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Southwest Review * Electric Literature



Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old.



In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike's corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood.



What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married?



Contemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime--often overlooked, regularly maligned--whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy--and what it continues to teach him as he strugglesto find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.

The Most Fun Thing

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Tony Hawk

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Virginia

Vintage skateboarding, first edition 

Delving into the life of skateboarding sensation Tony Hawk, this biography examines how he began skateboarding at age nine and his performance at the 1999 ESPN X Games, where he astonished viewers by performing a trick thought impossible to do. Illustrations.

On the Halfpipe with... Tony Hawk

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#paperback #ya #youngadult #skateboarding 

Wisconsin

And Other Commandments I Have Broken

Readers who love Sarah Dessen will enjoy this companion to My Not-So-Terrible Time at the Hippie Hotel

Just when Kelsey is finally fitting into her new California life, C. J. Logan comes along. He's hot, popular, and revered as the best skateboarder around. Girls want to be with him, and boys want to be him. And Kelsey is lucky enough to be his girlfriend. But when she decides that their relationship is over, she could not have imagined what would happen next. With rumors flying, she is forced to figure out who her true friends are and, more importantly, who her true self really is.



Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude

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Brian Hart

This book is new but has some shelf wear as shown. 

New Jersey

A Novel

American War meets Into the Wild in Brian Hart's epic saga of one man's struggle to survive a hostile world--tracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the 90s to the near future as he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American West to find his missing family--perfect for fans of Edan Lepuki and Cormac McCarthy.

In the America of a near future, northern California and the Pacific Northwest have become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent separatist militias and marked by a lack of water and fuel. In a village outside Reno, a middle-aged man visits an undertaker and gathers the ashes of his dead wife to bring to Alaska. There, their children await them--refugees from the destruction of the south. To reach his only remaining family, the man must cross the treacherous, violent landscape north by bike, his dog his only companion.

Thirty years earlier, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble childhood, Roy is numbing himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex, when he meets Karen. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into her orbit until she decides to give up their nomadic lifestyle to put down roots in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roy's fidelity buckles under the commitment and after a boozy night in Reno he leaves Karen for the road and skateboarding.

Flashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a man who is lost even when he's found, Trouble No Man delivers a resonant story of survival, violence, and family, set against the tumult of an America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.

 

Trouble No Man

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Michael Brooke

Ex library book however it was never checked out and the pages are in excellent condition. Typical library book labels and markings, etc.
Protective laminate has been applied to the covers. 

Texas

The History of Skateboarding

Traces the development of the sport and its equipment, and includes profiles and photographs of top-notch skaters through the years.

The Concrete Wave

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Connecticut

the art + design of the skateboard

Boards

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Julia DeVillers

Jennifer Roy

2023. Throwback to Y2K. An American Girl story for girls.

Arizona

Isabel and Nicki Hoffman may be twins, but they're each one of a kind. Isabel loves dancing with her friends, while Nicki prefers skateboarding alone. In December 1999, the girls create a list of challenges to complete before midnight on New Year's Eve. But just before the new millennium arrives, disaster strikes. Will the most momentous night of their lives be a twin win or a sister setback?

Meet Isabel and Nicki 1999

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Jonathan Mehring

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Colorado

Photographing One World of Skateboarding

"Hit the streets with 200 exhilarating photographs of the worlds greatest professional skateboarders in action. In this dynamic collection, award-winning photographer Jonathan Mehring takes us from New York to Hong Kong to Istanbul and beyond as he sets out to capture the heart and soul of skate culture on six continents. Featuring stars like Tony Hawk, Nyjah Huston, and Eric Koston, Mehrings images have been published in top skateboarding magazines, and ESPN named him one of the sports ten most influential people. Now, in his first book, Mehring invites us along on his exhilarating photo adventures across six continents. By capturing these experiences on camera and including complementary images contributed by other top skate photographers, Mehring presents an exciting and artful look at skate culture around the world. With an adrenaline rush on every page, this book celebrates the joy of skateboarding and its power to inspire young people to overcome obstacleson the board and off."--Amazon.com.

Skate the World

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The Insider's Guide

The first definitive guide to clothes inspired by urban youth culture, written and produced by those involved in this fast-growing fashion force, Streetwear offers an insider's view of this subculture phenomenon-cum-industry. Hundreds of sketches, graphics, and photos present an encyclopedic overview of street style and fashion, while candid interviews bring together more than forty leading streetwear designers from around the world. Streetwear focuses not only on designers, but also on the magazines, Web publishers, and creative agencies that help drive these trends today. With its unique access and detailed reference section, Streetwear is the new bible for urban culture enthusiasts, documenting the appeal of a style that has exploded across the globe.

Streetwear

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Michael Harmon

Facing a disintegrating home life and trouble at school, teenager Ian McDermott runs away with his younger brother to Washington State in search of safety, justice, redemption, and their long-absent father.

Skate

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Arnie and the Skateboard Gang

Diego Cortez

Harmony Korine

Aaron Rose

Ari Marcopoulos immerses himself completely in the personalities and scenes he has photographed, but more than that, he seems to always be anticipating the zeitgeist. As a result, he has become one of our chief documenters of contemporary culture, as it emerges. Whether he was hanging in the East Village in the 1980s at age 23 as Warhol's assistant (and snapping Basquiat at his most intimate), recording the burgeoning hip-hop scene of the late 1980s, riding along with multi-ethnic New York skateboard kids in the 1990s, or shooting snowboard schussers hurtling down a mountain (or chilling in the lodge) in recent years, Marcopoulos's pictures always penetrate the heart of the underground of the moment and its denizens. This volume is the first in a new, ambitious series called Alleged Press, a collaboration between Damiani and the renowned curator Aaron Rose.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Tiré du site Internet https://www.iconoclasteditions.com: "Photographer Ari Marcopoulos immerses himself completely in the individuals, personalities, visionaries, and scenes he has photographed. Originally from the Netherlands, Marcopoulos came to New York City in 1979 where he printed photographs for Andy Warhol. He immediately became involved in the art and music scenes of the time. His rarely published photographs of Jean-Michel Basquiat from this period are perhaps the most intimate photographs ever taken of the artist. A book of this work, Portraits from the Studio and the Street, was released in 1988. At this time Marcopoulos turned his attention to the growing hip-hop scene in New York City, becoming friendly with and photographing popular artists such as Fab 5 Freddy and Run-DMC. His photographs were used for the cover of the Beastie Boys album Ill Communication. In addition, Marcopoulos has directed numerous short films and exhibited his work worldwide. His most recent series, titled Transitions and Exits, was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Marcopoulos currently lives in Sonoma, California."

Out and About

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Ohio

Occupation: Skateboarder

For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.It wasn't enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture several ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice, compress the vertebrae in his back, pop his bursa sack, get more than fifty stitches laced into his shins, rip apart the cartilage in his knee, bruise his tailbone, sprain his ankles, and tear his ligaments too many times to count.No.He had to land the 900. And after thirteen years of failed attempts, he nailed it. It had never been done before.

Growing up in Sierra Mesa, California, Tony was a hyperactive demon child with an I44 IQ. He threw tantrums, terrorized the nanny until she quit, exploded with rage whenever he lost a game; this was a kid who was expelled from preschool. When his brother, Steve, gave him a blue plastic hand-me-down skateboard and his father built a skate ramp in the driveway, Tony finally found his outlet--while skating, he could be as hard on himself as he was on everyone around him.

But it wasn't an easy ride to the top of the skating game. Fellow skaters mocked his skating style and dubbed him a circus skater. He was so skinny he had to wear elbow pads on his knees, and so light he had to ollie just to catch air off a ramp. He was so desperate to be accepted by young skating legends like Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, and Christian Hosoi that he ate gum from between Steve's toes. But a few years of determination and hard work paid off in multiple professional wins, and the skaters who once had mocked him were now trying to learn his tricks. Tony had created a new style of skating.

In Hawk Tony goes behind the scenes of competitions, demos, and movies and shares the less glamorous demands of being a skateboarder--from skating on Italian TV wearing see-through plastic shorts to doing a demo in Brazil after throwing up for five days straight from food poisoning. He's dealt with teammates who lit themselves and other subjects on fire, driving down a freeway as the dashboard of their van burned. He's gone through the unpredictable ride of the skateboard industry during which, in the span of a few years, his annual income shrank to what he had made in a single month and then rebounded into seven figures. But Tony's greatest difficulty was dealing with the loss of his number one fan and supporter--his dad, Frank Hawk.

With brutal honesty, Tony recalls the stories of love, loss, bad hairdos, embarrassing '80s clothes, and his determination that had shaped his life. As he takes a look back at his experiences with the skateboarding legends of the '70s, '80s, and '90s, including Stacy Peralta, Eddie Elguera, Lance Mountain, Mark Gonzalez, Bob Burnquist, and Colin Mckay, he tells the real history of skateboarding--and also what the future has in store for the sport and for him.

   

 

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Getting Air

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