Product Description: Lighting Out by Daniel Duane is a coming-of-age memoir, first and foremost. But it's also about the Yosemite climbing lifestyle in the early 1990s and the author's effort to immerse himself in that dirtbag world, while figuring out what to do with his life...read more

Surprised by his own passion, volatility, and increasing obsession with a certain charismatic woman, Cassius Harper withdraws from his friends and family and comes to question his beliefs about his parents' seemingly ideal marriage and his Northern California upbringing. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: An unforgettable faceall 3,000 granite feet of it. El Capitan towers above California's Yosemite Valley, a sheer rock wall, seemingly insurmountable, and by far the most coveted rock climb on earth. El Capitan traces the mountain's unique history and recounts the vertical adventures had therefrom Warren Harding's 45-day siege in 1958 up through the recent speed climbs of under 5 hours...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

After realizing that he and his friend Mo will never reach the peak of El Capitan, Ray Connelly's world further collapses when Mo accuses him of stealing some unwritten stories, and the conflict is dramatically resolved on the same mountain where it began. A first novel. Reprint. LJ.

Recounts a year of surfing in California, shares observations on Pacific shore ecology, and looks at the history of the state and surfing

A recent college graduate describes his search for meaning in his life while climbing the mountains of California