This instructional book will give you all the skills to enjoy your Stand Up Paddling experience. It focuses on basic to intermediate skills supported with over 130 photo illustrations. This book is streamlined to get you up to speed quickly while providing the necessary background covering: gear, paddle strokes, buyer/user guide to help you choose the right board and paddle, safety & rescues, flatwater & surf paddling, fitness, yoga, beginning racing and finally a chapter on ways to transport your SUP.

In the whimsical world of Tory Cat an adventure is never far away. And that adventure comes when someone close is kidnapped. Tory Cat gathers her friend, Abigail Wentworth, a sleek black cat with attitude and her pooch pal Chow to go on a rescue mission. But there is a problem because this rescue mission requires a journey on the high seas and there's only one cat that can pull off such a dangerous voyage. That cat is Rex, the biggest and toughest cat of all. Even the dogs fear Rex, who outwits them in Poochville while playing a card game called Chat a Chien. But how can they get Rex to help...

Long ago, during the medieval era there was a young lady, daughter to Lord Shroudsberry, a powerful and wealthy knight. As was the case with ladies of her position she was to be married off. Yet Lady Gwendolyn, really still a young girl, longed to marry for love and not social position. But because she lived an isolated life as a member of the nobility she had never experienced true love. She was a wilful girl and would sneak up to her high tower room, a place she called the Palace of Ever and fantasize about romantic love and adventure. But she knew that soon she would be matched with a man...