Hound of the Sea

Author: Garrett McNamara
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062343610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara--star and subject of the HBO mini-series, 100 Foot Wave--chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth. Garrett McNamara set the world record for the sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal in 2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge and promise of bigger, more difficult waves, this adrenaline-fueled loner and polarizing figure travels the globe to ride the most dangerous swells the oceans have to offer, from calving glaciers to hurricane swells. But what motivates McNamara to go to such extremes—to risk everything for one thrilling ride? Is riding giant waves the ultimate exercise in control or surrender? Personal and emotional, readers will know GMac as never before, seeing for the first time the personal alongside the professional in an exciting, intimate look at what drives this inventive, iconoclastic man. Surfing awesome giants isn’t just thrill seeking, he explains—it’s about vanquishing fears and defeating obstacles past and present. Surfers and non-surfers alike will embrace McNamara’s story—as they have William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days—an its intimate look at the enigmatic pursuit of riding waves, big and small. Hound of the Sea is a record of perseverance, passion, and healing. Thoughtful, suspenseful, and spiritually profound, McNamara reveals the beautiful soul of surfing through the eyes of one of its most daring and devoted disciples.

The Seahound

Author: Daire Brunicardi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
The Helga, later the Muirchu (Sea Hound) was present at the birth of a new state and was Ireland's first fishery-patrol and research ship. Its lifetime, 1908-1947, coincided with the most important period in Irish history. Helga's shelling of Liberty

Wolfhound Century

Author: Peter Higgins
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316219703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists. Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.

Bowser the Hound

Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown,
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
When Bowser the Hound gets lost in the Green Forest, Blacky the Crow and other animals decide to help him.

Sea Dog

Author: Dayle Campbell Gaetz
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554697093
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
When Kyle finds a young dog almost drowned in a heap of seaweed on the beach, he claims the dog as his own and is happy for the first time in a while. He knows that his dog loves him, but whenever they walk on the beach, the dog swims out to sea and doesn't come back until Kyle calls and calls. Then one day, they run into an old man and it turns out that the dog may not belong to Kyle alone.

Toll the Hounds

Author: Steven Erikson
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429926996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1300

Book Description
A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting. In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Hound of Heaven

Author: Francis Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description

Run with the Hare, Hunt with the Hound

Author: Paul M. Duffy
Publisher: Cennan Books of Cynren Press
ISBN: 1947976354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
WINNER OF THE 2022 FOREWORD INDIES SILVER BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD IN HISTORICAL FICTION On a remote Gaelic farmstead in medieval Ireland, word reaches Alberic of conquering Norman knights arriving from England. Oppressed by the social order that enslaved his Norman father, he yearns for the reckoning he believes the invaders will bring—but his world is about to burn. Captured by the Norman knight Hugo de Lacy and installed at Dublin Castle as a translator, Alberic’s confused loyalties are tested at every turn. When de Lacy marches inland, Alberic is set on a collision course with his former masters amidst rumours of a great Gaelic army rising in the west. Can Alberic navigate safely through revenge, lust and betrayal to find his place amidst the birth of a kingdom in a land of war?

Medallion of the Black Hound

Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780060243685
Category : Fantasy.
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
The power of the Medallion of the Black Hound brings David into a world called Meryn where he must join in the battle good against evil.

The Foxe & the Hound

Author: R. S. Grey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781546496724
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
When your life is a hot mess at twenty, it¿s cute. At twenty-seven¿well, not so much. It¿s just that my lofty dreams¿making it as a real estate agent, paying rent on time, showering daily¿have stayed just that: dreams. Oh, and love? I¿ve decided love might be a little ambitious for me at the moment. Instead, I¿ve settled for the two guys who will never leave me: Ben & Jerry. That is, until Dr. Adam Foxe takes up residence as the town¿s new vet. With his strong jaw, easy confidence, and form-fitting scrubs, it¿s not long before every housewife in Hamilton is dragging neglected tomcats in for weekly checkups. Like everyone else, I¿m intrigued. Even after I spoil my chance at a good first impression, he still offers me a proposition I can¿t refuse: play his girlfriend at a family function and he¿ll hire me as his real estate agent. Welcome to love in the 21st century.