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.

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.

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.

The Hound of Rowan

Author: Henry H. Neff
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375890777
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
MAX MCDANIELS LIVES a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, until the day he stumbles upon a mysterious Celtic tapestry. Many strange people are interested in Max and his tapestry. His discovery leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where great things await him. But dark things are waiting, too. When Max learns that priceless artworks and gifted children are disappearing, he finds himself in the crossfire of an ancient struggle between good and evil. To survive, he'll have to rely on a network of agents and mystics, the genius of his roommate, and the frightening power awakening within him.

The Hound of Heaven

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

Book Description

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 Hound of the Baskervilles

Author: Arthur Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr. Mortimer, is convinced that the strike was due to a supernatural creature, which haunts the moor in the shape of an enormous hound, with blazing eyes and jaws. In order to protect Baskerville's heir, Sir Henry, who's arriving to London from Canada, Dr. Mortimer asks for Sherlock Holmes' help, telling him also of the so-called Baskervilles' curse, according to which a monstrous hound has been haunting and killing the family males for centuries, in revenge for the misdeeds of one Sir Hugo Baskerville, who lived at the time of Oliver Cromwell.

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.