Author : Ken Cassie
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780998738000
Former lifeguard Ken Cassie uses anecdotes and personal experiences to explain how the ocean works and how to enjoy the surf -- safely.
Author : Truman Rock
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1645849090
Beyond the Tide is a story about a convict and a blind lawyer and the life they live. She is blind, he a convict, and yet they begin a life.
Author : Freya Woods
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307974790
Barbie can be a pastry chef and a lifeguard! Barbie bakes cute cakes and pretty pies—then changes into her swimsuit and saves lives at the beach. With two great all-new stories and over 50 stickers, girls 3-7 will love this book!
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679645721
“Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.”—Time One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal. Praise for Couples “Couples [is] John Updike’s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ingenious . . . If this is a dirty book, I don’t see how sex can be written about at all.”—Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times Book Review
Author : Stuart Holmes Coleman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2004-02-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1429997125
This biography of legendary Hawaiian surfer Eddie Aikau is “a homespun homage to a modern-day folk hero” (Outside Magazine). In the 1970s, a decade before bumper stickers and T-shirts bearing the phrase Eddie Would Go began popping up all over the Hawaiian islands and throughout the surfing world, Eddie Aikau was proving what it meant to be a “waterman.” As a fearless and gifted surfer, he rode the biggest waves in the world; as the first and most famous Waimea Bay lifeguard on the North Shore, he saved hundreds of lives from its treacherous waters; and as a proud Hawaiian, he sacrificed his life to save the crew aboard the voyaging canoe Hokule’a. From Stuart Holmes Coleman, Eddie Would Go is the “fascinating” story of Eddie Aikau’s life and legacy, a pipeline into the exhilarating world of surfing, and an important chronicle of the Hawaiian Renaissance and the emergence of modern Hawaii (San Francisco Chronicle). “Enlightening . . . an impressive history.” —Surfing Magazine “A meaningful biography of a surfing hero . . . extraordinary.” —San Diego Union-Tribune “Coleman, a surfer himself, does an admirable job of de-mystifying this remarkable man.” —St. Petersburg Times
Author : Mark B. Higginson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2002-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595258383
A sunny outing on a beautiful Hawaiian island unexpectedly leads a retired Special Forces officer and his lovely wife into a web of Wall Street stock manipulations, stolen drug formulas, kidnapping, and violent murders. As the culprits’ trail moves from the lush golf courses of Hawaii to the snow capped ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado, Cap Pennington, joins forces with his former Green Beret executive officer to find the men they believe are responsible for the crimes. But just as the trail seems to lead nowhere, the desperate perpetrators lash out with an unexpected ferocity and cruelty that turns the hunters into the hunted and forever alters the lives of everyone involved. This fast paced thriller captures the reader early and never lets go.
Author : Sloan Wilson
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611871131
First published in 1958 and then turned into a film of the same name in 1959 featuring Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, Dorothy McGuire and Richard Egan, this classic romance is available for the first time in ebook format. Ken and Sylvia met twice at the Summer Place. The first summer they were in their teens. Their intimacy was without love. They'd met too early. The second summer they shouldn't have fallen in love...and did. They were in their thirties-married-each with children. Had they met too late? Ken and Sylvia decided to break two marriages to make the one they wanted together. They almost broke a third that hadn't even started yet. Because Ken's daughter and Sylvia's son met at the Summer Place. They were in their teens. For them, it was neither too early nor too late. This novel is about how marriages are made on earth-and unmade. It is about the price people pay for changing their minds about love.
Author : Kelsey Rodkey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0063243741
Fans of Emma Lord and Rachel Lynn Solomon will revel in Kelsey Rodkey’s latest swoon-worthy YA rom-com as self-proclaimed matchmaker Lahey finally puts her own heart on the line—to find a date in just one week. Lahey Johnson is notorious for helping her friends and classmates find love, but she’s never had a reason to focus on her own love life. Until now. When her detested cousin Summer decides Lahey doesn’t need a plus one to her sweet sixteen, Lahey has the ultimate reason: revenge. Lahey will do anything to prove that she can get a date to Summer’s party—anything, including juggle six prospective suitors in seven days. The only issue? Her sister’s irritating friend Adler has decided to take a front-row seat to the spectacle that is Lahey’s life. Lahey is determined not to let him distract her from one-upping Summer. But as the party creeps closer, the panic sets in. Can a matchmaker ever really meet her own match? Last Chance Books author Kelsey Rodkey delivers another perfect read for all who love their romance with a side of repartee.
Author : Ken Bruen
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429902337
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel. Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential voice in contemporary crime fiction. Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana--The Guards, Ireland's police force--and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober moments Jack aspires to become Ireland's best private investigator, not to mention its first--Irish history, full of betrayal and espionage, discourages any profession so closely related to informing. But in truth Jack is teetering on the brink of his life's sharpest edges, his memories of the past cutting deep into his soul and his prospects for the future nonexistent. Nonexistent, that is, until a dazzling woman walks into the bar with a strange request and a rumor about Jack's talent for finding things. Odds are he won't be able to climb off his barstool long enough to get involved with his radiant new client, but when he surprises himself by getting hired, Jack has little idea of what he's getting into. Stark, violent, sharp, and funny, The Guards is an exceptional novel, one that leaves you stunned and breathless, flipping back to the beginning in a mad dash to find Jack Taylor and enter his world all over again. It's an unforgettable story that's gritty, absorbing, and saturated with the rough-edged rhythms of the Galway streets.
Author : Blue Ashcroft
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2013-11-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781491077375
Rain Wilson isn't ever going to love again. It's a promise she made the day her boyfriend died in a water park accident, one she still blames herself for. Now she's a senior lifeguard in a new town with a new pool and she's just going to keep her head down and everyone safe. Until a mysterious guy follows her into the waves at the pre-season bonfire and kisses her senseless. It's just one mistake, and Rain is determined to put it behind her, until the dark haired, blue eyed hottie turns out to be her new co-supervisor Knight Mcallister. Knight is hot, tatted, and carrying baggage of his own. He's not happy about having Rain for a co-supervisor, and he's even less happy about his attraction to her. But between lifeguard drama, hot underwater kisses, and a growing attraction between them that can't be stopped, Knight and Rain are being pulled deeper into their pasts, and realizing that sometimes too much broken can make a relationship impossible. Then again sometimes it's the broken parts of us that fit together best.
