The Devil's Teeth

The Devil's Teeth
Author: Susan Casey
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2006-05-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1466800518

A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.

Mighty Casey

Mighty Casey
Author: James Preller
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2009-03-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780312367640

The Delmar Dogs baseball team is terrible, especially Casey Jenkins, but with a little bit of faith in themselves, they finally manage to win a game.

Voices in the Ocean

Voices in the Ocean
Author: Susan Casey
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 038553731X

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a profound experience swimming with wild dolphins off the coast of Maui, the bestselling author of The Wave set out on a quest to learn everything she could about dolphins—the other intelligent life on the planet. “Part science, part memoir, part impassioned plea for change.” —People Susan Casey’s journey takes her from a community in Hawaii known as “Dolphinville,” where the animals are seen as the key to spiritual enlightenment, to the dark side of the human-cetacean relationship at marine parks and dolphin-hunting grounds in Japan and the Solomon Islands, to the island of Crete, where the Minoan civilization lived in harmony with dolphins, providing a millennia-old example of a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world. Along the way, Casey recounts the history of dolphin research and introduces us to the leading marine scientists and activists who have made it their life’s work to increase humans’ understanding and appreciation of the wonder of dolphins.

The Wave

The Wave
Author: Susan Casey
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0385666683

A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena — colossal waves — and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them. The New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth probes the dramatic convergence of baffling gargantuan waves that pummel oil rigs and sink massive ships, the extreme surfers willing to stare down death in order to ride them, and the marine scientists trying to unlock the physics of these waves, the climate changes that are provoking them, and what chaos they might wreak. Susan Casey explores the phenomenon of monster waves and how they have become an obsession for extreme surfers like Laird Hamilton — who serves as the author's guide as she takes the reader into the intense, white-knuckle world of 100-foot waves.

The Art of Still Life

The Art of Still Life
Author: Todd M. Casey
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1580935486

A must-have reference book for today's artists and art students. Every artist needs to learn and master the still life. Written by a well-known artist and expert instructor, The Art of Still Life offers a comprehensive, contemporary approach to the subject that instructs artists on the foundation basics and advanced techniques they need for successful drawing and painting. In addition to Casey's stunning paintings, the work of over fifty past and present masters is included, so that the book will do double duty as a hardworking how-to manual and a visual treasure trove of some of the finest still life art throughout history and being created today.

I Kissed Shara Wheeler

I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Author: Casey McQuiston
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250244463

*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER* *INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER* From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need... Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed. There’s also Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Shara’s trail of clues and find her. It’ll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair and square. Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. And maybe—probably not, but maybe—more to Shara, too. Fierce, funny, and frank, Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places. "An unfettered joy to read." - The New York Times "McQuiston has done it again." - USA Today "You won't want to miss." - Good Housekeeping

City of Incurable Women

City of Incurable Women
Author: Maud Casey
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942658907

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored “City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through “Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris’s Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.

Casey's Gamble

Casey's Gamble
Author: Eve Gaddy
Publisher: South X Northwest Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2016-11-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1946331007

When Nick Devlin agrees to stay on and manage the opening of the new riverboat casino he’s built near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he doesn’t envision more than a temporary stop. In the business world, and in love, this high-stakes entrepreneur has always arrived, conquered, and moved on. Casey Fontaine is nothing like the ladies Nick has loved and left. Beautiful, passionate and sweeter than the sugar cane she farms, Casey pours her energy and dedication into Bellefontaine, the Fontaine family plantation. But someone doesn’t want Casey—or Bellefontaine—to succeed. The attraction between them is hotter than a sultry bayou night. But will Nick stay around long enough to help Casey discover who is behind the attacks on Bellefontaine? And can this rooted-to-the-land beauty dare gamble her heart on a man who has never called just one place home?

Casey's Warriors

Casey's Warriors
Author: Ann Mayburn
Publisher: Honey Mountain Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0997309385

Casey's Haven

Casey's Haven
Author: Autumn McCullah
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2001-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595207472

With no family of her own, Casey had worked hard to save for this dream vacation, but now Erik's presence threatened to destroy her stay in Greece. Her former fiance believes he still has some claim to her and her time. Wrong! Casey might be small, but she can be a spitfire and she will do whatever it takes to get rid of this bothersome man.Wealthy Nick Santos rushes to Casey's rescue at the airport in Athens. Not only that, but he rushes her into a fake engagement and carries her off to his home to meet his family. It seems that everyone but the bride believes the engagement and wedding, set for next Friday, are for real.Casey is outraged by Nick's proprietary manner but cannot deny her growing attraction or love for this huge bear of a man. But she could never consider marriage to someone like him, could she? What would his reaction be if he found out about her background? And the secret she'd never divulged to anyone else?