Download Death Rides The Surf full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Death Rides The Surf ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Nora Charles |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780425216279 |
When her granddaughter Katharine drops out of college and arrives in Florida, taking up with a gang of surfers, Kate Kennedy must come to her rescue when her surfer crush is killed in a shark attack and the police suspect foul play, pointing their fingers at Katherine. Original.
| Author | : Janet Dawson |
| Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2020-08-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1564747735 |
December 23, 1952. A transcontinental train is stopped cold by a rockslide in a remote Colorado canyon. There’s a murderer aboard, one who has already killed, and will kill again unless stopped. The California Zephyr, with its run from Oakland to Chicago and back, was famous for its Vista-Domes, which provided a 360-degree view of spectacular Western scenery. It was a kind of small city populated by passengers from all walks of life and a large crew whose duty it was to keep them safe. Zephyrette Jill McLeod is the passengers’ primary point of contact. She’s armed for any emergency—with a first-aid kit, a screwdriver, and her knowledge of human nature. But can she figure out a ruthless killer's clever plot in time?
| Author | : Andy Martin |
| Publisher | : OR Books |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2020-03 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1682192334 |
“I don’t normally read books about surfers, but this is like Truman Capote, with shorts.” —Lee Child “Andy Martin, to his immense credit, knows that surfers are misfits and accidental comics, as well as great athletes.” —Matt Warshaw “A sublime mixing of stoke and sorrow, hedonism and the macabre—skillfully and deftly penned by someone who had, and still has, intimate access to many of the key players." —Tom Anderson, author of Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey to Find the Perfect Wave This is the true story of Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, the son of the Earl of Coventry and an American ballerina who dedicated his life to becoming a professional surfer. Surfing was a means of escape, from England, from the fraught charges of nobility, from family, and, often, from his own demons. Ted was good on the board, but never made it to the very highest ranks of a sport that, like most, treats second-best as nowhere at all. He kept on surfing, ending up where all surfers go to live or die, the paradise of Hawaii. There, in search of the “perfect woman,” he fell in love with a dancer called Lola, who worked in a Honolulu nightclub. The problem with paradise, as he was soon to discover, is that gangsters always get there first. Lola already had a serious boyfriend, a man who went by the name of Pit Bull. Ted was given fair warning to stay away. But he had a besetting sin, for which he paid the heaviest price: He never knew when to give up. Surf, Sweat and Tears takes us into the world of global surfing, revealing a dark side beneath the dazzling sun and cream-crested waves. Here is surf noir at its most compelling, a dystopian tale of one man’s obsessions, wiped out in a grisly true crime.
| Author | : Noreen Wald |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2016-03-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781941962329 |
"Sparkles like the South Florida sunshine...Kate Kennedy is a warm and funny heroine." - Nancy Martin, Author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries "Miss Marple with a modern twist... Wald] is a very funny lady " - Donna Andrews, Author of the Meg Langslow Mysteries "A stylish and sophisticated Miss Marple, seeking justice in sunny South Florida instead of a rainy English Village, and meeting the most delightfully eccentric suspects in the process." - Victoria Thompson, Author of the Gaslight Mysteries "Kate Kennedy's wry wit, genuine kindness, and openness to adventure make her a sleuth to cherish. Death is a Bargain is another top-notch entry in a great series." - Carolyn Hart, Author of the Death on Demand Mysteries Tired of college, Kate Kennedy's granddaughter, Katharine, drops out and heads for Florida, landing in the apartment of Kate's best friend. In her quest for a new life, she takes up with a gang of surfers that go by the name "The Four Boardsmen of the Apocalypse." But catching waves can be a dangerous pastime. When Katharine's surfer crush is killed in a shark attack, foul play is suspected, especially by the police. Fingers are pointing at Katharine-including, to Kate's disappointment, those of her friend Detective Nick Carbone. It's up to Kate to prove her beloved granddaughter's innocence or else Katharine's "new life" will be spent behind bars. Related subjects include: women sleuths, humorous murder mysteries, cozy mysteries, murder mysteries, whodunit mysteries (whodunnit), book club recommendations, amateur sleuth books. Books in the Kate Kennedy, Senior Sleuth Mystery Series: DEATH WITH AN OCEAN VIEW (#1) DEATH OF THE SWAMI SCHWARTZ (#2) DEATH IS A BARGAIN (#3) DEATH STORMS THE SHORE (#4) DEATH RIDES THE SURF (#5) Also by Noreen Wald: Books in the Jake O'Hara Ghostwriter Mystery Series: GHOSTWRITER ANONYMOUS (#1) THE LUCK OF THE GHOSTWRITER (#2) A GHOSTWRITER TO DIE FOR (#3) REMEMBRANCE OF GHOSTWRITERS PAST (#4) GHOSTWRITER FOR HIRE (#5) Part of the Henery Press Mystery Series Collection, if you like one, you'll probably like them all... Author Bio: A winning contestant on seven television game shows-including Jeopardy -Noreen later worked for Goodson-Todman and Merv Griffin Productions, helping to develop television game show pilots. She's lectured at the Smithsonian, the CIA, the National Press Club and aboard the QE II. She taught at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD and at the Florida Center for the Book in Fort Lauderdale."
| Author | : Kai Lenny |
| Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2021-10-26 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0847870855 |
A jaw-dropping photographic display of the world of big wave surfing, featuring the biggest and most dangerous waves and the legendary men and women who risk their lives to surf them. Over the last decade, a handful of surfers have been progressing the sport of big wave surfing to new extremes. Kai Lenny, one of the preeminent big wave surfers, offers readers a glimpse into this world. Lenny shares his personal stories and perspectives, and invites over 30 elite surfers—from legends who pioneered the way, to young guns who are the future of the sport—to contribute personal tales of the greatest waves ever ridden. These are the stories we’ve been waiting for: Shane Dorian pushing the boundaries in the gladiator arena of Pe‘ahi (Jaws), Maui; Peter Mel on riding the greatest wave ever caught at Mavericks, California; Keala Kennelly breaking the women’s glass ceiling at the death-defying slabs of Teahupoo, Tahiti; Kai Lenny and Lucas Chumbo’s groundbreaking wins at the incredible Nazaré, Portugal; Brett Lickle’s epic incident at the mystical Pyramids with Laird Hamilton, and many more. Accompanying stunning photographs from the world’s top surf photographers capture the drama of life and death, and the unwavering commitment of these brave extreme athletes.
| Author | : Mark Stranger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2017-03-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1351896830 |
Surfing Life is a study of surfing and social change that also provides insights into other experience-based contemporary subcultures and the nature of the self and social formations in contemporary society. Making use of extensive empirical material to support innovative theoretical approaches to social change, this book offers an analysis of the relationship between embodied experience, culture and the economy. With its ground breaking theoretical contributions, and its foundation in an ethnographic study of surfing culture in locations across Australia, this volume will appeal not only to those interested in the social and cultural phenomenon of surfing, but also to anyone interested in the sociology of sport and leisure, the sociology of culture and consumption, risk-taking, subcultures and theories of contemporary social change.
| Author | : Diane Cardwell |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0358067782 |
The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric Rockaway Beach Unmoored by a failed marriage and disconnected from her high-octane life in the city, Diane Cardwell finds herself staring at a small group of surfers coasting through mellow waves toward shore--and senses something shift. Rockaway is the riveting, joyful story of one woman's reinvention--beginning with Cardwell taking the A Train to Rockaway, a neglected spit of land dangling off New York City into the Atlantic Ocean. She finds a teacher, buys a tiny bungalow, and throws her not-overly-athletic self headlong into learning the inner workings and rhythms of waves and the muscle development and coordination needed to ride them. As Cardwell begins to find her balance in the water and out, superstorm Sandy hits, sending her into the maelstrom in search of safer ground. In the aftermath, the community comes together and rebuilds, rekindling its bacchanalian spirit as a historic surfing community, one with its own quirky codes and surf culture. And Cardwell's surfing takes off as she finds a true home among her fellow passionate longboarders at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club, living out "the most joyful path through life." Rockaway is a stirring story of inner salvation sought through a challenging physical pursuit--and of learning to accept the idea of a complete reset, no matter when in life it comes.
| Author | : Mark Dawn |
| Publisher | : Conceptual Kings |
| Total Pages | : 23 |
| Release | : 2014-12-30 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1505862868 |
| Author | : Patrick Moser |
| Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2008-05-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0824831551 |
A thousand years after Hawaiians first paddled long wooden boards into the ocean, modern surfers have continued this practice, which has recently been transformed into a global industry. Pacific Passages brings together four centuries of writing about surfing, the most comprehensive collection of Polynesian and Western perspectives on the history and culture of a sport currently enjoyed by millions of people around the world. The stories begin with Hawaiian legends and chants and are followed by the journals of explorers; the travel narratives of missionaries and luminaries such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Jack London; and the contemporary observations of Tom Wolfe, William Finnegan, Susan Orlean, and Bob Shacochis. Readers follow the historical transformation of surfing’s image through the centuries: from Polynesian myths of love to Western accounts of horror and exoticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to modern representations of surfing as a character-building activity in pre-World-War II California and the quintessential expression of disaffected youth. They explore the sport’s most recent trends by writers and cultural critics, whose insights into technology, competition, gender, heritage, and globalism reveal how surfing impacts some of today’s most pressing social concerns. Aided by informative introductions, the writings in Pacific Passages provide insight into the values and ideals of Polynesian and Western cultures, revealing how each has altered and been altered by surfing—and how the sport itself has shown an amazing ability throughout the centuries to survive, adapt, and prosper.
