Wave

Wave
Author: Kristen Crusoe
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1913062767

It should have been a relaxing day at the beach for Dr Clair Mercer and her family. But an argument with husband Adam distracts her from watching their four-year-old autistic son, and tragedy strikes when a sneaker wave sweeps him away.Clair's well-ordered life is plunged into madness, and after attempting to murder her husband, she walks into the ocean. Arrested, charged and awaiting trial on a locked psychiatric unit, can she discover a path to forgiveness, for herself and the husband she tried to kill?The Wave is a beautifully-written debut novel that explores the emotional complexity of family life and how suffering, self-realisation and the power of love can heal even the most wounded bonds of trust.

Rogue Waves

Rogue Waves
Author: Michel Olagnon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1472944410

Rogue waves remain something of a mystery. Long believed to be a myth or an exaggeration, they haven't been the subject of any kind of serious in-depth research - until now. This book makes rigorous marine science accessible to all, exploring the causes and frequency of rogue waves, and the reasons why some waves become killer monsters. With anecdotes, historical reports and objective analysis, all illustrated with evocative and rare photographs, Michel Olagnon's groundbreaking book is a definitive contribution to our understanding of this much-feared phenomenon. Amongst other questions in the book, he examines: - How are rogue waves created? - How do they live and die? - Are there different types? - Do they appear from nowhere? - Can ships and boats cope with them? - What lessons can be learned from past encounters? - Will meteorologists be able to provide warnings? Authoritative but highly readable, this is a fascinating and unique study into rogue waves, offering insights for all readers, but crucial advice for those who might encounter this dangerous phenomenon at sea.

The Wave

The Wave
Author: Susan Casey
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0767928857

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this "wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative" (The New York Times), the bestselling author of Voices in the Ocean captures colossal, ship-swallowing waves, and the surfers and scientists who seek them out. For legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, hundred foot waves represent the ultimate challenge. As Susan Casey travels the globe, hunting these monsters of the ocean with Hamilton’s crew, she witnesses first-hand the life or death stakes, the glory, and the mystery of impossibly mammoth waves. Yet for the scientists who study them, these waves represent something truly scary brewing in the planet’s waters. With inexorable verve, The Wave brilliantly portrays human beings confronting nature at its most ferocious.

Carry the Sky

Carry the Sky
Author: Kate Gray
Publisher: Forest Avenue Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942436092

Kate Gray takes an unblinking look at bullying in her debut novel, Carry the Sky. It’s 1983 at an elite Delaware boarding school. Taylor Alta, the new rowing coach, arrives reeling from the death of the woman she loved. Physics teacher Jack Song, the only Asian American on campus, struggles with his personal code of honor when he gets too close to a student. These two young, lonely teachers narrate the story of a strange and brilliant thirteen-year-old boy who draws atomic mushroom clouds on his notebook, pings through the corridors like a pinball, and develops a crush on an older girl with secrets of her own. Carry the Sky sings a brave and honest anthem about what it means to be different in a world of uniformity.

Restored and Remarried

Restored and Remarried
Author: Gil and Brenda Stuart
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2009-11-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0557108527

Gil and Brenda deliver a fresh style of encouragement to this ever-growing population in society- the blended family. Willing to speak the obvious from their own step family adventure, the Stuarts share heart to heart as they walk the walk. Because 60% of remarriages end within the first two years, it is vital to encourage and equip these marriages with practical applications. Bringing together different traditions, rules and personalities from two different families into one home is tough. This is no cake walk, but it can work, and work quite well. It takes trust, honesty and commitment to the stepfamily process with a "no turning back" attitude. The process of leaving a healthy, strong legacy for remarried couples and their families is what Restored & Remarried is all about. R & R's message is, "If you ain't got the marriage, you ain't got nothin'."

No Longer Safe and Other Dark Stories

No Longer Safe and Other Dark Stories
Author: Jake Wilhelm
Publisher: BookRix
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2016-08-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3739668202

No Longer Safe 'No Longer Safe' is a collection of short stories that are gauranteed to not brighten your day! 'Sneaker Wave' features a lawmaa finding out just how dedicated he is to his job while pursuing a child killer - as a child's life hangs in the balance. Our anchor story 'No Longer Safe' is about a man trying to get along after the end of the world - until he is faced with a harsh choice. 'Brave Boots' is about a cop trying to get away with murder. 'Old Man LeBlanc' is a man killed for his cache of guns. Long after they served time for the murder, the killers have forgotten where they buried the body, and it's tormenting them. 'The Peanut Boy' might brighten your day just a tad - it's a simple story about a coward contemplating revenge aganst the guy who stole his woman. Our last story, 'The Armored Car' finds two policemen, a crashed armored car loaded with money and no witnesses. What do you think happens next?

Vastation

Vastation
Author: Lewis E. Birdseye
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477107894

A Book of Waves

A Book of Waves
Author: Stefan Helmreich
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478024534

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures.

The Ominous Ocean

The Ominous Ocean
Author: Gary Griggs
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2022-06-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1493068261

The oceans cover 71% of the planet and pose a myriad of hazards to everyone from blue-water sailors to the casual beachcomber. From rip currents to rogue waves, the possibilities for some water-borne calamity seem endless, but in most cases a deadly outcome can be avoided or at least mitigated by having a better understanding of the risks involved. This book presents cautionary tales of the most dangerous aspects of oceans encounters, including hazardous sea life such as sharks and rays, the power of waves and high seas that can engulf an entire fleet of naval vessels. In each case the author provides actual examples of various ocean phenomena and the people who either survive or succumb to them, from competitive big-wave surfers to the passengers and crew of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, severely damaged by a 95-foot wave that seemed to come out of nowhere in the middle of the night. The author also addresses several well-known maritime disasters and their causes, as well as such phenomena as the so-called Bermuda Triangle. Above all, The Ominous Oceans seeks t provide a better understanding of the perilous seas, so that we will be better prepared before taking that swim or venturing off to places unknown.