Showing results for "Surfers" in Literature & Fiction

Jack Valentine seemed to have it all. He made good money as an ad man and looked good doing it. He had a hot apartment, cool friends, even a slick car - at least until the hectic Monday morning a truck smashed into it, sending the critically injured Jack to the hospital. Everything happens for a reason, though, and Jack’s reason reveals itself in the silver-haired cancer patient who becomes his roommate one evening. The elderly man, Cal, shares his life story - one not dissimilar to Jack’s - of material wealth masking a gaping hole within.

Beginning with a novella retelling the Silver Surfer's origin by co-creator Stan Lee and veteran writer Tom DeFalco, this exciting anthology has original, never-before-told stories featuring Marvel's most cosmic superheroes and supervillains.

The sport of surfing has a mystique and allure that has transformed many of these icons into mythical figures. Surfer Stories brings them together in one definitive collection that will appeal to those who surf and those who don’t!

Newly single at sixty, Elin Anderson decides it’s finally time for an adventure of her own. With her marriage to tedious Tom now officially over, Elin plans to visit the family she hasn’t seen in years. First stop: Australia! But going home is harder than Elin thought. Everywhere she turns Elin sees brightness and colour, which only makes her own life seem even more drab and beige. How has she let herself fade away? Determined to have some fun, Elin reluctantly agrees to join The Silver Surfers – a group of seniors who travel the coast, only caring about their next big adventure.

Where the Torah meets the surf, Surfers Who Don’t Surf is six decades of surf adventures and memories from the Surfing Rabbi—Nachum Shifren. This book travels from the 1960s to the twenty-first century, Malibu to Mexico, Hawaii to Puerto Rico, and details an eclectic cast of characters famous and anonymous that includes: Tom Zahn, Miki “Da Cat” Dora, Marilyn Monroe, Honolulu Lulu, Pat Tobin, Mike Doyle, surfing’s Calamity Jane, Indo Dan, and many other characters you might expect and not expect.

WHISKEY AND THE SURFER Whiskey and the Surfer is the morning radio show you always wished they’d play on the radio. Equal parts rocking good time and laid back hilarity, hosts Whiskey and The Surfer (Wes Key and Fliip Riivers) jam tunes and riff on the topics of today, like alternative realities, simulation theory, Faith, conspiracy, demons, Fake News and movies they will never see. Wes Key (Whiskey) is the cool-headed, socially liberal, married, sober, loveable, optimist who loves rock and Fliip (The Surfer) is the immature, brash, Libertarian, tin foil hat wearing, party aficionado and ...

THE BOND BETWEEN SURFERS is 22-chapter audio book series. An authentic surf story. The ultimate goal is to make the book into a feature length film. The audio series chronicles the life of two childhood friends. Her ambition is to become world champion, and he is trying to find the meaning of life through surfing. Follow a crew of surfers and immerse yourself into their world... The Surfing World. I hope you enjoy the story and one day the film.

In this episode of the Pallid Airs Podcast, host, Monolith Surfer, introduces us to Mister Morig, a head-hunter embarking on a curious, cross-country folklore expedition. Following a long drive to Spokane, Morig meets with Professor Donald Bromwick, an enigmatic elderly man known for his wealth and ambition. Bromwick offers Morig a lucrative job to uncover the "lost chronicles of American folklore," setting the stage for a challenging adventure. The stakes are high, and Morig finds himself torn between pragmatic judgment and uncertainty as Bromwick warns of the task's difficulty. As the ...

When three of the Fantastic Four are lured into the Negative Zone by the evil Blastaar, the Invisible Woman enlists the Silver Surfer to help. But they face an even greater threat: Prodigion, a destroyer of worlds akin to Galactus, the planet devourer to whom the Surfer was once Herald. Can the Surfer atone for his past actions with Galactus? And is Prodigion truly a Negative Zone version of Galactus...or is the truth more deadly than even the world's greatest heroes can imagine?

Anstatt nach zwei Wochen Sommerurlaub nach Hause zurückzukehren, ihre Karriere als Synchronsprecherin wieder aufzunehmen und die Beziehung zu Rosa zu retten, bleibt sie an der Atlantikküste. Sie beginnt im Surfcamp zu arbeiten, verliebt sich in zwei Frauen auf einmal und scheint sich mit jedem Tag in den Wellen etwas leichter zu fühlen. Doch mit dem Herbsteinbruch holt sie das wieder ein, was sie eigentlich hinter sich lassen möchte.

Medina Mason is a defiant, awkward newcomer to the affluent beach community of Palos Verdes, California. As her parents' marriage disintegrates and her beloved brother falls prey to the temptations of drugs and the lunacy of their mother, Medina surfs to survive, finding a bitter solace in the...

Big Wednesday, based on the cult 1978 film by the same name, follows three California beach buddies begin to realize there is more to life than waxing down their surfboards as they ditch their alcoholic and unruly ways to go fight in the Vietnam War. When they reunite 10 years later, they find that things in Malibu are much different after fighting a war.