A note about our selections: Many of our picks are not new, in fact most are pretty vintage. The authors picked, however, have been chosen for the quality of their work. Quality that endures. We believe that the works we offer will bring hours of reading pleasure, whether lounging on the beach or snuggled in that easy chair at home...Pat Conroy:
One of the quintessential authors for great summer reading is Pat Conroy. His novels embrace his love for his native South Carolina, and his characters are unforgettable. Few modern authors have mastered the poetry of the written word as well as Pat Conroy.
Beach Music is Pat Conroy's latest novel, love and family passions among three generations of a southern family.
Often considered his finest work, The Prince of Tides is a powerful love story, traversing the distances of the steamy South Carolina lowlands to the high rises of New York City.
Set in a South Carolina military school, The Lords of Discipline is a look behind the scenes at the darker aspects of tradition, and the secrets that never leave the walls. The Great Santini is a rollicking-funny, tenderly sad story of a military family surviving and loving under the discipline of a career Marine. The phrase "Make way for a fighter pilot" will live with you forever.
A young teacher is assigned to teach on a poverty-stricken island off the South Carolina coast, and discovers what can happen when idealism collides with "the way things are done" in the rural south. The Water is Wide.Joseph Wambaugh:
Joe Wambaugh was a Los Angeles cop, and nobody writes "cop" better than Wambaugh. His novels are fast paced, wonderfully timed, and side-splitting funny. You'll wonder why folks on the beach are looking at you as you fall out of your beach chair laughing. Wambaugh non-fiction: on a few occasions, Wambaugh has taken a serious turn, and written some outstanding crime non-fiction. He has proven again and again that his writing muscle is enormous.
Floaters is Wambaugh's latest, a cat-and-mouse suspense novel, set in San Diego during the most glamorous event in sailing - The America's Cup.
One of Wambaugh's early novels, The Blue Knight is a couragous book that gives a cops-eye view of police brutality, and the real life on the streets.
The ultimate black-humor cop book has got to be The Choirboys. Wambaugh blends the sheer terror and madness that is the streets of LA flawlessly into some of the funniest scenes ever between the covers of a novel. The Golden Orange is a funny, tender and unerring look at a cop on the brink of self-destruction, fighting the bottle, fighting his conscience, and falling in love. A great read.
When Joe Wambaugh writes non-fiction, its easy to see that he was once a detective. In The Blooding he writes of two shocking, almost perfect crimes in rural England that led to the use of "genetic finger printing "in soliving crimes.
Read the book? Seen the movie? Of course, who hasn't? But if it's been awhile, try it again as you wriggle you toes in the surf and peer out at the horizon. Is that a dorsal fin out there? Nah.......
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