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Remember the melodrama of being young and immortal? Simon Donaghue, a precocious student adrift in Oxford's grimy emotional underworld, is, like any seventeen-year-old, more than capable of spite, passion and cowardice. The unfolding of his strange affair with Ginny consumes him body and soul. And, when a darker subtext begins to emerge from the story of his love, he is confronted with a psychologically twisted world where love can lie, and where hate can engulf reason. If I've learnt anything it's that there are different ways of damaging other people. There's damage that is meant. Then there's damage that comes from bungling. Finally there's the damage that is caused simply by standing to one side. The last is almost as bad as the first. As his lover appears to lose her grip on reality, Simon's own belief in what really matters - and in what is really happening around him - falters, leading him farther onto a path of distrust and betrayal that rushes him towards an explosive resolution. A masterful study of trust, obsession and human weakness, The Whitest Woman on the Beach explores how far you'll go to protect those you love - and how much you really want to. 'Poignant, tender and tough: the heartstoppingly marvellous creation that is seventeen-year-old Simon Donaghue..' Suzannah Dunn
THE O'MALLEY TRILOGY Every daughter lives a trilogy: her own story intertwined with her mother's and her grandmother's. Like every woman, twenty-two year-old Eve Roberts is afraid she'll grow up to be her mother. She wants to be better. But after her boyfriend dumps her, independent Eve returns home for advice and comfort. Amy, her mother, wants to help but is limited by her abilities, unevenly strengthened by her adversities and still healing from a bad divorce. The two women spend a weekend together on a Florida beach in brisk, humorous, and sometimes painful dialogue about the family's history and how it has defined the choices they have made. They uncover patterns and experiences handed down from generation to generation, irrevocably changing the course of each daughter's life. Amy considers her passage from daughter to mother, from young to old, from beautiful to aging. The past becomes clear; the future is hard to see. On the same beach, young Eve begins to see her life as full of possibilities-if she can stand on her own. Both women know that they must somehow separate from the past without letting go of each other if they are to be the women they aspire to be. Alternating chapters in a narrative voice between Eve and Amy, this powerful story reverberates with the memories of the mother/daughter relationships of both women as they struggle to understand their relationship and reaffirm their love.
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
A telling memoir by an exciting new voice, Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl explores journalist Kitty Oliver's coming of age as she makes the crossing from an all-black to a predominantly white world. Born and raised in an all-black area of Jacksonville, Florida, Oliver was one of the first African American freshmen to enter the University of Florida. Though she chronicles the strains of her transition from Jim Crow to desegregation, this book is much more than a memoir of the turbulent sixties. It is an upbeat journal of self-discovery in the aftermath of that decade, a look at one woman's coming to terms with living an integrated life in America. With humor, poignancy, and lyrical language (reminiscent at times of another Florida writer, Zora Neale Hurston), Oliver shares her passage from the "old world" to the new—an immigrant's journey indicative of the American experience. Blending past and present, she searches for roots from the Gullah or "Geechee" culture of South Carolina to the urban streets of northern Florida to the multicultural mix of South Florida's diverse ethnic cultures, serving up family stories with large helpings of southern "folktalk," food, and music along the way.
Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.
On the emerald green island of Jamaica, an unpredictable adventure awaits twins Ana and Nicky who travel there to celebrate their coming of age. Under the Caribbean sun, they anticipate a holiday filled with fun, freedom, and excitement. But the idyllic island harbours hidden dangers beyond their expectations. As the twins revel amid the natural tropical beauty, the thin veneer of paradise soon peels away. Their riveting journey quickly becomes a rollercoaster of suspense and action, where lust masquerades as love, morality wears ambiguous shades of gray, innocence hangs in the balance, and ruin looms one impulsive misstep away. Ultimately, Ana and Nicky’s suspenseful odyssey of twists and turns, romantic encounters, and narrow escapes will redefine their limits of self-preservation. On an island where peril and pleasure intertwine, the twins’ quest for discovery threatens any chance of returning home the same. Their choices will determine if this final fling is merely the end of their adventurous holiday or the end of innocence itself.
Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.
Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.
Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain Booklist Editors’ Choice (History) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).