David Baldacci

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy in this new novel from the author of Zero Day. 700,000 first printing.

The Forgotten

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Gilbert M. Gaul

Former library book. Plastic protective jacket. Library stamp across top pages. Deactivated anti-theft device attached to back cover. Pages in amazing shape. Crisp, clean, devoid of dog ears and scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts

This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history—but who bears the brunt of these monster storms? Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($72 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). With more property than ever in harm’s way, and the planet and oceans warming dangerously, it won’t be long before we see a $250 billion hurricane. Why? Because Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth: barrier islands and coastal floodplains. And they have been encouraged to do so by what Gilbert M. Gaul reveals in The Geography of Risk to be a confounding array of federal subsidies, tax breaks, low-interest loans, grants, and government flood insurance that shift the risk of life at the beach from private investors to public taxpayers, radically distorting common notions of risk. These federal incentives, Gaul argues, have resulted in one of the worst planning failures in American history, and the costs to taxpayers are reaching unsustainable levels. We have become responsible for a shocking array of coastal amenities: new roads, bridges, buildings, streetlights, tennis courts, marinas, gazebos, and even spoiled food after hurricanes. The Geography of Risk will forever change the way you think about the coasts, from the clash between economic interests and nature, to the heated politics of regulators and developers.

The Geography of Risk

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Jimmy Buffett

Stains  and  broken away from spine. Pages ingood shape

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions

The singer/songwriter displays his gift for creating witty, laid-back Southern stories in a collection of bizarre tales and thoughtful essays

Tales from Margaritaville

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Louisiana

North Carolina

Paolo Bacigalupi

Book 1 in a trilogy. I have another copy of  this book available with a slightly different cover.

This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." --Los Angeles Times A New York Times Bestseller A Michael L. Printz Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book

Ship Breaker

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Gulf Coast Symphony Guild Staff

Mississippi

Encore! Encore!

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Tom Cooper

Tennessee

A Novel

When the BP oil spill devastates the Gulf Coast, those who made a living by shrimping find themselves in dire straits. For the oddballs and lowlifes who inhabit the sleepy, working-class bayou town of Jeannette, these desperate circumstances serve as the catalyst that pushes them to enact whatever risky schemes they can dream up to reverse their fortunes. At the center of it all is Gus Lindquist, a pill-addicted, one-armed treasure hunter obsessed with finding the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. His quest brings him into contact with a wide array of memorable characters ranging from a couple of small-time criminal potheads prone to hysterical banter to the smooth-talking oil company middleman out to bamboozle his own mother to some drug-smuggling psychopath twins to a young man estranged from his father since his mother died in Hurricane Katrina. As the story progresses, these characters find themselves on a collision course with one another, and as the tension and action ramp up, it becomes clear that not all of them will survive these events.

The Marauders

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Randy Wayne White

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Government agent-turned-marine biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, off Florida’s Gulf Coast, a teenaged girl found an ancient gold medallion. Then, she began having nightmares. Then she was found hanging from a tree. Now, years later, the girl’s mother is being terrorized with break-ins, phone calls with no one there—and her daughter’s grave has been dug up. Somebody wants that medallion. The search for answers will lead Doc through a shadowy world of ancient ritual and modern corruption, to an evil that was born in the past—but lives in the present…

Ten Thousand Islands

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John Mullen

Paperback copy of 100 Things to Do On The Alabama Gulf Coast Before You Die by John Mullen

Oklahoma

100 Things to Do on the Alabama Gulf Coast Before You Die

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

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Epico Bayou (Autographed)

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Illinois

Chris Rose

After Katrina

"The columns in this book were previously published in The Times-picayune"--Title page verso.

1 Dead in Attic

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Frederick Barthelme

Pennsylvania

Set amidst the tatters of post-Katrina Gulf Coast Mississippi, Waveland is a brilliantly observed portrait of our times from one of the most incisive novelists at work today. Partially retired architect Vaughn Williams does what he can to remain "viable." Battling the doldrums of midlife, he teaches an occasional class, reads the newspapers, scours the Internet, and thinks obsessively about his late father. When his ex-wife seeks refuge from her hotheaded boyfriend, Vaughn and his girlfriend, Greta, agree to let her move in, perhaps a little too cavalierly. Add in Vaughan’s annoyingly successful younger brother, who carries a torch for Vaughn’s ex-wife, and lingering suspicions about Greta’s involvement in her husband’s murder and the result is an emotionally resonant tale of mortality, love, regret, and redemption that only Barthelme could unwind.

Waveland

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Maggie Miller

Connecticut

Gulf Coast Secrets

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#gulfcoast Army special agent John Puller investigates his aunt's death.

Arizona

Natasha Trethewey

#paperback #katrina #meditation #gulfcoast #history

Georgia

A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

A collection of essays, poems, and letters, chronicling the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Beyond Katrina

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Carolyn Haines

The edges are a little rough, but the spone isn't cracked. The story is fun and situated on the coast of Alabama.   A fun little read!

A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery

It's time to catch a killer or walk the plank for P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney in Booty Bones, award-winning author Carolyn Haines's latest whodunit. Yo ho!

Sarah Booth Delaney's fiancé, Graf, is recovering from a severe leg injury, and Sarah Booth knows just how to help him heal. She's arranged a romantic getaway for the two of them at a lovely beach cottage on Dauphin Island off the Gulf Coast. On the first day of their island adventure, they take a historical tour led by a woman named Angela, who is well-versed in local lore-including but not limited to rumors of pirate treasure hidden somewhere on the island...

"Delightful...[a] satisfying beignet of a mystery."-Publishers Weekly

Turns out that Angela's own father was a sailor and treasure hunter who was murdered just as he was closing in on the treasure. Angela's convinced that the wrong man was imprisoned for her father's murder, and soon she enlists Sarah Booth's help to catch the real killer. But as Sarah Booth digs deeper into the case, she realizes that there's much more going on than meets the eye. With untold amounts of treasure offering plenty of motive for murder, it's hard to know who to trust. How far is Sarah Booth willing to go to unbury the truth and find the killer...before he finds her first?

"Entertaining."-Booklist


Booty Bones

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Chicki Mallan

California

Yucatan Handbook

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Chris Jameson

Alabama

A dream getaway is about to turn into a living nightmare. . .

Rick and Corinne Scully and their kids have visited Florida's Captiva Island many times. This year, they've brought along their best friends, who can't wait to finally experience the place the Scullys call Paradise on Earth.

But this vacation is turning out to be a lot different than planned. The Scullys never expected the rowdy college spring-breakers renting the house next door, or a hurricane that would sweep through the Gulf Coast, or the century-old shipwreck that washed up on the shore. They never knew about the military research being done at a nearby marine institute--and the test subjects that escaped during the hurricane. In the aftermath of the storm, the Scullys and their friends will try to salvagewhat's left of their time at the beach. They believe it's safe to go back in the water. . .but they're dead wrong.

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