A Trip to the Beach

Author: Melinda Blanchard
Publisher: Potter Style
ISBN: 1400045320
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs, and indelible portraits of people who live and work on a sliver of beauty set in the Caribbean Sea. It's about the maddening, exhausting, outlandish complications of trying to live the simple life -- and the joy that comes when you somehow pull it off. The story begins when Bob and Melinda Blanchard sell their successful Vermont food business and decide, perhaps impulsively, to get away from it all. Why not open a beach bar and grill on Anguilla, their favorite Caribbean island? One thing leads to another and the little grill turns into an enchanting restaurant that quickly draws four-star reviews and a celebrity-studded clientele eager for Melinda's delectable cooking. Amid the frenetic pace of the Christmas "high season," the Blanchards and their kitchen staff -- Clinton and Ozzie, the dancing sous-chefs; Shabby, the master lobster-wrangler; Bug, the dish-washing comedian -- come together like a crack drill team. And even in the midst of hilarious pandemonium, there are moments of bliss. As the Blanchards learn to adapt to island time, they become ever more deeply attached to the quirky rhythms and customs of their new home. Until disaster strikes: Hurricane Luis, a category-4 storm with two-hundred-mile-an-hour gusts, devastates Anguilla. Bob and Melinda survey the wreckage of their beloved restaurant and wonder whether leaving Anguilla, with its innumerable challenges, would be any easier than walking out on each other. Affectionate, seductive, and very funny, A Trip to the Beach is a love letter to a place that becomes both home and escape.

Beach Trip

Author: Cathy Holton
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345506006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
“Break out the tissues, sunblock, and margarita mix as four friends reunite after twenty-three years for a beach party in [this] feast of Southern friendship. . . . [Cathy] Holton refreshes the action with winning humor.”—Publishers Weekly Mel, Sara, Annie, and Lola have traveled diverse paths since their years together at a small Southern liberal arts college during the early 1980s. Mel, a mystery writer living in New York, is grappling with the aftermath of two failed marriages and a stalled writing career. Sara, an Atlanta attorney, struggles with her own slowly unraveling marriage. Annie, a successful Nashville businesswoman married to her childhood sweetheart, can’t seem to leave behind the regrets of her youth. And sweet-tempered Lola whiles away her hours—and her husband’s money—on little pills that keep her happy. Now the friends, all in their forties, converge on Lola’s lavish North Carolina beach house in an attempt to relive the carefree days of their college years. But as the week wears on and each woman’s hidden story is gradually revealed, these four friends learn that they must inevitably confront their shared past, and a secret that threatens to change their bond, and their lives, forever. “A brilliant, bubbly, bracing novel . . . packed with hilarity and heartache.”—Wichita Falls Times Record News

A Trip to the Beach

Author: Gwyn Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925870473
Category : Beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Today's the day - Iggy's goingto catch a wave without any help!Or at least that's what Grandad thinks.Iggy isn't quite so sure.What follows is an unforgettable beach adventure that involves the best sandcastle ever built, fish and chips for lunch, lots of boats and a few perfect waves.Here is a story about the unique beauty of the Australian coast, the universal magic of the ocean, and the importance of finding your own way.

My First Trip to the Beach

Author: Katie Kawa
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1433973111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Using a fictionalized approach, readers join a family as they explore the sand, sun, and waves at the beach for the first time. Colorful illustrations capture the vibrancy of the beach in a way that is sure to captivate beginning readers. Easy-to-follow, accessible text and a useful picture glossary aid in the development of vocabulary skills and the retention of new facts.

Day at the Beach

Author: Tom Booth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534411062
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
A day at the beach becomes a lesson in sibling bonding for Gideon in this magical picture book. Every summer, Gideon and his younger sister Audrey build a sandcastle together. But this summer, everything changes. Gideon decides to build the most spectacular sandcastle anyone on the beach has ever seen. And he’s going to do it on his own—without any help from his sister. But much to his surprise, Gideon discovers that building together is more fun and that everyone has their own unique talent when it comes to creativity and imagination, even Audrey.

The Beach

Author: Alex Garland
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101657502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden. Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck -- the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man -- and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents. Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach by Alex Garland -- both a national bestseller and his debut -- is a highly accomplished and suspenseful novel that fixates on a generation in their twenties, who, burdened with the legacy of the preceding generation and saturated by popular culture, long for an unruined landscape, but find it difficult to experience the world firsthand.

Sunset Beach

Author: Trip Purcell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595225977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
For Laura Babson, a seven-week vacation on Sunset Beach, North Carolina’s southernmost beach, seemed a relaxing way to escape the routines of life as a doctor’s wife in a small town. For sports columnist Neal Nickelsen, an eight-week sabbatical on the pristine barrier island promised great things for his golf game. But after seeing each other for the first time in more than twenty years, they soon discover this summer would be about something entirely different.

Beach Day

Author: Karen Roosa
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618029230
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
Rhyming text describes a perfect day at the beach, complete with sandy knees, deviled eggs, and a castle with a moat.

Magic Beach

Author: Alison Lester
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741757258
Category : Bathing beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A 'big-book' edition of Alison Lester's all-time favourite Australian beach book, perfect for library and classroom storytimes.

A Trip to the Beach

Author: Matthew Pullan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
Love nothing more than a trip to the beach? But trapped in the house because of today's stresses and restrictions? Then this poetry collection is the perfect solution to give you that irresistible holiday feeling. A Trip To The Beach is a rich and cinematic short poetry anthology which sparks all kinds of memories to make you smile.Roll up those trousers, paddle in the calm sea, hold on to your sun hat, breathe in that crisp air, find new friends or just have an ice cream, the choice is yours. Make the most of your me-time without the children and indulge each of your senses as you read these colourful, upbeat and light-hearted poems. Treat yourself to a comfy chair, a hot tea, and a hassle-free day out at the beach, far far away from the stresses of life.