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May 13, 2015
Remembering Albert "Sugar" Guidry: Engineer instilled love of hard work, education in offspring
May 13, 2015
BEACH TOWN
By Mary Kay Andrews St. Martin’s Press Hardcover, $25.99; 448 pages Release date: May 19
A movie location scout tries to make good finding a shoot site after a filming debacle. Her assignment: Find the perfect undiscovered beach town for a big budget flick.
Greer Hennessy finds a sleepy Florida panhandle town, perfect for the climax – a huge explosion taking down the town and its people.
The town’s mayor, Eben Thinadeaux, a born-again environmentalist, stands in the way. Will Greer prevail? Will the mayor’s passion for his town’s well-being win? And what about love? Are these two coupling? Can it survive, if so?
THE WATER KNIFE
By Paolo Bacigalupi
Knopf Publishing Group
Hardcover, $25.99; 384 pages
Release date: May 26
Detective/leg-breaker/assassin/spy turned Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez’s job is to “cut” water for hs boss’s high-dollar arcology developments in the desert, keeping the rich wet and the poor with dust.
But when a rumored water source is reported, Angel is sent to check it out. There, he meets hardened journalist Lucy Monroe, who hates Vegas and Velasquez, and Maria Villarosa, a street smart Texas refugee. The trio find themselves caught in a fight between Phoenix and California to monopolize the river flow. Lives are at stake and alliances questionable in the quest for H20.
Mary Kay Andrew’s Beach Town (at left) is the latest written by the best-selling author. The book is based on a movie scout’s quest to find the best undiscovered beach town for a big-budget box office flick. (At right) The Water Knife is another hit set to be on shelves on May 26.
