Stack o books for the beech

On Friday we head off for our yearly vacation on Cape Hatteras and I have my stack of books ready to go. This year's includes:

• Straight Man by Richard Russo
  
• Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge
  
• Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
  
• The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
  

Unfortunately, I will not be able to include my yearly James Lee Burke fix. For the first time in years, he's late (although only by a week). Ah, well. We'll have to catch Pegasus Descending the following week or so.