Robert Wintner: 10 books

“A true story of unfettered freedom and adventure, speed, sex, fun and drugs” by the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award nominee (Columbia County Observer). For anyone who’s heard about the 1960s, for those who remember it, and for those who can’t, this is Robert Wintner’s touching...

Decades of isolation from tourism and development have left Cuba’s coral reefs among the most pristine in the world, an “exceptionalism” that stands in stark contrast to the island nation’s poverty and political situation. Famed diver/photographer Robert “Snorkel Bob” Wintner showcases...

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author chronicles navigating the traditional western medical system during his wife’s battle with a brain aneurysm.   Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of a couple’s harrowing experience of an aneurysm and their road to recovery. It is a journey of love,...

Neptune Speaks is packed with full-color photographs of tropical fish on every page, but this book is more than just a beautiful guide. It’s a call to defend the creatures of the sea that are under attack by fierce predators—humans. The popularity of keeping tropical fish in home and office aquariums,...

The three main hubs of aquarium trade devastation are Indonesia, the Philippines, and Hawaii. Each has its own sad story of political corruption and theft of natural resources to benefit a greedy, ruthless few. Yet, despite facing a litany of challenges, each hub shows faint hope for progress: with...

In A Sweet Magnolia Time makes a major contribution to American history and American literature, for it explores the life and times and legacy of Waties Waring, the South Carolina federal judge whose epic opinion in Briggs v. Elliot that “separate but equal is not equal,” predated by two years of the 1954 Supreme Court Decision that came to the same conclusion.

Toucan Whisper, Toucan Sing is a novel about modern Mexico, the conflicting goals of development versus ecological preservation, and the aspirations and struggles of the indigenous people who service tourists at a beachfront hotel. Central to this tale are two brothers: the ambitious twenty-two-year...

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated author “has penned a hilariously entertaining send-up of the many excesses of life in affluent California . . . Wonderfully entertaining” (The White Rhino Report). Big M OK Used Car magnate Michael Mulroney never set out to be heroic. He lives at the top, naturally,...

Homunculus is a dark comedy of expatriation and overdose in the hills of Central Mexico.

Can a conflicted dive leader keep from drowning amidst a midlife crisis, a break up, an attempted murder, and the changing of his beloved Hawaiian paradise? Ravi Rockulz is a dive leader in Hawaii with good friends, good times, and plenty of willing female tourists. But something is missing,...