Islands Art and Books Store features an extensive collection of works by premier local artists and photographic prints at affordable prices. All Giclee’ prints are of the highest quality using archival inks and the highest quality materials.
The Giclee’ process offers perhaps the highest degree of accuracy and richness of the color palate of all the reproduction techniques available today
You’ll find a wide selection of high quality Giclée Prints by local artists:
Virginia “Bunny” Lauzon, Miller Pope and renowned nature photographer Ken Buckner. Also romance and mystery novels by writers Jacqueline DeGroot, Tom Rieber and others.
Islands Art and Books Store also offers a selection of books by the area’s best writers and illustrators.
Located: In Beach Drive Center at 6885 Beach Drive (Hwy 179) between the islands of Sunset Beach, NC and Ocean Isle Beach, NC.
Islands Art and Books Store features Beautiful Handmade Sea Glass Jewelry by April Owens.
The coastal islands of the area have long been a magnet to artists and writers who discover the beauty and romance of the area and decide to put down roots.
All books, photographic prints, original art works and Giclee’ prints are by artists and writers who live here or write about the area.
A few of the books you will find:
Sunset Beach – A History
A full history of Sunset Beach NC with stories from many of the “old timers” who were eye witnesses to events.
Some are funny, some are shocking – all are fascinating.
No true Sunset Beach Lover should be without this book!
The History of Ocean Isle Beach
A 130 page, hardbound, full color, 8.5 x 11 inch pictorial and narrative history of the Ocean Isle Beach area.
It is professionally edited by an Internationally-acclaimed publisher.
Flash Drive By Jaqueline DeGroot
The latest racy romance by Jaqueline DeGroot – She lost it . . . he found it. Their lives will never be the same again. Laurel Leighton has lost her flash drive. On it are all the naughty little stories she’s written.
Thinking of whose hands that not-so-innocent, little thing could have fallen into, makes her cringe. It holds her secrets, all her dirty secrets.
Every wicked scenario that has played out in her mind eventually made it onto that thumb drive. It’s her fantasy life, and now it’s out there—someplace where anybody can find it.
Favorite Beach Photos by Ken Buckner
Hardcover coffee table edition with 128 high quality 8×10 pages with 100 full color photographs – personally signed by the author.
Stroll sandy shores by the sea or the beaches of a lovely lake and see sunrises, sunsets and wildlife just as nationally renowned local nature photographer and artist, Ken Buckner viewed them through his camera.
Tales of the Silver Coast – A Secret History Of Brunswick County
From the earliest days of European exploration to the golf courses and beach resorts in this fascinating and
fast-growing region, Brunswick County has attracted settlers, invaders, and visitors of all descriptions.
Holden Beach, NC is featured in new book by nationally renowned local nature photographer and artist, Ken Buckner!
Excerpt from “Favorite Beach Photos” – By Ken Buckner: “Holden Beach, North Carolina is home to some of the largest Ghost Crabs that I’ve ever seen. Late one afternoon this creature and I seemed to be the only visitors on an east end beach and we spent about two hours together. 
Excerpt from “Favorite Beach Photos” – By Ken Buckner: “Consistently my most popular nature photo year after year, this image was made on the west end of Ocean Isle Beach, N. C. The inviting path to the sea, lined with sea oats and soft dunes reminds the viewer of a pleasant excellence they’ve had or would like to have. I didn’t know at the time that storms (especially hurricanes) can alter barrier islands drastically. They can move or eliminate all the things that are captured in this serene view and that is exactly what happened here. “Dunes Path” became the first photo to make me realize the value of recording transitory beauty. I was fortunate to find this spot and record it for all to enjoy, I loved the golden sea oats, blue shadows, pink sand and the tiny bird tracks going up the small dune in the foreground, I built the design around the cactus shapes and still enjoy the sense of depth in the picture from the closest sand grains to the ocean’s distant horizon fine. The photograph portrays a moment of beauty that was and may again be seen in similar form along the ocean’s ever changing shore.”
Local Artist and author Miller Pope is making high quality Giclée prints of his original artwork available for sale on 
Miller Pope was born in South Carolina but spent most of his career during the “golden age of illustration” in the New York advertising and publishing arenas, after getting his start on the Marine Corps’ legendary Leatherneck magazine.
With his wife, Helen, he moved south in the 1970s and worked to develop 
Local Artist and author Miller Pope is making high quality Giclée prints of his original artwork available for sale on 
t from the 19950s and 1960s.
With families, including children, looking on two pelicans injured by frostbite and rescued were released on Saturday on the dock at Sharky’s Waterfront Restaurant on Ocean Isle Beach.
