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The Yearling
Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their…
Tags: 20th Century, Fiction, Florida, Historical Fiction, Rawlings
Cross Creek
It is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove to bouts with runaway pigs and a succession…
Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
A New York Times bestseller—a brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry. We never know what will happen next in Florida. We know only that, any minute now, something will.…
Tags: Barry, Florida, humor, memoir, sunshine state, travel writing
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.
Florida Roundabout
In Florida Roundabout Mr. Pratt draws upon twenty-five years of writing about Florida. The scene is really round-about, traveling five hundred miles from the northern part the state to the Florida Keys, from the west to the east coasts. The time…
Heart of the Sunset
A fitful breeze played among the mesquite bushes. The naked earth, where it showed between the clumps of grass, was baked plaster hard. It burned like hot slag, and except for a panting lizard here and there, or a dust-gray jack-rabbit, startled from…
The 5th Wave
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.
Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of…
Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of…