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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…

Margaret Mincks grew up the second oldest of eight kids. When she wasn’t swimming, acting, making up slightly disturbing songs, or filming B-movie parodies with siblings and friends, she was writing stories. After graduating from the University of…

Brady Vogt was born in Texas. He moved around a lot for most of his childhood, but settled down in Florida in 1964 and has been there ever since. Brady works as a horticulturist and recently fulfilled his life's dream, opening his own bookstore.

Since leaving home at age 16, and skipping college in the process, New York Times best-selling author Randy Wayne White has been a farm hand, a brass and iron foundry worker, a telephone lineman, and, for thirteen years, a full-time fishing guide at…

In 1928, with a small inheritance from her mother, the Rawlings purchased a 72-acre orange grove near Hawthorne, Florida, in a hamlet named Cross Creek for its location between Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake. She brought the place to international…

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…

Rebecca is living in Orlando, FL and has her BA in English - Literature with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She has a twin sister named Jessica, who is her closest friend and unofficial book editor. Rebecca married her husband, Justin,…

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.…

Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working. For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than 500 newspapers and generated thousands of letters from…

Tyler James is a young, hot-shot IT Consultant, but his good looks, charm and quick wit can't save him from the monotony of the road warrior life. He's in for another forgettable week at his Utah client's multi-level marketing firm, Wholesom…