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Serge A. Storms travels through every spring break location he can find in order to share any nugget of history. and any shred of justice, to anyone who won't run away. Along the way, he and his sidekick, Coleman, attract a following of the nation's…

Fiction-Mystery; Fiction-Adult; Fiction-Crime; Fiction-Thriller

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…

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…

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.

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.…

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…

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…

Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest.

A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have suffered a bizarre…

This book is a work of fiction about the Gladiolus industry in Southwest Florida during the 1970s