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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…

Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry…

In 1858 Tobias MacIvey abandoned his Georgia farm, loaded his meager possessions and his wife and infant son in a wagon, and headed south into the Florida wilderness to search for a new life. What follows in A LAND TO REMEMBER is a big, rough-tough,…

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

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…

Rex Beach adventure novels were among the most popular in the country in the early 1900's. Regular people loved his books, but intellectuals and critics did not like his stuff, referring to them as the "he-man school of literature", or "pot boilers".…

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.…

Judy Blume is a one of America’s most beloved authors and a committed anti-censorship activist. One of her most well-known titles is Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, a beloved book for adolescent girls that addresses the taboo subject of…

Jimmy Buffett is not only well accomplished in the music arena, he has also written several books, four of which have made the New York Times Best Sellers List with three of those topping the list. Buffett is one of only a few authors who have topped…

Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana and is an author that believes in creating happy endings. She has written more than 80 books for adults and teens, many of which have been New York Times #1 Bestsellers and sold over twenty-five million…