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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…

First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers.

Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter.

Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force…

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…

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…

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

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…

When Commander Peter Wake, a U.S. naval intelligence agent, encounters a beautiful woman from his past,
he feels honor bound to help find her missing son. The search leads Wake through Haiti and on the trail of a hidden
anarchist group, who are…

Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author. In 1925, shortly before entering Barnard College, Hurston became one of the leaders of the literary renaissance happening in Harlem, producing the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! along…

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this…

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947 and sold his first professional short story in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. As a high school English teacher he spent his evenings and weekends writing short stories and working on novels. After…