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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…

When a friendly cul-de-sac business competition turns into a ruthless rivalry, two neighborhood kids learn that getting mad and getting even aren't mutually exclusive.

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…

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…

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

When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, Tennessee to New York City, they wouldn’t dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living space) has “No Pets” writ large on…

"Margaritaville is a place where curiosity, passion, and humor cleverly intertwine, and though it may not appear on any map, it does exist – at least in the brilliantly creative, slightly skewed imagination of Jimmy Buffett. Echoing the…

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.…

Romance novel set in Alaska following some of the same characters as first discovered in Beach's The Spoilers.