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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that's what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Everglades in order...
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Language
English
Description
January 1978. A serial killer has terrorised women across the Pacific Northwest, but his existence couldn't be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee. Tonight is a night of promise, excitement, and desire, but Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home - a decision that unwittingly saves her life. Startled awake at 3 a.m....
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Language
English
Description
"Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xx, 305 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A captivating visual and narrative journey into the ecology of Florida's animals, this book features brilliant wildlife photography and intimate storytelling that introduces the variety of species within the state"--
"Brilliant wildlife photography and intimate storytelling showcase Florida's animal species within their natural habitats Kirsten Hines provides a captivating visual and narrative journey into the ecology of Florida's animals in Wild...
6) Goodbye girl
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A Miami criminal defense lawyer helps a Grammy-winning popstar who signed an onerous contract as a teen that leaves her ex-husband with all her royalties.
Author
Series
The Amy Larson and Hunter Forrest FBI volume Book 4
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn't expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn't prepared to hear her mother's voice on the other end of the line. However, explaining the situation to her younger siblings afterwards was easy; all she had to say was, "Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes." They immediately understood. Answering...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
577 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Journey with the bestselling Brunstetter authors to the unique tropical Amish community in Sarasota, Florida, along with four young sisters originally from Indiana. The Seashell Cake by Wanda E. Brunstetter Leora Lambright is the first to leave home, seeking a warmer climate for health reasons. While on a winter holiday, roofer John Miller meets Leora in the bakery where she is enjoying expressing herself through cake decorating. They are instantly...
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Language
English
Description
Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange--though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall...
13) The River House
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Publisher
Newman Springs Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Engineer Victoria and her husband, Kevin, purchased the house of their dreams on the Caloosahatchee River in Southwest Florida in 2016. Although the house was over forty years old, the couple happily endured various home repair and improvement projects knowing that the stunning beauty of the home's location was well worth any aggravation. Their blissful state of mind was shattered less than a year after they purchased the property when Hurricane Irma...
14) Worry: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world about to suffer great change--a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood. It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold--anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed--has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger...
Author
Publisher
Atmosphere Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
How to go gently into that good night? Is there a fifth season?
In their advanced years, Honey, Hank and Seth didn't expect to find themselves unattached through divorce, separation and death. They have little else in common except their morning ritual of taking a solitary walk along the same stretch of Florida coastline to behold the sun breaking through the horizon line with equilibrium and serenity, day after day. Each morning draws them closer...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a life for himself, his wife, and his two young daughters...
17) Her secret hope
Author
Series
Season in Pinecraft volume 03
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Lilly, the Amish town of Pinecraft is a chance to start again. But then she meets Eddie, a man with no plans to stay--a man she can't stop thinking about. She must decide whether to give him up or face her past and hope that their love will endure"--
Lilly Kurtz is looking for a fresh start in Pinecraft, Florida. At first everything goes well: she gets a job, her coworkers feel like family, and she enjoys reconnecting with her friends. But the...
18) Her only wish
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Series
Language
English
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Sheltered yet adventurous, Betsy Detweiler is on a mission to get out of Kentucky and experience new things in life. What better place to start than with her friends in Pinecraft, Florida? When she walks onto the Snow Bird Golf Course to sign up for lessons, August Troyer is mesmerized. She's like no one he's ever met before, and as the only child of missionary parents, he's met a lot of people. Each intends to enjoy life to the fullest. They soon...
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Series
Publisher
Kingsbridge Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sean O'Brien watches a girl darting through traffic to pick up money she dropped, he stops to help. The next time he sees her face it's during a TV newscast. She's vanished. As the case grows cold, Sean can't forget the touching story she shared with him. To find her, he must enter the dark web, infiltrate a global criminal ring, outwit one of the sharpest and most inhuman minds he's ever faced in a battle where the girl's life is reduced to...
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Off the coast of Florida, 200 feet beneath the waves, a massive aircraft carrier lies on the bottom of the ocean floor. Once an unsinkable ship, the Mighty O is now an underwater city teeming with marine life. After 25 years of service in the Navy, the ship took on a new mission as an artificial reef."-
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