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Publisher:
Hogarth
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"Pearl's mother took her away from her family just weeks after she was born, and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter--in the parking lot next to a trailer park. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother lived in the back. Despite their hardships, mother and daughter both adjusted to life, making friends with the residents of the trailers and creating a deep connection...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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"A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead."--Publisher's description.
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Series:
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person's paradise can be another's prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez's family...
7. Spineless
Author:
NoveList Series:
Spineless volume 1.
Series:
Spineless volume 1
Publisher:
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Description:
"When his asthma lands him at a health resort in the wilds of Gilded Age South Florida, twelve-year-old Algie Emsworth is over the moon. The scientific treasure trove of unexplored swamps may launch his dream career as a naturalist. But even Algie is startled when he happens upon a brand-new species and her brood in the karst springs surrounding the resort. Algie quickly realizes he must keep his discovery a secret: a famous collector of exotic animals...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
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The first sign of trouble is a Shriner's fez washed up on a Miami beach. The next is a suitcase containing the almost-legless body of the local chamber of commerce president found floating in a canal. . . The locals are desperate to keep the murders under wraps and the tourist money flowing. But it will take a reporter-turned-private eye to make sense of a caper that mixes football players, politicians, and one very hungry crocodile in this classic...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Serge Storms novels volume 22.
Series:
Serge Storms novels volume 22
Publisher:
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Description:
"The Sunshine State's most lovable psychopath, Serge A. Storms, kills it in this zany adventure from the "compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) king of mayhem, New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey. Serge and Coleman are back on the road, ready to hit the next stop on their list of obscure and wacky points of interest in the Sunshine State. This time, Serge's interest is drawn to one of the largest retirement villages...
10. Double whammy
Author:
NoveList Series:
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 1.
Series:
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
R. J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye, is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida--and a lot that's rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, larg large-mouth bass tournaments.
Author:
Publisher:
Kokila
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
After Ofelia, Aster, Cat, and Lane fail to persuade a local girls club to change an outdated tradition, they form an alternative group that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. Includes tips for beginning birders, characteristics of crystals, a cookie recipe, tips for aspiring journalists, directions for creating badges, and facts about the killing of birds for fashion.
Author:
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
1 stars
Description:
Cleveland Rosebud Potts yearns to leave Sassafras, Florida for a rich and cultured life at The American School of Paris, but problems with family, friends, and finances stand in her way.
13. Motor mouth
Author:
NoveList Series:
Alexandra Barnaby novels volume 2.
Series:
Alexandra Barnaby novels volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Author:
NoveList Series:
Doc Ford novels volume 3.
Series:
Doc Ford novels volume 3
Publisher:
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date:
1997
Language:
English
Average Rating:
1 stars
15. Strip tease
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal threat against Big Money and Big Government. Only in south Florida, land of roadside honky-tonks and sinister pleasure boats--not to mention blackmail and murder--would a virtuous topless dancer join forces with a cool but clueless cop. And only in the fiction of Carl Hiaasen do readers experience riveting suspense and razor-sharp characters...
16. First & then
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Publisher:
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Devon is a high school senior, wondering if she really wants to go to college, what to do with her cousin Foster (a freshman) who has moved in with her family in Florida, and whether she likes Ezra, the stuck-up football star at her school, or cannot stand him.
17. Clownfish blues
Author:
NoveList Series:
Serge Storms novels volume 20.
Series:
Serge Storms novels volume 20
Publisher:
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2017]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"If you're loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own 'episodes' of your favorite classic television show, Route 66! With Coleman riding shotgun, Serge is rolling down the highway of his dreams in a vintage silver convertible Corvette just like the snazzy car Martin Milner drove. It doesn't matter that the actual Route 66 didn't pass through Florida, for Serge discovers that...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
After years of drifting from one small Florida town to another, Allison Marshall believes she's found the ideal place to settle down on Palmetto Island, but soon discovers that the locals have a dark secret, and she must either stay and join them or risk escaping.
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