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Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 2
Language
English
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Now reissued--one of the most beloved novels by the \"New York Times\" bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys.
2) Duma Key
Author
Language
English
Description
Six months after a plane crushes his pickup truck and his body, self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed her with a plastic knife, and he divides his wealth equally among himself, his wife and two children, and leaves Minnesota for Duma Key. There on a stunningly beautiful, eerily remote stretch of the Florida coast, Edgar begins to paint with a talent that seems to come from someplace...
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries, returns to Little Bridge Island with a new story about a children's book author with a case of writer's block and an arrogant novelist who have to set aside their differences as they get through a weekend long book festival that just might change everything--including their feelings for each other. Don't Judge a Book by Its Author... Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest,...
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
Language
English
Description
"A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate - in the form of a newborn left in the restroom - has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment." When John Hartwell...
Author
Series
Andrew Yancy novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an innocent accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the offending car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous Razor Girl--so named for her unique, eye-popping addition to what might be an otherwise unexciting scam. But, of course--this is Hiaasen!--the scam is only the very beginning of a situation that's going to spiral crazily out...
10) Blown away!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1935 on the Florida Key of Matacumbe, thirteen-year-old Jake makes new friends during an idyllic summer, only to have everything change when a hurricane threatens the island.
11) Paradise Island
Author
Series
Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Paradise Island makes an ideal refuge for marine archaeologist Luke Fleming-until the day he finds a barely-clad woman washed ashore on a raft. She claims she has amnesia. He's sure she's just out to seduce him. But he can't deny the heat between them.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
When he visits his father in the Florida Keys, sixteen-year-old Brian is befriended by a local captain who involves him in the search for a centuries-old sunken ship and gives him insight into several difficult personal relationships.