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• Their Eyes Were Watching God

  Hurston, Zora Neale,

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  When Janie Starks returns home, she seeks identity and independence as the small southern black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man.

• Swamp Story

  a Novel

  Barry, Dave,

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  Stuck in a tumbledown Everglades shack with a nasty ex-boyfriend and an infant daughter, Jesse thinks she's found a way out: she's tripped over a long-lost treasure. Unfortunately, a bunch of bad guys are also looking for the treasure,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Apartment

  a Novel

  Menéndez, Ana, 1970-

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  The quiet, remarkable lives of the tenants in a South Miami Beach apartment through the years permeate this haunting new novel.

• Florida

  Groff, Lauren,

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  A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.

• Salt River

  White, Randy Wayne,

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  The sins of the past come back to haunt Doc Ford and his old friend Tomlinson when people come looking for a cache of precious Spanish coins he "liberated" from a felonious treasure hunter.

• Fireworks Every Night

  A Novel

  Raymer, Beth

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  Follows the ups and downs of a dysfunctional Florida family in the 1990s.

• Squeeze Me

  a Novel

  Hiaasen, Carl,

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  A hilarious novel of social and political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida’s gold coast.

• The Nickel Boys

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  This Pulitzer-Prize winning novel brilliantly dramatizes a strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

• Swamplandia!

  Russell, Karen, 1981-

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  The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.

• Blue Skies

  Boyle, TC

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  Engaged twentysomethings Cat and Todd are living the dream in an inherited Florida beach house. On the other coast, Cat's family deals with California's drought, heat wave, high winds, and rampaging fires. Extreme climate events and myriad…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maltese Iguana

  a Novel

  Dorsey, Tim,

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  In his next over-the-top adventure, a fully vaccinated Serge A. Storms is finally ready to set out on a Florida road trip with some revelrous friends. Change of plans: they encounter a man on the run from the CIA, hired by the agency as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Magic Kingdom

  Banks, Russell, 1940-2023

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  In 1971, Harley Mann revisits his childhood, recounting his family's move to Florida’s swamplands—mere miles away from what would become Disney World—to join a community of Shakers.

• The Light Pirate

  Brooks-Dalton, Lily

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  Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane—as she navigates a rapidly changing world.

• White Shadow

  Atkins, Ace

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  Based on the true events of the Charlie Wall murder case. In 1955 Tampa, Florida, the bludgeoning death of mob boss Charlie Wall, The White Shadow, sets cops, reporters, and associates scrambling to discover the truth. But that is only the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Land Remembered

  Smith, Patrick D., 1927-2014

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  Traces three generations of the MacIvey family, who settled in Florida in the mid-nineteenth century, and shows the family's ultimate effect on the state.

• Deep Blue Good-by

  a Travis McGee Novel

  MacDonald, John D. (John Dann), 1916-1986

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  Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight-errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out,…Read moreRead more of this annotation