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The Tiger Rising

The Tiger Rising
  • Author(s): Kate DiCamillo
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The story of a boy who discovers that some things can’t stay locked up for ever. It’s six months since Rob’s mum died and he moved to Florida. His dad won’t talk about her at all. “Crying ain’t going...

The Wind

The Wind
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

How Spain saved the American Revolution! Gabriel is a simple sailor, doing the bidding of his Captain and King, when he is swept up in a storm that changes his life in ways that he could never have anticipated....

The Woman at the Light

The Woman at the Light
  • Author(s): Joanna Brady
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry’s husband vanishes from Wreckers’ Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of...

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Author(s): Zora Neale Hurston
  • Location(s): Everglades
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1928

Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie, an African-American woman who was raised by her ex-slave grandmother, and who wanted life and living, not riches and sitting idle on a porch. It is a deeply moving...

This Is Not How It Ends

This Is Not How It Ends
  • Author(s): Rochelle Weinstein
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

When Charlotte and Philip meet, the pair form a deep and instant connection. Soon they’re settled in the Florida Keys with plans to marry. But just as they should be getting closer, Charlotte feels Philip slipping away. Second-guessing their...

Tripwire (Jack Reacher 3)

Tripwire (Jack Reacher 3)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn’t want to be found....

When We Left Cuba

When We Left Cuba
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana,a Reese Witherspoon Book Club...

When We Were Young

When We Were Young
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Goldis
  • Location(s): Corfu, Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s to contemporary

Corfu, 1942: To sixteen-year-old Sarah Batis, the Nazis are a distant danger—of far greater threat is the opposing needs of her heart and her people. Tradition demands that Sarah marry a Jewish man. Only Sarah has fallen in love...

Where the Snowbirds Play

Where the Snowbirds Play
  • Author(s): Gina Goldhammer
  • Location(s): Palm Beach
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Was it pure chance that he had run into her so soon? Philip had never believed in destiny, and his father had believed in nothing but his own genius. And yet… From the moment recent Oxford graduate Philip takes...

Who She Is

Who She Is
  • Author(s): Diane Byington
  • Location(s): Central Florida
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In the fall of 1967, Faye Smith’s family moves to Florida to work in the orange groves, and she has to start a new school… again. She tries out for the track team, knowing her mother would never approve...

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