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Dystopian Paradise

Dystopian Paradise
  • Author(s): Marvin Cook
  • Location(s): Florida, Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

A glimpse into a possible future. Two different social structures survive 150 years in the future in a topical paradise. An inquestive young girl has many questions and finds some answers on an island called Nueva Panacea.

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Finally, life is good for reluctant family law attorney, Jamie Quinn–her father may get his visa soon, her boyfriend is the bomb, and her law practice is growing like crazy–but when she agrees to take on a high-profile divorce...

Flashback

Flashback
  • Author(s): Nevada Barr
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Running from a proposal of marriage, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key...

Florida

Florida
  • Author(s): Lauren Groff
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of...

Flotsam and Jetsam: the Amelia Island Affair

Flotsam and Jetsam: the Amelia Island Affair
  • Author(s): M S Spencer
  • Location(s): Amelia Island
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

State Park Rangers Simon Ribault and Ellie Ironstone are used to dealing with messy campers and ravaging raccoons, but when three bodies wash up on the beach, they mobilize all their powers of deduction. Who are they and how...

Fool’s Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach

Fool’s Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
  • Author(s): Steven Gaines
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows-a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s...

Forever’s Just Pretend

Forever’s Just Pretend
  • Author(s): Craig McDonald
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Key West, 1925: the USA’s southernmost point and the most un-American of American locales; a rowdy border town surrounded by water and populated by sports fishermen, naval veterans and Cuban revolutionists – misfits and mavericks, all. After several years...

Ghost Squad

Ghost Squad
  • Author(s): Claribel A Ortega
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Coco meets Stranger Things with a hint of Ghostbusters in this action-packed supernatural fantasy adventure! For Lucely Luna, ghosts are more than just the family business. Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that...

Holding Smoke

Holding Smoke
  • Author(s): Steph Post
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary, 1950s

Judah Cannon. Sister Tulah. It all comes down to this. Before the final showdown with Tulah Atwell, the Pentecostal preacher responsible for his father’s death and his own return to a life of crime, however, Judah still has a...

Hoot

Hoot
  • Author(s): Carl Hiaasen
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

The site of Coconut Cove’s future Mother Paula’s All-American Pancake House is experiencing a slight problem: survey stakes removed, alligators in the port-a-potties, and painted-over patrol cars. But who’s behind the clever vandalism and pranks? New Florida resident Roy...

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