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A Medlar mystery 1 Alex Barnaby 2 Audition trilogy 1 Camino Island 2 Louis Kincaid 3 Skink 7Clement, Jennifer
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEMcNaught, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNParrish, P. J.
Summary: Florida's Gulf Coast community of Sereno Key has been shaken to the core by a grisly ritualistic murder. Though an arrest is quickly made, Detective Louis Kincaid feels strangely unsettled. His uncertainty is confirmed as a second body is discovered, and then a third--each branded with the bizarre trademarks of a serial killer whose blood lust is growing. Now in a race against time, Kincaid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Our Noir Publishing 2018
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC PARLilly, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Marie)
Summary: Whether you're settling in for a heaping plate of banana pudding or arepas and tostones, a good meal can always bring families together. Once a year, on a Friday night, My family leaves the city And drives hours and hours . . . First my family drives through the mountains to stop at Mamaw and Papaw's house in rural West Virginia. We share blueberry jam and toast for breakfast the next morning,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: When no one in the small town of Merritt, Florida, believes that he was attacked by a monster, fifteen-year-old Virgil Knox fears the monster will return to finish him off, or worse--that he is becoming a monster himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, the devastation of the storm has attracted crowds of voyeurs and imposters to Florida, drawn by the chance to prey on Andrew's victims in insurance scams. They are unprepared for the opposition, led by an ex-governor who smokes toads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIACabot, Meg.
Summary: A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CABZiegler, Maddie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Harper loves to dance and is a rising star in Connecticut when her parents move her to Florida and she must prove herself to The Bunheads in order to compete.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZIEHogan, Linda.
Summary: In Florida, an Indian girl is torn between loyalty to her Westernized mother, advising her to reject the ways of her tribe, and an aunt who supports tradition. The conflict is played out in the course of a hunt for a tiger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGDeveraux, Jude
Summary: Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Deveraux 2018Copies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DEVDue, Tananarive
Summary: "Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESan Miguel, Samantha
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SANEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: A second installment of a new series that began with Metro Girl, finds Florida thrill seeker Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby pursuing a new relationship with handsome race car driver Sam Hooker, and returning to take on a whole new set of bad guys, Florida heat, colorful and dangerous characters, and high-stakes adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVAEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: It's the last race of the season and Sam Hooker's NASCAR raceday spotter is Alexandra Barnaby. From her vantage point high above the grandstand she sees things going on in the infield that will change her life. From Miami, Florida to Concord, North Carolina and back to Miami, this is an action-packed multi-car crash of shady dealings, stolen technology, drive-thru windows, and destruction of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2006
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Summary: A second installment of a new series that began with Metro Girl, finds Florida thrill seeker Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby pursuing a new relationship with handsome race car driver Sam Hooker, and returning to take on a whole new set of bad guys, Florida heat, colorful and dangerous characters, and high-stakes adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVAMichaels, Fern
Summary: "At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. When she reaches beautiful Palmetto Island, she thinks she may have found it. On a hunch, she contacts the island's only realtor, and learns that an old beach house is on the market. At first, home is everything she hoped it would be. But as days turn into weeks, she uncovers a dark side to this supposedly peaceful haven....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICMichener, James A. (James Albert)
Summary: Set in the Palms, a Florida retirement center, Recessional follows several residents over the course of a year as their individual narratives - humorous, moving, or sometimes triumphant - unfold. Chris Mallory reluctantly relinquishes his driver's license at the age of ninety, but refuses to hang up his dancing shoes. The Palm's five self-appointed elders, all once outstanding in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1994
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Summary: Alison Marshall has drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. When she reaches Palmetto Island, she thinks it could be the right place to settle down. She contacts the island's only realtor, and learns that an old beach house is on the market. It"s in her budget, and Alison takes it as another sign that she's in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HIAGrisham, John
Summary: Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GriGriffith, Evan
Summary: "Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction GriffithHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: Classic Malley, to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard ... he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink, he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HIAHiaasen, Carl.
Summary: In big stakes bass fishing tournaments, contestants will do anything to win. Maybe tht's why there is a corpse floating in Coon Bog. Now it's up to R.J. Decker, novice private investigator, to find out who was dying to get the biggest fish. Help comes in the unlikely form of Skink, a half-mad hermit with a taste for road kill.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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Summary: On the way to her wedding, Chief of Police Holly Barker is sidetracked by a high-tech bank robbery that results in murder, and she makes a startling discovery that plunges her into the very center of psychotic criminality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001