Behar, Ruth
Summary: Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEHCleeton, Chanel
Summary: "With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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Summary: Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone's world is shattered forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DANGrippando, James
Summary: Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRIMoreno, Nina
Summary: "Spring semester is here and Maggie is killing it! Her grades are up, she's loving outdoor track and field, and being a seventh grader means the awesome spring break trip to St. Augustine is almost here. She can't wait for her first overnight trip away from her overprotective parents, lovesick sister, and busybody abuela. Nothing will get in the way of Maggie having the best time ever with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MORParker, Barbara (Barbara J.)
Summary: Defense attorney C.J. Dunn finds herself caught up in the media glare when a young girl's disappearance from a star-studded South Beach party is linked to some of Miami's most influential politicians and investors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PARGarcia, Gabriela
Summary: "In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rainbow Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYLParrish, P. J.
Summary: Matt Owens is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, but he's adrift, more inclined to hit the bottle alone than the Miami Beach club scene. When his younger sister Mandy comes to visit, Matt wants to show her a new world. It's the trip of her dreams, but the nightmare begins when Mandy disappears from a crowded dance floor. When her lifeless body is found, the only clue is a grisly rock song...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBuchanan, Edna.
Summary: Miami crime reporter Britt Montero investigates bizarre deaths, the unsolved sex murder of a little girl that could implicate the prime candidate in the race for governor, and a serial rapist who may have her on his list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuchanan, Edna.
Summary: A fatal bomb blast propels police reporter Britt Montero into the story of her life, as Britt probes the baffling case, an old mystery reopens personal wounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuchanan, Edna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCGrippando, James
Summary: Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife's accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIParker, Barbara (Barbara J.)
Summary: A young attorney in Miami finds herself accused of murder when her sister is found dead with her wrists slashed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARLeonard, Elmore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1993
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Summary: Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the cutthroat business world, as it does in more lucrative but dangerous ventures he now operates off the coast of Miami. Charlie tries to separate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUEGrippando, James
Summary: "It's devu, with a big twist. Three summers after the biggest man-made environmental disaster in history, millions of gallons of oil are again spewing from a hole in the ocean floor. But this rig explosion was in Cuban waters, just 50 miles away from Florida, and the situation is complex. The consortium doing the work is state-owned Venezuelan, Chinese and Russian, controlled by a mineral lease...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Grippando 2014Buchanan, Edna.
Summary: The Shadows is a historic 1920s house that inspires preservationists' dreams--and developers' schemes. Built during Prohibition by a notorious rumrummer who vanished at sea, it was inherited by his son, a local athlete and war hero who lived down his father's wild reputation. He served a successful term as Miami mayor and raised his four young children at the Shadows--until a shotgun ambush on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCGruber, Michael
Summary: Rookie cop Tito Morales arrives at the Trianon Hotel in time to see a wealthy oilman plunge ten stories and impale himself on a nearby fence. Soon Morales is joined by detective Jimmy Paz. Together Paz and Morales enter the hotel and discover, in the dead man's room, a most unusual suspect, an otherworldly woman by the name of Emmylou Dideroff. She emerges from a rapturous, prayerlike state and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUGraham, Heather.
Summary: Dane Whitelaw, an ex-special forces agent turned private investigator, has found a photo under his door of Sheila Warren's body. She has been strangled with his tie and posed on the beach of his private island in the Florida Keys. The crime appears to be the handiwork of a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area, and Dane is being set up for the murder. Kelsey Cunningham is Sheila's best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAParker, Barbara (Barbara J.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARBrock, Amber
Summary: Kitty Tessler is the winsome and clever only child of self-made hotel and nightclub tycoon Nicolas Tessler. Kitty may not have the same pedigree as the tennis club set she admires, but she still sees herself as every inch the socialite--spending her days perfecting her "look" and her nights charming all the blue-blooded boys who frequent her father's clubs. It seems like the fun will never end...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2018