Michener, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICMichaels, 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 MICDorsey, Tim
Summary: Devoted Floridaphile Serge Storms is a lover of history, so he's decided to investigate his own using one of those DNA services from late-night TV. Excited to construct a family tree, he and Coleman hit the road to meet his kin. Serge is thrilled to discover he may be related to a notorious serial killer who's terrorized the state for twenty years and never been caught. Which one of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print , an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: Gladdy Gold's detective agency in Florida receives a personal challenge from the notorious "Grandpa Bandit"and a hurricane uncovers a fifty-year-old skeleton yielding few clues except that the victim was murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: "With Florida orange trees dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation, fishing guide and part-time investigator Hannah Smith searches the swamps and murky backcountry of Florida for samples of the original root stock planted five hundred years ago by Spanish conquistadors in hopes of saving the industry, but others have more sinister motives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: After being laid off from her teaching position, Mercer Mann is approached by a mysterious woman with a generous offer to go undercover and infiltrate bookstore owner Bruce Cable's life to learn his secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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Summary: "One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: "Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control. Contending with rising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGraham, Heather.
Summary: When Sarah McKinley is finally able to buy and restore the historic Florida mansion that she has always loved, she dismisses the horror stories of past residents vanishing and a long-dead housekeeper who practiced black magic. Then, in the midst of renovations, she makes a grim discovery. Hidden within the walls of Sarah's dream house are the remains of dozens of bodies--some dating back over a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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Summary: A ruthless man driven by unspeakable appetites to pursue a fortune in cartel gold hidden beneath a Miami mansion finds his efforts challenged by Cari Mora, the mansion's caretaker and a war survivor with unusual talents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2019
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Summary: "Doc Ford's old friend, General Juan Garcia obtains and sells a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 1960-62 to a secret girlfriend. When both Garcia and the who bought the letters disappear, Doc Ford investigates, convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone, or some powerful agency, cannot allow to be made public"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: "Sara Medlar's home is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. But when Kate stumbles upon a dead body, the Medlar Three are back in the sleuthing game. Kate also has a charming new real estate client with a mysterious past. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she'd made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BALGrisham, John
Summary: In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print Publishing 2019
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Summary: As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRICornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: Now that her job as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end, Kay Scarpetta moves to sunny Florida where she takes on a job as a private forensic consultant. Before too long, she's deep into a case that has left colleagues in neighboring Louisiana baffled. A wowan- keys in her hand and dressed to kill - is found dead in a seedy hotel. Foul Play?
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION CornwellGanshert, Katie
Summary: "A contemporary novel of two sisters trying to find new life--one in her marriage and faith, the other desperate for a chance at a future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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Summary: One spring break location obviously isn't enough for Serge, so he must hit them all. Along the way he and his sidekick, Coleman, attract a growing following of the nation's top college students ... and a mysterious gang that leaves a trail of young bodies in its wake. After years of quiet, a legendary Miami kingpin from the anything-goes eighties is suddenly back in the news ... along with one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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Summary: Serge Storms takes work as a freelance fixer in the style of his favorite legal movies before coming to the aid of a former flame who is being targeted by greedy bankers.; When it comes to swimming with the sharks, there is no bigger kahuna than Serge Storms. Binging on a marathon of legal movies set in Florida, Serge finds his calling: the law. Never mind law school or that degree, Serge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2015
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Summary: Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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Summary: As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019