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1) The yearling
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"The Pulitzer prize novel on which M-G-M based its motion picture"A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
2) Recessional
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Set in the Palms, a Florida retirement center, the story follows several residents over the course of a year as their individual narratives--humorous, moving, or sometimes triumphant--unfold.
3) Everglades
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Doc Ford helps out an old friend whose real-estate developer husband has disappeared and the trail leads him to a suspicious religious cult led by Bhagwan Singh, a man who will stop at nothing to increase his power and money. White is a master at creating the creepiest villains in all fiction.
4) Dark light
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English
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Doc Ford becomes ensnared in a complex mystery involving Nazi relics, valuable beachfront property, and a mysterious older woman when he agrees to salvage a pleasure boat sunk in 1944 that has resurfaced during a hurricane off the Florida coast.
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Doc Ford, a marine biologist with links to the intelligence community, places his own life in jeopardy when he agrees to help Kal Wilson, an ex-president dying of a fatal illness, escape his security detail long enough to hunt down the people he believes responsible for the death of his wife in a plane crash that has officially been ruled an accident.
6) Shark river
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Randy Wayne White is a journalist, veteran fishing guide, and author of several nonfiction collections. He also creates superb, best-selling suspense fiction. His novels have received the highest praise from Library Journal and Booklist, and from authors like Carl Hiassen, who says, "Randy Wayne White takes us places that no other Florida mystery writer could hope to find." Marine biologist Doc Ford is spending two easy weeks on luxurious Guava Key...
7) Tampa burn
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English
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It's taken ten years for former assassin Doc Form to reinvent himself on Florida's Gulf coast. Now the abduction of his only son--the legace of a long-ago love affair--has pulled him back into the shadow of his violent past, and more is at stake than ransom. The kidnapper is a legend known as Incendiario. Torture by fire is his speciality--and his pleasure. In the pay of a vengeful politco with twisted ties to Doc, Incendiario is arranging a private...
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Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"The chapters in this book were originally serialized in The Miami herald tropic"--T.p. verso. Booger / Dave Barry -- The big wet sleep / Les Standiford -- Biscayne blues / Paul Levine -- The L.A. connection / Edna Buchanan -- The old woman and the sea / James W. Hall -- Heading to Havana / Carolina Hospital -- The lock & key / Evelyn Mayerson -- Strange fish / Tananarive Due -- South Beach serenade / Brian Antoni -- Dance of the manatee / Vicki Hendricks...
9) Bone Key
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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On a trip to Key West to talk with a wealthy developer about a new building project, Deal stops to help a young black man who is being rousted by police on a lonely beach road. The young man is appreciative-which makes it all the more shocking two days later, when he turns up dead. What happened? The police won't say. The locals won't talk. An old girlfriend appears, but Deal can't tell if she's there to help or hinder him. References keep being made...
10) Killer dust
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Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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