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Book Synopsis Key West on the Edge by : Kerstein Robert
Download or read book Key West on the Edge written by Kerstein Robert and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key West lies at the southernmost point of the continental United States, ninety miles from Cuba, at Mile Marker 0 on famed U.S. Highway 1. Famous for six-toed cats in the Hemingway House, Sloppy Joe’s and Captain Tony's, Jimmy Buffett songs, body paint parade "costumes," and a brief secession from the Union after which the Conch Republic asked for $1 billion in foreign aid, Key West also lies at the metaphorical edge of our sensibilities. How this unlikely city came to be a tourist mecca is the subject of Robert Kerstein's intrepid new history. Sited on an island only four miles long and two miles wide, Key West has been fishing village, salvage yard, U.S. Navy base, cigar factory, hippie haven, gay enclave, cruise ship port-of-call, and more. Duval Street, which stretches the length of one of the most unusual cities in America, is today lined with brand-name shops that can be found in any major shopping mall in America. Leaving no stone unturned, Kerstein reveals how Key West has changed dramatically over the years while holding on to the uniqueness that continues to attract tourists and new residents to the island.
Book Synopsis The Last Train to Key West by : Chanel Cleeton
Download or read book The Last Train to Key West written by Chanel Cleeton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times bestseller One of Bustle’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 “The perfect riveting summer read!”—BookBub In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez’s family in a precarious position, she agrees to an arranged marriage with a notorious American. Following her wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can’t deny the growing attraction to her new husband, his illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life. Elizabeth Preston's trip to Key West is a chance to save her once-wealthy family from their troubles after the Wall Street crash. Her quest takes her to the camps occupied by veterans of the Great War and pairs her with an unlikely ally on a treacherous hunt of his own. Over the course of the holiday weekend, the women’s paths cross unexpectedly, and the danger swirling around them is matched only by the terrifying force of the deadly storm threatening the Keys.
Book Synopsis Key West on the Edge by : Robert Kerstein
Download or read book Key West on the Edge written by Robert Kerstein and published by Florida History and Culture. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the unique island city came to be a major tourist destination Key West lies at the southernmost point of the continental United States,ninety miles from Cuba, at Mile Marker 0 on famed U.S. Highway 1. Famous forsix-toed cats in the Hemingway House, Sloppy Joe's and Captain Tony's, JimmyBuffett songs, body paint parade "costumes," and a brief secessionfrom the Union after which the Conch Republic asked for $1 billion in foreignaid, Key West also lies at the metaphorical edge of our sensibilities. Howthis unlikely city came to be a tourist mecca is the subject of RobertKerstein's intrepid new history. Sited on an island only four miles long andtwo miles wide, Key West has been fishing village, salvage yard, U.S. Navybase, cigar factory, hippie haven, gay enclave, cruise ship port-of-call, andmore. Duval Street, which stretches the length of one of the most unusualcities in America, is today lined with brand-name shops that can be found inany major shopping mall in America. Leavingno stone unturned, Kerstein reveals how Key West has changed dramatically overthe years while holding on to the uniqueness that continues to attract touristsand new residents to the island.
Download or read book Key West Color written by Alan S. Maltz and published by Light Flight Pub.. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sights and sounds of Key West, America's southernmost city, are captured in this collection of award-winning photographs. From solitary fly fishermen on the crystal-clear waters of the flats to the annual Fantasy Fest Parade, this experience of Key West is, first and foremost, a visually sensual one.
Download or read book Key West written by Stella Cameron and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, eight months ago, Sonnie Giacano lost everything-her husband, her unborn child, and a significant portion of her memory. She knows what happened to her was no accident, but rather something so sinister she's blocked it from her mind.
Book Synopsis Key West Lost and Found by : Robert Haines
Download or read book Key West Lost and Found written by Robert Haines and published by AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here's a mystery that pushes all the right buttons -- dead bodies, drug deals, dames in distress, a take-no-guff police lieutenant out to save the day -- all taking place on that nowhere-left-to-go destination, Key West..." —Byron Rupert McCafferty, Online Critics Corner Key West, April 1966. What does missing mob money from the fall of Havana have to do with the death of old family friend and fishing guide, Sam Torres? Is restaurateur and reputed mobster, Sal Donatello, really the friend he claims to be or is he chasing his own agenda? And what has driven local newspaper editor, Andy Hardy, over the edge to threaten reporter Amy Petersen? Can Key West Police Lieutenant Tom Jackson keep her safe without jeopardizing their budding romance? Before the drug filled craziness of the 70's and 80's things were already getting warm at the end of the road, and it wasn't just the temperature.
Download or read book Highway A1A written by Herbert L Hiller and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highway A1A: Florida at the Edge is more than an insightful guide to the cities and towns along Florida's Atlantic coast. It is also the dramatic story of how tourism begat development, how development begat sprawl, and how this coastal corridor, almost out of the blue, created Florida's original year-round residential downtowns with the power to transform how Floridians live and how the world vacations in the Sunshine State. Highway A1A is anecdotal, authoritative, humorous, and wide-ranging. Passionately Floridian travel writer and tourism analyst Herbert Hiller offers a fuller and more balanced story about Florida's Atlantic coast than any other guidebook. Exploring towns from Callahan to Key West, Hiller covers Florida's 13 Atlantic counties, providing maps, historical and present-day photographs, and recommendations for places to visit, lodge, eat, and shop that are truly local in character. Whether you're a tourist or a roving Floridian looking for some diversion not far from home, Highway A1A will put you in touch with what makes the Atlantic coast special--its dynamic sites and sights.
Book Synopsis The Jews of Key West by : Arlo Haskell
Download or read book The Jews of Key West written by Arlo Haskell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. History. 2017 Florida Book Award, Phillip and Dana Zimmerman Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction. The dramatic story of South Florida's oldest Jewish community and a major addition to the history of this unique island city. Long before Miami was on the map, Key West had Florida's largest economy and an influential Jewish community. Jews who settled here as peddlers in the nineteenth century joined a bilingual and progressive city that became the launching pad for the revolution that toppled the Spanish Empire in Cuba. As dozens of local Jews collaborated with José Martí's rebels, they built relationships that supported thriving Jewish communities in Key West and Havana at the turn of the twentieth century. During the 1920s, when anti-immigration hysteria swept the United States, Key West's Jews resisted the immigration quotas and established "the southernmost terminal of the Jewish underground," smuggling Jewish aliens in small boats across the Florida Straits to safety in Key West. But these and other Jewish exploits were kept secret as Ku Klux Klan leaders infiltrated local law enforcement and government. Many Jews left Key West during the 1930s and their stories were ignored or forgotten by the mythmakers that reinvented Key West as a tourist mecca. Arlo Haskell's THE JEWS OF KEY WEST is an entertaining and authoritative account of Key West's Jewish community from 1823-1969. Illustrated with over 100 images, it brings to life a history that had long been forgotten.
Book Synopsis Hidden History of the Florida Keys by : Laura Albritton
Download or read book Hidden History of the Florida Keys written by Laura Albritton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Seldom-told tales of the ‘lively and unusual cast of historic figures’ who helped shape the Florida Keys from the 1820s through the 1960s.”—Keys News The Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic. In the nineteenth century, uncompromising individuals fought duels and plotted political upsets. During the Civil War, a company of “Key West Avengers” escaped their Union-occupied city to join the Confederacy by sailing through the Bahamas. In the early twentieth century, black Bahamians founded a town of their own, while railway engineers went up against the U.S. Navy in a bid to complete the Overseas Railroad. When Prohibition came to the Keys, one defiant woman established a rum-running empire that dominated South Florida. Join Laura Albritton and Jerry Wilkinson as they delve into tales of treasure hunters, developers, exotic dancers, determined preservationists and more, from the colorful history of these islands. Includes photos
Download or read book Light List written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis List of lights and fog-signals on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States by :
Download or read book List of lights and fog-signals on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis List of beacons, buoys, and day-marks, in the Seventh Light-House District, embracing the coast of Florida, from Jupiter Inlet to Perdido River ; together with all the adjacent islands, keys, and reefs by :
Download or read book List of beacons, buoys, and day-marks, in the Seventh Light-House District, embracing the coast of Florida, from Jupiter Inlet to Perdido River ; together with all the adjacent islands, keys, and reefs written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fatal Reservations by : Lucy Burdette
Download or read book Fatal Reservations written by Lucy Burdette and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latest Key West Food Critic mystery, Hayley Snow’s beat is reviewing restaurants for Key Zest magazine. But she sets aside her knife and fork when a dear friend is accused of murder… Hayley Snow looks forward to reviewing For Goodness Sake, a new floating restaurant that promises a fresh take on Japanese delicacies like flambéed grouper with locally sourced seaweed. But nearby land-based restaurateurs would rather see their buoyant competition sink. Sent to a City Commission meeting to cover the controversy, Hayley witnesses another uproar. The quirky performers of the daily Sunset Celebration are struggling to hold onto their performance space. The fight for Mallory Square has renewed old rivalries between Hayley’s Tarot-card reading friend Lorenzo and a flaming-fork-juggling nemesis, Bart Frontgate—but things take a deadly turn when Bart is found murdered. If Lorenzo could read his own cards, he might draw The Hanged Man. He can only hope that Hayley draws Justice as she tries to clear him of murder… INCLUDES RECIPES
Book Synopsis Postcards from Paradise by : June Keith
Download or read book Postcards from Paradise written by June Keith and published by Palm Island Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing life in tiny, artsy, anything-goes Key West—where Broadway composers and bestselling authors live on the same funky blocks as housekeepers, bartenders, and tour guides—this updated collection of essays and columns about island life features pieces that first appeared in the Miami Herald. Profiles of colorful characters such as an Italian heiress who waits tables, a dishwasher with a PhD, and a taxi-driving opera singer provide a kaleidoscopic portrait of residents living, working, and playing in a caste-free, rowdy paradise.
Book Synopsis The Water's Edge by : John Hubchenko
Download or read book The Water's Edge written by John Hubchenko and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse persons meet and find common ground in a town which is deadly slow. None of the group or their compatriots on the island want what is usually described as progress, which is in our society a lack of choices, mobility, and freedom. Key West is the place where they can find the lack of structure they seek. Some of the characters have murky pasts and all of the characters have a future as yet to be defined. The four characters central to the story face adversity, pitfalls, and loss. As in all idyllic scenarios, outside forces overtakes them to ruin their aspirations. I would like to preface the reading of the thing by saying my intention herein was not to grab the reader with a continuous stream of murder, mayhem, smut or profanity but to invoke his or her imagination and mind's ear and eye. This is a book in three parts, and each part is intended to have a different mood. Part One depicts the life and times of a subset of the population of this island four decades ago. The main characters meet, form relationships, and are getting on with their lives. As Part Two begins things seem amiss. One of the characters is secretive, and odd and threatening occurrences begin. At the end of Part Two tragedy strikes and this sets the stage for Part Three, which entails retribution, and cat-and-mouse pursuits* and a sea chase ensue. Another important thing for readers to realize, although I believe most readers will get this, is that the main character, Freddy, is an offensive person at the start of the book. He criticizes and mimics everyone and every group. Despite this he has a widely diverse group of friends who have come to know him and see through his haze of bad jokes and alcohol. They try to reform his bad habits. Please to not to get torqued out of shape prematurely. *No animals were injured in this book other than by natural causes except for fish that got eaten. John, 5-1-2015
Book Synopsis The Streets of Key West by : J. Wills Burke
Download or read book The Streets of Key West written by J. Wills Burke and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Key West through its street names.
Download or read book Family Jewels written by Stuart Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stone Barrington takes on a wealthy heiress as his client, he finds himself handling a whole lot of trouble in this “this glossy, modern take on the classic detective story” (Publishers Weekly). Stone Barrington’s newest client is a poised lady of considerable wealth who’s looking for help discouraging the attentions of a tenacious gentleman. But no sooner does Stone fend off the offensive party than his client becomes involved in two lethal crimes. With suspects aplenty, Stone probes deep into his client’s life to find the truth, and he discovers that the heart of the mystery may be a stunningly beautiful vestige of a bygone era. It’s a piece with a long and storied past and untold value...the kind of relic someone might kill for. Among the upper crust nearly everyone has buried a skeleton or two, and it will take all of Stone’s investigative powers to determine whose secrets are harmless, and whose are deadly.
