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Sawgrass Sky

Author : Andrew Hemmert
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 168003247X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Sawgrass Sky written by Andrew Hemmert and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sawgrass Sky is a coming-of-age story, a Floridian memoir-in-verse. Through the speaker’s recounting of his adolescence, the collection addresses themes of religious disillusionment, sexual awakening, body image, environmental degradation, suburbia versus the wild, familial history, and the idea of home contextualized by distance. These poems vary in form and style, including long narratives, meditative sequences, prose poems, and short lyrics. The unifying factor is the speaker’s focus on the place he comes from, and his struggle to define that heritage in terms psychological, natural, and familial. The poems that comprise this collection have been published widely in reputable literary journals. These magazines include The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Literary Review, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, and Southern Humanities Review. From “Rats” when I lie awake before sleep they are the thoughts dying and dying but going nowhere they are the hands of the sewers running their claws across the tin roofs of houses all that water underneath rising

Sawgrass

Author : Alex J. McDonald
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468517066
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Sawgrass written by Alex J. McDonald and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-10-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A missing cop is found dead in his car in an orange grove. Suicide or murder? The evidence points to murder but the bureaucrats want it to be suicide. Det. Sgt. Daniel Quinn is in charge of the investigation and sets out to prove murder. A second murder occurs and Quinn finds the two are connected. Quinn becomes embroiled in a drug smuggling investigation and is forced to battle politics, a smuggling group and even the D.E.A. All of this leads to a surprise ending.

Among the Beautiful Beasts

Author : Lori McMullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647421071
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Among the Beautiful Beasts written by Lori McMullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early 1900s, Among the Beautiful Beasts is the untold story of the early life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known in her later years as a tireless activist for the Florida Everglades. After a childhood spent in New England estranged from her father and bewildered by her mother, who fades into madness, Marjory marries a swindler thirty years her senior. The marriage nearly destroys her, but Marjory finds the courage to move to Miami, where she is reunited with her father and begins a new life as a journalist in that bustling, booming frontier town. Buoyed by a growing sense of independence and an affair with a rival journalist, Marjory embraces a life lived at the intersection of the untamed Everglades and the rapacious urban development that threatens it. When the demands of a man once again begin to swallow Marjory’s own desires and dreams, she sees herself in the vulnerable, inimitable Everglades and is forced to decide whether to commit to a life of subjugation or leap into the wild unknown. Told in chapters that alternate between an urgent midnight chase through the wetlands and extensive narrative flashbacks, Among the Beautiful Beasts is at once suspenseful and deeply reflective.

The New Inheritors

Author : Kent Wascom
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802165699
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The New Inheritors written by Kent Wascom and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of The Blood of Heaven and Secessia “delivers a lyrical, emotionally charged study of life along the Gulf Coast a century past” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1914, with the world on the brink of war, Isaac, a nature-loving artist whose past is mysterious to all, including himself, meets Kemper, a defiant heiress caught in the rivalry between her brothers. Kemper’s older brother Angel is hiding a terrible secret about his sexuality, and her younger brother Red possesses a capacity for violence that frightens even the members of his own brutal family. Together Isaac and Kemper build a refuge on their beloved, wild, Gulf Coast. But their paradise is short-lived; as the coast is rocked by the storms of summer, the country is gripped by the furor preceding World War I, and the Woolsack family’s rivalries come to a bloody head. From the breathtaking beauty of the Gulf to the bloody havoc wreaked by the United States in Latin America, The New Inheritors explores the beauty and burden of what is handed down to us all. At once a love story and a family drama, a novel of nature and a novel of war, The New Inheritors traces a family whose life is intimately tied to the Gulf, that most disputed, threatened, and haunted part of this country we call America. “One of the darkest, most compelling writerly imaginations around.”—New Orleans Advocate “The third mesmerizing historical novel by Kent Wascom . . . His style and subjects echo great Southern writers like William Faulkner and Harry Crews, continuing a tradition of recounting terrible things in deliriously beautiful language.”—Tampa Bay Times

Playing to Win

Author : Mimi Wells
Publisher : Tule Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1944925171
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Playing to Win written by Mimi Wells and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domnhall Cameron, the Devil of the Pitch, has come a long way from the gritty streets of Glasgow. Now an international football star, he has a new team to launch, but only one thing stands in his way: Calla Stewart. They shared one explosive night years ago that ended with him in handcuffs and her out the door... Now that Domnhall is the bad boy darling of European football, he and his millions are stirring up trouble from Scotland to South Beach. But Calla's divorced, down to her last few hundred bucks, and desperate to unload her house before it drags her down for good. So when Dom makes her an offer that is her ticket to a new life, she can’t refuse. Even if it means ten days at his command...

Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida

Author : Douglas Waitley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561646571
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida written by Douglas Waitley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Douglas Waitley invites you to step out of the air-conditioned shopping malls and crowded amusement parks and into Natural Florida. Reveals how to enjoy nature without discomfort. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Killer 'Cane

Author : Robert Mykle
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461733707
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Killer 'Cane written by Robert Mykle and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer 'Cane takes place in the Florida Everglades, which was still a newly settled frontier in the 1920s. On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach. The powerful winds from the storm burst a dike and sent a twenty-foot wall of water through three towns, killing over two thousand people, a third of the area's population. Robert Mykle shows how the residents of the Everglades had believed prematurely that they had tamed nature, how racial attitudes at the time compounded the disaster, and how in the aftermath the cleanup of rapidly decaying corpses was such a horrifying task that some workers went mad. Killer 'Cane is a vivid description of America's second-greatest natural disaster, coming between the financial disasters of the Florida real-estate bust and the onset of the Great Depression.

Breaking Through the Clouds

Author : Richard F. Fleck
Publisher : Pruett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871089342
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Through the Clouds written by Richard F. Fleck and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain national park over forty years ago and by his recent pilgrimage to Hareny Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Richard Fleck has created these descriptive essays. The mountains are a constant source of spiritual renewal, enabling him to become more aware and whole.

The Florida Reader

Author : Jack Lane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561647748
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Florida Reader written by Jack Lane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early Spanish myths and Seminole and African-American folktales to the latest descriptions of modern Miami, this anthology includes writings by such authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, John James Audubon, Zora Neale Hurston, Zane Grey, Wallace Stevens, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Jose Yglesias, and Harry Crews.

Travel Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Travel Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradise Found

Author : Steve Nicholls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226583422
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Found written by Steve Nicholls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter’s dream, with populations of game too abundant and diverse to even fathom. It’s no wonder these first settlers thought they had discovered a paradise of sorts. Fortunately for us, they left a legacy of copious records documenting what they saw, and these observations make it possible to craft a far more detailed evocation of North America before its settlement than any other place on the planet. Here Steve Nicholls brings this spectacular environment back to vivid life, demonstrating with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. The story of the continent’s colonization forms a backdrop to its natural history, which Nicholls explores in chapters on the North Atlantic, the East Coast, the Subtropical Caribbean, the West Coast, Baja California, and the Great Plains. Seamlessly blending firsthand accounts from centuries past with the findings of scientists today, Nicholls also introduces us to a myriad cast of characters who have chronicled the changing landscape, from pre–Revolutionary era settlers to researchers whom he has met in the field. A director and writer of Emmy Award–winning wildlife documentaries for the Smithsonian Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, and PBS, Nicholls deploys a cinematic flair for capturing nature at its most mesmerizing throughout. But Paradise Found is much more than a celebration of what once was: it is also a reminder of how much we have lost along the way and an urgent call to action so future generations are more responsible stewards of the world around them. The result is popular science of the highest order: a book as remarkable as the landscape it recreates and as inspired as the men and women who discovered it.

Crusader's Cross

Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743277201
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Crusader's Cross written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After hearing an old schoolmate's deathbed confession, Dave Robicheaux searches for a prostitute with ties to the mob that he had met decades earlier, an endeavor that proves dangerous in the wake of a series of murders.

SEEKER and the CROW

Author : Marshall S Thomas
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book SEEKER and the CROW written by Marshall S Thomas and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have burnt the Book of Laws to serve the Deadman's Cause as a soldier of the Legion. A giant rogue star burns a fiery path to the Crista Cluster, relentless and final. Is it a terrifying natural event or a genocidal attack on humanity? The ConFree Legion drops Strat Recon into Galactica vac to discover the truth. Commander Seeker leads his squad into action knowing that 85 percent of Strat Recon troopers are killed in action. Is he insane? Yes, but so is the rest of the ConFree Legion. Galactica is a rapidly expanding secret empire of militant psychotic alien arthropod exosegs, determined to exterminate all humans who oppose their holy mission. They have seized Arran, a human world. Seeker contacts the Angelic Liberation Front, a doomed human resistance group led by the Crow, a fanatic hungry for alien blood. Victory or death! Life and death on Arran: the exoseg aliens attack in massive waves, firing bioblasts, gunning down men, women and children. Strat Recon responds with opstars and advances into a full-scale galactic war. A captured exoseg officer wants only to die for his race. So does Seeker. His comrades are dying and finally he has nothing left but vengeance. The Legion offers immortality and death, and Seeker will die defending the women and children of ConFree. Don't miss Strat Recon's suicidal foray into enemy vac, A Legion soldier died for you today, Support the war effort.

Willie Sawgrass

Author : Aida Gale
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683342666
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Willie Sawgrass written by Aida Gale and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the author’s own experiences and stories passed down, Willie Sawgrass takes place in the wilderness of Southwest Florida in the early 1900s, when the cattle and fishing industries were strong but rum running was more lucrative. Willie isn’t sure how old he is when his ignorant and abusive Pa sends him away to live with a young Miccosukee woman and her son, Nakee. Willie and Nakee form a tight bond and share many adventures, like fighting an alligator and confronting a family of skunks. They eventually get stranded at sea in a dugout canoe, only to be rescued by the well-educated Captain O’Keef. He takes the boys aboard the Bonnie Sue as extra deckhands on the big fishing schooner and teaches them the importance of reading and writing. Just as the boys are feeling comfortable in their home on the Bonnie Sue, everything changes when they rescue two men and some cattle from a sinking ship, bringing a mystery into their young lives. Willie and Nakee find themselves amid shady characters but manage to solve a mystery and get their revenge in the end.

Bad Barracudas: A Jeb Colton Adventure

Author : Fred B. Mullins
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483432467
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Bad Barracudas: A Jeb Colton Adventure written by Fred B. Mullins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeb Colton is the offspring of a godly father of strong character and faith. Even though he is a successful businessman, Jeb still struggles with his identity. But when his father dies suddenly before revealing his family heritage to his son, Jeb's world is turned upside down. After Jeb receives a letter his father left him, he learns of his father's involvement with the CIA and the meaning of the ring he wore around his neck. When the revelations cause Jeb to embark on a faith-filled journey of self-discovery, he is led to uncover shocking information about his parents and an ancient secret brotherhood. Now with his purpose defined, Jeb arms himself with weapons and new trusted companions as he battles to stay alive and continue his father's brave mission. But as he is about to discover, nothing ever goes as planned in life.

Gator Country

Author : Rebecca Renner
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250842581
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Gator Country written by Rebecca Renner and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice "Delivers everything its title promises and much more." - NPR "Remarkable... Every species, and every person who fights for its continued existence, deserves a book like this." — The New York Times "This nail-biter account has the intensity of the best true crime... A high-def tale that ensnares you from the start." —People David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that’s what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Everglades in order to protect the natural world. A head-spinning adventure soon unfolds. Jeff deals with glow-in-the-dark alligators and high-speed airboat rides, but quickly learns that not all poachers are villains. They’re simply people trying to survive, fighting against the poverty and greed holding them down. Jeff wants to solve the mystery of alligator poachers, and in doing so he must venture deeper into a strange ecosystem where right is wrong, and justice comes at the cost of those who’ve welcomed him into their world. Gator Country is the twisting true story of the impossible choices individuals must make to stay afloat in this world. Through its wholly unique blend of reporting, nature writing, and personal narrative, this book transports readers to vibrant and dangerous Florida landscapes and offers intimate portraits of those who call the region home. Broad in scope and vivid in detail, Gator Country is a fast paced tale of the risks people will take to survive in one of the world's most beautiful yet formidable landscapes and the undercover investigation that threatens to topple the whole scheme.

A Private Cathedral

Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982151706
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book A Private Cathedral written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding himself caught up in one of Louisiana’s oldest and bloodiest family rivalries, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered: a time-traveling superhuman assassin. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld and show each other no mercy. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny Shondell and Isolde Balangie, rock and roll-musician teenagers with magical voices, have fallen in love and run away after Isolde was given as a sex slave to Johnny’s uncle. As he seeks to uncover why, Detective Dave Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde’s mother and the mistress of her father, a venomous New Orleans mafioso whose jealousy has no bounds. In retribution, he hires a mysterious assassin to go after Robicheaux and his longtime partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the “Bobbsey Twins from Homicide” have ever faced. He has the ability to induce horrifying hallucinations and travels on a menacing ghost ship that materializes without warning. In order to defeat him and rescue Johnny and Isolde, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him throughout his adult life—alcoholism, specters from combat in Vietnam, and painful memories of women to whom he opened his heart only to see killed. A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke’s fortieth book, is his most powerful tale, one that will captivate readers—mixing crime, romance, mythology, horror, and science fiction to produce a thrilling story about the all-consuming, all-conquering power of love.