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2013., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: FIC HIA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Florida, Andrew Yancy must negotiate unpredictable events and characters on why a human arm is in his freezer.
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©2020., Adults, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC GRI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jack Swyteck novel. Volume: #16Summary Note: "The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod, the Machiavellian incumbent, was spared from impeachment only because his political foes were certain they would oust him at the ballot box. Now, he appears to have secured a second term, thanks to a narrow victory in the Electoral College. His opponent, Florida Senator Evan Stahl, saw his campaign rocked by allegations of an extramarital affair—with another man. Despite the salacious headline-making scandal and the surrounding media frenzy, most Americans chose Stahl to lead the politically polarized nation. But Stahl is refusing to concede. Backed by millions of supporters, he looks to individual members of the Electoral College to cross party lines. Gun lobbyist Charlotte Holmes is one of Floridas twenty-nine electors who is bound by law and by oath to cast her vote for MacLeod, who won Florida by the thinnest of margins. When Charlotte announces that she intends to vote her conscience and throw the Electoral College to Stahl, the president and his Florida machine haul her into court on felony charges—which, for some, isn’t nearly punishment enough. Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is going to use every legal maneuver he can to keep his new client free—and alive. MacLeod’s hand-picked prosecutor is determined to prove Charlotte is unfit to cast a vote. Dredging through her past, he’s looking for skeletons to humiliate and discredit her, while others with far deadlier intentions have begun acting on their threats. As the pressure mounts, Charlotte and Jack must decide how far they’ll go to stand their ground in the stand-your-ground state." --book jacket.
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c1998., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC QUI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fictional narrative in which Fran Benedetto, a woman who was abused by her husband, examines the reasons why she stayed in her marriage for so long, and ponders whether leaving was the right thing to do.
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2014., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC GRI Edition: 1st Ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Jack Swyteck novelSummary Note: "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 from the Cuban government. And the Cubans not only refuse assistance from the U.S., they also vow to fire on "hostile" American vessels that enter Cuban waters. Enter Jack Swyteck, who's honeymooning with his new wife Andie in the lower Keys. As an ominous black slick appears in the water, CIA agent Andie is called back to an undercover assignment. So Jack heads to Key West to see his buddy Theo Knight. There Jack is transformed from bystander to player in the unfolding oil catastrophe when he takes on a client whose husband was on the rig that blew up. She wants Jack to file a wrongful death in U.S. court. Taking on this unimaginably complicated case pitches Jack into a dangerous world, only to find that his case and Andie's assignment may be lethally connected"--
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2013., Harper Call No: FIC GRI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A nation is obsessed with Sydney Bennett, a hot nightclub waitress accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter for cramping her party life. It's the most watched trial since O.J. Simpson, and millions of "TV Jurors" have convicted Jack's client in the arena of public opinion. The shocking verdict--not guilty--creates an immediate uproar, from angry phone calls to outright threats. Media-fed rumors of "blood money" in the form of seven-figure book and movie deals put Sydney and everyone around her at risk. On the night of Sydney's release, the angry mob outside the jail demands its own justice. A young woman ends up dead in the frenzy, her only crime being that she bears a striking resemblance to Sydney Bennett. The media blame Jack and his defense team, but to Jack's surprise, the victim's parents reach out to him. With Jack's help, they believe they can prove that their daughter's death wasn't just a random mob tragedy. Something bigger and more organized is at work, and what happened outside the jail that night is a symptom of the evil that infected the show-stopping trial and media-spun phenomenon of Sydney Bennett"--
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[2024]., Adult, Random House Large Print Call No: LP GRI Edition: First large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the lastliving inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed...and the past is never the past..."--
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2024., Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC GRI Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed... and the past is never the past... --
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[2020]., Adults, Doubleday Call No: FIC GRI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Camino Island Volume: #2Summary Note: Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson's injuries suggests that the storm wasn't the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill equipped to handle the case. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson's novels might be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson's computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Could the key to the case be right there--in black and white? As Bruce starts to investigate, what he discovers between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson's plot twists--and far more dangerous. -- provided by publisher.
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2014., HarperCollins Publishers, ; Call No: FIC GRI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Miami's top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect when his wife's disappearance may have a chilling connection to the vicious murders of beautiful women in the Florida Everglades.
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c2006., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: YA DRA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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[2022]., Adults, MIRA Call No: FIC GRA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When FDLE special agent Amy Larson discovers a small horse figurine amid the bloody aftermath of a gang massacre in the Everglades, she recognizes it immediately. The toy is the calling card of the apocalypse cult that Amy and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, have been investigating, and it can only mean one thing: this wasn't an isolated skirmish--it was the beginning of a war. As tensions between rival gangs rise, so does the body count, and Amy and Hunter's investigation leads them to aviolent, far-right extremist group who are in no hurry to quell the civil unrest. With a deadly puppet master working to silence their every lead, it's a race against the clock to figure out who's been pulling the strings and put a stop to the escalatingcartel turf war before the Everglades run red"--Provided by publisher.
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[2021]., Adults, Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House Call No: FIC FIE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places"--
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By Kava, Alexc2010., Doubleday Call No: FIC KAV Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2004., Adult, Zondervan Call No: FIC MOR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Beck Easton adventureSummary Note: Former Marine and dive shop owner Beck Easton agrees to help graduate assistant Jennifer Cassidy whose summer research project has put her on the path of a valuable secret hidden by a Civil War widow at the bottom of a Florida spring, but he begins to wonder if the discovery is worth the risk when Jennifer's life is threatened.
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2015, Ages 4-8, Heritage Builders Publishing Call No: E BOR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dozi the Alligator Volume: #1Summary Note: In this first book of the series, readers are introduced to a lovable little alligator name Dozi. Living in a swamp in central Florida, Dozi observes wondrous colorful lights over a distant amusement park. Eventually, the curiousity of the little alligator gets the best of him and he heads off to discover the strange and fascinating new world of humans. While hiding inside one of Orlando's popular theme parks, Dozi makes the decision to stow away in the unsuspecting Hoxwinder family's minivan after the family has finished visiting the park. During the long over-night drive home from Florida, Dozi befriends young Byron Hoxwinder in the very back of the vehicle. The family arrives home without anybody but 9 year old Byron realizing they have brought a young alligator home with them. .
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c2002., Ages 3-6, AudioCraft Call No: YS RAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American chillers Volume: #3Summary Note: Justin and his friend Caitlin rush to figure out what is going on when a mild hurricane passes through the Tampa Bay area of Florida and leaves behind a murky fog that hides bizarre and dangerous creatures.
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2007, c2005., 5.0; 5-8, Knopf Call No: Y HIA Edition: 1st Knopf trade pbk Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
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c2013., Adult, William Morrow Call No: FIC CLA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Struggling actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donavan was enjoying her time in Sarasota, Florida, decorating her beloved cousin's cake and acting as the maid of honor when one of the bridesmaids disappears, a neighbor's car is run off the road, a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened, and a dead body appears right where the wedding is to take place on the beach and it is up to Piper to find out who is doing this before the killer sets his sights on her.
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2012., Adult, Grand Central Call No: FIC BAL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Army Special Agent John Puller investigates the death of his aunt in Paradise, Florida, believing it was not an accident and she knew about a conspiracy being hidden behind the beauty of the Golf Coast community.