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Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
2) Motor mouth
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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At the start of this cool comedy thriller from bestseller Evanovich, her second novel to star Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby (after 2004's Metro Girl), Barney and her unfaithful NASCAR racing honey, Sam Hooker, find themselves in trouble after discovering the shrink-wrapped body of ruthless businessman Oscar Huevo in a rival racer's car hauler. The pair must pull together to protect a high-tech gizmo that can revolutionize racing-and save their lives....
3) Bad monkey
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Series
Andrew Yancy novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events,...
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 2
Language
English
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It seemed like a brilliant idea. Three mismatched bad guys--a Palm Beach potted, a Bahamian ex-con, and a Puerto Rican gardener turned mob enforcer--get together to carry out the perfect crime: kidnap retired Miami bookie Harry Arno and let him pay the ransom with his ill-gotten wealth. He can't go to the cops later. No one will miss him. It's perfect. Or so they figure. They figure wrong. Harry's former girlfriend, ex-topless dancer Joyce Patton,...
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Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 3
Language
English
Description
A hilarious new novel of greed and corruption from the bestselling author of "Strip Tease". The story focuses on southern Florida at the height of the tourist season, when a ferocious hurricane hits--luring con artists, carpetbaggers, and would-be saviors like hyenas to the lion's kill. "Hiaasen himself is a one-man force of nature". distributed by Syndetics Solutions, LLC.
6) Sick puppy
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An eco-terrorist in Florida strikes at a polluter by kidnaping his wife. In the process, Twilly Spree discovers a conspiracy by state politicians to turn a wildlife sanctuary into a golf course. He also discovers that the polluter's wife fancies him. A comedy by the author of Kick Ass.
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Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack Swyteck, a brilliant Miami defense attorney, has spent years rebelling against his overpowering father, Harry, now Florida's governor. When, on the eve of an execution, the governor denies Jack's request for a stay and allows the death sentence against Jack's client to be carried out, all hopes for a reconciliation seem dashed."--BOOK JACKET. "But events will soon place father and son in extreme jeopardy. Jack will be tried for a murder he didn't...
9) Runaway
Author
Series
McKenzie Family Saga volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Florida plantation owner Jarrett McKenzie wins Tara Brent in a poker game and ends up marrying her, but that's not the end of the story. Tara is being pursued by Clive Carter, the son of the man she is accused of killing. McKenzie and Tara are often separated because of a war between the U.S. and the Seminoles in which they are involved on the Seminole side. By the author of And One Rode West.
10) Basket Case
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jack Tagger is a frustrated journalist. His outspoken views have relegated him to the obituary page, with his byline never again to disgrace the front page. But Jack has stumbled across a whale of a story that might just resurrect his career ...James Stomarti, infamous frontman of rock band Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, has died in a diving accident and Jack harbours suspicions that the glamorous pop starlet widow may have had a vested interest in her...
11) Orchid Beach
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Series
Holly Barker novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Holly Barker, forced into early retirement from the army after losing a sexual harassment case, walks into a dangerous web of evil and deceit when she accepts the post of deputy police chief in Orchid Beach, Florida.
12) Double whammy
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 1
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
R.J. Decker, a neophyte private eye, investigates a murder near his Florida home and its connection to a largemouth bass tournament.
14) Damaged
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Series
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English
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Liz Bailey, a 27-year-old Coast Guard rescue swimmer, retrieves a stainless steel cooler from Florida's Pensacola Bay. Inside are human body parts. FBI special agent Maggie and Charlie Wurth, the Department of Homeland Security's deputy director, once again team to investigate. Meanwhile, Maggie's hunky new boyfriend, Col. Benjamin Platt, comes to Florida in search of monstrous bacteria killing too many soldiers. The two cases connect through a body-parts...
15) Metro Girl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blodded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.
Author
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy featuring two people recovering a stolen $14-million lottery ticket. It belongs to JoLayne Lucks, a black veterinary assistant in Florida and was stolen by white supremacists. With the help of reporter Tom Krome, JoLayne goes after the thieves and love blooms.
17) Black and blue
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Frances' husband punches her again, she believes he's crossed the line--that the next time he will kill her. She decides to put her life--and that of her son--in the hands of a network which helps women start over. She becomes Beth and begins a new life in Florida with her son. It could be wonderful ... but she lives in fear of being found by Bobbie.
18) Camino winds
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"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 ... 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...
19) Heartbreaker
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Michelle Cabot has inherited her father's Florida cattle ranch -- and a pile of debt, most of which is owed to her neighbouring rancher and arch-nemesis, John Rafferty. But while John thinks he now holds the cards over the spoiled rich girl he once despised, Michelle, desperate to run the Cabot ranch -- the only thing she has left -- all by herself, has other ideas... They may be locked in battle, but are the tough rancher and feisty beauty losing...
20) Permed to death
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
A murder mystery in a hair salon featuring its owner, Marla Shore. It begins when one of her customers is poisoned by the coffee Marla served. Someone slipped cyanide into the artificial creamer.