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Author
Publisher
Univeristy Press of Florida
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The only bird species that lives exclusively in Florida, the Florida scrub-jay was once common across the peninsula. But as development over the last 100 years reduced the habitat on which the bird depends from 39 counties to three, the species became endangered. With a writer's eye and an explorer's spirit, Mark Walters travels the state to report on the natural history and current predicament of Florida's flagship bird. Tracing the millions of years...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"It's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed rebellion to carve their own state from the swamp and sugar-sand of the coast. That family might have been...
Author
Series
Annie's sweet intrigue volume 8
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Isabelle Byrnes enjoys helping families discover their origins through her work as a genealogist. After her father's untimely death, her own family tree comes into question. Isabelle is shocked to discover a mysterious birth certificate that may indicate she was adopted. Determined to uncover her family's secrets, Isabelle travels to an island off the Florida coast to meet with private investigator Jasper Long. Before Jasper can reveal the truth,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A bridesmaid for one of her oldest friends, 33-year-old Athena Matthias, still reeling from a messy divorce from her wife, arrives in Watercolor, Florida, for the wedding where an unexpected guest from the past throws the entire wedding party into chaos.
When thirty-three-year-old Athena Matthias is asked, yet again, to be a bridesmaid, she's not exactly enthusiastic about the idea. Still reeling from a messy divorce from her wife, she's never felt...
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Addie Weaver has lived in the Amish tourist town of Pinecraft for the last year since leaving her difficult life in Lancaster County behind. She's making a new place for herself in the Florida sunshine, complete with a tiny home and a job at the local diner. When a handsome Amish man sits down at her booth, she can see he's troubled. Her heart tells her she must try to help. David Brennenman is at the end of his rope, looking for his younger siblings....
Author
Series
Blackbird Beach volume 8
Publisher
[Name of publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The Christmas party at the Sea Glass Inn is a long-held tradition, one the townspeople of Blackbird Beach consider the kick-off of the Christmas season. Until, of course, the Inn closed, and the party stopped happening. Now Georgia Carpenter has decided it's time to restart that tradition, even though the party is a massive undertaking and one that will influence how people feel about the Inn for the rest of the year. With the help of her sister,...
Author
Publisher
Yesterday Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Lostmans Heritage follows the author's journey as she searches for her ancestors from the slave country of Savannah to the wilds of the Florida Everglades. Her story begins with her ancestor, Richard Hamilton, an extraordinary and dangerous man, a man who, against all odds, untangled himself from the bonds of slavery and began a family and a life in the Ten Thousand Islands. Hamilton follows Richard and other island residents to the ending of an era...
Author
Series
Flight and glory volume 2
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023, 2014
Description
"Since her sister's death, twenty-year-old Paisley Donovan has been treated like delicate glass by her parents. She may share her sister's heart condition, but nothing will stop her from completing her Bucket List, even if it kills her. And it almost does, until Jagger Bateman pulls her from the ocean and breathes more than air into her lungs--he sets her soul on fire. Jagger is enrolled in the country's toughest flight school. He's wickedly hot,...
Author
Series
Amy Larson and Hunter Forrest FBI volume 4
Description
"Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her "honorary grandson" Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara...
Author
Series
Blackbird Beach volume 5
Publisher
[Name of publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"With the storm behind her, Georgia Carpenter looks forward to reaching her goal of reopening the inn left to her by her great aunt. It seems very attainable, too, thanks to all the help she's been getting from family and friends. She and Travis Taylor her handsome handyman, seem to be on a good path, as well. In fact, everything is going swimmingly until a rival in town does the unthinkable and creates all kinds of chaos. Things begin to spiral out...
Author
Series
Blackbird Beach volume 4
Publisher
[Name of publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"With a hurricane barreling toward Blackbird Beach, Georgia Carpenter is faced with new problems and the need to work faster than ever. The last thing she needs is more damage to the inn, but she can't control nature. What she can control is how the people around her weather that storm. In a bid to protect those she loves, she pulls them all close, opening her new home as a place of shelter. Everything's going fine, too, until the man she's falling...
Author
Series
Blackbird Beach volume 7
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"There's a wedding on the horizon and Georgia Carpenter couldn't be happier. But that doesn't mean she's lost sight of everything that still needs to be done to get the Sea Glass Inn ready for opening. Not only is she preparing for that, but the magazine photoshoot is right around the corner, too. As is the town council election. Most people think Travis Taylor, the Inn's handsome handyman, is a shoo-in, but with Lavinia Major as his opponent, anything...
Author
Series
Blackbird Beach volume 6
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"New beginnings await Georgia Carpenter as opening day for the Sea Glass Inn approaches. It's all very exciting but there are a million things to be done. And a million fires to be put out. With the constant reminder that nothing good ever comes easy, she and Travis Taylor, her handsome handyman, conquer each problem that arises, bringing them closer than ever before. But is it all happening too fast? Georgia isn't sure and doubts begin to creep in....
18) Camino ghosts
Author
Description
"In this new thriller 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...
Author
Series
Blackbird Beach volume 2
Publisher
[Name of publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Georgia Carpenter is overwhelmed by the generosity of her late great aunt, who left her a cottage in Blackbird Beach. What lies ahead is more work than she's ever done in her life. Another family member arrives unexpectedly, and things change. She thinks she can handle everything, then her cheating soon-to-be ex does something that could destroy her chance to start over.
Author
Series
Blackbird Beach volume 3
Publisher
[Name of publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Georgia Carpenter is hard at work on rehabbing her inherited inn with the goal of reopening as soon as possible. A goal that seems very attainable with the help of handsome handyman Travis Taylor and her family. But she wasn't counting on her estranged sister, Lilly, showing up. Georgia and Lilly have never really seen eye-to-eye about anything, and Georgia worries that Lilly will cause trouble when she realizes their great aunt didn't include Lilly...
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