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  New Fiction  Popular Authors    Essential Fiction  

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  Anansi Boys
 by Neil Gaiman		  Steve Alten    Alas, Babylon
   by Pat Frank

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Attending a posh party at Florida Field, Zack Chasteen finds a fake bomb strapped beneath the chair of Darcy Whitehall and is hired by Monk DeVane, a former Miami Dolphins teammate and Darcy's employee, to find out who is responsible.

  
 Baja Florida 
 by Bob Morris		  Piers Anthony    Big Trouble
   by Dave Barry

A slapstick thriller set in Florida, featuring oddball characters. They include a homeless man who lives in a tree, a student with a squirt gun playing a game called Killer, a couple of real killers, and a terrorist with a nuclear bomb in a suitcase.
 
 The Cigar Roller
 by Pablo Medina		  Harry Crews    Continental Drift
   by Russell Banks
   
 Comrades in Miami 
 by José LaTour		  Tim Dorsey    The Flamingo Rising 
   by Larry Baker		  

 In the aftermath of a massive hurricane off the coast of Florida, an elderly woman seeks Doc Ford's assistance in combing the reshaped ocean bottom for evidence that would exonerate a loved one for alleged activities during World War II.

  
 Damaged
 by Alex Kava		  Marjorie Stoneman Douglas    Flamingo Road 
   by Robert Wilder

 
 Denial: A Lew Fonseca Mystery
 by Stuart M. Kaminsky		  Connie Mae Fowler    In Troubled Waters
   by Beverly Coyle
   
 Deep Blue Alibi
 by Paul Levine		  Pat Frank    A Land Remembered
   by Patrick D. Smith		  

 
 First Drop
 by Zoë Sharp		  Donald Justice    Lucky You
   by Carl Hiaasen


 Five Minutes
 by Nick Lucas		  Carl Hiaasen    Mile Zero
   by Thomas Sanchez
 
 Hothouse Orchid
 by Stuart Woods		  Zora Neale Hurston    Mrs. Ted Bliss
   by Stanley Elkin		  


 A Killing Night
 by Jonathon King		  Elmore Leonard    Their Eyes Were Watching God
   by Zora Neale Hurston

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. Relive the wonder of a childhood favorite that has been capturing the hearts of readers for more than half a century. An instant bestseller when it was released in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been read and loved by school-age children across the nation for more than fifty years. In this classic story of the Baxter family and their wild, hard, and satisfying life in remote central Florida, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied tale -- tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with the excitement of the backwoods hunt, with vivid descriptions of the primitive, beautiful hammock country, written with humor and earthy philosophy. The Yearling is a novel for readers of all ages. Its glowing picture of a life refreshingly removed from modern patterns of living is universal in its revelation of simple courageous people and the beliefs they must live by.
 
 Lifeguard by James Patterson
 & Andrew Gross		  Jeffrey Lindsay    The Yearling
   by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 
 The Mayor of Lexington Avenue
 by James Sheehan		  Robert Newton Peck   

 

 
 Nervous Water and Other
 Florida Stories by Wil LaBossier		  Theodore Pratt  

 
 The Problem With Murmur Lee
 by Connie May Fowler		  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  

 

  Shadows
 by Edna Buchanan		  Ann O'Connell Rust  

 

In Cassadaga, Florida, the paranormal is normal and chats with the dead are an everyday occurrence. Lynn is unaware of the town's psychic connection when she drives into town for a visit with her aunt. But strangeness turns dangerous when the president of the Psychic Society is murdered after being cursed by a coven of witches. Are the Society member's attempts to solve the murder through psychic methods going to yield results or just more victims?
 

  Star Island
 by Carl Hiaasen		  Laurence Shames  

 Tea and Witchery
 by Marie Dees		  Frank G. Slaughter   

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  The Transformation
 by Catherine Chidgey		  Sterling Watson  

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Updated: October 19, 2011

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