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1) Orchid blues
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Small-town police chief Holly Barker's life is torn apart by a brutal crime that threatens her happiness and her life, and her only hope of solving the crime is to put her father in the line of fire.
3) Bad monkey
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A wickedly funny novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance.
“[A] comedic marvel … [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip.”—The New York Times
Andrew Yancy—late of the
4) Motor mouth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
Barney is a woman with a taste for speed, talent for breaking rules, and knows too much about cheating. First there was boyfriend NASCAR racer Hooker and a salesclerk. Now an unlikely winner has to be cheating. Another spotter calls for help, trapped. Their drooling St Bernard leaves his teeth marks in a corpse. They are on the run, suspected of murder.
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Series
Language
English
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CIA agent Holly Barker, placed on vacation after failing a second time to catch terrorist and ex-CIA agent Teddy Fay, returns to Orchid Beach, Florida, where she once served as police chief, to find that James Bruno, her former commanding officer who once tried to rape her, is now in her old job, and that a serial killer and rapist is at work in the area.
6) Hoot
Author
Language
English
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
8) The whistler
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims...
9) Blood orchid
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Orchid Beach, Florida, chief of police Holly Barker, still recuperating from the death of her fiancé, is surprised to find that a dangerous scam in Miami has reached as far as her quiet town.
10) Underworld
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"After Ofelia, Aster, Cat, and Lane fail to persuade a local girls club to change an outdated tradition, they form an alternative group that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. Includes tips for beginning birders, characteristics of crystals, a cookie recipe, tips for aspiring journalists, directions for creating badges, and facts about the killing of birds for fashion."--
12) Iron orchid
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Orchid Beach cop Holly Barker has joined the CIA, and she's after Teddy Fay, who was once CIA himself but now wipes out various political figures for fun.
14) The tiger rising
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.
15) Florida
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds
Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often...
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds
Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "frequently funny" (San Francisco Chronicle), "brooding, inventive and often...
16) 15 seconds
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a random act of violence plunges him into a nightmarish world, Henry Steadman, a successful surgeon accused of murdering two people, must clear his name and discover who is trying to destroy him in order to save himself and his family.
17) The yearling
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
19) Sunny side up
Author
Series
Sunny volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, 'Sunny Side Up' is at once a compelling 'problem' story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world" --
20) The Audition
Author
Series
Maddie Ziegler volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Harper loves to dance and is a rising star in Connecticut when her parents move her to Florida and she must prove herself to The Bunheads in order to compete.
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