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Wednesday, 01 June 2011 00:00


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Fracture








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Fracture
by Megan Miranda, January 2012, 272 pages, Walker Childrens; 1 edition

Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine-despite the scans that showed significant brain damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain, Delaney finds herself drawn to the dying. Is her altered brain now predicting death, or causing it?













Chomp


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Chomp
by Carl Hiaasen, March 27, 2012, 304 pages, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle.  His father is the unpredictable one. When his dad takes a job with a reality TV show called "Expedition Survival!", Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself—to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show's boneheaded star, before the shoot is over. But the job keeps getting more complicated.



Buried in the Bog (



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Buried in the Bog (Modern Irish Fantasy)
by
Simon J. Cooper, 2011, Holbrook Publishing

When old Colm finds a living, breathing, moaning and groaning, 2000 year old man in a remote Irish bog, he finds they have more in common than he could have imagined.








Learning to Swim: A Novel


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Learning to Swim: A Novel
by Sara J Henry, 2011, 304 pages, Crown; First Edition edition

When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. Harrowing moments later, she bobs to the surface, pulling a terrified little boy with her.



Swamplandia!


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Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell, 2011, 336 pages, Knopf; First Edition edition

Swamplandia! is the story of Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who embarks on an improbable journey through the mangrove wilderness of southwest Florida in search of a lost sister.















Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters


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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
by Ben H. Winters, with Jane Austen credited as co-author, 2009, 344 pages, Quirk Books; Original edition

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.








The Maytrees: A Novel


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The Maytrees: A Novel
by Annie Dillard, 2008, 240 pages, Harper Perennial

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.



St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves


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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
by Karen Russell, 2007, 256 pages, Vintage

In these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells.






The Mermaid Chair



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The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd, 2006, 368 pages, Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother.









A Girl of the Limberlost


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A Girl of the Limberlost
by Gene Stratton-Porter, 2006, 336 pages, Norilana Books

A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) by Gene Stratton-Porter is the story of a poor Indiana girl Elnora Comstock who lives with her emotionally abusive mother, a stern heartless widow, at the edge of the Limberlost Swamp. Elnora attends school against her mother's wishes, fighting every inch of the way for her dream of an education, and collects and sells moths and other rare biological specimens from the swamp to pay for her schooling, books, and bare necessities.


Skinny Dip


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Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen 2006, 512 pages, Grand Central Publishing Charles

"Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default" suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he's running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West.








Sick Puppy


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Sick Puppy
by Carl Hiaasen 2005, 464 pages, Grand Central Publishing

The title of Hiaasen's eighth novel could apply to most of its characters, but it chiefly refers to an ebullient Labrador retriever named Boodle and the millionaire eco-terrorist Twilly Spree. Let's just say that Twilly has a singular affliction: poor anger management in the face of environmental irresponsibility.


Tourist Season


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Tourist Season
by Carl Hiaasen, 2005, 416 pages, Grand Central Publishing

The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder, in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile.







Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen


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Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
by Carl Hiaasen, 2002, 432 pages, Berkley Trade

A wide-ranging safari of South Florida's wildlife in its natural habitat-from fat-cat politicians to migrating mobsters, drowning Dolphins to stray chads. This collection of Miami Herald columns-written with a satiric wit and biting humor-offers a glimpse of the facts that inspire, and prove far stranger than, Hiaasen's frenetic fiction.


Stormy Weather


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Stormy Weather
by Carl Hiaasen, 2001, 416 pages, Grand Central Publishing

A seductive con artiste stumbles into a scam that promises more cool cash than the lottery. A shot-gun toting mobile home salesman is about to close a deal with disaster, while tourists by the thousands bail from the Florida Keys.








Welcome to the River of Grass


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Welcome to the River of Grass
by Jane Yolen, 2001, 32 pages, Putnam Juvenile

In the Everglades, inches deep and miles wide, mystery abounds. What may look like a smooth, silent carpet of flowing grass is actually a world teeming with life. Amid tree islands and mangrove roots are animals on the prowl.



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The Old Man and the Sea


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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway, 1995, 128 pages, Scribner

Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.



Strip Tease


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Strip Tease
by Carl Hiaasen, 1994, 432 pages, Vision

A bachelor party at a strip joint results in chaos for a powerful U.S. Congressman who is up for reelection, especially when a virtuous topless dancer, a clueless Florida cop, and a well-intentioned bald bouncer join the act.






A River Runs Through It and Other Stories



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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
by Norman Maclean, 1976, 217 pages, University of Chicago Press


The Well-Tempered Angler


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The Well-Tempered Angler
by Arnold Gingrich 1966, Alfred A. Knopf







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