Pineapple Press 2012 Catalog

2012 Catalog of Books
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Contents
2012 Books, 36 Books of Continuing Interest, 725 Nonfiction, 722 Fiction, 2325 Childrens Books, 2629 Nonfiction, 26, 2829 Fiction, 27 Index, 3031
Cover art by Steve Weaver. See Olivia Brophie and the Pearl of Tagelus, page 3.
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Subject Index
African Americans, 15 Animals, 4, 9, 16, 21, 26, 29 Archaeology, 9 Architecture, 13, 16 Art, 11, 16 Astronomy, 7 Biography, 12, 16, 28, 29 Birds, 7 Carolinas, 6, 19 Civil War, 24 Cooking, 20 Cracker Westerns, 25 Crafts, 29 Culture, 10, 22 Education, 26, 27, 28, 29 Fiction, 3, 23, 24, 25, 27
Fishing, 13 Folklore, 18, 19 Fundraising, 22 Games, 22 Gardening, 14, 20 Georgia, 5, 19 Ghosts, 5, 6, 18, 19 Golf, 21 Hemingway, Ernest, 16 History, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 22, 28 Humor, 22 Ireland, 21 Key West, 16 Keys, Florida, 16, 17 Law, 17 Lighthouses, 6, 21, 28 Literature, 15, 22 Maritime, 23
Miami, 17 Mystery, 24 Native Americans, 29 Nature, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 22, 29 Nonprofits, 22 Paleontology, 29 Pirates, 28 Poetry, 15, 22 Reference, 5, 22, 28 Religion, 11 Science, 5 South Florida, 4 Sports, 21 St. Augustine, 5, 15 Storytelling, 18 Travel, 4, 8, 10, 11 Young Readers, 2629
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Fiction Olivia Brophie and the Pearl of Tagelus

Chris Tozier Book One of the Olivia Brophie Series Fantasy Fiction
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For no apparent reason, Olivia Brophies dad has sent her to live with her crazy aunt and uncle in the middle of nowherethe Florida scrub. It seems boring till bears follow her to school, coral snakes leave her gifts, and tree frogs start writing cryptic messages on her bedroom window. Her uncle turns out to be crazier than she thought, with wild ideas about a mysterious device that controls the laws of the universe. He doesnt know the half of it. Along with Doug, a local eco-nerd genius, and Gnat, her video gameobsessed little brother, Olivia slips down a tortoise burrow into the vast Floridan Aquifer, where ancient animals thrive in a mysterious world. She learns the secret of a brilliant pearl and must use its power to discover her lifes ultimate destiny. Christopher Tozier was awarded a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship from the State of Florida. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He lives in an unnamed Florida scrub where he often sees bears, coral snakes, and giant walking sticks. Olivia Brophie and the Pearl of Tagelus is his debut novel, the first in the Olivia Brophie Series. $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-519-0 March 6 x 9 216 pages line illustrations by Steve Weaver ages 8 and older
Secrets of San Blas

Charles Farley
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Most towns have their secrets. In the 1930s, Port St. Joe, on the Gulf in Floridas panhandle, has more than its share. Old Doc Berber, the towns only general practitioner, thought he knew all the secrets. But a grisly murder out at the Cape San Blas Lighthouse drags him into a series of intrigues that even he cannot diagnose. The old doctor loses his good sense when he meets young Sally Martin. Trouble is, shes the wife of the murder victim, and in spite of himself, Doc Berber is drawn not only into the arms of the alluring Sally but also into a dangerous search for her husbands killer. A delightful dance of history and mystery. Michael Lister, author of
The Big Goodbye
NEW Robert N. Macomber 10 th in the Honor Series of naval historical fiction. See page 23. Its September 1888, and Commander Peter Wake, Office of Naval Intelligence, has five days to rescue his two captured operatives from a dungeon in Spanish colonial Havana. But his plan quickly falls apart on the first day when long-time nemesis Colonel Isidro Marrn, head of Spanish counter-intelligence, springs a deadly trap that Wake cant avoid. Huguenots, Freemasons, the beautiful actress Sarah Bernhardt, the re-election of President Grover Cleveland, and Cuban patriot Jos Mart are all part of the action. Macomber is the OBrien of the Caribbean.Randy Wayne White Robert N. Macomber is an internationally acclaimed maritime lecturer, television commentator, and defense consultant. His honors include the American Library Associations 2008 Boyd Literary Novel Award. Each year he is guest author aboard Queen Mary 2 and lectures in the Pacific and Europe. Visit him at www.robertmacomber.com. $21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-531-2 September 6 x 9 400 pages
Honorable Lies
Charles Farleys first book was a biography of Bobby Blue Bland, Soul of the Man. This is his first novel, and it is based on events surrounding an actual murder that occurred in the spring of 1938 at the Cape San Blas Lighthouse near Port St. Joe, Florida. $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-514-5 March 6 x 9 218 pages
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Nature | Animals | Travel Snake in the Grass

An Everglades Invasion Larry Perez
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A plague is spreading through the Florida Everglades. The nonnative Burmese pythonone of the largest snakes on the planetis now known to be reproducing freely in the shallow waters of the River of Grass. Though scientists work feverishly to learn as much as possible about this unprecedented invader, many questions remain. How far north might Burmese pythons venture? What will they mean for the native birds and mammalssome of them endangeredof south Florida? An Everglades naturalist describes how the story unfolding in the Florida Everglades provides new opportunities to revisit our understanding of wilderness and mans place within it. A gripping and factual account of the most dramatic invasion yet in the continental US. Its hard to put down.
Daniel Simberloff, editor-in-chief, Biological Invasions, and senior editor, Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions
The most comprehensive review of the invasion of Burmese pythons in the Everglades to date, and aptly explains their potential to irreparably alter the dynamics of Everglades ecosystems forever.
Roger L. Hammer, author of Everglades Wildflowers and A Falcon Guide to Everglades National Park & the Surrounding Area
Larry Perez skillfully explores this astonishing assault in a book that reads almost like fiction but which, sadly, is only too factual.
Kurt Repanshek, editor-in-chief, National Parks Traveler
$16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-513-8 March 6 x 9 240 pages 8-page color insert
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Exploring Wild South Florida 4 th Edition

A Guide to Finding the Natural Areas and Wildlife Susan D. Jewell
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Caloosahatchee River Guidebook

Kevin M. McCarthy Part of the Rivers of Florida Series. See page 8.
As with the others in the series, this comprehensive guidebook offers travel information and tips for boating the river (or driving alongside it) in addition to introducing the history and important hydrology of the area.
From West Palm Beach to Fort Myers and south through the Everglades and Florida Keys lie the world-renowned wetlands and coral reefs that have long enticed people seeking unique, year-round outdoor experiences. This updated edition covers federal, state, county, municipal, and private lands in Broward, Collier, Hendry, Lee, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties, including more than 20 new locations. Hikers, paddlers, bicyclists, wildlife watchers, and campers will find information on how to access the natural areas, when to go, and how to ensure your visit is enjoyable and safe. Whether you have hours or weeks, there is something for everyone who wants to explore this region of land and water that blends continental and Caribbean habitats. $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-500-8 Now available 6 x 9 288 pages 16-page color insert
The Caloosahatchee runs for 80 miles from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico in southwest Florida. The river has profoundly shaped Florida history, as it was the only transportation in the area until the modern era. Now, engineers have dredged and straightened much of it as the western part of the Cross-Florida Shipping Channel, joining the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. The Caloosahatchee, like the Everglades, is under constant threat of deterioration from farm runoff and excessive drainage from Lake Okeechobee. Now the river is playing an important part in the effort to restore the Everglades. $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-507-7 Now available 6 x 9 192 pages b&w photos
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Ghosts | St. Augustine | Georgia | Nature | Reference The Reaper of St. George Street
The Adventures of Flaglers Few, Ghost Hunters of St. Augustine Andre Frattino A graphic novel
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Lost Souls of Savannah

More Adventures of Flaglers Few, Ghost Hunters Andre Frattino A graphic novel
Arriving in haunted St. Augustine to attend college, skeptic Will is soon thrust into a mystery he wants no part of. But the girl he is falling in love with needs his help to rid her of the nightmares plaguing her sleep. Aided by a motley crew of ghost huntersa pickpocket, a modern-day witch, a retired pirate, and a comic book nerdWill must discover why a murderous poltergeist named the Reaper of St. George Street is wreaking havoc. Filled with characters youll come to love and some laugh-out-loud humor, The Reaper of St. George Street will keep you turning pages until this mystery is solved. $10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-517-6 March 6 x 9 256 pages graphic novel RECENT
Victor has spent more of his life dead than alive. Just as purgatory becomes too much for him, he learns of a HooDoo priestess in Georgia who could give him life againat a price. Before she can grant his wish, he must collect the five most infamous souls of Savannah. It wont be an easy job, but along the way Victor will make new friendsand new enemiesand for the first time in a long time, he will feel alive . . . almost. $10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-532-9 September 6 x 9 176 pages graphic novel
Botanical Keys to Floridas Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines

A Guide to Field Identification Gil Nelson
This handy handbook is the only available botanical key that focuses specifically on Floridas native and naturalized woody plants. It can be used independently or as a companion to The Trees of Florida and The Shrubs and Woody Vines of Florida (see page 7). The text is formatted as a traditional botanical key, offering a series of either/or decisions leading to the identification of a plant in hand by features of the leaves, flowers, fruit, and other important characteristics. Designed primarily for field use and targeted to both amateurs and professionals, the keys are clear, concise, non-technical, and rely as much as possible on conspicuous and easily seen features with emphasis on characteristics that are observable year-round. $19.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-499-5 Available 6 x 9 208 pages
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Ghosts of Savannah
Terrance Zepke
Well-told tales of the many ghosts of Savannah, one of the most haunted cities in America. Youll find out why an exorcism had to be conducted at the HamptonLillibridge House, about the ghost cat at the Davenport House, the rowdy ghosts at Pirates House who can be heard demanding more to drink, and the female spirit of the Kehoe House. Youll be surprised who haunts the Old Candler Hospital and why. Youll discover what is arguably the most haunted place in Savannah. Includes fascinating bits of Savannah history as well as helpful visiting information. $10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-530-5 September 6 x 9 xxx pages b&w photos line art by Michael Swing
History | Carolinas | Lighthouses | Ghosts

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Presidents in Florida
How the Presidents Have Shaped Florida and How Florida Has Influenced the Presidents James C. Clark
Discovering the Civil War in Florida 2nd Edition

A Reader and Guide Paul Taylor
Presidents have played a major role in shaping Florida, whether waging wars, protecting the environment, seeking votes, or just drawing media attention to the states attractions. Andrew Jackson came to fight Indians when Florida was still a Spanish colony and then became the first territorial governor. Zachary Taylor also made his reputation fighting Indians in Florida. Abraham Lincoln came up with the plan to get Florida back into the Union in 1864 to help his reelection chances. Ulysses S. Grant came to promote steamships on the St. Johns River. Regular visitors have included Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman (with his Little White House in Key West), Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and John F. Kennedy. Warren G. Harding played golf with an elephant as a caddy, and Chester Arthur went fishing in Orlando. $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-533-6 July 6 x 9 200 pages b&w photos NEW RECENT
This important book for those interested in the Civil War in Florida has been updated and enhanced in this new edition. Its popularity rests on the inclusion of offical government reports as well as firsthand reports by soldiers on both sides. Maps show locations of major battles and skirmishes. Both land and sea maneuvers are chronicled. The guide for visiting Civil War sites in Florida has been updated and some sites have been added. $18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-529-9 October 6 x 9 272 pages b&w photos maps
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Coastal North Carolina 2nd Edition

Its Enchanting Islands, Towns, and Communities Terrance Zepke
Lighthouses of the Carolinas

2nd Edition
Ghosts of the Carolinas for Kids

Terrance Zepke
Be careful in the Carolinas! You just may run into (walk through?) a ghost. Do you hear music, whispers, screams, moans, banging, footsteps, tapping, or thumping? Have the lights been turning off and on? Is there a flashing or floating light? Has the door opened and closed by itself? Are objects mysteriously moving? Do you suddenly feel cold? What does the Gray Man warn people about? Who is the Little Red Man? How many ghosts haunt Chester Theatre? What ghost leaves pennies for the homeowners? $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-501-5 Available 7 x 10 68 pages color art throughout ages 812
Terrance Zepke
From North Carolinas Currituck Lighthouse near the Virginia border to South Carolinas Haig Point Lighthouse near the border of Georgia, this fully updated edition details how and why each beacon was built, who were the keepers, which lights are still standing, and which are open to the public. History, nature, and legend meet in this complete guide to the lighthouses of the Carolinas. A handy guide to the states beacons.... News
& Record (Greensboro, NC)
From the Outer Banks through the Lower Coast, North Carolinas coast is full of enchantment. Along the shore of its magical waters are stunning islands, imposing lighthouses, charming communities, and captivating lore. The focus in this book is the history and heritage of this fascinating area. It is not meant to be a guidebook (no restaurants or hotels), but you will find everything else you need to know to enjoy the coast. See Coastal South Carolina on page 19. $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-511-4 Available 6 x 9 260 pages b&w photos maps
A detailed history of each structure, along with illustrations and stories associated with them....
South Carolina Historical Society Review
$12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-503-9 Available 6 x 9 184 pages b&w photos maps 12-page color insert
Books of Continuing Interest

The Everglades : River of Grass
60th Anniversary Edition
Marjory Stoneman Douglas with an update by Michael Grunwald
The classic book of the Everglades. Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named it a river of grass, the area was considered a worthless swamp. She brought the worlds attention to the need to preserve the Everglades.
Recommended to all readers concerned with the great relations of man to nature. Marjory Kinnan Rawlings $21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-394-3 5 x 8 462 pages
Nature
Priceless Florida
Natural Ecosystems and Native Species
Ellie Whitney, D. Bruce Means, and Anne Rudloe
Floridas Birds
Second Edition A Field Guide and Reference

David S. Maehr, Herbert W. Kale II Illustrated by Karl Karalus
Color throughout and fully updated. Color- coded guides and range maps. Sections on bird study, feeding, habitats, threatened and endangered species, exotics, and conservation. Each bird is illustrated three times: with the species account, in the index listing, and on a plate with similar species.
A must handbook. Midwest Book Review $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-335-6
Full-color photos, as well as charts and comprehensive text on all the ecosystems of the state and many of the native species.
Combines the depth of an encyclopedia with the freshness and accessibility of a field manual. E.O. Wilson $37.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-309-7 $29.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-308-0 8 x11 432 pages 800 color photos
Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

An Autobiography with John Rothchild
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Life story of the woman who saved the Florida Everglades, told in her own spirited voice.
This vivid recall of a full and inspiring life illustrates the wonderful potential of the human spirit. She is a national treasure. James A. Michener $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-0-910923-94-1 6 x 9 268 pages 24 b&w photos
Floridas Living Beaches

A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber
Blair and Dawn Witherington
Comprehensive accounts of over 800 species, with photos for each, found on 700 miles of Floridas sandy beaches. Covers plants, animals, minerals, and manmade objectsall part of our living beaches.
Highly recommended. Adventure Florida One-of-a-kind guide, enthusiastically recommended. Midwest Book Review $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-386-8 6 x 9 336 pages flexibinding Over 900 color photos maps and drawings
Floridas Seashells
A Beachcombers Guide
Accounts, maps, and color photos for over 250 species of mollusk shells found on Floridas beaches. Includes species common to the southeastern U.S. and the Caribbean.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-387-5 6 x 9 88 pages flexibinding 265 color photos maps and drawings
The Trees of Florida

Second Edition
The Shrubs & Woody Vines of Florida

A Reference and Field Guide
Gil Nelson
More than 550 woody vines and shrubs native to Florida. Useful to professional botanists as well as landscape architects and homeowners.
A comprehensive and detailed reference work with much to commend it to the professional botanist and experienced observer. Footprint $30.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-106-2 $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-110-9 6 x 9 392 pages 300 color photos 250 line drawings
The Ferns of Florida

Gil Nelson
Includes for each species: growth form and habit, unique characteristics, garden use, history in Florida. Color photos include some rare species never before illustrated in color.
$27.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-193-2 $19.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-197-0 6 x 9 208 pages 204 color photos 27 line drawings 14 b&w photos
Gil Nelson
The only comprehensive guide to Floridas amazing diversity of tree species, now completely revised, updated, and enlarged to include all of Floridas native and naturalized trees. Includes 528 speciesup from 346 in the 1st edition including 317 natives, 200 non-natives, and 12 species that occur nowhere else in the world.
$32.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-474-2 $24.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-475-9 6 x 9 432 pages drawings 612 color photos
Tropical Trees of Florida & the Virgin Islands

T. Kent Kirk
Over 90 species of mostly native trees. More than 500 color photographs, including shots of the whole tree, bark, leaves, flowers, and fruit for each species.
Based on years of work and a deep appreciation for the trees described. Accurate and thorough. Margaret Hayes, Herbarium Curator, St. George Village Botanical Garden, St. Croix, USVI $22.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-445-2 6 x 9 208 pages Color photos throughout
The Florida Night Sky

A Guide to Observing from Dusk till Dawn
Elinor DeWire
For casual sky observers or serious astronomers. Begins with the organization of the known universe and where Florida fits in. Southern Floridas position offers a view of the four stars of the Southern Cross in the spring and early summer.
Packed with facts and figures for both professionals and amateurs. . . . Rarely have I seen so much information presented so readably and attractively. St. Petersburg Times $24.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-238-0 6 x 9 400 pages 150 b&w drawings and photos 8-page color insert
Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology

D. Bruce Means
Exciting adventures with deadly reptiles based on over 40 years of work by this famed naturalist. Includes work with the rattlesnake, the cottonmouth moccasin, and the Australian fiercey.
Means is more than a scientific natural historian. He is an adventurer of the old school. E.O. Wilson $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-433-9 6 x 9 240 pages 12-page color insert
Nature
The Springs of Florida
Second Edition
Doug Stamm
The deepest and largest known springs in the world are in Florida. These photos are from hundreds of hours under water. This new edition is completely updated to serve as a guide to the springs parks. For canoeists, kayakers, divers, snorkelers, and visitors.
A delight to those who have seen these marvels for themselves, and to those who never will. Florida Wildlife $22.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-422-3 $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-418-6 8 x 11 128 pages 90 color photos maps RECENT

Floridas Rivers
Charles R. Boning
Sea Kayaking in Florida

Second Edition
David and Mark Gluckman An overview of Floridas waterways and detailed information on 60 of The latest information on boats, Floridas rivers, covering each from the camping, clothing, and gear for both the source to the end. From the Blackwater novice and experienced kayaker. Maps River in the western panhandle to the and campsite guides to the Big Bend Ichetucknee and Kissimmee Rivers in central Florida to the Sea Grasses Saltwater Paddling Trail, a Miami River in south Florida. trail itinerary of the Nature Coast, and maps and campsite locations for the open water of the Everglades.
Will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the breadth and depth of Floridas wilderness. Underwater Speleology $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-400-1 7 x 10 240 pages over 200 color photos $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-322-6 6 x 9 216 pages 18 b&w photos 8-page color insert 12 maps drawings and charts
Hillsborough River Guidebook

Kevin M. McCarthy
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St. Johns River Guidebook

Second Edition
Kevin M. McCarthy
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Suwannee River Guidebook

Kevin M. McCarthy
Third in the Rivers of Florida series, this essential guidebook is both a history of and guide to the river that begins in the Green Swamp and runs through downtown Tampa to Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The Hillsborough River is not long, but it has played an important role in Florida ommerce and history.
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-487-2 6 x 9 160 pages b&w photos
Enjoy a leisurely trip down one of the best-known and most beloved rivers A guide to the history, people, and sites in the country, from the Okefenokee of this north-flowing river from its source Swamp in Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico in the marshes west of Vero Beach to its in Florida. It may well be the last mouth in Jacksonville. This new edition unspoiled river in the Southeast. Learn has completely updated traveling information, including the history, wildlife, and culture of the river. Complete with websites and phone numbers. travel information and tips for those exploring the area by Involves both armchair readers and boat enthusiasts in a fine water or by land.
adventure. Library Bookwatch $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-435-3 6 x 9 176 pages 53 b&w photos 10 maps $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-449-0 6 x 9 192 pages b&w photos
Apalachicola Bay
Kevin M. McCarthy
A history and guide to this important bay and the towns and people around it. Discover Apalachicola, Carrabelle, Eastpoint, Lanark, and St. James Island, as well as Fort Gadsden and the Cape St. George and Crooked River lighthouses. Color paintings by William Trotter.
$18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-299-1 7 x 10 200 pages 25 color paintings
Seasons of the Sea

Jay Humphreys Illustrated by Jim Wilson
Seashore Plants of South Florida and the Caribbean

David W. Nellis
6 x 9 160 pages 26 line drawings
A complete source for both As the seasons change on land, so serious naturalists and backyard they do in the waters along the Florida gardeners who want to learn which peninsulaa world largely unknown plants grow best in nearshore but endlessly fascinating. Learn what environments. Includes for each plant: form, flower and creatures come and go in the waters of each of the states six fruit date, geographic distribution, habitat, reproduction, main regions. Charming illustrations accompany the text. propagation, as well as medicinal, edible, and toxic aspects. $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-226-7
$16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-056-0 6 x 9 164 pages 100 color photos
Dangerous Sea Life of the West Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico
A Guide for Accident Prevention and First Aid
Edwin S. Iversen and Renate H. Skinner
Learn how to avoid dangerous creatures and how to administer first aid. Sections on species that bite and sting, species dangerous to eat, pests that harm swimmers, toxic species, and fish-beak injuries.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-370-7 6 x 9 112 pages 34 color photos and drawings
Poisonous Plants and Animals of Florida and the Caribbean

David W. Nellis
A non-technical guide that provides in-depth information on the toxins, symptoms, and treatments for each plant and animal, as well as beneficial uses and folklore.
Bicycling in Florida
Second Edition The Cyclists Road and Off-Road Guide

Tom Oswald
Museum of Harvard University (Emeritus) $29.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-111-6 6 x 9 416 pages 297 color photos
Complete directions, maps, and tips for over 70 rides throughout the state from the highest point in Florida (345 feet!) In an area of relatively high population and many tourists, this through the horse farms in the center of the state and out scientifically sound yet easily usable volume is a most welcome to Key Biscayne. Information on Floridas cycling laws and document.Dr. Richard Evans Schultes, Director, Botanical important safety issues. List of bike associations.
Bike riders will love this guidebook. The Tampa Tribune $10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-403-2 5 x 8 232 pages 30 b&w photos 71 maps

Myakka
Second Edition
P. J. Benshoff
Guide to one of the largest state parks in Florida, located in the southwest part of the state. Discover its wild and scenic river, its shady oak hammocks and aerial gardens, its prairies, piney woods, and wetlands. Meet the gators, sandhill cranes, deer, and turtles.
Full of insights about Myakka. . . . [The reader] finds out that theres much, much more to Myakka than an airboat ride on Upper Myakka Lake. Bradenton Herald $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-444-5 6 x 9 240 pages 52 photos & line illustrations
Nature | Animals
Paynes Prairie
The Great Savanna: A History and Guide Second Edition
Lars Andersen
A Florida Cattle Ranch

Alto Bud Adams Jr. and Lee Gramling
The story of one cattle ranch reveals Floridas place in cattle-raising history. The rancher-authors text and photography feature the unique terrain and wildlife. A beautiful book to add to your Florida collection.
Bud Adams not only appreciates the sensitive ecology of our state, but he also understands the cattle industry and its role in helping preserve Floridas wildlife. This book gives others the chance to share his view. Burt Tucker, Pres. of the Florida Cattlemens Association $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-166-6 8 x 11 112 pages 140 color photos
Offers a sweeping history that spans millions of years of the unique shallow-bowl basin in the middle of Florida, just south of Gainesville. Guide to outdoor activities in the state preserve. Maps of trails for biking, hiking, and canoeing. The second edition offers a new chapter on exploring the Prairie today.
$12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-296-0 5 x 8 192 pages 36 b&w photos 3 maps
Floridas Fossils
Guide to Location, Identification and Enjoyment Revised Edition
Robin C. Brown
Learn how and where to hunt fossils with maps, means of identification, and history. Fully illustrated, including an identification section. Revised edition contains the latest information on where to hunt fossils in Florida and completely updated appendices.
$21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-409-4 8 x 11 216 pages 40 maps and drawings 222 b&w photos
Floridas First People

12,000 Years of Human History Revised Edition
Robin C. Brown
Combines contemporary archaeology, the writings of early European explorers, and replication experiments to present a vivid history of the states original inhabitants. Includes a photographic atlas of projectile points and pottery types.
Authoritative, readable, and splendidly illustrated. William Marquardt, Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History $29.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-032-4 8 x 11 262 pages 16-page color insert
Old Florida Style: A Story of Cracker Cattle ( DVD)

Steve Kidd & Alex Menendez Delve Productions, Inc.
Old Florida Style: A Story of Cracker Cattle is a historical documentary, filmed in crystal-clear high-definition video, that sheds light on Floridas role in feeding our nation in times of war and peace, by offering a look at North Americas original cattlemen and cattlewomen, the Florida cow hunters and their culture.
$14 for home viewing ISBN 978-1-56164-463-6 $24 for public viewing ISBN 978-1-56164-464-3 Runtime: 24 minutes
The Horses of Proud Spirit

Melanie Bowles
The story of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, which takes in abused or unwanted horses and gives them a loving home. Passionate stories of horses that astound with their amazing ability to recover. The PBS documentary based on the book won an Emmy.
Wonderful, a good read for anyone who loves horses. Monty Roberts, author of The Man Who Listens to Horses $18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-285-4 6 x 9 208 pages 13 b&w photos
The Dogs of Proud Spirit

Melanie Sue Bowles
Meet the many dogs also at the Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary. Like the horses, they have been rescued from careless and abusive situations. At Proud Spirit they find a loving home with jobs to be done. Meet Gunny, Dusty, Kitty, Tucker, Kirby, Cricket, and many moreall with wet noses, wagging tails, and hearts big enough to forgive and move on.
If youve ever loved an animal you will cherish The Dogs of Proud Spirit.Joe Camp, creator of canine superstar Benji and author of The Soul of a Horse $18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-478-0 6 x 9 232 pages b&w photos
Hoof Prints
More Stories from Proud Spirit
Melanie Sue Bowles
Meet more horses and caring people in this second book from Melanie Bowles, who writes with loving care about the horses at her sanctuary, relocated from Florida to Arkansas. Learn about big old Ranger, little baby Riley, a wild Mustang, and even a flying donkey.
A delight to read. . . . Bowles writes beautifully. ALA Booklist $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-412-4 6 x 9 240 pages b&w photos
Common Coastal Birds of Florida and the Caribbean

David W. Nellis
72 birds that inhabit the zone where the sea meets the land in Florida and the islands. Feeding habits, reproduction, behavior, migration, predators, longevity, conservation issues.
Each of the details covered offers birders some fascinating and remarkable information.Birding Business $29.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-191-8 $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-196-3 6 x 9 336 pages 234 color photos
Parrots of South Florida

Susan Allene Epps Illustrated by Karl Karalus
Florida Horse Owners Field Guide

Second Edition
Marty Marth
Accurate, easy-to-read guide to selecting, caring for, and enjoying a horse in Florida. The only horse guide devoted to Floridas special challenges of heat, humidity, insects, poisonous plants, and unique varieties of hay. Includes updated information about equestrian trails in state parks.
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-154-3 5 x 8 208 pages 45 line drawings
Included are Amazons, conures, parakeets, macaws, and other parrots, some of which are rarely seen. Fullcolor guide gives detailed information on each birdcommon name, scientific name, any other names; its size; description of its colors and markings; and where it can be found.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-401-8 6 x 9 96 pages 48 color illustrations
Travel
Best Backroads of Florida
Douglas Waitley Volume 1: The Heartland
You might discover some backroads that will turn your wanderings into an exciting journey. Ocala Star-Banner

Douglas Waitley Volume 2: Coasts, Glades, and Groves
Journey south Florida through orange groves, along beaches, and through sugar and cattle country. Start in Melbourne Beach and travel through Ft. Pierce, Stuart, Clewiston, the Miccosukee Resort, Everglades City, Ft. Myers, Venice, and Sebring.

Douglas Waitley Volume 3: Beaches and Hills
Ride near the beaches and over the hills of north Florida. Start in Titusville and travel through New Smyrna Beach, St. Augustine, Fernandina Beach, Lake City, Tallahassee, DeFuniak Springs, Pensacola, Ft. Walton Beach, Panama City, Apalachicola, Inglis, and Aripeka.
Travel central Florida through miles of horse farms and explore crystalline springs. Start in DeBary and travel through Longwood, Clermont, Dade City, Brooksville, Dunnellon, Eustis, Ocala, Gainesville, Palatka, and Sanford. Winner of the Horgan Award from the Florida Historical Society.
Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida

Douglas Waitley Volume 1: South Florida
Visit east coast beaches, the Indian River Lagoon, the St. Johns Marsh, the Kissimmee River, and the interior scrub. Also the Corkscrew Swamp, the Fakahatchee Strand, west coast beaches, the Ten Thousand Islands, the Everglades, and the Keys.
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-371-4 6 x 9 272 pages over 100 b&w photos 4 maps
Ce
ntal Florida
Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida

Douglas Waitley Volume 2: Central Florida
Florida History from the Highways

Douglas Waitley
Journey along Floridas highwaysI-75, US 41, I-95, US 1, I-4, US 27, US 98, and the Turnpikelearning all the roadside history on the way. Begins with a brief history of Florida
An excellent historical introduction to many of the most interesting cities and sights in the Sunshine State. The reader is presented with a series of excursions along the states major highways so that side trips can be made as efficiently as possible. Bill Marina, co-author of A History of Florida, Third Edition $18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-315-8 6 x 9 384 pages 167 b&w photos 15 maps
Vo l u m e 2
Visit the Orlando wetlands, Merritt Island, and a fish camp, and go airboating on the St. Johns River. Experience Wekiwa, Blue, and Gemini Springs. See the the Ocala National Forest, the Yearling Trail, Cypress Cove, the Green Swamp, Fort DeSoto Park, Cedar Key, Crystal River, the Devils Millhopper, Paynes Prairie, and Ravine State Gardens.
Douglas Waitley
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-374-5 6 x 9 256 pages over 100 b&w photos 4 maps
Floridas Finest Inns and Bed & Breakfasts

Second Edition
Bruce Hunt
This completely updated guide offers 120 of the most romantic, historic, quaint, and often eclectic places to stay in Florida, from warm and cozy country B&Bs to elegant and historic hotels. Written in an engaging, personal style, this book relates the histories of the inns as well as the personal stories of many of the innkeepers.
RECENT
Visiting SmallTown Florida
Third Edition Bruce Hunt

A guide to 75 of Floridas most interesting small towns. This completely revised and updated new edition of a popular guide leads you to Floridas most charming and historic little towns, places with names like Bagdad, Sopchoppy, Ozello, Yeehaw Junction, Ochopee, and Two Egg. Its a guidebook, a travelogue, and a sort of a history book all rolled into one.
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-488-9 6 x 9 240 pages 110 b&w photos
Floridas Museums and Cultural Attractions

Second Edition
Doris Bardon and Murray D. Laurie
This newly updated guide, with over 350 museums and attractions to choose from, has a destination to suit every interest. Visit country stores, oneroom schoolhouses, coquina forts, churches, mansions, theaters, art galleries, and gardens.
Even Floridians who think they know their own cultural back yards will probably learn something. The Tampa Tribune $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-408-7 6 x 9 184 pages b&w illustrations
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Time Travelers Guide to Florida
Jack Powell
A unique guidebook that offers 140 places and reenactments in Florida where you can experience the past, and a few where you can time travel into the future. You can join in all sorts of historical reenactmentsin full costume if you like. You have the unique opportunity to relive a part of Floridas long and fascinating past.
Travel | Art | History

Historical Travelers Guide to Florida
Second Edition
Eliot Kleinberg
Thirty Florida Shipwrecks

Kevin M. McCarthy Paintings by William L. Trotter
Covers shipwrecks from 1545, when young Fontenada survived a Spanish wreck to be held captive by natives for 17 years, to the sinking of the Coast Guard cutter Bibb in 1987 to create an artificial reef. Includes Trinit, 1565; Atocha, 1622; San Pedro, 1733; America, 1862; Victor, 1872; Cecil Ann, 1967; and 22 more.
From Fort Pickens in the Panhandle to Fort Jefferson in the ocean 40 miles beyond Key West, historical travelers will find many adventures waiting for them in Florida. The author presents 74 of his favorites17 of them are new to this edition, and the rest have been completely updated
Every one of [Kleinbergs] essays will leave the readers saying, Hey, Id like to visit that place. Florida Heritage Magazine $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-375-2 6 x 9 288 pages 90 photos
Art in Florida
15641945
Maybelle Mann
Shipwrecks of Florida
A Comprehensive Listing Second Edition
Twenty Florida Pirates

20 of the most notorious Florida pirates, from the English privateers of the 1500s to present-day drug smugglers and yachtjackers. Includes Sir Francis Drake, Black Caesar, Blackbeard, Jean Lafitte, Jos Gaspar.
The swashbuckling adventures of Sir Francis Drake, Blackbeard, and Jos Gaspar, to name a few, are brought to life in this colorfully illustrated narrative. Florida Historical Quarterly $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-050-8 8 x 11 96 pages 20 color paintings
Floridas art history from the first European Steven D. Singer artist until the end of World War II. Over Over 2,100 shipwrecks 150 illustrations, many from the 16th century reproduced here for to the present; the most the first time. Includes comprehensive listing artists Mark Catesby, now available. Arranged John James Audubon, primarily by geographical sections of the statewithin John Singer Sargent, Martha Walter, Milton Avery, sections, wrecks are arranged chronologically. Extensive Andew Wyeth. and heavily illustrated appendices offer a wealth of information on topics of interest to divers and researchers. $35.00 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-171-0
8 x 11 200 pages 60 b&w photos 100 color photos $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-163-5 6 x 9 400 pages 200 b&w photos 31 line drawings, maps, charts, diagrams
Spiritual Florida
A Guide to Retreat Centers and Religious Sites in Florida and Nearby
Mauricio Herreros
Detailed descriptions of 41 centers and sites in Florida and 11 nearby in neighboring states. Includes monasteries, spiritual retreat centers, and unique religious sites in peaceful and spiritually nurturing settings.
Florida Place Names

Alachua to Zolfo Springs
Allen Morris Joan Perry Morris, Photo Editor
Origin and meaning of the name of every county and most incorporated cities in Florida. Paints a rich historical portrait of the state and reveals the dreams, memories, and sense of humor of Floridians.
Aviation in Florida
The definitive history of aviation in Floridafrom the open-cockpit bi-wing planes used by the barnstormers of the 1920s to the jumbo jets and space shuttles of today. Paintings by famed artist William Trotter capture Florida aviations most spectacular moments.
$18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-281-6 6 x 9 208 pages 30 color paintings
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History
200 Quick Looks at Florida History
James Clark
200 short essays on Floridas 10,000 years of history, from the arrival of the first natives to the present. Packed with unusual and little-known facts and stories; for example, the inventor of air conditioning died broke and forgotten, Florida printed $3 bills in the 1830s, Floridas first tourist attraction featured ostrich racing.

Tropical Surge
A History of Ambition and Disaster on the Florida Shore
Benjamin Reilly
An engaging history depicting the battle between humans and hurricanes in south Florida from 1831 to 1935. Describes how the storms dashed the early prosperity of both Miami and Key West.
The fascinating story of hurricanes and their savage power. Tropicalia $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-330-1 6 x 9 336 pages 43 b&w photos 4 maps
The Edisons of Fort Myers

Discoveries of the Heart
Tom Smoot
Tells the fascinating story of Thomas and Mina Edison during their time in Fort Myers, Florida, which was their winter home for 46 years. Describes how Edison fished from both his boat and his long dock, mingled with locals, created and tended extensive botanical gardens, and labored long hours in his laboratory.
Smoots history educates and entertains.Fort Myers NewsPress $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-498-8 6 x 9 384 pages 85 photos
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
$13.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-117-8 6 x 9 272 pages 26 b&w photo
Floridas Past
People and Events that Shaped the State
Gene Burnett
Each volume has over 60 essays dealing with the most interesting people and events in Floridas history, written in Gene Burnetts engaging and easygoing style. Careful research and eclectic choice of topics make history good reading that educates and entertains. Each volume divides Floridas people and events into Achievers and Pioneers,
Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence. Many essays were originally published in Florida Trenda bit of Florida history in each issue for over 15 yearsa tribute to Burnetts appeal. A course in Florida history and a good read too.
The author uses biography, journalism, and storytelling to portray dozens of historymaking individuals in a lively and engaging fashion. Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida Chronicles, Volume 1

Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags
Stuart B. McIver
Meet Ned Buntline, Laura Riding, Wilson Mizner, Sam Jones, and many others. Storytellers, lawbreakers, movers and shakers, sportsmen, moviemakers, visionaries, and mobsters all left their mark on Florida.

Murder in the Tropics
Stuart B. McIver
Like a storyteller around a campfi re . . . McIver relates with relish 23 tales of homicide, assassination, and manslaughter that will have natives shaking their heads and saying with a perverse pride, Only in Florida. Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-441-4 6 x 9 220 pages 26 b&w photos

Touched by the Sun
Stuart McIver
The often tangled lives of people who could never be called ordinary. Includes presidents, cowboys, gangsters, writers, politicians, captains of industry, inventors, movie stars, and even a fire chief.
$18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-206-9 $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-440-7 6 x 9 272 pages 76 b&w photos
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Southeast Florida Pioneers
William McGoun
Meet the pioneers of the Palm Beach area, the Treasure Coast, and Lake Okeechobee in this collection of well-told, fact-filled stories of the 1690s through the 1990s. Includes Jonathan Dickinson, shipwrecked near Jupiter Inlet in 1696; John Ashley and his notorious gang; architect Addison Mizner, who brought the Mediterranean style to Florida; and many more.
$16.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-157-4 6 x 9 192 pages 58 b&w photos
History | Fishing
Spanish Pathways in Florida 14921992
Ann L. Henderson and Gary R. Mormino, Editors
The Spanish Treasure Fleets

Timothy R. Walton
The story of the expeditions of Spanish explorers told through the history of the first American currency: pieces of eight. Traces the rise and fall of Spains world dominance and chronicles the developments in transportation, organization, and military technology based on competition for gold and silver.
Fascinating reading. Library Journal $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-261-8 6 x 9 224 pages 66 b&w photos 7 maps
Essays by experts in both Spanish and English on the influence of the Spanish in Florida. Topics include Hernando de Soto, plants of the New World, Mario Sanchez, Jos Mart. Spanish and English on facing pages so that the book can serve in language instruction.
$24.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-003-4 $18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-004-1 6 x 9 368 pages 40 b&w photos
Menndez
Pedro Menndez de Avils, Captain General of the Ocean Sea
Albert Manucy
Classic Cracker
Floridas Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture
Ronald W. Haase
Historic Homes of Florida

Second Edition
Laura Stewart and Susanne Hupp
Updated with color photographs of each house68 of Floridas notable dwellings that are open to the public, from humble Cracker houses to stately mansions. Includes the Julee Cottage and the Kingsley Plantation in northeast Florida, many old houses in St. Augustine, the Casements in central Florida, Ca dZan and the Edison Winter Estate in southwest Florida, Whitehall and Vizcaya in south Florida, and the Little White House in Key West.
$18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-417-9 7 x 10 192 pages full-color throughout
Winner of the LoPresti Award for Excellence in Art Publishing

The history of Florida woodframe architecture, from the early single-pen homesteads, through the double-pen, the dog-trot, the four-square Georgian, the Cracker townhouse, to the latest homes in Seaside.
$21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-013-3 $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-014-0 8 x 11 128 pages 46 color photos 17 b&w photos 56 line drawings including floor plans A detailed and well-illustrated history of Floridas unique contribution to architecture. St. Petersburg Times
A biography of the founder of St. Augustine, the nations oldest continuously settled city, and thus the little-known story of one of the founding fathers of America. This book was the first to be written about Menndez.
Fishing Adventures in Florida

Sport Fishing with Light Tackle
Max D. Hunn
Join the author as he steers through twisted mangrove channels of the Ten Thousand Islands, searching for the big one. Brawl with tarpon and tangle with snook; if theres a cure for snook fever, Max Hunn hasnt found it.
Tales from a Florida Fish Camp

Jack Montrose
Join Jack Montrose, a fish camp regular since 1965, as he reminisces about the good old days fishing on the St. Johns River. Captures the atmosphere and humor of fish camps, where fishermen gathered to tell tales of their fishing exploits, play practical jokes, and relax with a cold beer.
Fishing Central Florida

Kris Thoemke
Over 145 places to catch freshwater and saltwater fish in central Florida from Crystal River to Venice along the west coast, Daytona Beach to Vero Beach along the east coast. Learn which types of fish are at each location and how to catch them. Discover the top game fish found in central Florida. Charts and tables reveal which fish are biting in which season. Careful maps complement access information and directions. Also included is the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissions list of record saltwater and freshwater fish.
$10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-479-7 6 x 9 176 pages b&w photos maps fish drawings
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Gardening
Floridas Best Fruiting Plants
Charles R. Boning
80 native and non-native trees, shrubs, and vines that produce edible fruit. Features avocado, carambola, custard apple, fig, grumichama, guava, kumquat, loquat, mamey sapote, papaya, strawberry, and many more. Range maps, fruiting calendars, selection criteria.
Every Florida resident should have a copy of this book. Florida Gardening $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-372-1 7 x 10 232 pages 264 color photos and drawings maps and charts

Floridas Best Herbs and Spices Natural Florida Landscaping
Dan Walton and Laurel Schiller
Learn to reduce environmental damage by seeing your yard as part of the natural system. Helps you make a plan for your yard and choose the native plants that will thrive there. Methods for a small fruit-and-vegetable garden are also covered.
A great guide to rethinking your yard.GreenOrlando.com $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-388-2 6 x 9 120 pages 8-page color insert
Charles R. Boning
Covers 89 plants, including favorites like basil and rosemary, but also more exotic ones like bilimbi and pandanus. As in the authors previous popular book, Floridas Best Fruiting Plants, there are beautiful and useful illustrations, as well as charts and maps. For each plant youll find plant description, geographic distribution, flavor and scent, varieties, relatives, cultivation, and harvest and use.
$19.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-453-7 7 x 10 224 pages 200 color photos and drawings maps and charts
100 Orchids for Florida

Jack Kramer
100 species that grow well in Florida, chosen for beauty and ease of cultivation. Learn how to pot, water, feed, ventilate, and protect your orchids, whether you are an old hand or a beginner. Handy reference chart to size, color, bloom time, and exposure.
The Art of South Florida Gardening

Second Edition
Harold Songdahl and Coralee Leon Illustrated by George Curtis
A guide to planning, planting, and making your subtropical garden grow. South Florida gardeners have depended on the advice here for over a decade. The new edition is updated with helpful tips for the conservation-conscious gardener. Even if you live a little farther north you can use this book to make your landscape more tropical.
Native Bromeliads of Florida

Harry E. Luther and David H. Benzing
Identify and appreciate Floridas 16 species (and two hybrids) of native bromeliads, often called air plants, from the abundant Spanish moss to the rare, carnivorous Catopsis berteroniana.
A marvelously comprehensive and richly illustrated treatment. Dr. Gregory K. Brown, Professor of Botany, Bromeliad Research Lab, University of Wyoming $16.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-448-3 6 x 9 128 pages Color insert, line illustrations, maps
Flowering Shrubs and Small Trees for the South

Marie Harrison
A master gardener offers an ecological approach to planting and maintaining colorful small trees and shrubs for the middle story of gardens in USDA Zones 7, 8, and 9. Over 140 species included.
An outstanding collection of Southern favorites. Gil Nelson, author of Trees of Florida and Shrubs and Woody Vines of Florida $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-439-1 6 x 9 152 pages Color photos throughout
Southern Gardening
An Environmentally Sensitive Approach
Marie Harrison
A comprehensive guide to beautiful and environmentally responsible yards and gardens. Time-tested advice from a master Southern gardener.
Gardening in the Coastal South

Marie Harrison
In her personal, witty style, a master gardener divulges tried-and-true ways of environmentally sensitive gardening in tune with the special issues presented along coasts from Texas through South Carolina. Includes salt-tolerant plants and seasonal musings.
Landscapes will flourish once homeowners start choosing from This is a valuable gardening book for the coastal south. the scores of adaptable plants featured. Norman Winter, Florida Gardening magazine author of Tough-as-Nails Flowers of the South $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-329-5 6 x 9 256 pages 57 drawings 8-page color insert $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-274-8 6 x 9 256 pages 71 drawings 8-page color insert
Groundcovers for the South

Marie Harrison
Over 130 plants that will thrive as groundcovers in the Southeast U.S., including ferns, shrubs, native plants, herbs, annuals, and perennials. Plants to avoid are also listed.
Excellent resource. Florida Gardening magazine Unveils the time-tested successes you, too, can achieve. Tom MacCubbin, Florida gardening author and radio show host $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-347-9 6 x 9 152 pages 99 color photographs 63 drawings
Flowering Trees of Florida

Mark Stebbins
74 outstanding tropical flowering trees that will thrive in Floridas climate. Practical cultivation tips. Temperature trend charts, zone map, glossary, and bibliography.
Full of lovely photographs and good information.Miami Herald $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-173-4 6 x 9 144 pages 130 color photos
Ornamental Tropical Shrubs

Amanda Jarrett
83 shrubs that display beautiful flowers and/or leaves in the subtropical and tropical zones. Full profile for each shrub, including drought and salt tolerance, flowers and fruits, potential problems. A section on how to use shrubs in garden design.
An easy-to-use reference. Small Press Book Review An excellent source of information. Florida Gardener $24.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-289-2 $18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-275-5 6 x 9 176 pages 253 color photos
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St. Augustine and St. Johns County: A Historical Guide
William R. Adams
More than 80 of the oldest historic sites in and around the Ancient City of St. Augustine, Florida, from Fort San Diego in the north to Dixie Highway in the south. Maps, directions, visitor information, and accurate historical narrative by a well-known St. Augustine historian.
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-432-2 7 x 10 112 pages Color photos throughout
St. Augustine | African Americans | Literature | History

The Houses of St. Augustine
David Nolan Photographs by Ken Barrett Jr. Watercolors by Jean Ellen Fitzpatrick
Flaglers St. Augustine Hotels

Thomas Graham
Near the end of the 19th century, Henry Flagler came to St. Augustine and built three splendid hotels in the Spanish Renaissance style: the Ponce de Leon (which now houses Flagler College), the Alcazar (which now holds the City Hall and the Lightner Museum), and the Casa Monica, still a hotel. Comprehensive text and illustration.
$12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-300-4 8 x 11 88 pages 32 color photos 44 b&w photos
Richly illustrated history of the many architectural eras of the Ancient City, the oldest continually settled town in the United States. Features houses from the Spanish, British, and American eras. Includes a history of historic preservation and suggests future remedies.
$24.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-069-0 $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-075-1 8 x 11 112 pages 180 color photos
Ghosts of St. Augustine

Dave Lapham Illustrated by Tom Lapham
The unique history of St. Augustine has spawned more than 400 years worth of ghosts. These 24 stories from the towns rich oral history offer a light yet sometimes hair-raising peek at the spooky side of the Oldest City.
Ancient City Hauntings

More Ghosts of St. Augustine
David Lapham Illustrated by Tom Lapham
25 more scary stories from the author of Ghosts of St. Augustine. Visit the Oldest House, the Old Jail, Ripleys Believe It or Not, the Oldest Schoolhouse, and many other haunted establishments that harbor spirits from the ancient times.
Oldest Ghosts
Karen Harvey
Tells of unexplained exploits by the spirits dwelling in St. Augustine, the oldest city of European origin in the United States. Find stories of spiritual contacts with no earthly justification. Some are funny, some sad, some frightening. The author conducts educational and ghost tours of the Ancient City.
African Americans in Florida

Maxine D. Jones and Kevin M. McCarthy
Brief essays profile over fifty African Americans during four centuries of Florida history. Traces the role African Americans played in the discovery, exploration, and settlement of Florida, through the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement. For classroom use: one free teachers manual with the purchase of three books.
$17.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-031-7 8 x 11 190 pages 80 b&w photos Ages 10 and up Reading level grade 7 Teachers Manual $4.00 ISBN 978-1-56164-045-4
African American Sites in Florida

Kevin M. McCarthy
This book takes you on a tour through 67 counties of the sites that commemorate the role of African Americans in Floridas history.
Documenting the history of a people is essential to the preservation of their existence. I am happy to say that we commend McCarthy for being an advocate to preserving our history by means of this book. Dr. Bernadette Kelly, Chair, Floridas African American History Taskforce $29.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-385-1 8 x 11 344 pages 175 b&w photos
Native Americans in Florida

Kevin M.McCarthy
A clear and concise telling of the history of the native peoples of Florida. Includes a calendar of important dates and the 185 sites on the Native American Heritage Trail.
Native Americans in Florida is a history book for young people that has appeal for all ages. Sarasota HeraldTribune $25.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-181-9 8 x 11 200 pages 120 b&w photos 8 pages of color paintings Teachers Manual $4.00 ISBN 978-1-56164-188-8
A Yankee in a Confederate Town

Calvin L. Robinson Edited by Anne Robinson Clancy
The journal of Calvin L. Robinson, the only account of the Civil War in Florida written by a resident who sided with the Union. Describes the reign of terror in Jacksonville from 186064.
For students interested in Floridas role in the Civil War, the opening of the Robinson journal must have been akin to the opening of King Tuts tomb. The Tampa Tribune $16.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-267-0 6 x 9 152 pages 13 b&w photos
The Florida Reader

Visions of Paradise
Maurice OSullivan and Jack C. Lane, Editors
Historical and literary introduction to our states rich and diverse culturefrom early Spanish myths and Seminole and African-American folktales to the latest descriptions of modern Miami. Features John James Audubon, Zora Neale Hurston, Zane Grey, Wallace Stevens, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
A vibrant biography of our complex and challenging peninsula. Florida Historical Quarterly $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-062-1 6 x 9 270 pages
Florida in Poetry
A History of the Imagination
Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice OSullivan, Editors
A collection of poems from some of the earliest Europeans to encounter La Florida to contemporary poets who write of the beauty and degradation of the place. Includes Bartolom de Flores, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, Edmund Skellings, May Swenson, Richard Wilbur, Donald Justice, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
$24.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-083-6 7 x 10 296 pages line illustrations by Frank Lohan
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Key West | Keys | Hemingway

Grits & Grunts
Folkloric Key West
Stetson Kennedy
A portrait of Key West in the first half of the 20th century, when Key West was Key West. A treasure trove of the rich multiculture of the time by one of Americas pre-eminent folklorists, who lived and worked there. Also an abundant sampling of Mario Sanchezs famous Key West art.
Kennedys keen observations and humor infuse a cornucopia of collected folklife gems. Peggy Bulger, Director, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-419-3 7 x 10 216 pages 173 b&w photos

Hemingways Cats
An Illustrated Biography
Carlene Fredericka Brennen
Explores the life of Ernest Hemingway, the women he loved, and the animals, most especially cats, he befriended throughout his life. Filled with photographs, many of them never before published. Meet the kinder, gentler cat lover, different from the macho image he helped to create.
An excellent book that will contribute to further understanding of a complex man. The Hemingway Review $21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-342-4 8 x 11 200 pages 190 b&w photos
Hemingways Cats
Carlene F. Brennen Now in paperback
RECENT
Foreword by Hilary Hemingway

This paperback version will particularly appeal to cat lovers. Ernest Hemingway loved cats all his life. He called them purr factories and love sponges that soaked up love and in return gave comfort and companionship. His cats kept him company while he wrote and helped him cope with the travails of his life.
A fascinating look into the life and loves of one of Americas most beloved writers. Cat Fancy magazine $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-489-6 6 x 9 200 pages 40 b&w photos
The Streets of Key West

A History Through Street Names
J. Wills Burke
Simonton, Duval, Whitehead, Trumandiscover how these and other Key West streets came by their names. Each section begins with an engaging history of the person for whom the street is named, then takes us along the street, pointing out the buildings and sites of historic interest along the way.
A nice gift and a ready referenceKey West: The Newspaper $16.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-317-2 6 x 9 240 pages 40 b&w photos 5 maps
Hemingways Key West

Second Edition
Stuart McIver
A vivid portrait of the legendary writer, whose decade in Key West was his most productive. Includes a record of the authors exploits in Bimini and Cuba, including his fishing expeditions, love affairs, and writing experiences. A tour of Hemingways favorite Key West and Havana haunts.
My Brother, Ernest Hemingway

Leicester Hemingway
A revealing and intimate portrait of one of the great writers of the 20th century by his brother. First published in 1962, this new edition includes a selection of letters from Ernest to his family never before published and an index.
This new and fuller edition will replace my own worn and tattered copy. Michael Reynolds, Hemingway scholar $21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-098-0 5 x 8 327 pages 16-page b&w photo insert
The Florida Keys

John Viele Volume 1: A History of the Pioneers
Offers a different view of one of Floridas most unique and colorful regions. regions. Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida Keys

John Viele Volume 2: True Stories of the Perilous Straits
Gripping stories during the age of sail from the time of Spanish navigators to the end of the Second Seminole War in 1842. Many died in shipwrecks and attacks by natives and pirates.
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-495-7 6 x 9 208 pages 45 b&w photos and illustrations 8 maps
The Florida Keys

John Viele Volume 3: The Wreckers
True stories of Keys wreckers, the daring seamen who saved lives and property from ships cast up on the Florida reef. Captures the drama of the lives and times with accuracy and clarity.
Well-researched, fascinating accounts of early Keys life. Just 80 years ago, there were fewer than 300 Keys inhabitants and they lived without electricity, running water, or telephones.
The Houses of Key West

Alex Caemmerer
Key West is an architectural treasure trove of houses built in the 19th century, including eyebrow houses, shotgun houses, and Conch Victorians. Many charming anecdotes about old Key West gleaned from interviews with descendants of the families who built houses there. For anyone who loves to look at charming old houses and imagine their histories.
Mario Sanchez
Better Than Ever
Nance Frank
A celebration of the life and work of Key West artist Mario Sanchez (19082005) with 54 full-color reproductions of his painted relief carvings. His artshowing street vendors, parades, rumba bands, cigar factories, icecream trucks, people out for a strollhas become symbolic of the picturesque diversity of Key West life in the 20th century.
$20.00 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-476-6 March 10 x 8 96 pages 54 color photos
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Over Key West and the Florida Keys
Charles Feil
Starts with Key West and ends in the Everglades. The aerial images capture the uniqueness of the Keys: shimmering ocean, magical sunsets, uninhabited mangrove islands, bridges and causeways, old neighborhoods, million-dollar homes. Includes descriptive text for each photo taken from Feils gyroplane.
$18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-240-3 11 x 8 64 pages 63 color photos
Florida Keys | History | Law

Florida Keys Impressions
Millard Wells
Floridas Great Ocean Railway

Dan Gallagher
The incredible story of the building of the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway from Miami to Key West from 1905 to 1916.
Dan Gallaghers vivid photographs and informative supplementary text offer a glimpse at the enormous dedication and sacrifice needed to link the Florida Keys by rail. The Florida Historical Quarterly $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-269-4 8 x 11 208 pages 245 b&w photos
A famed watercolorist offers his unique impression of the Keys, with their blend of Caribbean cultures, interesting architecture, lush vegetation, and beautiful tropical marine environment. The paintings portray people, birds, water, lighthouses, boats, and buildingsall exuding the laid-back Keys attitude.
Key Biscayne
A History of Miamis Tropical Island and the Cape Florida Lighthouse
Joan Gill Blank
This engaging and highly illustrated history of the southernmost barrier island in the U.S. tells the story of its people from the early natives on. Includes the history of Cape Florida Lighthouse, found on Biscaynes southern tip.
Vividly illustrates what a fascinating piece of geography Key Biscayne is. Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Chairman, Natl Geographic Society $29.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-096-6 $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-103-1
Miami, A Backward Glance

Muriel V. Murrell
From the lavish parties, the yachts, and the innovative architecture to the sultry summer days, the mosquito bites, and the hurricanes, Muriel Murrell captures the early days of Miami in a series of charming vignettes. Part memoir, part history, this book reminds us how Miami rose from the swamp, developing from a pioneer town to an important crossroads of the Western Hemisphere.
$18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-286-1 6 x 9 200 pages 46 b&w photos
Club Board Members Guide

How to Become an Effective Member of Your Club Board
John L. Carroll
Contains common-sense solutions for anyone on the board of a public or private organization. Learn your legal responsibilities; how a president is chosen; how to handle meetings; what to do about issues of money, privacy, and complaints; and how to select and deal with a general manager.
$18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-244-1 6 x 9 218 pages
The Condominium Concept

Twelfth Edition
Peter M. Dunbar
The practical guide for operating a successful Florida condominium association. Completely updated and cross-referenced not only to the Florida Statutes and the Administrative Code but also to Florida appellate court decisions. Includes 69 sample forms and documents. Written in clear, concise language for officers, directors, homeowners, managers, realtors, and attorneys.
$27.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-480-3 $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-481-0 6 x 9 384 pages sample forms
The Law of Florida Homeowners Associations

Eighth Edition
Peter M. Dunbar and Charles F. Dudley
The only complete guide for the operation of Florida homeowners associations, including single-family subdivisions, townhouse and cluster developments, and master community associations. Complete footnoted references to Florida Statutes and court decisions.
$21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-482-7 $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-483-4 6 x 9 184 pages sample forms
The Homeowners Association Manual

Fifth Edition
Peter M. Dunbar and Marc W. Dunbar
The only complete and practical guide for the operations of homeowners associations, including single-family subdivisions, townhouse and cluster developments, mobile homeowners associations, and master community associations. Ensure that the association carries out its responsibilities fairly and effectively.
$21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-423-0 $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-313-4 6 x 9 152 pages Sample forms and documents
Florida Divorce Handbook

Fifth Edition
Gerald B. Keane
This updated fifth edition reflects the most recent changes in family law in Florida. Includes the stages of a divorce case, what no-fault is all about, how to find the right lawyer, what to do if served with divorce papers, what a settlement is and how it helps, how custody disputes are decided, the different types of child support, awarding alimony and dividing property, and how final judgments can be modified.
Florida Law
A Laymans Guide Fifth Edition
Gerald B. Keane
A practical, readable guide to your legal rights in Florida. Includes property law, family law, business law, and special areas such as torts, criminal law, small claims, and consumer law.
I truly recommend this book. V.B. Carlton, Chief Justice, Retired, Florida Supreme Court $18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-395-0 6 x 9 336 pages
Everglades Lawmen
True Stories of Game Wardens in the Glades
James T. Huffstodt
Meet the people who have dedicated their lives to protecting the wildlife and natural resources of the Florida Everglades. From the first game wardens to present-day wildlife officers, law enforcement in this wild, untamed area has kept pace with changing times.
This is one excellent read; dont pass up getting a copy of this one. Bob Mullen, International Game Warden $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-192-5 6 x 9 243 pages 45 b&w photos
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Ghosts | Storytelling
Florida Ghost Stories
Robert R. Jones
Stories of ghosts and spirits and tall tales of strange happenings in Florida. There are two stories of Indian legends from Silver Springs, stories of hauntings in the little town of Micanopy, an encounter with a specter at Fort Clinch near Fernandina, the tale of a ghost in the Castillo in St. Augustine, and many more.

Haunting Sunshine
Jack Powell
Spectral visions, footsteps in the attic Doug Alderson do such things make us think of ghosts? Join Jack Powell on a wild ride from Only in a swamp can you find a swamp Pensacola to Jacksonville and down to ape or a ghost who is obsessed with Key West, touring Floridas places and the ghost orchid. From the notes at the history through some of its best ghost stories. end of each story, you can learn about Floridas swamps and history, along with storytelling tips. . . . there is an undeniable appeal to the stories about local
communities. The Tampa Tribune $10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-220-5 6 x 9 176 pages 23 b&w photo Thank you so much for such a fabulous book that teaches about true nature and destroys myths.Lauren Greene, Dunwoody Nature Center $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-379-0 6 x 9 176 pages 44 b&w photos
The Ghost Orchid Ghost and Other Tales from the Swamp
Floridas Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore

Volume 1: South and Central Florida
Greg Jenkins
Explore ruins in New Smyrna Beach, and keep an eye out for dark figures in the nearby forest. Visit Islamorada, where the ghostly remains of Flaglers railway rumble over tracks destroyed in the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane. Walk through the eerie corridors of the mausoleum in Myrtle Hill Cemetery near Tampa.

Volume 2: North Florida and St. Augustine
Greg Jenkins
Explore abandoned hospitals, ancient springs, and modern apartment complexes from Ocala to Jacksonville, from Lake City to Tallahassee. Encounter playful and frightening spirits. Take an exciting tour through ancient St. Augustine.

Volume 3: The Gulf Coast and Pensacola
Greg Jenkins
A collection of uncanny legends and eerie folklore about Floridas beautiful west coast. Walk through Pensacola in Floridas Panhandle, where spirits are beckoned by an eerie lighthouse shining through the night, or stroll through its Seville Quarter and meet a long-dead bartender. Visit the Island Hotel and Restaurant in Cedar Key, where thirteen spirits are said to roam the building.
Haunt Hunters Guide to Florida

Joyce Elson Moore
Take a tour of the most haunted spots in the Sunshine State. Gives each sites history and haunt history. Includes interviews with owners and caretakers. Also includes travel tips.
By using this book as a guide, you can make interesting day trips to some of Floridas most historic and legendary places. The Tampa Tribune $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-150-5 6 x 9 192 pages 26 b&w photos
Chronicles of the Strange and Uncanny in Florida

Greg Jenkins
Open these hidden files to explore Floridas darker avenues for evidence of the extraordinary and the fantastic. Look beyond the confines of everyday life to discover the truly unusual. Encounter the Skunk Ape, El Chupacabra, the Spanish-Moss Monster, a phantom clown, and, of course, some blood-seeking vampires. Watch out for UFOs and extraterrestrials. From Floridas many waters come St. Augustines Giant Octopus and the Everglades Water Serpent.
Haunted Lighthouses and How to Find Them

Second Edition
George Steitz
A grand tour of the legends of these bewitching and bewitched monuments. Meet a cast of intriguing characters, including noted historians, people who work in lighthouses, and the ghosts themselves.
For the ghost buff, the lover of lighthouses, or the traveler looking for a unique place to visit. Tim Harrison, American Lighthouse Foundation $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-436-0 6 x 9 312 pages
Tellable Cracker Tales

Annette J. Bruce
Meet Cracker Jack, Sneaky Sam, Gator Todd, and a host of other colorful characters in this rich collection of tellable tales drawn from Florida history, folklore, and fiction. Includes tips for telling.
Offers all who enjoy local Floridian color hours of entertaining reading. Ormond Loomis, Chief, Bureau of Florida Folklore $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-100-0 $8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-094-2 6 x 9 104 pages 6 line drawings
More Tellable Cracker Tales

Annette J. Bruce
Another rich collection of stories taken from Florida history and folklore, tailormade for telling, listening, and reading.
Brings back the feel of the front porch, the sound of the old screen door, and a host of recollections as perennial as cornbread and beans. Ken Crawford, Florida Folk Festival The grand dame of Florida storytelling has done it again. David Matlack, Ocala Storytelling Festival $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-253-3 $8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-256-4 6 x 9 104 pages
Sandspun
Florida Tales by Florida Tellers
Compiled by Annette J. Bruce and J. Stephen Brooks
A grab-bag of tales rich with homespun humor, charm, and wisdom, told with flair by 24 of Floridas best storytellers.
Annette Jenks Bruce is one of Floridas most acclaimed storytellers. Sarasota Herald-Tribune $16.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-242-7 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-243-4 6 x 9 176 pages
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Pirates of the Carolinas
Second Edition
Terrance Zepke
RECENT RECENT
Georgia | Carolinas
Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas
13 of the most intriguing buccaneers Blair and Dawn Witherington in the history of piracy, all connected somehow to the Carolinas:Blackbeard, An attractive and handy guidebook Anne Bonny, Calico Jack Rackham, for beachgoers. Accurate Mary Read, William Fly, Long Ben Avery, Billy Lewis, identification information and over 1000 color photos. Stede Bonnet, Thomas Tew, Richard Worley, Charles Vane, Includes in one volume birds, shells, plants, animals Captain William Kidd, and John Redfield. everything you encounter on a beach.
$10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-344-8 6 x 9 176 pages 14 drawings $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-490-2 6 x 9 352 pages Over 1000 color photos range maps charts
Living Beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas
Full-color photos throughout of hundreds of the shells youll find on the beaches of Georgia and the Carolinas. Includes details about the features, habitats, and diet of each shells inhabitant. Did you know that while almost all marine snails are right-handed, the lightning whelk is lefthanded?
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-497-1 6 x 9 84 pages Over 250 color photos range maps
Best Ghost Tales of North Carolina

Second Edition
Terrance Zepke
25 tales of strange happenings, creepy places, and engaging specters across North Carolina from the mountains to the coast. Learn about the Pink Lady of Grove Park Inn, the tragedy aboard the Queen of Sounds, and the unknown soldier and the Confederate spy.
$10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-378-3 6 x 9 152 pages 32 photos and illustrations
Ghosts of the Carolina Coasts

Haunted Lighthouses, Plantations, and Other Historic Sites
Terrance Zepke
32 ghost stories taken from real-life occurrences and from Carolina Lowcountry lore. Most take place in prominent historic structures with historical characters: youll find out what the history books dont tell you.
This collection of tales . . . will make your hair stand on end. Sandlapper $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-175-8 6 x 9 160 pages 13 b&w photos 32 line illustrations
Ghosts and Legends of the Carolina Coasts

Terrance Zepke
This collection of 28 stories ranges from hair-raising tales of horror to fascinating legends from the folklore of North and South Carolina. Learn about the eerie Fire Ship of New Bern and meet the dreaded Boo Hag.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-336-3 6 x 9 160 pages 28 drawings 6 b&w photos
Best Ghost Tales of South Carolina

Terrance Zepke
From the bustling streets of Charleston and the graceful old plantations to the foreboding coastal forts and the darkest heart of the swamps, spirits and creatures lurk in every corner of a state where soldiers fell, slaves died, and voodoo is an open secret.
Ghosts of the Georgia Coast

Don Farrant
Youll find plenty of evidence that the supernatural is still alive in the Golden Isles of Georgia. Visit crumbling slave cabins, grand mansions and plantation homes, ancient forts, and Indian hideouts to find restless souls, skin-walkers, and protective spirits.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-265-6 6 x 9 160 pages 12 b&w photos 8 drawings
Coastal North Carolina

Second Edition
Its Enchanting Islands, Towns, and Communities

Terrance Zepke
Find quick histories of islands, towns, and regions; main sites and attractions; opportunities for recreation, sports, and outdoor activities; and festivals and events. Learn about little-known gems such as Bear Islands Hammocks State Park and the Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge.
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-511-4 6 x 9 260 pages b&w photos maps
The Legend of the Lowcountry Liar and Other Tales of a Tall Order
Brian McCright
13 tall tales told by the Lowcountry Liar, whose homespun yarns weave fact and fiction like the Gullah women make sweetgrass baskets. Tales for telling aloud.
Anyone who loves Charleston, or ghost stories, or just good old well-told tales will love this book. Bret Lott, author of Jewel $8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-337-0 6 x 9 136 pages 13 drawings
Lowcountry Voodoo: Beginners Guide to Tales, Spells and Boo Hags

Terrance Zepke
A compilation of some of the beliefs, special spells, and remarkable stories passed down through generations of Gullah families who have made their home in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry. Learn spells and curses and how to avoid them, as well as how to bring good luck while avoiding bad luck. Meet a boo hag bride who sheds her skin at night, and Dr. Buzzard, the most famous root doctor.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-455-1 6 x 9 160 pages b&w illustrations by Michael Swing
Coastal South Carolina

Welcome to the Lowcountry
Terrance Zepke
From Myrtle Beach to Beaufort, South Carolinas Lowcountry is steeped in history and full of charm. Includes brief histories and fast facts for the islands and communities, historical and recent photos of local attractions, calendars of events, helpful maps and tourism resources.
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Cooking | Gardening
The Storm Gourmet
A Guide to Creating Extraordinary Meals Without Electricity
Daphne Nikolopoulos
A crucial resource for hurricane season, but can be used for anytime you are without power, including camping. Shopping lists and menus as well as recipes for appetizing meals prepared from canned goods with some fresh ingredients. Featured in USA Today and on CNN and The Weather Channel
Packed with useful information.Forum magazine $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-334-9 6 x 9 144 pages

The Sunshine State Cookbook
George Fichter
Florida Bounty
A Celebration of Florida Cuisine and Culture
Eric and Sandra Jacobs Recipes that reflect the diversity of the states many immigrants. Features Focuses on the bounty of food grown and exotic fruits and vegetables and produced in Florida. Includes complete seafood, as well as dishes more typical regional menus such as A Florida in northern Florida. Cook chicken inside a coconut! Flame a Thanksgiving, Boating Picnic, Football Tailgate Party, pineapple with rum! Prepare tiny coquina clams and giant Miami High Life, and Key West Fiesta. Try orange creams, conch snails. crabby stuffed mushrooms, oyster stew, papaya salad, fried green tomatoes, and pecan pralines.
$11.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-214-4 6 x 9 224 pages $8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-352-3 6 x 9 144 pages line illustrations
Exotic Foods
A Kitchen and Garden Guide
Marian Van Atta
A garden-to-kitchen guide to take advantage of year-round warm weather (or your greenhouse) to grow and use exotic fruits and vegetables. Solid gardening advice as well as plenty of recipes for drinks, main courses, desserts, relishes, and jams and jellies.
The Mongo Mango Cookbook

Cynthia Thuma
Everything about mangos as well as recipes for preparing them in salads, meat and seafood dishes, desserts, and drinks. Includes Asian, Mexican, Indian, and American recipes. Learn mango history and lore. Guide to the cultivars, nurseries, garden clubs, and mango festivals.
mangos.California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-239-7 6 x 9 160 pages
Mastering the Art of Florida Seafood

Lonnie Lynch
Guide to purchasing, preparing, and serving seafood with restaurant flair, including artistic food placement and food painting techniques. Gives nutritional value of seafoods and describes how to choose the right kitchen equipment. Recipes include first and ...this book offers many recipes and much of the background of main courses, even desserts. This book will entice you to try new and eclectic cuisine.Venice Gulf Coast Living
$12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-176-5 6 x 9 176 pages 50 illustrations
Essential Catfish Cookbook

Janet Cope and Shannon Harper
Full of mouth-watering recipes that call for succulent catfish and easyto-find ingredients. Includes sauces, soups, stews, sides, and sandwiches. Recipes are rated Very Easy, Easy, or Moderately Easy, and all have been kitchen-tested for convenience, accuracy, and taste.
...filled with simple, delectable recipes sure to win over the legions who swear by their catfish. Athens Banner-Herald $8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-201-4 6 x 9 144 pages
The Mostly Mullet Cookbook

A Culinary Celebration of the Souths Favorite Fish (and other great Southern seafood)
George Grif Griffin
Dozens of recipes to celebrate this bullet-headed silvery delicacy. Includes mullet-friendly sides and sauces and other great Southern seafood such as Wicked Wokked Scallops & Veggies, Ybor City Street Vendors Crab Cakes, and Judys Mullet Butter.
Searching for the Dixie Barbecue

Journeys into the Southern Psyche
Wilber Caldwell
A culinary and cultural saga. Its all about regional pride, homespun cookery, backwoods lore, and the primal importance of barbecue.
There arent all that many books I wish Id written, but this is one of them. John Shelton Reed, The Journal of Southern Culture $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-333-2 9 x 9 128 pages 95 b&w photos
Guide to the Gardens of Florida

Lilly Pinkas
Guide to the Gardens of Georgia

Lilly Pinkas
Guide to the Gardens of South Carolina

Lilly Pinkas
$14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-169-7 6 x 9 192 pages 16-page color insert 42 drawings
This series takes you on a tour of the best gardens you can visit in all three states. Learn the history and unique offerings of each garden, what plants to see, and the best time to see them. Includes directions, hours, fees, calendar of events. Enjoy formal and informal gardens and get ideas for your own.
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Georgias Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites
Kevin M. McCarthy Illustrations by William L. Trotter
The lighthouses, forts, historic homes, plantations, and churches of Georgias coast. Each site is illustrated with a full-color painting.
Lighthouses | Animals | Sports

Lighthouses of Ireland
Lighthouses of the Florida Keys

Love Dean
History of the Keys lights, which includes the largest collection of iron screwpile lighthouses in the world. Covers construction, as well as the storms and politics that have swirled around them.
Two of almost everybodys favorite subjects are lighthouses and Florida Keys, and heres a readable book about both. Jacksonville Times-Union $24.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-160-4 6 x 9 304 pages 83 b&w photos 12-page color insert
The story of the lighthouses that dot the Irish coastline. Thirty of the most interesting lights are featured with detailed histories and full-color paintings by noted maritime artist William Trotter.
$21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-131-4 8 x 11 160 pages 30 color paintings
Florida Lighthouse Trail

Thomas Taylor, Editor Illustrated by Paul Bradley
The histories of Floridas light stations by different authors, each an authority on a particular lighthouse. Dates of construction and operation, foundation materials, lighting equipment. Directions to each lighthouse site. Preface by Wayne Wheeler, president of the United States Lighthouse Society. Names, contact information, and websites of lighthouse organizations.
Bansemers Book of Florida Lighthouses

Roger Bansemer
Full of stunning, full-color paintings by accomplished artist Roger Bansemer, this book highlights the thirty lighthouses still standing in Florida. Includes a detailed history of each light and accompanying paintings to show how it looks today. A beautiful collectors edition.
$29.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-172-7 9 x 12 144 pages full-color paintings throughout
Bansemers Book of the Southern Shores

Roger Bansemer
An artists journal, reproduced as a large and colorful book, describing in words and images the natural beauty of the coastsfrom the sponge divers of Tarpon Springs to the marshlands of coastal Georgia.
$35.00 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-294-6 9 x 12 256 pages full-color paintings
Lighthouses of Greece
Elinor DeWire & Dolores Pergioudakis
This lavishly illustrated and carefully researched book covers more than 100 lighthouses, most still guiding ships around the Greek Islands. Their romance, beauty, and history are captured in this handy guidebook. Beguiling images, fascinating histories, and helpful travel information will guide you to these beloved seamarks in the land of Hellene. Includes interesting sections on ancient lighthouses, lighthouse keepers, and lighthouse construction.
$21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-452-0 $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-460-5 May 7 x 10 168 pages full-color photos
Guardians of the Lights

Revised Edition
Elinor DeWire
Stories of the heroism and fortitude of the men and women of the U.S. Lighthouse Service, who kept vital shipping lanes safe from 1716 until early in the 20th century.
Charming blend of history and human interest. The Waterlog $27.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-077-5 $18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-119-2 6 x 9 324 pages 130 b&w photos color insert
The Lightkeepers Menagerie

Stories of Animals at Lighthouses
Elinor DeWire
The stories of all the cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned creatures that live at lighthouses, accompanying and helping the keepers. Tales of animals from lighthouses all over the world, tales of happiness and sadness, courage and cowardice, tragedy and comedy, and even absurdity.
$27.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-390-5 $21.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-391-2 6 x 9 416 pages 150 b&w photos color insert
Alligator Tales
Kevin M. McCarthy Color photos by John Moran
True (and tongue-in-cheek) accounts of alligators and the people who have hunted them, been attacked by them, and tried to save them from extinction. Learn how modern alligator hunters go about their business, which hasnt changed much in the last hundred years or so.
Highly interesting . . . illustrated with wonderful photographs. Naples Daily News $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-158-1 6 x 9 184 pages 31 b&w photos 16-page color insert
They Called It Golf Because Flog Was Already Taken

Frank Fenton and David Grimes Cartoons by Al Konetzni
A professional golfer and a humorist team up to give you some pointers and some laughs. Get Fentons take on kick point, torque, and balance point. Grimes reminds us not to putt rules before golfing fun and tells us why golfers should hit balls, not the bottle.
$8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-288-5 6 x 9 152 pages 10 cartoons
Running in Florida
Mauricio Herreros
The author has run every course in this book and gives you the best places in each region. Complete directions, mileage, where to find facilities and parking, whether there are fees, the condition of the terrain, safety tips. Includes running clubs, general references, and a pace chart.
With a locals eye for detail . . . his pride in the states beaches, historic neighborhood, and pristine parks shines through on every page. Southern Living $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-273-1 6 x 9 192 pages 50 b&w photos
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Nature | History | Reference | Literature

Florida Magnificent Wilderness
State Lands, Parks, and Natural Areas
James Valentine and D. Bruce Means
World-famous nature photographer Valentine presents art images of the states remote wilderness places. Comprehensive text by biologist Means and other Florida conservationists.
You will be enthralled by this magnificent book. Ney Landrum, Director Emeritus, Florida State Parks $29.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-361-5 9 x 12 144 pages 156 color photos

Florida Fun Facts
Second Edition
Eliot Kleinberg
The Florida Quiz Book

How Much Do You Know about Florida?
Hollee Temple
Over 2500 questions and answers on topics like Agriculture, Architecture, Art, the Economy, Ecosystems, the Environment, Plants, Animals, Geology, Geography, History, the Keys, Law, Literature, Meteorology, the Oceans and Coastline, Parks, Space Science, and good old general Florida Statistics. Includes references to Sunshine State Standards.
$12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-353-0 6 x 9 256 pages 29 photos and drawings
From theme parks to ballparks, the quirky to the educational, Miami to Tallahasseefun facts from every city and county are offered here. Detailed indexes make this book an excellent resource for Florida history.
Pop Culture Florida

James P. Goss
A behind-the-scenes look at the people and events in the pop history of Florida since 1945. A factual, fun, sometimes funny overview of highliving movers and shakers, scam artists and criminals, and other colorful folks.
You Got Me ! Florida

Rob Lloyd
Florida trivia in a unique format. Scrupulously researched, informative, and entertaining, this book can also be used as a referenceunlike any other youve seen.
Benefit Auctions
A Fresh Formula for Grassroots Fundraising
Sandy Bradley
Step-by-step guide with tried-andtrue methods for putting on a wildly successful auction. How to hire an auctioneer, solicit donations, train volunteers, and market the event. Includes sample forms and letters.
After raising money for nonprofits for 30 years, I was delighted to discover new pointers on every page. Susan Howlett, author of Getting Funded $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-304-2 8 x 11 168 pages letters, charts, forms
Christmas in Florida
Kevin M. McCarthy
Learn Floridas own sun-drenched ways of celebrating Christmas. Discover the holiday celebrations of the many ethnic communities as well as the old-time traditions.
Replete with hilarious anecdotes and Christmas recipes native to the Sunshine State . . . celebrates the idiosyncratic ways we peninsula people ring in the yule. St. Petersburg Times A grab-bag of holiday cheer. Miami Herald $10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-208-3 6 x 9 160 pages 25 b&w photos
Dog Island and Other Florida Poems

Laurence Donovan Foreword by Donald Justice
Miami poet-artist Donovan contemplates sea, sand, and sky in his words and etchings. In his foreword Donald Justice calls Donovan doubly gifted.
Dog Island is one of the finest poems about Florida ever written... Robert Zaller, Drexel University $12.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-284-7 5 x 7 96 pages 16 etchings
Organizing Special Events and Conferences

Darcy Campion Devney
A comprehensive and practical handbook for staff and volunteers that reveals the tricks and techniques of the professional event organizer. For any event from a church social or school fundraiser to a national conference.
A goldmine of information. Booklist Full of solid advice and useful details. Jill Muehrcke, Editor, Nonprofit World $19.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-217-5
Tourists, Retirees, and Other Reasons to Stay in Bed

David Grimes
David Grimess humor column, which he began writing in 1985, runs in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. After his 25 years as a Florida resident he offers us his sage advice on topics such as these: Granny Sweat Boosts Health Though Often Confused, Tourists, Love Bugs Differ Be Kind to the Canadians
Shakespeare Plays the Classroom

Stuart E. Omans and Maurice OSullivan, Editors
This guide for teachers and lovers of literature and theater is an original collection of essays exploring the idea that Shakespeares plays are best approached playfully through performance.
A gift, rich in pleasures and incredibly multifaceted. John Andrews, president of the Shakespeare Guild $24.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-277-9 6 x 9 250 pages
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Fiction
NEW
The Honor Series

by Robert N. Macomber
This series is unique in naval fictionpage-turners that make you anxious to read the next chapter.Historical Novels Review At last! Finally we have an American character the quivalent of Hornblower or Aubry. A rollicking sea adventure. Not to be missed.John Prados, author of Combined Fleet Decoded Sign on early and set sail with Peter Wake for both solid historical content and exciting sea stories. Naval Institute Proceedings At the Edge of Honor
First in series Winner of Best Historical Novel of Florida by the Florida Historical Society
Peter Wake joins the U.S. Navy and arrives in Florida in 1863. On a tiny, armed sloop, Captain Wake chases Confederate blockade runners. He is forced to make decisions that take him to the edge of honor.
Macomber skillfully describes tactical strategizing while providing the history of Floridas Civil War sea battles. Publishers Weekly $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-252-6 $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-272-4 6 x 9 280 pages
Honorable Lies
The Latest in the Honor Series
Available September 2012 See page 3.
Point of Honor
Second in series Winner of the John Esten Cooke Literary Award for Best Work in Southern Fiction
In 1864 Wake searches for Union deserters and finds an old nemesis during a standoff with the French navy on the coast of Mexico. Wake risks his reputation for his love of the daughter of a Confederate zealot. He balances on the point of honor.
An American hero worthy of his counterparts in naval fiction. Tall Ships Books $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-270-0 $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-345-5
Honorable Mention
Third in series
Now in command of a steamer, Lt. Peter Wake chases a strange vessel during a tropical storm off Cuba, liberates a slave ship, encounters a powerful warship in Havanas harbor, and tracks down a colony of former Confederates in Puerto Rico.
Macomber is not only a superb naval historian, but he can also tell a compelling action-packed story that educates painlessly as it sails the reader along. Randy Wayne White $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-311-0 $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-462-9 6 x 9 336 pages
A Dishonorable Few
Fourth in series
It is 1869 and the U.S. is recovering from the Civil War. Lieutenant Wake heads to Central America to deal with a former American naval officer turned renegade mercenary. Wake is forced to make a decision that will lead to his courtmartial.
$21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-339-4 6 x 9 368 pages
An Affair of Honor
Fifth in series
Wake, in 1873, is executive officer of a ship on patrol in the West Indies. He runs afoul of the Royal Navy in Antigua, and then hes sent to Europe, where he gets embroiled in the Spanish Civil War, and then to North Africa. The charms of the wife of a French diplomat engage Wake in an affair of honor.
A fine mix of drama and authenticity, based on Macombers own trips to the locations he writes about. Ft. Myers News-Press $21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-368-4 6 x 9 376 pages
A Different Kind of Honor

Sixth in series Winner of the 2008 American Library Association Boyd Literary Award for Military Fiction
Its 1879 and Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake is the American naval observer to the War of the Pacific raging along the west coast of South America. Wake witnesses historys first battle between oceangoing ironclads, rides the worlds first deep-diving submarine, and faces his first machine guns in combat.
A tour de force, the best yet of a superb series. Admiral James Stavridis, USN $21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-398-1 6 x 9 392 pages
The Honored Dead

Seventh in series
Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, Office of Naval Intelligence, is in French Indochina in 1883.He encounters opium warlords, Chinese-Malay pirates, and French gangsters; suffers starvation at sea; survives a typhoon; is marooned on a beach; and endures a horrific full-scale battle.
A must-read book for anyone who appreciates history, intelligence, and great story-telling by a master of the art of historical fiction. Rear Adm. Tony Cothron, USN (retired), 62nd Director of Naval Intelligence $21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-438-4 6 x 9 400 pages
The Darkest Shade of Honor

Eighth in series
It is 1886 and Wake meets rising politico Theodore Roosevelt in New York City. Wake is assigned to uncover Cuban revolutionary activities between Florida and Cuba. He meets Jos Mart, finds himself engulfed in the most catastrophic event in Key West history, and must make a decision involving the very darkest shade of honor.
A solid entry in this popular series. Booklist $21.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-465-0 March 6 x 9 416 pages
Honor Bound
Robert N. Macomber Ninth in series
In 1888 Commander Peter Wake, U.S. naval intelligence agent, meets a woman from his past, who begs him to find her missing son. Wake sets off across Florida, through the Bahamian islands, and deep into the dank jungles of Haiti to find the hidden lair of an anarchist group planning to wreak havoc around the worldunless he stops it.
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Fiction
Adventures in Nowhere
John Ames
A boy in 1950s Florida wrestles with adult problems in a place called Nowhere. This novel paints a compelling, imaginative, and often humorous vision of a time, a place, and a way of growing up, allowing a reader to live for a while in the mind of a boy caught at the final edge of childhood.
A superb coming-of-age novel in the tradition of Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird. Bill Maxwell, syndicated Tampa Bay Times columnist $18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-484-1 6 x 9 232 pages

Seven Mile Bridge
Michael Biehl
Florida Keys dive shop owner Jonathan Bruckner returns home to Wisconsin after his mothers death, searching for clues to his fathers death years before. He is stunned by what he discovers about his fathers life and comes to know his parents in a way he never did as a child. Mostly, he is surprised by what he learns about himself. Fluidly moving between past and present, between hope and despair, Seven Mile Bridge is a story about one mans obsession with the truth and how much can depend on finding it.
Death in Bloodhound Red

Virginia Lanier
Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery in the U.S.
Jo Beth Siddon raises and trains bloodhounds for search-and-rescue missions in the Okeefenokee Swamp. She is accused of murder and must unravel a web of deceit and betrayal to save her life.
Melds good-old-boy humor and action-packed adventure. Publishers Weekly A very appealing first novel. Library Journal $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-407-0 6 x 9 462 pages
My Brother Michael
Janis Owens
Myra Sims
Janis Owens
A rare literary opportunity to experience the same story from a different characters perspective. We met Myra Sims in My Brother Michael and knew her through the eyes of her friend, brother-in-law, and one-time lover, Gabriel Catts. In Myra Sims we hear Myras story in her own flat Louisianan voice as she evolves from victim to survivor.
Conflict of Interest
Terry Lewis
Trial lawyer Ted Stevens fights his own battles, including his alcoholism and his pending divorce, as he fights for his client in a murder case. But its the other suspect in the case who causes the conflict of interest.
Gripping, taught courtroom proecedural. . . . This well-crafted drama rings with authenticity all the way to its heart-stopping conclusion.Publishers Weekly $18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-132-1 6 x 9 328 pages
Winner of the Chatauqua South Award for Fiction

Out of the shotgun houses and shaded porches of a west Florida mill town comes this extraordinary novel of love and redemption. Gabriel Catts, still in love with his brothers wife, attempts to reconcile a family shattered by his betrayal.
Nothing short of stunning. Library Journal A luminously written first novel. Kirkus Reviews $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-343-1 6 x 9 304 pages
Mystery in the Sunshine State

Stuart Kaminsky, Editor
An enticing selection of Florida mystery stories. Includes Florida writers Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Les Standiford, Peter King, Robert W. Walker, Stuart Kaminsky, Stuart McIver, John Lutz, Nancy Bartholomew, David Ash, E.C. Ayres, David Beaty, Stanley Ellin, Erik Wiklund, Robert Randisi, and Harold Q. Masur.
Nobodys Hero
Frank Laumer
A novel about Ransom Clark, survivor of Dades Battle near Tampa, Florida, at the start of the Second Seminole War in 1835. Tells of the seriously wounded Clarks incredible journey from the battle site back to Fort Brooke.
A marvelous novel about the unsung hero of the Second Seminole War.Jeff Klinkenberg, author of Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-431-5 6 x 9 288 pages
For God, Gold and Glory

De Sotos Journey to the Heart of La Florida
E. H. Haines
A fictionalized version of the journal kept by the private secretary of Hernando de Soto during his 153943 desperate journey of almost 4000 miles through the wilds of La Florida. A tale of adventure and survival, undying faith, unconquerable friendship, and the dark aspects of human nature.
Black Creek
The Taking of Florida
Paul Varnes
Confederate Money
Paul Varnes
The riveting story of a young Florida mans journey through the battles of the Civil War as he amasses Confederate dollars and changes them shrewdly into silver and gold.
The Bucket Flower

Donald R. Wilson
In 1893 a young Boston woman goes into the wilds of the Florida Everglades to study the plants, which no woman has ever done. She finds a lawless frontier inhabited by dangerous wild animals and even more dangerous men. She manages to prove she is not just a bucket flower, a pampered person unfit to face the rigors of the swamp.
A sweeping and believable story of early Florida when white settlers moved into the territory, taking it from the natives with false treaties and finally all-out war. Both the whites and the Indians were Brings the wartime South to life. Highly enjoyable. newcomers anxious to take Florida. Lake City Reporter
$19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-396-7 6 x 9 292 pages $18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-271-7 6 x 9 280 pages
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A Land Remembered
Patrick D. Smith
Fiction
Patrick Smiths Florida: A Sense of Place ( DVD) Forever Island & Allapattah
A Patrick Smith
Winner of the Florida Historical Societys Tebeau Prize for Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel
In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons.
This novel distinguishes itself as the elemental struggle of man and nature.NY Times Book Review $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-0-910923-12-5 $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-116-1
Patrick Smith
In this delightful and Reader educational DVD, Patrick Patrick D. Smith Smith discusses his life and Forever Island is widely writing, with an emphasis recognized as the classic on how his books were researched by his travels novel of the Everglades. and work around the state. This DVD has the Its the story of Charlie Jumper, a Seminole feel of personal contact with Floridas greatest who clings to the old ways. living author. Appeals to all ages.
$19.95 Home Viewing ISBN 978-0-9765509-0-7 $95.00 Public Viewing ISBN 978-0-9765509-1-4 Includes license to show to schools and libraries A captivating fable. NY Times Book Review
Floridas Favorite Storyteller
Allapattah is the story of a young Seminole in despair in the white mans world.
The River Is Home & Angel City

A Patrick Smith Reader
Patrick D. Smith
The River Is Home is Smiths first novel, set in Mississippi. A charming excursion into a lost world.
New York Times Book Review
The Beginning
Patrick D. Smith
In this 1960s novel from Patrick Smith, just as the blacks and whites of a small Southern town think they are moving toward equality, civil rights workers arrive and violence erupts.
An outstanding novel. As true a picture of Southern racial relations to be found. Mississippi Press $16.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-450-6 6 x 9 324 pages
Alligator Gold
A Cracker Western
Janet Post
Cracker Westerns Adventure-packed cowboy yarns set right here in Floridaas historically accurate as anything Zane Grey or Louis LAmour wrote. The Tampa Tribune
Angel City is the powerful expos of migrant workers in Florida in the 1970s. It was made into a critically acclaimed film.
On his way home from a Northern prisoner-of-war camp at the end of the Civil War, Caleb Hawk Hawkins is focused on getting back to the D-Wing, his Florida cattle ranch. But along the way, Hawk encounters a very pregnant Madelaine Wilkes and learns that his only son has gone missing and that his old nemesis, Snake Barber, has taken over his ranch.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-446-9 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-447-6 5 x 7 320 pages
Guns of the Palmetto Plains

Rick Tonyan
Tree Hooker, tough as alligator hide and quick with gun, knife and whip, takes on the job of driving cattle north to feed the hungry Confederacy. Quicksand, snakefilled swamps, Yankee raiders, and vicious outlaws try to block his way.
Riders of the Suwannee

Lee Gramling
Tate Barkley returns to 1870s Florida after ten years on the Western frontier with the idea of settling down near the Suwannee River. But a run-in with Big Bill Catons outlaw gang means that his gunfighting days are not over. Especially when a pretty young widow needs some help to hold onto her place down on the Gulf coast.
Thunder on the St. Johns

Lee Gramling
The vast unsettled lands of Florida in the 1850s draw people toward the promise of fresh beginnings. Most of them are honest, hard-working citizens. But there is another element, as on any frontier: the violent, the greedy, the power-hungry. Will the honest homesteaders prevail?
Trail from St. Augustine

Lee Gramling
In the spring of 1771, John MacKenzie arrives in British-ruled St. Augustine. He is quickly drawn into an adventure that involves defending a young woman indentured to the powerful and treacherous James Tyrone. MacKenzie and Becky Campbell set out across the untamed Florida wilderness, toward a showdown on the Florida Gulf coast.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-064-5 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-042-3 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-080-5 5 x 7 264 pages 5 x 7 294 pages
Ghosts of the Green Swamp

Lee Gramling
Ninety-Mile Prairie
Lee Gramling
Bridgers Run
Jon Wilson
Tom Bridger has come to Florida in 1885 to find his long-lost uncle and a hidden treasure. He arrives in Jacksonville and heads west across Floridas wild frontier, his quick temper bringing several brushes with death, including gator-filled swamps and a footrace with a stagecoach.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-170-3 $11.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-174-1 5 x 7 256 pages
Wiregrass Country
Herb and Muncy Chapman
A tale of the rugged Florida frontier in 1835. A family struggles to keep their ranch thriving under threat of rustlers and renegade Indians. Now the family is further tested as another Seminole War is brewing and outlaws are on the rise.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-257-1 $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-120-8 5 x 7 288 pages $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-126-0
While Peek Tillman herds Troubles found Tate cattle to market, he has to Barkley again, but this be on the lookout for wild time its in the form of beasts and reptilesas a beautiful but coldhearted young woman with two murderous well as predators of the human variety. He henchmen, who rob Tate and leave him encounters more than he can figure how to handle when he meets a beautiful woman for dead. When hes able to set out in and her archaeologist husband down from pursuit, Tate follows a trail that draws him ever deeper into that vast forbidding the Northeast, not to mention some greedy outlaws. swampland near the headwaters of the $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-255-7 Withlacoochee River.
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Animals Those Amazing Animals
C h i l d r e ns B o o k s
Each volume has 20 questions and answers, 20 photos, and 20 funny illustrations by Steve Weaver.
Those Enormous Elephants
Sarah Cussen
Those Big Bears

Jan Lee Wicker
NEW
RECENT
Those Kooky Kangaroos

Bonnie Nickel
NEW
What is the main function of an elephants trunk: a straw, a nose, or a hand? If you guessed all of these, youre right! Discover more fascinating facts about the biggest land animal on earth.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56167-515-2 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56167-516-9 August 7 x 10 56 pages Ages 59 Reading level grade 3
Did you know that koala bears are not really bears at all? Did you know that black bears are not always black? If bears can outrun, outswim, and outclimb you, what do you do if you see one in the wild?
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-491-9 $10.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-492-6 7 x 10 56 pages Ages 59 Reading level grade 3
Do you know if kangaroos live in trees? Did you ever wonder if kangaroos are spring-loaded? Why they are called boomers, fliers, and stinkers? Why do kangaroos have built-in air conditioning? Youll find answers to these questions and much more in Those Kooky Kangaroos.
Illustrations by Steve Weaver
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56167-534-3 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56167-535-0 October 7 x 10 56 pages Ages 59 Reading level grade 3
Those Perky Penguins

Sarah Cussen
RECENT
Those Mischievous Monkeys

Bonnie Nickel
RECENT
Why do we love penguins? Is it because theyre impeccably attired? Because their maternaland paternalinstinct is second to none? Or because they waddle when they walk and talk to one another with cackles and squawks?
They stick out their tongues, hang from their tails, and howl at their neighbors! Explore the world of monkeys and find out if monkeys like snow, how fast they can run, and which species always give birth to twins.
Those Amazing Alligators A

Kathy Feeney
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-359-2 Library binding $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-356-1 7 x 10 56 pages Ages 59 Reading level grade 3
Those Funny Flamingos

Jan Lee Wicker
Those Terric Turtles

Sarah Cussen
Those Excellent Eagles

Jan Lee Wicker
Those Peculiar Pelicans

Sarah Cussen
Those Delightful Dolphins

Jan Lee Wicker
Thos Those Outrageous Owls

Laura Wyatt
Those Colossal Cats

Marta Magellan
Those Magical Manatees

Jan Lee Wicker
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-382-0 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-383-7 7 x 10 56 pages Ages 59 Reading level grade 3 Lexile 750
Those Beautiful Butteries

Sarah Cussen
Those Lively Lizards

Marta Magellan
Those Voracious Vultures

Marta Magellan
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A Land Remembered Student Edition
Patrick D. Smith
Floridas favorite historical novel in a two-volume edition for young readers. Suitable for ages 9 and up. (See page 25 for the adult edition.) Volume 1 covers the first generation of MacIveys to arrive in Florida and Zechs coming of age. $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-230-4 $8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-223-6 6 x 9 240 pages Ages 9 and up Reading level grade 5 Accelerated Reader quiz available Lexile 810 Volume 2 covers Zechs son, Solomon, and the exploitation of the land as his own generation prospers. $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-231-1 $7.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-224-3 6 x 9 200 pages Ages 9 and up Reading level grade 5 Accelerated Reader quiz Lexile 920
Fiction
The Treasure of Amelia Island
M. C. Finotti
Winner of the Florida Historical Societys Horgan Award

Eleven-year-old Mary Kingsley, daughter of historical figure Ana Jai Kingsley, tells the tumultuous events of 1813 when the Patriots try to force Spain out of La Florida. Amidst all this Mary and her brothers search for pirate treasure. Includes a readers guide.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-416-2 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-536-7 5 x 8 104 pages Ages 812 Reading level grade 5 Lexile 830 Accelerated Reader quiz
The teachers manuals aid in teaching language arts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Education.
A Land Remembered Goes to School: Elementary Teachers Manual $6.00 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-228-1 8 x 11 64 pages Middle School Teacher Plans and Resources for A Land Remembered $6.00 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-341-7 8 x 11 64 pages
Blood Moon Rider

Zack C. Waters
A young boy is sent to live with his grandfather in Florida during World War II. He and a new friend have adventures involving German U-boats lurking in the Gulf of Mexico.
. . . a good choice for middle school boys. Historical notes provide the context that could make this a plausible choice in the study of World War II . . . School Library Journal $13.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-350-9 5 x 8 136 pages Ages 914 Reading level grade 6 Accelerated Reader quiz
Solomon
Marilyn Bishop Shaw
The Spy Who Came In from the Sea

Peggy Nolan
Florida Historical Society award for best youth-oriented book

An 11-year-old boy and his parents, newly freed slaves, work to build a Florida homestead. Solomon learns to drive cattle by cracking a whip.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-349-3 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-434-6 5 x 8 208 pages Ages 914 Reading level grade 6 Accelerated Reader quiz available Lexile 870 A Teachers Handbook for Solomon $6.00 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-384-4 8 x 11 64 pages
Master list finalist for Sunshine State Readers Award

14-year old Frank Hollahan moves to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1943. When Frank informs everyone at school that he saw a spy land on the local beach, no one believes him, so Frank sets out to prove the spys existence.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-186-4 $8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-245-8 5 x 8 144 pages Ages 814 Reading level grade 6 Lexile 590 Accelerated Reader quiz
Kidnapped in Key West

Edwina Raffa and Annelle Rigsby
Its 1912 and 12-year-old Eddies father has been falsely accused of a crime, so Eddie goes to Key West to try to prove his innocence. He arrives just before Flaglers first train down the Keys. Eddie is kidnapped in the midst of the turmoil. Will he escape? Will he ever get home? Will he be able to help his father?
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-413-1 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-537-4 5 x 8 136 pages Ages 812 Reading level grade 5 Lexile 830 Accelerated Reader quiz Teachers Activity Guide $5.00 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-406-3 8 x 11 36 pages
Escape to the Everglades

Edwina Raffa and Annelle Rigsby
Running Boys mother was a Seminole and his father, a white man. Now 14, he has received his adult name, Will Cypress, at the Green Corn Dance. Hoping to prove his loyalty to the Snake Clan, Will joins Osceolas band of warriors fighting to remain in Florida during the Second Seminole War.
$12.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-351-6 5 x 8 112 pages Ages 912 Reading level grade 5 Accelerated Reader quiz Teachers Activity Guide $6.00 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-362-2 8 x 11 32 pages
Esmeralda and the Enchanted Pond

Susan Jane Ryan
Visit a mysterious Florida pond with Esmeralda and her dad. She wants real answers about nature, but her dad offers imaginary, mysterious ones. He finally tells her the real science behind the enchanted pond.
I cannot contain my enthusiasm for this book. NSTA $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-236-6 8 x 11 48 pages full-color throughout Ages 811 Reading level grade 4 Activity Guide $5.00 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-247-2 8 x 11 48 pages
Hunted Like a Wolf

The Story of the Seminole War
Milton Meltzer
A prize-winning book telling the history of the Second Seminole War (18351842), when the U.S. Army invaded the Seminole territories. Explores the Seminoles choices and the sacrifices they made by resisting in the longest and costliest of the Indian wars.
Based on a solid foundation of research. NY Times Book Review $16.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-305-9 6 x 9 192 pages 20 b&w photos Ages 12 and up Reading level grade 8 Lexile 1070
Legends of the Seminoles

Betty Mae Jumper with Peter Gallagher Paintings by Guy LaBree
For the first time, stories and legends that have been handed down through generations are set down for all to enjoy. Meet mischievous Rabbit, the Corn Lady, the Deer Girl, and creatures of the Everglades. The tales impart valuable lessons about living in harmony with nature. Each story is illustrated with an original color painting.
$18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-040-9 8 x 11 96 page 23 color paintings All ages Reading level grade 7 Lexile 890
The Old Man and the C

Carole Tremblay Illustrated by Angela Donato
Meet Charlie, whose dream is to catch the biggest fish in the sea. He signs up for a fishing tournament, but what he catches, after the battle of his lifetime, is a big surprise. Unlike Hemingways hero, this quest for a big fish is an amusing adventure that ends up with a case of the hiccups.
. . . ideal for young children who have graduated from easy reader picturebooks and are ready for wordier fare . . . The Midwest Book Review $15.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-354-7 Library binding 7 x10 32 pages 14 color illustrations Ages 610 Reading level grade 3 Lexile 720
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Reference | History | Lighthouses | Pirates | Biography

My Florida Alphabet
Russell W. Johnson and Annie P. Johnson Illustrations by John Hume
A unique alphabet book all about Florida. The text is the same as lyrics to the Florida alphabet song, which is included on a CD. Children sing along, learning their letters as they see, hear, and pantomime motions for each letter. Includes finger cards for each letter to create simple words through sound combinations.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-392-9 Library binding 7 x 10 64 pages Audio CD included Full-color illustrations Ages 48 Reading level grades Pre-K2
Florida A to Z
Susan Jane Ryan Illustrated by Carol Tornatore
From alligator to Zephyrhills, youll find Florida information packed into this alphabetalmost 200 facts about Florida personalities, history, geography, nature, and culture. For the Florida official gem, see M; for the saltwater mammal, see D; the saltwater fish is in A; the state butterfly is fluttering in Z.
$19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-249-6 8 x 11 64 pages full-color throughout Ages 912 Reading level grade 6
My Florida Facts
Russell W. Johnson and Annie P. Johnson
Learn facts about Florida from the state capital to the number of counties, from what states border Florida to how to make a Key lime pie. A kid-friendly book that makes learning fun by singing along with the My Florida Facts song, included on a CD. Research shows that music and rhythm facilitate learning.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-430-8 7 x 10 64 pages Includes CD Full-color illustrations by Michael Swing Ages 812
Florida Lighthouses for Kids

Elinor DeWire
The history and lore of Floridas 33 lighthouses with fun facts and colorful illustrations that appeal to kids. Learn about the people who designed and built them, meet some of the keepers, see how lighthouses operate, and find out about their new roles as museums.
$8.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-323-3 7 x 10 64 pages full-color throughout Ages 9 and up Reading level grade 6
Lighthouses of the Carolinas for Kids

Terrance Zepke
A colorful and fun book filled with the history and lore of the lighthouses guarding the Carolina coasts, from Currituck at the top to Haig Point at the bottom. Meet some of the keepers who braved storms and suffered loneliness. Learn how lighthouses operated in the early days and how they operate now.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-429-2 7 x 10 64 pages Color photos and illustrations Ages 9 and up
Pirates of the Carolinas for Kids

Terrance Zepke
Full of fun facts and colorful art, this book details the life of a pirate in the Golden Age of piracy and introduces nine of the most famous pirates to weigh anchor in the Carolinas. Why they became pirates and how they found treasure. What kinds of ships they sailed and how they talked. Includes activities and a quiz.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-459-9 7 x 10 72 pages Full-color illustrations by Michael Swing Ages 9 and up
Americas REAL First Thanksgiving

Robyn Gioia
Fifty-six years before the pilgrims landed in New England, Spanish explorer Menndez founded the first North American city, St. Augustine. The Spanish celebrated a thanksgiving meal with the Florida natives. Learn about Spain and Florida in the 1560s and how to make the food they likely ate that day.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-389-9 Library binding 10 x 8 48 pages 55 color illustrations Ages 914 Reading level grades 48 Lexile 1000 Accelerated Reader quiz available Teachers Manual $5.00 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-421-6 8.5 x 11 48 pages
Sinkholes
Sandra Friend
A clear and well-illustrated explanation of the phenomenon of sinkholes, which are born of the interaction between water and any rock that dissolves easily. Explains how a sinkhole becomes part of the environment, filling with water or becoming a deep, damp area that supports a new habitat. Reveals sinkholes from the oases of the Arabian Desert to the crystal-clear springs of Florida.
$18.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-258-8 8 x 11 96 pages 110 photos Ages 12 and up Reading level grade 9 Lexile 1150
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades

Sandra Wallus Sammons
Marjory Stoneman Douglas is called the Grandmother of the Everglades. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work, including her book Everglades: River of Grass (see page 7). Read about her life from her childhood up north to her long and inspiring life in south Florida.
$11.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-470-4 $7.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-471-1 6 x 9 72 pages b&w photos Ages 912
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream of becoming a famous writer had come true.
The Two Henrys

Henry Plant and Henry Flagler and Their Railroads
Henry Plant and Henry Flagler changed the landscape of Florida in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This dual biography is a story of railroads and the men who built them with their creativity, innovation, and money. Flagler opened up the east coast of Florida with his railroads and hotels, and Plant did the same on the west coast of the state.
$14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-456-8 $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-461-2 6 x 9 112 pages b&w photos Ages 12 & up
Henry Flagler, Builder of Florida

An exciting biography about the man who changed Floridas east coast with his hotels and his railroads. Henry Morrison Flagler was already a millionaire when he first visited Florida in 1878. He came back and built railroads along the east coast so that others could more easily travel there. And he built grand hotels so that those who came had a beautiful place to stay. By 1912, he had built a railroad all the way to Key West. Determined and practical, Flagler met all the great challenges he set for himself.
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Iguana Invasion
Exotic Pets Gone Wild in Florida
Virginia Aronson and Allyn Szejko
Green iguanas, Burmese pythons, Nile monitor lizards, rhesus monkeys, and many more kinds of nonnative animals are rapidly increasing in population in subtropical Florida. This full-color book provides scientific information, exciting wildlife stories, and identification photos for the most common exotic animals on the loosemost of them offspring of abandoned pets.
$16.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-468-1 $12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-469-8 7 x 10 80 pages 69 color photos Ages 12 & up
Nature | Animals | Native Americans | Biography

Everglades
An Ecosystem Facing Choices and Challenges
Anne E. Ake
The Gopher Tortoise

A Life History
Patricia Sawyer Ashton and Ray E. Ashton Jr.
Color photos and easy text make clear the behavior and daily life of this endangered animal. Explains the critical role this tortoise and its burrow play in the upland ecosystem of Florida and the Southeast. Learn how scientists study them and try to protect them.
An important new book on a very important animal. Center for North American Herpetology $19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-303-5 $14.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-301-1 8 x 11 72 pages full-color throughout Ages 10 and up Reading level grade 5
Silver Medal, Florida Book Awards

Reveals the diversity of plant and animal life in the unique ecosystem of the slow-moving waters of the Everglades. Explains how and why this system is in trouble from the diversion and draining of water. Tells of the many attempts to save the Everglades and why theyre worth saving.
$19.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-410-0 7 x 10 128 pages 100 color photos Ages 1114 Reading level grade 6 Lexile 1100 Accelerated Reader quiz
The Young Naturalists Guide to Florida Second Edition

Peggy Sias Lantz and Wendy A. Hale
Children discover natural Florida by seeing and doing. Covers the plants, animals, and habitats. Fully updated with websites and new chapters on global warming, endangered and exotic species, rivers and lakes, and nature at the Space Center.
$18.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-377-6 8 x 11 224 pages 300 drawings Ages 1014 Reading level grade 6
Drawing Florida Wildlife

Frank Lohan
Clear, easy method for learning to draw Floridas birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, as well as the plants, trees, and landscapes that form their setting. Includes partially finished drawings for you to complete. Lists the tools and materials you will need. For all ages.
$12.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-090-4 8 x 11 96 pages Step-by-step drawings for 60 subjects All ages
Patchwork
Seminole and Miccosukee Art and Activities
Dorothy Downs
A hands-on way to learn about Floridas Seminoles and Miccosukees, who have been making and wearing patchwork clothing since the early 1900s.
All fourth-grade classrooms should have this book. Francis Holleran, President, Florida Council for the Social Studies $9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-332-5 7 x 10 56 pages color throughout Ages 912 Reading level grade 7 Lexile 1040
The Crafts of Floridas First People

Robin C. Brown
Learn how the earliest Indians got their food, made clothing, and cooked meals by doing these things the way they did, using materials you can find in Florida today. Illustrated directions on how to make pottery, weave cloth, build traps, start a fire without matches, and much more.
$9.95 Softcover ISBN 978-1-56164-282-3 7 x 10 64 pages full-color throughout Ages 10 and up
Konnichiwa Florida Moon

The Story of George Morikami, Pineapple Pioneer
Virginia Aronson
The story of George Morikami, a poor Japanese immigrant who became a millionaire in south Florida. He learned to make his fortune from the land by growing pineapples and buying more land, where he developed a beautiful garden, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach.
$10.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-263-2 Library binding 5 x 8 64 pages 19 b&w photos Ages 812 Reading level grade 6
Gift of the Unicorn

The Story of Lue Gim Gong, Floridas Citrus Wizard
Virginia Aronson
The story of Lue Gim Gong, who came to Florida as a boy and overcame poverty and discrimination to become a brilliant horticulturalist. He developed world-famous species of citrus. In China, gift of the unicorn means the blessing to parents of an exceptionally bright child.
$11.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-264-9 Library binding 5 x 8 80 pages 23 b&w photos Ages 1014 Reading level grade 7
Dinosaurs of the South

Judy Cutchins and Ginny Johnston
Based on fossil evidence uncovered by paleontologists, this book covers the variety of dinosaurs that lived in the forests and coastal lowlands of the Southeast U.S. Includes the meat-eating predators, the gentler plant-eaters, and the flying reptiles.
Easy to read yet highly educational and fact-filled. Enthusiastically recommended for youthful dinosaur fans. Childrens Bookwatch $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-266-3 8 x 11 64 pages full-color throughout Ages 812 Reading level grade 4 Lexile 970
Ice Age Giants of the South

All about saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, and more. Learn how scientists locate and examine fossils of these Ice Age giants.
Recommended for middle school students. National Science Teachers Association This delightful volume is as educational as it is enjoyable. If your child has any interest in fossils, it is a must. Newsletter of the Florida Museum of Natural History $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-195-6 8 x 11 48 pages full-color throughout Ages 812 Reading level grade 4
Giant Predators of the Ancient Seas

All about the giant creatures that prowled the waters of prehistory based on the fossil clues scientists have found. An extraordinary array of photos and original paintings as well as fascinating new information.
. . . of interest to both students and budding paleontologists. School Library Journal Excellent photos of fossils and illustrations of what these giants may have looked like. NSTA Recommends $14.95 Hardcover ISBN 978-1-56164-237-3 8 x 11 64 pages full-color throughout Ages 812 Reading level grade 4
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Index
100 Orchids for Florida, 14 200 Quick Looks at Florida History, 12 Adventures in Nowhere, 24 Affair of Honor, 23 African American Sites in Florida, 15 African Americans in Florida, 15 Alligator Gold, 25 Alligator Tales, 21 Americas Real First Thanksgiving, 28 Ancient City Hauntings, 15 Apalachicola Bay, 8 Art in Florida, 11 Art of South Florida Gardening, 14 At the Edge of Honor, 23 Aviation in Florida, 11 Bansemers Book of Florida Lighthouses, 21 Bansemers Book of the Southern Shores, 21 Beginning, 25 Benefit Auctions, 22 Best Backroads of Florida, 10 Best Ghost Tales of North Carolina, 19 Best Ghost Tales of South Carolina, 19 Bicycling in Florida, 8 Black Creek, 24 Blood Moon Rider, 27 Botanical Keys to Floridas Trees, 5 Bridgers Run, 25 Bucket Flower, 24 Caloosahatchee River Guidebook, 4 Christmas in Florida, 22 Chronicles of the Strange and Uncanny in FL, 18 Classic Cracker, 13 Club Board Members Guide, 17 Coastal North Carolina, 6, 19 Coastal South Carolina, 19 Common Coastal Birds, 9 Condominium Concept, 17 Confederate Money, 24 Conflict of Interest, 24 Cracker Westerns, 25 Crafts of Floridas First People, 29 Dangerous Sea Life, 8 Darkest Shade of Honor, 23 Death in Bloodhound Red, 24 Different Kind of Honor, 23 Dinosaurs of the South, 29 Discovering the Civil War in Florida, 6 Dishonorable Few, 23 Dog Island, 22 Dogs of Proud Spirit, 9 Drawing Florida Wildlife, 29 Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, 12 Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida, 10 Edisons of Fort Myers, 12 Escape to the Everglades, 27 Esmeralda and the Enchanted Pond, 27 Essential Catfish Cookbook, 20 Everglades, 29 Everglades: River of Grass, 7 Everglades Lawmen, 17 Exotic Foods, 20 Exploring Wild South Florida, 4 Ferns of Florida, 7 Fishing Adventures in Florida, 13 Fishing Central Florida, 13 Flaglers St. Augustine Hotels, 15 Florida A to Z, 28 Florida Bounty, 20 Florida Cattle Ranch, 9 Florida Chronicles, 12 Florida Divorce Handbook, 17 Florida Fun Facts, 22 Florida Ghost Stories, 18 Florida History from the Highways, 10 Florida Horse Owners Field Guide, 9 Florida in Poetry, 15 Florida Keys, 16 Florida Keys Impressions, 17 Florida Law, 17 Florida Lighthouse Trail, 21 Florida Lighthouses for Kids, 28 Florida Magnificent Wilderness, 22 Florida Night Sky, 7 Florida Place Names, 11 Florida Quiz Book, 22 Florida Reader, 15 Floridas Best Fruiting Plants, 14 Floridas Best Herbs and Spices, 14 Floridas Birds, 7 Floridas Finest Inns and Bed & Breakfasts, 10 Floridas First People, 9 Floridas Fossils, 9 Floridas Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore, 18 Floridas Great Ocean Railway, 17 Floridas Living Beaches, 7 Floridas Museums and Cultural Attractions, 10 Floridas Past, 12 Floridas Rivers, 8 Floridas Seashells, 7 Flowering Shrubs and Small Trees for the South, 14 Flowering Trees of Florida, 14 For God, Gold and Glory, 24 Forever Island & Allapattah, 25 Gardening in the Coastal South, 14 Georgias Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites, 21 Ghost Orchid Ghost, 18 Ghosts and Legends of the Carolina Coasts, 19 Ghosts of Savannah, 5 Ghosts of St. Augustine, 15 Ghosts of the Carolina Coasts, 19 Ghosts of the Carolinas for Kids, 6 Ghosts of the Georgia Coast, 19 Ghosts of the Green Swamp, 25 Giant Predators of the Ancient Seas, 29 Gift of the Unicorn, 29 Gopher Tortoise, 29 Grits & Grunts, 16 Groundcovers for the South, 14 Guardians of the Lights, 21 Guide to the Gardens of Florida, 20 Guide to the Gardens of Georgia, 20 Guide to the Gardens of South Carolina, 20 Guns of the Palmetto Plains, 25 Haunt Hunters Guide to Florida, 18 Haunted Lighthouses, 18 Haunting Sunshine, 18 Hemingways Cats, 16 Hemingways Key West, 16 Henry Flagler, 28 Hillsborough River Guidebook, 8 Historic Homes of Florida, 13 Historical Travelers Guide to Florida, 11 Homeowners Association Manual, 17 Honor Bound, 23 Honorable Lies, 3 Honorable Mention, 23 Honored Dead, 23 Hoof Prints, 9 Horses of Proud Spirit, 9 Houses of Key West, 16 Houses of St. Augustine, 15 Hunted Like a Wolf, 27
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Ice Age Giants of the South, 29 Iguana Invasion, 29 Key Biscayne, 17 Kidnapped in Key West, 27 Konnichiwa Florida Moon, 29 Land Remembered, 25 Land Remembered (Student Edition), 27 Law of Florida Homeowners Associations, 17 Legend of the Lowcountry Liar, 19 Legends of the Seminoles, 27 Lighthouses of Greece, 21 Lighthouses of Ireland, 21 Lighthouses of the Carolinas, 6 Lighthouses of the Carolinas for Kids, 28 Lighthouses of the Florida Keys, 21 Lightkeepers Menagerie, 21 Living Beaches of GA and the Carolinas, 19 Lost Souls of Savannah, 5 Lowcountry Voodoo, 19 Mario Sanchez, 16 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers, 28 Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River, 7 Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades, 28 Mastering the Art of Florida Seafood, 20 Menndez, 13 Miami, A Backward Glance, 17 Mongo Mango Cookbook, 20 More Tellable Cracker Tales, 18 Mostly Mullet Cookbook, 20 Murder in the Tropics, 12 My Brother, Ernest Hemingway, 16 My Brother Michael, 24 My Florida Alphabet, 28 My Florida Facts, 28 Myakka, 9 Myra Sims, 24 Mystery in the Sunshine State, 24 Native Americans in Florida, 15 Native Bromeliads of Florida, 14 Natural Florida Landscaping, 14 Ninety-Mile Prairie, 25 Nobodys Hero, 24 Old Florida Style, 9 Old Man and the C, 27 Oldest Ghosts, 15 Olivia Brophie and the Pearl of Tagelus, 3 Organizing Special Events and Conferences, 22 Ornamental Tropical Shrubs, 14 Over Key West and the Florida Keys, 17 Parrots of South Florida, 9 Patchwork, 29 Patrick Smiths Florida, 25 Paynes Prairie, 9 Pirates of the Carolinas, 19 Pirates of the Carolinas for Kids, 28 Point of Honor, 23 Poisonous Plants and Animals, 8 Pop Culture Florida, 22 Presidents in Florida, 6 Priceless Florida, 7 Reaper of St. George Street, 5 Riders of the Suwannee, 25 River Is Home & Angel City, 25 Running in Florida, 21 Sandspun, 18 Sea Kayaking in Florida, 8 Searching for the Dixie Barbecue, 20 Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas, 19 Seashore Plants, 8 Seasons of the Sea, 8 Secrets of San Blas, 3 Seven Mile Bridge, 24 Shakespeare Plays the Classroom, 22 Shipwrecks of Florida, 11 Shrubs & Woody Vines of Florida, 7 Sinkholes, 28 Snake in the Grass, 4 Solomon, 27 Southeast Florida Pioneers, 13 Southern Gardening, 14 Spanish Pathways in Florida, 13 Spanish Treasure Fleets, 13 Spiritual Florida, 11 Springs of Florida, 8 Spy Who Came In from the Sea, 27 St. Augustine and St. Johns County, 15 St. Johns River Guidebook, 8 Stalking the Plumed Serpent, 7 Storm Gourmet, 20 Streets of Key West, 16 Sunshine State Cookbook, 20 Suwannee River Guidebook, 8 Tales from a Florida Fish Camp, 13 Tellable Cracker Tales, 18 They Called It Golf, 21 Thirty Florida Shipwrecks, 11 Those Amazing Alligators, 26 Those Beautiful Butterflies, 26 Those Big Bears, 26 Those Colossal Cats, 26 Those Delightful Dolphins, 26 Those Enormous Elephants, 26 Those Excellent Eagles, 26 Those Funny Flamingos, 26 Those Kooky Kangaroos, 26 Those Lively Lizards, 26 Those Magical Manatees, 26 Those Mischievous Monkeys, 26 Those Outrageous Owls, 26 Those Peculiar Pelicans, 26 Those Perky Penguins, 26 Those Terrific Turtles, 26 Those Voracious Vultures, 26 Thunder on the St. Johns, 25 Time Travelers Guide to Florida, 11 Touched by the Sun, 12 Tourists, Retirees, 22 Trail from St. Augustine, 25 Treasure of Amelia Island, 27 Trees of Florida, 7 Tropical Surge, 12 Tropical Trees of Florida & the Virgin Islands, 7 Twenty Florida Pirates, 11 Two Henrys, 28 Visiting Small-Town Florida, 10 Wiregrass Country, 25 Yankee in a Confederate Town, 15 You Got Me!Florida, 22 Young Naturalists Guide, 29
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Fiction Olivia Brophie and the Pearl of Tagelus

Secrets of San Blas

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Nature | Animals | Travel Snake in the Grass

Exploring Wild South Florida 4 th Edition

Caloosahatchee River Guidebook

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Lost Souls of Savannah

Botanical Keys to Floridas Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines

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History | Carolinas | Lighthouses | Ghosts

Discovering the Civil War in Florida 2nd Edition

Coastal North Carolina 2nd Edition

Lighthouses of the Carolinas

Ghosts of the Carolinas for Kids

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Books of Continuing Interest

Second Edition A Field Guide and Reference

Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

Floridas Living Beaches

The Trees of Florida

The Shrubs & Woody Vines of Florida

The Ferns of Florida

A Reference and Field Guide

Tropical Trees of Florida & the Virgin Islands

The Florida Night Sky

Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology

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Books of Continuing Interest

Sea Kayaking in Florida

Hillsborough River Guidebook

St. Johns River Guidebook

Suwannee River Guidebook

Seasons of the Sea

Seashore Plants of South Florida and the Caribbean

6 x 9 160 pages 26 line drawings

Poisonous Plants and Animals of Florida and the Caribbean

Second Edition The Cyclists Road and Off-Road Guide

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Books of Continuing Interest

A Florida Cattle Ranch

Floridas First People

Old Florida Style: A Story of Cracker Cattle ( DVD)

The Horses of Proud Spirit

The Dogs of Proud Spirit

Common Coastal Birds of Florida and the Caribbean

Parrots of South Florida

Florida Horse Owners Field Guide

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Books of Continuing Interest

Best Backroads of Florida

Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida

Easygoing Guide to Natural Florida

Florida History from the Highways

Floridas Finest Inns and Bed & Breakfasts

Visiting SmallTown Florida

Third Edition Bruce Hunt

Floridas Museums and Cultural Attractions

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Books of Continuing Interest