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Palmetto-leaves
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
After the Civil War, the Stowes bought a house on the St. Johns River near Mandarin, Florida. For several years, they spent the winters at their Florida home. In 1872, Stowe published Pametto Leaves … |
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Remembering Jacksonville
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Dorothy K. Fletcher |
"By the wayside" columns from the Florida times-union about life in Jacksonville, Florida, during the 1950s, '60s and '70s. |
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Spooky Florida Tales Of Hauntings Strange Happenings And Other Local Lore
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S. E. Schlosser,Paul G. Hoffman |
xvi, 190 p. : 22 cm |
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Pop culture Florida
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James P. Goss |
Pop Culture Florida jiggles readers through recent Florida history like Jayne Mansfield on Disney’s Space Mountain. Ever wonder where the cult classic Caddyshack was filmed? Do you know why Burt Reyn… |
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Dance of the Reptiles
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Diane Stevenson,Carl Hiaasen |
"A collection of Carl Hiaasen's best columns from the past twelve years, covering topics, like hurricanes, off-shore drilling, voting rights, and political corruption, that have become national issue… |
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Bitten
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Andrew Furman |
As with many people who live in Florida, Andrew Furman is a transplant, who at first did not recognize that this state has its own unique attributes and distinctive natural history beyond the popular… |
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Oh, Florida!
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Craig Pittman |
Oh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punchline. As Oh, Florida! shows… |
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Florida
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Peggy Darty,Muncy G. Chapman,Stephen A. Papuchis,Eileen M. Berger |
Mary Kate Moore, WJAK Television's newset on -the-street reporter, captures the vulnerable side of Blake Taylor, one of the most prominent developers in Florida, as he leaves the courtroom after bein… |
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Tellable Cracker Tales
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Annette J. Bruce |
As children, Annette Bruce and her brothers and sisters pestered their parents for stories. Now it is her turn to be the storyteller. In this collection of stories from Florida’s rich folklore herita… |
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Jacksonville greets the 20th century
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Leah Mary Cox |
"Through architectural photographs and lively, readable narrative, this pictorial account of early-twentieth-century Jacksonville tells the triumphant story of photographer Leah Mary Cox while reveal… |
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On a wave
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Thad Ziolkowski |
"A disenchanted, unemployed English professor decides one day on a whim - partly playful, partly desperate - to sneak off from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline.… |
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Remembering Orlando
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Joy Wallace Dickinson |
128 p. : 24 cm |
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America's REAL First Thanksgiving
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Robyn Gioia |
When most Americans think of the first Thanksgiving, they think of the Pilgrims and the Indians in New England in 1621. But fifty-six years before the Pilgrims celebrated, Spanish explorer Pedro Mené… |
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