Download or read book Tales from the Sunshine State written by Borry Porter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth foray into the author's life experiences and this time the family unexpectedly fly across the Atlantic to spend a glorious time in Florida. It was unexpected because when they went to book the holiday their intended destination was Egypt! Florida was booked as a once-in-a-lifetime holiday but they all loved it so much that they returned every year for over twenty years, until Borry became too unwell to travel such a distance. Borry relates tales of the mountains of food, travel and getting lost, villas vs. hotels and of course the wonderful attractions. Welcome to the trans-Atlantic fun!
Download or read book Sunshine State written by Sarah Gerard and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay • Finalist for the Southern Book Prize A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year • A Brooklyn Rail Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year • A Baltimore Beat Best Book of the Year A Paris Review Staff Pick • A Chicago Tribune Exciting Book for 2017 • A Rolling Stone Culture Index Reccomendation • A Buzzfeed Most Exciting Book for 2017 • A The Millions Great 2017 Book Preview Pick • A Huffington Post 2017 Preview Pick • A NYLON Best 10 Books of the Month • A Lit Hub 15 Books to Read This Month A Poets & Writers New and Noteworth Selection • A PW Top 10 Spring Pick in Essays & Literary Criticism • An Emma Straub Reccomendation on PBS “One of the themes of ‘Sunshine State,’ Sarah Gerard’s striking book of essays, is how Florida can unmoor you and make you reach for shoddy, off-the-shelf solutions to your psychic unease…. The first essay is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire.... This essay draws blood.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times "Unflinchingly candid memoir bolstered by thoughtfully researched history…. A nuanced and subtly intimate mosaic… her writing, lucid yet atmospheric, takes on a timeless ebb and flow.” — Jason Heller, NPR.org "Stunning." — Rolling Stone “These large-hearted, meticulous essays offer an uncanny x-ray of our national psyche... showing us both the grand beauty of our American dreams and the heartbreaking devastation they wreak.” — Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society. In the collection’s title essay, Gerard volunteers at the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, a world renowned bird refuge. There she meets its founder, who once modeled with a pelican on his arm for a Dewar’s Scotch campaign but has since declined into a pit of fraud and madness. He becomes our embezzling protagonist whose tales about the birds he “rescues” never quite add up. Gerard’s personal stories are no less eerie or poignant: An essay that begins as a look at Gerard’s first relationship becomes a heart-wrenching exploration of acquaintance rape and consent. An account of intimate female friendship pivots midway through, morphing into a meditation on jealousy and class. With the personal insight of The Empathy Exams, the societal exposal of Nickel and Dimed, and the stylistic innovation and intensity of her own break-out debut novel Binary Star, Sarah Gerard’s Sunshine State uses the intimately personal to unearth the deep reservoirs of humanity buried in the corners of our world often hardest to face.
Download or read book Love and Death in the Sunshine State written by Cutter Wood and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gripping . . . Cutter Wood subverts all our expectations for the true crime genre.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest—her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car. Then the motel is set on fire; her boyfriend flees the county; and detectives begin digging on the beach of Anna Maria Island. Author Cutter Wood was a guest at Musil-Buehler’s motel as the search for her gained momentum. Driven by his own need to understand how a relationship could spin to pieces in such a fatal fashion, he began to talk with many of the people living on Anna Maria, and then with the detectives, and finally with the man presumed to be the murderer. But there was only so much that interviews and transcripts could reveal. In trying to understand how we treat those we love, this book, like Truman Capote’s classic In Cold Blood, tells a story that exists outside documentary evidence. Wood carries the investigation of Sabine’s murder beyond the facts of the case and into his own life, crafting a tale about the dark conflicts at the heart of every relationship.
Download or read book Up for Grabs written by John Rothchild and published by . This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grand reading. Rothchild's scenario deliciously underscores the bizarre quality of Florida."--Publishers Weekly "A story of rapacity and gall told with bemused admiration for the waves of visionaries and scamps who have left their mark on the Sunshine State . . . a tale of the wild, wild South in which motives, loyalties, and identities are lost in a tangle of crime and counterinsurgency."--Time A wandering Floridian who made his way home in the early 1970s, John Rothchild writes about the state with the savvy of a native and the perspective of an outsider. His personal and historical travelogue reads alternately like a litany of 20th-century ills and a Monty Python rendering of the Great American Dream. In Florida, both versions are true. Settled through the chicanery of a few enterprising brokers and real estate wizards, Rothchild's Florida is a civilization built from scratch, out of the most unusual ingredients. While much of the state seems younger than many of its inhabitants, he observes, it hosts all the modern demographic, economic, and social problems. Still, those ills don't dispel the magic of its sunshine, beaches, and exotic fauna or undermine its status as a great American myth. Told within the framework of Rothchild's travels from Miami to the Everglades, around the state and back again, Up for Grabs is part history, part travelogue, part journalism, part autobiography--a humorous and appreciative tour of a society fabricated from a state of mind and erected on land that was "ninety percent underwater ninety percent of the time." John Rothchild , a former editor of Washington Monthly, columnist for Time and Fortune, and contributor to Esquire, Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine, is author or coauthor of nine books, including A Fool and His Money and Voice of the River, the autobiography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. He lives in Miami Beach, Florida.
Download or read book Mystery in the Sunshine State written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Happened in Florida written by E Lynne Wright and published by . This book was released on 2025-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Happened in Florida takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of thirty of the most compelling episodes from the Sunshine State's vibrant past.
Download or read book Florida written by Scott Tilley and published by Anthology Alliance. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine. Hurricanes. Disney. Alligators. Space. Pythons. Beaches. All are evocative of modern Florida: a mix of endless summer and destructive storms, amusement parks and deadly predators, invasive species and gateways to the final frontier. This is Florida today. This is a collection of stories about the Sunshine State. From Miami to Jacksonville, Melbourne to Tampa, Orlando to Tallahassee, Florida is more than citrus, swamps, and mosquitos. It's about living the good life!
Download or read book Florida Gothic written by Wendy Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight spooky short stories from the creepy to the macabre set in the Sunshine State. In Florida, the scariest things come out in the daylight.
Download or read book Florida Happens written by Greg Herren and published by Mitten Press. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brightest stars in mystery writing take on Florida--the state where no crime is too unusual and no criminal too peculiar to be impossible--in this anthology offering stories of pristine white sands and palm trees, snowbirds and theme parks, mangroves and manatees, pirates and policemen--from the redneck Riviera to the southernmost point of the United States.
Download or read book Florida written by Eileen M. Berger and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of four inspirational romances in one volume will touch the hearts of readers.
Download or read book South Caicos Tailwind written by William P. Case and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A great read, action that makes you believe you were there! Wonderful work for a first Novel!” —Harry Allen, Associate Professor of Journalism, Kentucky State University. “An interesting look into the inner workings of a smuggling operation! Grabs you and takes you on a ride you won’t believe!” —Tim Peterson, Writers Review. “Spellbinding action, great characters, can't wait for the next one!” —Bill Lee, Babson Park Journal. The book is a fictional story based on a very real set of circumstances that happened in Florida in the 1970’s. The main character is enticed by the money and adventure and becomes involved in the operation. His inside view of the action grabs the reader and takes them along in the pilots seat as they smuggle large quantities of drugs from Columbia to Florida.
Download or read book Our Florida written by Voyageur Press Staff and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2002-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of the best Florida writers and photographers
Download or read book Florida on the Boil written by Kenneth F. Kister and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides incisive reviews of more than 300 recommended novels and short-story collections set in Florida. Numerous Florida fiction writers, past and present, are represented in the book, including such diverse talents as Edna Buchanan, Harry Crews, Connie May Fowler, and others.--Excerpted from book cover.
Download or read book Floridians written by Ronald W. Kenyon and published by Ronald W. Kenyon. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Curiosity and intelligence run deep in Ronald W. Kenyon’s writing. He’s a tireless world traveler with a real knack for looking at wherever he is and finding reasons to be fascinated by it.” Frank Cerabino, columnist, The Palm Beach Post The cast of characters in these seventeen stories of fascinating Floridians includes the living and the dead, the famous and the infamous—murderers, imposters, royal pretenders, a supermarket cashier, a housekeeper, a homeless former crack addict rescued by an anonymous benefactor, the woman who was elected chief of the Seminoles, a Jordanian Cordon Bleu chef, a chess champion who founded a city and the first two Jewish senators. Even John Lennon makes an appearance. A road trip across the state results in the shocking revelation that, in the 1920’s, Seminole children were prohibited from attending either “white” or “colored” schools, but ends with an unexpected surprise: the Seminole Tribe of Florida, grown wealthy by the profits of its casinos, now owns the worldwide Hard Rock Café chain Some of the essays involved extensive research, often sparked by an apparently trivial observation; thus the story of the phony count and the fake countess begins when I noticed a sign with an inappropriate ampersand and leaps around the world to France, the former Belgian Congo, Yemen, the Emirate of Sharjah and Tangier. The people in this book are Floridians, all, and some were even born in the Sunshine State. Yet most are transplants like me, native-born Americans migrating from elsewhere in the United States or immigrants fleeing Hitler’s Germany, Castro’s Cuba and the poverty of Guatemala. Each of them—each of us—possesses Real Stories to tell, and in this book the reader will discover some of them.
Download or read book Sunshine State written by Asaf Rubina and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mind of Asaf Rubina, the author of "Tales of Movie Theater Pool and the Summer Kitchen, " comes a new novel shaped by mental musings and self-reflection of the same memorable characters. The diverse cast is at it again, with the same bad habits and in need of rest as ever before, holding a thousand truths from one another. Angela is experiencing frustration with her circle of sisters until she finds her own haven at the edge of town, and Chuck continues to be the same brute persona as if he's been cast in amber. But all is thrown into shambles when it is discovered that Pam is missing, and the company has a hard time coping with the disappearance of their most influential player. As each night grows darker and the days grow longer, it becomes more and more difficult to discern the facts from fiction. Are things really what they appear to be? Featuring graphic prose and sadistic storytelling, Rubina brings his beloved characters to life as never before.
Download or read book Cat Tale written by Craig Pittman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Garden & Gun Best Book of 2020 “Witty and passionate.” —Lauren Groff “Craig Pittman has a remarkable talent for telling stories set in the Sunshine State that never fail to fascinate and entertain.”—Gilbert King “The definitive book on one of America’s least understood apex predators. The story of how Florida’s panthers were saved from extinction is one that both deserves and needs to be told.” —Dane Huckelbridge The captivating tale of the Florida panther, its survival and rescue from extinction With novelistic detail and an eye for the absurd, Craig Pittman recounts the extraordinary story of the people who brought the panther back from the brink of extinction, the ones who nearly pushed the species over the edge, and the cats that were caught in the middle. This being Florida, there's more than a little weirdness, too. An engrossing narrative of wry humor, sharp writing and exhaustive reportage, Cat Tale shows what it takes to bring one species back and what unexpected costs such a decision brings.
Download or read book Hello Sunshine written by Chris Buch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book, Hello Sunshine, is the life story of a London child who was still an infant when World War 11 began. It tells of his frightening experiences during that time, then, when Peace came it goes on to describe happier times living and growing up on the North East Kent coast. The story then moves through Chris’ life as a young waiter, a British soldier, serving in Germany and Malaya, a Merchant seaman then a London Fireman. It tells of the struggle make ends meet with a wife and two small children before making the decision to emigrate to Australia. Chris describes the wonderful life he has been able to lead in the Sunshine State of Queensland. There is something to laugh about on nearly every page despite getting the sad news of the death of his younger brother, David just after celebrating his young family’s first Christmas in Australia. Overall, the book has an optimistic sense about it which reflects Chris’s attitude to life and should encourage anybody thinking about starting a new life in a new country to have a go. After all, if Chris can do it, why can’t you?
