Tales From The Sunshine State

Author : Borry Porter
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514461935
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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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 200 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!

Author : Greg Herren
Publisher : Mitten Press
ISBN 13 : 9781941110744
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Scott Tilley
Publisher : Anthology Alliance
ISBN 13 : 9780999644645
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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!

Author : Wendy Dalrymple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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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.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Ronald W. Kenyon
Publisher : Ronald W. Kenyon
ISBN 13 : 153090790X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : John Rothchild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813018294
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Voyageur Press Staff
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9780896580169
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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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

Author : Eileen M. Berger
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781586601249
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Susan J. Fernandez
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072387
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunshine in the Dark written by Susan J. Fernandez and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has been the location and subject of hundreds of feature films, from Cocoanuts (1929) to Monster (2004). Portraying the state and its people from the silent era to the present, these films have explored the multitude of Florida images and cliches that have captured the public's imagination--a nature lover's paradise, a wildlife refuge, a tourist destination, home to the "cracker," and a haven for the retired, the rich, the immigrant, and the criminal. Sunshine in the Dark is the first complete study of how the movie industry has immortalized Florida’s extraordinary scenery, characters, and history on celluloid. Historians Fernández and Ingalls have identified more than 300 films about Florida--many of them shot on location in the state--to analyze how filmmakers from the Marx Brothers and John Huston to Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola have portrayed the state and its people. Prior to the 1960s, cinematic trips to Florida usually brought happy endings in movies like Moon Over Miami (1942), but since the 1970s, films like Scarface (1982) have emphasized the state's menacing aspects. In the authors' analysis of the films, which examines location settings, plotlines, and characters, they find a bevy of Florida stereotypes among the leading characters--from the struggling crackers in The Yearling (1946) to the drug-addicted con man in Adaptation (2002). Featuring more than 100 still photographs from movies, as well as filmographies by year and genre, the book is an encyclopedic resource for movie fans and anyone interested in Florida popular culture.