Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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A Land Remembered. Devil In The Grove will make you wonder why McCall's Tavern is named after a man like Sheriff McCall.
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John D. McDonald short novels featuring Travis McGee, a salvage specialist that lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale and recovers wrongly appropriated “treasure” for the fee of 50% while attempting to provide justice for the wronged.
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Thriller series’ by Steven Becker, Wayne Stinnett, Tom Turner and Randy Wayne White. Of course there are the much better known and award-winning authors, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Carl Hiaasen. There are literally hundreds of books set in Florida.
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How about the classic 1960 book “Where The Boys Are”? Author Glendon Swarthout was a family friend of my parents in East Lansing, Michigan. I remember my mother taking me to a theater in Lansing to see it. Great memories.
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Books set in FL
Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings—author of The Yearling. Was made into a movie with Rip Torn and Mary Steenburgen. It's only an hour north of Fenney and for FL newbies you and tour the house and grounds where it was made. It's also near the town of Micanopy which is full of antique shops, quaint little place.
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Love the Doc Ford books as well as Wayne Stinnett and Dawn Lee McKenna. No Florida list is complete without John D. McDonald and Travis McGee. Those books are getting harder and harder to find. I have read them all so many times. When I see one, I grab it and read it again.
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Thank you. They sound great.
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TOTALLY!!!
Couldn’t put this one down ‼️ ‘A LAND REMEMBERED’ |
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A fun series is Mango Bob nine in total by Bill H Myers . Also Logan Dodge series by Matthew Rief.
Last edited by Jahunt1966; 08-22-2020 at 08:22 AM. |
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randy Wayne white. South Florida excitement
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A Land Remembered. I just finished the audio from CHIRP, a wonderful app for audiobooks under $5.
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I go along with anything by Carl Hiassen as well as Best State Ever by Dave Barry. Hysterical! If you want something serious and shameful, try Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, a very depressing book about Central Florida in the late 1940s.
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Roos McDonald’ had a series of books with a character called Travis McGee they come before some of the other fl books , h like bed on a boat called the busted flush great fl books lot of local color
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Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
His grand plan to build a railroad to the FL Keys. Timelly given Gulf storms ongoing now...his effort, a.k.a. "Flagler's Folly" was before weather forecasting accuracy we have today. |
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