Florida Straits

"People go to Key West for lots of different reasons. Joey Goldman went there to become a gangster..." So begins this classic Key West caper, the hilarious and touching book that launched a much-loved series and introduced the world to Bert the Shirt and his chihuahua Don Giovanni, two of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. Joey, the illegitimate son of a major NY mafioso, decides to break away from a decidedly unpromising future in the old neighborhood of Queens. But will the old neighborhood and the Family let him go in peace? Not if knucklehead half-brother Gino has anything to say about it. As Joey is finally establishing his new life in sunny Florida, Gino involves him in a disastrous scam featuring a boatload of stolen emeralds and several squads of very nasty thugs. Finding within himself resources of smarts and courage he never knew he had, Joey beats long odds and muddles through to a brilliant solution to the problems dumped on him by Gino. Cleverly plotted, enlivened by pitch-perfect dialogue, FLORIDA STRAITS is a completely satisfying mystery, but it's more than that as well. Think of it as a fish-out-of-water coming-of-age novel, a comedy of very bad manners with an unlikely hero you will root for from page one.

LAURENCE SHAMES

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Lingerie mogul Murray Zemelman suddenly leaves his thriving business, his stately home, and his trophy wife, and hits the road. He's headed for Florida and to his first wife. Once there, he hooks up with a local Native American, Tommy Tarpon, and together they cook up a plan to open Key West's first legal gambling parlor on Tommy's tribal grounds. But his plans attract a whole other species of reptiles. 2 cassettes.

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When Joey Goldman's illegitimate father, a nefarious godfather from New York, heads to Key West, Joey has the bright idea of letting a Kew West reporter help write his memoirs, a book that no onethe Mafia, the FBI, or the real heir to Delgatto's family businesswants to see published.

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Key West may very well get its first legal gambling parlor if Murray Zemelman, a.k.a. The Bra King, and his new partner Tommy Tarpon, a local Native American, can pull off their kooky, Prozac-induced plan. When a local mafioso and Key West's most crooked politician decide to get a piece of their action, Murray and Tommy fight for their money and their lives in a battle of wits, writs and anti-depressants.

1949 was a pivotal moment of economic dominance; the MBA was still exotic, arcane, and swaggeringly potent. The men of Harvard Business School 49 would be the class the dollars fell on. By 1974, nearly one 49er in five was a millionaire. Forty-five percent were chairmen, presidents, or chief operating officers. The men of HBS 49, however, hadnt just achieved success; theyd defined success.Their story is much more than a catalogue of vivid business tales; it is a map of American ambitions and assumptions, of national triumphs and epic-scale misjudgments that have only recently been finding their comeuppance.

The Big Time: The Harvard Business School's Most Successful Class and How It Shaped America

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Key West artist Augie Silver's paintings are worth a fortune, if  he is dead, but he may be still alive and ready to paint again; and  there are those who want to make sure that he is dead. Reprint. NYT.  PW.

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Florida Straits

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The Big Time: The Harvard Business School's Most Successful Class and How It Shaped America

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Welcome to Paradise

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