Chance Ramsay, a riverboat gambler, has run into one too many sore losers; he’s just killed a man in self-defense after winning the man’s Arabian mare in a poker game in Georgia, and the man’s brother vows revenge. Ramsay flees south into Florida, encountering young Josh Carpenter and his family, who are traveling into the Florida wilderness via wagon and riverboat to start a new life. Meanwhile, outlaws are gathering around the St. Johns River near the town of Volusia with plans to take the lands and livestock they want by force. Will the Carpenters and their companions prevail over those who would destroy their dreams even before they begin to build? Even with the help of Ramsay’s blazing six-guns and the shrewd native skills of the trapper’s daughter Abby Macklin, there will be Thunder on the St. Johns before this struggle reaches its final conclusion.

Thunder on the St. Johns

Lee Gramling

Pineapple Press

Kirby Tree, a young professional tennis player, discovers that his opponent in a local Florida tournament, is his long lost father and the man his uncle, Little Man Tree, has sworn to kill

The Seminole Seed

Literature & Fiction

Newton Peck, Robert

United States

A Land Remembered

A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine. 
In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need. The sweeping story that emerges is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the swamp. But their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed, including finally their own. Love and tenderness are here too: the hopes and passions of each new generation, friendships with the persecuted blacks and Indians, and respect for the land and its wildlife. 
A Land Remembered was winner of the Florida Historical Society's Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel. Now in its 14th hardcover printing, it has been in print since 1984 and is also available in trade paperback.

Smith, Patrick D.

Florida Living Cookbook

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Fichter, George S.

Regional & International

A Yankee living in a small South American village becomes frustrated with her life and decides to take revenge on her unfaithful husband

Saint

Bell, Christine

-- Full of essays dealing with Florida's history in Gene Burnett's easygoing style -- Careful research and eclectic choice of topics make history good reading that educates and entertains -- Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence -- Many essays were originally published in Florida Trend -- a bit of Florida history in each issue for over 15 years -- a tribute to Burnett's appeal -- A course in Florida history and a good read too

Florida's Past: People and Events That Shaped the State, Vol. 1

History

Burnett, Gene M

Americas

Since the 20's many writers have found Key West a special place to live and practice their art.Lynn Kaufelt introduces us to the writers that make up the legend of Key West.

Key West Writers and Their Houses

Kaufelt, Lynn

History & Criticism

Florida Horse Owner's Field Guide

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Marth, Marty

Pets & Animal Care

Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this "frontier" town, she recovered from a misjudged marriage, learned to write journalism and fiction and drama, took on the fight for feminism and racial justice and conservation long before those causes became popular, and embarked on a long and uncommonly successful voyage into self-understanding. Way before women did this sort of thing, she recognized her own need for solitude and independence, and built her own little house away from town in an area called Coconut Grove. She still lives there, as she has for over 40 years, with her books and cats and causes, emerging frequently to speak, still a powerful force in ecopolitics. Marjory Stoneman Douglas begins this story of her life by admitting that "the hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself" and ends it stating her belief that "life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or a longer life, are not necessary." The voice that emerges in between is a voice from the past and a voice from the future, a voice of conviction and common sense with a sense of humor, a voice so many audiences have heard over the years—tough words in a genteel accent emerging from a tiny woman in a floppy hat—which has truly become the voice of the river.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

Biographies & Memoirs

Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

Arts & Literature

-- A comprehensive history of the Florida National Guard, the oldest militia tradition in America, from 1565 -- 1985 -- Covers from 1565, when Florida was ruled by Spain, through 1985, when the Guard's role changed dramatically -- Contains over 150 photographs, maps, and line drawings -- Appendices offer lists of 20th-century adjutant generals of Florida, state medals and decorations, and fatal casualties from the Civil War through Vietnam -- a great research tool -- A must for military history buffs

Florida's Army: Militia, State Troops, National Guard, 1565-1985

Hawk, Robert

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