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FROM: Judy McMahan <[removed]@mail.hall.public.lib.ga.us>
DATE: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:08:01 -0500

Robert Wilder wrote historical novels on Florida.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudia Breland [[removed]@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:47 PM
> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: Florida novels
>
> When I was living in Florida in the early 1970's, I read a series of
> novels by a male (local?) author that described in great detail
> Florida's history, from discovery to colonization & onward. I've
> tried
> several searches but can't come up with author or titles. Help!
>
> Claudia Breland
> Librarian, King County Library System (WA)
> [removed]@mindspring.com

FROM: [removed]@neflin.org
DATE: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 15:45:20 -0500

>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:08:01 -0500
>From: Judy McMahan <[removed]@mail.hall.public.lib.ga.us>
>Subject: RE: Florida novels
>
>Robert Wilder wrote historical novels on Florida.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Claudia Breland [[removed]@mindspring.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:47 PM
>> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>> Subject: Florida novels
>>
>> When I was living in Florida in the early 1970's, I read a series of
>> novels by a male (local?) author that described in great detail
>> Florida's history, from discovery to colonization & onward. I've
>> tried
>> several searches but can't come up with author or titles. Help!
>>
>> Claudia Breland
>> Librarian, King County Library System (WA)
>> [removed]@mindspring.com


I believe the author is Patrick D. Smith. His more popular novel of Florida
is "A land remembered" that spans back 100's of years. He's also written,
River is Home, Angel City, Forever Island and a few others I don't remember
at this time.

Linda Sanderson
Suwannee River Regional Library
Live Oak, Florida

FROM: "Bruce Bumbalough" <[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us>
DATE: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:13:17 -0600

Hey list,

Patron is seeking an author who writes Florida crime novels with a comic touch
-- such as Lawrence Shames or Carl Hiaasen. Any suggestions?

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, you
have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: Renee Patterson <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
DATE: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:18:39 -0500

I haven't read them myself, but these were suggestions from local staff.

Baynard Kendrick:
Orlando : a century plus pub.1976
Florida trails to turnpikes, 1914- pub. 1964
The flames of time pub. 1948

or
Theodore Pratt:
The flame tree pub.1950
The barefoot mailman pub. 1943
That was Palm Beach pub.1968
Seminole. -- pub. 1963
Florida roundabout pub. 1959

or
David M. Newell:
The trouble of it is pub. 1977
If nothin' don't happen pub. 1975


Renee Patterson
_____________________________
High Springs Branch
Alachua County Library District
High Springs, FL
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us


-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@neflin.org [[removed]@neflin.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 3:45 PM
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: Re: fiction_l-digest V1 #1056

>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:08:01 -0500
>From: Judy McMahan <[removed]@mail.hall.public.lib.ga.us>
>Subject: RE: Florida novels
>
>Robert Wilder wrote historical novels on Florida.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Claudia Breland [[removed]@mindspring.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:47 PM
>> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>> Subject: Florida novels
>>
>> When I was living in Florida in the early 1970's, I read a series of
>> novels by a male (local?) author that described in great detail
>> Florida's history, from discovery to colonization & onward. I've
>> tried
>> several searches but can't come up with author or titles. Help!
>>
>> Claudia Breland
>> Librarian, King County Library System (WA)
>> [removed]@mindspring.com

I believe the author is Patrick D. Smith. His more popular novel of
Florida
is "A land remembered" that spans back 100's of years. He's also
written,
River is Home, Angel City, Forever Island and a few others I don't
remember
at this time.

Linda Sanderson
Suwannee River Regional Library
Live Oak, Florida

FROM: Lesa Holstine <[removed]@yahoo.com>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 06:32:49 -0800 (PST)

Tim Dorsey's Florida Roadkill is patterned on Carl
Hiaasen. I loved two books by Hialeah Jackson (really
Polly Whitney) called The Alligator's Farewell and
Farewell, Conch Republic. Setting is Miami and Key
West. Main characters are the hearing impaired female
owner of a security firm, and her assistant, who I
love, Dave the Monkeyman. He's a great character.

Lesa Holstine
[removed]@yahoo.com
Ft. Myers, FL
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FROM: Debi Westwood <[removed]@spl.org>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:20:43 -0800 (PST)

I already repsonded to Bruce off the list but will repeat myself here:
Include Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford series (Man Who Invented Florida,
Sanibel Flats, Heat Island and at least one other) on that list
Not laugh-out-loud funny like Dave Barry. More like Carl Hiaasen.

One other that just came to mind is Jimmy Buffet's Tales From
Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factional Fictions.
It's a collection of short stories and, as I recall (it's been a long
time), some of them are set in Florida.

Debi Westwood
Seattle Public Library

FROM: "Jeffrey, Denise" <[removed]@Central.tased.edu.au>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:47:40 +1100

Recommendations at this website might help.

http://www.tased.edu.au/library/readalik/hiacar.htm

Denise

Denise Jeffrey,
Selection Librarian,
State Library of Tasmania,
91 Murray St.,
Hobart 7000

Phone 61 3 6233 7049
Fax 61 3 62337506
Email [removed]@central.tased.edu.au
http://www.tased.edu.au/library/readalik/index.htm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Bumbalough [[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 March 2000 10:13
> To: Fiction List
> Subject: Florida crime novels with a comic touch
>
> Hey list,
>
> Patron is seeking an author who writes Florida crime novels with a comic
> touch
> -- such as Lawrence Shames or Carl Hiaasen. Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Bruce L. Bumbalough
> Reference Librarian
> Grapevine Public Library
> 1201 Municipal Way
> Grapevine, TX 76051
> Voice: (817) 410-3404
> Fax: (817) 410-3080
> E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
> The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.
>
> If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport,
> you
> have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.
>

FROM: "Martin, Natalie" <[removed]@plcmc.lib.nc.us>
DATE: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:54:54 -0500

How about Miracle Strip and Drag Strip by Nancy Bartholomew. The heroine is
a stripper in Panama City.

Natalie K. Martin
Morrison Regional Library
7015 Morrison Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28211
[removed]@plcmc.lib.nc.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Bumbalough [[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 6:13 PM
To: Fiction List
Subject: Florida crime novels with a comic touch


Hey list,

Patron is seeking an author who writes Florida crime novels with a comic
touch
-- such as Lawrence Shames or Carl Hiaasen. Any suggestions?

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport,
you
have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: Cathy Reid <[removed]@ccpl.lib.oh.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:37:01 -0500

How about "Big Trouble" by Dave Barry and "Naked Came the Manatee" by
various authors including Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard and Dave Barry.

Cathy Reid
Clark County Public Library
Springfield, OH

FROM: [removed]@ccfls.org (lynn piotrowicz)
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 08:59:07 -0500

Have your patron try Dave Barry's new book -- "Big Trouble" a hilarious first
novel.

Bruce Bumbalough wrote:

> Hey list,
>
> Patron is seeking an author who writes Florida crime novels with a comic touch
> -- such as Lawrence Shames or Carl Hiaasen. Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Bruce L. Bumbalough
> Reference Librarian
> Grapevine Public Library
> 1201 Municipal Way
> Grapevine, TX 76051
> Voice: (817) 410-3404
> Fax: (817) 410-3080
> E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us
>
> The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.
>
> If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, you
> have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: Ann Theis <[removed]@co.chesterfield.va.us>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 13:43:11 -0500

A new writer who writes about Florida in a black comedy, suspense style
is Tim Dorsey - http://www.timdorsey.com

His first book was FLORIDA ROADKILL and his new one due out this summer
(I think) is called HAMMERHEAD RANCH MOTEL.

Ann~Overbooked http://www.overbooked.org/

FROM: MILLS Kirby D <[removed]@ci.eugene.or.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:19:19 -0800

Charles Willeford--his four Hoke Moseley novels
and the posthumous THE SHARK-INFESTED CUSTARD.
A chunk of the latter title was published earlier
as KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Bumbalough [[removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 3:13 PM
To: Fiction List
Subject: Florida crime novels with a comic touch


Hey list,

Patron is seeking an author who writes Florida crime novels with a comic
touch
-- such as Lawrence Shames or Carl Hiaasen. Any suggestions?

--
Bruce L. Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: (817) 410-3404
Fax: (817) 410-3080
E-mail: [removed]@grapevine.lib.tx.us

The views are mine, not those of the City of Grapevine.

If you have ever flown to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport,
you
have been in Grapevine. Stop and say howdy next time.

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
DATE: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:06:13 PST

>From: Renee Patterson <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
>Reply-To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org'" <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
>Subject: RE: Florida Fiction
>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:18:39 -0500
>
>
>I haven't read them myself, but these were suggestions from local staff.
>
>Baynard Kendrick:
> Orlando : a century plus pub.1976
> Florida trails to turnpikes, 1914- pub. 1964
> The flames of time pub. 1948
>
>or
>Theodore Pratt:
> The flame tree pub.1950
> The barefoot mailman pub. 1943
> That was Palm Beach pub.1968
> Seminole. -- pub. 1963
> Florida roundabout pub. 1959
>
>or
>David M. Newell:
> The trouble of it is pub. 1977
> If nothin' don't happen pub. 1975
>
>
>Renee Patterson
>_____________________________
>High Springs Branch
>Alachua County Library District
>High Springs, FL
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us
>
>
>

Of course, if it's Florida fiction in general that you seek, John D.
MacDonald sets most of his mysteries in the Sunshine State; the Travis McGee
Color series is best known, but there are many, many others.
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
DATE: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:32:09 PST

>From: Debi Westwood <[removed]@spl.org>

>One other that just came to mind is Jimmy Buffet's Tales From
>Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factional Fictions.
>It's a collection of short stories and, as I recall (it's been a long
>time), some of them are set in Florida.
>
>

Buffett also wrote a mystery novel, "Where is Joe Merchant?" As he is a
parrothead, it's probably Florida-set also (I haven't read it).
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