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Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

A friendship‑driven adventure in Florida that highlights environmental protection and the plight of owls.

Detective Andrew Yancy investigates a mysterious frozen arm in Florida, racing against time and eccentric suspects from Key West to the Bahamas in a crime‑packed, humorous thriller.

A rookie private eye in Florida’s Coon Bog hunts a killer amid a corrupt bass‑tournament, battling eccentric locals, murderous televangelists, and his own perilous past.

A radical group targets Florida’s tourism industry in a violent attempt to cleanse the state of greed and corruption, drawing a gritty detective narrative into the heart of Miami’s resort culture.

When a star of the reality show "Expedition Survival" vanishes in the Florida Everglades, Wahoo Crane and his classmate Tuna Gordon embark on a daring quest to find him, all while evading Tuna’s gun‑toting father.

A sharp-tongued thief, a washed-up detective, and a swindle so heinous it's best left unsaid.

Former Florida state investigator Mick Stranahan finds himself hunted by a hit‑man, a shady lawyer and a sensational TV host, turning his life into a political corruption thriller.

Ex‑muckraking reporter turned PR man at the Amazing Kingdom theme park must recover stolen blue‑tongued mango voles before a darker mystery unfolds.

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London. Pepys recorded his daily life for almost ten years. Pepys has been called the greatest diarist of all time due to his frankness in writing concerning his own weaknesses and the accuracy with which he records events of daily British life and major events in the 17th century. Pepys wrote about the contemporary court and theater, his household, and major political and social occurrences. Historians have been using his diary to gain greater insight and understanding of life in London in the 17th century. Pepys wrote consistently on subjects such as personal finances, the time he got up in the morning, the weather, and what he ate. He talked at length about his new watch which he was very proud of (and which had an alarm, a new thing at the time), a country visitor who did not enjoy his time in London because he felt that it was too crowded, and his cat waking him up at one in the morning. Pepys's diary is one of the only known sources which provides such length in details of everyday life of an upper-middle-class man during the seventeenth century. His diary reveals his jealousies, insecurities, trivial concerns, and his fractious relationship with his wife. It has been an important account of London in the 1660s. Aside from day-to-day activities, Pepys also commented on the significant and turbulent events of his nation. England was in disarray when he began writing his diary. Oliver Cromwell had died just a few years before, creating a period of civil unrest and a large power vacuum to be filled. Pepys had been a strong supporter of Cromwell, but he converted to the Royalist cause upon the Protector’s death. He was on the ship that brought Charles II home to England. He gave a firsthand account of events, such as the coronation of King Charles II and the Restoration of the British Monarchy to the throne, the Anglo-Dutch war, the Great Plague, and the Great Fire of London.

"This new edition of Paul French's acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK, with added chapters dealing with recent events. A new foreword examines why North Korea remains an issue in world politics and argues that an understanding of the country is more important now than ever. A new in-depth postscript offers analysis of recent years, why Pyongyang felt compelled to test a bomb and revert to blatant nuclear diplomacy, and how the crisis can be resolved peacefully."--Jacket.

A collection of over 200 Miami Herald columns by Carl Hiaasen that expose the absurdities of South Florida politics, environmental issues, and social conditions with his characteristic dark humor.

A trio of comedic crime stories set in South Florida, featuring a daring hero, a comic heroine, and a colorful roster of characters that keep readers laughing and on the edge of their seats.

>This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and women’s histories of the region over its political and economic history. > >[...] This second edition has been brought right up to date with recent events, and includes a new chapter on the media revolution and the effect of media globalization on the Middle East, and a revised and expanded discussion on modern Iranian history. - [publisher](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315881270)

A compendium of Carl Hiaasen’s most incisive Miami Herald columns, tackling everything from hurricanes and offshore drilling to voting rights, political corruption, and Florida’s political quirks.