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1) Lucky you
Author
Language
English
Description
The latest winner of the Florida lottery, JoLayne Lucks faces an unexpected problem in collecting her winnings when Bodean Gazzer and his sidekick steal her ticket, planning to collect the millions to help their white supremacist group prevent a NATO invasion of the U.S.
2) Bad monkey
Author
Series
Andrew Yancy novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events,...
3) Nature girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Fed up with telemarketers and suffering from manic-depressive illness, Honey Santana plans to teach salesman Boyd Shreave a lesson and arranges a meeting with him in the Florida Everglades, but when she arrives, she realizes she isn't the only one using the remote site to deal with their problems.
4) Wrecker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help--in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West--at the...
5) Squeeze me
Author
Series
Skink volume 08
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl, a new novel that captures the Trump era with Hiaasen's inimitable savage humor and wonderful, eccentric characters. A surefire best seller. Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me is set among the landed gentry of Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager...
6) Basket case
Author
Language
English
Description
An entertaining mystery introducing Jack Tagger, a former investigative reporter who is trying to redeem his career by solving a high profile murder.
7) Star Island
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 6
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's "undercover stunt double", portraying Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (über-stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped-and-tucked...
8) Razor girl
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an innocent accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the offending car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous Razor Girl--so named for her unique, eye-popping addition to what might be an otherwise unexciting scam. But, of course--this is Hiaasen!--the scam is only the very beginning of a situation that's going to spiral crazily out...
9) No surrender
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
To avoid being shipped off to boarding school, Malley takes off with some guy she met online. Richard knows his cousin' in trouble before she does. Wild Skink-- the ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida-- is enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets, and giant gators.
10) Native tongue
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 2
Language
English
Description
The precious, blue-tongued mango voles have been stolen from the Amazing Kingdom theme park on North Key Largo by ruthless thugs who have much bigger-and deadlier-things in mind. On the hunt for the rare rodents is Joe Winder, a burned-out ex-muckraking reporter who now works for the park as their PR man. Even as a scandal breaks out over the theft, Winder finds himself trailing an eco-terrorist geriatric, a certain former-governor-turned-swamp rat,...
11) Sick puppy
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 4
Language
English
Description
An eco-terrorist in Florida strikes at a polluter by kidnapping his wife. In the process, Twilly Spree discovers a conspiracy by state politicians to turn a wildlife sanctuary into a golf course. He also discovers that the polluter's wife fancies him.
12) Stormy weather
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 3
Language
English
Description
Newlywed Bonnie Lamb has lost her husband in the midst of the rubble left by a hurricane in southern Florida and must deal with some very strange characters in her attempt to find him.
13) Squirm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. Carl Hiaasen tells a wickedly funny, slightly twisted tale about families, figuring out what's really important, and knowing when (and when not) to let things go."--
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