The Flamingo Rising

The Flamingo Rising

Author: Larry Baker

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9780349109923

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t's the 1960s in Jacksonville, Florida (where the sixties are still the fifties). Some of America's last sweet moments of innocence are unfolding out on the coastal highway at the Flamingo, the largest drive-in movie theatre in the world. Its owner, Southern patriarch Hubert Lee, possesses a fervour matching the size of the Great White Wall of the Flamingo's gigantic screen tower, where John Wayne or Audrey Hepburn or invading body-snatchers flicker nightly. Hubert's unforgiving ego meets its match in Turner West, who owns the funeral home next door and wants to build a cemetery on land staked by his gleefully stubborn neighbour. So when Hubert's teenage son Abe develops his first adolescent crush, it makes devilish sense that the object of his affections should be Grace, Turner's only daughter and the apple of his eye. At once funny and heart-breaking, THE FLAMINGO RISING is a novel full of tenderness and insight about the power of love, the need for faith and the persistence of memory.


The Student Body

The Student Body

Author: John McNally

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780299174040

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An anthology of short fiction explores the complex world of college life, capturing the triumphs, tragedies, intrigues, awakenings, and more of academia in stories by such authors as Stephen King, Marly Swick, and Ron Carlson.


Fridays from the Garden

Fridays from the Garden

Author: Richard Christiansen

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737635116

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Fridays From the Garden is a collection of recipes and stories from a year in a verdant Los Angeles garden. But it's more than that, too. Tracing the trajectory of Flamingo Estate, this cookbook is the story of a house that became a brand, and a brand that became a rallying cry for regenerative farming and Pleasure from the Garden.Spurred from a simple desire to support struggling farmers during the pandemic, founder Richard Christiansen turned his bookstore into a CSA box operation, which quickly grew into a weekly Friday ritual for the greater Los Angeles community - a chance to connect with the marvels of the natural world in the midst of a global pandemic.Each Friday, this box would feature beautiful, delicious produce, recipes inspired by the week's harvest, and a personal note from Richard, urging subscribers to cook a meal for someone they love. This cookbook is a collection of over 150 of those stories and recipes -a monument to the pleasures of the Flamingo Estate garden, the people that keep it buzzing, and the ways in which Mother Nature takes care of us when we take care of her.With stories by Richard Christiansen, a foreword by Martha Stewart and recipes from Chefs Ella Murphy, Jo Kim & more. Featuring the photography of Drew Escriva, Pia Riverola, Christian Högstedt, François Halard, Larkin Donley, Andrea D'Agosto, Adrian Gaut and John Von Palmer.


The Tiger Rising

The Tiger Rising

Author: Kate DiCamillo

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2009-09-08

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0763649449

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A National Book Award finalist by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartache, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever. Featuring a new cover illustration by Stephen Walton.


The Drive-In

The Drive-In

Author: Guy Barefoot

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2023-11-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1501365908

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The Drive-In meaningfully contributes to the complex picture of outdoor cinema that has been central to American culture and to a history of US cinema based on diverse viewing experiences rather than a select number of films. Drive-in cinemas flourished in 1950s America, in some summer weeks to the extent that there were more cinemagoers outdoors than indoors. Often associated with teenagers interested in the drive-in as a 'passion pit' or a venue for exploitation films, accounts of the 1950s American drive-in tend to emphasise their popularity with families with young children, downplaying the importance of a film programme apparently limited to old, low-budget or independent films and characterising drive-in operators as industry outsiders. They retain a hold on the popular imagination. The Drive-In identifies the mix of generations in the drive-in audience as well as accounts that articulate individual experiences, from the drive-in as a dating venue to a segregated space. Through detailed analysis of the film industry trade press, local newspapers and a range of other primary sources including archival records on cinemas and cinema circuits in Arkansas, California, New York State and Texas, this book examines how drive-ins were integrated into local communities and the film industry and reveals the importance and range of drive-in programmes that were often close to that of their indoor neighbours.


Black Caesar's Clan; A Florida Mystery Story

Black Caesar's Clan; A Florida Mystery Story

Author: Albert Payson Terhune

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-08

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 3387035829

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.


Florida on the Boil

Florida on the Boil

Author: Kenneth F. Kister

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1425717268

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Provides incisive reviews of more than 300 recommended novels and short-story collections set in Florida. Numerous Florida fiction writers, past and present, are represented in the book, including such diverse talents as Edna Buchanan, Harry Crews, Connie May Fowler, and others.--Excerpted from book cover.


AC PAPA #1

AC PAPA #1

Author: Chris Bodor

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1312607351

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Florida-themed literary journal. Issue #1 features poems, photos, personal essays, photography, fine art and fiction and prose by Glenda Bailey-Mershon, Larry Baker, Carolee Ackerson Bertisch, Nancy Bevilaqua, Chris Bodor, Pris Campbel, Lance Carden, Alan Catlin, Charlie Cawley, Stevie Cenko, David Dannov, John De Herrera, Mary Deno-Yeck, Jim Draper, Brian Druggan, Daniel Florez, Tim Gilmore, Lou Graves, Marie Groves, Lynn Skapyak Harlin, Tovah Janovsky, Leny Kaltenekker, Jane Lynahan Karklin, LeeAnn Kendall, Beverly A. Bell Kessler, Mark Kirwan, Ann Kiyonaga-Razon, Rachel Layne, Michael Henry Lee, Antoinette (Toni) Libro, Dotty Loop, Susan Bennett Lopez, Gayl Angela Masson, Ann Browning Masters, Bozena Helena Mazur-Nowak, Kurt McGill, Gigi Mischele Miller, Paula Moore, Tonn Pastore, Lee Patterson, Becky Meyer Pourchor, Nadia Ramoutar, Kathleen Roberts, Rebecca Rousseau, Kimmy Van Kooten, Marie Vernon, Rob Waldner, Lee Weaver, Beem Weeks, Ginna Wilkerson.