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If Tully Mars had known what he had gotten himself into when he agreed to help find the lost lens belonging to the lighthouse on Cayo Loco-well, he might never had agreed to help in the first place. Then again, maybe he would just have taken a slightly longer nap before setting off on his wild adventure. And it isn't just Tully-who Buffett fans will remember well from Jimmy's bestselling Tales from... (more)

Tripwire

by Lee Child

The New York Times bestselling author of Killing Floor and Die Trying returns with a new Jack Reacher thriller-in which a labrynthine trail of murder leads Jack straight into a trap...set by the most vicious opponent he's ever faced.

Loitering with Intent

by Stuart Woods

The newest addition to the New York Times – bestselling Stone Barrington series. Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaine’s, and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. So his luck seems to be improving when he’s hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man—lucky because the job pays well, and because the son is hiding in the tropical paradise of Key West.... (more)

A Pirate Looks at Fifty

by Jimmy Buffett

For the millions of fans of Jimmy Buffett's music as well as his bestselling books, Tales From Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant? , here is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett philosophy on life and how to live it. As hard as it is to believe, the irrepressible Jimmy Buffett has hit the half-century mark and, in A PIRATE LOOKS AT 50 , he brings us along on the remarkable journey which he took through the... (more)

Tales from Margaritaville

by Jimmy Buffett

Margaritaville may not appear on a map, but it does exist--at least in the brilliantly creative, sometimes slightly skewed imagination of Jimmy Buffett. Tales from Margaritaville is a collection of short stories (some purely fiction, some based in truth) so vividly packed with restless dreamers, wild wanderers, and pure gypsy souls that just reading it is a wild adventure. Travel along with a cowboy named Tully... (more)

Lanconia's Royal Family: Book 2

The Princess

by Jude Deveraux

Her name was Aria...a beautiful, arrogant princess from a small European kingdom. Stranded in a storm of intrigue near the Florida Keys, she is swept ashore and into the arms of dashing J.T. Montgomery, an officer of the American Navy. Disdainful at first, Aria is secretly tantalized by the handsome Lieutenant's brash independence...and beneath her proud reserve, J.T. discovers a woman of sensuous fire. To escape... (more)

Ghosts of Key West

by David L. Sloan

Key West's past comes alive with thirteen incredible stories of the Southernmost ghosts. From Victorian era spirits returning to claim what is rightfully theirs, to haunted dolls that continue to send chills down their visitor's sines, Ghosts of Key West beautifully captures the true spirit of Florida's second oldest city. Ghosts of cigar makers, pirates, wreckers and voodoo practitioners all await you.... (more)

Sailing On Love

by Joyce Marie Taylor

It has been ten years since Kelli Callahan became Mrs. Michael Winslow, the wife of a sailboat captain seventeen years her senior. One minute she was living a fairytale life aboard her majestic forty-foot sailboat in Key West, and the next she is having doubts about her choices in men and life in general. It has also been ten years since Bryan Danforth, the man who stole her heart at the age of nineteen,... (more)

Hemingway Deadlights: A Mystery

by Michael Atkinson

It is 1956 and Hemingway has spent much of the year at his home in Key West, hiding from tourists and autograph hunters. But a friend’s sudden death rouses Papa from his idyll. To say that the cause of death is suspicious is to put it lightly. It’s not every day that a part-time smuggler is impaled on a harpoon. A witty, literate, and action-filled debut, Hemingway Deadlights catches the famed author in his... (more)

Papa Hemingway in Key West

by James McLendon

In this revised edition, only minor changes have been made in the text. The illustrations section has been expanded. Many never-before-published photograghs are included.

Off Course: A Seaworthy Romance

by Joyce Marie Taylor

Will Lauren's dream stay the course? Lauren Callahan is about to discover love in all its many disguises. She will learn the subtle differences between lustful, animal attraction, dependent love, familial love, and love of the truest kind, while on her way to realizing a childhood dream. As the story unfolds, she will emerge through each phase into a stronger, more confident woman, despite the physical and... (more)

Lauren's Dream

by Joyce Taylor

They fell in love in Key West. Was it meant to be? Will they find each other again? Will Lauren's dream ever reveal the truth? If you follow your dream...

Death in Key West: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery

Death in Key West: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery

by Jeffrey Round

Jeffrey Round is an internationally bestselling author and playwright from Toronto. He has worked as a television producer and writer for the CBC and Alliance Atlantis, has a BA in English Literature and Theatre from Dalhousie, attended the Humber School for Writers, and studied film and television at Ryerson University.

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

by Les Standiford

Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford’s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler’s dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent... (more)

Nickel and Dimed

On (Not) Getting by in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Ni ckel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let... (more)

Hemingway's Cats: An Illustrated Biography

Hemingway's Cats: An Illustrated Biography

by Carlene Brennen

In 1943 Ernest Hemingway, living in Cuba with his third wife and eleven cats, wrote to his first wife: One cat just leads to another. . . . The place is so damned big it doesn’t really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time. . . . He always took great pleasure in writing to his family about his cats and how they were getting along. Family and... (more)

To Have and Have Not

by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and Love To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love... (more)

Metro Girl CD Low Price

by Janet Evanovich

Buckle your seat belts. Number-one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich is moving into the fast lane with Metro Girl , a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride. "Wild" Bill Barnaby's dropped off the face of the earth and big... (more)

Welcome to Paradise

by Laurence Shames

Before mild-mannered furniture salesman Al Tuschman left New Jersey for a week in Key West, he hadn't an enemy in the world. But a series of puzzling assaults on his privacy, his sanity, and his life has turned his stay at the tasteful Paradise Hotel into Tropical Hell. Maybe it's the humidity. Maybe the Sambuca. Or maybe it's the nickname emblazoned on his license plate: Big Al. For Big Al Marracotta, Mafia... (more)

The Perfidious Parrot (Amsterdam Cops S.)

The Perfidious Parrot (Amsterdam Cops S.)

by Janwillem van de Wetering

Janwillem van de Wetering's fourteenth Amsterdam Cops novel, The Perfidious Parrot, finds Grijpstra, de Gier, and the commissaris blackmailed into investigating the mysterious hijacking of a supertanker's entire cargo. The adventure takes them to Key West and to the former Dutch colonies of Aruba and St. Eustatius in search of the missing oil and the villains who have killed more than once to protect their loot.

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by Jimmy Buffett

by Lee Child

by Stuart Woods

by Jimmy Buffett

by Jimmy Buffett

by Jude Deveraux

by David L. Sloan

by Joyce Marie Taylor

by Michael Atkinson

by James McLendon

by Joyce Marie Taylor

by Joyce Taylor

by Jeffrey Round

by Les Standiford

On (Not) Getting by in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

by Carlene Brennen

by Ernest Hemingway

by Janet Evanovich

by Laurence Shames

by Janwillem van de Wetering