Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State
    Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State
    Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State
    Ebook335 pages5 hours

    Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State

    By Kenneth F. Kister

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    There is no available information at this time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 28, 2007
    ISBN9781465332707
    Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State
    Author

    Kenneth F. Kister

    Ken Kister, a freelance writer with a master’s degree from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston, Massachusetts, has worked in several Florida libraries and taught as an adjunct instructor in the library school at the University of South Florida. He has written a number of books and articles about reference and information sources, among them Kister’s Best Encyclopedias and Kister’s Best Dictionaries. He is also the author of Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times, a wellreceived biography of one of America’s preeminent 20th-century librarians, as well as Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State. A native of Pennsylvania, Kister has lived in Florida since 1973.

    Related to Florida on the Boil

    Related ebooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Books

      Mar 22, 2021

      by Tangaroa Walker Penguin — $38 Don’t read this book — or at least its introduction — if you don’t think you’ll be entertained by the killing of a cow when a car hits one and farcical complications ensue. As the title of that section indicates, “Far

      5 min read

    • Article

      Lessons Learned

      Apr 29, 2023

      Lessons Learned
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Jianan Qian

      Dec 8, 2019

      I spent a lot of time rereading the same books I used to sneak into my desk back in old days. We don’t need to feel apologetic about loving these books. The post A Year in Reading: Jianan Qian appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Books

      May 17, 2021

      by Clare Moleta Scribner/Simon & Schuster — $35 The father and his son in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Max and the Feral Kid in Mad Max 2 and now Li and her daughter, Matti — the highways of the post-apocalyptic planet appear likely to be overrun by s

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Time Is Now

      Aug 16, 2017

      Suggested Reading: Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September) by John McPhee The author of more than thirty books of nonfiction as well as more than a hundred pieces of journalism published in the New Yorker over the p

      2 min read

    • Article

      Black History Month: These Writers’ Messages Still Ring True

      Feb 4, 2022

      I have kept two books from my college years. One is about points, picas, and figuring out proportions. Little did I know that the copyfitting skills it covered were becoming obsolete at the very moment I was poring over that paperback. Graphic design

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Time Is Now

      Aug 16, 2017

      Suggested Reading: Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September) by John McPhee The author of more than thirty books of nonfiction as well as more than a hundred pieces of journalism published in the New Yorker over the p

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Atlantic 10

      Dec 13, 2022

      The Atlantic 10
      7 min read

    • Article

      Mary Sanchez: No, The School Board Didn’t Ban The Bible Or Anne Frank — This Time

      Aug 20, 2022

      And then, they came for the Bible. The word of God itself was widely reported to be under the microscope recently in the hyper-politicized and often hyperbolic debate about what books are acceptable in our public schools and libraries. The Bible, in

      3 min read

    • Article

      The New Establishment

      Jan 26, 2023

      THIRTY YEARS AGO, when the Secret Author was but a young shaver wandering wide-eyed along the approach roads to Grub Street, people used to be very exercised by an entity known as the “literary establishment”. In the manner of Bloomsbury, half a cent

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Battle Of Book Bans

      Jan 23, 2024

      The Battle Of Book Bans
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Year in (Canadian) Reading: Claire Cameron

      Dec 9, 2017

      I was on book tour for much of the year. And when I tour, I read. I’m not sure how many books I got through exactly, but I read about quantum gravity, a few different translations of Beowulf, microbiology, and cave art. I read Elon Musk’s biogr

      4 min read

    • Article

      What’s the Story?

      Aug 17, 2017

      THIS ISSUE IS ABOUT how to keep up—personally, politically, scientifically— with our rapidly changing world. In these essays, writers find new normals, ways to adjust or adapt and move forward in the face of adversity. But the flip side of adaptation

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Fertile Contamination

      Aug 17, 2022

      A Fertile Contamination
      6 min read

    • Article

      Writing Queer

      Dec 27, 2018

      Ididn’t know it, but I was mentally ill until about age 16. Anybody queer was considered “mentally ill” until 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association removed the diagnosis of homosexuality as a disorder (though “sexual orientation disturbance

      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Florida on the Boil

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Florida on the Boil - Kenneth F. Kister

       Qabook_preview_excerpt.html}vWDՠ$%YrHFIfj DG9雼U/$Ͻr^M=>-߭?,V2/w2o|z&?UaVߏz]w|ݧ,K4`彟"YNYR/*]tdԪ,OL2k7qYQ.K.<𻥟,~voOfd(bT?AӜ:-򤪋=>❺L˒jXuZ/NV\Uu֜1.,ذO&)w7a]4K?)]+hK{LtrXfJ0ݤ~_,(Wؤy/v|?}7~^{ ݷ\G_y`6bw/l;a9hݷݷoFtu~tx`Oˋߝ^\]x$.NFS}9\MF޺:>J..:>NFGcS^~}:J;77g1b?x9ܲo6ᗳޗWu ­*̘_w2]ZAωKgEN][g=TI׍I H* +_2zKs8R$8ĕ^I!(W#b ,%]h+Ocj{)EdQYe3qoB4v` [U$19mԻ_)wY{_9'@7M:AY3]}, 2sᕹd/A)*yoLWz|ΣV~(8̀h_=1\t@EIKP#gvB p5T;ުQm\7yHsoCKu<}hnJF}Yܘ .ƊG6v2t!7MؽBSǍga=6?㖪bRU\WSqbӄ@Zˆiު?,Ϡgs7xp ‰u'#K xR*Troqxr@^`V䵱$qPجɤ\1kcDVpfK=F .6B,$G 80s]sd t-Ag'A'[ 6ה|7g^b7㡉6f+?5<6UqHvĐJyG)\8f 3\8wfYx i]3Ⱥ) $iE΋<M)2s樫J텟qln|@V-$䰓ca N[đgYҐ0~DVM?Zz 4w?;m6n1_-h@< C}^4]:5GFd709 /@39a 3q=t`6aH/0L97T]> '?hG7Bsm, FL,%t&%k W!ى}jÄLJaK#Lme xן<}j,W "984!-QFӑ  |e8D~LĈĵXcpMe{ftHA9:&@Ҡ׳arTLp Śt-l~I '-tέz ) ]ۙ$]emV|%Paat_A`QE[ 3O"1Ym24l*@I~SQEV/[-8~iT~6x•4X=7,":juOB)"Ļj`>\}Irw=xW0.6F@LKҁlkeulyuq4[&7~,+ƀMr)> MTJ|E9O]Kr,pӸR˰Ngɭ+ Dq`::sOECsz8@ġAwz^+P$?@W̴vGNM.u|rPZB\bI6& ?Jac)NK^'J7mHj2zxgxLz.ZMfeV]@oHn HDɹECHzE S֬Wuir$,j)0K.`[HҤB6'AW h X$bցOݠ';j:7#Ir4, [bCT381o3"#梁 PtV l=&y~ҩ~mGy 6ѸHA.}x~ʓ +2jƿ:||4qR&$rҶ)+ #n|S/*o MuY3 xE"o6|XUq' ~:V4Z1T%Ox$v*|%w4a>]K[t R^?Ja+O]zI"qxyIĿs%77,2v_6uAfe(X;:i&PM\)0=lYqpi3ޡQ(~p+4]]p"`Y [3;x!tʴ7r_ .P-?͍Ow Ԕ&wLFYe6.8lS!4#fyEU4AYOBHXvo1{Q2@zeDoTiDAki1H&,P:gPt(.ڤe'~Wn0- Q=]*нte$9.6lz_ lViw.Gk#"_h.jJSmPx(Q!vI H)E_Ӄ|*qk\LY$~y<[exaoZF<#%(4Eq9UGq*]nW6IO# 0zVs7Z- \d=c1gtloCm]ȔEd$ZXc^0mcE-PS%RM%32(m'2mQr tJF[Yr:Wѻ+qg|زa;6P_wr?rf4l?[)]%N 23pU?A=}Hsg?e4p2^Yc|+%} S2񂝺ƀER2`=))cLrI(2EiN$JRmϿ8Dx^_C;20껤,_REg GO>I.ׯsζGo 8O3Gb~qg;E5!S/] 4_Ԟ?iq%1&G-e?sfIccý wV [?9Xd=?F;od=i>>io#d;6Ǟ nyy^~}?\&{gjQEWa8nOG[T*跤i;}@]@Aji~\J:>\>xBo7n<+}qtzWJG=nf!{h6o[g{~3 }jwØN4S=‰:;馱kůvF[5Hx,fXզ4ؽ?6z|m bc?qK3fijy- ]sN6uegqS~)r0Kੀ~("?ٺlBDɺӛ 6Pn&!<ޮRO^>YlM(*˶kPgQ q4`ƊpSRsRZa ӿ73t`0 mOD,,,p96^1S3ޗ..jk8$w͘V");MlKg9 猤BeͧVĽW]4 /+ètL< >KUssfdt)s/bnw,'C'1apv@y4q>.: wLXN=(+㮴4V}sG) [d5L`WI~J+90VR<%9a<)Mr){3.yn:;G}j،S]6iM: trzXiU@=[`6Fg{Am6%E1 &Y"wTLXQ'!rH,f(.`JC]c2Z)R/RH=e 6Y*FalsٳhGߙ73$mz82vqgנ|׻!!Jb;Hp%EY>}kOh7_=;Pzdǿ5(nhO>exxS;"?,x0.ǜh_zJ mgrYE]JNV۶N`N{2*!DrCZ%P7lKW[ż-{[e)K[߂nk,+0̑1{NB1O%cͣ9uA& 's)!WF1J<;[bbRX&bbfIA7E a#-=H|h҇bT#t ~m:eAΕ-|*f3{TـmvѺw]ǢGa#gN0nNl1]xT{(iPIs\* wߧ8Wj2hԻe34iMfld<I}LjYa~A0x3#{jC}Ϟ0b)3‚>Uۤcr ]rxS<&Nh:S1j.?0Rۜ} YZzY EL!Ek%j] h6xS_RJ7, MmAvdvq`J'VHa/߽eZ<3:m6iv&i~&KVe Ȯah L*z0ƫ@$(6甧{"%({e|z7} S4Y47KUr̚gžUeB )yTbGǃox4mBNxsŢ->&]t@lrX6,gJc)ycY&5nETgnj)NTT"!XsV@*MLVr˳aG(70Wv' s7|/q{%q]?A,?'-nhd%#Sӂ]y,vpHSwZ\'{^ F~ 7lhZ׌ ,Jr`B8–mJ9=LHCb-끎s1Qe9XPER!$ Wlr*kb^`XGgҌ3e6Rʹgf撼 %eU`1oNnXS,}yOb4Z&t"E}^>x{Y[q&| a !/֕]jZ)' 5F`]ƌV ŵ2Y3p3JAO\!]?gʑyDSۊST $@U L/]1%bv9vz05B)>{Ͻ'I|txb h?󱅔RBZ sNF }qU2l!a,n@@ ,qЂ;YES)-qN;G CX0k:eaȯ@N⭯r'X]P.~28f]dpD@UKҜӦxźwKScƷU*Z隶B Ow/wT7UH5]:ipe;J 0<= Q `brUY_$itAϋlf{yr c0iUˈ f #N8,e8Հ0Xm"֞ Vٌ}$:+c%^yc6%#'˂)?K 41*ŠiiT^3DRCQ".=(WtLaN/][.Q2(*̚rLE@c+0@B"ڮ Sqw6DRXUf/dxi SE?b<=?B]]"۾Jfl*bVM2v!Om5ѢF'*i|f(ˆ)\ȸܨQUk("DUT"fXzitޘ=+-+_2a#KT>x}UaF,, 3YbSL8|v+OB… zu[Ŕ'f$3.$|);dhqLor0Wڙe?9[ś˴^ X  ?8V6ji3Q0"kq)d\iZP[ī2Ԍ1Kί[f4D8kUP&8/_Z3| ޗ ƜkRQ -'tFmJVѮ*:|u#Q* au( fT'v0], |r*ϛTA.a&uQ2&Z {Ϟhq%.6GQ]FF`;[vOLzc{O]T%[1Jd',w3ooNFWrxu|{|s>Ȧ7磋g#|sxyqqz~N_ޞ_%|_'dtv|s|uq|}^|sΒ"/F1[ xqrv|y1:'R#|tnN/ЧM\"Vx5=ÄX|$jtqs\''7&==;qT<Â[Ir) `$AE O(ə11C_”)TA>X?VaΈJ`!HCP+"b\5c 3>ٛ&\ j,r69 {N0;8`^<eW,O1pYS%'F33D1%A03и\EfT5V'xpg]rfP3٤%5p׃~*.&n]Gb`O@ (ox+uW\E[R%V=?6 vU-C"dFֺTzΤõp4dLx/$Tj ܊%{Xbv? #u7 SM5gN @R_H(f Ĕ."qc'z#`{`cME郏~V74'Q0hS3֞ +/ tq#0Onl?r A|v7uaGr!qB҅%@Î.΋-n~[Rk :ׯ_ WV]-n^zbm@R#F3^*sܳ" 0l68ԔE Zҳusez$`al_yZ!pqU|9aл4i ̚ݫMl|Tf[ubZMD#]s z-GFlswt/p]ImC$=F]ǘss]5P[73&υ ?o?S:>_9!XUCΜI|4Yо 11biX(-QڭH<,nI[үB*hVr~o9+x@mcOl+*c?;ĜiV3WkZ[2/2Tu|y}e}pCφ_cN;\NmSh6ƶ'31ln5 5+yY7ZZBEUlb/ll_3YV2lHh\ԖFf"mLCjbRB TzwUKkt.٧ ftNI*-(U/Z5/]&B嬡Y>3ɹZ%,hEpzi_)]:tAN`y-Z٤AF_0-f7*_U@-Mz_|C26 - rV̢r]2>0M8LMͭJ€:qYܩ->pFÐ/ @VMTՁ{w1ܠi qHv$AYYh?ׄXaВd`\IAS%,9ڤ39S1Wi{A1 pٖke+y ]QU|Go@NzSL4hz~,-)z b_ NTY(=WC:U> @3֔4 zDjz9'0tl 0et!1^\rȏѧsd| I9aC_`5j'hYi9) %YcGue(R*G84x; v7G)ZXQ/`˗U5(rTVAؽf?Wa#Y3_P
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1