Ocean State Libraries

Heather Seller's unpretentious, vernacular prose allows Georgia a persuasive mix of innocence and experience. These are miraculous stories of survival, perhaps even forgiveness. To some of us Georgia's life would be unthinkable. Sellers makes us believe it is well worth living. Heather Sellers writes delicious, dangerous prose. She starts you twenty-three floors up in condo squalor, nips across for dysfunction in Disney country, threatens incest in...

Poet Thad Ziolkowski remembers how he escaped his unhappy childhood in Flordia by surfing.

"A collection of Carl Hiaasen's best columns from the past twelve years, covering topics that have become national issues including hurricanes, off-shore drilling, voting rights, and political corruption." --

"Callie navigates her teenage years while living with her mother in late 1970s and early 1980s Florida. It is a scattered childhood, moving from cars to strangers' houses to the sand-dusted apartments of the tourist towns that litter the Florida coastline. As Callie watches adults behaving badly, she is simultaneously in thrall to and terrified of the mother who is moving from town to town to leave her own mistakes behind." --

"It's January 1888. The small town of Fort Myers is buzzing about a possible visit from famous winter residents Mina and Thomas Edison. When the local newspaper reports that the couple needs a gardener for their riverside estate, nearly everyone lines up to apply. For twenty-five-year-old Belle Carson, a painful childhood secret has kept her world--and her hopes for the future--small. But with lush gardens already sprouting in her imagination, Belle...