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1) The Seminole
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Presents a brief introduction to the Seminole Indians including information on their society, homes, food, clothing, crafts, and life today.
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"Foggy Moscowitz is called to Mary's Shallow Grave, everyone's favourite bar. A man has been killed - shot three times - by a young girl. With no parents, no fixed abode, and no services to help her, Foggy is forced to shelter her in his beachside apartment. The victim was the son of the richest Seminole in Florida, Ironstone Waters, who sends several of his men, including Mister Redhawk, to collect the girl and find out what happened. With Ironstone's...
3) Runaway
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The best-selling author of One Rode West presents the first of a five-book historical saga set in nineteenth-century Florida, where Tara Brent's dangerous past and an Indian war threatens her new marriage.
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Cultures clash when a determined PR director meets her match in the Everglades
Twenty-five-year-old Whitney Latham has worked hard to prove herself to her controlling father and his business partner—her ex-husband. As public relations director for a housing development company with its sights set on Seminole land in the Florida Everglades, Whitney is confident she can pave over any obstacle. But everything changes when her car gets...
Twenty-five-year-old Whitney Latham has worked hard to prove herself to her controlling father and his business partner—her ex-husband. As public relations director for a housing development company with its sights set on Seminole land in the Florida Everglades, Whitney is confident she can pave over any obstacle. But everything changes when her car gets...
5) The Seminole
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Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Seminole Indians. Includes a color section on their crafts.
6) Cold Florida
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Foggy Moskowitz novels volume 1
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It's 1974 and Foggy Moskowitz, a Jewish car thief, is on the run from Brooklyn authorities. He ends up in Florida working for the first office of Child Protective Services. An unlikely child protection officer, but a tenacious one, he takes on an investigation to find a missing infant, taken from the hospital by her addict mother. But the case takes several unexpected turns as Foggy makes his way from seedy Fry's Bay to Seminole swampland and a...
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Foggy Moskowitz novels volume 4
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"Florida, 1976. Foggy Moscowitz knows he's having a bad night when he wakes to find a gun pressed to his face. Nelson Roan has busted out of his prison cell and broken into Foggy's house, demanding Foggy finds his eleven-year-old daughter, Etta. But as Foggy searches for Etta, it seems her father is not the only person who wants her found: Canadian mobsters, crazy New York Irishmen, the FBI and even the Seminole elite are all on her trail. But why?...
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"When he died in 1838, Seminole warrior Osceola was the most famous Native American in the world. Born a Creek, Osceola was driven from his home to Florida by General Andrew Jackson where he joined the Seminole tribe. Their paths would cross again when President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act that would relocate the Seminoles to hostile lands and lead to the return of the slaves who had joined their tribe. Outraged Osceola declared war. This...
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"This Story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader, Chief John Horse, chronicles their heroic struggle for freedom. Beginning with the early 1800s, small groups of fugitive slaves living in Florida joined the Seminole Indians (an association that thrived for decades on reciprocal respect and affection). Kenneth Porter traces their fortunes and exploits as they moved across the country and attempted to live first...
11) The Seminole
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Examines the history, traditional lifestyle, and current situation of the Seminole Indians.
12) Icepick
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Foggy Moscowitz volume 3
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Foggy Moscowitz is shocked when ID found on a body in the bay suggests it's his close Brooklyn friend, Pan Pan Washington, and the car involved belongs to one of their old associates, Sammy 'Icepick' Franks. What message is Icepick trying to send Foggy, and why? The children who found the body were looking for their mother - one of twenty-seven women missing from John Horse's Seminole tribe, and Foggy immediately takes the pair under his wing as...
15) Seminole
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Officer Lance Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. A boyhood friend of Seminole Indian chief Osceola, Caldwell opposes the maniacal Major Degan's plans to wipe out the local Seminole tribe. Caldwell is rescued by Osceola after a violent battle and is swiftly court-martialed. When Osceola returns to Fort King in an attempt to initiate peace he is murdered and Caldwell framed for the crime. Can the truth prevail?
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Death Curse of Tartu: A group of students on an archaeology assignment in the Everglades decide to throw a party one night. The spot they choose happens to be the burial site of an ancient Indian medicine man named Tartu. He returns from the dead to take his revenge on those who desecrated his grave site.
Sting of Death: "A mad marine biologist...transforms himself into a mutant half-man, half-jellyfish, and attacks college kids with his sting...