Terrance Zepke
Award-winning writer and travel photographer Terrance Zepke remains fascinated with the history and folklore of the Carolinas. She can’t decide which Carolina she prefers so she lives part-time in each. She has a master's degree from the University of South Carolina and has lived in England, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Tennessee, and has traveled all over the world, writing and photographing for numerous magazines and newspapers.

The Everglades: River of Grass
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
$19.95
ISBN: 978-1-56164-394-3
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named the Everglades a “river of grass,” most people considered the area a worthless swamp. She brought the world’s attention to the need to preserve the Everglades. In the Afterword of this edition, Michael Grunwald gives an update of what has happened to the Everglades since then.

“This beautiful and bitter, sweet and savage book may be recommended not only to all residents and tourists of Florida, but to all readers concerned with American life and the great relations of man to nature.” — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Florida Night Sky
Elinor De Wire
$24.95
ISBN: 978-1-56164-238-0
A starting point for those who want to learn the Florida night sky and enjoy its treasures, this book also serves as a helpful reference for serious amateur astronomers. Enjoy the activities in these pages and be inspired by the science and history underlying them. Discovery starts in your own backyard. Step outside, look up, and get acquainted with the Florida night.

"Packed with facts and figures for both professional and amateur astronomers. Rarely have I see so much information presented to readably and attractively."—St. Petersburg Times

The Bucket Flower
Donald Robert Wilson
$19.95
ISBN: 978-1-56164-369-1
Beth Sprague finds that she is woman who can face danger of every sort—from hurricanes and alligators to wild and desperate men—and hold her own. She proves she is not just a “bucket flower,” a pampered person unfit to face the rigors of the swamp. She finds her way, one much different from the one planned for her—and even quite different from the one she had planned for herself.

“The research, the detail, the characters and the plot all make for a good read.” —Senior Connection and Mature Lifestyles

COMING SPRING OF 2010

Robert N. Macomber
The Darkest Shade
of Honor
Fiction / Naval fiction
March
“A solid entry in this popular series.” — Booklist
It is 1886 and Commander Peter Wake of the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence meets rising politico Theodore Roosevelt and Cuban revolutionary José Martí. When Wake is assigned to uncover Cuban revolutionary activities between Florida and Cuba, he finds himself in the center of the most catastrophic event in Key West history. He is called upon to make a decision involving the very darkest shade of honor.

Charles R. Boning
Florida’s Best Herbs and Spices
Gardening
May
Covers 89 plants, including favorites like basil and rosemary, but also more exotic ones like bilimbi and pandanus. As in Boning’s previous popular book, Florida’s Best Fruiting Plants, there are beautiful and useful illustrations, as well as charts and maps. For each plant you’ll find: plant description, geographic distribution, flavor and scent, varieties, relatives, cultivation, and harvest and use.

Nance Frank
Mario Sanchez
Better Than Ever
Art / Biography
March
A celebration of the life and work of Key West artist Mario Sanchez (1908–2005) with 54 full-color reproductions of his painted relief carvings. His art—showing street vendors, parades, rumba bands, cigar factories, ice-cream trucks, people out for a stroll—has become symbolic of the picturesque diversity of Key West life in the 20th century.

Elinor De Wire & Dolores Pergioudakis
Lighthouses of Greece
Lighthouses / History
May
This lavishly illustrated and carefully researched book covers over 100 lighthouses, most still guiding ships around the Greek Islands. Includes interesting sections on ancient lighthouses, lighthouse keepers, lighthouse construction, and much more.

Virginia Aronson &
Allyn Szejko
Iguana Invasion!
Exotic Pets Gone Wild in Florida
Animals / Ages 12 up
March
Green Iguanas, Burmese Pythons, Nile Monitor Lizards, and Rhesus Monkeys, and many more kinds of non-native animals are increasing rapidly in subtropical Florida. This full-color book provides scientific information, exciting wildlife stories, and identification photos for the most common exotic animals on the loose in Florida.

Sandra Wallus Sammons
The Two Henrys: Henry Plant and Henry Flagler and Their Railroads
Biography / Ages 12 up
March
Henry Plant and Henry Flagler changed the wilderness of Florida in the late 1800s. This dual biography is a story of railroads and the men who built them with their creativity, innovation, and money.

Sandra Wallus Sammons
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades
Biography / Ages 9–12
March
Marjory Stoneman Douglas has been called “the Grandmother of the Everglades.” This biography covers her life from her childhood up north to her long and inspiring life in south Florida.

Sandra Wallus Sammons
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers
Biography / Ages 9–12
March
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was fascinated by the "Crackers" living near her home in north central Florida and wrote about them in The Yearling and Cross Creek. This biography gives a new sense of wonder about natural Florida.

Sandra Wallus Sammons
Henry Flagler, Builder of Florida
Biography / Ages 9–12
March
An exciting biography about the man who changed Florida's east coast with his hotels and his Florida East Coast Railway.