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HCPLC's Top Ten Local Author Titles 2017
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100 Things to Do in Tampa Bay Before You Die
by Kristen Hare
You don't need a reason to come to Tampa Bay. We have beautiful beaches, aquariums, theme parks, and miles of outdoors to explore. But, as 100 Things to Do in Tampa Bay Before You Die will show you, there's plenty more to do in Tampa than the obvious. How about stepping into the dark night of Ybor City, discovering the streets and spaces where stories of early immigrants unfold on a walking ghost tour? Get a drink and an ocean view at a hotel that looks like a giant pink birthday cake at the Loews Don Cesar in St. Pete Beach. Watch the 1940s sponge diving video while taking in Greek culture and some kooky kitsch at Spongeorama in Tarpon Springs. Or travel to the top of the silver onion-shaped minarets at the hotel a railroad baron built at the Plant Museum. One hundred ideas for digging into Tampa Bay await, with insider tips and themed itineraries for those who are ready to do it all.
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The Thief and the Sword
by Mike Maihack
When a mysterious thief steals her ancient sword, Cleo is forbidden to risk her life to reclaim it and instead embarks on a dangerous journey to attain the time tablets that could decide her fate as the savior of the galaxy.
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Mind Your Monsters
by Catherine Bailey
When monsters invade his peaceful little town, Wally discovers a polite way to calm the chaos and stop them from making a mess of everything.
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Tampa's Carrollwood
by Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez
The story of the Carrollwood area stretches back to the 1890s, when Rev. Isaac Ward Bearss led a small caravan from Missouri to Florida and helped form a closely knit rural community between Lake Carroll and Lake Magdalene. Over the next six decades, citrus groves and cattle ranches flourished on those fertile soils--and so, too, did the vision of a young developer named Matt Jetton. In the late 1950s, Jetton bought more than 300 acres of land surrounding Lake Carroll and built the 925-home community known as Carrollwood. By the 1970s, many of the remaining citrus groves in the areas surrounding the neighborhood gave way to new homes and businesses, and the Carrollwood name continued spreading north and west.
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Tails of Fluffy McDuffy : Lessons of Friendship
by Nancy Mercurio
The Fluffy McDuffy series is for children and pet lovers of all ages! Designed to inspire love, friendship and peaceful actions, this series of books features a whimsical and entertaining Cockapoo named Fluffy McDuffy, whose life experiences reveal lessons everyone can benefit from learning. This second book in the series focuses on Fluffy McDuffy's experiences of making friends, both real and pretend.
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Tails of Fluffy Mcduffy : Lessons of Love
by Nancy Mercurio
The Fluffy McDuffy series is for Children and pet lovers of all ages! Designed to inspire love, friendship and peaceful actions, this series of books features a whimsical and entertaining Cockapoo named Fluffy McDuffy, whose life experiences reveal lessons everyone can benefit from learning.
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Bent Road
by Lori Roy
After the 1967 riots in Detroit hit too close to home, Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances 20 years before and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears, sending the town into a whirlwind. A first novel.
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One Lavender Ribbon
by Heather Burch
Can a stack of long-hidden love letters from a WWII war hero inspire a heartbroken woman to love again? Reeling from a bitter divorce, Adrienne Carter abandons Chicago and retreats to Southern Florida, throwing herself into the restoration of a dilapidated old Victorian beach house. Early into the renovations, she discovers a tin box hidden away in the attic that reveals the emotional letters from a WWII paratrooper to a young woman who lived in the house more than a half-century earlier.
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Until She Comes Home
by Lori Roy
In 1958 Detroit, neighbors on Alder Avenue struggle to care for one another amid a city rife with conflicts that threaten their peaceful street. Grace, Alder's only expectant mother, eagerly awaits her firstborn; her best friend Julia prepares to welcome twin nieces; and Malina sets the tone with her stylish dresses, tasteful home, and iron fisted stewardship of St. Alban's bake sale. Life erupts when childlike Elizabeth disappears while in the care of Grace and Julia. All the ladies fear that the recent murder of a black woman at the factory where their husbands work may portend Elizabeth's fate. They also fear what will become of Julia-- the last person to see her alive. The men mount an around-the-clock search, leaving their families vulnerable to sinister elements hidden in plain sight. Only Grace knows what happened.
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