A Carl Hiaasen Collection [ABRIDGED]
Carl Hiaasen, et al / Audio Cassette / Published March 2000
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Read by Ed Asner Six Cassettes, 9 hours Contains: Tourist Season Stormy Weather Strip Tease This collection contains three classic Hiaasen titles. The set is 40% off the individual retail price of the audiobook. Tourist Season The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami Beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning ... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder ... in a caper that will mix footba...
A Death in China (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Carl Hiaasen, et al / Paperback / Published July 1998
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An American investigating his mentor's murder finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and treachery in China, in this terrific tale by bestselling author Carl Hiassen and distinguished foreign correspondent Bill Montalbano.
Cracker : Florida's Enduring Cowboys
Jon Kral(Photographer), Carl Hiaasen / Hardcover / Published January 1999
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Cracker was awarded two awards in the Ninth Annual Midwest Independent Publishers Associations' 1997-1998 Book Achievement Awards, for BEST ART/ PHOTO /COFFEE TABLE (STYLE) BOOK and BEST COVER DESIGN. This is on the heels of winning a MASTERS certificate in the National Photography Awards competition.
Double Whammy
Carl Hiaasen / Mass Market Paperback / Published March 1989
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A wacky tale of murder and mayhem at a big-stakes Florida bass tournament delightfully exposes corruption among the rod-and-reel set.
Carl Hiaasen, Diane Stevenson (Editor) / Hardcover / Published October 1999
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A public service to his many fans, this compendium of Miami Herald columns by best-selling novelist Carl Hiaasen (Lucky You, 1997, etc.) reveals an angry, alert civic muckraker in the pugilistic vein of Mencken or Royko. Though best known for his ribald crime fiction, with its meticulous universe of South Florida idiocy and venal conspiracy, Hiaasen cut his teeth as an investigative reporter, and this spirit is strong in both his chosen subjects and his wry attention to unforgiving evidentiary detail. As editor Stevenson notes, the collections thrust, which she constructed by sifting through H...
Lucky YouCarl Hiaasen / Mass Market Paperback / Published October 1998
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As soon as an informative headnote warns that ``there is no approved dental use for WD-40,'' you can relax, knowing that you're in for several blissful hours in the hands of a master farceur whose subject this time is what passes in South Florida for providence. Even though she's confirmed the winning numbers on her Lotto ticket, placid veterinary assistant JoLayne Lucks refuses to give an interview to rolling-stone Register features writer Tom Krome. Hoping to rescue the turtles of Simmons Wood from mob-backed development by buying the parcel out of her half of the $28 million jackpot, she do...
Carl Hiaasen / Hardcover / Published March 1999
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As soon as an informative headnote warns that ``there is no approved dental use for WD-40,'' you can relax, knowing that you're in for several blissful hours in the hands of a master farceur whose subject this time is what passes in South Florida for providence. Even though she's confirmed the winning numbers on her Lotto ticket, placid veterinary assistant JoLayne Lucks refuses to give an interview to rolling-stone Register features writer Tom Krome. Hoping to rescue the turtles of Simmons Wood from mob-backed development by buying the parcel out of her half of the $28 million jackpot, she do...
Lucky You : A NovelCarl Hiaasen / Hardcover / Published November 1997
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The newest--and funniest--novel yet by the bestselling author of Strip Tease and Stormy Weather. When JoLayne Lucks, the most recent winner of the Florida state lottery, has her ticket stolen by two would-be "domestic terrorists, " she enlists the help of Tom Krome--a journalist stretched thin by divorce, lite news, and a fool of a managing editor--in a chase that leads them to the deliriously righteous outcome--the inspired hallmark of Carl Hiassen.
Lucky You : A Novel [ABRIDGED]Carl Hiaasen, Edward Asner (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published November 1997
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From the bestselling author of "Strip Tease" and "Stormy Weather" comes his funniest work to date. JoLayne Lucks has just won the Florida lottery but, unfortunately, doesn't hold the only ticket. When the other ticket holders, who think they're entitled to the whole $28 million, show up, JoLayne is in for an adventure full of hilarious mayhem. Simultaneous hardcover release from Knopf. 2 cassettes.
Lucky You [LARGE PRINT]Carl Hiaasen / Paperback / Published November 1997
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Grange, Florida, is, famous for its miracles-the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery. Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who want the whole $28 million jackpot to start their own underground militia.
Carl Hiaasen / Audio Cassette / Published April 1997
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Naked Came the ManateeCarl Hiaasen(Editor), et al / Paperback / Published January 1998
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A team effort by a veritable who's who of South Florida's funkiest storytellers--including Elmore Leonard, Edna Buchanan, James H. Hall, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, and Dave Barry--"Naked Came the Manatee" is a hilarious and harrowing suspense thriller that could only take place in the dark underworld of the Sunshine State.
Naked Came the Manatee : A NovelCarl Hiaasen(Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published January 1997
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Dave Barry starts the madness in Naked Came the Manatee, introducing a 102-year-old environmentalist named Coconut Grove and a manatee saddled with one of Barry's favorite monikers, Booger. Carl Hiaasen closes down the party, and in between, 11 of Florida's literati, including Elmore Leonard, John Dufresne, and Edna Buchanan, make twisted offerings to the affair: three severed heads, all bearing a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro; four murders; some sex; some espionage; even an appearance by Jimmy Carter and one by Castro himself.
Carl Hiaasen, et al / Audio Cassette / Published January 1997
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Dave Barry starts the madness in Naked Came the Manatee, introducing a 102-year-old environmentalist named Coconut Grove and a manatee saddled with one of Barry's favorite monikers, Booger. Carl Hiaasen closes down the party, and in between, 11 of Florida's literati, including Elmore Leonard, John Dufresne, and Edna Buchanan, make twisted offerings to the affair: three severed heads, all bearing a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro; four murders; some sex; some espionage; even an appearance by Jimmy Carter and one by Castro himself.
Native TongueCarl Hiaasen / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1992
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Precious blue-tongued mango voles have been stolen from the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills amusement park, where burned-out ex-reporter Joe Winder is now P.R. man. Now it's up to Joe to find out who the thieves are.--New York Times Book Review. Reissue.
Native TongueCarl Hiaasen / Audio Cassette / Published September 1991
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Hiaasen's fourth Florida crime-farce--about an environmental- protection scam--is as manic as ever but lacks the crisp suspense that made Skin Tight a minor crime-classic. As usual, Hiaasen plunks a male Alice (reporter-turned-flak Joe Winder) into a tropical Wonderland (the Disney-rival theme park of the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills); but, again, he pushes slapstick black humor at the expense of thrills. It's a typically bizarre Hiaasen opening as the vacationing Whelper family panics when someone tosses a rat into their convertible--and the rat turns out to be one of only two blue-tongued mang...
Carl Hiaasen / Paperback / Published July 1996
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Hiaasen's fourth Florida crime-farce--about an environmental- protection scam--is as manic as ever but lacks the crisp suspense that made Skin Tight a minor crime-classic. As usual, Hiaasen plunks a male Alice (reporter-turned-flak Joe Winder) into a tropical Wonderland (the Disney-rival theme park of the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills); but, again, he pushes slapstick black humor at the expense of thrills. It's a typically bizarre Hiaasen opening as the vacationing Whelper family panics when someone tosses a rat into their convertible--and the rat turns out to be one of only two blue-tongued mang...
Powder Burn (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)Carl Hiaasen, et al / Paperback / Published July 1998
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Architect Chris Meadows has the bad luck to see an old girlfriend get hit by a car filled with drugland hitmen. He has the worse luck to see the face of her murderers. Because in a town as violent as Miami, a witness doesn't stand a chance.
Sick Puppy : A NovelCarl Hiaasen / Hardcover / Published February 2000
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Carl Hiaasen's characters ride and flail on little verbal hurricanes, and his literary storm shows no signs of dying down. Sick Puppy shares Dave Barry's giddy gift for finding humor in South Florida horrors, and a bit of Elmore Leonard's genius for pitch-perfect dialogue spouted smartly by criminals who are dumb as stumps. The title of Hiaasen's eighth novel could apply to most of its characters, but it chiefly refers to an ebullient Labrador retriever named Boodle and the millionaire eco-terrorist Twilly Spree. Let's just say that Twilly has a singular affliction: poor anger management in th...
Sick Puppy [ABRIDGED]Carl Hiaasen, et al / Audio Cassette / Published January 2000
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Read by Ed Asner Three cassettes / approx. 5 hours When Palmer Stoat notices a pickup truck tailgaiting him down the highway, he fears his Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man driving the truck, has vengeance, not carjacking, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy, and pathologically short-tempered, Spree has dedicated his life to saving nature. And after watching Stoat dump a trail of litter along Florida's turnpike, Spree is determined to teach him a lesson by filling his precious Rover with hungry dung beetles. This would have been the end had Spree not di...
Carl Hiaasen / Hardcover / Expected May 2000
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Carl Hiaasen, Nick Sullivan / Audio Cassette / Expected May 2000
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Skin TightCarl Hiaasen / Mass Market Paperback / Published October 1990
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Narrowly escaping an attempt on his life, former Florida state investigator Mick Stranahan wonders who wants him dead and finds suspects in a shaky plastic surgeon, a shady lawyer, and a sensational television host. Reissue. NYT.
Stormy WeatherCarl Hiaasen / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1996
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A hilarious new novel of greed and corruption from the bestselling author of Strip Tease. The story focuses on siuthern Florida at the height of the tourist season, when a ferocious hurricane hits--luring con artists, carpetbaggers, and would-be saviours like hyenas to the lion's kill. "Hiaasen (hilself is a one-man force of nature."--Variety. Major advertising, including key city radio and print ads in The New York Times Book Review and Miami Herald. HC: Knopf.
Carl Hiaasen / Hardcover / Published January 1996
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If you share Carl Hiaasen's view of southern Florida as a "culture in terminal moral hemorrhage," then it's hard not to see a hurricane as a form of biblical revenge--nature taking a little of its own back from the neon jungle. The problem, however, as Hiaasen shows us in his latest novel, set in the days immediately following Hurricane Andrew, is that Florida's mutant forms of human sleaze have the survival instincts of cockroaches. Like carpetbaggers descending on the post^-Civil War South, the con artists, looters, and thrill seekers who emerge in Andrew's aftermath bring a new and virulent...
Stormy Weather : A NovelCarl Hiaasen, Edward Asner (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published August 1995
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In a hurricane-devastated Florida, a group of questionable individuals attempt to take advantage of the disaster, including a bogus insurance agent and a crooked building inspector, and an eccentric character becomes the only hope for the victims.
Stormy Weather : A NovelCarl Hiaasen / Hardcover / Published August 1995
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In a hurricane-devastated Florida, a group of questionable individuals attempt to take advantage of the disaster, including a bogus insurance agent and a crooked building inspector, and an eccentric character becomes the only hope for the victims. 200,000 first printing. Tour.
Strip TeaseCarl Hiaasen / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1994
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A bachelor party at a strip joint results in chaos for a powerful U.S. Congressman who is up for reelection, especially when a virtuous topless dancer, a clueless Florida cop, and a well-intentioned bald bouncer join the act. Reprint.
Strip TeaseCarl Hiaasen, Edward Asner (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published May 1996
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A wildly inventive story of blackmail involving a congressman, a stripper, and a drunken brawl. 2 cassettes.
Carl Hiaasen / Hardcover / Published December 1993
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Suspense and hilarity combine with greed and political corruption in the tale of a Florida stripper, a sex-obsessed congressman, a heart-of-gold bouncer, a political "fixer," and a touch of blackmail. (Adventure and Suspense).
Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the WorldCarl Hiaasen / Paperback / Published July 1998
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Let's get one thing straight: Carl Hiaasen doesn't like the Walt Disney Company. Whenever the giant entertainment conglomerate stumbles, as it did with its proposed Civil War theme park in Virginia, Hiaasen cheers. When a rhinoceros mysteriously dies at Disney's new theme park, Animal Kingdom, Hiaasen secretly hopes for the worst, because, as he writes, no scandal is so delectable as a Disney scandal.
Carl Hiaasen, Richard Gilliland (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published July 1998
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This exciting new series, "Library of Contemporary Thought", tackles today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Giving top opinion makers a forum to explore topics that matter to themselves and their readers.
The Girl in the Plain Brown WrapperJohn D. MacDonald, Carl Hiaasen (Introduction) / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1996
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Stephen King called John MacDonald ""the" great entertainer of our age". Now, Fawcett is proud to introduce to a new generation a character endowed with the values of a hero. The values of a hero never change--and neither does Travis McGee.
Tourist SeasonCarl Hiaasen / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1995
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A reporter-turned-private eye moves from muckraking to uncovering murder in a caper that mixes football players, politicians, and a very hungry crocodile.
Tourist SeasonCarl Hiaasen, Edward Asner (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published August 1996
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Journalist-turned-private detective Brian Keyes swings into action when a group of most unusual terrorists sets out to purge Florida of greed and corruption by attacking what they consider the root of the problem--tourists. Read by Edward Asner. Book available.
Trap Line (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)Carl Hiaasen, et al / Paperback / Published July 1998
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Key West is a smuggler's paradise. All that's needed are the captains to run the contraband, and Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock. However, he's in no mood to become anybody's delivery boy, so the Machine sets out to persuade him.