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Basket Case
Carl Hiaasen
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A rollicking and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of
Squeeze Me and 'Florida's most entertainingly indignant social
critic' (New York Times Book Review) Once a hotshot investigative
reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida
daily, 'plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my
byline to some famous stiff'. Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man
of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba
'accident', might be the stiff of Jack's dreams - if only he can
figure out what happened. Standing in the way are his ambitious
young editor, who hasn't yet fired anyone but plans to 'break her
cherry' on Jack; the rock star's pop-singer widow, who's using the
occasion of her husband's death to relaunch her own career; and the
soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once
publicly humiliated at a stockholders' meeting. Using clues from
the dead rock singer's music, Jack sets out to discover the truth,
in another raucous, brilliant novel from the master of comic crime
fiction, Carl Hiaasen.
Hilarious, touching and thought-provoking, Hoot is a modern classic, now celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. Winner of the Newbery Honor award and a New York Times bestseller, Carl Hiaasen's first novel celebrates the natural world with his trademark wit and warmth.
Roy Eberhardt never wanted to move to Florida. In his opinion, Disney World is an armpit.
Roy’s family moves around a lot so he’s used to the new-kid drill – he's also used to bullies like Dana Matherson. And anyway, it’s because of Dana that Roy gets to see the mysterious running boy who runs away from the school bus and who has no books, no backpack and, most bizarrely, no shoes.
Sensing a mystery, Roy starts to trail the mystery runner – a chase that will introduce him to many weird Floridian creatures: potty-trained alligators, cute burrowing owls, a fake-fart champion, a shoeless eco-warrior, a sinister pancake PR man, new friends and some snakes with sparkly tails. As the plot thickens, Roy and his friends realise it's up to them to save the endangered owls from the evil Mother Paula's pancake company who are planning to build a new restaurant on their home . . .
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Wrecker (Hardcover)
Carl Hiaasen
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Squirm (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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Squirm is a funny, wildly entertaining adventure about the great
outdoors and protecting the environment, from New York Times
bestselling author Carl Hiaasen, author of modern classic, Hoot.
Some facts about Billy Dickens: * He once saw a biker swerve across
the road in order to run over a snake. * Later, that motorcycle
somehow ended up at the bottom of a canal. * Billy isn't the type
to let things go. Some facts about Billy's family: * They've lived
in six different Florida towns because Billy's mum insists on
getting a house near a bald eagle nest. * Billy's dad left when he
was four and is a total mystery. * Billy has just found his dad's
address - in Montana. This summer, Billy will fly across the
country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear,
shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbour's cat, save an endangered
panther, and then try to save his own father.
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Sick Puppy (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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R291
R178
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Brilliantly twisted entertainment wrapped around a powerful
ecological plea-from the New York Times bestselling author of
Squeeze Me. When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck
following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is
about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has
vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic,
independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has
dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway
destruction. He favors unambiguous political statements-such as
torching Jet-Skis or blowing up banks-that leave his human targets
shaken but re-educated. After watching Stoat blithely dump a trail
of fast-food litter out the window, Twilly decides to teach him a
lesson. Thus, Stoat's prized Range Rover becomes home to a horde of
hungry dung beetles. Which could have been the end to it had Twilly
not discovered that Stoat is one of Florida's cockiest and most
powerful political fixers, whose latest project is the "malling" of
a pristine Gulf Coast island. Now the real Hiaasen-variety fun
begins... Dognapping eco-terrorists, bogus big-time hunters, a
Republicans-only hooker, an infamous ex-governor who's gone back to
nature, thousands of singing toads and a Labrador retriever greater
than the sum of his Labrador parts-these are only some of the
denizens of Carl Hiaasen's outrageously funny novel.
The panther is the state animal of Florida, the last big cat
surviving east of the Mississippi River, and an emblem of the
Endangered Species Act. It was driven to extinction in the eastern
United States, except for a small remnant population that persisted
in Florida’s Everglades. Panther numbers had dwindled to fewer
than 20 individuals by the 1980s, but heroic conservation efforts
have helped panthers come back to nearly 200 today. The biggest
obstacle for the panther’s continued recovery is access to enough
of its historic territory throughout Florida and beyond. The tale
of the Florida panther has grown from the unlikely survival of a
rare cat to a story of hope for all of wild Florida. Path of the
Panther in now a call to action to recognize and protect the
Florida Wildlife Corridor – a network of public and private land
that connects the panther’s current range in south Florida to
suitable habitat throughout the state of Florida and adjoining
states. The Florida Wildlife Corridor is the panther’s path to
recovery and a western-scale conservation opportunity that remains
largely hidden in the east. It is now as a Last Wild Places
partnership with the National Geographic Society. With 27 percent
of Florida already protected as public land, this project aims to
inspire the additional one million acres of conservation needed
over the next decade so that Florida can be a leader in the goal of
protecting 30 percent of the plane by 2030.
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Bad Monkey (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the
Monroe County sheriff's office-has a human arm in his freezer.
There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for
how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the
boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and
if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his
grisly Health Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for
nothing). But first-this being Hiaasen country-Yancy must negotiate
an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of
even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex
lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the
frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators;
the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors
are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true
love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey-who just may be
one of Carl Hiaasen's greatest characters.
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Lucky You (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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R232
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Witty...colorful...entertaining. - New
York Times Book Review JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for
its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery
numbers finally pay off big-$28 million, to be exact. And she has
great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida
paradise from the bulldozers. Only one problem: There's another
winning Lotto ticket, and the people who've got it just never
learned how to share. When the two militia wannabes swipe JoLayne's
ticket, she enlists an off-the-rails newspaperman to help her track
down the trigger-happy creeps and their bewildered hostage, a
Hooters waitress. Getting rich quick is never easy...
An eco-terrorist with a trust fund, Twilly Spree, is tailing a
litterbug in a purple Range Rover with plates that read "cojones".
Before he knows it, Spree is up to his cojones in corrupt Florida
politicos and some very sick puppies, including a Republicans-only
hooker and a millionaire developer with a fetish for Barbies. But
when Spree learns that the fate of an unspoiled island is at stake,
he refuses to be intimidated. While defending the land and its
indigenous toads, he'll steal a man's wife, gouge out the eyes of
big game trophies, and even risk his life two or three times in the
most outrageous Hiaasen novel yet!
'One of the world's funniest novelists' SUNDAY TIMES 'Scabrous and
unrelentingly hilarious . . . the Trump era is truly Carl Hiaasen's
moment' WASHINGTON POST From the highly acclaimed author of Bad
Monkey and Razor Girl comes this hilarious new novel of social and
political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of
Florida's gold coast. It's the height of the Palm Beach charity
ball season: for every good cause, there's a reason for the local
luminaries to eat (minimally), drink (maximally), and be seen. But
when prominent high-society dowager Kiki Pew suddenly vanishes
during a swanky gala, and is later found dead, panic and chaos
erupt. Kiki was an ardent fan of the Winter White House resident
just down the road, and a founding member of the POTUSSIES, a group
of women dedicated to supporting their President - who immediately
declares that Kiki was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes.
This, it turns out, is far from the truth. The truth might just lie
in the middle of the highway, where a bizarre discovery brings the
First Lady's motorcade to a grinding halt. Enter Angie Armstrong,
wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who is summoned to the posh
island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge,
hungry pythons . . . Carl Hiaasen can brighten even the darkest of
days and Squeeze Me is pure, unadulterated Hiaasen. Irreverent,
ingenious, and highly entertaining, it perfectly captures the
absurdity of our times. 'A comic genius' EVENING STANDARD 'He has
sky-high standards for elegance, crziness and mic-drop humor' NEW
YORK TIMES 'He always adds something extra to the mix . . .
jauntiness, wit and larger-than-life characters' SUNDAY EXPRESS
"Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as
he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife" (The New
York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl
Hiaasen. R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and
neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a
sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body
floating in Coon Bog, Florida-and a lot that's rotten in the murky
waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker
will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite
for road kill; dare to kiss his ex-wife while she's in bed with her
new husband; and face deadly TV evangelists, dangerously seductive
women, and a pistol-toting redneck with a pit bull on his arm. And
here his own life becomes part of the stakes. For while the "double
whammy" is the lure, first prize is for the most ingenious murder.
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Flush (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical
mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys.
Noah's dad has a little problem with anger control. He tried to
stop the "Coral Queen" casino boat's illegal dumping . . . by
sinking the boat. But his bold protest fizzles: within days the
casino is back in business, and Noah's dad is behind bars and out
of action.
Now Noah is determined to succeed where his father failed. But even
though pumping raw sewage into the waters of the Florida Keys is
both gross and against the law, turns out it's near impossible to
catch the flusher--especially when he's already bamboozled the
prosecutors, the local press, and even the Coast Guard.
But Noah's got a few allies. There's his little sister, Abbey, an
unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a half-soused ex-mate of
the "Coral Queen" who is willing to testify . . . for a price; and
Shelly, a bighearted bartender with even bigger biceps.
Okay, so the odds aren't good. But Noah has an ace up his sleeve--a
plan so crazy it just might stop the polluting, save the beaches,
and prove to the world that it's the owner of the "Coral Queen,"
and not his dad, who is full of . . . crud.
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Sick Puppy (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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The New York Times bestselling novel in which an eco-terrorist with
anger-management issues takes on environmental irresponsibility -
now reissued with a new author's note. An eco-terrorist with a
trust fund, Twilly Spree is tailing a litterbug in a purple Range
Rover with plates that read COJONES. Before he knows it, Spree is
up to his cojones in corrupt Florida politicos and some very sick
puppies, including a Toyota salesman turned governor, a
Republicans-only hooker, and a millionaire developer with a fetish
for Barbies. But when Spree learns that the fate of an unspoiled
island is at stake, he's determined not to be outdone. While
defending the toads of Toad Island-not to mention one cheerfully
oblivious Labrador-he'll steal a man's wife, gouge out the eyes of
big game trophies, and even risk his life two or three times in
this, Hiaasen's most gleeful muckraking story yet.
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Lucky You (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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R178
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me, a novel
starring three lottery winners, two heavily armed psychopaths, and
a big-city investigative journalist set deep in Florida Bay.
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. The
pursuit takes them to a buzzard-infested island deep in Florida
Bay, where they finally catch up with the fledgling militia-and
their baffled hostage, a Hooters waitress. The climax explodes with
the hilarious mayhem that is Carl Hiaasen's hallmark. Lucky You is
his funniest, most deliriously gripping novel yet.
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Squirm (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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Meet 22-year-old Cherry Pye (nee Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star
since she was fourteen-and about to attempt a comeback from her
latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt
double," Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is
too "indisposed"-- meaning wasted -- to go out in public. And it is
Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel
by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.
Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (uber-stage mother; horndog
record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed
whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her
existence a secret from Cherry's public -- and from Cherry herself.
The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a
bewitching encounter with Skink, the unhinged former governor of
Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp, and now he's heading for
Miami to find her . . .
Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo
session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch
her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia
before Cherry's motley posse does? All will be revealed in this
hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.
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Hoot (Paperback)
Carl Hiaasen
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The Newbery Honor-winning novel--a "New York Times" bestseller and
the first children's book by the bestselling author of adult
satire--is now in paperback.
A hilarious and scathing novel from the author of Squeeze Me about
a crazed and determined man who has devoted his strange existence
to saving southern Florida from con artists and carpetbaggers after
a hurricane hits. 'Hysterically funny.... Hiaasen at his satirical
best' - USA Today When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern
Florida, insurance fraudsters, amateur occultists, and ex-cons
waste no time in swarming over the disaster area. And caught in the
middle are Max and Bonnie Lamb, honeymooners who abandon their
Disney World plans to witness the terrible devastation. But when
Max vanishes, Bonnie, aided by a mysterious young man with a
tranquilizer gun and a roomful of human skulls, has to follow her
only clue: a runaway monkey.
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