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Author
Series
Chronicles of America volume 23
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c1921
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
La bulldog Noelle va con su dueña de vacaciones en la Costa del Tesoro del estado de Florida. Noelle está ansiosa por encontrar un tesoro enterrado en la arena. Se hace amiga de un cangrejo y otros nuevos y misteriosos animales.
Noelle the bulldog goes looking for long-lost pirate treasure on the Treasure Coast of Florida, where she ends up finding something far more valuable.
4) Miami vice
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ricardo Tubbs lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy. The two work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group. He becomes romantically involved with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication...
5) Pain & gain
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious group of personal trainers go after the American dream, they get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong.
7) Florida
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"En un mundo en el que el clima se ha vuelto impredecible, un lugar a la vez domesticado y salvaje en el que acechan los peligros feroces de la naturaleza, las mayores amenazas siguen siendo emocionales y psicológicas. Un refugio familiar puede ser destruido por una pantera que merodea o por un secreto sexual. Dos hermanas abandonadas, un hombre que crece rodeado de serpientes cazadas por su padre, una pareja inquieta y sin hijos, y una mujer casada...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of the Spanish explorer who found and named Florida while searching for the fountain of youth, discovered the Gulf Stream, and was governor of what is now Puerto Rico.
9) Seduced
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hannah Smith returns in the stunning new adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series by the author of the Doc Ford novels. A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble....
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six year old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1500s, Ponce de Leon was one of the most important Spanish military figures in the Caribbean. He made his first voyage across the Atlantic with Christopher Columbus and then, after years of battle with the native Taino, became the first governor of Puerto Rico. Although the story of his search for the Fountain of Youth is entirely fictional, his noteworthy expedition to - and naming of - Florida is one of his greatest legacies"--
Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A guide to lesser-known, 'off the beaten path' routes and attractions in the state of Florida, now in a new and updated edition"--
"Forget what you think you know about visiting Florida--Backroads of Florida will lead you to explore lush forests, pristine lakes, and otherworldly swamps! Can you still find untouched stretches of velvety sand and warm waves in the Sunshine State? Yes! More than ever! From the funky, timeless charm of Key West to the...
13) Crocs
Author
Series
Sharks Incorporated volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a summer of tagging sharks off the west coast of Florida, Sabina, Maribel, and Luke have a new assignment: searching for "survivor trees" that are resistant to the disease that is destroying the state's citrus trees; the search takes them to the remote mangrove islands of Sanibel Island, where they discover Spanish oranges, a grave, an immense saltwater crocodile, a reclusive woman who believes that the ghost of a dead king, beheaded by Spanish...
14) El soborno
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Lacy Stoltz es una joven investigadora y abogada de Florida, y su trabajo consiste en responder a las demandas relacionadas con la mala praxis judicial. Tras nueve años en el puesto, sabe que la mayor parte de los problemas derivan de incompetencias. De repente le llega un caso de corrupción. Greg Myers afirma conocer un juez de Florida que ha robado más dinero que el resto de los jueces poco honestos juntos. Estaba involucrado en secreto con...
15) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family: Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
16) Copper sun
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
17) Fort Mose: and the story of the man who built the first free black settlement in Colonial America
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of Fort Mose, which was founded in St. Augustine, Florida, and was the first free African settlement to legally exist in what later became the United States.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Although he's set to retire and looking forward to it, Marcus agrees to help his old partner one last time to discover and stop whoever has been attemptint to assassinate Mike. Now the "old guard", they work with a new division of hotshots on the Miami PD called AMMO -- and find themselves hunting the head of the Aretas Cartel.
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