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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida by National Audubon Society
Tales of Old Florida by Frank Oppel
The Florida Keys: A History of the Pioneers (Florida's History Through Its Places) by John Viele
Famous Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys by Robert F. Weller
The New History of Florida by Michael Gannon
Florida History From The Highways by Douglas Waitley
Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870 by Michael V. Gannon
Rebel Bishop: Augustin Verot, Florida's Civil War Prelate by Michael Gannon
The conflict between church and state in Spanish Florida: The administration of Juan Marquez Cabrera, 1680-1687 by Michael Gannon
Carry me back to old La Florida by Michael Gannon
The Tropic of Cracker (The Florida History and Culture Series) by Al Burt
Florida History by Hal Bamford
Historic Florida Keys: An Illustrated History of Key West & the Keys by George Walter Born
The Florida Keys: True Stories of the Perilous Straits (Florida's History Through Its Places) by John Viele
Cracker: The Cracker Culture In Florida History by Dana Ste. Claire
The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism (Florida History and Culture Series) by Patsy West
Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers (The Florida History and Culture Series) by Glen Simmons, Laura Ogden
From the Swamp to the Keys: A Paddle Through Florida History by Johnny Molloy
Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida (The Florida History and Culture Series) by Robert D. Billinger
Glimpses of South Florida History by Stuart McIver
Florida's Space Coast: The Impact of Nasa on the Sunshine State (The Florida History and Culture Series) by William Barnaby Faherty
Florida: A History (States & the Nation) by Gloria Jahoda
The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict (The Florida History and Culture Series) by John Missall, Mary Lou Missall

Children's Activity Book
Florida History Projects: 30 Cool, Activities, Crafts, Experiments & More for Kids to Do (Florida Experience) by Carole Marsh

Florida History Children's Books
Florida (America the Beautiful Second Series) by Ann Heinrichs
Florida USA by Silver Burdett Ginn
My First Book About Florida (The Florida Experience) by Carole Marsh
Journeys With Florida's Indians (UPF Young Readers Library) by Kelley G. Weitzel
S is for Sunshine: A Florida Alphabet by Carol Crane, Michael Monroe (Illustrator)
Florida (From Sea to Shining Sea) by Dennis Brindell Fradin
Florida by Sandra Friend, Laura Filippucci (Illustrator)
Florida (Hello USA) by Karen Sirvaitis
The Spanish Exploration of Florida: The Adventures of the Spanish Conquistadors, Including Juan Ponce De Leon, Panfilo De Narvaez, Alvan Nunez Cabeza ... De Soto, and pedro (Exploration & Discovery) by William Thompson, Dorcas Thompson
Sunny Numbers: A Florida Counting Book (Count Your Way Across the USA) by Carol Crane
Discover Florida: S Is for Sunshine & Sunny Numbers (Discover America State by State) by Carol Crane
Florida (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson

THE WRATH OF THE PRIVATEERS
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate by Harry Kelsey
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Samuel Bawlf
St. Augustine by Maggie Hall
Religion, Power, and Politics in Colonial St. Augustine by Robert Kapizke
Francis Drake: Lives of a Hero by John Cummins
Florida. A Short History by Michael Gannon
The Oldest City by The St. Augustine Historical Society
Sixteenth Century St. Augustine and Their Homes by Albert Mauncy

THE GUNS OF ANASTASIA
The Publications of James Edward Oglethorpe by James Edward Oglethorpe
James Oglethorpe: Humanitarian and Soldier by Cookie Lommel
St. Augustine (Images of America: Florida) (Images of America) by Maggie Hall
Historic St. Augustine: Historic Landmarks (Historic Landmarks) by Jason Cooper
St. Augustine: Florida's Colonial Capital by J. T Van Campen

ENCOUNTER AT GULLY HOLE CREEK
The Spanish Official Account of the Attack on the Colony of Georgia: In America and of Its Defeat on St. Simons Island by James Edward Oglethorpe
James Oglethorpe: Humanitarian and Soldier by Cookie Lommel
Colonial Park and Lines on General James Edward Oglethorpe by Joanna E Walsh
James Edward Oglethorpe by Joyce Blackburn

THE FLOWER HUNTER
Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, Etc by William Bartram
Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevecoeur, and the Rhetoric of Natural History by Pamela Regis
Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants by Ritchie C. Bell, Bryan J. Taylor
The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist's Edition by William Bartram, Francis Harper
John and William Bartram's America: Selections from the Writings of the Philadelphia Naturalists (American Naturalists Series) by John Bartram

WARRIORS FROM BONDAGE
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People by Kenneth Wiggins Porter
The Rivers of War by Eric Flint
The Florida Negro: A Federal Writers' Project Legacy by Gary W. McDonogh
A Negro State in Florida by Benjamin Harrison

THE CAPTIVE OSCEOLA
Osceola and the Seminole Wars by Clifford Alderman
Osceola the Seminole: Or, the Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
Osceola (Native American Biographies) by Anne M. Todd
Osceola, (A See and Read Beginning to Read Biography) by Marion Eleanor Gridley
Osceola's Legacy by Patricia Riles Wickman

EYES TO THE OKEECHOBEE
Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old South West by Kojack Bauer
The Battle of Okeechobee by Willard Steele
Letters of Zachary Taylor from the Battlefields of the Mexican War by Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor: America's 12th President by Deborah Kops
Old Rough and Ready, Zachary Taylor by Bob Young
Battles in a New Land by Carter Smith
This Miserable Pride of a Soldier The Letters of Col William Foster ( Seminole War/Battle of Okeechobee ) edited by John and Mary Lou Missall

TRIBAL DUEL
The History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 by John K. Mahon
Reminiscences of the Second Seminole War by John Bemrose
The Seminole Wars by John and Mary Lou Missall
Secondary Scenarios of the Second Seminole War by Arthur E Francke
Swamp Sailors in the Second Seminole War (Florida Sand Dollar Book) by George E. Buker
Amidst a Storm of Bullets" The Diary of Lt Henry Prince (Seminole War) edited by Frank Laumer

COW CALAVARY
From Everglade to Canyon With the Second United States Cavalry: An Authentic Account of Service in Florida, Mexico, Virginia, and the Indian Country, 1836-1875 by Edward G. Longacre, Theophilus F. Rodenbough
Cities and Camps of the Confederate States by Fitzgerald Ross, Richard Barksdale Harwell
Florida Cowmen by John A. Akerman Jr.
Florida's Peace River Frontier by Canter Brown Jr.
Florida in the Civil War (Civil War History) by Lewis N. Wynne, Robert A. Taylor
Pensacola During the Civil War: A Thorn in the Side of the Confederacy (The Florida History and Culture Series) by George F. Pearce

DEPARTING FOR DESTINY
Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America) by Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Auchincloss
The Boys of '98: Theodore Roosevelt and The Rough Riders by Dale L. Walker
The Rough Riders (Modern Library War) by Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire by Sarah Watts
Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider (Childhood Of Famous Americans) by Edd Winfield Parks

WHERE PEACEFUL WATERS FLOW
Always the River Flow: Essays on West Florida Heritage by a Pensacola Newspaper Editor by Jesse Earle Bowden
Ocklawaha River Steamboats by Edward A. Mueller
Report of the practicability of navigating with steam boats, on the southern waters of the United States: from the Chesapeake to the river St. Mary's ... -Florida, a distance of fifteen hundred miles by Robert Fulton
From the Banks of the Ocklawaha (Hardcover) by Frank L. Fitzsimons

A DEADLY BOND
Mean Men: The Sons of the Ma Barker by Robert Winter
Public Enemy Number One: The Barkers (Americas Most Wanted) by Sue L. Hamilton
Fighting Faith by Fred Barker
Gangsters and Outlaws of the 1930's: Landmarks of the Public Enemy Era by Richard Owen, James Owen
Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934 by David E. Ruth

ORANGE FRITTERS AND A STORY
The Yearling by Marjorie K. Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings: Sojourner at Cross Creek by Elizabeth Silverthorne
Natural Writer: A Story About Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings (Creative Minds Biographies) by Judy Cook
Cross Creek Cookery by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings and the Florida Crackers by Wallace Simmons & McGuire

SEMINOLE STEER
Brighton Reservation, Florida 1935-1938 by James W Coving
A Florida Cattle Ranch by Alto Adams, Lee Gramling
Florida Cowman: A History of Florida Cattle Raising by Joe A. Akerman
The History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 by John K. Mahon
Reminiscences of the Second Seminole War by John Bemrose

RETURN TO BIG CYPRESS
Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand Islands: Eastern America's Last Great Wilderness by Jeff Ripple
The Green Corn Festival: (a Ceremony of the Seminole) by Enersto Franco
Dancing With the Indians by Angela Shelf Medearis, Samuel Byrd
The Seminole Indians (Junior Library of American Indians) by Philip Koslow
Seminoles (Civilization of the American Indian) by Edwin C. McReynolds

U-123
Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attack Along the American Coast in World War II by Michael Gannon
Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast 1942 by Homer Hickam
Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 (Modern Library War) by Clay Blair
U-Boat Bases and Bunkers 1941-45 (Fortress 3) by Gordon Williamson
Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943 by Michael Gannon