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Joe DeMarco likes to call himself a troubleshooter. It sounds better than “bagman” or “fixer.” With more than a decade of troubleshooting under his belt on behalf of John Mahoney, the Speaker of the House, DeMarco has seen his fair share of dangerous situations. When Andie Moore, a twenty-three-year-old working in the DOJ’s Inspector General’s Office, is murdered in cold blood in Florida’s Everglades, it falls on DeMarco to get to the bottom of things. 

Florida journalism undergrad Rebecca Sorley is like any other college student. She tries to keep up with her studies, her friends, and her hot-tempered roommate, Ellie, who regularly courts trouble with the law. When a male student's remains are found in alligator-infested waters, the university warns students to stay away from the reptiles. But then a second body shows up, and the link is undeniable. Both men belonged to the same fraternity and had a reputation for preying on and hurting women.

The line between safety and savagery is thinner than you think. In the placid waters of a resort lagoon, on a remote river in the Congo, and at the edge of a pristine suburban garden, ancient predators lie in wait. They are masters of the ambush, relics of a prehistoric age, and they share our world. This gripping collection of twenty true stories pulls you into the heart of the most terrifying moments of people's lives. Mauled chronicles the harrowing, moment-by-moment accounts of victims, rescuers, and survivors who have come face-to-face with the world's most efficient predators. From a ...

From award-winning journalist David Kushner, Alligator Candy is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love. David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding bikes and disappearing into the nearby woods for hours at a time. One morning in 1973, however, everything changed. David’s older brother, Jon, biked through the forest to the convenience store for candy, and never returned.

Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys—the basis of the movie October Sky. Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the...

Colleen is a 17-year-old would-be ecoterrorist, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. Her mother, Beverly, is cloaked in grief after the death of her husband. Beverly's sister, Madeleine, is a driven, aging filmmaker who obsesses over completing her magnum opus before she dies.

This program is read by a full cast, including the author and Christopher Hastings, a coauthor of InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.S. It offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the Batter Down bakery, S.U.I.T...

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published. "A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story. "Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds...

Reporter, Bre Hayne, is on the hunt for a story. Finally, her big career break has fallen into her lap, and she has chance to get the scoop on one of the notoriously private shifters. Not many of them exist, but one Holt Lachlan has put an ad out for a mate, and Bre is up for the challenge. She’ll pretend to be interested, gather intel on him, and then scoot out of Uncertain, Texas just as fast as her old junker truck can speed her back to the news station. But the deeper into the story she goes, the more she realizes maybe Holt isn’t the one who is the monster. Maybe it’s her. ...

Step into the wild heart of old Florida where family, faith, and fearless gatorin’ shape a legacy like no other. Dr. Charles D. (“Charlie”) Rentz is a sixth-generation native Floridian whose roots run deep into the swamps and sands of the Sunshine State. His ancestors first came to Florida from the Island of Minorca off the coast of Spain, arriving as indentured servants in 1768. Over the centuries, their stories of grit, faith, and survival were passed down through generations, from Charlie’s great-great-grandparents to his mother and grandfather. Taught by his grandfather, Charlie...

The Greers built their fortune on alligator bones. Most Anticipated by Southern Living CrimeReads Debutiful Reactor Chicago Review of Books Books in the Freezer podcast Dartrine Beaumont believes her mother’s sudden death has left her alone in the world—until she learns...

The year is 1961; the setting, Havana. CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes has been sent there on a mission, only to find himself in the eye of an international political hurricane. President Kennedy has selected Oakes to meet with Che Guevara inside Castro’s Cuba as part of Operation...

A departing tortoise has his bags packed and is almost ready to set out on an adventure, but he can’t leave until he says good-bye to each of his animal friends. The tortoise stops for every last timid mouse and bumblebee, shouting his rhyming good-byes, making you wonder if, perhaps, he’s stalling the start of his trip.

The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl", or the great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians". Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre-#MeToo Hollywood of "Only Those Who Struggle Succeed", or the "dangerous" women of "The Daughters of Manāt" who struggle to assert their independence.

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this “marvelous debut” (Alice McDermott, National Book Award–winning author of The Ninth Hour) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces her past and the secrets held in the waters of Florida’s lush swamps and wetlands. Loni Murrow is an...

A secret detention center. A rising storm. A conspiracy that could drown the truth forever. When Nick Sanchez agrees to help his nephew Lazaro, he is pulled into Florida’s most dangerous swamp—an off-the-books prison hidden in the heart of the Everglades. Known only as Alligator Alcatraz, the facility is a breeding ground for corruption and secrets that powerful men will kill to protect. As Hurricane Andrea crashes ashore, chaos erupts behind the razor wire. Detainees vanish, guards turn on each other, and floodwaters surge higher by the hour. Governor Rob Insanto and his inner circle ...

A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual “Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today “Edgar Gomez is a young...

Weird Louisiana Road Trip Stories takes readers on a funny, strange, and story-packed ride through the most haunted, spicy, swampy, and wonderfully unpredictable corners of Louisiana. This is not a normal travel guide. It is a road trip through French Quarter ghost stories, above-ground cemeteries, Marie Laveau legends, pirate swamps, haunted plantations, Cajun dance halls, rural Mardi Gras chicken chasing, hot sauce history, bayou monsters, frog towns, outlaw roads, and food stops so good they can destroy a schedule and a waistband at the same time. Inside, readers will explore New Orleans...

He doesn't like to give his name out - real names are not good when travelling outside the cities after the economic collapse of the USA. His dreams of a regular life have been destroyed as the econolypse spreads across the world. He’s been watching society's slow burn, collecting his gear and guns.Now he’s searching for a place to survive. He needs to get out of the powerless city before winter. Or, he's dead. He’s looking for someplace warmer where he can grow food all year long and live without heating. Someplace he can be free. Maybe Mexico or even further south. But, he's got to ...

Alligator in the Ocean illustrates one family’s drive to stop a serial predator and overcome the heart-wrenching struggles that followed. Anina Swan shares the true account of how she survived the brutality of a serial predator, Ivan, unveiled traumatic amnesia, and rallied help to stop his crime spree. With deep-seated courage, Anina did the unthinkable when she confronted her perpetrator. The result eventually delivered Ivan’s confessions of assaulting hundreds of children, according to local news reports.