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  • Welcome to Florida

    True Tales from America's Most Interesting State

    by Craig Pittman ...
    A much-loved Florida writer chronicles the quirky, touching, and thought-provoking stories of the Sunshine State todayIn Welcome to Florida, award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman introduces readers to the people, creatures, places, and issues that make up the Florida of today. Through lively stories told with cutting insight and always with a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Cat Tale

    The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther

    by Craig Pittman ...
    **A Garden & Gun Best Book of 2020“Witty and passionate.” —Lauren Groff“Craig Pittman has a remarkable talent for telling stories set in the Sunshine State that never fail to fascinate and entertain.”—Gilbert King“The definitive book on one of America’s least understood apex predators. The story of how Florida’s panthers were saved from extinction is one that both deserves and needs to be told.” ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Longbranch

    by Craig Pittman ...
    This work makes use of an interior monologue to convey the private thoughts, doubts and dreams of the fifteen year old male protagonist in the sub-culture of 1960s Toronto, the luxurious Halton Hills and an idyllic private island in the Bahamas. Shawn is sent to live with a well-heeled spinster aunt in the town of Longbranch where he is placed into the public school system. He rebels at the system ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paving Paradise

    Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss

    Series series The Florida History and Culture Series
    Florida possesses more wetlands than any other state except Alaska, yet since 1990 more than 84,000 acres have been lost to development despite presidential pledges to protect them.How and why the state's wetlands are continuing to disappear is the subject of Paving Paradise. Journalists Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite spent nearly four years investigating the political expedience, corruption, and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Welcome to Florida

    True Tales from America's Most Interesting State

    by Craig Pittman ...
    Narrated by Curt Ford ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 48 min

    A much-loved Florida writer chronicles the quirky, touching, and thought-provoking stories of the Sunshine State todayIn Welcome to Florida, award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman introduces listeners to the people, creatures, places, and issues that make up the Florida of today. Through lively stories told with cutting insight and always with a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Oh, Florida!

    Inside America's Strangest State and How It's Shaping the Country

    by Craig Pittman ...
    A New York Times BestsellerOh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Scent of Scandal

    Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid

    by Craig Pittman ...
    Series series The Florida History and Culture Series
    After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The State You're In

    Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife

    by Craig Pittman ...
    Jump into the wacky, wild world of FloridaFor more than 30 years, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman has chronicled the wildest stories Florida has to offer. Featuring a selection of columns that have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times and other outlets throughout Pittman’s career, this book highlights just how strange and wonderful Florida can be.With a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Oh, Florida!

    How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country

    by Craig Pittman ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    Oh, Florida! To some people, it’s a paradise. To others, it's a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie Page pinups, no Glenn Beck radio rants, no USA Today, no "Stand Your Ground," . . . you get the idea.To outsiders, Florida ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Cat Tale

    The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther

    by Craig Pittman ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 44 min

    “Craig Pittman has a remarkable talent for telling stories set in the Sunshine State that never fail to fascinate and entertain. Sure, Cat Tale has plenty of laughs and Florida weirdness, but Pittman has written a truly inspirational story about the panther’s brush with extinction, and the human beings who were determined to save the species. You won’t be able to put Cat Tale down.”—Gilbert King, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The State You're In

    Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife

    by Craig Pittman ...
    Narrated by Matt Godfrey ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 22 min

    For more than thirty years, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman has chronicled the wildest stories Florida has to offer. Featuring a selection of columns that have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times and other outlets throughout Pittman's career, this book highlights just how strange and wonderful Florida can be.With a folksy style, an eye for the absurd, and a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear

    The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    "Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New RepublicA tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears.Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD