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    Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu

    Les Standiford

    Florida’s preeminent historian and bestselling author presents a full and colorful history of the American resort town that redefined class, wealth, and celebrity.

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    Bone Key

    Les Standiford

    Edgy sex, murder, mayhem… Standiford knows what works. -Los Angeles Times A jaw-dropper. -Booklist Tough, funny, profame-and beautifully turned out. -James Ellroy

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    Presidential Deal: A John Deal Mystery

    Les Standiford

    Edgy sex, murder, mayhem… Standiford knows what works. -Los Angeles Times A jaw-dropper. -Booklist Tough, funny, profame-and beautifully turned out. -James Ellroy

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    Book Deal

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    Edgy sex, murder, mayhem… Standiford knows what works. -Los Angeles Times A jaw-dropper. -Booklist Tough, funny, profame-and beautifully turned out. -James Ellroy

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    Done Deal: A John Deal Mystery

    Les Standiford

    Edgy sex, murder, mayhem… Standiford knows what works. -Los Angeles Times A jaw-dropper. -Booklist Tough, funny, profame-and beautifully turned out. -James Ellroy

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    Raw Deal

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    Edgy sex, murder, mayhem… Standiford knows what works. -Los Angeles Times A jaw-dropper. -Booklist Tough, funny, profame-and beautifully turned out. -James Ellroy

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    Deal with the Dead

    Les Standiford

    John Deal is back–but getting out from under his late father’s shady past is tough. Especially when it’s linked to a Miami mobster, his avenging son, and a hidden fortune…

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    Palm Beach, Mar-A-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu

    Les Standiford

    The full and colorful history of the American resort town that redefined class, wealth, and celebrity, by Florida’s preeminent historian and bestselling author

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    Havana Run

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    Edgy sex, murder, mayhem… Standiford knows what works. -Los Angeles Times A jaw-dropper. -Booklist Tough, funny, profame-and beautifully turned out. -James Ellroy

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    Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America

    Les Standiford

    From the author of Last Train to Paradise comes the history of two founding fathers of American industry–Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick–and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that separated them…

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    Center of Dreams: Building a World-Class Performing Arts Complex in Miami

    Les Standiford

    Discover how one spectacular building project transformed Miami from a fractious tropical city to a cultural capital of the Americas. In Center of Dreams, New York Times bestselling author Les…

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    Miami Noir: The Classics

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    Classic noir set in Miami from Elmore Leonard, Zora Neale Hurston, Damon Runyon, Lester Dent, and many more.

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    Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus

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    Les Standiford takes us under the big top and behind the curtain in this richly researched and thoroughly engaging narrative that captures all of the entrepreneurial intrigue and spirit of…

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    Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus

    Les Standiford

    A New York Times bestselling author writes the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies, and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros., Barnum…

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    The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

    Les Standiford

    Original publication and copyright date: 2008.

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    Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

    Les Standiford

    Now in paperback, Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Standiford’s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad–one of the…

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    Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

    Les Standiford

    Documents the story of William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct, the largest public water project ever built, describing how it transformed a small desert city into a modern metropolis.

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    Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

    Les Standiford

    Documents the story of William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct, the largest public water project ever built, describing how it transformed a small desert city into a modern metropolis.

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    Deal to Die For

    Les Standiford

    Edgy sex, murder, mayhem… Standiford knows what works. -Los Angeles Times A jaw-dropper. -Booklist Tough, funny, profame-and beautifully turned out. -James Ellroy

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    Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That

    Les Standiford

    . .. published in the year 2011 by arrangement wtih HarperCollins Publishers –T.p. verso.

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    Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

    Les Standiford,Joe Matthews

    Bringing Adam Home is the definitive account of the horrifying abduction and murder of Adam Walsh–which, like the Lindbergh kidnapping 50 years earlier, captured public attention–and its aftermath, a true…

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    The Putt At The End Of The World

    Lee K. Abbott,Dave Barry,Richard Bausch,James Crumley,James W. Hall

    The world’s richest man invites a trio of mediocre golfers - Billy Sprague, who can’t swing when money is at stake, hard-drinking Rita Shaugnessy and Alfonso Zamora, who is going…

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    Miami Noir: The Classics

    Classic noir set in Miami from Elmore Leonard, Zora Neale Hurston, Damon Runyon, Lester Dent, and many more.

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