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*Did you know the Florida Historical Society publishes books?* Below is a listing of the Florida Historical Society Press offerings. These books are available to retailers and wholesalers at 40% discount off publishers list price if you purchase 10 books or more. Call 321-690-1971 and provide sales tax certificate.
	Overhead The Sun Overhead The Sun, a gripping historical novel about race relations in Florida during the late Nineteenth Century. Written by the late John Ashworth, Overhead The Sun is based on the tragic story of Rosewood, a small Florida community of African-Americans that was destroyed by a mob of whites in 1923. The central character in Overhead The Sun is Julia Clayton, a young woman striving mightily to achieve emotional and intellectual independence. Her husband, Tom Clayton, works for Arthur Wilkins (who is based on the real life person of Henry Flagler) who seeks to extend his hotel and railroad empire across the Sunshine State. Neglected and verbally abused, Julia Clayton takes a heretical economics professor, Thorstein Brach, as her lover. The intrigues and conflicts of personality that mark these tortured relationships light up the pages of Overhead The Sun.
	Florida's Civil War: Explorations into Conflict, Interpretations and Memory Welcome to Florida Historical Society Press’ initial volume in its newly created Gold Seal series. This is the first of what will eventually be a multi-volume series of specialized books that deal with narrowly focused issues in Florida history.
	River Road Stories River Road Stories is a little masterpiece of story telling. Mary Eschbach, a Rockledge resident, captures life along the Indian River as only a resident can. What a wonderful way to celebrate a way of life that has passed us all by! Patrick Smith, author of A Land Remembered There are some authors and some books that you start to read with interest and finish with envy. River Road Stories is such a book. Packed in a few pages, Stories manages to describe in great detail the daily humdrum and occasional excitement of a young girl's life along the Indian River Lagoon. At the same time, River Road Stories is a song of praise for a lifestyle that is largely gone, but which exists forever in the mind of the author. Once you read River Road Stories, you'll become part of the past. Nick Wynne, PhD, The Florida Historical Society
	Florida's Big Dig: The Atlantic Intracoastal WaterwayThis book is the story of people of vision and courage, of a small group of prominent Saint Augustine investors who conceived of the Florida waterway and began the first dredging work; of an obscure group of New England capitalists who provided significant financing and obtained a million acres of undeveloped Florida public land in pursuing what was, at best, a speculative enterprise; of innumerable citizen groups like the Florida east coast chamber associations and the larger Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association that demanded at the turn of the last century what they believed was the peoples right-a public waterway, free of the burden of tolls; and finally, of the U>S> Army Corps of Engineers, who conducted all of the Florida waterway's early surveys and assumed the project's control in 1929 to convert what was once a private toll way into Florida's modern-day, toll-free Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
	Then Sings My Soul: The Scott Kelly Story 2008 CHARLTON TEBEAU BOOK AWARD WINNER “In this exciting book—part political history, part travelogue—Dorothy Smiljanich sheds light on 1960s Florida with her vivid portrayal of one of Florida’s most colorful political figures, Scott Kelly. Mayor of Lakeland at 28 and legislative power broker in his 30s, Kelly strode a wide path in the swirling political cauldron of 1960s Florida. Kelly twice came within an eyelash of being governor. This vivid portrayal of Kelly’s life begins in the Old Florida of tobacco and turpentine, and concludes with the New Florida of huge housing developments and super expressways, a Florida Kelly helped create.” James M. Denham, Professor of History, Florida Southern College
	High Above the Hippodrome Rudy longs to be an aerialist, but Shorty wants him to follow in his own clown footsteps. When Rudy learns the truth behind his objections, he has hard choices to make. Will he follow his father's path, or will he risk his anger and its repercussions to make his dream a reality? Fans of the award-winning novels, Tasso of Tarpon Springs and Panther Girl welcome High Above The Hippodrome, a captivating behind-the-scenes story of circus life on the road with The Ringling and Barnum and Bailey Circus in 1927.
	Finest Kind: A Celebration of a Florida Fishing Village The story of a real Florida fishing village.
	Pioneer Commercial Photography The Burgert Brothers, Tampa Florida The firm of S. P. Burgert and Son was one of the most prolific photographers of the period and their images recorded the evolution of Tampa Bay from a small village on Florida's west coast to a dynamic city that epitomized the tremendous growth that marked Twentieth Century Florida. From it founding in 1899 until the mid-1950s, the Burgerts took thousands of images of the best and worst of the city.
	Florida Tales: Historical Advantures for Young Floridians The short stories of Carolyn Teicher Potts.
	The Volusian: Horatio S. Dexter The activities of Horatio S. Dexter as a frontier diplomat plant, and Indian trader are well-documented in the historical archives. However, a study of his life through these various documents reveals a contrast of opinion as to his motives, his business acumen and his sensitivity to the Indians of Florida.
	Phillip's Great Adventures: Spies, Root Beer and Alligators Adam was on his bike headed toward the beach in Boca Raton, Florida to look for treasures washed up by the waves. Instead he bumped into Phillip, a man who enchanted him with tales of adventures growing up on the same beach during World War II. Adam found his treasure it was Phillip's friendship and amazing hair-raising adventures of life in the small town of Boca Raton during the war years.
	Faces On The Frontier: Florida Surveyors and Developers in the 19th Century Joe Knetsch has successfully captured the problems and triumphs of early surveyors in Florida as they battled hostile Native Americans, disease, weather and political pressures to "lay out" the Florida Peninsula for settlement. Without these intrepid pioneers of the 19th Century, the Sunshine State would still be a daunting wilderness of swamps and jungles.
	The St. Johns From The Marshlands To The Atlantic The authors are not historians or experts of any kind but they have traversed the waters of the river by air boat from the flood-plain and marshes southwest of Fellsmere which mark its beginning, and later by larger vessel to the point where its waters join one of the great oceans of the world. We have endeaved to show the river as we saw it and to provide accurate descriptions and information.
	Weird Florida II; In A State of Shock Cows in the Intracoastal Waterway? A bloodsucking night creature on the loose in Miami? The Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich? Nationally known talk show host high on drugs? The mayor of one small town who banned Satan? The mayor of another small town who campaigned on a platform of "hot loins?" Yep! All this and more too! It's all in Eliot Kleinberg's Weird Florida II; In A State of Shock.
	Crossing Divison Street - An Oral History of the African-American Community in Orlando This book includes an overview of the people, institutions, and events that shaped the establishment, growth and history of the African-American community in Orlando. We examine the creation of the neighborhood's educational centers, places of worship, and businesses, and the irony of how desegregation inadvertently led to the decline of the community. Significant instances of racial unrest in Orlando that are often overlooked are detailed in this manuscript.
	A Bosnian Diary - A Floridian's Experience In Nation Building William Potter served as an International election supervisor in Bosnia-Herzegovina and as the Air Force legel advisor to the Office of the High Representative and government of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, he served as the Head of the Rule of Law Department in the administration of the High Representative Paddy Ashdown.
	A Historic Sampler of Tallahassee and Leon County This book provides a look into the history of Leon County and its biggest city.
	Southern Cooking A Man's Domain Although he provides some great recipes in this book, he admonishes all cooks to use them as basic guide-lines and adapt them to taste.
	Confessions of a Night Librarian and Other Embarrassments Ron McFarland's recollections of growing up in Brevard County in the 1950's and early 1960's provide excellent fodder for his wicked sense of humor and his somewhat warped "take on life."
	War in Paradise Re-print, Stories of World War II in Florida by Eliot Kleinburg.
	Memoir on the Geography, and Natural and Civil History of Florida A book by William Darby.
	Guardian Angel 911 Not unlike all our lives this book is a series of stories, separate but interconnected. They are all true with the exception of some literary license where details were lost in the telling and retelling. Guardian Angel 911 will provide an insight to the sojourn of a native, born in the isolated hammocks and swamps of the real Florida, before the population exploded in the third quarter of the twentieth century. - J.T. Glisson
	Florida Historical Society 1856-2004 A history of the Florida History Society by Dr. Jerrell Shofner.
	The Life and Legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune "This book is easy and interesting reading. It presents the “Life and Legacy” of the late Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune holistically and concludes with testimonies from living witnesses. The author narrates Dr. Bethune’s early years and documents how developments in those years influenced her later accomplishments. Permeating Dr. Bethune’s spectacular career is a philosophy based on deep religious convictions and held that “work was honorable, no matter how menial the task."
	Florida's Frontier - The Way Hit Wuz "The Way Hit Wuz" is a novel about Florida's history similiar to Patrick Smith's book "A Land Remembered".
	Jacob Summerlin: King of the Crackers In this biography, Drs. Joe and Mark Akerman manage to capture the essence of Jake Summerlin's life and the broader scope of Florida history.
	Canaveral Light Canaveral Light is an explosive novel about the struggle of early Florida pioneers to live in harmony with the land and its native people. Winner of the Patrick Smith book award from the Florida Historical Society.
	Florida at War This book is a collection of essays on different aspects of Florida's important role in WWII.
	Brevard County History to 1955 Brevard County History to 1955 by John M. Eriksen.
	Joseph Mills White Anti-Jacksonian Floridian Joseph Mills White, Anti-Jacksonian Floridian by Ernest Dibble.
	Henry Plant - Pioneer Empire Builder “This is a must read for every railroad buff. It adds to the literature on Henry Bradley Plant and the machinations of late 19th century transportation barons. Plant led an interesting life—as a Confederate and a Yankee—juggling the demands for business success with an ever-changing political milieu. Plant’s achievements rivaled those of Henry Flagler in making modern Florida.” - Nick Wynne, The Florida Historical Society
	Florida Decades, A Sesquicentennial History 1845-1995 Florida Decades by James J. Horgan & Lewis N. Wynne.
	Ciudad De Cigars: West Tampa Ciudad De Cigars: West Tampa by Armando Mendez.