Patrick D. Smith

• Mar-1973
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A classic and heartbreaking tale of one man’s fight to protect nature, and a treasured way of life, against the forces of greed.In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-...

• Jan-1986
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A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine. In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the ...

• Oct-1987
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• Apr-1989
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The River is Home, Smith's first novel, revolves around a Mississippi family's struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment.Angel City is the powerful and moving expose of migrant workers in Florida in the 1970s, which was made into a cri...

• Jan-2003
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In 1942 alone, German U-Boats sank almost four million gross registered tons of Allied ships convoying goods and war supplies to the war ravaged European continent, Britain and North Africa.That same year, college student Jimmy Kindall, who longs for...

• Aug-2011
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Retired Ohioan, Alvin Binder, grieving from the recent death of his wife, is on a road trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to sell the timeshare he and his late wife, Mary, visited every year. On an impulse, he drives off the beaten path, lured by the w...

• Aug-2011
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From the author of A Land Remembered...There's a 20 year old mystery in the old southern town of Lofton that keep the men who hang out in front of of Joe's Bait Shop occupied. Every Friday afternoon at almost the same time of day, the elderly spinste...

• Aug-2011
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From the author of A Land Remembered...This is a collection of six short stories and a poem from Patrick D. Smith, known for his popular book of historical fiction, A Land Remembered. These short stories were written throughout Smith's writing career...

• Sep-2012
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Twenty-five-year-old Seminole Toby Tiger lives in despair in the Florida Everglades. He loves the land and everything that exists in the natural world: the deer and egrets, turtles and herons, cypress trees and sawgrass, ponds and marshes, and, most ...

• Sep-2012
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Patrick D. Smith, award-winning author of A Land Remembered, Forever Island, and other classic novels about Mississippi and Florida, wrote The Beginning in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights movement. He offered an inside perspective on its ...

• Sep-2012
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Poor in material possessions, Skeeter's kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they live -- with its food supply, steamboats, and floods -- figures strongly in their lives as the source of l...

• Nov-2012
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After leaving their failed farm in West Virginia, Jared Teeter and his family make their way to Florida, with dreams of fishing, going to the beach, and running their own roadside produce stand. What they find instead is a nightmare in a migrant labo...

• Oct-2015
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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a ...