South Florida has never been quite so hilarious as it is in Carl Hiaasen's outrageous tale of one woman’s single-handed quest to eradicate greed and enforce civility in her corner of the Sunshine State.

Life’s Edge is an utterly fascinating investigation that no one but one of the most celebrated science writers of our generation could craft. Carl Zimmer journeys through the strange experiments that have attempted to re-create life.

Judicious, vivid, and witty, A Light in the Dark is yet another required David Thomson text for every movie lover’s shelf.

From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034–and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.

The hilarious and scathing muckraking tradition that Carl Hiaasen has so mercilessly made his own continues in Stormy Weather, where there is no calm eye.

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