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|  | | Calusa warriors from a distant past
In this book, the author tracks the origin of a tribe that eventually becomes the Calusa Indians. In 15,000 BP, After traveling the land bridge across the Bering Sea, they are introduced to canoe builders, and are ever after, a tribe of the sea. Their route to SW Florida is south along the Western California Coast to Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Baja, Sea of Cortez to Mexico, south to Central America, and across to the Caribbean Sea. Colombia to the Caribbean Islands and later, Cuba. Traders tell them about Florida, so they head north. The Calusa hold Southwest Florida for 2,000 years, but the arrival of the Spaniards and the germs brought with them, spells doom for the Calusa.
span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">span style="font-size: x-small;">I invite you to follow these ancient warriors as they move from Siberia in 1500 BP to 14th century Southwest Florida. The Calusa occupied and defended this area for 2,000 years, but when the Spaniards arrived with their gene-of-cruelty, modern weapons, and diseases that they had never encountered, the death knell began. After their struggles to find a land where they could live in peace, they were defeated by simple diseases such as a cold or the flu. Earlier, a small band of Calusa did not like what they saw in t | |  | | Ghosts of Chokoloskee
Late 1800s, Mister Watson killed many people. Chokoloskee Island folks were not upset until he killed white people, then they killed him. Ghosts have haunted the Smallwood Trading Post ever since.
span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">span style="font-size: medium;">The ghosts of real people that were killed by Watson, and the local men who gathered with guns and killed him, have inhabited the 100 year old Smallwood Museum ever since. Ghost Busters have tried to record para-normal activity, but they found so much activity that individuals could not be isolated from the crowd./span>/span> | |  | | The McKannahs
Sean McKannah left Ireland in the late 1700s and after a few years at sea, he left the ship. It was now 1800, and he looked forward seeing the huge new country.
Sean McKannah marries Issabella, and over the next few years they create five new McKannahs to help their new country grow. Patrick and his three brothers, Broderick, Simon, Ian, and Jesse all looked after their late arriving sister, Aleena.
Patrick and Broderick finish school in California, and head east to begin their higher education at the newly formed Harvard Law School. They both know that their sister has dreamed of becoming a school teacher. They locate a teacher's school not far away, so they can look after her. She arrives and immediately enrolls in college.
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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