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Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of ten previous novels, including the best-selling Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and Lucky You, and two best-selling children’s books, Hoot and Flush. He also writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald.



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Scat
Scat
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375834868
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Scat

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $16.99

Bestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades.
 
Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved.
 
But when the principal... Read more >
Hoot
Hoot
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780440419396
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Hoot

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $6.99

A book for young readers. It involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, and pint-sized owls. A hilarious
Floridian adventure! Read more >
Flush
Flush
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375841859
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Flush

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $8.99

Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys.

You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.

Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen... Read more >
Hoot
Hoot
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375829161
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Hoot

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $8.95

Unfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from... Read more >
The Downhill Lie
The Downhill Lie
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307280459
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The Downhill Lie
A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $14.00

Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years passed and the memories of slices and hooks faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as... Read more >
Hoot
Hoot
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780440421702
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Hoot

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $6.99

Unfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from... Read more >
Hoot
Hoot
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375821813
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Hoot

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $15.95

Unfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from... Read more >
Nature Girl
Nature Girl
Written by Carl Hiaasen, Read by Jane Curtin
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739358689
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Nature Girl

Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Jane Curtin


Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Price: $14.99

Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie—the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer—into the wilderness of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands... Read more >
Flush
Flush
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375821820
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Flush

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $16.95

Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys.

You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.

Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen... Read more >
Skinny Dip
Skinny Dip
Written by Carl Hiaasen, Read by Barry Bostwick
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739320877
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Skinny Dip

Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Barry Bostwick


Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $14.99

Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can... Read more >
Naked Came the Manatee
Naked Came the Manatee
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780449001240
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Naked Came the Manatee

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 20, 1998
Price: $12.95

In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head--severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history.

Everybody wants a piece of the noggin: rotund gangster Big Joey G., a... Read more >
Trap Line
Trap Line
Written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375700699
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Trap Line

Written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $14.00

Key West is a smuggler's paradise. All that's needed are the captains to run the contraband and Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock.  He's in no mood to become the Machine's delivery boy, however. So the Machine sets out to persuade him. It starts by taking... Read more >
Powder Burn
Powder Burn
Written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375700682
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Powder Burn

Written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $13.95

Architect Chris Meadows has the bad luck to see an old girlfriend get hit by a car full of drugland hitmen. He has the worse luck to see the face of her murderers. Because in a town as violent as Miami, a witness doesn't stand a chance--especially when the cops who... Read more >
A Death in China
A Death in China
Written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375700675
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A Death in China

Written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 30, 1998
Price: $13.95

An  American investigating his mentor's murder finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and treachery in China, where even tomorrow's weather is a state secret.  From a nightmarish interrogation to assassination by cobra, A Death in China takes readers on a trip with no rest stops through a world of claustrophobic mistrust... Read more >
Team Rodent
Team Rodent
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345422804
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Team Rodent

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 5, 1998
Price: $9.95

"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving... Read more >
Metzger's Dog
Metzger's Dog
Written by Thomas Perry, Foreword by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812967746
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Metzger's Dog
A Novel
Written by Thomas Perry
Foreword by Carl Hiaasen


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $15.00

The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Award–winning The Butcher’s Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.

When Leroy “Chinese” Gordon breaks into a professor’s lab at the University of Los Angeles, he’s after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.
Hoot
Hoot
Written by Carl Hiaasen, Read by Chad Lowe
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780307206978
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Hoot

Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Chad Lowe


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $29.95

Unfortunately, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from... Read more >
Scat
Scat
Written by Carl Hiaasen, Read by Edward Asner
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739371282
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Scat

Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Edward Asner


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $40.00

Bestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades.
 
Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved.
 
But when the principal... Read more >
The Downhill Lie
The Downhill Lie
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307266538
Our Price: $22.00
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The Downhill Lie
A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $22.00

Ever wonder how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which club in your bag is best suited for combat against a horde of rats? If these and other sporting questions are gnawing at you, The Downhill Lie, Carl Hiaasen’s hilarious confessional about returning to the fairways... Read more >
The Carl Hiaasen Collection: Lucky You and Sick Puppy
The Carl Hiaasen Collection: Lucky You and Sick Puppy
Written by Carl Hiaasen, Read by Edward Asner
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739340820
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The Carl Hiaasen Collection: Lucky You and Sick Puppy

Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Edward Asner


Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $29.95


Lucky You

Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.

Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled... Read more >
The Downhill Lie
The Downhill Lie
Written by Carl Hiaasen, Read by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739358313
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The Downhill Lie
A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Carl Hiaasen


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $29.95

Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years–and memories of shanked 7-irons faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he... Read more >
Flush
Flush
Written by Carl Hiaasen, Read by Michael Welch
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780307280701
Our Price: $30.00
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Flush

Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Michael Welch


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $30.00

Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys.

You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.

Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen... Read more >
The Downhill Lie
The Downhill Lie
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780739327876
Our Price: $22.00
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The Downhill Lie
A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $22.00

Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years–and memories of shanked 7-irons faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he... Read more >
Skinny Dip
Skinny Dip
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375411083
Our Price: $24.95
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Skinny Dip

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $24.95

Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can... Read more >
Nature Girl
Nature Girl
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780739326268
Our Price: $28.95
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Nature Girl

Written by Carl Hiaasen

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $28.95

Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie—the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer—into the wilderness of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands... Read more >
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