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Can a ring be cursed with bad luck? Or are the owner's calamities simply the byproduct of bad choices, coincidence, or merely life itself? When Brooklyn jeweler Abel Moody is asked by his friend, Julia Townsend, to clean and appraise her heirloom sapphire engagement ring, he remembers an old sketch his deceased father left him - it matches the ring. This remarkable coincidence sends him on a clandestine journey to Paris where at an ancient chu...

Laced with recollections from former neighbors and acquaintances, Al Capone's Miami gives, for the first time, a complete and documented account of the notorious gangster's years in Florida. From establishing his headquarters in the Ponce de Leon Hotel to clandestinely purchasing his home on Palm Island, from hiring a 17-year-old aviator to fly his contraband liquor into Biscayne Bay to running an illicit packing house in Deerfield Beach, from...

Shea Baker, freelance writer, is flung headlong into a mystery of biblical proportions when he hunts for the twelfth stone, an ancient artifact he believes is key in proving the biblical account of the Exodus and revealing who murdered his friend Mort Saul. Meyer Belinsky, a well-known professor of Jewish history, adamantly refutes that the Exodus ever took place and stakes his reputation on it by citing the lack of tangible or written histori...

Discover the tricks of the trade: smuggling the liquor and evading the law. Learn of the dealings of the Real McCoy. In this history of Prohibition in south Florida, author Sally J. Ling explores the impact of bootleggers and moonshiners on Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties, presenting tales of rumrunning and lawbreaking as told through personal and written accounts.

A quick read, yet a comprehensive history of Boca Raton and the institutions that make up our city. Sally Ling's many first-person vignettes are priceless in capturing Boca Raton's greatest institution of all?its people. As the Mayor, I thought that I knew all there was to know about Boca's history, but there are many tidbits I discovered for the first time. This book covers it all?from the beachfront to the old bean fields?as it chronicles Bo...

Discover the tricks of the trade: smuggling the liquor and evading the law. Learn of the dealings of ?the Real McCoy.? In this history of Prohibition in south Florida, author Sally J. Ling explores the impact of bootleggers and moonshiners on Palm Beach, Broward, Miami- Dade and Monroe Counties, presenting tales of rumrunning and lawbreaking as told through personal and written accounts.