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Rachel M., Nerdy Librarian, recommends:

 A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith

In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons.

http://ucf.catalog.fcla.edu/permalink.jsp?29CF020646114

4^th Floor — PS3569.M53785L3 1984

Rosen Campus — PS3569.M53785L3 1984

 

Carrie Moran, User Engagement Librarian, recommends:

Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

http://ucf.catalog.fcla.edu/permalink.jsp?29CF021090558

4th Floor — PS3561.I496L33 2009

The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two  worlds – Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s – and  whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth  century’s most tumultuous events.