Your One Stop Shop for All of Patrick's Smith's Books

Why You Should Buy A Copy Of A Land Remembered For Yourself - And One For Your Friends
"I have bought these books for my home library over a dozen times. You do not lend a Patrick Smith book, certainly not to someone who loves to read and lives in Florida. Give it away, do your accounting and buy a new one. If you lend one of these books out, it will never come back. Save you and your reading friends the aggravation."

- Robert Bickford, Melbourne, FL

Smith personally narrates this multiple award-winning program as video, historical photos and re-enacted scenes bring his stories of "Old Florida" and the interesting people and experiences he had on the way to writing his novels to life. If you have heard any of Patrick Smith popular talks or read any of his novels, you will love this DVD because you feel like you are personally spending an hour with this celebrated author. If you have not yet read any of his novels, this will make you want to! 54 wonderful minutes. Read more here.

A White Deer and other stories

A White Deer and other stories is Patrick Smith's latest release. It contains six delightful short stories that are pure Patrick Smith style. There is even a poem he wrote when he was 16 years old.

This is a "must read" for Patrick Smith fans. It allows you to look at his writing as it developed through several decades. You can see that he developed his "voice" as a writer early, and these stories show that voice developing through time.

Forever Island and Allapattah
(Two novels in one hardbound book)

Forever Island has become the classic novel of the Everglades, evoking this haunting landscape in Patrick Smith's straightforward storytelling style. Since it first appeared in 1973, it has been published in 36 countries. It tells the story of Charlie Jumper, an old Seminole Indian who clings to the ancient ways and teaches them to his grandson. When their simple swamp existence is threatened by a development corporation, Charlie decides to fight back. Patrick Smith was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for this powerful novel, which remains one of his most popular books. Click here for an extensive review of Forever Island.

Allapattah is also a novel of a Seminole in the Everglades. Here Patrick Smith tells the story of Toby Tiger, a young Indian in despair at having to live in the white man's world. "Allapattah" means crocodile—a creature which becomes Toby Tiger's obsession, and he must wrestle it to set himself free. Readers who are are unfamiliar with Allapattah and will welcome this volume. He tells a wonderful tale about overcoming writer's block while working on this book in the DVD, A Sense of Place.

$18.95 Hardbound, 386 pages

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The River is Home and Angel City
(Two novels in one hardbound book)

The River is Home is the story of Skeeter, a young boy growing up in a Mississippi family poor in material goods but rich in the appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river--with its food supply, floods, steamboats--figures strongly in their lives as the source of life and death. The River is Home met with critical acclaim and launched Patrick Smith into his career as a novelist at the tender age of just 21. It remains a favorite of many readers.

Angel City follows the course of the Teeters, a West Virginia family come to Florida to better their lives. What they find is degradation in a migrant labor camp. Though it is repellant to believe, Smith's depiction of conditions in Florida migrant labor camps as late as the seventies was based on fact. His expose of those camps in Angel City served its intended purpose: to bring about change. As interest increases in the novels of Patrick Smith, literary historians are sure to place this near the top rank of his output. Angel City was made into a movie and aired on CBS.

$18.95 Hardbound, 399 pages

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We have 2 slightly shopworn copies. Very little damage, but we won't sell them at full Price. If you want a copy at a discount, this is a bargain.

The Last Ride

“The Last Ride is a masterpiece, recording in depth the lives and the world of rodeo people little known, where the payoff to most is broken bones and 'gas money.' I predict this book will become a classic.” -Buddy Ebsen

On November 11, 1995, at the age of 25, former bull riding champion “Pee Wee” Mercer suffered an accident while dismounting a bull at the Southeastern Circuit Final at Brighton, Florida which resulted in a broken neck and severed spinal cord, thus changing his life forever. The Last Ride is the dramatic story of his life both before and after the accident.

Although this book covers Pee Wee's rodeo career throughout Florida and many other parts of the United States, it is not just a book about rodeo. It is also the story of young love gone awry, of adventure, high humor, youthful exuberance during those years when young people think they are indestructible, of hopes and dreams of the future and how those hopes and dreams are shattered forever in just one split second of time.
This is also a heartfelt story of courage, of the determination to endure in a world few others can even imagine. Sometimes it is a very lonely world indeed, one peopled only with memories.

The Last Ride will grip the interest and emotions of all readers, young and old alike. It is much like taking a literary rafting trip down a turbulent mountain stream. You will become part of the action and will be there each step of the way.

Pee Wee told his story to friend and award-winning author Patrick Smith, who helped Pee Wee get his story in print. Smith says at the end of this book, Pee Wee Mercer is truly a “Profile in Courage.”

$18, Hardbound, 183 pages, Current inventory is autographed

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Yes You Can Get Your Books Autographed!

Get your books autographed! You can order an original, personally signed "With Best Wishes, Patrick Smith" archival bookplate to be placed in your books for $5.00 each here. We'll place it in your book unless you specify otherwise.
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You can also order a personalized (with your own message) autographed archival bookplate from Patrick Smith for $10.00 each here. We'll place it in our book unless you specify otherwise. (Be sure to include the message you wish Mr. Smith to include in your personalized bookplate)
Personalized autographed bookplate $10.00 -

Please understand that Patrick Smith doesn't charge to autograph a book, but because of the special handling when ordering through the mail (Dad doesn't keep the books, they are here in my California studio), we must add a charge. If you met him at a book signing, there would be no fee for an autograph. It has gotten too expensive and difficult to send books to him and then have him send them on to the end customer, so we have chosen these attractive archival bookplates - which are much easier to handle through the mail. - Rick Smith

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