title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Beach: True Tall Tales of Zany Animals and Crazy People Making Mayhem in the Mangroves of Florida
author: Bernard Rath
description: The author served as Executive Director of both the Canadian and American Booksellers Associations from 1979 until 1997. He has lived in Naples Florida since 2004.
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  ALSO BY KEVIN KWAN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Crazy Rich Asians_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations,
  places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s
  imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons,
  living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2015 by Kevin Kwan
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division
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