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Book Synopsis The Dark Side of Paradise by : Geoffrey Robinson
Download or read book The Dark Side of Paradise written by Geoffrey Robinson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Dark Side of Paradise".
Book Synopsis The Dark Side of Paradise by : Richard Kerr
Download or read book The Dark Side of Paradise written by Richard Kerr and published by Rand-Smith LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Side of Paradise blends together Richard Kerr's professional experiences from his over-thirty-year career as a high-ranking official in the CIA with his idyllic life as a Florida retiree living in beautiful Vero Beach. Using his involvement in a local writing group as a common thread weaved through the stories, the author shares tales that explore the inner workings of the mind and examine good vs. evil. How do we decide between right and wrong? What do we do when we think no one is watching? Richard Kerr crafts short stories that are unsettling, amusing, whimsical, and illuminating. Divided into four sections, the book begins with spy-centric tales, moves to stories of surprise, segues into tales of death, and finishes on a lighter note. All the while, regardless of the section, the author's writer group and some of its members are weaved in and out of the stories to provide a common bond. Only someone of his unique background could provide such an enlightening and intriguing look inside the mind of a CIA intelligence official as filtered through captivating tales that remain with the reader long after the last page has been turned.
Book Synopsis This Side of Paradise by : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Download or read book This Side of Paradise written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.
Book Synopsis Belize Survivor by : Nancy R. Koerner
Download or read book Belize Survivor written by Nancy R. Koerner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early seventies, the anti-establishment counterculture evolved into a new movement of health and agricultural purists. Rebelling against the politics and pollution of the U.S., these young people sought to create their own natural paradise outside its borders. This is the story of one such expatriated American, a starry-eyed wild child who searches for a fantasy lifestyle and gets more than she bargains for. The storyline, a colorful tapestry of romantic adventure set in the jungles of Belize, Central America, is flavored with vivid imagery, picturesque characters, wild animals, and Mayan archaeological intrigue. But it is also a compelling story of a maturing young woman and her battle with the darker side of human nature, of innocence lost, deception, infidelity, and heartbreaking exile. Full of poignant moral dilemma, it is a story of one woman's survival, of exceptional courage, strength in overcoming adversity, spiritual growth, and eventual triumph.
Book Synopsis The Dark Side of Paradise by : Jay Dunn
Download or read book The Dark Side of Paradise written by Jay Dunn and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life isn't always up-lifting and light, "The Dark Side of Paradise" shows the ups and downs of life. Poems ranging from the best life has to offer and what life sometimes throws at you unexpectedly. A hundred of Jay Dunn's finest pieces of works representing his thoughts and ideas on life, society, family, friends, relationships, and the past and what he holds for the future.
Book Synopsis This Side of Paradise by : Steven Layne
Download or read book This Side of Paradise written by Steven Layne and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his father relocates the family to Paradise to work for the mysterious Eden Corporation, Jack Barrett uncovers a sinister plot that threatens everyone he loves.
Book Synopsis The Dark Side of Paradise by : Ross Dean
Download or read book The Dark Side of Paradise written by Ross Dean and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have all been there, reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, watching television. There was a murder today at, wherever? Some criminal was blasted to death in a blaze of gunfire. A man was shot in his driveway this evening. Some person has gone missing. Another kid dies of a drug overdose. The police are again investigating pedophilia on the internet. This is the today's news. We look. We listen. We see. But do we care? In some cases people will exhibit apprehension. Or in the case of the criminal, mumble good riddance, and as long as it's not our kid using, we turn to the next page. Listen to the next item if its radio or, change channels on the TV. Whatever! That is generally all we think, until you find yourself staring at the results of a gangland hit spread all over a kitchen bench and the victim is an acquaintance. Then you find out, things about him you could never imagine. You begin to discover, what horrific things happen to ordinary people, in the place you call home. It's then you have to make a decision. Do you continue to ignore these issues or, do you try to make a difference? Well, do you?
Book Synopsis The Dark Side of Paradise by : Eleanor Clarke Yukic
Download or read book The Dark Side of Paradise written by Eleanor Clarke Yukic and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because her mother refuses to believe that her stepfather, Alex Sorenson, is molesting her, eleven year old Jasmine Kameli has decided to run away. As the young girl sneaks through the vegetation surrounding Alex’s Maui mansion where she and her mother, Kinau, have lived for the past two years, she is startled to hear the motor of her stepfather’s car. She is terrified. Have they already discovered that she’s missing? NO! It turns out that there is a dead man in the trunk of Alex’s Mercedes, and Jasmine sees his lackey, Jeremy, toss the body into the waters of a nearby lagoon. Thus begins the story of the brave little girl’s struggle to reach her Tutu (aunt) Yalana’s house in Hana, a very difficult location to reach without an auto or an adult to accompany one on a tour bus or boat. The terrified Jasmine’s initial need is to get out of the area, far away from her stepfather’s Kihei residence. She has decided to go to Lahaina first where there is a well-known youth shelter, but there is no public transportation available until the next morning. She has cut her beautiful long coal black hair and hopes to pass as a boy. Crossing the highway to a rental condominium complex located on the lagoon, she discovers there are lounges on the patio of each apartment. She decides to curl up on one till morning since all the apartments are completely silent. Teri and Jim Collins are the residents in the apartment next to the patio where Jasmine has chosen to curl up. The couple is on vacation. Their plan is to rest, relax and visit all the sights. They do not wish to be involved in solving any mystery or crime which usually happens to them on their travels. Early in the morning, Teri discovers the sleeping child on their patio. Jim is suspicious of Jasmine’s explanation of a sick mother in the hospital. She says her name is Leonardo. Jasmine is terrified that Jim might contact the police for many of the officers are friends of Alex Sorenson. When there is a sudden disturbance in the lagoon’s waters–the recovery of a body which captivates the attention of the Collins, Jasmine escapes. She runs down the highway and catches the bus to Lahaina. The murdered man in the lagoon turns out to be Ed Nakamura , the county supervisor representing Molokai where Alex has several commercial ventures. Alex is very disturbed that Jasmine has run away and delegates Jeremy to search for her. His wife, Jasmine’s mother, has already phoned her sister in Hana, but Yalana has not seen nor heard from Jasmine. In the novel, we follow the child’s struggles to reach Hana and her aunt. Jim and Teri become involved in helping the two, Jasmine and Yalana, which results in a trip to Molokai, a frantic chase up the trail from the former leper colony and a hazardous boat trip to Oahu to contact the FBI. The women are placed in protective custody in a safe house on the far side of the island of Oahu. Jeremy, Alex’s employee, manages to kidnap Jasmine and return her to Maui where the explosive denouement takes place.
Book Synopsis JUDY: The Dark Side of Paradise by : Dorothy Jean Hart
Download or read book JUDY: The Dark Side of Paradise written by Dorothy Jean Hart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a period of tumultuous change in the 1950's there still existed an underlying attitude of sultry romance and betrayal in the deep south. Meet James and Judy. He is a small town preacher of strong character stemming to bridge the gap between the way things were and how they may ultimately evolve, using morals and spiritual principles as a guide. Her, a woman who craved the change and felt the fires of inner passions fanned as she experienced the changes. How could their love survive as he struggled to adapt to change and she embraced the new freedom in a way he could never accept. Having grown up in the south during a period in which many only dreamed of the ways things could be while others struggled to keep things the way they were, DJ Hart shares her first published story. A mother of three who experienced these changes first hand.
Book Synopsis Artificial Paradise by : Kevin Courrier
Download or read book Artificial Paradise written by Kevin Courrier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an epigram in this book from the Phil Ochs song, "Crucifixion", about the Kennedy assassination, that states: I fear to contemplate that beneath the greatest love, lies a hurricane of hate. On February 11th 1963, the Beatles recorded "There's a Place", a dazzling, unheralded tune which was included on their electrifying debut album, Please Please Me. This song firmly laid the foundation on which a huge utopian dream of the sixties would be built. Within that dream, however, also lay the seeds of a darker vision that would emerge out of the very counterculture that the Beatles and their music helped create. Thus, even as their music attracted adoring fans, it also enticed the murderous ambitions of Charles Manson; and though the Beatles may have inspired others to form bands, their own failed hopes ultimately led to their breakup. The disillusionment with the sixties, and the hopes associated with the group, would many years later culminate in the assassination of John Lennon and the attempted slaying of George Harrison by deranged and obsessive fans. In this incisive examination, author Kevin Courrier (Dangerous Kitchen: the Subversive World of Zappa, Randy Newman's American Dreams) examines how the Fab Four, through their astonishing music and comically rebellious personalities, created the promise of an inclusive culture built on the principles of pleasure and fulfillment. By taking us through their richly inventive catalogue, Courrier illustrates how the Beatles' startling impact on popular culture built a bond with audiences that was so strong, people today continue to either cling nostalgically to it, or struggle - and often struggle violently - to escape its influence.
Book Synopsis The Border of Paradise by : Esme Weijun Wang
Download or read book The Border of Paradise written by Esme Weijun Wang and published by UNNAMED Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the neurotic David Nowak who lives with his wife and children in the Northern California wilderness giving his family an insular and idyllic existence.
Book Synopsis How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by : Cherie Jones
Download or read book How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House written by Cherie Jones and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise." In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter’s Tunnels. When she’s grown, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men driven into the Tunnels by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom – and their lives. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is an intimate and visceral portrayal of interconnected lives, across race and class, in a rapidly changing resort town, told by an astonishing new author of literary fiction. One of 2021's Most Anticipated New Fiction The Millions * Lit Hub * O Magazine * Elle.com * Entertainment Weekly * Minneapolis Star-Tribune * Bustle
Download or read book Birds of Paradise written by Anne Malcom and published by Anne Malcom. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He collected beautiful things. Rare things. Ripped them out of their natural environment and preserved them in all of their dead splendor. The problem was I wasn't beautiful. I was all of the hideous and ugly realities of the world packaged into one broken human being. He came to kill me. That was his business. Death. He ripped me out of my natural environment, the prison I'd created, and locked me away with all of his beautiful dead things. I hated him. I still hate him. But if I was given the choice and the ability to leave this cage, come back to life, I'd stay dead. In all of my hideous splendor. Because my murderer can only possess dead things. And I can only be possessed by someone more broken and ugly than me.
Book Synopsis Dark Side of Paradise by : Sharon Wagner
Download or read book Dark Side of Paradise written by Sharon Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Paradise written by Angie Sandro and published by Forever Yours. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fast-paced and addictive debut. Sandro is a writer to watch!" --- J.A. Redmerksi, New York Times bestselling author From rising star Angie Sandro, a steamy Southern gothic romance that will appeal to fans of Beautiful Creatures . . . Is this love affair their destiny? Or is it doomed? Paradise, Louisiana, is far from idyllic for Mala LaCroix and Landry Prince. Haunted by strange visions, the pair are drawn together by a mystery concealed beneath the polite facades and the murky swamps of the Deep South. Landry had a crush on Mala all through high school and was her greatest defender, but now-up close and personal-he is starting to suspect that the rumors of witchcraft and voodoo are true. But he can't let his doubts tear them apart because a day of reckoning is coming. As Mala struggles to conceal her powers and avoid the curse that has struck generations of LaCroix women, Landry will have no choice but to face his own demons. Both of them will soon be caught up in a web of deceit that reveals the dark side of Paradise. Word count: 96,000
Book Synopsis This Is Paradise by : Kristiana Kahakauwila
Download or read book This Is Paradise written by Kristiana Kahakauwila and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai'i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it’s truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. In the gut-punch of “Wanle,” a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father’s footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices—the women of Waikiki—to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city’s nightlife. “The Old Paniolo Way” limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila’s stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home.
Book Synopsis Paradise Lost, Book 3 by : John Milton
Download or read book Paradise Lost, Book 3 written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
