The Last Resort

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604739787
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (397 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Resort by : Norma Watkins

Download or read book The Last Resort written by Norma Watkins and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488096767
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Resort by : Marissa Stapley

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Publisher : S J Crabb
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resort written by M J Hardy and published by S J Crabb. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When three women win a holiday in a Facebook competition, they think it’s by chance. It’s not. When one woman accompanies her husband on business, she thinks she’ll return with him. She won’t. Welcome to the resort where nothing is as it seems. On the outside, it’s heaven on earth. A dreamy romantic getaway, with pristine sandy beaches, glorious sunshine, and glamorous accommodation. The perfect lover’s hideaway with uninterrupted views over a freshwater lagoon. Nothing to do but enjoy the ultimate pamper experience on a ridiculously dreamy holiday of a lifetime. Perfect. That’s what they think. Past actions have consequences and Karmas about to strike. Who will survive the week and who won’t leave at all?

The Last Resort

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062951637
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Last Resort written by Sarah Stodola and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its undervalued role in today’s world economy—as the travel industry approaches a climate reckoning With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strangleholds on local economies, reckless construction, erosion of beaches, weighty carbon footprints, and the inevitable overdevelopment and decline that comes with a soaring demand for popular shorelines. The Last Resort weaves Stodola’s firsthand travel notes with her exacting journalism in an enthralling report on the past, present, and future of coastal travel. She takes us from Monte Carlo, where the pursuit of pleasure first became part of the beach resort experience, to a village in Fiji that was changed irrevocably by the opening of a single resort; from the overdevelopment that stripped Acapulco of its reputation for exclusivity to Miami Beach, where extreme measures are underway to prevent the barrier island from vanishing into the ocean. In the twenty-first century, beach travel has become central to our globalized world—its culture, economy, and interconnectedness. But with sea levels likely to rise at least 1.5 to 3 feet by the end of this century, beaches will become increasingly difficult to preserve, and many will disappear altogether. What will our last resort be when water begins to fill the lobbies?

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307459845
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Last Resort written by Douglas Rogers and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country’s long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim white-owned land and Rogers’s parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed. Lyn and Ros, the owners of Drifters–a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains that was one of the most popular budget resorts in the country–found their home and resort under siege, their friends and neighbors expelled, and their lives in danger. But instead of leaving, as their son pleads with them to do, they haul out a shotgun and decide to stay. On returning to the country of his birth, Rogers finds his once orderly and progressive home transformed into something resembling a Marx Brothers romp crossed with Heart of Darkness: pot has supplanted maize in the fields; hookers have replaced college kids as guests; and soldiers, spies, and teenage diamond dealers guzzle beer at the bar. And yet, in spite of it all, Rogers’s parents–with the help of friends, farmworkers, lodge guests, and residents–among them black political dissidents and white refugee farmers–continue to hold on. But can they survive to the end? In the midst of a nation stuck between its stubborn past and an impatient future, Rogers soon begins to see his parents in a new light: unbowed, with passions and purpose renewed, even heroic. And, in the process, he learns that the "big story" he had relentlessly pursued his entire adult life as a roving journalist and travel writer was actually happening in his own backyard. Evoking elements of The Tender Bar and Absurdistan, The Last Resort is an inspiring, coming-of-age tale about home, love, hope, responsibility, and redemption. An edgy, roller-coaster adventure, it is also a deeply moving story about how to survive a corrupt Third World dictatorship with a little innovation, humor, bribery, and brothel management.

Resort Fashion

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Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847833481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Resort Fashion by : Caroline Rennolds Milbank

Download or read book Resort Fashion written by Caroline Rennolds Milbank and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like an around-the-world vacation through resort locations and timeless fashions, the history of resort clothing is fashion at its most fun. Crossing continents, styles, and generations, the book travels through the tradition of vacation style, taking a visually stunning trip from early beach pajamas by Chanel and Schiaparelli to sailor stripes, to Pucci and Pulitzer prints, and, of course, to the bikini. Resort Fashion features rare photographs and never-before-published images by photographer legends, including Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Toni Frissell, Norman Parkinson, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Helmut Newton, and Scavullo. The fashions showcase renowned designers from the past and present who have contributed their unique touch to resort wear, including Claire McCardell, Michael Kors, Rodarte, and many more. From Palm Beach to Montego Bay to St. Tropez, this book celebrates resort wear's vibrant history with an allure that extends beyond runways to the most exotic, far-flung destinations." --Book Jacket.

The Resort

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Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1611876621
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Book Synopsis The Resort by : Sol Stein

Download or read book The Resort written by Sol Stein and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cliffhaven--Magnificent new resort near Big Sur. Surrounded by redwoods. Guarded by oceanside cliffs. Protected from prying eyes. By reservation only. Cliffhaven--Founded by a man with very special interests, catering to a very special clientele. Margaret and Henry Brown, vacationing New Yorkers innocently driving down the sea-washed coast of California, are just the right sort of people. Cliffhaven--It has a spectacular entrance, a three-star restaurant, lavish accommodations--and no exit!

The Resort

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101098082
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Resort written by Bentley Little and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Master of the macabre”* Bentley Little is back with an irresistible invitation...Welcome to The Resort. The Reata is an exclusive spa isolated in the Arizona desert—a perfect getaway from the city for people like Lowell Thurman and his family, booked for a relaxing five-day retreat. But what unfolds is anything but tranquil...unnerving encounters with strange employees, wild parties in empty rooms, something unspeakable in the pool. Then one by one, guests begin disappearing. The Thurmans are afraid—because out in the middle of nowhere, with no escape, and no one to hear them scream, they’re left with only one terrifying choice: unlock the dark secrets of The Reata themselves before the real carnage begins. *Stephen King

Last Resort

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Publisher : M&S
ISBN 13 : 9780771010811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Resort by : Linwood Barclay

Download or read book Last Resort written by Linwood Barclay and published by M&S. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, when his parents abandoned their suburban Toronto split-level to buy Green Acres, a cottage and trailer resort in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region, eleven-year-old Linwood Barclay’s life took an unexpected turn. No more rec-room train sets. Now Linwood was hauling fish guts to the woods for burial, answering distress calls from women in the ladies’ room who found themselves without toilet paper, and standing in leaky chest-waders pounding dock posts into the lake bottom. The chores weren’t so bad, especially when he could help his father, who had been a commercial artist before he bought his way into the tourist business. And in other ways, it was a good life for a boy. He had wheels (a John Deere riding mower), a small aluminum boat with a 9.5-horsepower outboard and only one speed (fast), and Chipper, a dog that chased boats the way other dogs chase cars, sometimes with catastrophically comic results. Linwood also had access to The Chart, a cottage reservations list that was, for him, a guide to the arrivals and departures of the guests’ teenaged daughters. Summer romances could be as intense as they were heartbreaking. When he was sixteen, an unexpected tragedy changed Linwood’s life again. His older brother, Rett, helped out as best he could, but he was wrestling with demons of his own – often withdrawing into his own complicated inner world. Linwood found an extended family in the resort’s guests, who lent him a hand, and shaped him into the man he would become. His mother’s eccentricities (she quit driving to shame the police for having given her a ticket) made Linwood’s new responsibilities heavier than they might otherwise have been. When he finally decided to move away from Green Acres to make a separate life, she made it as difficult as possible for him. In the midst of all this, Linwood found his vocation, and mentors, too, in Margaret Laurence, and in Kenneth Millar, who (under the pen name Ross MacDonald) wrote a highly successful series of detective novels. In this memoir, Linwood Barclay looks back with humour, sadness, and affection on the singular circumstances of his coming of age.

The Resort

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Publisher : Nightengale Press
ISBN 13 : 1933449160
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Resort written by Michael Ella and published by Nightengale Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique Tagimaucia flower only grows on Taveuni Island in Fiji. The rare and beautiful red and white flower wilts and dies once it's taken away from its natural habitat. It will not survive anywhere else. The vine of life in which Lara Nightingale lives is torn from her as she is thrown in a cold dungeon by terrorists in the Antarctic. Her singing, her resort, life style, everything, gone, except a hope that appeared to her in her dungeon. A cornered Nightingale, tortured and terrified, but determined. One night to go and the world looks on as she goes to the chopping block. Miss Nightingale helped run The Resort in Fiji and was the world's favorite singer. The best resort in the world had barely opened when the terrorists struck and she became caught up in the deadliest terrorist machine ever: W.C.O.U.O.W. Big scenes on the sea, world wars, and the end of oil forever. Their objective was to destroy the world from below. A big price is on her head as she designed a way to bring world heads to negotiate and end the war. Love is her hope, but it always seems to elude her, but when she finally meets someone, the W.C.O.U.O.W. menace, having been squashed, rears its evil head once more. Their deadly periscope is watching Lara Nightingale. they won't leave her alone.

The Resort

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595350070
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Resort written by Sol Stein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cliffhaven--Magnificent new resort near Big Sur. Surrounded by redwoods. Guarded by Oceanside cliffs. Protected from prying eyes. By reservation only. Cliffhaven--Founded by a man with very special interests, catering to a very special clientele. Margaret and Henry Brown, vacationing New Yorkers innocently driving down the sea-washed coast of California, are just the right sort of people. Cliffhaven--It has a spectacular entrance, a three-star restaurant, lavish accommodations--and no exit! "This novel should do for California vacation retreats what jaws did for swimming in the Atlantic."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "A thrilling nightmare...A Dante's Inferno...more than fulfills the remark "I read it all in one nail-biting session."--Eli Wallach "Not only a thriller...a parable and a warning to all who say 'It can't happen here.'"--Jewish Post and Opinion

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451212801
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Resort written by Bentley Little and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While staying at the exclusive Reata spa in the Arizona desert, the Thurman family soon discovers that this seemingly tranquil paradise is riddled with evil when a dark force begins preying on the guests. Original.

The Luxury Guide to Walt Disney World

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Publisher : Bowman Books
ISBN 13 : 0972697225
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (726 download)

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Final Environmental Impact Statement for Valbois, the Resort at Cascade Lake, Idaho, Valley County

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Last Resort

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Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 1250863031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Last Resort written by Andrew Lipstein and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his blazing debut novel, Andrew Lipstein blurs the lines of fact and fiction with a thrilling story of fame, fortune, and impossible choices. Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the agent, who offers him money, acclaim, and a taste of the literary life. He can’t wait for his book to be shopped to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Deitsch, an old college rival and the novel’s “inspiration.” When Avi gets his hands on it, he sees nothing but theft—and opportunity. Caleb is forced to make a Faustian bargain, one that tests his theories of success, ambition, and the limits of art. Last Resort is the razor-edged account of a young man’s reckless journey into authenticity. As Caleb fights to right his mistakes and reclaim his name, he must burn every bridge, confront his deepest desires, and finally see his work from the perspectives of characters he’d imagined were his own.

Last Resort

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374602719
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Last Resort written by Andrew Lipstein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Top 10 Book of the Year by Slate Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker Named a Best Book of 2022 by Vulture A New York Times Editors’ Choice Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction In his blazing debut novel, Andrew Lipstein blurs the lines of fact and fiction with a thrilling story of fame, fortune, and impossible choices. Caleb Horowitz is twenty-seven, and his wildest dreams are about to come true. His manuscript has caught the attention of the agent, who offers him money, acclaim, and a taste of the literary life. He can’t wait for his book to be shopped to every editor in New York, except one: Avi Deitsch, an old college rival and the novel’s “inspiration.” When Avi gets his hands on it, he sees nothing but theft—and opportunity. Caleb is forced to make a Faustian bargain, one that tests his theories of success, ambition, and the limits of art. Last Resort is the razor-edged account of a young man’s reckless journey into authenticity. As Caleb fights to right his mistakes and reclaim his name, he must burn every bridge, confront his deepest desires, and finally see his work from the perspectives of characters he’d imagined were his own.

The Last Resort

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ISBN 13 : 9781632100801
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Last Resort written by Kay Tobler Liss and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Manhattan attorney in turmoil finds a remote resort in Montauk on Long Island, where a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land, give him an appreciation of the natural world and new meaning in life.