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To Paradise

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385547943
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book To Paradise written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections comprise an ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.

A Little Life

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804172706
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Bringing Progress to Paradise

Author : Jeff Rasley
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 1609252896
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Bringing Progress to Paradise written by Jeff Rasley and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to bring progress—schools, electricity, roads, running water—to paradise? Can our consumer culture and desire to “do good” really be good for a community that has survived contentedly for centuries without us? In October 2008, climbing expedition leader and attorney, Jeffrey Rasley, led a trek to a village in a remote valley in the Solu region of Nepal named Basa. His group of three adventurers was only the third group of white people ever seen in this village of subsistence farmers. What he found was a people thoroughly unaffected by Western consumer-culture values. They had no running water, electricity, or anything that moves on wheels. Each family lived in a beautiful, hand-chiseled stone house with a flower garden. Beyond what they already had, it seemed all they wanted was education for the children. He helped them finish a school building already in progress, and then they asked for help getting electricity to their village. Bringing Progress to Paradise describes Rasley’s transformation from adventurer to committed philanthropist. We are attracted to the simpler way of life in these communities, and we are changed by our experience of it. They are attracted to us, because we bring economic benefits. Bringing Progress to Paradise offers Rasley’s critical reflection on the tangled relationship between tourists and locals in “exotic” locales and the effect of Western values on some of the most remote locations on earth.

This Is Paradise

Author : Kristiana Kahakauwila
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0770436250
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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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.

Welcome to Paradise

Author : Shawn Winchell
Publisher : Shawn Winchell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Paradise written by Shawn Winchell and published by Shawn Winchell. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who wouldn't want to spend their honeymoon in Paradise? When their car breaks down on the way to their honeymoon, Jake and Janie Davis find themselves stranded in a small town in North Dakota. There is no mechanic, they can't find a phone, and no one seems willing to help. So much for small-town hospitality. Tired and alone, they soon discover that there is something else in this town. Something stranger than anything they could have imagined. Something that wants them gone. Left with no other choice, they will risk everything to get home. Even if it costs them their lives. Welcome to Paradise. Check out the first book in the thrilling new paranormal suspense series today!

Desert Or Paradise

Author : Sepp Holzer
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584641
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Desert Or Paradise written by Sepp Holzer and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines the author's ten points of sustainable self-reliance, details pond and lake construction, and discusses biodiversity.

Passing Through Paradise

Author : John Schreiber
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462839045
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Passing Through Paradise written by John Schreiber and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-10-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Paradise I stumbled onto a dead body, found my new mother, and was almost murdered." In the fall of 1989, young Angela Kiln and her father move to the slowly dying town of Paradise. Once they settle into small town life, Angela and her father, a high school teacher, find that the town isn ́t the only thing dying — so, apparently, are students. As Angela and her father seek the truth behind the deaths, they will also face the truth about their own deepest beliefs. Part suspenseful mystery, part sentimental journey, Passing Through Paradise is an alternately funny, gripping, and frightening account of a young girl, her still-grieving father, and a town that refuses to recognize the future. Filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, Passing Through Paradise dramatically reveals the best and worst of human nature, illuminated against a scathing indictment of an American small town. This new edition of Passing Through Paradise includes a discussion guide for book clubs. Other novels that take place in Schreiber’s Ironwood County include Hillcrest Journal and Life on the Fly. "Passing through Paradise is tough to put down. The themes are masterfully interwoven." — Ruth Hanson, Byron Review " . . . a suspenseful story told with insight, humor, conviction, and compassion." — Andrew Johanson, Paradise Post, Ironwood County, Minnesota "Schreiber has a wide range of imagination and the talent to put it into words. . . . His imagination invents word pictures that spark the mind to envision a screen larger than Hollywood is capable of." – News-Enterprise, December 1, 2004 Helpful Link: Schreiber has posted some of his published articles, essays, and poems along with book group discussion questions for Passing Through Paradise at John Schreiber ́s Books

Poorhouse to Paradise

Author : Lyall Ford
Publisher : Lyall Ford
ISBN 13 : 9780646332543
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Poorhouse to Paradise written by Lyall Ford and published by Lyall Ford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal

Author : California. Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Halfway to Paradise

Author : Tony Orlando
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429979127
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Halfway to Paradise written by Tony Orlando and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-11-08 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's known the world over for his heyday with Dawn, but that glittering 1970's whirl was just one chapter in Tony Orlando's rich life. Orlando began his showbiz career as a teen heartthrob with the single "Halfway to Paradise" and had a second successful act as a record company A&R man before he was lured back into the limelight as a performer. Fans from the l960s to the present day have loved his voice, his stage presence and his hits, like "Knock Three Times" and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree." Now, Tony has written an autobiography as warm and heartfelt as his songs. Halfway to Paradise is rich with stories from the music world-from doo wop to the disco era, from early recording with Gerry Goffin and Carole King to recent concerts in Branson, Missouri and across the United States. It's also full of behind-the-scenes detail of how it felt to be at the top of the entertainment heap-with his #1-rated CBS show, Tony's life in front of and behind the camera was grand, but sometimes not all it seemed. Orlando succumbed to one of the familiar antidotes to the pressures of a big life: drug use, with its predictable toll on family and friendships. And even as his career was soaring, he was unable to save his best friend Freddie Prinze from a fatal downward spiral. With a return to roots-and to the close-knit family that has always sustained him-Tony restored the order and creativity that have allowed him to thrive through four decades of exuberant entertaining. Halfway to Paradise is a wise, funny and spirited life story, and a must-read memoir for fans.

Stumbling Into Paradise

Author : Steve Osman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453507981
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Stumbling Into Paradise written by Steve Osman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cover - "In 1989 just as tourism was beginning in Costa Rica, the author moved to the tropics with his wife and two young daughters. This is the saga of their often humourous adventures in their new found paradise."

Paradise Lot

Author : Eric Toensmeier
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584005
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lot written by Eric Toensmeier and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a "permaculture paradise" replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance edible plants in an innovative food forest on a small city lot. The garden—intended to function like a natural ecosystem with the plants themselves providing most of the garden's needs for fertility, pest control, and weed suppression—also features an edible water garden, a year-round unheated greenhouse, tropical crops, urban poultry, and even silkworms. In telling the story of Paradise Lot, Toensmeier explains the principles and practices of permaculture, the choice of exotic and unusual food plants, the techniques of design and cultivation, and, of course, the adventures, mistakes, and do-overs in the process. Packed full of detailed, useful information about designing a highly productive permaculture garden, Paradise Lot is also a funny and charming story of two single guys, both plant nerds, with a wild plan: to realize the garden of their dreams and meet women to share it with. Amazingly, on both counts, they succeed.

Stairway to Paradise

Author : Ari Katorza
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110723204
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Stairway to Paradise written by Ari Katorza and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stairway to Paradise reveals how American Jewish entrepreneurs, musicians, and performers influenced American popular music from the late nineteenth century till the mid-1960s. From blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, and Broadway musicals, ending with folk and rock 'n' roll. The book follows the writers and artists' real and imaginative relationship with African-American culture's charisma. Stairway to Paradise discusses the artistic and occasionally ideological dialogue that these artists, writers, and entrepreneurs had with African-American artists and culture. Tracing Jewish immigration to the United States and the entry of Jews into the entertainment and cultural industry, the book allocates extensive space to the charged connection between music and politics as reflected in the Jewish-Black Alliance - both in the struggle for social justice and in the music field. It reveals Jewish success in the music industry and the unique and sometimes problematic relationships that characterized this process, as their dominance in this field became a source of blame for exploiting African-American artistic and human capital. Alongside this, the book shows how black-Jewish cooperation, and its fragile alliance, played a role in the hegemonic conflicts involving American culture during the 20th century. Unintentionally, it influenced the process of decline of the influence of the WASP elite during the 1960s. Stairway to Paradise fuses American history and musicology with cultural studies theories. This inter-disciplinary approach regarding race, class, and ethnicity offers an alternative view of more traditional notions regarding understanding American music's evolution.

Returned to Paradise

Author : Sam Tatum
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465315896
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Returned to Paradise written by Sam Tatum and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Journey to Paradise

Author : Heng L. Lim
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1591605814
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book My Journey to Paradise written by Heng L. Lim and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Motor West

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Motor West written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journal of the Assembly, during the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California

Author : California. Legislature. Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Assembly, during the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: