The Last Good Paradise

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146684230X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Good Paradise by : Tatjana Soli

Download or read book The Last Good Paradise written by Tatjana Soli and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tatjana Soli, the bestselling author of The Lotus Eaters and The Forgetting Tree, comes a black comedy set on an island resort, where guests attempting to flee their troubles realize they can't escape who they are. On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a group of troubled dreamers must face the possibility that the hopes they've labored after so single-mindedly might not lead them to the happiness they feel they were promised. Ann and Richard, an aspiring, Los Angeles power couple, are already sensing the cracks in their version of the American dream when their life unexpectedly implodes, leading them to brashly run away from home to a Robinson Crusoe idyll. Dex Cooper, lead singer of the rock band, Prospero, is facing his own slide from greatness, experimenting with artistic asceticism while accompanied by his sexy, young, and increasingly entrepreneurial muse, Wende. Loren, the French owner of the resort sauvage, has made his own Gauguin-like retreat from the world years before, only to find that the modern world has become impossible to disconnect from. Titi, descendent of Tahitian royalty, worker, and eventual inheritor of the resort, must fashion a vision of the island's future that includes its indigenous people, while her partner, Cooked, is torn between anarchy and lust. By turns funny and tragic, The Last Good Paradise explores our modern, complex and often, self-contradictory discontents, crafting an exhilarating and darkly satirical story about our need to connect in an increasingly networked but isolating world.

This Is Paradise

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

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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.

Paradise Is Oh So Nice

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ISBN 13 : 9780999699164
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (991 download)

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Book Synopsis Paradise Is Oh So Nice by : Halimah Bashir

Download or read book Paradise Is Oh So Nice written by Halimah Bashir and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what Paradise looks like in the eyes of a child? Giant milkshakes, chocolate castles and ice cream mountains are some of the things Manu and Aya can't wait to experience. Come along on this adventurous journey where brother and sister's imagination comes to life and whatever they wish for or desire will come true!

Paradise? It's Very Good!

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Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1609576810
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Paradise? It's Very Good! by : Harold Weiser

Download or read book Paradise? It's Very Good! written by Harold Weiser and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "PARADISE? IT'S VERY GOOD! is a very appropriate and practical book for our challenging times. Not only does it reveal the root of mankind's problems, but offers the solution for escaping God's wrath during the great tribulation. Even though this thrilling and adventurous story of two boys who became astronauts is fiction, the valuable lessons learned from perfect immortal humans living in peace and happiness on a planet called Very Good can serve as practical guidelines for people on earth. In fact the story even suggests steps necessary to recapture a portion of paradise lost after Adam and Eve's first sin. This interesting and unusual story may be the only book ever written that begins with the birth of two boys and extends past the millennium and reaches far into eternity. Along this vast expanse of time one will find adventure, suspense, humor, romance and inspiration. In addition to this fascinating book having something for everyone its main accomplishment is to lead its readers along the only path that leads to eternal life. ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Harold Weiser, who now resides in Ocoee, Florida with his wife and two sons, formerly lived in Texas, where he began his education in his home-town of Cisco, and then, received a B.S. degree in Floriculture from Texas A&M University. After college, Harold fulfilled his military obligations in the navy, and then began his career in the nursery industry. After employment in Dallas and Corpus Christi, he started his own nursery near San Marcos. In addition to his love of plants Mr. Weiser became an avid Bible reader at an early age and has read the entire Bible over fifteen times. As a member of the Lutheran church, he has served as Sunday School teacher, and has had one other book (THE VICTORIOUS DECISION) published.

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1760858927
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by : Lana Del Rey

Download or read book Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass written by Lana Del Rey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS “Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I’m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.”—Lana Del Rey Lana’s breathtaking first book solidifies her further as “the essential writer of her times” (The Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum, and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana’s typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is also brought to life in an unprecedented spoken word audiobook which features Lana Del Rey reading fourteen select poems from the book accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff.

Peril in Paradise

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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830857346
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Peril in Paradise by : Mark S. Whorton

Download or read book Peril in Paradise written by Mark S. Whorton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charge to people who believe that you must believe in a young earth to be a Christian.

Paradise

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Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1589397193
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (893 download)

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Book Synopsis Paradise by : Frank Jakobs

Download or read book Paradise written by Frank Jakobs and published by Virtualbookworm Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, England: Ahmed is a handsome and exceptionally charming jet-setter with a taste for fine wine and an eye for beautiful women. His true passion however is something far more sinister. Two years following the end of the second Gulf War, he detonates a bomb in a popular London dance club. This vicious act is but the first in a series of increasingly brutal attacks he executes throughout Europe, confounding Police agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Acapulco, Mexico: A team of Mexican rebels is hired to kidnap several small groups of American tourists, and then turn them over to a wealthy Saudi Oil baron. Fancying himself as the next Bin Laden, the man who calls himself Mohammed intends to use the hostages in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the U.S. Government. Virginia, USA: Marie, the beautiful long-time girlfriend of a well connected U.S. Congressman hatches a plot more treacherous than anything previously attempted on American soil. She is Ahmed and Mohammed's beloved younger sister and the inspiration for their acts of terror. A group of friends take a long awaited vacation trip to Acapulco. Their world is abruptly torn apart when half of the group fall victim to Saudi kidnappers. With the U.S. government reluctant to alienate its Saudi allies over the abductions and unwilling to cut a deal with the terrorists, these very ordinary Americans are forced to take matters into their own hands. They are assisted by some unlikely new friends including an aging millionaire, his two buffoonish bodyguards and a former CIA analyst who now makes his living as a drug trafficker in the Middle East. Together they must find and rescue their loved ones and in the process prevent a cataclysm that could alter the course of U.S. history.

Paradise Lost

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Paradise Regained

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Regained written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Kind of Paradise

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062795449
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)

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Book Synopsis A Kind of Paradise by : Amy Rebecca Tan

Download or read book A Kind of Paradise written by Amy Rebecca Tan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the book that Ali Standish (author of The Ethan I Was Before) calls "a heartwarming story" and Melissa Roske (author of Kat Greene Comes Clean) calls "a joyful, heartfelt debut!" Thirteen-year-old Jamie Bunn made a mistake at the end of the school year. A big one. And every kid in her middle school knows all about it. Now she has to spend her summer vacation volunteering at the local library—as punishment. What a waste of a summer! Or so she thinks. A Kind of Paradise is an unforgettable story about the power of community, the power of the library, and the power of forgiveness.

Bringing Progress to Paradise

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

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Book Synopsis Bringing Progress to Paradise by : Jeff Rasley

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.

What Strange Paradise

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525657916
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis What Strange Paradise by : Omar El Akkad

Download or read book What Strange Paradise written by Omar El Akkad and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely unpacks the us-versus-them dynamics of our divided world that it deserves to be an instant classic." —The New York Times Book Review More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl, who, despite being native to the island, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. In alternating chapters, we learn about Amir’s life and how he came to be on the boat, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair—and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality.

The Prime Minister of Paradise

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Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 : 9780224098144
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (981 download)

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Book Synopsis The Prime Minister of Paradise by : John Jeremiah Sullivan

Download or read book The Prime Minister of Paradise written by John Jeremiah Sullivan and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a student working in the dusty archives of the Sewanee Review, John Jeremiah Sullivan came across an article entitled âe~Lost Utopia of the American Frontierâe(tm) and was immediately hooked on the dramatic story of a lost book, an alternative history of the South, a white Indian. It was a story heâe(tm)d chase for the next two decades. In 1735, a charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist named Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany under threat of arrest, bound for colonial South Carolina. In the Cherokee village of Grand Tellico, he created a Utopian society that he named Paradise. For six years, Paradise was governed by a set of revolutionary ideas that included racial equality, sexual freedom, and a lack of private property, ideas which he chronicled in a mysterious manuscript he called Paradise. Priberâe(tm)s ideas were so subversive that he was hunted for half a decade and eventually captured by the British âe" making headlines across the world âe" and imprisoned until his death. The only copy of Paradise was apparently destroyed. Now, in a rare combination of ground-breaking research and stunning narrative skill, award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan brings that lost history vividly to life.

The Living Age

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802193099
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by : Bob Shacochis

Download or read book The Woman Who Lost Her Soul written by Bob Shacochis and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize finalist: “A soaring literary epic about the forces that have driven us to the 9/11 age . . . relentlessly captivating” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post). When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape riddled with poverty, corruption, and voodoo. It’s the late 1990s, a time of brutal guerrilla warfare and civilian kidnappings. The journalist, whom he knew years before as Jackie Scott, had a bigger investment in Haiti than it seemed. To make sense of her death, Tom must plunge back into his complicated ties to Jackie—and her mysterious past. Shacochis traces Jackie’s shadowy family history from the outlaw terrain of World War II Dubrovnik to 1980s Istanbul. Caught between her first love and her domineering father—an elite Cold War spy pressuring her to follow in his footsteps—seventeen-year-old Jackie hatches a desperate escape plan. But getting out also puts her on the path that turns her into the soulless woman Tom fears as much as desires. Set over fifty years and in four war-torn countries, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul is National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis’s masterpiece and a magnum opus. It brings to life an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.

Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: