Download or read book Eden Close written by Anita Shreve and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood friends reunite years after a shattering tragedy in this “compelling page-turner” by the New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When Andrew was about to leave his small upstate New York town for college, tragedy struck the beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did not want her and to please the father who did. She also aimed to please Andrew and his friends, first by being one of the boys and later by seducing them. Then one hot night, Andrew was awakened by gunshots and piercing screams from the next farm: Mr. Close had been killed and Eden blinded. Now, seventeen years later, Andrew returns to his upstate New York hometown to attend his mother’s funeral, and begins to uncover the grisly story––to unravel the layers of thwarted love between the husband, wife, and tormented girl. And as the truth about Eden’s past comes to light, so too does Andrew’s strange and binding attachment to her . . . “Eden’s story has the heightened emotions, the dark, brooding atmosphere of a Southern gothic novel . . . Shreve demonstrates her ability to create highly vivid, sympathetic people.” —The New York Times “Beautifully rendered scenes.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Shreve simply has the Gift—the ability to hook you from the first page and not let go until the final word.” —The Washington Post Book World

Download or read book Eden Closed written by George Groves Jr and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth's demise may not come from the skies. It most likely will come from within. Not since the infancy of our solar system has Earth undergone such titanic geological upheavals. Rift zones are tearing the world apart, tectonic plates rampage under land masses causing earthquakes of immeasurable magnitude, continents being split into pieces then consumed by half-mile high tsunamis. Earth's lands have ceased to exist except for three insignificant stubs of land; a scant remnant of Montana where vacationing Ross Nielson has joined up with a group of picnicking school children. Another is a 9,000 seamount in the bay of Ecuador housing a team of geologists, and the third an uninhabited dot of Australia. The Montana and Ecuador survivors, a family cruising the Pacific on their yacht, and the remnant crew of a devastated Coast Guard ship bring the Earth's total known population to fifty. Intimate snapshots of an estranged father and son on the verge of a reunion, an airliner's crew, a Hawaiian priest and a revenge-seeking girl sketch the poignancy of their last hours before being claimed by this unprecedented catastrophe.

Download or read book Eden Close at Hand written by Henri Martin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eden Close written by Anita Shreve and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral, and has no intentions of staying. But, drawn again to his childhood friend, Eden Close, he determines to find out the grisly truth about the night she was blinded and her father murdered.

Download or read book Eden written by Tim Lebbon and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Netflix's The Silence comes a brand-new horror eco thriller. Earth's rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction. Humanity's last hope to save the planet lies with The Virgin Zones, thirteen vast areas of land off-limits to people and given back to nature. Dylan leads a clandestine team of adventure racers, including his daughter Jenn, into Eden, the oldest of the Zones. Jenn carries a secret--Kat, Dylan's wife who abandoned them both years ago, has entered Eden ahead of them. Jenn is determined to find her mother, but neither she nor the rest of their tight-knit team are prepared for what confronts them. Nature has returned to Eden in an elemental, primeval way. And here, nature is no longer humanity's friend.

Download or read book Lie Close To Me written by Cynthia Eden and published by Hocus Pocus Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Approaching Eden written by Theresa Sanders and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to be religious for the story of Adam and Eve to have touched your life. From Voldemort's snake mascot in Harry Potter novels to the 'forbidden fruit' apple that puts Snow White to sleep in fairy tales, we are inundated with references to the Garden of Eden in popular culture from an early age. On a deeper level, the story has been used as justification for conflicting viewpoints on issues ranging from nudity to marriage to slavery. Approaching Eden digs much deeper than merely cataloguing entertaining Adam and Eve references in popular culture by exploring how these references are used and how they shape society. Theresa Sanders provides essential historical background from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives to show the relevance and prominence of Adam and Eve's story in life today.

Download or read book West of Eden written by Jean Stein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim – all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny (There Will Be Blood) and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios – from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch (who bought the Stein mansion in 1985). West of Eden is about money, power, fame and terrible secrets: the doomed Hollywood of the late Fifties, early Sixties – ‘the rotten heart of paradise’. Like her last book, the best-selling Edie, this is an oral history told through brilliantly edited interviews. As this is Hollywood, it’s a book full of sex, drugs and celebrity glamour; but because it’s built from the firsthand accounts of people who were actually there, many of them writers, actors and artists, it’s also strangely claustrophobic, seductive, and completely compelling.

Download or read book Secrets of Eden written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There' says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, when she come up out of the water after her baptism. Just a few short hours later, Alice is dead, shot by her abusive husband who turned the gun on himself soon after. Tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, Reverend Drew feels his faith in God slipping away as he tries to unearth the truth behind Alice's death. Only new arrival Heather Laurent -- the enigmatic author of wildly successful books about angels -- seems able to save him from slipping into the depths of despair. Heather has her own story. She survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen. But then the state's attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself . . . and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew. Related through the eyes of four different narrators, Secrets of Edenis both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again, Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems.

Download or read book Eden written by Andrea Kleine and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of “Summer’s Smartest and Most Innovative Thrillers” (Vanity Fair): A bold, page-turning novel that follows the rippling effects of a childhood abduction on two sisters Every other weekend, Hope and Eden—backpacks, Walkmans, and homework in hand—wait for their father to pick them up, as he always does, at a strip-mall bus stop. It’s the divorce shuffle; they’re used to it. Only this weekend, he’s screwed up, forgotten, and their world will irrevocably change when a stranger lures them into his truck with a false story and smile. Twenty years later. Hope discovers that the man who abducted them is up for parole and the sisters might be able to offer testimony to keep him in jail. There’s only one problem: Eden is nowhere to be found. Hope sets out on a harrowing quest—from hippie communes to cities across the country, and into her own troubled past—to track down her sister. Will she find Eden in time? And what will she learn about herself along the way?

Download or read book Out of Eden written by Alan Burdick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning work of narrative nonfiction, the author tours the front lines of ecological invasion--in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco, in lush rain forests, through underground lava tubes, on the deck of an Alaska-bound oil tanker.

Download or read book Dividing Eden written by Joelle Charbonneau and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Testing trilogy comes a sweeping new fantasy series, perfect for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Sarah J. Maas. Twins Carys and Andreus were never destined to rule Eden. With their older brother next in line to inherit the throne, the future of the kingdom was secure. But appearances—and rivals—can be deceiving. When Eden’s king and crown prince are killed by assassins, Eden desperately needs a monarch, but the line of succession is no longer clear. With a ruling council scheming to gain power, Carys and Andreus are faced with only one option—to take part in a Trial of Succession that will determine which one of them is worthy of ruling the kingdom. As sister and brother, Carys and Andreus have always kept each other safe—from their secrets, from the court, and from the monsters lurking in the mountains beyond the kingdom’s wall. But the Trial of Succession will test the bonds of trust and family. With their country and their hearts divided, Carys and Andreus will discover exactly what each will do to win the crown. How long before suspicion takes hold and the thirst for power leads to the ultimate betrayal?

Download or read book The Time of Your Life written by Sandra Kitt and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second chances always lead to a new beginning! When Everett Nicholls died, he left his millions to the two people he cared about most—the young law student he was mentoring, and his beloved stepson. Eden Marsh and Beck Dennison are instantly suspicious of each other. Suddenly, with all this money at their fingertips, family problems they've each been ignoring can no longer be swept under the rug. Beck and his mother have had a strained relationship since tragedy befell the family when he was a young teen, and Eden knows it's long past time to forge a new relationship with her demanding younger sister. As they begin to confide in each other—and to have fun together—their friendship is an anchor in a stormy new life... Praise for Winner Takes All: "Heartwarming, life-affirming, page-turning romance at its best!"—BRENDA NOVAK, New York Times bestselling author "Sandra Kitt's storytelling takes you on a soul-satisfying journey to what really matters in life. The perfect combination of fun and heart."—SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS, New York Times bestselling author "You'll fall in love with Sandra Kitt's Millionaire's Club series. Sandra Kitt is a master at weaving a deep love story. A delight to read."—JODI THOMAS, New York Times bestselling author "Sandra Kitt writes beautiful stories about fascinating characters I would love to know in real life...romantic, tender, emotional, and compelling."—RAEANNE THAYNE, New York Times bestselling author

Download or read book Rider written by Valerie Lee J. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layne begins as a younger doctor working at a local hospital in the small town that she moved to. She later reconnects with a doctor by the name of Doctor Bren that lives in the same city that she originally became a doctor of. They go through a quiet life avoiding their colleagues as to not have to answer any questions about their relationship.He had been older than she. He dies from older age. After his death Layne begins feeling as if she can heal from the sadness of his death by riding horses. She begins to learn a lot about the gracefulness and strength of riding horses. She learns some new things about horses along the way.

Download or read book Leaving Eden written by Ann Chamberlin and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2000-06-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving Eden brilliantly brings to life that watershed moment in our history when man -- and woman -- turned their backs on the most ancient of laws in order to strike out in independence. Told from the point of view young Na'amah, Adam's daughter by his first wife, Lilith, it tells of the passing of the ancient Goddess and the birth of the new God. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Publications of the Scottish History Society written by Scottish History Society and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland Made by Walter Macfarlane written by Walter MacFarlane and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: