Download or read book Last Night in Paradise written by Katie Roiphe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the unerring reporter's instinct she brought to her widely discussed "The Morning After", one of our most outspoken cultural commentators chronicles our uneasy passage from the sexual revolution to a new Puritanism, in a book that is part history, part prophecy, and all provocation.
Download or read book One Night in Paradise written by Juliet Landon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scoundrel's Seduction Though Queen Elizabeth I’s court at Richmond was a notorious hotbed of illicit liaisons and broken hearts, only beautiful Adorna Pickering remained unscathed…and unattainable. For whenever an admirer crossed the line, she sought the protection of her father, the Master of Revels. Only one man held the power to overcome her skittish ways—Sir Nicholas Rayne. With a reputation blacker than sin, Nicholas represented everything Adorna knew to avoid. But how could she remain indifferent when his slightest touch—his very boldness—left her weak with desire? And though Adorna didn’t want to be just another easy conquest, she’d willingly forsake everything she held dear for one night spent in his arms….
Download or read book One Night in Paradise written by Maisey Yates and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this re-release of One Night in Paradise by USA TODAY Bestselling author Maisey Yates. All of her most exotic fantasies are about to bubble over into reality! Clara Davis knew the moment yes slipped from her lips she was in way over her head. Just how is she supposed to pretend to be her boss's fiancée on his luxury honeymoon? Zack Parsons' don't date the staff rule has prevented him from ever seeing beyond Clara's baker's apron. But now he's looking at her in a completely different, rather more tempting light. Giving in to one night of wickedness should be enough to satisfy their new found cravings… Shouldn't it? If you enjoy One Night in Paradise, look out for The Argentine's Price, and Girl on a Diamond Pedestal!
Download or read book One Forbidden Night in Paradise written by Louise Fuller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An out-of-bounds encounter is oh-so-tempting in Louise Fuller’s dramatic island romance! Is he offering temporary passion… or permanent paradise? Jemima Friday came to Bermuda to heal after a gut-wrenching betrayal. House-sitting an idyllic beachside villa gives her the solitude she craves, so when she runs into charismatic stranger Chase, their instant heat is a complication she doesn’t need! Yet his magnetism is powerfully compelling… Billionaire Chase Farrar is the king of keeping his distance. Since the devastating loss of his wife, his one rule is keeping his emotions strictly off-limits. But his connection to Jemima is intoxicating, and a night of unrivaled pleasure on his lavish yacht has him questioning everything… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the Hot Winter Escapes books Book 1: Bound by Her Baby Revelation by Cathy Williams Book 2: An Heir Made in Hawaii by Emmy Grayson Book 3: Claimed by the Crown Prince by Abby Green Book 4: One Forbidden Night in Paradise by Louise Fuller Book 5: A Nine-Month Deal with Her Husband by Joss Wood Book 6: Snowbound with the Irresistible Sicilian by Maya Blake Book 7: Undoing His Innocent Enemy by Heidi Rice Book 8: In Bed with Her Billionaire Bodyguard by Pippa Roscoe
Download or read book Evening in Paradise written by Lucia Berlin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, ELLE, TIME, Nylon, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost, Bustle, The A.V. Club, The Millions, BUST, Reinfery29, Fast Company and MyDomaine. A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews. The book’s author, Lucia Berlin, earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin’s remaining stories—twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is an essential piece of Berlin’s oeuvre, a jewel-box follow-up for new and old fans.
Download or read book Another Night in Paradise written by Harry Fox and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry"Fox" James is at large in Thailand! Nightlife in tropical paradise, beautiful Thai girls, trips on big motorbikes through lush jungles and along coral beaches are the main ingredients in the adventurous life of Harry Fox. There is Dukdah, pink tank top and a sweatshirt tucked beneath the waist. Showing a lot of skin and a navel like a fingerprint in almond paste... But the question is: will it last? Even in paradise fatal temptation and the presence of evil prevail. As death becomes a daily occurrence and even a killing disrupts his easy living, Harry reaches a point of no return and decides to challenge destiny...
Download or read book The Last Night at Paradise written by Anne Weale and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Paradise written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award. Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it. One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a former death camp. They offer prayer at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews in this camp to their deaths. Clements Olin has joined them, in order to complete his research on the strange suicide of a survivor. As the days pass, tensions both political and personal surface among the participants, stripping away any easy pretense to resolution or healing. Caught in the grip of emotions and impulses of bewildering intensity, Olin is forced to abandon his observer’s role and to bear witness, not only to his family’s ambiguous history but to his own. Profoundly thought-provoking, In Paradise is a fitting coda to the luminous career of a writer who was “for all readers. He was for the world” (National Geographic).
Download or read book Trouble in Paradise written by Robert B. Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Stone returns in this New York Times bestselling novel of death and deception from Robert B. Parker. Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coast town of Paradise. James Macklin sees the Island as the ultimate investment opportunity: all he needs to do is invade it, blow the bridge, and loot the island. To realize his scheme, Macklin, along with his devoted girlfriend, Faye, assembles a crew of fellow ex-cons—all experts in their fields—including Wilson Cromartie, a fearsome Apache. James Macklin is a bad man, a very bad man. And Wilson Cromartie, known as Crow, is even worse. As Macklin plans his crime, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone has his hands full. He faces romantic entanglements in triplicate: his ex-wife, Jenn, is in the Paradise jail for assault, he’s begun a new relationship with a Stiles Island realtor named Marcy Campbell, and he’s still sorting out his feelings for attorney Abby Taylor. When Macklin’s attack on Stiles Island is set in motion, both Marcy and Abby are put in jeopardy. As the casualties mount, it’s up to Jesse to keep both women from harm.
Download or read book Winter in Paradise written by Elin Hilderbrand and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A husband's secret life, a wife's new beginning: escape to the Caribbean with #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Irene Steele shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victorian house with a husband who loves her to sky-writing, sentimental extremes. But as she rings in the new year one cold and snowy night, everything she thought she knew falls to pieces with a shocking phone call: her beloved husband, away on business, has been killed in a helicopter crash. Before Irene can even process the news, she must first confront the perplexing details of her husband's death on the distant Caribbean island of St. John. After Irene and her sons arrive at this faraway paradise, they make yet another shocking discovery: her husband had been living a secret life. As Irene untangles a web of intrigue and deceit, and as she and her sons find themselves drawn into the vibrant island culture, they have to face the truth about their family, and about their own futures. Rich with the lush beauty of the tropics and the drama, romance, and intrigue only Elin Hilderbrand can deliver, Winter in Paradise is a truly transporting novel, and the exciting start to a new series. "I will just say that, 24 hours after I started this book, I purchased its sequel, What Happens in Paradise, and I did not leave either book to be enjoyed by strangers at the end of my vacation." —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times
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.
Download or read book Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost written by M. Sarkar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's cosmos and chaos, and the characters of the angels and Adam and Eve. After examining the contextual references to cabalism, hermeticism, and science in the invocations and in the presentation of chaos and Night, the book focuses on the central stage of the epic action, Milton's unique cosmos, at once finite and infinite, with its re-orientation of compass points. While Milton relies on the new astronomy, optics and mechanics in configuring his cosmos, he draws upon alchemy to suggest that the imagined prelapsarian cosmos is the crucible within which vital re-orientations of authority could have taken place.
Download or read book An Infidel in Paradise written by S.J. Laidlaw and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Pakistan, this is the story of a teen girl living with her mother and siblings in a diplomatic compound. As if getting used to another new country and set of customs and friends isn't enough, she must cope with an increasingly tense political situation that becomes dangerous with alarming speed. Her life and those of her sister and brother depend on her resourcefulness and the unexpected help of an enigmatic Muslim classmate.
Download or read book Falling Off the Edge of Paradise written by Joseph James and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex with multiple females, the abuse of drugs from marijuana to mushrooms, and ecstasy to tobacco, and cocaine to alcohol, and prescription pills to paradise was probably the reason why our relationship was facing pure pandemonium. We rode the surf; this getaway took its toll. I knew, in retrospect, this would happen the moment we planned the trip (except we didn't remember planning it), but I didn't think drugs and alcohol would spoil a good buzz this quickly. Grabbing the phone from my hands with a smile, Mr. Edwards-the blame for half of my mistakes-said, "Its over," and fell on the floor after he unplugged the phone from its outlet. Paradise Island, Bahamas, January 2005: Joseph James and Jeffrey Edwards are two men who push life to the edge. But they're on the verge of going overboard. Traveling to Paradise Island from Detroit, Michigan, the two cousins disrespect and destroy the tourist haven in an attempt to break the paradox between total control and reckless abandon. From mixing with happy families, high-stakes gambling, and nightlife with upper society to sharing a pint of rum with a homeless local and sleeping with random women, the pair's contribution to the Bahamas is nothing more than an abuse of free will and destiny.
Download or read book Night Passage written by Robert B. Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert B. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series—a New York Times bestseller. After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can’t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can’t refuse. Once on board, Jesse doesn’t have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption—replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust—even he and the woman he’s seeing are like ships passing in the night. He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero—or the deadest of dupes.
Download or read book Universal Horrors written by Tom Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count Dracula, and The Invisible Man, to The Mummy, Paula the Ape Woman, The Creeper, and The Inner Sanctum, the authors offer a definitive study of the 86 films produced during this era and present a general overview of the period. Coverage of the films includes complete cast lists, credits, storyline, behind-the-scenes information, production history, critical analysis, and commentary from the cast and crew (much of it drawn from interviews by Tom Weaver, whom USA Today calls "the king of the monster hunters"). Unique to this edition are a new selection of photographs and poster reproductions and an appendix listing additional films of interest.
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:
