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Book The Conditions of Paradise

Download or read book The Conditions of Paradise written by Akiko Morishima and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From first love to mature romance, a heart-tugging collection of yuri stories by the superstar manga artist behind Yuri Bear Storm and Hanjuku Joshi! (And don't miss the two follow-up volumes!) Sarina and her best friend Sumi are super close. Sumi often crashes at Sarina’s place, and sometimes the two even make out a little bit. But Sarina figures a romantic relationship could never work between them. Sarina is an organized office worker, while Sumi is a nomadic freelance writer. Can the two find a way to make their very different lifestyles mesh?

Book The Conditions of Paradise  Our First Time

Download or read book The Conditions of Paradise Our First Time written by Akiko Morishima and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumi has long carried a torch for her best friend Sarina, but she's made peace with the fact that Sarina will never love her back. But as the two women start to blur the lines and kiss, will they go from being friends to lovers? Read their tale and many more sweet yuri love stories in The Conditions of Paradise: Our First Time!

Book The Conditions of Paradise  Azure Dreams

Download or read book The Conditions of Paradise Azure Dreams written by Akiko Morishima and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruri and Sayaka have always gotten along, but when the two coworkers go out for drinks, Sayaka ends up confessing her love for Ruri! After a drunken hookup, will the two be able to face each other Monday morning? Or is it the start of an office romance? Find out in this collection of seven yuri love stories!

Book To Paradise

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  • Author : Hanya Yanagihara
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2022-01-11
  • ISBN : 0385547943
  • Pages : 720 pages

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.

Book The Edge of Paradise

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  • Author : Paul Frederick Kluge
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824815677
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Edge of Paradise written by Paul Frederick Kluge and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as physical beauty. He immersed himself in the lives of the diverse peoples of the islands. He composed speeches for their leaders. He wrote a stirring manifesto that became the Preamble to the Constitution of Micronesia. He began a friendship with a man who would one day be president of Palau. And then, a generation later, P. F. Kluge went back. . . . The result is a book the New Yorker called "remarkably effective," the Economist deemed "terrific"; a book Smithsonian Magazine found to be "written from the heart." The Edge of Paradise shows the impact and ironies of America's presence in an undeveloped part of the world, how perhaps there's no way "a big place can touch a little one without harming it."

Book Paradise

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  • Author : Toni Morrison
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2014-03-11
  • ISBN : 0804169888
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Paradise written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. “A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” —Los Angeles Times

Book The First Day in Paradise

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  • Author : Stuart Walton
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2016-02-26
  • ISBN : 1785352369
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book The First Day in Paradise written by Stuart Walton and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Day in Paradise tells the story of a young orphaned family who have been passed on from one set of relations to another, and whose eldest sibling, Adam, becomes enthralled by the impending opening nearby of a gigantic and beautiful shopping-mall by a flamboyant entrepreneur. To the consternation of his aunt and uncle, who run a small business, he joins the staff of one of its stores, and begins a dizzying ascent through the ranks, until circumstances induce him to question whether his entire value-system has become corrupted. Functioning both as social-economic critique, and as a personal moral fable about the conjuration of ambition from present-day consumer culture, The First Day in Paradise is an engrossing and layered tale loosely modelled on Dante's Paradiso, but most of all it's simply a great read.

Book Paradise Kiss

Download or read book Paradise Kiss written by Ai Yazawa and published by Vertical Inc. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildly-popular artist Ai Yazawa’s beloved fashion-centric manga, Paradise Kiss, is back in a glamorous omnibus edition to celebrate 20 years since the manga began serialization. Follow Yukari’s through-the-looking-glass journey as she is drawn into the world of fashion by a group of passionate, young aesthetes who are determined to make their couture label a success, with Yukari as their muse...

Book The Conditions of Paradise  Our First Time

Download or read book The Conditions of Paradise Our First Time written by Akiko Morishima and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to yuri superstar Akiko Morishima’s The Conditions of Paradise! Sumi has long carried a torch for her best friend Sarina, but she’s made peace with the fact that Sarina will never love her back. But as the two women start to blur the lines and kiss, will they go from being friends to lovers? Read their tale and many more sweet yuri love stories in The Conditions of Paradise: Our First Time!

Book Birds of Paradise

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  • Author : Anne Malcom
  • Publisher : Anne Malcom
  • Release : 2021-03-31
  • ISBN : 1386117633
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Birds of Paradise written by Anne Malcom and published by Anne Malcom. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He collected beautiful things. Rare things. Ripped them out of their natural environment and preserved them in all of their dead splendor. The problem was I wasn't beautiful. I was all of the hideous and ugly realities of the world packaged into one broken human being. He came to kill me. That was his business. Death. He ripped me out of my natural environment, the prison I'd created, and locked me away with all of his beautiful dead things. I hated him. I still hate him. But if I was given the choice and the ability to leave this cage, come back to life, I'd stay dead. In all of my hideous splendor. Because my murderer can only possess dead things. And I can only be possessed by someone more broken and ugly than me.

Book The Book of Paradise

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  • Author : Itzik Manger
  • Publisher : Pushkin Press
  • Release : 2023-09-28
  • ISBN : 1782279261
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The Book of Paradise written by Itzik Manger and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translation On being expelled from Paradise, young Samuel Abba pulls a crafty trick, managing to arrive on earth with his memory intact. He quickly begins regaling the humans around him with mischievous stories of a Paradise far from their expectations: a world of drunken angels, lewd patriarchs and the same divisions and temptations that shape the human world. The Book of Paradise is a comic masterpiece, and the only novel by one of the great Yiddish writers. Written in the midst of rising anti-Semitism in 1930s Europe, its raucous blend of sacred and profane is a slyly profound reflection of the author's turbulent times. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.

Book Milk of Paradise

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  • Author : Lucy Inglis
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-02-05
  • ISBN : 1643130951
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Milk of Paradise written by Lucy Inglis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the “Milk of Paradise” for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain—and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is an agricultural product that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip, or the scorched and filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it. In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today’s synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine, and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging, and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are.

Book A Little Piece of Paradise

Download or read book A Little Piece of Paradise written by T. A Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story of romance and sisterhood, Sophie learns that the inheritance of a lifetime sometimes comes with a catch. When Sophie’s uncle leaves her a castle on the Italian Riviera in his will, she can’t believe her luck. The catch? She and her estranged sister, Rachel, must live there together for three months in order to inherit it. A cheating Italian ex soon learns of Sophie’s return and wants to rekindle their spark, but Sophie realizes that distance does make the heart grow fonder—for her friend back home, Chris, who becomes more to her than just a friend. But does he feel the same? This beautiful story is perfect for fans of Alex Brown and Lucy Coleman.

Book Visions of Paradise

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  • Author : Marina Schinz
  • Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
  • Release : 1985-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780941434669
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Visions of Paradise written by Marina Schinz and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1985-09-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Own Little Paradise

Download or read book Our Own Little Paradise written by Marianne Kaurin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could summer in your neighborhood turn out to be better than an exotic holiday overseas? Ina and her new neighbor Vilmer are about to find out… na has no plans for the summer. Suddenly, she finds herself lying in front of the entire class, telling them she is going to the Mediterranean for three weeks. And then the lie keeps growing and growing via social media. The only problem is that the new boy in class has moved to Ina’s neighborhood and he will easily find out that she is not in the Mediterranean. Perhaps the best summer holiday is the one you thought would be the worst? A warm, believable story about friendship, first love, and social media from Norwegian author Marianne Kaurin.

Book What Happens in Paradise

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  • Author : Elin Hilderbrand
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2019-10-03
  • ISBN : 1473677459
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book What Happens in Paradise written by Elin Hilderbrand and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret lives and new loves emerge in the bright Caribbean sunlight . . . A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious life - and death - of a man they thought they knew. Along the way, they're about to learn some surprising truths about their own lives, and their futures. Lush with the tropical details, romance and drama, What Happens in Paradise is another immensely satisfying page-turner from one of the world's most beloved and engaging storytellers.

Book Paradise Lost  Book 10

Download or read book Paradise Lost Book 10 written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: