“Mmmm,” he said again, frowning at an article about Richard Daley. Democrats were not among his favorite people. “Wouldn't you say it's tragic that so much talent and intelligence and, and ambition will go to waste?
She'd made that choice when she walked away from him and down the hall. If she'd had any doubts about what he wanted her to do, what he'd said to her in the hall would have removed them. Turning away from the window, he breathed a sigh ...
In a world filled with cosmopolitan wonder where many decide to live with God, but a tiny few decide to live without. A world that has captured the imagination of millions, and a world that is now coming to an end. Welcome to Paradise.
Long considered to be the brilliant dark horse of literary nonfiction, Pulitzer Prize–winning Larry McMurtry delivers a searing and reflective exploration of what paradise is, whether it exists, and how different it is from life in his ...
Paradise: Eastern Bay of Plenty
Paradise: Eastern Bay of Plenty
On a desperate quest to find her father, a missing business tycoon, Ana, a beautiful heiress, ventures into the lush wilderness of the tropical rain forest, accompanied by rugged Brad Eliot, a handsome American working to save the ...
This is JT Dalton's story, in his own words, dealing the rise to fame of a globally recognized company, how it was used to buy into and then control the entire economy of New Zealand, and it's conversion into a Corporate Economy.
A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again"--
'Our operations are conducted in the form of a nonprofit organization, a foundation that we decided to call Paradise. We don't really do anything all that remarkable, we just give our clients back a regular life.
From the Church in the Middle Ages to the people who prepare sucidide bombers, there is always someone promsing a better tomorrow, if only we do what they say. Although...
At once an inviting travel book and an insightful reflection on his parents' marriage, Paradise is Larry McMurtry's most original and personal work to date. In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose...
Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God.
London, England: Ahmed is a handsome and exceptionally charming jet-setter with a taste for fine wine and an eye for beautiful women.
Tolstoy said of one of his characters that his life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. ordinariness, as Tolstoy points out in his story about Ivan Ilyich, condemns a man to a terrible life on earth.
" Or so the story goes. Yet it is no fiction that the settlement grew to be more than just a stop on the way from Oroville or Chico to the gold country. Although Paradise was surrounded by mines, it had little gold itself.
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.
An adventurous young man constantly searching for mystifying places in nature.
As they struggle with their growing feelings for each other, Caleb and Maggie realise that ultimately, whether they leave Paradise or stay, they must face the truth about the night of the accident, or the secret will forever stand between ...
Ruthless corporate raider Matthew Farrell was poised to move in on the legendary department store empire owned by Chicago's renowned Bancroft family.