Private Paradise

Author : Kaoru Shinozaki,DEBBIE MACOMBER
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596497451

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PRIVATE PARADISE by Kaoru Shinozaki,DEBBIE MACOMBER Pdf

Two single parents living under the same roof, with their children acting as Cupid! Long after her husband’s death, Beth still suffers in secret. She can never tell her son that his father had been having an affair shortly before he passed away. When Beth is invited to a vacation on a beautiful island, she feels happy for the first time in a long while. But she’s soon confronted by a handsome stranger who’s staying at the same lodge. Suddenly, Beth, a single mother, finds herself cohabitating with John, a single father.

Author : Charlotte M. Frieze
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781580933230

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Private Paradise by Charlotte M. Frieze Pdf

Sweeping, voluptuous, and authoritative, Private Paradise instantly joins an elite collection of great and inspiring garden design books. Charlotte Frieze presents forty-one cutting-edge gardens, all richly photographed and profusely illustrated, emphasizing design, climate, and horticulture. Overarching themes of Aqua, Arcadia, Bold Geometry, Color, Nightscapes, Oasis, Sanctuary, and Urban cogently frame chapters about the challenges presented by the land, the climate, and the client’s interests. Located throughout the United States, these gardens demonstrate the intersection between traditional elements of garden design and current concerns such as sustainability, drought tolerance, and use of native plants. Private Paradise features the work of the most talented landscape architects and garden designers working in the United States today, including Topher Delaney, Marta Fry, Kathryn Gustafson, Raymond Jungles, Steve Koch, Ron Lutsko, Steve Martino, Pamela Palmer, Ken Smith, Christine Ten Eyck, and Thomas Wolz. In a publication that rightfully takes its place on the sturdy foundation of a century’s worth of garden surveys and design monographs, Private Paradise creates a compelling portrait of contemporary landscape design.

Author : Li Zhang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801459436

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In Search of Paradise by Li Zhang Pdf

A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and socialist ideals, they hope to find material comfort and social distinction in newly constructed gated communities. This quest for the good life is profoundly transforming the physical and social landscapes of urban China. Li Zhang, who is from Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, turns a keen ethnographic eye on her hometown. She combines her analysis of larger political and social issues with fine-grained details about the profound spatial, cultural, and political effects of the shift in the way Chinese urban residents live their lives and think about themselves. In Search of Paradise is a deeply informed account of how the rise of private homeownership is reconfiguring urban space, class subjects, gender selfhood, and ways of life in the reform era. New, seemingly individualistic lifestyles mark a dramatic move away from yearning for a social utopia under Maoist socialism. Yet the privatization of property and urban living have engendered a simultaneous movement of public engagement among homeowners as they confront the encroaching power of the developers. This double movement of privatized living and public sphere activism, Zhang finds, is a distinctive feature of the cultural politics of the middle classes in contemporary China. Theoretically sophisticated and highly accessible, Zhang's account will appeal not only to those interested in China but also to anyone interested in spatial politics, middle-class culture, and postsocialist governing in a globalizing world.

Author : Debbie Macomber
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460395493

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Private Paradise by Debbie Macomber Pdf

A fan-favorite novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Widow Beth Graham is invited to stay on an island with friends. But when a last-minute accident keeps her friends from the island, Beth and her son end up sharing quarters with a handsome single father, John Livingstone, and his teenage daughter. Close quarters cause tempers to flare, but Beth and John just may manage to find love before the trip is over. Originally published in the 2008 anthology That Summer Place.

Author : Lucy Elliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0263783308

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Private Paradise by Lucy Elliot Pdf

Author : C.J. Box
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466851993

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Paradise Valley by C.J. Box Pdf

She almost caught him once. Now, he’s back. For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are most likely to vanish. Cassie almost caught him...once. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. But the plan goes horribly wrong, and the blame falls on Cassie. Disgraced, she loses her job and investigation into her role is put into motion. At the same time, Kyle Westergaard, a troubled kid whom Cassie has taken under her wing, has disappeared after telling people that he’s going off on a long-planned adventure. Kyle's grandmother begs Cassie to find him and, with nothing else to do, Cassie agrees—all the while hunting the truck driver. Now Cassie is a lone wolf. And in the same way that two streams converge into a river, Kyle's disappearance may have a more sinister meaning than anyone realizes. With no allies, no support, and only her own wits to rely on, Cassie must take down a killer who is as ruthless as he is cunning. But can she do it alone, without losing her own humanity or her own life? Paradise Valley continues the Highway Quartet series from bestselling author C. J. Box.

Author : Kate Brian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471104831

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Paradise Lost by Kate Brian Pdf

Now that Cheyenne's murderer has been revealed and Reed knows the truth about who's been stalking her, she's ready for a break. What better way to relax than on a five-star Caribbean vacation with the Billings Girls? At first the trip is heaven on Earth: beach parties, forty-foot yachts, shopping trips to exclusive boutiques . . . But even in sunny paradise, the Girls are never far from trouble - and they're about to get burned.

Author : Don R. Severson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art objects
ISBN : UCSD:31822032090201

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Finding Paradise by Don R. Severson Pdf

Author : Marquis Heyer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781329047167

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Whispers of the Poet by Marquis Heyer Pdf

Inspiration found throughout life comes to us in many forms. Mr. Heyer calls these inspirational moments "whispers" in life. He uses these whispers to write and get ideas for future writings. Instrumental music and landscape photographs are just two of the creative motivators for Mr. Heyer.

Author : Kaoru Shinozaki,DEBBIE MACOMBER
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596497697

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PRIVATE PARADISE by Kaoru Shinozaki,DEBBIE MACOMBER Pdf

Two single parents living under the same roof, with their children acting as Cupid! Long after her husband’s death, Beth still suffers in secret. She can never tell her son that his father had been having an affair shortly before he passed away. When Beth is invited to a vacation on a beautiful island, she feels happy for the first time in a long while. But she’s soon confronted by a handsome stranger who’s staying at the same lodge. Suddenly, Beth, a single mother, finds herself cohabitating with John, a single father.

Author : Jonathan Lewis
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786833051

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The Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing by Jonathan Lewis Pdf

This is the first book-length study to analyse and problematize the notion of literary texts as ‘sites of memory’ with regard to the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), and memories of it, in the work of French authors of Algerian origin. The book considers a primary corpus spanning over forty literary texts published between 1981 and 2012, analysing the extent to which texts are able to collect diverse and apparently competing memories, and in the process present the heterogeneous nature of memories of the Algerian War. By setting up the notion of literary texts as ‘sites of memory’, where the potentially explosive but also consensual encounter between former colonizer and colonized subject takes place, the book contributes to ongoing debates surrounding the contested place of narratives of empire in French collective memory, and the ambiguous place of immigrants from the former colonies and their children in dominant definitions of French identity.

Author : Qiang Ning
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824861490

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Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China by Qiang Ning Pdf

The cave-temple complex popularly known as the Dunhuang caves is the world’s largest extant repository of Tang Buddhist art. Among the best preserved of the Dunhuang caves is the Zhai Family Cave, built in 642. It is this remarkable cave-temple that forms the focus of Ning Qiang’s cross-disciplinary exploration of the interrelationship of art, religion, and politics during the Tang. The author combines, in his careful examination of the paintings and sculptures found there, the historical study of pictures with the pictorial study of history. By employing this two-fold approach, he is able to refer to textual evidence in interpreting the formal features of the cave temple paintings and to employ visual details to fill in the historical gaps inevitably left by text-oriented scholars. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the visual culture of the period and a vivid description of social life in medieval China. The original Zhai Family Cave pictures were painted over in the tenth century and remained hidden until the early 1940s. Once exposed, the early artwork appeared fresh and colorful in comparison with other Tang paintings at Dunhuang. The relatively fine condition of the Zhai Family Cave is crucial to our understanding of the original pictorial program found there and offers a unique opportunity to investigate the visual details of the original paintings and sculptures in the cave. At the same time, the remaining traces of reconstruction and redecoration provide a new perspective on how, for over three centuries, a wealthy Chinese clan used its familial cave as a political showcase.

Author : Maurice A. Fetty
Publisher : CSS Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780788017872

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Seven Last Words of Jesus Chri by Maurice A. Fetty Pdf

For centuries the cross has been the central symbol of Christianity, and the "seven last words" of Jesus have been etched into the Christian conscience as these words remind us of the pain Christ faced on our behalf. Fetty reminds readers of these words in these practical, down-to-earth sermons, perfect references of a Good Friday worship service.

Author : John Pairman Brown
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110882391

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The Legacy of Iranian Imperialism and the Individual by John Pairman Brown Pdf

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

Author : Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683932468

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Post-Apartheid Gothic by Mélanie Joseph-Vilain Pdf

Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain assesses the literary mechanisms utilized by Damon Galgut, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Lauren Beukes, Justin Carwright, and Lynn Freed to negotiate the complexities of post-apartheid identities in their fiction. Joseph-Vilain argues that the literary representations of emblematic places, real or imagined (the home, the farm, the city or the “non-places” of dystopia), express and reveal anxieties linked to the sharing of space in post-apartheid South Africa. The text successively (re-)visits the places that have been shaping South African white writing since Olive Schreiner’s African Farm—in other words, its topoi, both in the etymological sense of “place” and in the literary sense of recurring themes or arguments. Joseph-Vilain argues that these Gothicized topoi have provided writers with tools to explore the deep anxieties generated by the redefinition of South African society as the Rainbow Nation. While focusing specifically on the South African avatars of the Gothic and their interaction with local forms and genres like the plaasroman, the text also discusses the impact of globalization on South African literary, cultural, social, and political identities.