Yesterday In Paradise

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771017902

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To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara Pdf

From the 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. 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 are joined in an enthralling and 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. TO PARADISE is a fin de siecle 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.

Author : Cyprian Fernandes
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504303446

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Yesterday in Paradise by Cyprian Fernandes Pdf

Author Cyprian Fernandes was born a war baby in 1943 in Kenya. Forced to leave school at the age of thirteen because he would not drop his pants for a caning, Fernandes experienced a wild and epic childhood. In Yesterday in Paradise, he tells his story growing up in colonial British East Africa. With a history of the region and the people originating from the state of Goa, India, and the Republic of Kenya, East Africa, woven in, Fernandes shares a host of stories that became a part of his first twenty-plus years. He was in the middle of the bloodcurdling Mau Mau rebellion and was arrested with thousands of others. He was there when Pio Gama Pinto was murdered. He embarked on an adventure that eventually took him to the four corners of the Earth. He travelled the length and breadth of Africa, the United Kingdom, and Europe as an investigative reporter. Providing a look at Fernandes eventful past, Yesterday in Paradise narrates a memoir filled with prejudice, murder, conflict, and more. He shares the events, the people, and the many, many places that fashioned his life.

Author : Myrtle Scharrer Betz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Caladesi Island (Fla.)
ISBN : 1597320323

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Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise by Myrtle Scharrer Betz Pdf

Author : Larry W. Jones
Publisher : Larry W Jones
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781411606470

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Island Song Lyrics Volume 3 by Larry W. Jones Pdf

"Larry W. Jones has written over 3,500 song lyrics with island based themes. Most are in the sytle of the "hapa haole" return-to-paradise tradition of the golden years of Territorial Hawaii"--Volume 7, title page verso

Author : Megan Mayhew Bergman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451643367

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Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman Pdf

Presents a collection of stories focusing on the moments when bonds with nature become evident, including the story of a mother and son attempting to reclaim an African gray parrot and of a population control activist who longs to have a baby.

Author : Rebecca Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 1927063256

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The Paradise Engine by Rebecca Campbell Pdf

While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to the rhetoric of an itinerant street mystic. Almost a century earlier, Liam, a tenth-rate tenor, visits the same theatre while eking out a career on the dying Vaudeville circuits of the day. In both eras, an apocalyptic strain of mysticism threatens their existence: Anthea contends with a nascent New Age movement in the heart of the city while Liam encounters a radical theosophical commune along the coast of British Columbia, who appear to be building ... something. The Paradise Engine unfolds across a colourful backdrop of labour organizers, immaculately-attired cultists, ambitious socialites, basement offices and coffee shops. Its cast of characters and historical setting recalls Robertson Davies' Fifth Business or Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, while its approach to memory and community is reminiscent of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.

Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1438 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Legislative journals
ISBN : CHI:78115029

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Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania Pdf

Author : Pennsylvania. State Board of Health and Vital Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : UOM:39015069463845

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Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania. State Board of Health and Vital Statistics Pdf

Author : Cecilia Samartin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416550396

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Broken Paradise by Cecilia Samartin Pdf

In the spirit of "The Kite Runner," this shimmering literary debut traces thepath of two cousins--one who left Cuba at the brink of revolution and the onewho stayed behind.

Author : V.C. Andrews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439187760

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Gates of Paradise by V.C. Andrews Pdf

Now a major Lifetime movie event, from New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes the fourth installment in the classic story of the Casteel family saga. Stunned by tragedy, a young woman finds herself desperate and alone, and clinging to the frailest of dreams. Can Heaven’s daughter find the inner strength to survive? The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante…without the warm glow of Luke’s love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy’s cottage hidden in Farthinggale’s woods, the mystery of her past deepens. And even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell…treacherous, powerful, and evil.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498439

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Man Martin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429990244

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Paradise Dogs by Man Martin Pdf

Adam Newman once had it all. But then he lost it. Now Adam yearns to reunite with his estranged wife, Evelyn, and recapture the Edenic life they once had running Paradise Dogs, the roadside hot-dog restaurant now legendary throughout central Florida. He has a few obstacles along the way. For starters, there's his impending marriage to Lily. There's also the matter of a quarter million dollars' worth of diamonds that he mislaid, along with what appears to be a shadowy conspiracy that is buying up land around the Cross-Florida Canal (and which may or may not be a product of Adam's alcohol-infused imagination). Despite his own troubles---and a brief stay in Chattahoochee---Adam looks to mentor his son, Addison, in the ways of love. Awkward, unsure, and employed as the world's least accurate obituary writer, Addison pines for a beautiful and painfully earnest linguistic student but must compete for her attention with his older and more sophisticated half brother from Evelyn's first marriage. But if anybody can set these worlds in order, it is Adam, who has an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time and allowing others to believe he's someone he's not. Whether it's delivering a baby, rescuing a marriage, or exposing a Communist conspiracy, our protagonist is up for the job. Paradise Dogs, from Georgia Author of the Year Award winner Man Martin, is a farcical tale of paradise lost, the American Dream, and the true measures of love

Author : Gregory Boyle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476726175

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Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle Pdf

In a moving example of unconditional love in dif­ficult times, Gregory Boyle, the Jesuit priest and New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, shares what working with gang members in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring power of kinship. In his first book, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, Gregory Boyle introduced us to Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention program in the world. Critics hailed that book as an “astounding literary and spiritual feat” (Publishers Weekly) that is “destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality” (Los Angeles Times). Now, after the suc­cessful expansion of Homeboy Industries, Boyle returns with Barking to the Choir to reveal how com­passion is transforming the lives of gang members. In a nation deeply divided and plagued by poverty and violence, Barking to the Choir offers a snapshot into the challenges and joys of life on the margins. Sergio, arrested at age nine, in a gang by age twelve, and serving time shortly thereafter, now works with the substance-abuse team at Homeboy to help others find sobriety. Jamal, abandoned by his family when he tried to attend school at age seven, gradually finds forgive­ness for his schizophrenic mother. New father Cuco, who never knew his own dad, thinks of a daily adventure on which to take his four-year-old son. These former gang members uplift the soul and reveal how bright life can be when filled with unconditional love and kindness. This book is guaranteed to shake up our ideas about God and about people with a glimpse at a world defined by more compassion and fewer barriers. Gently and humorously, Barking to the Choir invites us to find kinship with one another and re-convinces us all of our own goodness.

Author : Dick B.
Publisher : Good Book Publishing Company
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1885803869

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Introduction to the Sources and Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous by Dick B. Pdf

Intended for use by recovery newcomers, educational and religious alcoholism programs, recovery groups and treatment centers, and substance abuse agencies. Here, for the first time, is a simple, accurate, concise statement of the origins, trends, changes, and detours leading up to, involved in, and evolving from A.A.'s Big Book and Twelve Step spiritual program of recovery. A must for introducing the A.A./12 Step subject usefully

Author : Stefan Zweig Symposium (1981: Fredonia, N.Y.)
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0873955994

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The World of Yesterday's Humanist Today by Stefan Zweig Symposium (1981: Fredonia, N.Y.) Pdf

France (1837) was the third volume published in Cooper's Gleanings in Europe series, but first in the chronology of his European experience. Less sequential than his other travel narratives, France distills his impressions of French and European culture during his first two years abroad. Exhibiting many qualities of the familiar essay, it considers a wide range of topics of interest to Cooper, his friends, and potential readers in the United States. As a celebrity thoroughly at home in the brilliant society of Bourbon Paris, Cooper was able to provide fascinating glimpses of personalities, spectacles, institutions, and manners--from his distinctly American perspective. Indeed, as Professor Philbrick remarks, "No other of Cooper's works, perhaps, brings us closer to his speaking voice or puts us more directly in contact with the man himself, with all his idiosyncratic preoccupations, his quick resentments, his restless curiosity, his surprising humor, and his nobility of principle." The reader of this edition is brought even closer to Cooper in the draft of a hitherto unpublished letter, probably intended for this book, which illustrates Cooper's grasp of the still finer points of French customs and attitudes.