Paradise News

Paradise News
Title Paradise News PDF eBook
Author David Lodge
Publisher Random House
Pages 305
Release 2012-02-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1446496740

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Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.




Paradise

Paradise
Title Paradise PDF eBook
Author Lizzie Johnson
Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pages 433
Release 2021
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0593136381

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"The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds ... 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"--




Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
Title Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy PDF eBook
Author Dani Anguiano
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 170
Release 2020-05-05
Genre Nature
ISBN 1324005157

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The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Fire in Paradise is their dramatic narrative of the disaster and an unforgettable story of an American town at the forefront of the climate emergency.




Paradise, Nevada

Paradise, Nevada
Title Paradise, Nevada PDF eBook
Author Dario Diofebi
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 513
Release 2021-04-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1635576210

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“Diofebi is an irreverent and audacious new voice.”- Susan Choi, National Book Award-Winning author of TRUST EXERCISE "Vegas has been right there forever, waiting for a great novelist, and Dario Diofebi has come dealing nothing but aces."--Darin Strauss, NBCC Award-Winning author of HALF A LIFE From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive political tensions behind the deceptive, spectacular, endlessly self-reinventing city of Las Vegas. On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the desert city, attempting to make a home amidst the dizzying lights: Ray, a mathematically-minded high stakes professional poker player; Mary Ann, a clinically depressed cocktail waitress; Tom, a tourist from the working class suburbs of Rome, Italy; and Lindsay, a Mormon journalist for the Las Vegas Sun who dreams of a literary career. By chance and by design, they find themselves caught up in backroom schemes for personal and political power, and are thrown into the deep end of an even bigger fight for the soul of the paradoxical town. A furiously rowdy and ricocheting saga about poker, happiness, class, and selflessness, Paradise, Nevada is a panoramic tour of America in miniature, a vertiginously beautiful systems novel where the bloody battles of neo-liberalism, immigration, labor, and family rage underneath Las Vegas' beguiling and strangely benevolent light. This exuberant debut marks the beginning of a significant career.




Pandemic in Paradise

Pandemic in Paradise
Title Pandemic in Paradise PDF eBook
Author Janet Naughton
Publisher
Pages 198
Release 2020-08-05
Genre COVID-19 (Disease)
ISBN

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The 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic has affected the whole planet. Florida's story of living in the pandemic is told by its people, young and old alike, through essays, stories, photographs, art pieces and poetry. These items came from everyday people living and vacationing in Florida, with over 60 contributors. This book illuminates Floridians' perspectives on this historic event. All proceeds benefit the Florida Nurses Association.




What Happens in Paradise

What Happens in Paradise
Title What Happens in Paradise PDF eBook
Author Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 308
Release 2019-10-08
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0316435562

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Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradise, as secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky. 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 helicopter 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 that made Winter in Paradise a national bestseller, What Happens in Paradise is another immensely satisfying page-turner from one of America's most beloved and engaging storytellers.




Paradise on Fire

Paradise on Fire
Title Paradise on Fire PDF eBook
Author Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher Hachette UK
Pages 149
Release 2021-09-07
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1510109846

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'Addy is a heroine any reader might aspire to be, a teenager who learns to trust her own voice and instincts, who realizes that fire can live within someone, too' - New York Times From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age survival tale set during a devastating wild fire. Addy is haunted by the tragic fire that killed her parents, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother. Now, years later, Addy's grandmother has enrolled her in a summer wilderness programme. There, Addy joins five other Black city kids - each with their own troubles - to spend a summer out west. Deep in the forest, the kids learn new (and to them) strange skills: camping, hiking, rock climbing and how to start and safely put out campfires. Most important, they learn to depend upon each other for companionship and survival. But then comes a furious forest fire ... From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change.