Maids of Paradise
Author: Robert William Chambers
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 410
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Author: Robert William Chambers
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert W. Chambers
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-25
Total Pages: 317
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Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-04-28
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 0061921629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville
Author: Robert William Chambers
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Maids of Paradise by Robert William Chambers is a thrilling and suspenseful novel set amidst the backdrop of the French Riviera. Chambers's evocative descriptions and atmospheric writing transport readers to a world of glamour, mystery, and danger. The Maids of Paradise follows the lives of two captivating sisters who become entangled in a web of secrets and intrigue. Chambers's vivid prose brings the luxurious settings to life, from opulent mansions to bustling casinos. As the story unfolds, readers are immersed in a thrilling tale of love, betrayal, and unexpected alliances. With its intricate plot and well-drawn characters, The Maids of Paradise keeps readers on the edge of their seats, eagerly turning the pages to unravel the truth behind the glamorous façade.
Author: Kristiana Kahakauwila
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0770436250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai'i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it’s truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. In the gut-punch of “Wanle,” a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father’s footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices—the women of Waikiki—to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city’s nightlife. “The Old Paniolo Way” limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila’s stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 1775414833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.
Author: Wendy Shalit
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 1476765170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpdated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty. When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion about the possibility of innocence and romantic idealism. Wendy Shalit was the first to systematically critique the "hook-up" scene and outline the harms of making sexuality so public. Today, with social media increasingly blurring the line between public and private life, and with child exploitation on the rise, the concept of modesty is more relevant than ever. Updated with a new preface that addresses the unique problems facing society now, A Return to Modesty shows why "the lost virtue" of modesty is not a hang-up that we should set out to cure, but rather a wonderful instinct to be celebrated. A Return to Modesty is a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune "Baby, It’s Cold Outside." Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery, but a natural instinct—and one that may be able to save us from ourselves.
Author: Sarah McKerrigan
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2009-05-30
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0446559466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe certainly seems meek and soft-spoken, unlike her warrior sisters. But once the sun goes down, Miriel of Rivenloch becomes "The Shadow," the bold, mysterious renegade who robs the rich to give to the poor. But can she outwit the devil-may-care mercenary Sir Rand la Nuit, who has been hired to unmask The Shadow? Miriel doesn't know Rand's mission-only that his sudden, amorous courtship is hiding something. Rand doesn't know who The Shadow is-only that the lovely woman in his arms heats his blood. Touch by silky touch, kiss by sizzling kiss, the stakes-and their passions-mount. And once Rand and Miriel disrobe in his bedchamber, both can lose everything they live for-including their oh-so-vulnerable hearts.
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2011-07-16
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1595587780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as “The World” is literally being added to the ocean. In Medellín and Kabul, drug lords—in many ways textbook capitalists—are redefining conspicuous consumption in fortified palaces. In Hong Kong, Cairo, and even the Iranian desert, burgeoning communities of nouveaux riches have taken shelter in fantasy Californias, complete with Mickey Mouse statues, while their maids sleep in rooftop chicken coops. Meanwhile, Ted Turner rides herd over his bison in 2 million acres of private parkland. Davis and Monk have assembled an extraordinary group of urbanists, architects, historians, and visionary thinkers to reflect upon the trajectory of a civilization whose deepest ethos seems to be to consume all the resources of the earth within a single lifetime.
Author: Julia Cooke
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1580055311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChange looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa. This last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning era of political stagnation as the rest of the world beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music careers and black-market business ventures, trying to reconcile the undefined future with the urgent today. Eye-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.