Parables from (a Not Quite) Paradise, NV 89154
Parables from (a Not Quite) Paradise, NV 89154

Author: William N. Thompson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2003-12

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1410791890

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The Earth, filled with the sickness of hate and violence, blew up in the year 2039, leaving thousands of residents already on the Moon, and Mars, and satellite islands circling the Earth as "orphans of the storm." Youthful travelers of different races and religious cultures on a marvelous space ship called The Moon Glow, find a refreshing fellowship in which they question whether organized religion might have been able to stem Earth's demise. What if they had all been more faithful to their teachings? Romance, adventure, and travel in space and on the Moon, along with a lot of soul-searching, now combine with a strange visitor, who travels instantaneously by Thought Transference, and is part of a Spirit People culture in a far universe. He too, has found the message of the Creator, and offers them the assurance that they are not alone! Christian, Jew, and Moslem confront the inconsistencies of the various Faith groups, and try also to deal with racial prejudice. They are forced to admit that some of this may have been a part of the incendiary fuse that set off the nuclear destruction of nearly eleven billion people.

Not Quite Paradise
Not Quite Paradise

Author: Bonnie Maslin

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 1988-02-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780449214688

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"A fresh start for couples in gaining understanding for each other." Publishers Weekly Discover how a troubled marriage can be saved -- and how a good marriage can become even better! In this book you will learn how to recognize the symptoms of a marriage at risk and how to master a new language of love for a more gratifying and fulfilling relationship.

Not Quite Paradise
Not Quite Paradise

Author: Adele Barker

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0807000620

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A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island—its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. They hear stories of the island’s colorful past and its twenty-five-year civil war between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil Tigers. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island’s southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back. Traveling from the southernmost coasts to the farthest outposts of the Tamil north, she witnesses the ravages of the tsunami that killed forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans in the space of twenty minutes, and reports from the ground on the triumphs and failures of relief efforts. Combining the immediacy of memoir and the vividness of travelogue with the insight of the best reportage, Not Quite Paradise chronicles life in a place few have ever visited.

Undaunted Courage
Undaunted Courage

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1996-02-15

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0684811073

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Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West.

The Greatest Story Never Told Through My Eyes 'Eden'
The Greatest Story Never Told Through My Eyes 'Eden'

Author: Melodie J. Dobbins

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-11-08

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1430305975

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Science-Fiction Romance Before the Devinci Code, Before Jesus, was the story of Adam & Eve. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. This may be true but did God first create man on Earth? I don't think so. Earth was colonized by a group of explorers. Through the eyes of an old man the story is told. A more plausible story that explains everything including how man evolved on Earth, how religion really got started, and how we all came to be. Many of the situations and sub-stories are based on actually fact. Could this be how we really started?

Moontide and Magic Rise
Moontide and Magic Rise

Author: Sean Russell

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 834

ISBN-13: 0756414113

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For the first time in an omnibus, this duology chronicles the adventures of naturalist Tristram Flattery as he voyages to discover the lost history of magic in a world where reason and science reign. The Age of Mages is over, and all the secrets of their magical arts are thought to be lost to the world. There are even those who suspect that the last of the great Mages spent their final years scrupulously eradicating all traces of their craft from the pages of history--insuring that their art will never be practiced again. It is the dawn of a new era: an age of reason, science, and exploration, and Tristam Flattery is one of its most promising young naturalists. But when Tristam is summoned to the royal court of Farrland to try to revitalize a failing species of plant which seems to have mysterious, almost magical, medicinal properties--a plant without which, he is told, the aging king will surely die--he soon realizes that he has been drawn into the heart of a political struggle which spans generations, a conflict which threatens the very foundations of his civilization. And before long, Tristam is caught in the grip of a destiny which will lead him to the ends of the known world--on a voyage of discovery that has more to do with magic than with science....

Couples
Couples

Author: John Updike

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 0679645721

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“Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.”—Time One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal. Praise for Couples “Couples [is] John Updike’s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ingenious . . . If this is a dirty book, I don’t see how sex can be written about at all.”—Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times Book Review