Waking Up in Eden
Waking Up in Eden

Author: Lucinda Fleeson

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2009-06-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 156512944X

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Like so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Imagine a one-hundred-acre garden estate nestled amid ocean cliffs, rain forests, and secluded coves. Exotic and beautiful, yes, but as Fleeson awakens to this sensual world, exploring the island's food, beaches, and history, she encounters an endangered paradise—the Hawaii we don't see in the tourist brochures. Native plants are dying at an astonishing rate—Hawaii is called the Extinction Capital of the World—and invasive species (plants, animals, and humans) have imperiled this Garden of Eden. Fleeson accompanies a plant hunter into the rain forest to find the last of a dying species, descends into limestone caves with a paleontologist who deconstructs island history through fossil life, and shadows a botanical pioneer who propagates rare seeds, hoping to reclaim the landscape. Her grown-up adventure is a reminder of the value of choosing passion over security, individuality over convention, and the pressing need to protect the earth. And as she witnesses the island's plant renewal efforts, she sees her own life blossom again.

Sleeping in Eden
Sleeping in Eden

Author: Nicole Baart

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1439197369

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The lives of a middle-aged doctor and a love-struck young woman intersect across time in Sleeping in Eden, Nicole Baart's haunting novel about love, jealousy, and the boundaries between loyalty and truth. She knew what he wrote . . . One little word that made her feel both cheated and beloved. One word that changed everything. MINE. On a chilly morning in the Northwest Iowa town of Blackhawk, Dr. Lucas Hudson is filling in for the vacationing coroner on a seemingly open-and-shut suicide case. His own life is crumbling around him, but when he unearths the body of a woman buried in the barn floor beneath the hanging corpse, he realizes this terrible discovery could change everything. . . . Years before Lucas ever set foot in Blackhawk, Meg Painter met Dylan Reid. It was the summer before high school and the two quickly became inseparable. Although Meg's older neighbor, Jess, was the safe choice, she couldn't let go of Dylan no matter how hard she tried. Caught in a web of jealousy and deceit that spiraled out of control, Meg's choices in the past ultimately collide with Lucas's discovery in the present, weaving together a taut story of unspoken secrets and the raw, complex passions of innocence lost.

Gardening in Eden
Gardening in Eden

Author: Arthur T. Vanderbilt II

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-03-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1416554572

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"Though an old man," Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, "I am but a young gardener." Every gardener is. In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilt's small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color, where a catbird comes to eat raisins from one's hand, and a chipmunk demands a daily ration of salted cocktail nuts. We feel the oppressiveness of endless winter days, the magic of an old-fashioned snow day, the heady, healing qualities of wandering through a greenhouse on a frozen February afternoon, the restlessness of a gardener waiting for spring. With a sense of wonder and humor on each page, Arthur Vanderbilt takes us along with him to discover that for those who wait, watch, and labor in the garden, it's all happening right outside our windows.

Dark Eden
Dark Eden

Author: Chris Beckett

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0804138699

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On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members of the Family shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest’s lantern trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. The Oldest among the Family recount legends of a world where light came from the sky, where men and women made boats that could cross the stars. These ships brought us here, the Oldest say—and the Family must only wait for the travelers to return. But young John Redlantern will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. He will abandon the old ways, venture into the Dark…and discover the truth about their world. Already remarkably acclaimed in the UK, Dark Eden is science fiction as literature; part parable, part powerful coming-of-age story, set in a truly original alien world of dark, sinister beauty--rendered in prose that is at once strikingly simple and stunningly inventive.

Elites of Eden
Elites of Eden

Author: Joey Graceffa

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 150117455X

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Two young girls hold the fate of the world in their hands in the highly anticipated sequel to the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Children of Eden. Two girls, one destiny. Yarrow is an elite: rich, regal, destined for greatness. She’s the daughter of one of the most powerful women in Eden. At the exclusive Oaks boarding school, she makes life miserable for anyone foolish enough to cross her. Her life is one wild party after another…until she meets a fascinating, lilac-haired girl named Lark. Meanwhile, there is Rowan, who has been either hiding or running all her life. As an illegal second child in a strictly regulated world, her very existence is a threat to society, punishable by death…or worse. After her father betrayed his family, and after the government killed her mother, Rowan discovered a whole city of people like herself. Safe in an underground sanctuary that also protected the last living tree on Earth, Rowan found friendship, and maybe more, in a fearless hero named Lachlan. But when she was captured by the government, her fate was uncertain. When these two girls discover the thread that binds them together, the collision of memories means that their lives may change drastically—and that Eden may never be the same.

The Book of Waking Up
The Book of Waking Up

Author: Seth Haines

Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 031035398X

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The Book of Waking Up invites you to wake to your coping mechanisms, find the why behind your pain, and walk into the Divine Love of God. The inevitable pain of life gives us many reasons to check out--and many ways to do it. Alcohol, entertainment, pills, shopping, porn, chasing success, cashing checks, and collecting social media "likes"--these and so many other things anesthetize us from the wounds of everyday living. As Seth Haines wrote in his award-winning book, Coming Clean, "We're all drunk on something." In his compelling follow-up, The Book of Waking Up, Seth invites you into the story of healing. He invites you to see your coping mechanisms for what they are--lesser lovers, which cannot bring the peace, freedom, and wholeness you crave. Through guided reflections, sustainable soul practices, and stories from Seth's life and others, The Book of Waking Up points you toward the Divine Love of God that has the power to transform your life. As Seth writes, "Addiction is misplaced adoration." Now, join him on a journey toward the only Love worth adoring, the only Love that cures a soul. Join him on the journey to waking up.

After Eden
After Eden

Author: Helen Douglas

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1408829916

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When mysterious new boy Ryan Westland shows up at her school Eden Anfield is intrigued. On the face of it, he's a typical American teenager. So how come he doesn't recognise pizza and hasn't heard of Hitler? What puzzles Eden most, however, is the interest he's taking in her. As Eden falls in love with Ryan, she stumbles across a book in Ryan's bedroom - a biography of her best friend - written fifty years in the future. Unravelling Ryan's secret, she discovers he has one unbelievably important purpose ... and she might just have destroyed his only chance of success.

Waking Up Alice
Waking Up Alice

Author: Letitia D. Fowler

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2014-08-08

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1452518335

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"Evicted" it was blown all out of proportion what a ridiculous accusation was Eve's pontificating when getting kicked out of Eden cursed all generations "Silly Rabbit" wake up don't you know how valuable you are? dirty mouth and trashy dressing leaving chastity behind like it's a curse and not a blessing "Now that I'm Awake" I can take my place in purpose on purpose deliberately using faith I'm not waiting for the final curtain Even when I didn't know if everything was going to be okay I could still hear God say, "Do It Anyway."

Rebels of Eden
Rebels of Eden

Author: Joey Graceffa

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1501174614

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The electrifying conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Children of Eden series that follows Rowan as she leaves behind the paradise she’s always dreamed of to save Eden—and the world—from a terrible fate. Rowan is finally in Harmonia, an Earth-friendly, sustainable commune in the wilderness she always believed was dead. Even in this idyllic world, she finds no peace. Harmonia has strict rules—and dire consequences. Thinking about Eden is forbidden, but she’s determined to rescue the loved ones she left behind. Though they are in terrible danger, her pleas for help are ignored. After months of living as one with nature, a shocking reminder of her past pushes Rowan to act. With the help of new friends, she infiltrates Eden. What she discovers is even worse than the situation she left behind. In the chaos of civil war, Rowan and her friends join forces with the second children and other rebels trapped inside. They fight for their lives, and for the future of humanity in this broken Earth.

The Mark of Eden
The Mark of Eden

Author: Matt Lauth

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9781737571728

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Alone in the galaxy, and connected through a past they don't remember, Val and Note must learn the truth ... before it's too late. Val narrowly escaped the Cell, a race of gene-splicers. Finding a new home and life for himself, he struggles to remember who he is and where he comes from. With no memory other than his name, he's shocked when a Sentinel-an ancient drone from a long-dead alien race-brands him with the Mark of Eden, a symbol feared throughout the galaxy. Note can't forget her brush with the Cell or her desperate escape. Strange words echo in her mind, and she's determined to discover what they mean. When a Sentinel points her toward Val, she's off to reunite with the boy she can't remember. Only knowing their past is connected to the Mark of Eden, the two must forge friendships, learn who they are, and uncover the galaxy's secrets while enduring a desperate struggle for survival against the Cell. But the dark truth they find might be better left buried.