Author: Martha Grimes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476733015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A once-fashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before. Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death.
Hotel Paradise
Author: Martha Grimes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476733015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A once-fashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before. Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476733015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A once-fashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before. Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death.
Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel
Author: Ruth Hogan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062935720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things comes a surprising and uplifting story about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and the magic of chosen family. Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved fizzy drinks, naughty words, and liked playing with ghosts and matches. When her beloved father suddenly disappeared, she and her fragile, difficult mother moved into Queenie Malone’s magnificent Paradise Hotel in Brighton, with its endearing and loving family of misfits—including the exuberant and compassionate Queenie herself. But then Tilly was dealt another shattering blow when her mother sent her off to boarding school with little explanation and no warning, and she lost her beloved chosen family. Now an adult, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother’s unaccountable cruelty. Wary of people, her only true friend is her dog, Eli. When her estranged mother dies, Tilda returns to Brighton and the home she loved best. With the help of the still-dazzling Queenie, she sets about unraveling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel, only to discover that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all…and that it’s never too late to write your own happy ending. With Ruth Hogan’s trademark quirky, clever, and life-affirming characters, Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel will dazzle readers and mesmerize them until they reach the surprising twist at the end.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062935720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things comes a surprising and uplifting story about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and the magic of chosen family. Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who loved fizzy drinks, naughty words, and liked playing with ghosts and matches. When her beloved father suddenly disappeared, she and her fragile, difficult mother moved into Queenie Malone’s magnificent Paradise Hotel in Brighton, with its endearing and loving family of misfits—including the exuberant and compassionate Queenie herself. But then Tilly was dealt another shattering blow when her mother sent her off to boarding school with little explanation and no warning, and she lost her beloved chosen family. Now an adult, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother’s unaccountable cruelty. Wary of people, her only true friend is her dog, Eli. When her estranged mother dies, Tilda returns to Brighton and the home she loved best. With the help of the still-dazzling Queenie, she sets about unraveling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel, only to discover that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all…and that it’s never too late to write your own happy ending. With Ruth Hogan’s trademark quirky, clever, and life-affirming characters, Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel will dazzle readers and mesmerize them until they reach the surprising twist at the end.
Paradise Hotel
Author: Richard Foreman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This brand new collection of plays reaffirms Richard Foreman's status as "the reigning philosopher vaudvillian of the New York avant-garde". In addition to six new plays -- "Paradise Hotel", "The Universe", "Permanent Brain Damage", "Risk It! Risk It!", "Pearls for Pigs" and "Benita Canova" (the last two of which won Obie awards for Best Play -- this collection also boasts two essays. "On My Plays" and "Rules", which elaborate on Foreman's singular approach to the art of playwrighting. Filled with Foreman's signature wit and vision, Paradise Hotel is the work a true genius of American theater.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This brand new collection of plays reaffirms Richard Foreman's status as "the reigning philosopher vaudvillian of the New York avant-garde". In addition to six new plays -- "Paradise Hotel", "The Universe", "Permanent Brain Damage", "Risk It! Risk It!", "Pearls for Pigs" and "Benita Canova" (the last two of which won Obie awards for Best Play -- this collection also boasts two essays. "On My Plays" and "Rules", which elaborate on Foreman's singular approach to the art of playwrighting. Filled with Foreman's signature wit and vision, Paradise Hotel is the work a true genius of American theater.
The Prince of Paradise
Author: John Glatt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250035724
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to a legendary hotel, he spent his childhood surrounded by some of the world's biggest stars. But his luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would end in another hotel room--a thousand miles away from the one where he grew up--when police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250035724
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to a legendary hotel, he spent his childhood surrounded by some of the world's biggest stars. But his luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would end in another hotel room--a thousand miles away from the one where he grew up--when police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death.
This Is Paradise
Author: Kristiana Kahakauwila
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0770436250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Elegant, 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.
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0770436250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Elegant, 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.
Paradise Laborers
Author: Patricia A. Adler
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489501
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Drawing on eight years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the renowned ethnographers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler reveal the occupational culture and lifestyles of workers at five luxury Hawaiian resorts. The Adlers describe the work, lives, and careers of new immigrants, locals, managers, and "seekers" who labor in organizations that never close, with shifts scheduled around the clock and around the year. Book jacket.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489501
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Drawing on eight years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the renowned ethnographers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler reveal the occupational culture and lifestyles of workers at five luxury Hawaiian resorts. The Adlers describe the work, lives, and careers of new immigrants, locals, managers, and "seekers" who labor in organizations that never close, with shifts scheduled around the clock and around the year. Book jacket.
Esquire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Paradise Palms
Author: Paul Haddad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684337200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
It is October 1957. A time of Eisenhower conformity, police and mob strongholds, and Red Scare paranoia. A relic of Hollywood's Golden Age, the aging Paradise Palms Hotel is on the brink of change. David Shapiro-eldest son of recently widowed Max Shapiro-has assumed a leadership role. But the more he digs into the hotel's business, the more he questions who his father is. It's not just the tenuous ties to gangster Mickey Cohen, who is trying to commandeer "the Palms," but also the sudden appearance of a mysterious African American guest named Rae Lynn, who improbably rises in stature. As long-buried secrets come to light, David's battle to keep the family intact takes a tragic turn. His actions mirror an America lurching from the surface simplicity of the '50s to the turmoil of the 1960s in this riveting neo-noir family saga.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684337200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
It is October 1957. A time of Eisenhower conformity, police and mob strongholds, and Red Scare paranoia. A relic of Hollywood's Golden Age, the aging Paradise Palms Hotel is on the brink of change. David Shapiro-eldest son of recently widowed Max Shapiro-has assumed a leadership role. But the more he digs into the hotel's business, the more he questions who his father is. It's not just the tenuous ties to gangster Mickey Cohen, who is trying to commandeer "the Palms," but also the sudden appearance of a mysterious African American guest named Rae Lynn, who improbably rises in stature. As long-buried secrets come to light, David's battle to keep the family intact takes a tragic turn. His actions mirror an America lurching from the surface simplicity of the '50s to the turmoil of the 1960s in this riveting neo-noir family saga.
THE ORDEAL
Author: Mangesh Jadhav
Publisher: One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9381115427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
nasa and the national oceanic and atmospheric administration (noaa) had jointly developed a satellite based technology that had military used. The Russians found out about it and tried to steal the technology through a source in the noaa. The source travelled to france to deliver the 'package'. But CIA agent michael jones was close behind, intending to stop the sale. Did he succeede Read on to find out...
Publisher: One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9381115427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
nasa and the national oceanic and atmospheric administration (noaa) had jointly developed a satellite based technology that had military used. The Russians found out about it and tried to steal the technology through a source in the noaa. The source travelled to france to deliver the 'package'. But CIA agent michael jones was close behind, intending to stop the sale. Did he succeede Read on to find out...
Civil Procedure
Author: Scott Dodson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199965226
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
In Civil Procedure: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers, Second Edition, Scott Dodson helps students demonstrate their knowledge of civil procedure in the structured and sophisticated manner that professors expect on law school exams. This book provides clear introductions to the major topics in civil procedure and includes the fact patterns and model answers most often found on Civil Procedure tests, followed by a comprehensive self-analysis section, giving students the opportunity to evaluate their own work. It prepares students by challenging them to use the law they learn in class while also explaining the way to best express the answer on law school exams. This second edition has been updated to reflect recent changes to the federal rules of civil procedure.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199965226
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
In Civil Procedure: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers, Second Edition, Scott Dodson helps students demonstrate their knowledge of civil procedure in the structured and sophisticated manner that professors expect on law school exams. This book provides clear introductions to the major topics in civil procedure and includes the fact patterns and model answers most often found on Civil Procedure tests, followed by a comprehensive self-analysis section, giving students the opportunity to evaluate their own work. It prepares students by challenging them to use the law they learn in class while also explaining the way to best express the answer on law school exams. This second edition has been updated to reflect recent changes to the federal rules of civil procedure.