Eden Close

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054753910X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eden Close written by Anita Shreve and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling tale of edgy, small-town emotions, lingering obsession, and romantic salvation from acclaimed novelist Anita Shreve. Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did not want her and to please the father who did. She also aimed to please Andrew and his friends, first by being one of the boys and later by seducing them. Then one hot night, Andrew was awakened by gunshots and piercing screams from the next farm: Mr. Close had been killed and Eden blinded. Now, seventeen years later, Andrew begins to uncover the grisly story––to unravel the layers of thwarted love between the husband, wife, and tormented girl. And as the truth about Eden's past comes to light, so too does Andrew's strange and binding attachment to her reveal itself.

Author : George Groves Jr
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468544748
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eden... Closed written by George Groves Jr and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth's demise may not come from the skies. It most likely will come from within. Not since the infancy of our solar system has Earth undergone such titanic geological upheavals. Rift zones are tearing the world apart, tectonic plates rampage under land masses causing earthquakes of immeasurable magnitude, continents being split into pieces then consumed by half-mile high tsunamis. Earth's lands have ceased to exist except for three insignificant stubs of land; a scant remnant of Montana where vacationing Ross Nielson has joined up with a group of picnicking school children. Another is a 9,000 seamount in the bay of Ecuador housing a team of geologists, and the third an uninhabited dot of Australia. The Montana and Ecuador survivors, a family cruising the Pacific on their yacht, and the remnant crew of a devastated Coast Guard ship bring the Earth's total known population to fifty. Intimate snapshots of an estranged father and son on the verge of a reunion, an airliner's crew, a Hawaiian priest and a revenge-seeking girl sketch the poignancy of their last hours before being claimed by this unprecedented catastrophe.

Author : Henri Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eden Close at Hand written by Henri Martin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780356187983
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eden Close written by Anita Shreve and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel in which Andrew, an advertising executive, returns to his hometown in upstate New York to attend his mother's funeral. He renews friendships with a blind girl of his youth and is drawn to save her from the cruel neglect she has endured for 17 sightless years without him.

Author : Richard Michaels
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101163194
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Eden written by Richard Michaels and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord of the Flies comes to Club Med in the year?s most exciting and original thriller. Charles Spencer is a fifty-five year old college professor, going on vacation with his wife and their two almost-grown children to the sunny Caribbean isle of St. Bart?s. But when they land, Charles and his family find only chaos. Rumors circulate of an attack on the United States. Communications are down. People are panicked beyond comprehension. It is in this madness that Charles uses his intellect and articulate nature to bring the locals and tourists together, and maintain a semblance of order and society in the face of disaster. But humanity is not as civilized as Charles believes. Distrust, animosity, and prejudice splinter the survivors into factions who battle over supplies, technology, and control. And even as Charles confronts those who would doom them all, a greater threat is on the horizon. A threat that will force them all to fight not only for their lives?but for the future of their world.

Author : Theresa Sanders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442200634
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaching Eden written by Theresa Sanders and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to be religious for the story of Adam and Eve to have touched your life. From Voldemort's snake mascot in Harry Potter novels to the 'forbidden fruit' apple that puts Snow White to sleep in fairy tales, we are inundated with references to the Garden of Eden in popular culture from an early age. On a deeper level, the story has been used as justification for conflicting viewpoints on issues ranging from nudity to marriage to slavery. Approaching Eden digs much deeper than merely cataloguing entertaining Adam and Eve references in popular culture by exploring how these references are used and how they shape society. Theresa Sanders provides essential historical background from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives to show the relevance and prominence of Adam and Eve's story in life today.

Author : Ann Chamberlin
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 146683823X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving Eden written by Ann Chamberlin and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2000-06-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving Eden brilliantly brings to life that watershed moment in our history when man -- and woman -- turned their backs on the most ancient of laws in order to strike out in independence. Told from the point of view young Na'amah, Adam's daughter by his first wife, Lilith, it tells of the passing of the ancient Goddess and the birth of the new God. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631521896
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eden written by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction 2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction 2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction Becca Meister Fitzpatrick—wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community—is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic summer tradition . . . until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter’s boldness in the face of impending single-motherhood, and summons the courage to reveal a secret she was forced to bury long ago: the existence of a daughter she gave up fifty years ago. The question now is how her other daughter, Rachel—with whom Becca has always had a strained relationship—will react. Eden is the account of the days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, as Becca prepares to disclose her secret and her son and brothers conspire to put the estate on the market, interwoven with the century-old history of Becca’s family—her parents’ beginnings and ascent into affluence, and her mother’s own secret struggles in the grand home her father named “Eden.”

Author : Jean Stein
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473522358
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West of Eden written by Jean Stein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim – all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny (There Will Be Blood) and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios – from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch (who bought the Stein mansion in 1985). West of Eden is about money, power, fame and terrible secrets: the doomed Hollywood of the late Fifties, early Sixties – ‘the rotten heart of paradise’. Like her last book, the best-selling Edie, this is an oral history told through brilliantly edited interviews. As this is Hollywood, it’s a book full of sex, drugs and celebrity glamour; but because it’s built from the firsthand accounts of people who were actually there, many of them writers, actors and artists, it’s also strangely claustrophobic, seductive, and completely compelling.

Author : George B. Hodgson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Borough of South Shields, from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Nineteenth Century written by George B. Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: