Mermaids In Paradise A Novel

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245632
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel written by Lydia Millet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hilariously funny. . . . Lydia Millet’s novels raise the bar for boldness.”—Rene Steinke, New York Times Book Review On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip—our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who's friendly to a fault—meet a marine biologist who says she's sighted mermaids in a coral reef. As the resort's "parent company" swoops in to corner the market on mythological creatures, the couple joins forces with other adventurous souls, including an ex–Navy SEAL with a love of explosives and a hipster Tokyo VJ, to save said mermaids from the "Venture of Marvels," which wants to turn their reef into a theme park. Mermaids in Paradise is Lydia Millet's funniest book yet, tempering the sharp satire of her early career with the empathy and subtlety of her more recent novels and short stories. This is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale, darkly comic on the surface and illuminating in its depths.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393351726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mermaids in Paradise written by Lydia Millet and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hilariously funny…Lydia Millet’s novels raise the bar for boldness." —Rene Steinke, New York Times Book Review In this “comic masterpiece” (Salon), honeymooners Deb and Chip—our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband—befriend a marine biologist who discovers mermaids in a coral reef. As a resort chain swoops in to exploit the shy creatures, the newlyweds unite with other adventurous vacationers to stop the company from turning the reef into a theme park. Mermaids in Paradise is Lydia Millet’s most fun book yet, tempering the sharp satire of her early career with the empathy and subtlety of her more recent novels and short stories.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324005041
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Children's Bible: A Novel written by Lydia Millet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller "A blistering little classic." —Ron Charles, Washington Post A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet’s prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.

Author : Lydia Millet
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081710
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Lights written by Lydia Millet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and haunting new novel from "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (Los Angeles Times). Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.—the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream—who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain. Salon raved that Millet's "writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." In Ghost Lights, she combines her characteristic wit and a sharp eye for the weirdness that governs human (and nonhuman) interactions. With the scathing satire and tender honesty of Sam Lipsyte and a dark, quirky, absurdist style reminiscent of Joy Williams, Millet has created a comic, startling, and surprisingly philosophical story about idealism and disillusionment, home and not home, and the singular, heartbreaking devotion of parenthood.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804169888
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. “A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Helene Boudreau
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402285000
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Mermaids Don’t Sell Seashells written by Helene Boudreau and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a Teenage Mermaid is No Day at the Beach A tropical vacation sounds like the perfect way to spend fall break—even for an aqua-phobic mer-girl like Jade. She can't wait to enjoy the warm sunshine and all-you-can-eat buffet with her best friend Cori and boyfriend Luke. (That's right. Boyfriend. It's official.) But when a body splashes into the water as a cruise ship enters the harbor, Jade realizes there might be trouble in paradise. And the mysterious boy selling conch shells in the market definitely knows more than he's letting on. Jade promised herself: No mer drama on vacation! But it couldn't hurt to check things out...right? Praise for Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings: "Bravo to Hélène Boudreau for hitting the bull's-eye with a fresh, affectionate, eatery twist on the classic coming-of-age-story."—New York Journal of Books "The author keeps suspense high...while tapping straight into young teens' angst about friends, enemies, and boys."—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Marie Knight
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492931232
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mermaid's Bond written by Marie Knight and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifted with the ability to shift into a wolf, mermaid Princess Sapphire Minala yearns for the day she's granted permission to leave her underwater asylum. When that day finally arrives, Sapphire ventures out with two tasks she is determined to complete. One - learn to control her Magik powers. Two - find the man who haunts her dreams through her Mermaid Bond, which turns out to be easier than she originally expected. Except Rye Adoms wants absolutely nothing to do with her beyond her training as a royal guard. While attempting to keep her secrets from being discovered and gaining Rye Adoms affection, Sapphire finds herself kidnapped by the one thing she fears most, Traders. Secrets and relationships are exposed when Sapphire is taken deep within the Alijah Mountains to the forbidden realm of the dragons and thrown headfirst into a war that has been forming for over seventeen years.

Author : Susan I. Weinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938349546
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Mer Family Onyx: Mermaid Stories on Land and Under the Sea written by Susan I. Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "family book" is for adults and mixed age groups of children. Tales of The Mer Family Onyx explores the worlds of Mer, through the magical household of Neptune and Glendora, stewards of the seas and their Mer Children who escape their father's shadow and make themselves proud. Can be read to younger children and enjoyed by those 8 to 11.

Author : Katie Schickel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765381311
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mermaid's Secret written by Katie Schickel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she, on her 23rd birthday, catches a wave that transforms her into a mermaid, Jess Creary becomes reborn into a confident, powerful predator with superhuman strength, but back on land, her relationship with Captain Matthew heats up and so does her search for the truth about her sister's death.

Author : Patricia Saxton
Publisher : Shenanigan Books
ISBN 13 : 0972661468
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Mermaids written by Patricia Saxton and published by Shenanigan Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to mermaid art, culture, fashion and magic.