The Savage Paradise


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AFTER A TRAVELING PRIZE FIGHTERIS SENTENCED TO A WORK FARM, HE MEETS AN INDIAN GIRL; TOGETHER, THEY PLAN THE ESCAPE OF A LIFETIME. Inside a barn in a tiny Florida town, the last ?ght of the night is about to take place. Andy, a traveling prize ?ghter, enters the ring to jeers from onlookers. As the betting ends, the ?xed ?ght begins. When he throws the ?nal punch that knocks his opponent to the ground, Andy suddenly realizes he has been betrayed by his employer and attempts to make a hasty exit. No one is waiting to whisk him to safety. Andys life is about to change forever. After Andy is brutally beaten by an angry town mob that includes the local sheri? , he is unjustly jailed and sentenced to a work farm. Subject to hard labor by a brutal overseer, Andy thinks his life is overuntil he meets Oquilla, a Seminole Indian also imprisoned by the sheri? , who secretly plans to make her his woman. Against all reason, Andy and Oquilla fall in love and begin planning their escape. The only way out is through foreboding and perilous swamps. As Andy and Oquilla em-bark on a dangerous journey to freedom, bounty hunters relentlessly pursue the couple. Only time will tell if Andy and Oquilla will be able to outrun an evil sheri? and his lackeys.




Visions of Savage Paradise


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Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic.




Savage Paradise


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Marianna Fowler arrives in the Minnesota territory, unprepared for the uncivilized region and her surprising feelings for a handsome Chippewa brave who saves her life and risks everything for the woman he loves.




Savage Paradise


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This book contains some of the best animal photographs ever published, illustrating the world of the African predators -- lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, and wild dogs. To accompany this unique collection, the author describes the animals pictured, as well as his life on the Serengeti. He blends entertaining anecdote, important new scientific material, and an almost miraculous understanding of the animals he studies. His sympathy for his subjects coupled with supreme technical ability give his photographs a unique quality and significance.







Rushing to Paradise


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The rise and fall of a cult leader. After losing her medical license, Dr. Barbara Rafferty turns environmentalist to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific. The campaign attracts media attention, money flows and she sets up a commune on an atoll, an experiment which ends in bloodshed




A Paradise Built in Hell


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The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.




The Savage Paradise


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This Side of Paradise


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This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.




The Paradise Prophecy


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Prepare yourself for the paradise prophecy. Then pray it isn’t happening. An iconic, near saintly, pop singer dies suddenly, tragically in an inexplicable fire. She’s only the first victim in a series of similar, unspeakable deaths. Bernadette Callahan is an investigator at a shadowy government organization. She’s on the trail of a serial killer with ungodly means of disposal. Religious historian Sebastian LaLaurie knows that the crimes are more than the work of a psychopath, and that Bernadette is closing in on something she never bargained for. Now Sebastian must convince Bernadette to believe—in the power of fallen angels in disguise. In the ancient clues of the Bible. In the hellfire of a coming apocalypse. In the prophecies of Paradise Lost. And ultimately, in the unholy conspiracy upon them, one far beyond the scope of mankind’s darkest imagination. And one that no human can stop.