Franklin in Paradise

Franklin in Paradise
Author: John Patrick
Publisher: NineStar Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164890291X

Life is good for eighteen-year-old Franklin. He lives on the spectrum, structuring and organizing his days, avoiding messy situations and ambiguity. But what he really wants is a boyfriend. Twenty-one-year-old Patrick has a past he can’t seem to shake, and a sexual identity that’s hard to describe—or maybe it’s just evolving. When a manmade virus sweeps the globe, killing nearly everyone, the two young men find themselves thrust together, dependent on each other for survival. As they begin to rebuild their world, their feelings for each other deepen. But Franklin needs definition and clarity, and Patrick’s identity as asexual—or demisexual, or grey ace?—isn’t helping. These two men will need to look beyond their labels if they are going to find love at the end of the world.

The Promise of Paradise

The Promise of Paradise
Author: Satya Bharti Franklin
Publisher: Barrytown Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Religious biography
ISBN: 9780882681368

This memoir of a woman who joined the Rajneeshi community in a search for ultimate fulfillment, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the cult, describing its beginning to its demise in the 1980s.

Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416911782

Frank and Joe are sent to find the missing son of a UN Ambassador.

Undercover in Paradise

Undercover in Paradise
Author: John Patrick
Publisher: NineStar Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1648904580

DEA Agent Hector Ramirez is on his first undercover mission. He’s been sent to a Buddhist monastery deep in the woods of Maine, where he’s investigating a confusing web of connections between a Peruvian drug gang, a prominent Mormon family and the monastery’s leaders. Dallin Rigby, the young son of a prominent Mormon family, has been sent on a year-long retreat while the scandal associated with his mission to Peru dies down. The men, the sex, the blackmail tape—there’s a lot to get past. He’s not looking forward to a year in the middle of nowhere, but the presence of the attractive Brother Hector might make his time in exile more bearable. No one at the isolated monastery is aware of the disaster unfolding outside its walls, as a man-made virus sweeps the globe, killing nearly everyone. Cut off from his contacts, and with dwindling supplies, Hector sets out with Dallin to learn what has happened. As the attraction between the two men grows, Hector begins to question the necessity of remaining undercover. But is it too late for him to finally be honest with Dallin, about his job and about himself?

Hurricanes in Paradise

Hurricanes in Paradise
Author: Denise Hildreth
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 141433835X

From the moment Riley Sinclair stepped onto Paradise Island, Bahamas, and into her new job as director of guest relations at a five-star resort, she felt the pieces of her once-broken life finally coming together. But the waters become choppy when Riley discovers that some who come to the Atlantis hotel arrive with more than just suitcases and suntan lotion in tow. They're accompanied by their lurking demons, paralyzing secrets, and overwhelming fears. Riley and three women guests are in desperate but unknowing need of each other, eventually forging unlikely yet powerful friendships. With a hurricane headed straight for the island, together they embark on a journey of laughter and lunacy, heartache and healing.

This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1775414833

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.

When Public Housing was Paradise

When Public Housing was Paradise
Author: J. S. Fuerst
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252072130

Collecting seventy-nine oral histories from former public housing residents and staff, J. S. Fuerst's When Public Housing Was Paradise is a powerful testament to the fact that well-designed, well-managed low-rent housing has worked, as well as a demonstration of how it could be made to work again. J. S. Fuerst has been involved with public housing in Chicago for more than half a century. He retired from Loyola University, where he was a professor of social welfare policy. He was the editor of Public Housing in Europe and America. D. Bradford Hunt is an assistant professor of social science at Roosevelt University. John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and many more.

Pioneers in Paradise

Pioneers in Paradise
Author: Jan Tuckwood
Publisher: Lyons Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781493042227

Little more than 100 years ago, West Palm Beach was a nameless stretch of scrub and swamp dotted by a few settlements. Then Henry Flagler arrived. In a matter of months, the Standard Oil tycoon turned Palm Beach into a world-renowned resort. And across Lake Worth from his fancy paradise, he fashioned a service city - West Palm Beach. This is the story of the unique mix of high society and endless summer that has developed there.

Dublin Bay

Dublin Bay
Author: John Patrick
Publisher: NineStar Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1648904106

In 1939, the world tumbles toward war and the lives of two young men will be forever changed. James Brennan grew up in the poorest of Dublin’s tenements, turning adversity to advantage wherever he could. But he’s nearly a man now—with a good education at that—and wants more from life than what he can get as a day laborer, or following his father into the factory. Otto Werner is the privileged son of a German diplomat stationed in Dublin. Otto is destined for great things in the new Europe sure to arise after Germany’s victory in the war. But he’s a lonely young man, living in Ireland with only his father for company, cut off from friends and family back home. The two teens meet by chance, and each sees in the other a means to advance his own interests. But they quickly become friends, and then—surprisingly, dangerously—more. As the globe spirals deeper into chaos, the love between the young men deepens; but their world is not a hospitable place for forbidden love. As war comes closer and closer to home, everything they believe—about themselves, about each other, about the world around them—will be shattered. Will their love for each other survive the pull toward destruction in a world gone mad?

The Paradise of All These Parts

The Paradise of All These Parts
Author: John Mitchell
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807071496

How much does the current landscape of Boston, Massachusetts, resemble the place that Captain John Smith referred to in 1614 as "the Paradise of all these parts"? John Hanson Mitchell explores a variety of habitats as he ranges outward from the core of the peninsula where the Puritans first settled to the ancient rim of the Boston Basin, within which the modern city now lies. Endlessly readable and full of personality, The Paradise of All These Parts offers Boston visitors and residents alike a whole new perspective on one of America's oldest cities.