When her youngest graduates three months later, making her an empty-nester as well as a widow, Cass decides it's time to make a new plan for herself. It's not a back-up plan. It's a paradise plan.
This is the first book to tell the story of OregonÕs unique land-use planning system from its rise in the early 1970s to its near-death experience in the first decade of the 2000s.
"From the same team that produced the monumental five-volume architectural history of New York comes the definitive work on the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that first emerged in England in the 1830s and still dominates ...
Made for Paradise reveals to us that, in the beginning, God created a paradise with everything we would need for perfect, healthy living--healthy eating, physical exercise, and rest.
Paradise Dogs, from Georgia Author of the Year Award winner Man Martin, is a farcical tale of paradise lost, the American Dream, and the true measures of love
“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.
When Dr. Thomas walked in, I was taken aback. I had forgotten how handsome he was. I wondered if it made the bad news he often delivered seem less harsh. I hoped I wouldn't find out. “Wow,” Dr. Thomas said. “I actually haven't ever had ...
Jesse Stone returns in this New York Times bestselling novel of death and deception from Robert B. Parker.
“Mmmm,” he said again, frowning at an article about Richard Daley. Democrats were not among his favorite people. “Wouldn't you say it's tragic that so much talent and intelligence and, and ambition will go to waste?
Perhaps the definitive novel of that "Lost Generation," it tells the story of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student who halfheartedly involves himself in literary cults, "liberal" student activities, and a series of empty ...