Burning Paradise

Burning Paradise
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765332612

"Cassie [Iverson], eighteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2014--but it's not our United States and it's not our 2014. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1914. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades--back to the dawn of radio communications--human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity"--

Paradise Burning

Paradise Burning
Author: Chris Simunek
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1998-05-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312187538

Simunek went out on assignment with his "High Times" press badge to find out what exactly was going on in the world of drugs--most importantly, heaven's weed: marijuana. Written in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, "Paradise Burning" offers the lucid and humorous account of his findings. 25 photos.

Kung Fu Cult Masters

Kung Fu Cult Masters
Author: Leon Hunt
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781903364635

Chinese Martial Arts films have captured audiences' imaginations around the world. In this wide-ranging study, Hunt looks at the mythic allure of the Shaolin Temple, the 'Clones' of Bruce Lee, gender-bending swordswomen, and the knockabout comedy of Sammo Hung, bringing new insights to a hugely popular and yet critically neglected genre. 12 photos.

Paradise

Paradise
Author: Lizzie Johnson
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593136381

"The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire-the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century-and a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds ... A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again"--

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
Author: Dani Anguiano
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1324005157

The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Fire in Paradise is their dramatic narrative of the disaster and an unforgettable story of an American town at the forefront of the climate emergency.

Stay

Stay
Author: John Clute
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2016-11-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1473219817

Stay gathers together 100,000 words of reviews, plus short fiction by John Clute, and was originally published to coincide with Loncon3 (the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention) at which he was one of the Guests of Honour. Also included is a complete reprint of the text of The Darkening Garden.

Burning in Paradise

Burning in Paradise
Author: Michael Madsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Actor/writer Michael Madsen's poetry explores the intense and gritty experiences of a man living life on the edge and chronicles episodes of loneliness, infidelity, depression, drugs, and sex.

GameAxis Unwired

GameAxis Unwired
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2008-03
Genre:
ISBN:

GameAxis Unwired is a magazine dedicated to bring you the latest news, previews, reviews and events around the world and close to you. Every month rain or shine, our team of dedicated editors (and hardcore gamers!) put themselves in the line of fire to bring you news, previews and other things you will want to know.