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Hotel Paradise (Random House Large Print)
Martha Grimes
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Internationally acclaimed Martha Grimes once again turns her hand to crafting a story of such rich atmosphere and intricate suspense that she transports the reader to a world unlike any other.
A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster Aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before.
Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present. In the world as seen by Martha Grimes, those repercussions simmer and seethe and wind their way through hearts and souls. The ramifications can be subtle. Or exhilarating. Passionate. And they can also be deadly.
Hotel Paradise is a delicate yet excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult and the choices she must make between right and wrong, between love and truth, between life and death. It is a novel with extraordinary range and depth that ultimately becomes a thrilling morality play.
With its narrative grace, its compelling characters, and its moment-to-moment suspense,
Hotel Paradise is Martha Grimes at the top of her form.
Customer Reviews:
couldn't relate to its ambiguities.......2007-08-14
I couldn't get into this novel. I don't think Martha Grimes took the time to create a vision of a realistic setting, time, and character definitions for this book. As a consequence, I couldn't relate to the place, era, or people that make up the fabric of the story. It felt like being in Disney World...one minute you're on Main Street USA, then a few steps later you're on the frontier 40 years earlier. Disney makes it fun, but in this novel it's just confusing.
The main character, supposedly a 12 year old girl, sounds like Martha Grimes, the adult, sometimes remembering to pretend she's a 12 year old girl. And I couldn't tell if this was set in the 90s, 70s, or 50s, because the cues were inconsistent. If this were deliberately meant to be a surrealist novel, it would have been more interesting, but I think Ms. Grimes just couldn't get her context clear. It became distracting. After a while, I got tired of wandering around in this tale and just stopped reading it. Perhaps the ending provides some logical reason for the confusion.
Unfinished Masterpiece.......2007-02-22
This is the first Martha Grimes book I've read. It reminded me of "To Kill a Mockingbird" (one of my all-time favorite books) in its setting and characters, and particularly the main character, the extremely appealing and spunky Emma. I thoroughly enjoyed it...up until the end. Yes, the plot is all over the place, and the pace is slow, but it's beautifully and intelligently written, laugh out loud funny at times, and the descriptions of the wonderful food prepared by Emma's mother will make you hungry! I only gave it three stars, however, because of the ending. However, I did read in another review that evidently this is the first book of a trilogy and the story is picked up in "Cold Flat Junction," so I'm heading to the library to find that one!
A Kind of Paradise.......2006-08-22
This book begins a trilogy that surpasses the genre of mysteries. The development of Emma as a young narrator is both real and poignant and humorous--I found I was thinking of her as a real human being, whose brave acceptance of the life she's been given moved me. If you enjoyed To Kill A Mockingbird, or even Anne of Green Gables when you were young, you should find this book and enter this beautifully drawn world of a South from not so long ago.
Kept my attention..........2006-05-22
I bought Belle Ruin on CD to listen to in my car during my long commute to work and back every day. I found that this was the fourth book in this Martha Grimes series and did not stand alone because of the references to prior stories and characters. I liked what I heard of the beginning of Belle Ruin enough to look into the other previous books. I found Hotel Paradise. Thought there is a previous book, the End of the Pier, that one is not about Emma, so I skipped that one. I will go back to it though. Anyway, who would have thought that the ramblings of a 12 year old girl could be so hypnotic? I am listening to the audio book and find myself looking forward to the time in my car so that I can hear more. This story is as much about the insights and musings of this girl as it is about the deaths around her in which she is so interested. Left mostly to her own devices, with little, if any, adult supervision, Emma gets it into her head that a young girl, a girl her age, who died 40 years ago was murdered as opposed to being in an accident. Using her age as manipulation, she goes places and talks to people who wouldn't have given the time of day to an adult in the same way. She asks and asks an thinks and thinks until she comes up with the answer to the death of Rose Devereaux and who killed her. This book ends with that revelation and just stops. I was a bit disappointed in that until I started on Cold Flat Junction where I realized that the story had only just begun. The first line of Cold Flat Junction is, "I'm sitting here where you left me hardly more than a week ago." and on Emma goes with more of the same in Martha Grimes next novel of coming of age in a small town.
Disappointing Ending.......2005-11-13
Good read right up until the very end. The well-written characters and wonderful descriptive prose keep you turning the page. I was a bit disappointed in the ending...I was hoping for a more dramatic resolution of the mystery.
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During the 1850s, New York's Adirondack region saw the birth of a leisure world centered in the area's large resort hotels. These spectacular structures clearly reflected the dramatic social and technological changes that unfolded in the United States between 1850 and 1950. In his new book, Bryant F. Tolles, Jr. studies the architectural development of these extraordinary retreats in order to explore changing American attitudes toward nature and landscape, fashion and culture, transportation, and innovations of various sorts. He also delves into the resorts' eventual decline, which was rooted in their vulnerability as wooden structures as well as in the ever-changing preferences of their guests.
With over two hundred illustrations--many of them historic photographs, along with architectural plans, reproductions of printed "views," and recent shots of the remaining hotels and their related buildings--Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks captures the glorious spirit of a bygone world and reveals fundamental shifts in American cultural expectations. Tolles brings his chronicle up to the present by exploring the two surviving grand Adirondack resort hotels--the second Hotel Champlain (at Bluff Point on Lake Champlain) and the third Sagamore Hotel (at Bolton Landing on Lake George). The book concludes with a discussion of several imaginatively conceived but never-built resort hotels.
Tolles has utilized an authoritative array of sources, including guidebooks, local histories, newspaper articles, maps, county and town records, business records, guest correspondence, and diary entries. His comprehensive history creates a detailed picture of luxury in a resort setting and enriches our understanding of American life and culture during a period of radical change.
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Resorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the tourism industry. Yet despite the ubiquity of hotels, little has been written about those who labor there. Drawing on eight years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the renowned ethnographers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler reveal the occupational culture and lifestyles of workers at five luxury Hawaiian resorts.
These resorts employ a workforce that is diverse in gender, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Hawaiian resort workers, like those in nearly all resorts, consist of four groups. New immigrants hold difficult and dirty low-status jobs for little pay. Locals provide an authentic Polynesian flavor for guests, a ready pool of youthful high-turnover employees, and a population trapped in a place that offers few occupational alternatives. Managers tend to be middle-class, college-educated young and middle-aged men from the mainland whose lifestyles are occupationally transient. Seekers, mostly young, white, and from the mainland as well, escape to paradise seeking adventure, warmth, extreme sports, or some alternate life experiences.
The Adlers describe the work, lives, and careers of these four groups that labor in organizations that never close, with shifts scheduled around the clock and around the year. Paradise Laborers adds to the growing interest in the global flow of labor, as these immigrant workers display different trends in gendered opportunities and mobility than those exhibited by other groups. The authors propose a political economy of tourist labor in which they compare the different expectations and rewards of organizations, employees, and local labor markets.
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Paradise Found.......2007-07-22
These days when people want to "get away" they often look for more than just an overnight stay at a hotel. They seek somewhere beautiful, peaceful, and possibly spiritual - a place to rest and escappe from daily routine: a setting that invites serenity and nurtures reflection.
What better region to find such solace and serenity than in the spectacular environs of California and the Southwest? Paradise Found features tweenty-five of the most gorgeous retreats and sanctuaries of California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. The book covers a broad range of retreats, from healing centers to Christian abbeys and Buddhist temples. Each welcomes guests of any age and faith, and all provide comfortable, affordable accomodations.
A lively text by Stanley Young includes a colorful profile of each retreat with helpful information, includung customs, types of food served, descriptions of accomodations, and suggestions for making the most of a visit to these spectacular settings.
Over 100 full-color photographs by Melba Levick capture the sanctuaries' inviting exteriors and tranquil interiors. From the relaxing hot springs at Esalen Institute on the California coast to the dramatic St. Andrews Abbey in the striking San Gabriel Mountains overlooking the Mojave Desert; from the cheerful, handmade prayer flags waving at the Lama Foundation in the mountain meadows of New Mexico to the renowened kitchen at Green Gulch Farm filled with the aroma of their famous, fresh-baked bread. Paradise Found offers a visual feast for travelers and spiritual seekers everywhere.
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A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend. Plays for Performance Series.
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good.......2001-07-29
staying with the saga another good book from mr axler
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Eat, Drink and Feast of Soups.......2007-06-08
If you're into soup, check out Feast of Soup.
Not very practical.......2005-12-06
Eels, honeycomb tripe, veal knuckles, pig's feet, gooseberries, oxtail, quahogs and lamb neck - just some of the many oddd ingredients in this book. I was looking for something to make for a simple dinner. This is definitely not it! I was very disappointed. The book was printed in 1982 and there has been no update of any kind.
Soup Primer.......2002-01-10
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Need we be surprised? Once again Heriteau delivers an exceptionally tasty assortment from her kitchen to ours...and just in time for me to add it to my Christmas-giving list. She is truly blessed, as are we, in turn!
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I have quite a few soup books, but this is the only one that receives regular use, and which I know I can count on for a delicious recipe each and every time. The book is simple, not containing many pictures or illustrations, but has hundreds of recipes in it from around the world. This is one of the only soup books I've seen which had multiple (no less than 5) different recipes and styles for tomato soup, it's selection is huge. It is obvious from the dialogue that the author is a soup lover and uses these recipes daily in her home, just like it should be. She details what makes soups not just good, but fantastic, like how to pick your ingredients for maximum flavor. There is a short section before each category of soups where she gives an overview of that soup, some insider tips on preparation, as well as suggestions on building a meal around them. Truly a great cook book, and a must for any soup lover.
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I thought it would be better based on reviews :(.......2004-12-28
I bought this book for my four year old daughter being it received high reviews on Amazon. I was a little disappointed. About mid story, my daughter was bored with the whole concept and pretty much wanted to go on to reading another book. The illustrations are beautiful and detailed but I think it would be better for ages kindegarten and up rather than preschool or younger. Sorry...
breathtaking.......2004-08-24
I am a Scott Gustafson fan and so is my husband and my nearly 3-year-old son. We bought this book as a Christmas gift for my son at a local gallery (as well as couple of others and a print) two years ago. I too had a hard time finding it at chain bookstores. This is by far my son's most favorite book--not only did he learn all his letters from it, but he tests his parents knowledge by asking us questions from the book, ie, "What does the zebra bring for the soup? Zuchini!" I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in original and intelligent art.
A Beautiful Book.......2003-04-21
We were givin this book last Christmas to read to our baby and have now bought it for a housewarming gift. This is a beautiful, whimsical book that will delight all ages. I'm glad that Amazon.com carries it because we've found that NOBODY shelves it in stock, which is a shame because I think more people would love this book if they saw it on the shelves. The paintings are simply fantastic, and the words delight even our little 16 month old.
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This digital document is an article from Sojourners, published by Sojourners on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1606 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Words to live by: in telling their stories, guests at the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen feast on divine mystery.(Church of the Holy Apostles, New York City)
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