title: Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island
author:  Lucinda Fleeson 
description: An admitted news junkie, journalist Fleeson imagined she would die in the <i>Philadelphia Inquirer's</i> newsroom with a half-written story in her computer. But as the newspaper business began its cataclysmic shift in the late 1990s, she started to feel stymied and leapt at a fund-raising job with Hawaii's National Tropical Botanical Garden. Arriving on the island of Kauai, she discovered that Hawaii's native plants were becoming extinct at an alarming rate, with two-thirds in danger of disappearing by the end of the current century. Fleeson delves into conservation effortsthe history of the garden's benefactors, two gay men with a passion for exotic plants and even more salacious parties during the years after WWII. She spotlights a full-time bartender who attempts to cultivate rare plants with basic greenhouse equipment. Finally, she shadows Kauai's own Orchid Thief: the Robin Hood of Hawaii known for picking endangered plants in national forests and turning them into prized specimens on his own preserve. An artful and lively tale of flora and fauna illustrates their complexities and serves as a reminder of the need to nurture both. <i>(July)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: The Island of Eden
  Invitation to Eden, Volume 1
  Lauren Hawkeye
  Published by Calluna Vulgaris Books, 2015.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.
  THE ISLAND OF EDEN
  First edition. June 9, 2015.
  Copyright © 2015 Lauren Hawkeye.
  ISBN: 978-1928068341
  Written by Lauren Hawkeye.
  
  Table of Contents
  Title Page
  Copyright Page
  Master of the Island | Prologue
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Master of Pleasure | Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
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  About the authors
  
  Master of the
  Island
  
  Prologue
  “I’ll take it.”
  I study the castle that stands alone at the top of a lush green hill. An Irish castle, it is built of
  dove grey stone and rocks that have crumbled with age, but it caught my attention—my
  imagination—as