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A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand. As featured in The Washington Post ∙ People ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ NPR ∙...

Best known for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, an almost exact contemporary of Edith Wharton, is celebrated as one of America’s foremost feminist writers. This collection includes 28 of her short stories. In addition to The Yellow Wallpaper are The Unexpected (her first published work), The Great Wistaria, An Extinct Angel, The Unnatural Mother and Deserted. These stories range from the subversive to the humorous, and are often imbued with satire and social commentary.

Mac Burns is a retired police detective from Atlanta who settles down in Bluffton, South Carolina and hopes to enjoy a “ho hum” life in that sleepy southern town. He is divorced and not particularly interested in a new relationship. Then he meets Shelby.

Climate catastrophe-inspired narratives like “Electrify Everything!” have a grip on people’s minds. The simplicity of the solution to the most complex endeavor ever faced by humans—the journey to a net zero future—is seductive, but it is fundamentally flawed. In Path to Zero: 12 Climate Conversations That Changed the World, author Tucker Perkins takes listeners on a series of future-casting journeys from the Year 2050 back to the present day to show us how a better way—a wide path to net zero carbon emissions—was, and can be, achieved in an accelerated time frame.

From Newbery Medal winner Lynne Rae Perkins, this short novel for younger middle grade readers explores themes of empathy, friendship, discovery, language, and the life-changing epiphanies of travel. Lissie, her dad, and her grandmother travel “to a faraway place, in a different part of the...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's powerful and unsettling story of a young woman descending into psychosis. Confined to her attic bedroom by her husband to ensure rest and recuperation after having her baby, and with nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman slowly becomes obsessed with the old yellow wallpaper covering the walls until she loses her grip on reality, imagining herself and others imprisoned behind the wallpaper.

"The Yellow Wallpaper and Why I Wrote It" is a thought-provoking exploration of the classic short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book delves into the psychological and societal themes embedded in the original work while providing an intimate glimpse into the author's motivations and personal experiences that led to the creation of this groundbreaking piece.

A magical fable about one fateful Christmas Eve when Santa is too sick to deliver all his presents. Several solutions are offered by the Elves but only one has the true meaning of Christmas in mind - the birth of Christ.

When we are initiated into the church with the water of baptism, we (or our sponsors) answer a series of questions called the Baptismal Covenant. The first three questions echo the words of our creeds, our beliefs about God and the church. The last five questions focus on action. They each begin with the words: "Will You?" These "Will You" questions articulate how we are to animate our baptism, to follow Christ's example in our relationships with others, our communities, and the world.

Many of us have heard about the recently discovered writings by the early followers of Jesus through newspapers, magazines, video and audio interviews, and conversations on social media. This enlightening, first-of-its-kind book draws on the words and wisdom of these ancient Jesus people to offer everyone deeper spiritual connection today. As we ruminate on these sacred words applied to contemporary life and take in the ancient texts recorded on papyrus and pottery, we discover new understandings and deeper connection to God and each other.

Este maravilloso relato, escrito por la autora norteamericana Charlotte Perkins, nos cuenta, a través de la forma del diario de una mujer, la historia de su matrimonio, la maternidad y la recuperación de una enfermedad que adolece en una peculiar casa de campo, donde día a día ingresará en otra realidad. El simbolismo y los sucesos de corte psiquiátrico son precisos para conectar la obra con un lado de la realidad que no debe ser ignorado.

O podcast da Perkins&Will São Paulo celebra os dez anos da fusão com a Perkins&Will global e conta com apresentação da jornalista Regina Galvão, referência em arquitetura e design. A cada episódio, ela conversa com convidados que integram a equipe do escritório, além de clientes e especialistas sobre questões relacionadas à história e à prática da arquitetura, tendências mundiais, movimentos de mercado e detalhes dos projetos.

Discover stories of fear, triumph, and spectacular celebration in this warm-hearted novel of interconnected stories that celebrates the diversity of South Asian American experiences in a local community center. Discover stories of fear, triumph, and spectacular celebration in the fictional town...

Written with gut-punch honesty and soul-level vulnerability, Brent Perkins—once a hard-driving CEO, now a leadership alchemist—invites you into an unfiltered reckoning. No quick fixes. No guru gloss. Just a raw, illuminating confrontation with the invisible decisions that cost us the most. Unlike traditional self-help, Papercuts doesn’t teach you to heal your inner child, it shows you how to stop abandoning your inner adult.

Regardless of whether you’re in recovery, work to help others in their recovery, or just love great movies, Addicted in Film manages to take the sometimes difficult conversation about addiction and recovery and render it accessible, informative, engaging, and at times laugh-out-loud funny.

The Crux is the story of group of women who move from New England to Colorado in order to run a boardinghouse for men. One of these women, the young Vivian Lane, falls in love with a man who has both gonorrhea and syphilis. It then falls to Vivian, when she learns of his illnesses, to decide whether she should marry and have children with this man. She is torn between her own heart and the “duty” of motherhood, as one doctor in the novel puts it, to have children with a healthy father.

Presented here are three of the most important feminist novels ever written: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Each of these works is an early groundbreaking piece of fiction from some of literature's finest female writers as they explore life, love, and the struggle of women to find their voices in a time where they were too often silenced and suppressed.

Il fixe les règles. Elle les brise toutes. Gabriel Miller est arrogant, sûr de lui, séducteur et propriétaire d'un club échangiste. Les femmes, c'est son rayon. Le sexe, encore plus. À une condition : pas de conquêtes au boulot. Une règle horriblement difficile à respecter quand arrive Grace O'Brien, sa nouvelle serveuse. Étudiante fauchée au caractère affirmé, elle lui tient tête à chaque occasion et s'amuse à le rendre fou de désir.

Because there is much confusion surrounding the exact beliefs and claims of the Revoice movement, the creation of A Little Leaven was necessary. A Little Leaven: Confronting the Ideology of the Revoice Movement was written in order to help Christians understand this new challenge to historic Christian teaching on sexuality. Despite the claims of Revoice proponents, AFA research fellow M.D. Perkins shows the contradictions, biblical compromises, and false teaching promoted by the primary representatives of the Revoice movement.

The story of Watergate is usually told through the prism of straight white male journalists and politicians who were at the center of the scandal—but Watergate happened to all of us—wives, mothers, children, Black, White, queer, immigrants. Those voices and perceptions are rarely heard today. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Watergate was envisioned as a book that looks at the wider ripples of the Watergate explosion and how it changed the way Americans saw themselves, their country, and the world around them.