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There's nothing funny about hit men, insurance scammers, loansharking bookmakers or leaky love dolls, but Perkins allows us to see the outlandishness of it all. He makes us smile and laugh with his plots and the insane characters that parade through Deep Air. A blow-up sex doll, gems, and beer are catalysts for this wacky misadventure through the backwaters of Key West, what's not funny about that? Perkins answer is everything's comical. One begins to wonder if Perkins made these characters up, or did he once know them.

We are living in historic times. Not since the Civil Rights Movement of the '60s has our country been as vigorously engaged in the reconciliation conversation. There is a great opportunity right now for culture to change, to be a more perfect union. However, it cannot be done without the church, because the faith of the people is more powerful than any law government can enact.

Instructed to abandon her intellectual life and avoid stimulating company, she sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.

Paul E. Perkins has worked over 50 years in the banking industry, helping people, growing communities, and investing in future generations. After years of debilitating heart disease, Paul underwent a heart and kidney transplant at the Mayo Clinic in 2014. He died at least two medically confirmed times, and at one point left the hospital as medical staff cheered the miracle man's amazing recovery.

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde grew out of a horrifying nightmare Robert Louis Stevenson had one night in Bournemouth, England, in 1886. "The Yellow Wallpaper" sprang from a catastrophic nervous breakdown Charlotte Perkins Gilman had six years later on the other side of the Atlantic following the birth of her daughter. Now these two haunting, iconic tales are brought together for the first time in this powerful classic audio exploration of madness and the duality of the human soul.

Una mujer y su marido que es médico, John, han alquilado una casa antigua para pasar el verano. Deciden en vez de usar la habitación normal de matrimonio instalase en el cuarto de los niños en la planta alta. El marido considera que eso será una forma de tratamiento médico para que su mujer pueda recuperarse de lo que él ha diagnosticado como "una depresión nerviosa temporal con una ligera tendencia histérica", diagnóstico habitual para las mujeres de esa época.

Det er næsten et år siden, at Makani Young flyttede ind hos sin bedstemor langt ude på landet i Nebraska, og hun er stadig ved at finde sig til rette i sit nye liv. Og hun er stadig jaget af sin fortid i Hawaii. En efter en bliver hendes medstuderende på byens lille high school myrdet i en række brutale drab, og imens politiet jagter morderen, breder uhyggen og usikkerheden sig, og Makani bliver tvunget til at forholde sig til sine egne mørke hemmeligheder. Forfatteren Stephanie Perkins er tilbage med et forfriskende bud på den klassiske slasher-genre. Fyldt med blod.

Anbefalet af John Green og Rainbow Rowell. I tre år har Isla haft et crush på den indadvendte tegner Josh, som hun går i klasse med på School of America i Paris. I sommerferien møder hun ham tilfaeldigt på Manhattan, og romantikken begynder at blomstre. Men i løbet af skoleåret er både hun og Josh dog tvunget til at konfrontere de udfordringer, som alle unge par må gå igennem: familiedrama, usikkerhed omkring ens valg for fremtiden og risikoen for at blive adskilt.

Lola har et naesten perfekt liv. Hun bor i San Francisco sammen med sine to faedre, hendes kaereste er rockmusiker, og hun er en spirende modedesigner. Men så flytter de berygtede Bell-tvillinger Calliope og Cricket tilbage til nabolaget i huset ved siden af Lola, og en fortid fyldt med smerte og kvaler bliver gravet frem. Cricket Bell er nemlig fyren, der knuste Lolas hjerte to år tidligere. Men kan en fyr fra Lolas fortid vise sig at vaere hendes store kaerlighed?

Anna er glad og tilfreds i Atlanta, hvor hun ser frem til at starte på sit sidste år på high school. Hun har en trofast bedste veninde, et godt fritidsjob og et crush på en fyr, der netop er begyndt at vise interesse for hende. Anna bliver derfor ikke begejstret, da hendes far beslutter sig for at sende hende på kostskole i Paris. Selv om Anna ikke kan fransk, møder hun hurtigt en ny gruppe venner, og ikke mindst den søde og charmerende Étienne St. Clair. Desværre er han allerede taget - og det er Anna vel egentlig også? Men i lysets by kan alting ske.

Katina King is the reigning teen jiu-jitsu champion of Northern California, but she's having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in Kolkata, India and is reluctant to take on his future. Since he knows nothing about his past, how is he...

It's the week before New Year's Eve, and genealogist Lucy Lancaster is ready to mix work and play at the beautiful Hotel Sutton, enjoying herself while finalizing the presentation for her latest client, hotel heiress Pippa Sutton. Freshly arrived at the hotel - and determined not to think about Special Agent Ben Turner, who went radio silent on her after one date - Lucy is stopped in her tracks when a strange man comes staggering toward her. He presses a classic Montblanc pen onto her hand, gasps, “Keep them safe”, and collapses at her feet, dead.

Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster deals with murders in both the past and present in this captivating first mystery in the Ancestry Detective series.

Llyn Roberts shares her years of experience with indigenous healers, shamans, and Elders who come from cultures that know how to shapeshift realities. She translates ancient techniques into easy-to-understand modern practices that you can use every day to transform personal imbalances, open to your life purpose, deepen your relationship with spirit and nature, and reclaim your power to make a positive difference in the world.

What if by breaking six specific rules, you could throw off the shackles of other peoples expectations and pursue a more authentic and liberating faith? Popular author and speaker Bill Perkins has a message for men who are willing to break the rules - the same ones that Jesus broke.

The story's protagonist and narrator is an unnamed woman whose husband, a doctor named John, makes her spend the summer in the country for her health. The woman, her baby, John, John's sister and some servants stay in a large rented house. John chooses a bedroom for himself and his wife which is large and airy but otherwise quite unpleasant. The narrator takes an immediate dislike to the room's yellow wallpaper. She soon starts to see grotesque images in its pattern. After some time, the narrator becomes convinced that the wallpaper depicts a woman trapped behind a cage.

Gilman's most famous short story illustrates attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health.

First published serially in Gilman's magazine The Forerunner from 1909-1910, What Diantha Did is the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, a restaurant, and a hotel.

In a long-unoccupied mansion, a new mother is confined to what was once a nursery. She is assured by her physician husband that it is a necessary cure to ease her "nervous depression." Isolated and powerless, she becomes obsessed with the peeling, sickly colored wallpaper. In it, she sees what no one else can: a prisoner desperate to escape its maddening design. A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.