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What do you give the man who has given you everything—his heart, his strength, his forever? A place for your special note to him. To You, My Always is a collection of 160 original poems written from a wife to her husband, offering words for all the feelings that often go unspoken. Romantic, rhythmic, and deeply personal, each poem traces the journey from that first “yes” to the life you’re building together.

This audiobook explores what it means to love after the rush, in the quiet space where staying becomes the most romantic act of all.

Someone is murdering women on college campuses. Agent Mick O'Shaughnessy's mission is simple: stop the killer. Following every lead, he meets Meg, the faculty advisor for one of the victims, who can help him track the killer through her campus connections.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent sociologist, novelist, and writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. In the short story "If I Were a Man", a married woman named Mollie Mathewson yearns with all her heart to be a man and is suddenly transported into the body and mind of her husband, Gerald. Through the character of Mollie, Gilman illustrates the roles and attitudes of women in early 19th-century society. The utopian novel Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, with an ideal social order free of war, conflict, and domination.

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.

Kindred Spirits is an in-depth podcast exploring the literature of Lucy Maud Montgomery and showing that, perhaps, a bookish redhead who never lived has a lot to teach us about our life now. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/kindredspiritspodcast Kindredspiritspodcast.ca Twitter: @kindredspiritsp Instagram: @kindredspiritsp Facebook: @kindredspiritspodcast Hosted by: Erica Jacobs-Perkins https://ericajacobsperkins.com/ Jean-Daniel Ó Donnċaḋa http://www.odonncada.ca/ Music: IV. “Desbarats and Across the Causeway” from Algoma Highway Composed by Arie Verheul Van de Ven @...

We take a year in music. Give you the Billboard top 10 and then we give you OUR top 10 list for that year. Based on actual music longevity and impact, we take a look at all the songs in the top 100 list and decide what we feel should actually be THE top 10 of that year!Follow us on Instagram: @mixupmusicreviewWebsite: www.mixupmusicreview.com

A comprehensive examination across many sectors reveals institutional barriers and outright abuse. How do we end the cycle?

From the president's airplane window, he sees oil refineries lie as white-hot glowing rubble in what was the Texas City of Texas City. Cracking towers lie toppled on pipelines above the ground now carrying radiation contaminated energy toward all parts of the United States. The fires are being fed by row after row of massive storage tanks. One of the tanks explodes, sending the massive roof thousands of feet into the air and then the one next to it explodes because of the heat from the one that just exploded.

"Razor" Dom Irrera waxes poetic about laughter and his future career. Then, Bob Marley takes the stage and talks about how marriage melted his brain, and about the glories of Subway, moving, and Target. Bob tries to explain to Dom that he's a thinking man's comic, and he shares a Rodney Dangerfield story. Later, Dwayne Perkins talks about when to drive the 405, why the Michael Richards incident was profound, and how he has a super power.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. For America, as the century closes, she is becoming less isolated. Her industrial might, her rising military power are pulling her ever closer into the entangled globe of nations. Her authors flex ideas and lexicons with riveting tales of this astonishing society.

When I Was a Witch is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1909. What would you do if you could right all the wrongs that annoy you in this world?

More than 16 million people had posted their #MeToo story and support against sexual harassment by mid-October as a reaction to Rose McGowan’s brave admission that she had allegedly been raped by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. A groundswell of reaction to and exposure of this sexual predation was unleashed that has spread throughout Europe and beyond. This is a historic moment and it needs to be memorialized. Listen to this collection of 26 essays from people who understand want to make this change, and we, as a society, have got to figure out a way to drive that change forward.

Shanti misses the warm monsoon rains in India. Now in America, she watches fall leaves fly past her feet. Still, her family’s apartment feels like a village: Mama cooking luchi, funny stories in Bangla, and Baba’s big laugh. But outside, everything is different – trick-or-treating, ballet class, and English books.

It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years. But when Juan's gift is too big to fit through the slats in the fence, Maria has a brilliant idea.

This book is especially pertinent to weary migraine warriors - migraineurs, anxiety sufferers, depression carriers PTSD victims and those that are curious about the miraculous Daith Piercing that “cures migraines”. Recent studies have shown that this, surprisingly simple technique can have radical positive effects on migraine and other conditions, without the use of drugs. VNS Daith Piercing - Not Just for Migraine is a companion guide to ensuring that one receives the correct kind of daith piercing when seeking out this curious but nonetheless highly effective treatment.

In this volume our authors explore the terrors of the mind rather than the horrors of reality, although with their pens the difference makes little difference. We twist this way and that as their talents shape our path towards endings of the nerve-shredding kind.

The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader or listener - such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline, but for those who master it, the rewards are many. In this series of works by our greatest female writers, we bring you a selection of those we consider the best. In Volume 2 we bring you the classics 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton.

Born out of simple frustration with complex design tools, Canva has grown into a wild success, with a massive, devoted user community of more than 200 million people, in 190 countries and using 100 languages. But this isn’t a traditional startup story of guys in a garage following a Silicon Valley playbook. Instead, from their base in Perth, Australia (the most remote big city on earth), animated by a drive to empower normal people to use design to make their own dreams a reality, Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht created something truly original.

Immerse yourself in the haunting tale of "The Yellow Wallpaper" from the producers of the popular podcast, Falling Asleep With a Good Book. This edition features a casually worded modern introduction by producer/narrator Jama Smith, and is part of The Cheeky Book Talk Collection of public domain classics. Delve into this creepy and thought-provoking narrative by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and gain new insights from a modern female perspective. This special edition is a must-have for literature enthusiasts and podcast aficionados alike.