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Overdue
A Novel
2025
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A SPARKLING ADULT DEBUT FROM BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR STEPHANIE PERKINS"Stephanie Perkins is the reason we write romance. OVERDUE is the book her readers have been waiting for." —Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Paradise ProblemIs it time to renew love or start a new chapter?Ingrid Dahl, a cheerful twenty-nine-year-old li...
2019
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After the birth of her child, a nameless woman is sent away to a colonial mansion to deal with “nervous depression” and “hysterical tendency” at the behest of her husband. Commanded to bedrest and with nothing to occupy her mind but her journal, she records her growing obsession with the yellow wallpaper that lines her room and her eventual descent into madness as she tries to unlock the mystery of it.Gilman’s story is a true American classic and a feminist reflection on patriarcha...
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Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
2020
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A common-sense guide to living rich . . . instead of dying richImagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired.The only thing you wasted along the way was . . . your life.Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as a practical personal finance guide on how to get the most out of your mon...
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2020
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Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here. Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "Turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naïve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young...
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- Cynthia AsquithLeonid AndreyevE. F. BensonAmbrose BierceAlgernon BlackwoodMarjorie BowenJohn BuchanA. M. BurrageWilla CatherRobert W. ChambersMyla Jo ClosserWilkie CollinsRichard ConnellAleister CrowleyF. Marion CrawfordRebecca Harding DavisWalter De La MareCharles DickensArthur Conan DoyleLord DunsanyAmelia B. EdwardsAnatole FranceMary E. Wilkins FreemanElizabeth GaskellCharlotte Perkins GilmanNikolai GogolW. F. HarveyL. P. HartleyNathaniel HawthorneLafcadio HearnO. HenryRobert HichensWilliam Hope HodgsonE. T. A. HoffmannRobert E. HowardViolet HuntWashington IrvingW. W. JacobsHenry JamesM. R. JamesFranz KafkaRudyard KiplingJ. Sheridan Le FanuVernon LeeH. P. LovecraftArthur MachenGuy de MaupassantJohn MetcalfeEdith NesbitMargaret OliphantOliver OnionsVincent O’SullivanEdgar Allan PoeSakiWalter ScottM. P. ShielClark Ashton SmithRobert Louis StevensonBram StokerMark TwainH. Russell WakefieldH. G. WellsEdith WhartonOscar WildeVirginia WoolfEdward Lucas White
2021
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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...
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A groundbreaking feminist masterpiece and one of the most exquisite horror stories in American literatureDiagnosed by her physician husband with a "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency" after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house's former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper....
2023
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Los Angeles Times Bestseller How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy. In this shocking expos, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms co...
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Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction“Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze…an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption.”—Celeste NgInspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, from the New York Times best...
2022
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'The Yellow Wallpaper', by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story first published in January 1892. The psychological thriller by the renowned US women's rights writer and campaigner is an autobiographical-inspired novella based upon her own experience of severe postnatal depression, leading to post-natal psychosis. At the time, women with PND (known in America as postpartum depression) were seen as hysterical and were often dismissed by doctors who overlooked treatment options through ...
2014
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss comes a heartwarming young adult romance between two dreamers navigating love and loss in their senior year in Paris.“Stephanie Perkins’s characters fall in love the way we all want to, in real time and for good.”—Rainbow Rowell, award-winning, bestselling author of Fangirl and Carry On“Half New York love story, half Parisian romance, and fully prepared ...
2019
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"Herland" is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The novel is a feminist fantasy about a world without men, a radical utopia in which mothering is socialized. Gilman envisions a society that lacks domination by the masculine traits of aggressiveness and combativeness. Three American men stumble on a community of women and are at first convinced that such a superior society presupposes men, whom they believe to be hiding...Gilman creates a world ...
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- M. R. JamesE. F. BensonH. P. LovecraftEdgar Allan PoeSakiJ. Sheridan Le FanuFranz KafkaRobert W. ChambersW. W. JacobsLafcadio HearnAmbrose BierceWalter De La MareVernon LeeMary E. Wilkins FreemanF. Marion CrawfordWilliam Hope HodgsonArthur MachenAlgernon BlackwoodCharlotte Perkins GilmanNathaniel HawthorneOliver OnionsClark Ashton SmithJohn MetcalfeLeonid AndreyevRobert E. Howard
2019
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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This first volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Cham...
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