The Yellow Wallpaper

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is about a woman who suffers from mental illness after three months of being trapped within her home staring at the same revolting yellow wall paper. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote this story to change people's minds about the role of women in her society illustrating how women's lack of autonomy is detrimental to their mental emotional and even physical well being. The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" must do as her husband and male doctor demand though the treatment they prescribe to her contrasts directly with what she truly needs--mental stimulation and the freedom to escape the monotony of the room to which she is confined. "The Yellow Wallpaper" was essentially a response to the doctor who tried to cure Charlotte Perkins Gilman of post-partum depression through a "rest cure" Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and she sent him a copy of the story. Although "The Yellow Wallpaper" is not the first or longest of her works it is without question Gilman's most famous piece and became a best-seller of the Feminist Press.[]

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Betty & Veronica

In sickness and in health...that's what best friends are for right?

When Addison announces she has breast cancer her best friend Rori knows she'll do whatever it takes to see her through it. Because after all what's Betty without her Veronica?

***Please note this is a short story not a full length work of fiction.***
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Send Me a Friend

Please Note: This is a short story. It is not an eBook. Please do not purchase if you desire it to be an eBook. It is not.

The old woman living in the high rise for the elderly was the same as all those around her...

With one exception.

A Five Star Smashwords Review:

"I am writing this through my tears I am so touched... as though a knife has pierced my heart forever. It's wonderful writing. The words themselves burn into my mind and soul. Thank you for sharing this."

Lora Keene

Reached No.1 in Amazon.com in its Category Jan 1 2012[]

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MY KIND OF CRAZY: Living in a Bipolar World

"The author lures us into her Bipolar world by injecting humor into the serious subject of mental illness. She acts as a tour guide and takes the reader on her manic journey and then steers us straight into the abyss of her depression." --Diane Urban PhD NYS Licensed Psychologist Adjunct Professor at Manhattan College and Westchester Community College SUNY

"MY KIND OF CRAZY is an important contribution which sheds light on the often hidden world of mental illness. The line between reality and psychosis is impossible to comprehend unless one has seen the world from both perspectives. The author unlocks the door to a locked psychiatric facility and allows the reader cross the threshold. The story is further enhanced by glimpses of her experience through the eyes of her husband and son." --William M. Dince Phd NYS Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist[]

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Prime Time: Love health sex fitness friendship spirit--making the most of all of your life

In this inspiring and candid book Jane Fonda #1 bestselling author actress and workout pioneer gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life especially the second half of it. Covering sex love food fitness self-understanding spiritual and social growth and your brain. In Prime Time she offers a vision for successful living and maturing A to Z.

Highlighting new research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 and 50 and especially from 60 and beyond can be times when we truly become the energetic loving fulfilled people we were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living Fonda invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful healthy and fully integrated life a life lived more profoundly in touch with ourselves our bodies minds and spirits and with our talents friends and communities.

In her research Fonda discovered two metaphors the arch and the staircase that became for her two visions of life. She shows how to see your life the staircase way as one of continual ascent. She explains how she came to understand the earlier decades of her life by performing a life review and she shows how you can do a life review too. She reveals how her own life review enabled her to let go of old patterns to see what means the most to her and then to cultivate new goals and dreams to make the most of the mature years. For there has been a longevity revolution and the average human life expectancy has jumped by years. Fonda asks what we are meant to do with this precious gift of time? And she writes about how we can navigate the fertile voids that life periodically presents to us. She makes suggestions about exercise (including three key movements for optimal health) diet (how to eat by color) meditation and how learning new things and creating fresh pathways in your brain can add quality to your life. Fonda writes of positivity and why many people are happier in the second half of their lives than they have ever been before.

In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir My Life So Far Jane Fonda focused on the first half of her extraordinary life—what she called Acts I and II—with an eye toward preparing for a vibrant Act III. Now we have a thoughtfully articulated memoir and guide for how to make all of your life and especially Act III Prime Time.

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Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary Scientifically Proven Nutrition-Based Cure

A powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart disease therapy.

Based on the groundbreaking results of a twenty-year nutritional study by Dr. Esselstyn a preeminent researcher and clinician this book illustrates that a plant-based oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease but can also reverse its effects.

The proof lies in the incredible outcomes for patients who have followed Dr. Esselstyn's program including a number of patients in his original study who had been told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months of starting the program Dr. Esselstyn's patients began to improve dramatically and twenty years later they remain free of symptoms.

Complete with more than 150 delicious recipes this book explains the science behind the simple plan that has drastically changed the lives of Dr. Esselstyn's patients forever. It will empower readers to take control of their heart health.[]

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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

"Bennett address the problem of never having enough time. In this book he urges hourly workers to use "spare" time to improve their lives making the best of their time outside of work. He understands that most people are spending as much time as possible working to make more money thus disliking their lives. "Time is money" seriously understates this matter more time can generate more money but money cannot buy you more time!"[]

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The Last Lecture (Thorndike Nonfiction)

A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon was asked to give such a lecture he didn't have to imagine it as his last since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles of enabling the dreams of others of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book Randy Pausch has combined the humor inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch

• The Last Lecture


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Spontaneous Happiness

Everyone wants to be happy. But what does that really mean? Increasingly scientific evidence shows us that true satisfaction and well-being come only from within.

Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now in Spontaneous Happiness he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr. Weil's pioneering work in integrative medicine the book suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of happiness discusses the limitations of the biomedical model in treating depression and elaborates on the inseparability of body and mind.

Dr. Weil offers an array of scientifically proven strategies from Eastern and Western psychology to counteract low mood and enhance contentment comfort resilience serenity and emotional balance. Drawn from psychotherapy mindfulness training Buddhist psychology nutritional science and more these strategies include body-oriented therapies to support emotional wellness techniques for managing stress and anxiety and changing mental habits that keep us stuck in negative patterns and advice on developing a spiritual dimension in our lives. Lastly Dr. Weil presents an eight-week program that can be customized according to specific needs with short- and long-term advice on nutrition exercise supplements environment lifestyle and much more.

Whether you are struggling with depression or simply want to feel happier Dr. Weil's revolutionary approach will shift the paradigm of emotional health and help you achieve greater contentment in your life.



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