Download or read book In CHEAP We Trust written by Lauren Weber and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare, she realized she had turned into him. In this lively treatise on the virtues of being cheap, Weber explores provocative questions about Americans' conflicted relationship with consumption and frugality. Why do we ridicule people who save money? Where's the boundary between thrift and miserliness? Is thrift a virtue or a vice during a recession? And was it common sense or obsessive-compulsive disorder that made her father ration the family's toilet paper? In answering these questions, In Cheap We Trust offers a colorful ride through the history of frugality in the United States. Readers will learn the stories behind Ben Franklin and his famous maxims, Hetty Green (named "the world's greatest miser" by the Guinness Book of Records) and the stereotyping of Jewish and Chinese immigrants as cheap. Weber also explores contemporary expressions and dilemmas of thrift. From Dumpster-diving to economist John Maynard Keynes's "Paradox of Thrift" to today's recession-driven enthusiasm for frugal living, In Cheap We Trust teases out the meanings of cheapness and examines the wisdom and pleasures of not spending every last penny.

Download or read book How We Believe written by Michael Shermer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent polls report that 96% of Americans believe in God. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of science, technology, and secular education, are people turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before? Why do people believe in God at all?

Download or read book In Gods We Trust written by Thomas Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has changed since publication of the first edition of this established text in the sociology of religion. Revised and expanded, this edition emphasizes new patterns of religious change and conflict emerging in the United States in the latter part of the twentieth century. Leading scholars describe and analyze developments in five main areas: The fundamentalist and evangelical revival; challenge and renewal in mainline churches; spiritual innovation and the so-called New Age; women's movements and issues and their impact; and politics and civil religion. Chapters include an examination of religious movements' responses to AIDS; Christian schools; quasi-religions; healing rites and goddess worship; recruitment of women to charismatic and Hassidic groups,; televangelists and the Christian Right; racist rural populism; contemporary Mormonism and its growth; cults and brainwashing; Jonestown; dissidence in the Catholic church; and trance-channeling, among other topics. A new introductory chapter by the editors establishes an integrating framework in terms of three themes: increasing conflict and controversy associated with American religion; increasing focus on various forms of power in American religion; and challenges to models of secularization and modernization inherent in religious revival, innovation, and politicization. A concluding chapter by the editors looks at new trends and assesses their possible impact in coming years. Like its predecessor, this outstanding collection is a significant contribution to the literature as well as a valuable resource for the classroom.

Download or read book How We Believe 2nd Edition written by Michael Shermer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent polls show that 96% of Americans believe in God. Why are people turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before? In How We Believe , Michael Shermer presents the results of an exhaustive empirical study in which he asked 10,000 Americans how and why they believe and about details of their faith. The result offers fresh and startling insights into age-old questions.

Download or read book Lindsay written by Laura Newell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am writing a series of Christian romance novels. I am sending you the first book, entitled “Lindsay” The books are targeted to women, but I think men would enjoy them, as well. Lindsay is a princess. Amy is promised to a Swiss Duke, Jean Luc Sinclair. Lindsay is an artist, and she is not comfortable being in the public eye. Quietly, she has a strong Christian belief. Lindsay decides to disguise herself, and runs away to New York City. Once there, she befriends a teenage drug addict and prostitute named Debbie. Lindsay takes her in, and tells her about God. Lindsay meets an American politician named Peter Edwards, who lives in Washington, D.C. In an effort to be close to Peter, Lindsay and Debbie move to Washington, D.C. Peter and Lindsay soon become close friends, and he encourages her to further peruse her art. Lindsay then gets word that her father has suffered a heart attack. Feeling guilty for having left her family, Lindsay returns home, and agrees to marry Nicholas. Soon after, Peter realizes that he loves Lindsay, but she is gone. He talks to a minister, and receives Christ. He hires a private investigator, and discovers that Lindsay is a princess, and about to be married. He visits Debbie, who has returned home to her parents, and she confides that Lindsay really loves him, not the Prince. Peter then travels to interrupt the wedding, and Lindsay declares that she belongs with him.

Download or read book Loving Lindsey written by Patricia Keelyn and published by Panther Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindsey Baker and Will Claxton were once best friends, until betrayal drove them apart. Now someone is sabotaging Lindsey’s ranch, and Will seems the most likely candidate. Years earlier, her father foreclosed on a loan that cost Will his family’s land. Still, he insists he had nothing to do with the “accidents” plaguing Lindsey's ranch. He wants his property returned, but he plans to buy it fair and square. Lindsey wants to believe the man she’s loved since childhood, but she fears he'll do almost anything to reclaim his family's ranch. His sudden interest in her as a woman is too convenient. Can she trust a man who’s never seen her as anything but a friend— or will he break her heart once again?

Download or read book There I Am written by Ruthie Lindsey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain on Fire meets Carry On, Warrior in this inspirational memoir and “testament to the things that break us, heal us, and make us who we are” (Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores one woman’s journey from chronic pain and hopelessness to finding joy, redemption, and healing. At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She’s given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. Just a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous rounds of testing, imaging, and treatment, they prescribe narcotic painkillers—lots of them. Ruthie has become bedridden, dependent on painkillers, and hopeless, when an X-ray reveals that the wire used to fuse her spine is piercing her brain stem. Without another staggeringly expensive experimental surgery, she could well become paralyzed, but in many ways, she already is. Ruthie goes into the hospital in chronic pain, dependent on prescription painkillers, and leaves the same way. She can still walk but has no idea where she’s going. As her life unravels, Ruthie returns home to Louisiana and sets out on a journey to learn joy again. She trades fentanyl for sunsets and morphine for wildflowers, weaning herself off of the drugs and beginning the process of healing—of coming home to her body. Raw and redemptive, There I Am is not just about the magic of optimism, but the work of it. Ruthie’s extraordinary memoir “like going on a walk with a best friend and listening to a life-changing speech at the same time: it’s equal parts familiar and profound, warm and insightful, comforting and challenging, relatable and unlike anything you’ve read before” (Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author).

Download or read book In with the Tide written by Charlee James and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindsey Hunter never imagined she’d be returning to her Cape Cod home pregnant and divorced, but she’s determined to build a new life for her and her unborn baby. When car trouble leaves her stranded on the side of the road, ex-Marine Damien Trent rides to the rescue on his motorbike. Once upon a time, they’d been friends and briefly, they'd been something more...until he enlisted and left her behind. As Lindsey and Damien reconnect, the attraction is still as strong as ever. But Lindsey’s knows Damien's not the staying kind. Damien would rather do anything than come home to deal with his father’s estate. After years of abuse, he was more than ready to leave town the moment he graduated. With Lindsey back in his life, everything is complicated. He’s used to being a lone wolf - until Lindsey and her newborn baby give him a glimpse of the kind of family and future he’s always dreamed of. Can he be brave enough to reach out and grab it?

Download or read book The Invisible written by Michelle Dunne and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A migrant crisis. A corrupt harbor town. Who will stand for those who have become invisible to the rest of the world? People have become one of the world’s most valuable commodities. Trafficked on the promise of a new life only to be hidden away as modern-day slaves. When Lena, a raped and badly beaten Syrian woman, literally falls into Lindsey Ryan’s life, she’s left with no choice but to find her part in this new war and play it as best she can. But before she can work out a safe plan to get Lena away from her very own hell at the hands of Patrick Adebayo, Lindsey hears of an unconscious child being smuggled into Patrick’s building just two doors up. Despite having Patrick’s unwanted attention, she has to help the child and get Lena to safety regardless of the cost. In doing so, she finds herself face to face with the worst of humanity. Added to her own private battle with PTSD, former soldier Lindsey Ryan is in a race against time and must once again fight for her life. But if she fails to protect those around her, what if anything, will that life be worth?

Download or read book Railroad Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 1989 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gift of the Heart written by Miranda Jarrett and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RACHEL SPARHAWK LINDSEY CAME FROM A LONG LINE OF SURVIVORS She would not fail her heritage. But the snows were deep and the nights lonely—until Jamie Ryder arrived, bringing strength and joy into the hidden places of her heart…. The warmth of hearth and home had long been denied Jamie Ryder. Now Rachel Lindsey offered him refuge from the storms without—and the war within. But he knew this dream of love and family could not withstand the nightmare of his past….

Download or read book Revenge is Sweet written by Felice Stevens and published by Good Man Press. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in Love is the Sweetest Revenge What do you do when your best friend runs off with your fiancée on your wedding day? If you’re me, Lyon Elliot, you don’t get mad. You get even. Which means seducing my ex–best friend’s younger brother, Miles Halloran. The quiet one. The man I’ve known all my life but never paid attention to. The one I was told to stay away from because he’s way too nice for someone like me. Maybe they’re right. But see, this is where it gets a little more complicated. Because the more time I spend with Miles, the more I like him. Want him. Now I need him and his sweet smiles in my life. If this is still a game I’m playing...who’s fooling whom? From Lambda Literary Award-winning author Felice Stevens comes a story of a player who never gets played, until the quiet bookstore owner gives him a prize worth winning—Love Keywords: revenge romance, opposites attract, virgin hero, bisexual, gay romance, MM. M/M romance, best friend's younger brother, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers

Download or read book A Way of Escape A Novel written by Serena B. Miller and published by L. J. Emory Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one fought the war on drugs with as much determination as county prosecutor, Blake Ramsey, until he died of a cocaine overdose. His wife, Erin, and teenage daughter have to live with the shame of his hypocrisy until Erin starts digging up information that others in their small town do not want revealed. Suddenly she and her daughter are in great danger and forced to run. Their only ally is the last person Erin ever expected to trust, a man her husband once convicted of murder.

Download or read book Blind Trust written by Gwen Hernandez and published by Gwen Hernandez. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ice-cold mountain. A deadly enemy. A scorching-hot desire they can’t ignore. After escaping from kidnappers in the Montana wilderness, Lindsey Garcia is her best friend’s only hope for rescue. But when her enemies trap her on the mountain with a sexy stranger she’s not sure she can trust, both her life and her heart are in danger. Former special operator Todd Brennan is on a personal hunt for a killer when he saves Lindsey from a deadly fall. He plans to get her to the nearest town and renew his pursuit, but a fatal encounter forces him to choose between love and justice.

Download or read book The Rawley Family Romances Volume II written by Olivia Hardin and published by Cactus Rose Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume combining the romances in this continuing saga of love, life, family and friends. ALL IN THE LANDING: She's a divorcee. He's the one-night stand she can't forget. Sometimes love requires a go-around before you land in the arms meant just for you... ALL THE WRONG REASONS: She's on the edge. He may be the only thing that can keep her from falling. Can one broken soul save another from destroying herself, or will they both go down in flames? ALL IN ONE NIGHT: A bridesmaid caught up in dream. A stranger looking to fulfill all her fantasies. Sometimes, just a night can take your breath away, especially if it comes with the promise of so much more… Plus a bonus holiday short: All for a Little Christmas: Former police officer Robert Guillory's life has changed since he arrested Hope Rawley for kidnapping. Can a little holiday miracle give Eva the Christmas gift she's been hoping for?

Download or read book For Always written by Claire Lorrimer and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lindsey Carter’s husband dies, she is left poor but not devastated – their marriage was a loveless one. Waiting in the wings in is her childhood sweetheart, Glynn, but Lindsey is determined to put her two small sons first. She takes up her pen in order to keep the boys at their expensive public school, and is pleased to receive an offer for what she hopes will be the first of many novels. But Lindsey has caught the eye of her suave, handsome literary agent, Paris Rogers, and has other ideas about her future. Torn between the magic of the past and the roller-coaster ride of the future, Lindsey faces an impossible choice.

Download or read book Fatal Conceit written by Robert Tanenbaum and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CIA chief dies under suspicious circumstances before he is about to testify about a controversial government cover-up involving a terrorist attack on the US mission in Chechnya. Butch Karp is on the case in this exciting installment to Robert K. Tanenbaum’s bestselling series. When the CIA director is murdered, Butch Karp finds himself battling a heavyweight opponent: the US government. The national presidential election campaign’s foreign policy mantra has been that the terrorists are on the run and Bin Laden is dead. There are rumors that the CIA chief was going to deviate from the administration version of events, and that the government may have had something to do with his death. Can Karp expose the cover-up and find the Chechnyan separatists who aided the Americans at the mission and who have firsthand knowledge of the terrorist attack? Karp must also find his missing daughter, who has been taken hostage by the terrorists. After the New York grand jury indicts the national presidential campaign chairman and the NSA spymaster for the murder of the CIA chief, Karp engages in an unforgettable courtroom confrontation with the defendants who have the full weight of the US administration, a hostile judge, and a compliant media supporting them. These sinister forces will stop at nothing to prevent Karp from bringing out the truth, even if they have to resort to murder.