Dimes, Profiles, and Wives

Dimes, Profiles, and Wives
Author: Toya Raylonn Vickers
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477167781

This is the titillating story of three girlfriends who want desperately to be in love with the man of their dreams and walk down the aisle to wedded bliss. Tracey is the home girl that has had everything handed to her except her baby, Ooo-la-la Salon. She gets her man even if sometimes she doesnt want him. Sharon is the lady with all the connections that makes things happen, especially when it comes to her love life. She takes the time to literally try and mold her man into what she thinks it is she needs. Destiny is the girl next door that everybody loves but who sometimes doesnt love herself. She got the man she thought was of her dreams only to realize he was a true nightmare. Can either of them live up to the standards of a Proverbs 31 woman, a good wife, in the today's world? You will laugh, cry, scream and find yourself looking inside the pages of Dimes, Profiles, and Wives.

Profiles of Social Research

Profiles of Social Research
Author: Morton M. Hunt
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1986-06-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1610442989

This splendid introduction to social research describes an area of scientific investigation that profoundly influences our daily lives and thoughts, but about which most of us know very little. We can picture a research chemist at work, white-coated and surrounded by beakers and test tubes—but what is the nature of social research? For interested general readers and particularly for students entering the various social science fields, Morton Hunt paints an immensely informative and accessible portrait. He begins with a lucid overview of the important varieties of social research, describing their advantages and limitations. Against this background, Hunt then details five remarkable case histories, eyewitness accounts of significant recent episodes in social research. Woven skillfully through each narrative are explorations of the basic methodological, practical, moral and political issues raised by social research. The story of a noteworthy series of sociopsychological experiments on teamwork, for example, enables Hunt to weigh the merits of using a laboratory setting to study social behavior and the ethics of deceiving human subjects. In similar fashion, Hunt depicts a historic cross-sectional survey on segregated schooling; a complex attempt to measure the impact of welfare programs; a real-world experiment with guaranteed annual incomes; and a path-breaking study of human aging that followed its subjects for a generation. This engaging and intelligent book will give readers a new understanding of the breadth and richness of social research as well as an informed appreciation of its significance for their lives.

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction

Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction
Author: L. Sussex
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2010-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230289401

This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery.

Movement Off The Dime

Movement Off The Dime
Author: V. O'Connell
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595331165

An unlikely pair is conspiring to break a patient out of a locked unit at the famous Hunt-Fisher Hospital. Courtney Brentwood is involved. She is the daughter of two prominent New York physicians, just beginning her own promising career in medicine, and lovesick over a younger fellow medical student she left behind in Philadelphia. Nathan Bigelow, the mastermind behind the plot, is a talented underachiever she meets at the hospital, who cajoles her into abetting a scheme to help out his best friend. Movement Off The Dime tells the amusing and entertaining tale of two young people finding themselves, getting untracked in their lives, navigating their way through wide-ranging emotional terrain: career ambivalence, unrequited love, unsatisfied lust, devoted friendship and filial duty. "I am recommending this engaging story to everyone I know--not just to those who work in and around hospitals or medical schools, but to anyone who enjoys a smart read."--Susan Tabor, Executive Director of Behavioral Health, Allina Health System.

Wife in Name Only

Wife in Name Only
Author: Charlotte M. Brame
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 177652876X

Fans of historical romance will relish this juicy tale of kidnapping, mistaken identities, and revenge. It begins with an intriguing frame story set in the English countryside, then skips forward several decades to detail several intertwined story lines. When readers find out how these two seemingly unrelated tales are connected, the fireworks really begin. It's a slow-burning page-turner that you won't be able to put down.

The Dime

The Dime
Author: Kathleen Kent
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316311065

Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas in this "violent, sexy, and completely absorbing" Edgar Award nominee, the first novel in the acclaimed Betty Rhyzyhk series (Kirkus Reviews). Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she relocates to The Big D, where Mexican drug cartels and cult leaders, deadbeat skells and society wives all battle for sunbaked turf. Betty is as tough as the best of them, but she's deeply shaken when her first investigation goes sideways. Battling a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend, the unbreakable Detective Betty Rhyzyk may be reaching her limit. Combining the colorful pyrotechnics of Breaking Bad with the best of the gritty crime genre, The Dime is Kathleen Kent's brilliant mystery debut and the launch of a sensational new series. "Only a fan blowing in the right direction could flip the pages of this lightning-paced tale any faster." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows

Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows
Author: F. Scott Spencer
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467436844

Engaging feminist hermeneutics and philosophy in addition to more traditional methods of biblical study, Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows demonstrates and celebrates the remarkable capability and ingenuity of several women in the Gospel of Luke. While recent studies have exposed women's limited opportunities for ministry in Luke, Scott Spencer pulls the pendulum back from a negative feminist-critical pole toward a more constructive center. Granting that Luke sends somewhat "mixed messages" about women's work and status as Jesus' disciples, Spencer analyzes such women as Mary, Elizabeth, Joanna, Martha and Mary, and the infamous yet intriguing wife of Lot -- whom Jesus exhorts his followers to "remember" -- as well as the unrelentingly persistent women characters in Jesus' parables.