How to Marry a Loser Without Even Trying by Dee Sanderson

The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships by Hill Harper

The Conversation: How Black Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships
by Hill Harper

Gotham
Available 09/08/09

In his first book for adults, New York Times bestselling author Hill Harper invites you to join the Conversation: an honest dialogue about the breakdown of African-American relationships.

For generations African Americans have turned to their families in times of need but now, this proud and strong legacy is in peril. Black men and women have stopped communicating effectively and it threatens the very relationships and marriages necessary to sustain the Black family. Today, less than a third of Black children are being raised in two-parent households, a sharp decline from past generations. So, why is it so difficult for Black men and women to build long-term, loving and mutually beneficial relationships? What is happening in the community that makes it so hard for women and men to find their way to each other? And why are there so few people who manage to hold a marriage together, even after finding a person to love?

In his moving yet practical book, Hill Harper undertakes a journey both universal and deeply personal in search of answers to these questions. He has conversations with friends and strangers — married, single and divorced — and learns about their private struggles, emotional vulnerabilities, and real concerns, and begins to see common themes emerge. As his journey picks up momentum, Hill begins to recognize his own struggles in other people’s stories, and is encouraged to more deeply examine his own relationship issues. Why does so much misinformation and mistrust exist between the sexes? Hill addresses the stereotypes that have developed in the Black community, in the hope that by addressing the challenges, Black men and women can find their way to common ground. The Conversation aims to open up the lines of communication, and offers inspiration to those who want to take control of this crisis and start building successful, sustainable relationships.

Spread Some Love (Relationships 101)

Several ingredients go into the baking of a cake. This book, written for the millions of people who would like to master love, find the lover they desire or grow together with the one they have, contains principles to keep love alive. Take away one principle and love sits on the fence.

Could you imagine if you were to omit an important ingredient such as the baking powder from the cake’s recipe? What kind of cake would you have?

Spread Some Love (Relationships 101) Workbook

This is not just another workbook but by far one of the greatest investments you will make in yourself. Let’s face it: If we want to have more love we’ve got to become more loving. A desire which will cause us to work on ourselves more than we work on anything else. These activities compounded over the upcoming weeks will be one of the best things you could do for your personal development. Thereby giving you the edge you need to developing stronger human relationships.

Consequently, setting you apart from those who don’t really know what love is.

Something Desirable

Something Desirable
by Sherlyn Powell

Adrienne Baxter is a brilliant young architect on the fast track to the top of her field. When Adrienne reunites with Brian Stevens, a college sweetheart, she’s ready to begin a new chapter in her life. Brian is steady, dependable and successful and seems to be everything Adrienne wants and needs. She convinces herself that she and Brian are meant to be together. Then Dexter Hughes walks into her life. Dexter was not supposed to happen!

As a strong, independent and beautiful African American woman, Adrienne becomes uncharacteristically weak and unsure of herself. She can’t help but find herself enjoying the attention of both men.

Slowly working through her conflicting feelings, Adrienne embarks on a journey of ups and downs, of enchantments and disappointment as she experiences love, excitement and heartbreak. Her life changes forever as she faces both personal and professional challenges. Adrienne knows she must make a tough decision to move forward with her life.

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man:
What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
by Steve Harvey (Author), Denene Millner (Contributor)

Available 02/01/09

Steve Harvey, the host of the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, can’t count the number of impressive women he’s met over the years, whether it’s through the “Strawberry Letters” segment of his program or while on tour for his comedy shows. These are women who can run a small business, keep a household with three kids in tiptop shape, and chair a church group all at the same time. Yet when it comes to relationships, they can’t figure out what makes men tick. Why? According to Steve, it’s because they’re asking other women for advice when no one but another man can tell them how to find and keep a man.

In Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve lets women inside the mindset of a man and sheds lights on concepts and questions such as:
* The Ninety Day Rule: Ford requires it of its employees. Should you require it of your man?
* How to spot a mama’s boy and what if anything you can do about it.
* When to introduce the kids. And what to read into the first interaction between your date and your kids. * The five questions every woman should ask a man to determine how serious he is.
* And more…

Sometimes funny, sometimes direct, but always truthful, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a book you must read if you want to understand how men think when it comes to relationships.

The Dark Sides of a Woman

The Dark Sides of a Woman: A Collection of Short Stories
by Queen Goddess

The Dark Sides Of a Woman is a short story collection that provides a realistic look at the diversity of women in all kinds of relationships — heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, and interracial — and how they deal with all types of adversity.

As a woman, dealing with relationships can be fraught with difficulties. Author Queen Goddess discusses the anguish that women experience in making tough decisions, not only to please themselves, but also to accommodate the opinions of family and friends.

Passionate and emotional, the moral lessons in The Dark Sides of a Woman thoroughly
examine the strife that women experience in relationships. Whether they deal with deceit, rejection, humiliation, or controversy, Goddess shows how women call on their courage and strength to conquer these challenges.