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The Man's Cure for Marriage Jitters

Remembering his slow and inevitable crawl toward happily ever after, Michael Crider's new Guy's Guide to Surviving Getting Engaged, Tying the Knot, and the First Year of Marriage chronicles the highs and lows of a relationship progress: from the nauseating dating days of "No, I love you more!" to his own embarrassing version of "Meet the Parents;" from plotting his proposal to the wedding and reception itself (a.k.a. "booze, the bride and blue balls"). For men under pressure to propose or newly affianced, newlywed or veteran to the husband hustle, Michael Crider's flawed attempts at both grand romantic gestures and small attempts to control his fate will be all-too-familiar.

A prequel to Michael Crider's successful first book about fatherhood, this is a humorous look at his transformation from a Ladies' Man to his lady's main man.


Carmen Bryan Spills Her Secrets

Carmen Bryan is no stranger to the rap world. Not only did she work at Def Jam and Capitol Records but she shares a daughter with hip-hop superstar Nas, a relationship made public through Nas's celebrity status, rap lyrics, and the ever-present media. Now, a strong, resilient Carmen tells her side of the story in It's No Secret, which became an instant bestseller when it hit bookstands.

From a clandestine relationship with Nas's biggest rival, Jay-Z, that stirred up the biggest feud in hip-hop history, to seeing her reputation in tatters and a once loving relationship with Nas fall apart, Carmen depicts her arduous journey of becoming the strong woman and mother she is today. After years of turmoil that included drugs, sex, greed, violence, criticism from the media, and abandoning what she had always prized above all, her freedom, Carmen sets the record straight and has no regrets.


From 'I Do' to 'I Don't'

What do you get when you cross a divorcee and a former divorce lawyer?

For any woman on the verge of divorce, the answer is: "Your new best friend." In her do-it-yourself divorce handbook, He Had It Coming, divorcee, defense attorney and CNN legal commentator Stacy Schneider explains how to outmaneuver your husband both in and out of divorce court, how to negotiate a cease-fire, and how to win a big bucks alimony check.

Using examples from her own divorce, Stacy reveals inside tips on offensive and defensive planning that can be implemented even before the divorce papers are filed. This unique guide teaches women to strategize like high-priced attorneys and helps them reach successful settlements, so they can navigate their way from a rocky marriage to a seamless divorce and pay the rent instead of the lawyer.


Legacy of Pulitzer Prize Winning Photo

On February 23, 1945 Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's camera captured five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the Stars-and-Stripes on Mt. Suribachi. This photograph would eventually mean much more than just a brief image from a faraway island - it would come to symbolize the valor and eventual victory of the Americans who served, and the nation's determination to win World War II.

In Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue author Hal Buell captures the full story of the ten days Rosenthal spent on the black volcanic sands of Iwo Jima, the heroism that inspired his Pulitzer-Prize winning photograph and the legacy it has held in modern popular culture. The book also includes a DVD of both flag raisings on Iwo Jima.


Legato Speaks a Universal Tongue

Internationally recognized expert in gender-specific medicine Dr. Marianne Legato is making her mark across the globe with her bestselling book Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget, which has now been translated into 26 different languages.


A Thief In The Night

Dr. Keith Black began performing heart transplants on dogs at Case Western Reserve at the age of sixteen. At seventeen he had published his first scientific paper in the Ohio Journal of Science and won the Westinghouse Science award for his landmark study, which showed why many patients suffer memory impairment following open-heart surgery. After graduating from medical school at the ripe age of twenty-three, he went on to discover leukotrienes as a source of brain swelling after stroke, which led to his opening of the blood-brain barrier to chemotherapy; to perform the first outpatient brain surgery, and to develop the first brain cancer vaccine in 1995.

Now, the world's preeminent neurosurgeon tells his inspiring story. A Thief In The Night, as he describes himself sneaking in under the cloak of anesthesia to remove the most difficult brain tumors, traces his struggle to emerge amidst the heated civil rights movement to single handedly change the future of medicine through pioneering the uncharted territory of human consciousness through the brain.

The book will be written in collaboration with Arnold Mann, who wrote a Time magazine cover story on Dr. Black.

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