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 A bittergirl may have been dumped, but even when the chips are down she knows eating them off the floor is probably not the best way to fill the void of a broken heart. In fact, she's a rather fabulous singleton: she knows how to mix a killer cocktail, she looks smashing in stilettos, and she refrains from drinking and dialing her ex even on Valentine's Day. Based on their acclaimed stage play of the same name, comic actresses Annabel Griffiths, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore bring you Bittergirl, a hilarious guide to moving from just plain bitter to bittergirl post-breakup. "They practically make getting dumped fun," writes sex columnist Josey Vogels. "Okay, okay, they make it suck a whole lot less."
 Sometimes happily ever after isn't so happy after all. At least that's how Julia is feeling. Nearing forty, the protagonist of We Are All Fine Here is stuck in a ho-hum job, feels her husband has been getting far too close to a co-worker, and can't stop thinking about her former flame, Ray. In fact, at a wedding with her old love she gives in to a quick tryst in the bathroom—then finds out she's pregnant. Is the baby Ray's or her husband's? How will her childless sister, or her prickly mother cope with the news? Called "laugh-out-loud" funny by Publishers Weekly, this debut from the sister of David Gusterson (Snow Falling on Cedars) is sure to strike a nerve with anyone that's suffered the complex consequences of love.
 More than thirty years after they broke up, high-school sweethearts Donna Hanover and Ed Oster reconnected and got married. But they are no isolated case. Spurred by the Internet, amongst other things, they are part of what experts see as a "twenty-first century trend" of couples reuniting. In
My Boyfriend's Back, Hanover explores how rekindled love is different from new love and why so many couples are getting back together right now, and offers some recommendations (and warnings) to those about to Google their college honey or childhood crush. Along the way, the journalist and actress details her own experiences and those of couples across the country, including celebrities such as Carol Channing, Suzanne Pleshette, and Nicole Miller.
 Running after children, juggling meetings and workouts, and keeping your bills and in-laws in line? It's a wonder established couples have time to have sex at all, let alone great sex. To the rescue are Lana Holstein and David Taylor. Educated at Yale Medical School, couples counsellors for over 25 years—and a couple themselves—they've developed a program to enhance connection in the bedroom over just four days. In Your Long Erotic Weekend they share their teachings on how to tap into sexual energy, please your partner and yourself, and keep the spark alive over the long term.
 Think finding love in the big city is tough? Try learning the two-step at a barn dance. Or dealing with two-timers on the range. Set in the American West—far, far away from sales on Manolos—Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness follows smart, independent women in their prime as they struggle with sex and the country. A teacher and regular contributor to Elle and O, Houston's first collection of stories was hailed by Washington Post Book World as "exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars," and by The New York Times Book Review as "sharp and clean and full of sentences worth underlining."
 Nothing quite expresses the bittersweetness of love like the blues. And from Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday, from Janis Joplin to Lucinda Williams, women have played a decisive role in shaping its sound. As Buzzy Jackson explores in A Bad Woman Feeling Good, the female icons of the blues made their music a vehicle of emotional liberation—both for themselves and their listeners. Combining biography, American history, and a deep appreciation of music, this is a must-read primer on the crooners who sang sad songs with such joyous abandon.
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