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      How to Be A Great Lover

Sex should be "an experience to be relished from beginning to end," says Lou Paget in How to Be a Great Lover: Girlfriend-to-Girlfriend Totally Explicit Techniques That Will Blow His Mind. Paget (a woman) aims "to empower you as a woman, heighten the intimacy of your romantic relationship, and enable you and your partner to enjoy yourselves in intense new ways." She lives up to that promise with this friendly, titillating, educational, and explicit guide to enlivening your sex life and keeping your man coming back for more. Is he a bad kisser? Learn an easy strategy to get him to kiss you just the way you like it. Does he object to using a condom? Use your mouth to put it on him (a six-step process, complete with illustrations). You'll find information you might not find anywhere else, such as dozens of explicit manual and oral techniques (many illustrated) that will drive him crazy, a comparison of different brands of lubricant for different uses (along with sexy ways to apply it), techniques for anal stimulation, and a guide to sex toys. This book is fun to read, and will certainly open up the sensuality in your relationship. 

101 Grrreat Quickies

Remember when your mother taught you to never deface a book? Well, forget her advice and rip (literally!) into Laura Corn's 101 Grrreat Quickies. The author of 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex is working her magic again. As she puts it, "You make love. Sometimes slow and passionately. Sometimes all night. And sometimes, on occasion, you've done it quickly, half dressed, in a very special way. You've done a 'Quickie.'" This book contains 101 sealed "coupons" of quickies for you and your lover to tear from the book. Some are "for her to unzip," and some are for him. When the time is right, you present the coupon to your lover, who must immediately stop what he or she is doing in order to do what the coupon indicates.

Okay, So I don't have a Headache

Former model Christina Ferrare has been a familiar face on TV for more than a decade, hosting and appearing on talk shows. Now she's famous for another reason: she bared all--in the emotional sense--on Oprah® and in this book about the perimenopausal lack of sexual desire that changed her from lusty wife (making love in every room, greeting her husband at the airport wearing only an overcoat and high heels) to the mistress of avoidance maneuvers: "I have a headache/backache/wet nails." She shares her search for a solution to other perimenopausal symptoms ("I had my first hot flash at Neiman-Marcus, and initially I thought it was from seeing the bill from my purchases"), exploring changes that made her feel better outside the bedroom as well. Ferrare doesn't hold back, confiding her PMS-fueled chocolate rituals (she stuffed as many as seven unwrapped peanut-butter cups in her bra and walked them by her husband). Eventually she gave up foods that weren't good for her, turned to whole foods and exercise, and balanced her diet with herbs and vitamins. She decided against synthetic hormone replacement therapy in favor of natural alternatives: soy, natural progesterone, and herbs. Testosterone cream helped put the zing back in her sex drive. She wisely warns that she is not a doctor and that the program she presents is what worked for her. Readers will need to consult a doctor who knows about alternative medicine to find what will work for them--but she stresses that there is help out there.

Self - Nurture

One of the greatest challenges women face is learning how to nurture themselves. The tendency, of course, is for women to put themselves last on the list--taking care of everyone and everything else before they tend to their own emotional, physical, or spiritual needs, according to author Alice D. Domar, Ph.D. Yet, ironically, when women put themselves last on the list, they find themselves stressed out, depleted of energy, and unable to give their family members or jobs the full attention they need. As the director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Harvard Medical School, Domar has developed a comprehensive, year-long program to help women learn the crucial art of self-nurturing.