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Yes. You. Beautiful. Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz will tell you how to achieve and perceive beauty in their newly released book, You: Being Beautiful. In this follow-up to their bestseller You: Staying Young, the doctors give you advice on how to look, feel, and be beautiful with a dual focus on inner and outer beauty.

The first lesson you get from this book is that you are already beautiful. Believing, no, knowing this makes following the tips in the rest of the book much easier. You will learn various tips on caring for your body including healthy diets, exercise tips, and fresh perspectives on cosmetic body enhancements. Yet what sets this book apart from the myriad beauty books on…

Patience. Creative reconciliation. Anarchic loving. Healing. Forgiveness. No single author has had more of a transformative impact on my concepts of love, relationships, human nature or history than Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Through her characters and stories, she has spoken to me and informed my consciousness. Ms. Toni fed my imagination as a ten year old reading my mother’s copy of Paradise while I spent hours in a salon waiting for her to get her hair done. Ms. Toni drew out the mirror inside of me as a thirteen year old reading The Bluest Eye. She pushed me apart from my white classmates in AP English as I defended Sethe in Beloved. She solidified, and challenged, my senses of self,…

Girl meets boy. Girl falls for boy. Girl and boy love each other for two years. Boy moves across the country to pursue his career. Girl is dumped.

Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend picks up soon after the break-up of Emma and Derrick. Early in the relationship he told Emma that he was trying to sell his screenplay (read: would leave in a heartbeat) but she conveniently forgets that information to live in bliss instead. A writer at heart, Emma works, ironically, as an editor for Bridal Best, a wedding planning magazine. Throughout the book we meet Alyssa and Jade, her two best girlfriends; her mom, currently working on marriage #3; her alcoholic, litigious father; her hairdresser who’s a whiz at blonde…