Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me
by Ben's Mom
Grand Central Publishing

$23.99
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The Emmy Award–winning former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report has assembled a lineup of male celebrities, writers, and public figures who have all been dumped. This is not a touchy-feely book. This is not a self-help book. This is a book packed with smart, funny, and insightful stories from men you probably thought never got dumped, or if they did, would never admit it.

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Harper

$24.95
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"When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart.... It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer." —Jeffrey Eugenides, from the Introduction (All proceeds from sales of this book will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago.)

Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance
by Joshua Knelman
Free Press

$18.00
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Some of the most important writers of our time were asked to compose a fictional love letter—breathing new life into a forgotten custom, and affording words the power of seduction that they deserve. The result is an iridescent picture of what love looks like in the twenty-first century: a collage of methods and moods. Each letter is radically different from the next, and all but one are published here for the first time.

Love Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
by Pablo Neruda
New Directions

$11.95
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A scandal when first published anonymously in 1952, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, with earthbound images that re-imagine the world through the prism of a lover’s body. Written on the island of Capri, where Neruda “took refuge” in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating images with a yearning eroticism. Translated from the Spanish by Donald D. Walsh.

The Best of Best American Erotica 2008: 15th Anniversary Edition (Best American Erotica)
by Susie Bright
Touchstone

$14.00
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To mark its fifteenth anniversary, the top-selling erotica series reaches new heights with a special edition showcasing standout stories from the entire series as well as never before published pieces—plus interviews with the authors and, for the first time, an edgy piece from editor Susie Bright herself.