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Consenting and Queer: Romance Publishing
How does LGBTQ romance fiction navigates questions of consent and safer sex?
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Safer Becomes Sexier: Romance Publishing
Depicting bedroom scenes in a sexy and authentic way has necessitated that authors confront certain realities.
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It’s Still Complicated: Romance Publishing
There’s a taboo that governs even the rule-breaking alphas of modern romance.
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Let’s Talk About Sex: Romance Publishing
How do romance authors and editors address tricky issues of communication and safer sex without killing the mood?
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Health & Fitness 2017: Low-FODMAP FTW
For people on low-FODMAP diets, it’s probably hard enough to steer clear of ill-tolerated foods—fruits, milk, broccoli, avocados—without trying to pronounce “fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols.”
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Health & Fitness 2017: Healthy Enough
The diet and fitness shelves are lined with promises. A reader perusing them could be excused for thinking that he or she can lose a toddler’s worth of weight in 30 days or have a tortoiseshell-hard abdomen in a matter of weeks. But these claims don’t always line up with reality.
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Health & Fitness 2017: Life Support
We’d all like to feel our best, but most of us have to compromise. We can aim to age gracefully, but we can’t stave off decline entirely. We can take steps to stay trim, but for most of us, acquiring a movie star’s or pro athlete’s physique is only going to come from tremendous effort and deprivation.
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Health & Fitness 2017: The New Old
A 2016 Census Bureau report puts numbers to something that many people have intuited already: the United States is getting older.
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Select Spanish-Language Titles: October 2017, Part 2
A second listing of select Spanish-language books that are being published in October.
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Livin’ la Vida Lagom: Self-Help Books 2017–2018
Move over, ‘hygge,' and meet the latest Scandinavian lifestyle export.
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Real Talk: Self-Help Books 2017–2018
Self-help may have finally shed its touchy-feely stigma, thanks to a slew of books with no-holds-barred language on and between the covers.
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The Write Direction: Self-Help Books 2017–2018
New guided journals offer various paths to self-discovery.
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Women on the Rise: Self-Help Books 2017–2018
The coming year brings books that aim to inspire women and help them empower themselves.
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Hello? Is There Anybody in There?: Self-Help Books 2017–2018
Forthcoming titles help readers learn how to communicate better online and in real life.
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Bouncing Back: Self-Help Books 2017–2018
The subject of resilience had been gaining traction in self-help circles.
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All the Feels: Self-Help Books 2017–2018
New books show readers how to communicate their emotions, find strenth amid adversity, and stand up for themselves.
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Genre Mashups: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017–2018
Several forthcoming SFF books sample liberally from different corners of the literary universe.
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Future Shocks: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017–2018
A look at new titles that explore how our lives might change for the better—or for much, much worse.
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Horror Bleeds into Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017–2018
Forthcoming books plumb the depth of our nightmares: the aftermath of natural disasters, the bloody toll of war, and other dark chapters of history.
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Divergent Realities: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017–2018
Speculative fiction writers are challenging the rules not only of reality, but of the genre itself.



