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What if you had a simple set of tools that could give you everything you want?

In this life-changing book you will learn: a step-by-step process for creating the relationship of your dreams, the importance of visualization and self-exploration, how to make a plan that works, how letting go of control can get you more of what you want, how to stop sabotaging your relationships by asking the WRONG questions, a powerful communication tool for preventing conflict and improving all of your relationships, the truth about honesty, the gifts of gratitude.

Are you tired of so-called professionals giving you nothing but a bunch of theories, studies, and incomprehensible psycho-babble? Want an easy-to-read book written by regular people just like you? We are not psychologists, we are relationship specialists. The examples we use in this book are from our own experience in our own relationships. This seven-step process has worked for us, it has worked for others, and it can work for you too! This is not just another book that tells you how someone else achieved results, gets you all charged up and then leaves you to fend for yourself in the real world.

We walk you through the step-by-step process that we used, and we teach you how to do it for yourself. At the end of each chapter, you will find writing exercises and action steps to move you through the process and keep you on track.

In The Seven Steps to Successful Relationships, you'll find answers to your most common questions about relationships, from finding a mate, to saving a marriage, to communicating more effectively at work.

Keith and Maura have developed practical and powerful tools for creating relationships that work.

--John Gray, Ph.D., Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Who needs a man when you have a pint of fresh Wisconsin ice cream and full access to Cary Grant on The Movie Channel? That's what second-grade teacher and MGM-devotee Caitlin Walsh believes. After being left at the altar by her ambitious rat of an ex-fiancé, Cait has rededicated her life to her students and to the citizens of small-town Ridgewood Grove.

Rob and Elizabeth may have grown up practically next door to each other, but they have nothing in common. Elizabeth "Please Don't Call Me Lizzy" Daniels is a small-town Wisconsin girl at heart. Shy and inexperienced at love, the frizzy-haired dessert cookbook writer resides in her quaint hometown of Wilmington Bay, stutters painfully when nervous and is only comfortable with her laptop and her tiny circle of cooking pals.

"The road," Kerouac wrote, "is life," and the women in these three stories hit the road looking for fuller, richer lives than the ones they have at home. One flies to Ireland to land a husband; one, who hoped to find shelter in paradise, realizes her journey isn't over; and one loses a lover, a friend, and a few precious illusions about herself as she drives across America.

The friendship of two tightly knit New York City couples whose bond isn't quite what it seems threatens to unravel after the publication of a story in a well-known literary magazine that bears a strange resemblance to their real life. This wry, urban novelette blurs the lines between love and lust, loyalty and betrayal, laying bare the power of literature to expose parts of ourselves we may not want to see. Christine Benvenuto oh-so-lightly pokes fun at Manhattan's privileged class, and her observations are all the more biting for their subtlety.

Socrates is a burrowing spider with a very big secret. No one knows his secret until he has a conversation with a little beetle. Will Socrates ever tell his secret? Will he ever find a friend?

When we meet Shalem, a young woman in her late 30s, she is enduring small talk at a cocktail party hosted by one of her husband's colleagues. One talks about her breast milk and her twins; another frets about the matronly ass of his girlfriend. Shalem has arrived at the age of no longer young but not old and balancing the in-between. What she wears isn't cool. What she thinks isn't cool.

The perfect romance for any holiday or for when you just need one. Get caught up in this sexy romance that's told over a year of holidays. Shannon Quinn is the small-town girl who runs Holiday Quinn--a holiday-themed inn/resort based in scenic Door County, Wisconsin. One winter evening a wealthy Minneapolis businessman, Bram Hartwick, blows into town along with the fast-falling snow.

Although most famous for her bestselling fiction, including Fear of Flying and Any Woman's Blues, Erica Jong started her publishing career as a poet. The celebrated author enjoys an international reputation for her verse. An essential collection of poetry, Becoming Light includes early poems previously uncollected in book form, selections from her previous books, and many new poems. Erica Jong's poetry exhibits her rare gifts for inventiveness, wit, vigor, honesty, and accessibility. Critics have generously praised Jong's unique poetic voice.

Michelle and her black lover, Antoine, have plans for Michelle's husband, Simon. A weekend at Antoine's mother's estate turns out to be a turning point in Simon's life. The hapless husband undergoes the initial training to become a WSB. Under the tutelage of senior sissy maids Paulette and Pansy, Simon becomes Simmi, and is on his way to becoming a member of the exclusive WSB Club.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

In a not-too-distant future, President Margaret Richardson is beginning her very popular third term. Times have changed for males, who were now divided into the classes of Alpha Males, highly prized and valued, and sissy males, the worker drones of this modern utopian society. The merchandising Goddess of television is the beautiful, blonde Donna Drake of the Sissy Cuckold Shopping Channel. On this day's show she hosts many new products for an enthusiastic all-female live audience.

Esta apasionante obra de 1897, escrita en forma de novela epistolar, plasma de modo artístico las investigaciones de Bram Stoker acerca de los vampiros en el folclore europeo. Así vemos como el letrado británico Jonathan Harker emprende una fatigosa jornada hacia la región de Transilvania, en los montes Cárpatos, para dar consejo legal al tenebroso conde Drácula, quien pretende comprar tierras en Gran Bretania como paso inicial de un malévolo plan de dominación del mundo.

El clásico de Alejandro Dumas El Conde de Montecristo cuenta la historia de un hombre inocente injustamente encarcelado, que elabora un brillante plan para vengarse de los que le traicionaron. El joven marinero Edmond Dantés (Jim Caviezel) es un hombre honrado y cándido que lleva una vida tranquila. Entre sus planes está casarse con la hermosa Mercedes, pero todo se complica repentinamente cuando su mejor amigo Fernando, deseoso de conquistar a Mercedes, lo traiciona.

Whitney Anderson is a fifth grader and president of a mystery club. She and her friends help find a missing boy, but soon Whitney is headed to a strange country- Monaco - full of adventure and a man who follows her, leaving her expensive presents. Mystery follows Whitney to the Congo, in the heart of Africa, where she must find her kidnapped baby brother before time runs out.

Freddie “the Cheerleader,” Phyllis “the Class President,” and Renetta “the Fat Girl” ended their friendship back in high school. So it’s a surprise to all of them when they end up connecting at their 30-year high school reunion. They’ve all changed since those harsh yet tender high school years, and each one of them has her own deliciously scandalous secret. But when those secrets threaten to come to light—and possibly tear apart their less than perfect, but generally content lives—they band together in their sisterhood to stand and fight to keep what’s theirs