It's His Loss When the Relationship Ends encourages self examination. It is geared toward women so that they can complete themselves instead of looking to others for this task. Forgiveness is emphasized. This is essentially because until this is granted, you cannot move forward with anything. It encourages by pointing out four popular issues that women encounter at some point in their life. Self love, forgiveness, self definition, and what if scenarios are all common to women of all ages. Once readers read these four chapters and they have acknowledged within themselves what (if anything) needs to be changed, they are then ready for the concept of It's His Loss! The last chapter is all about the author. She tells of a few encounters she has had with men. She also tells just why it really is HIS loss when a relationship ends!

This is Bo Lanier's third book of poems that is published through Lulu.com.

She married the preacher. He fought addictions that eventually tore their family apart. God spoke to her that her husband would be restored to Christ and to her. She did not know that it would take so long. This is the documented five year journey to restoration.

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority and dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia and that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics. Her discussion ranges from "Flower Drum Song" to "M. Butterfly," Brown v. Board of Education to Anna Deavere Smith's "Twilight," and Invisible Man to The Woman Warrior, in the process demonstrating that racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, and social health. Her investigations reveal the common interests that social, legal, and literary histories of race have always shared with psychoanalysis, and situates Asian-American and African-American identities in relation to one another within the larger process of American racialization. A provocative look at a timely subject, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis.

FICTION--A fictional memoir written from the perspective of the Switched at Birth character, Kathryn Kennish.