Relationships

A 14-day romance challenge. Sharon Jaynes. 248.8435 JAY
30 lessons for loving: advice from the wisest Americans on love, relationships, and marriage. Karl Pillemer. Large Type 306.81 PIL, EAudiobook
Actually, it is your parents’ fault: why your romantic relationship isn’t working, and how to fix it. Philip Van Munching. 646.78 VAN
Altared: the true story of a she, a he, and how they both got too worked up about we. Claire & Eli. 261.835 CLA
And baby makes three: the six-step plan for preserving marital intimacy and rekindling romance after baby arrives. John Gottman. 646.78 GOT
Anxious in love: how to manage your anxiety, reduce conflict & reconnect with your partner. Carolyn Daitch, Lissah Lorberbaum. 152.4 DAI
The art of marriage: a guide to living life as two. Catherine Blyth. 646.782 BLY
As time goes by: boomerang marriages, serial spouses, throwback couples, and other romantic adventures in an age of longevity. Abigail Trafford. 306.81 TRA
Babyproofing your marriage: how to laugh more, argue less, and communicate better as your family grows. Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O’Neill, Julia Stone. 306.872 COC, Spanish Lang. 306.872 COC
Become your own matchmaker: 8 easy steps for attracting your perfect mate. Patti Stanger. 646.77 STA
Breakup bootcamp: the science of rewiring your heart. Amy Chan. 158.1 CHA
Buddhism for couples: a calm approach to relationships. Sarah Napthali. 294.3444 NAP
Cherish: the one word that changes everything for your marriage. Gary Thomas. 284.844 THO
Chicken soup for the soul: the dating game: 101 stories about looking for love and finding fairytale romance! 646.77 CHI
Choosing us: marriage and mutual flourishing in a world of difference. Gail Song Bantum, Brian Bantum. 261.835 BAN
Crossing the tracks for love: what to do when you and your partner grew up in different worlds. Ruby K. Payne. 306.872 PAY
Date your wife: a husband’s guide. Justin Buzzard. 248.842 BUZ
Dating for dummies. Joy Browne. 646.77 BRO
Dating makes you want to die: (but you have to do it anyway). Daniel Holloway. 306.73 HOL
Dirty minds: how our brains influence love, sex, and relationships. Kayt Sukel. 155.31 SUK
Do gentlemen really prefer blondes?: bodies, behavior, and brains – The science behind sex, love, and attraction. Jena Pincott. 155.3 PIN
Do I have to give up me to be loved by you? Jordan Paul, Margaret Paul. 646.78 PAU
The Dr. Drew and Adam book: a survival guide to life and love. Drew Pinsky, Adam Carolla. 306.7 PIN
Elemental love styles: find compatibility and create a lasting relationship. Craig Martin. 158.2 MAR
Emotional fitness for intimacy: sweeten & deepen your love in only 10 minutes a day. Barton Goldsmith. 158.24 GOL
The end of sex: how hookup culture is leaving a generation unhappy, sexually unfulfilled, and confused about intimacy. Donna Freitas. 306.73 FRE
Enjoy!: the gift of sexual pleasure for women. Joyce J. Penner, Clifford L. Penner. 248.8435 PEN
Every woman’s battle: discovering God’s plan for sexual and emotional fulfillment. Shannon Ethridge. 241.66 ETH
Everybody fights: so why not get better at it? Kim & Penn Holderness. 306.81 HOL
Fierce marriage: radically pursuing each other in light of Christ’s relentless love. Ryan & Selena Frederick. 248.844 FRE
Fight less, love more: 5-minute conversations to change your relationship without blowing up or giving in. Laurie Puhn. 646.78 PUH
Fighting for your empty nest marriage: reinventing your relationship when the kids leave home. 306.81 FIG
Fighting for your marriage: a deluxe revised edition of the classic best seller for enhancing marriage and preventing divorce. Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley, Susan L. Blumberg. 646.78 MAR
Find a husband after 35 using what I learned at Harvard Business School. Rachel Greenwald. 646.77GRE
The five languages of apology: how to experience healing in all your relationships. Gary Chapman. 158.2 CHA, Spanish Lang. 158.2 CHA
The five love languages: singles edition. Gary Chapman. 248.84 CHA
The 5 love languages: the secret to love that lasts. Gary Chapman. 306.872 CHA
The flight from intimacy: healing your relationship of counter-dependency, the other side of co-dependency. Janae B. Weinhold, Barry K. Weinhold. 158.2 WEI
Flings, frolics, and forever afters: a single woman’s guide to romance after fifty. Katherine E. Chaddock. 646.77 CHA
For better: the science of a good marriage. Tara Parker-Pope. 646.78 PAR
Forgive for love: the missing ingredient for a healthy and lasting relationship. Fred Luskin. 158.2 LUS
The four seasons of marriage. Gary D. Chapman. 248.844 CHA
Freedom fences: how to set limits that free you to enjoy your marriage and family. 248.84 FRE
Get over yourself!: how to get real, get serious, and get ready to find true love. Patti Novak, Laura Zigman. 646.77 NOV
Getting naked again: dating, romance, sex, and love when you’ve been divorced, widowed, dumped, or distracted. Judith Sills. 646.77 SIL
Getting past the affair: a program to help you cope, heal, and move on– together or apart. Douglas K. Snyder, Donald H. Baucom, Kristina Coop Gordon. 646.78 SNY
Getting the love you want: a guide for couples. Harville Hendrix. 306.7 HEN
The girls’ guide to guys. Julie Taylor. 646.77 TAY
God loves sex: an honest conversation about sexual desire and holiness. Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman III. 241.66 ALL
The good girl’s guide to great sex: (and you thought bad girls have all the fun). Sheila Wray Gregoire. 306.7082 GRE
Grief and sexuality: life after losing a spouse. Rachel Nafziger Hartzler. 155.937 HAR
Haiku for the single girl. Beth Griffenhagen. 811 GRI
Happy spouse– happy house: the best game plan for a winning marriage. Pat & Ruth E. Williams. 248.844 WIL
Have a new husband by Friday: how to change his attitude, behavior & communication in 5 days. Kevin Leman. 646.78 LEM, Spanish Lang. 646.78 LEM
Have a new sex life by Friday: because your marriage can’t wait until Monday. Kevin Leman. 155.3 LEM
He texted: the ultimate guide to decoding guys. Lisa Winning, Carrie Henderson McDermott. 306.73 WIN
He wins, she wins: learning the art of marital negotiation. Willard F. Harley, Jr. 306.7 HAR
He’s just not that into you: the no-excuses truth to understanding guys. Greg Behrendt. 306.734 BEH, CD 306.734 BEH, Spanish Lang. 306.734 BEH
The highly sensitive person in love: understanding and managing relationships when the world overwhelms you. Elaine N. Aron. 306.7 ARO
His needs, her needs: building an affair-proof marriage. Willard F. Harley, Jr. 306.81 HAR, Spanish Lang.
Hold me tight: seven conversations for a lifetime of love. Sue Johnson. 158.24 JOH, Spanish Lang. 158.24 JOH
Hope for the separated: wounded marriages can be healed. Gary Chapman. 248.846 CHA
How to be single and happy: science-based strategies for keeping your sanity while looking for a soul mate. Jennifer L. Taitz. 155.642 TAI
How to fix a broken heart. Guy Winch. 155.93 WIN
How to have a match made in heaven: a transformational approach to dating, relating, and marriage. Ariel & Shya Kane. 646.77 KAN
How to stay lovers for life. Sharyn Wolf. 646.78 WOL
I love you, nice to meet you: a guy and a girl give the lowdown on coupling up. Lori Gottlieb, Kevin Bleyer. 306.73 GOT
If the Buddha dated: a handbook for finding love on a spiritual path. Charlotte Sophia Kasl. 646.77KAS
In the meantime–: finding yourself and the love that you want. Iyanla Vanzant. 158.2 VAN
Intimacy ignited: conversations couple to couple: fire up your sex life with the Song of Solomon. 241.66 INT
Just your type: create the relationship you’ve always wanted using the secrets of personality type. Paul D. Tieger. 306.7 TIE
Lies at the altar: the truth about great marriages. Robin L. Smith. 646.78 SMI, Spanish Lang. 646.78
Love & respect: the respect he desperately needs, the love she most desires. Emerson Eggerichs. 248.844 EGG, Spanish Lang. 248.844, CD 248.844
Love after 50: how to find it, enjoy it, and keep it. Francine Russo. 306.7084 RUS
Love as a way of life: seven keys to transforming every aspect of your life. Gary Chapman. 241.4 CHA, Spanish Lang. 241.4 CHA
The love dare. Stephen Kendrick. 248.844 KEN, Spanish Lang. 248.844 KEN
Love is a verb. Gary Chapman. 177.7 CHA, CD 177.7 CHA
Love sense: the revolutionary new science of romantic relationships. Sue Johnson. 152.41 JOH
Love talk: speak each other’s language like you never have before. Les & Leslie Parrott. 306.7 PAR
Making marriage work for dummies. Steven Simring, Sue Klavans Simring. 306.81 SIM
Making sense of the men in your life. Kevin Leman. 305.31 LEM
Marriage confidential: the post-romantic age of workhorse wives, royal children, undersexed spouses, & rebel couples who are rewriting the rules. Pamela Haag. 155.645 HAA
The marriage of sex and spirit. 128.46 MAR
Mars and Venus on a date. John Gray. 646.77GRA
Mars and Venus starting over. John Gray. 158.2 GRA
The Nest newlywed handbook: an owner’s manual for modern married life. Carley Roney. 646.78 RON
A practical handbook for the boyfriend. Felicity Huffman, Patricia Wolff. 646.77HUF
Praying through the deeper issues of marriage. Stormie Omartian. 248.844 OMA
The proper care and feeding of husbands. Laura C. Schlessinger. 306.81 SCH
Quest for love. Elisabeth Elliot. 248.4 ELL
Ready or not?: a girl’s guide to making her own decisions about dating, love, and sex. Tina Radziszewicz. Y 613.907 RAD
Receiving love: transform your relationship by letting yourself be loved. Harville Hendrix. 646.78 HEN
Red-hot monogamy. Bill & Pam Farrel. 248.844 FAR
Relationship rescue. Philip C. McGraw. 306.7 MACG, Audio 158.24 MACG
The rules: time-tested secrets for capturing the heart of Mr. Right. Ellen Fein. 646.77 FEI
Secrets of a fix-up fanatic: how to meet & marry your match. Susan Shapiro. 646.77 SHA
Secrets to lasting love: uncovering the keys to life-long intimacy. Gary Smalley. 646.78 SMA
The seven principles for making marriage work. John M. Gottman, Nan Silver. 306.81 GOT, Spanish Lang. 306.81 GOT
Simple loving. Janet Luhrs. 646.78 LUH
SMART man hunting. Liz H. Kelly. 646.77 KEL
The surrendered wife: a practical guide for finding intimacy, passion, and peace with a man. Laura Doyle. 306.81 DOY
Surrendering to marriage: husbands, wives, and other imperfections. Iris Krasnow. 646.78 KRA
What men say, what women hear. Linda Papadopoulos. 646.77 PAP
What Shamu taught me about life, love, and marriage. Amy Sutherland. 158.2 SUT
When God writes your love story. Eric & Leslie Ludy. 241.6765 LUD
Why does God care who I sleep with? Sam Allberry. 261.8357 ALL
Why him? why her?: finding real love by understanding your personality type. Helen Fisher. 155.264 FIS

SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS

The full spectrum: a new generation of writing about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other identities. Y 306.76 FUL
Together forever: the gay man’s guide to lifelong love. Martin Kantor. 155.3 KAN

SINGLENESS

Better single than sorry: a no-regrets guide to lovingyourself&neversettling. Jen Schefft. 306.815SCH
The joy of not being married: the essential guide for singles. Ernie J. Zelinski. 155.642 ZEL
Keeping the love you find: a guide for singles. Harville Hendrix. 155.642 HEN
Living solo. 305.906 LIV
On my own: the art of being a woman alone. Florence Falk. 306.815 FAL
Quirkyalone: a manifesto for uncompromising romantics. Sasha Cagen. 155.642 CAG
Single again and secure in God’s love: inspirational meditations. Jim Smoke. 248.846 SMO
Why you’re still single: things your friends would tell you if you promised not to get mad. Evan Marc Katz, Linda Holmes. 646.77 KAT

UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS (See also Domestic Violence)

But I love him: protecting your teen daughter from controlling, abusive dating relationships. Jill Murray. 362.829 MUR
Dragonslippers:thisiswhatanabusiverelationship lookslike. Rosalind B. Penfold. Graphic 616.8582 PEN
Help! I’m in love with a narcissist. Steven Carter, Julia Sokol. 158.2 CAR
Saving beauty from the beast: how to protect your daughter from an unhealthy relationship. Vicki Crompton, Ellen Zelda Kessner. 362.829 CRO
When something feels wrong: a survival guide about abuse for young people. Deanna S. Pledge. Y 616.8582 PLE
Women who love too much: when you keep wishing and hoping he’ll change. Robin Norwood. 155.333 NOR

DVDS & AUDIOBOOKS

Fireproof. DVD Drama F
Love smart: find the one you want– fix the one you got. Phil McGraw. CD 646.77 MACG
Talk to teens about dating and sex: the best of the Dr. Laura Berman Show. CD 305.235 BER
The way to a woman’s heart: a road map toasuccessful marriage. Chuck Snyder. Audio 248.842 SNY

ONLINE

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

EL AMOR Y EL MATRIMONIO EN ESPAÑOL

Abrazame fuerte: siete conversaciones para un amor duradero. Sue Johnson. Spanish Lang. 158.24 JOH
Ama de verdad, vive de verdad. Alberto Cutie. Spanish Lang. 305.3 CUT, Spanish Lang. 305.3 CUT
Amor astuto: encuentra al hombre que quieres, conserva al que tienes. Phil McGraw. Spanish Lang. 646.77 MACG
Amor, sexo y noviazgo. Sixto Porras. Spanish Lang. 248.84 POR
Amor y respeto: el amor que ella mas ansia, el respeto que el desesperadamente necesita. Emerson Eggerichs. Spanish Lang. 248.844 EGG
Amores que duran — y duran — y duran. Jesús Miguel Martínez. Spanish Lang. 306.81 MAR
¿Casada o cazada?: una mirada autentica a loque significa ser una esposa: cristiana, moderna y feliz. Silvia Bolet Fernandez. Spanish Lang. 248.844 FER
Los 100 secretos de las parejas felices. David Niven. Spanish Lang. 302 NIV
Los 10 mandamientos del matrimonio. Ed Young. Spanish Lang. 248.844 YOU
Jóvenes, enamorados y en peligro: una guía para los adolescentes para librarse de una relación abusiva. Barrie Levy. Spanish Lang. 362.88 LEV
Lo que él necesita, lo que ella necesita: edificando un matrimonio a prueba de relaciones extramatrimoniales. Willard F. Harley. Spanish Lang. 306.81 HAR
El matrimonio que siempre ha deseado. Gary Chapman. Spanish Lang. 248.844 CHA
Los misterios del amor y el sexo. Silvia Olmedo. Spanish Lang. 613.96 OLM
Las mujeres que aman demasiado. Robin Norwood. Spanish Lang. 155.633 NOR
Los ocho consejos para mantener un matrimonio feliz. William Glasser. Spanish Lang. 646.78 GLA
Que les pasa a los hombres. Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo. Spanish Lang. 306.734 BEH
Los siete principios para hacer que el matrimonio funcione. John M. Gottman, Nan Silver. Spanish Lang. 306.81 GOT
Sopa de pollo para el alma de la pareja. Spanish Lang. 158.24 SOP
Su matrimonio siempre puede ser mejor: salve su matrimonio sin necesidad de separarse. Michele Weiner-Davis. Spanish Lang. 158.24 WEI
¿Te amo–para siempre?: como lograr, mantenar o rescatar el amor. Mabel Iam. Spanish Lang. 306.7 IAM
Te desafío a potenciar tu vida afectiva y sexual. Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez. Spanish Lang. 306.7