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Thin through the Power of the Spirit: Creating Paradise in Your Weight and World

Just in time for the shirtless season.

For those brave enough to examine the Spiritual dimension of weight loss, this book is fantastic. In a non-preachy, supportive tone, Lucia Capodilupo helps readers identify core patterns of behaviour that undermine slimming efforts and reconcile the unconscious disdain of physicality. BUY IT NOW

Gay Sex Book: A Manual for Men Who Love Men

Puppy says, "Sex Sells" so here it is!

The only setback of this book is its beefcake, gym-bunny cover and interior illustrations that unintentionally send off the message that this book is best suited to perfect Adonises, not average Joe Schmoes like you and me. Fortunately, Hart gives great advice on body image that should help most readers realize that this book is suitable for everyone: Good-looking men are no better in bed than men of average or below-average looks. That's self-evident when you think about it. But it bears emphasis because many of us, without having consciously thought about it, assume that a really cute guy will be especially hot in the sack. If anything, the connection is just the opposite: Great Beauties are often lazy in bed because they're accustomed to having the world come to them. BUY IT NOW

The Souls of Black Folks

WOW! It's a hundred years old and STILL hyper relevant

First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history, it helped to alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and studied in Berlin, these 14 essays contain both the academic language of sociology and the rich lyrics of African spirituals, which Du Bois called "sorrow songs." New introduction by Randall Kenan. BUY IT NOW

About the author

Born in Massachusetts in 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time—and mind you, his time stretched all the way from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. A man of staggering intellect and drive, he was the first black to hold a doctorate from Harvard University. Du Bois wrote three historical works, two novels, two autobiographies, and sixteen pioneering books on sociology, history, politics, and race relations. He was a founder of the NAACP, pioneering Pan-Africanist, spirited advocate for world peace, and tireless fighter for civil rights during the darkest days of Jim Crow.

Du Bois was also a prophet: At the turn of the century, he wrote in the "forethought" of this seminal collection of essays that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line."