Yes, I want to read both of these

Call me shallow if you will, I won't deny it. From today's Publishers Marketplace: (to any writers looking to get published/find out more about the industry, I highly recommend the $20/month PM costs, it's so worth it)

NON-FICTION: GENERAL/OTHER
Amanda Robb's THE WAR ON SEX, a look inside the hidden culture of the abstinence movement, its surprising influence on public policy, and its impact on our health, our families and our relationships, to Nan Graham at Scribner, by Stuart Krichevsky at the Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).
sk@skagency.com

******
NON-FICTION: DIET
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent's HOW TO EAT LIKE A HOT CHICK, tips to steer you clearly through every food obstacle you will ever encounter, to Anne Cole at Collins, by Dan Mandel at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (world).


Also good news for Courtney Martin, author of the brilliant (seriously one of the best non-fiction books I've ever read) Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: and part of group blog Crucial Minutiae:

NON-FICTION: MEMOIR
Marvelyn Brown with Courtney Martin's A MARVELOUS LIFE: YOUNG, BLACK, BEAUTIFUL, AND SURVIVING, in which the 23-year-old HIV survivor and activist who first came to prominence on the Oprah Winfrey Show reveals what it takes to look death in the eye and choose life as she becomes the leader she was always meant to be, to Dawn Davis at Amistad, in a nice deal, by Tracy Brown at Tracy Brown Literary Agency (NA).