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![Diet Relationships Leave Women Wanting More](https://cdn.nwe.io/files/x/ce/58/22ae9486fab9309939d9d05702d5.jpg)
Women's relationship expert and creative arts therapist team up to explore why some women settle for diet relationships that leave them longing for more.
![Low-Fat Love Stories: Groundbreaking Book Shatters Pop Culture's Illusions and Seeks to Empower Women](https://cdn.nwe.io/files/x/ce/58/22ae9486fab9309939d9d05702d5.jpg)
A trailblazing sociologist and creative arts therapist team up, in partnership with Sense Publishers, to challenge pop culture's stereotyped portrayals of women by creating a collection of stories and art that portray real experiences of settling for low-fat love and struggles to build authentic identities and relationships in a context in which women made to feel they are never enough.
![Low-Fat Love: Empowering Women to Stop Settling for Diet Relationships](https://cdn.nwe.io/files/x/e9/e2/b0041eecaf76a07c8e8d38ac52a4.jpg)
Low-Fat Love, a concept developed by sociologist and relationship expert, Dr. Patricia Leavy, taps into how women often settle in love and life. Low-Fat Love is the subject and title of Leavy's genre-busting chick-lit empowerment novel based on a decade of interview research with women, which today celebrates its 5th anniversary.
![Literary Research: Genre-Busting Author Releases 20th Book](https://cdn.nwe.io/files/x/48/42/fd69a44ee4b69e6b32babd9ccf9e.jpg)
The award-winning scholar who created the genre "social fiction" in which researchers represent their studies through popular literature so public audiences can access them, releases 20th book.
![A Glimpse Into the Lives of the Wealthiest 1%](https://cdn.nwe.io/files/x/48/42/fd69a44ee4b69e6b32babd9ccf9e.jpg)
Sociologist-turned-novelist Patricia Leavy, PhD, explores appearance versus reality - how our lives and relationships look to others versus how they really are - the importance of female friendships, and how money and power can shape relationships.
![The Truth Isn't All It Seems](https://cdn.nwe.io/files/x/9c/18/4fa62962785ec38ddc543917f540.jpg)
Epic new book challenges popular notions of truth and asks readers to distinguish fiction from nonfiction
![Smart Chick-Lit: The Sociology and Fiction Combo Empowering Women](https://cdn.nwe.io/files/x/45/a2/5677611167f41a70d4d88361d88c.jpg)
Trailblazing sociologist pens novel based on a decade of interview research that pays tribute to 1980s pop culture, challenges the fiction-nonfiction divide, and transforms a women's interest genre into women's empowerment
Readers won't know what's fiction and nonfiction in trailblazing scholar's epic new book that seeks to challenge popular notions of truth