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Debra Owsley Creator of LitVersation The Book Conversation Game
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Debra Owsley
Debra Owsley NONE Debra Owsley, avid reader and hairstylist, transformed her passion into a business, Simply Said Reading Accessories and LitVersation. She collaborates with bestselling authors, book...
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game Debra Owsley litversations Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published To buy this game, please visit the creator’s website “Hello My name is...
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir Debra Lee 9780306828591 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group A riveting memoir by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), about the glamorous and ugly mom...
Debra Phillips
Debra Phillips 0000000080337535 Debra Yvette Phillips is a diverse writer, creating works in categories like romance, mainstream, and chick-lit. She also writes under the pseudonym D.Y. Phillips, spe...
More than Enough: The Debra Tucker Story
More than Enough: The Debra Tucker Story Akilah Trinay 9798992994414 Fiction ReVision Publishing ReVision Publishing In a family built on secrets, sometimes the hardest truth to face is your own. I...
Debra Lee
Debra Lee NONE Debra Lee, a recognized figure in entertainment, serves on multiple boards including Warner Bros. Discovery and Marriott International. As the former CEO of Black Entertainment Televis...
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir Robert Fleming Book Review Blessed with a candor, boldness, and business savvy rarely seen in books of this type, former CEO of Black Entertainment Television network Debra L...
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Tiffani Quarles-Sanders B07HLBF5Z3 Nonfiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. It belonged to her. Debra Nowden knew it, and she would walk through hell befo...
The End of Blackness
The End of Blackness Debra J. Dickerson 9780375421570 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House “This book will prove and promote the idea that the concept of ‘blackness,’ as it has come to be under...
The Forbidden Secrets Of The Goody Box
The Forbidden Secrets Of The Goody Box Valerie J. Lewis Coleman 9780978606633 Fiction Pen of the Writer Pen of the Writer What your father didn’t tell you and your mother didn’t know. Successful. Bea...
Debra J. Dickerson
Debra J. Dickerson NONE Sure, I'd be happy to assist. However, you haven't provided the author's bio. Could you please provide it?
Who Got Game? Basketball: Amazing But True Stories!
Who Got Game? Basketball: Amazing But True Stories! Derrick Barnes 9781523505548 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing From superstar author Derrick Barnes, here is a middle-grade celebrati...
Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game
Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game Colin Kaepernick and Eve L. Ewing 9781338789652 Nonfiction Scholastic Graphix Scholastic Inc. Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game, a graphic novel memoir detailing his ...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin 9780977342112 Fiction SoulViewWorld SoulViewWorld OLD ...
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game Kadir Nelson 9780316209403 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Kadir Nelson, award-winning creator, delivers the perfec...
Debra Williamson Talks about book Concealed Deception
Debra Williamson Talks about book Concealed Deception Book Spotlights
One Pale Summer
One Pale Summer Debra Phillips 9781960226068 Fiction Brother Mockingbird Brother Mockingbird Embark on a captivating tale of bravery and friendship for readers of all ages, where perceptions are chall...
Things I Never Told
Things I Never Told Debra Phillips 9798526914369 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published After surviving a brutal attack on New Year’s Eve, Perchelle Prentice wants to push the horrid ...
The High Price of a Good Man: A Novel
The High Price of a Good Man: A Novel Debra Phillips 9781250804648 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers "First of all, just for the record, I love me some me. You heard right…I truly lov...
Conversation with the Mann
Conversation with the Mann Thumper Book Review Not since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has a first person narrative novel struck me with such a poignant sense of completeness and satisfaction a...
Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever
Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever Don Tate 9781665919081 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Meet Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer wh...
The Game Is Not a Game: The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports
The Game Is Not a Game: The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports Robert “Scoop” Jackson 9781642590975 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books The Game Is Not a Game is part theory, part o...
Married to the Game
Married to the Game Chunichi 9780974702599 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Married to the Game is an urban tale of sex, money, murder, and mayhem and shows the pros and cons of the dr...
True to the Game Omnibus
True to the Game Omnibus Teri Woods 9780063489615 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins For the first time ever, you can live through Gena and Quadir’s entire epic True to the Game journey with the whole tril...
True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1)
True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1) Teri Woods 9781441772343 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group True to the Game represents life on the streets, where it’s true that ...
Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game.: Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy
Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game.: Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy Robert Livingston 9798217085972 Nonfiction Crown Currency Penguin Random House Instead of waiting fo...
The Zero Game
The Zero Game Brad Meltzer 9780446533164 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Washington, D.C...
I Got Next
I Got Next Daria Peoples 9780062657770 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins It’s game day! In this action-packed picture book from Daria Peoples-Riley, the creator of the acclaimed This Is It, a y...
Constance Banks
Constance Banks NONE Constance Banks is a motivational author with over 20 years of experience in youth ministry. Her latest book, “A Conversation with My Mother about Sex, Boys, and How She Married ...
Watch Ya’ Mouth!: The Black Culture Card Game
Watch Ya’ Mouth!: The Black Culture Card Game jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson 9798217033799 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House Historically Black Phrases Presents; 280 Questions & ...
The Conversation
The Conversation Kam Williams Book Review ’One of the things I’ve heard a lot from young brothers and sisters during my recent travels is ’I want a woman like Mich...
Why?: A Conversation about Race
Why?: A Conversation about Race Taye Diggs 9781250806093 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers A conversation about race. Daddy?Yes, my sweet boy.Why are those people shouting?Our people are s...
The Vain Conversation
The Vain Conversation Anthony Grooms 9781611178821 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 194...
Slay
Slay Brittney Morris 9781534445420 Fiction Simon Pulse Simon & Schuster, Inc. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019! "Gripping and timely." —People "The YA debut we’re most excited for this year." —En...
Terry DeRon
Terry DeRon NONE Terry DeRon, a dynamic writer with a unique writing style, served in the US Army before obtaining a Television/Film production degree from Southern University. He used his military b...
Changin’ Your Game Plan: The Blueprint for Success During and After Incarceration
Changin’ Your Game Plan: The Blueprint for Success During and After Incarceration Randy Kearse 9780980097474 Nonfiction Positive Urban Literature Positive Urban Literature Changin’ Your Game Plan: The...
Game Over
Game Over Winter Ramos 9781934230640 Nonfiction Life Changing Books Life Changing Books Winter Ramos, one of the new faces of VH1’s hit reality television show, Love& Hip Hop- New York Season 3 delive...
Neale Sourna
Neale Sourna NONE Neale Sourna is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and game story narrative writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has a diverse background, including business banking, wealth man...
Ki Khanga Sword and Soul Role Playing Game: Basic Rules
Ki Khanga Sword and Soul Role Playing Game: Basic Rules Milton J. Davis and Balogun Ojetade 9780996016759 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia Ki Khanga: The Sword and Soul Role Playing Game puts you in the role o...
Game Recognize Game - A Novel
Game Recognize Game - A Novel Terry DeRon 9780615307060 Fiction Terry DeRon Terry DeRon Game Recognize Game is a dynamic story highlighting the games and deceptions men and women use on one another wh...
Game
Game Walter Dean Myers 9780060582968 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins This thrilling basketball story from New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers is a strong choice for independent readin...
Changing the Game
Changing the Game Kam Williams changing-the-game.jpg Film Review Ambitious Ghetto Orphan Tested in All Ways in Sobering Coming-of-Age Changing the Game [2012] In Theaters: May 11, 2012 Limited Dram...
Joi-Marie McKenzie
Joi-Marie McKenzie NONE Joi-Marie McKenzie is an ABC News lifestyle writer, author of “The Engagement Game,” and creator of the award-winning website, The Fab Empire. Also a sought-after panelist, Mc...
Understanding Your Place in God’s Kingdom: Your Original Purpose for Existence
Understanding Your Place in God’s Kingdom: Your Original Purpose for Existence Myles Munroe 9780768440652 Nonfiction Destiny Image Destiny Image This book is about your original purpose for existence ...
Alex Simmons
Alex Simmons 0000000040307489 Alex Simmons is a prolific writer and publisher, known for his work across various genres including juvenile mysteries, stage plays, biographies, and movie novelizations...
Balogun Ojetade
Balogun Ojetade NONE Balogun Ojetade, the Technical Director of Afrikan Martial Arts Institute, is a best-selling author renowned for his work in Afroretroism. He has written 18 novels and gamebooks,...
D. Amari Jackson
D. Amari Jackson 0000000530897506 D. Amari Jackson is an accomplished creator, award-winning journalist, and author known for his middle grade novel, Jelani's Key. His portfolio includes TV/web/film ...
Ray Billingsley
Ray Billingsley 0000000031424835 Ray Billingsley, creator of the comic strip “Curtis”, draws upon his personal experiences and urban life for inspiration. Born in Wake Forest, N.C., and raised in Har...
O.T. Begho
O.T. Begho NONE Oyehmi T. Begho is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in emerging technologies. He holds degrees in Computer Science and ICT in Education. Known for his innovative ...
Taylor Cassidy
Taylor Cassidy NONE Taylor Cassidy is an author and content creator who gained popularity from her online series Fast Black History. Taylor Cassidy is a content creator who gained popularity from her...
Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!: A Gamer’s Alphabet
Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!: A Gamer’s Alphabet Chris Barton 9781576877012 Nonfiction POW! Kids Books POW! Kids Books Bone up on your gaming knowledge with this gently ironic yet thoroughly informative ...
True To The Game: A Teri Woods Fable
True To The Game: A Teri Woods Fable Teri Woods 9780967224909 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing This book represents the drug game during the late 80’s from the inner city streets of...
Beyond the Hurt
Beyond the Hurt Akilah Trinay 9798992994438 Fiction ReVision Publishing ReVision Publishing The saying “six degrees of separation” has a completely new meaning in the city of Oakland. Although conside...
The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life Kwame Alexander 9780544570979 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt You gotta know the rules to play...
The Game Don’t Change The Players Do…
The Game Don’t Change The Players Do… Mazaradi Fox 9781617754821 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books The posthumous novel from legendary Queens rapper Mazaradi Fox, who was a member a 50 Cent’s G-Uni...
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy Tricia Rose 9780312423728 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press-3PL Macmillan Publishers "A powerful and pioneering work. For the first time we h...
Charlamagne Tha God
Charlamagne Tha God 0000000486501489 Charlamagne Tha God, born Lenard McKelvey, is a renowned media personality and co-host of The Breakfast Club radio show and Brilliant Idiots podcast. He's also a ...
Touchdown in Brazil
Touchdown in Brazil Omar Tyree 9781496762894 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Amid the landmark NFL game in the electric city of São Paulo, Brazil, three very different family men cross path...
A Beginner’s Guide to Leveling Up: A Graphic Novel
A Beginner’s Guide to Leveling Up: A Graphic Novel Elizabeth Agyemang 9780593524732 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House TRON meets sixth grade in this heartfelt and...
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes Ramon Hervey II 9780063048034 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II ...
Who Got Game? Baseball: Amazing But True Stories!
Who Got Game? Baseball: Amazing But True Stories! Derrick Barnes 9781523505531 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing Celebrate the unheralded people and stories that helped shape the game o...
Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game
Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game Pimpin’ Ken and Karen Hunter 9781416961048 Fiction Karen Hunter Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Star of the HBO documentaries Pimps Up, Ho’s Down and American Pimp...
A New Conversation With Men
A New Conversation With Men Michael Taylor 9780964189423 Nonfiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group A New Conversation With Men is a book written to empower men to reach their full...
The Conversation: How Black Men And Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships
The Conversation: How Black Men And Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships Hill Harper 9781592404759 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House In his first book for adults, New York Times bestsell...
Lessons from a Gathering of Men: How Men’s Work Is Redefining Masculinity and Improving Men’s Lives
Lessons from a Gathering of Men: How Men’s Work Is Redefining Masculinity and Improving Men’s Lives Michael Taylor 9780996948722 Nonfiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group What wou...
The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights
The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights Thomas Aiello 9781440843570 Nonfiction Praeger Publishers Greenwood ...
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Robert G. O’Meally 9780231123518 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bea...
Particle and Wave: A Conversation
Particle and Wave: A Conversation Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9781737025504 Nonfiction 53rd State Press 53rd State Press In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and a...
Just Us: An American Conversation
Just Us: An American Conversation Claudia Rankine 9781644450215 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation—Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday ...
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe Clifford V. Johnson 9780262536080 Fiction MIT Press The MIT Press A series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects tha...
Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics
Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics M. J. Simms-Maddox 9780578178998 Fiction M. J. Simms-Maddox M. J. Simms-Maddox One way to facilitate discussions about the contentious subject of race is to...
The High Price of a Good Man
The High Price of a Good Man Thumper Book Review What a welcome relief! The High Price of a Good Man by Debra Phillips is a novel that I’ve been waiting on for sometime — a book about a ...
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142418 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books This 11-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Boo...
Debi Thomas What Really Happened
Debi Thomas What Really Happened Carol Denise Mitchell 9798644736805 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published UNAUTHORIZED, Debi Thomas What Really Happened, is an amazing tale of behin...
This Game of Hip Hop Artist Management
This Game of Hip Hop Artist Management Walt Goodridge 9780974531335 Nonfiction A Company Called W A Company Called W This book is part of The Integrated Life™ Hip Hop Entrepreneur series. THE CONCEPT...
Amari 2-Book Hardcover Box Set: Amari and the Night Brothers, Amari and the Great Game
Amari 2-Book Hardcover Box Set: Amari and the Night Brothers, Amari and the Great Game B. B. Alston 9780063274259 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins The hardcover box set of the blockbuste...
Changin’ Your Game Plan: How I Used Incarceration as a Stepping Stone for Success
Changin’ Your Game Plan: How I Used Incarceration as a Stepping Stone for Success Randy Kearse 9780980097481 Nonfiction Positive Urban Literature Positive Urban Literature CHANGIN YOUR GAME PLAN is ab...
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld 9781423178712 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his ol...
Black Faces In White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies To Achieve Success And Find Greatness
Black Faces In White Places: 10 Game-Changing Strategies To Achieve Success And Find Greatness Randal Pinkett, Jeffrey Robinson, and Philana Patterson 9780814416808 Nonfiction AMACOM AMACOM If the nam...
Chess For Success: Using An Old Game To Build New Strengths In Children And Teens
Chess For Success: Using An Old Game To Build New Strengths In Children And Teens Maurice Ashley 9780767915687 Nonfiction Harmony Penguin Random House Maurice Ashley immigrated to New York from Jamaic...
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 Bill Cosby 9780590956178 Fiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyt...
Orchester Benjamin
Orchester Benjamin NONE Orchester Benjamin, a former street player, became a writer and historian of the “Game” at 73. He balances family life, promoting his books, supporting urban literature, and w...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin Excerpt If you dig deep en...
Jukes and Tonks
Jukes and Tonks Gary Phillips and Michael Bracken 9781972046036 Fiction Audecyn Books Audecyn Books Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to ...
Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits
Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy 9781575666532 Nonfiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. "If...
Kickin’ It Old School
Kickin’ It Old School Kam Williams kickin6.jpg Film Review Patient Emerges from 20-Year Coma to Breakdance Again in Bad Taste Comedy Kickin’ It Old School Rated PG-13 for profanity, ethn...
Kickin' It Old School (2007) - Film Review
Kickin' It Old School (2007) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Patient Emerges from 20-Year Coma to Breakdance Again in Bad Taste Comedy Kickin’ It Old School Rated PG-13 for profanity, e...
Amari and the Great Game
Amari and the Great Game B. B. Alston 9780062975195 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Bl...
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play Kobe Bryant 9780374201234 Nonfiction MCD Macmillan Publishers The first book from the basketball superstar Kobe Bryant―a lavish, deep dive inside the mind of one of the...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Basketball
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Basketball Howard Bryant 9780147512574 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House From Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan to LeBron James to Steph Curry, ...
The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me
The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me Joi-Marie McKenzie 9781455594481 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group Joi-Marie almost has it all; a thriving career, a s...
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792682 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this charmingly subversive reinterpretation of a classic...
The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792699 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. "How can you say I never worked a day? ART is WORK. It...
Poppy or the Snake? (Who’s Got Game?)
Poppy or the Snake? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792705 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this clever riff on Aesop, Poppy feels guilty when he accid...
The Dope Game - Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason
The Dope Game - Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason Seth Ferranti 9780988976016 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications Fat Cat and Pappy Mason are the most infamous an...
Ramblers: Loyola Chicago 1963 — The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball
Ramblers: Loyola Chicago 1963 — The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball Michael Lenehan 9781572841406 Nonfiction Agate Midway Agate Publishing Today basketball is played above the rim...
Stars in the Shadows: The Negro League All-Star Game of 1934
Stars in the Shadows: The Negro League All-Star Game of 1934 Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780689866388 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Meet Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and ...
Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe
Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe Crystal Hubbard 9781620143162 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A picture book biography of tennis player Arthur Ashe, who began his career playing tenni...
The Elite Way
The Elite Way Tariq Nasheed 9780971135345 Fiction King Flex Ent King Flex Ent This book, The Elite Way, is designed to give men straightforward rules about dating and relationships without the filter ...