I put together a list of books I thought would benefit women and their quest for love. There are many more to name, but this are the ones that I found most intriguing and I hope you do too.

1. The Tao of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide to Being Absolutely Irresistible
This is the ultimate dating roadmap. If you are looking for practical wisdom and knowledge, with a touch of humor, then this is the book for you. It'll teach you to claim your feminine power and be who you truly are. It covers everything from where to meet good men to how to keep a man worth keeping. Using a scientific and spiritual approach, Dr. Ali gives you what you need to know to get your man with his no nonsense approach.

2. Manifesting Love: Call Forth Your Soulmate
Using the law of attraction, Kathryn Alice uses spiritual teachings and meditation to help you manifest the person of your dreams. No detail or wants are too small and Kathryn will walk you through step by step to help you get your soulmate.

3. Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

This is a very empowering book for women to be kind yet strong. This teaches women to not bend over backwards for their man and eventually lose their respect. This is a book that teaches you straightforward methods and techniques to ultimately not play games, put yourself first, and taking responsibility for your own health and well-being

4. Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match

This is a memoir of an insightful and brutally honest look at online dating from someone's personal experience. Amy web uses graph, lists, and pie charts to convey her ideas, which makes it easy to read. She gives to great advice on profile language and pictures so you can have high traffic to your page online. A great read for anyone who has struggled with online dating and wants to get better at it, or someone new to the online world and wants to avoid the same mistakes as her.

5. Manology: Secrets of Your Man's Mind Revealed

Reverend Run and Tyrese Gibson spills the beans in a tell all book to get to the bottom of what men really think and feel. Both people offer different points of views and offers you clear cut advice on what makes a relationship work and how it can tank in a heartbeat. It will teach you to weed out the players and cheaters so you can find good and honest men. These two stars in the media offer two completely different mindsets, but gives insights for you to truly understand men.

6. Make Every Man Want You: How to Be So Irresistible You'll Barely Keep from Dating Yourself!
Make yourself into a magnetic with men in a clear no-holds-barred manner. Her advice focuses on living in the now and making you the center of your life. She teaches you to be complete first before going to find someone. Otherwise you would be looking for your "other half or someone to "complete you". It can be that women need to hear, whether they like it or not.

7. The Little Black Book of Big Red Flags: Relationship Warning Signs You Totally Spotted... But Chose to Ignore

An informative and humorous book on dating horror stories that will make you laugh and cry. This is a great look at the wrong things people do in relationships and not having the sense to notice or reacting to these signs sooner.

Valentine's Day is the day when being single is the worst feeling for someone still looking for love. Especially when all your friends have something planned with their loved ones for that day. The general reason for this is an overwhelming feeling of loneliness. While being single doesn't necessarily equate to being alone, it helps if you are able to find ways to get yourself a partner. There are many ways to do this, and one of the most effective ones is by looking for local singles online.

Let's find out how you can be successful in find a partner online.

In order to find the love of your life, first you need to find a reliable and popular online dating site. After you find a good one, where after browsing through, you come across number of profiles that you feel are compatible with your kind of personality, you need to create an account and fill all the required information. Here is step by step process what you need to do on these dating websites.

1. First step in locally dating online is to get an online dating account. There are different dating sites that can be found online, and many of these sites cater to particular types of people. Make sure to note first which audience they are catering to (ex. casual daters or relationship finders). Once you find the site you're most comfortable working with, you need to start the process of registration.


2. The best thing about online dating sites is you can register to most of them for free. These free sites require only an e-mail address to make an account, and can be activated within minutes. To register, you'll enter an e-mail then fill up some personal details such as name, age, sex, and location. Once you are done filling up the required fields, a confirmation e-mail would be sent to you. Once done, you're ready to take the next step on your local singles search.


3. The next thing you'll need to do is fill up your profile. As experts would say, no one clicks a profile that is virtually empty. It all starts with filling up your profile with content relevant to you. Not only should you add the basics such as your name, age, sex, and location, but you'll also find it handy to talk about your personal interests. You'll also have to add some content that would make others interested in you. In short, make the content as positive, lively, and catchy as possible.


4. A catchy profile is complemented by an equally catchy photo. While some people want to maintain a mysterious effect, this approach doesn't work when looking for local singles online. As such, you've got to think through which photo you would post as your profile picture. Actually, selecting a photo is very simple. Take the most recent photo of yours as your profile picture. Not only that, you should also dress up properly and be neat. Being creative with your profile photo should also be very helpful, as long as it's not done in bad taste.


5. Last but not least, you've got to communicate properly. All the hype generated by your profile would end in waste if you don't know how to "seal the deal", so to speak. Effective communication is a combination of good talking and listening skills. Take note of everything the other party is saying, as it's one of the highest forms of respect. On your end, talk confidently yet respectfully. After all, if mutual respect is something when achieved, is arguably the best way to win the hearts of local singles, online or otherwise.