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UpDating!

How to Get a Man or Woman Who Once Seemed Out of Your League

by Leil Lowndes

Published 2003288 pagesISBN 978-0-0714-0309-2

Are you tired of dating run of the mill people? You deserve better!If only you knew how to rope in someone gorgeous, rich, honorable, or more interesting. Let's just call it someone with class! These types of people don't respond to the same old flirtation techniques. You need a unique set of skills to steal the heart of an extraordinary mate.Following on the heels of Leil Lowndes's bestselling book, How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You, UpDating! now kicks it up a notch and shows you how to attract a special someone who once seemed out of your league. Written in her trademark straight-shooting style, Leil gives you secrets not found anywhere else. Secrets such as how* To Get a Gorgeous Partner: Don't swoon too soon! Fabulous looking folks actually like someone better if they seem unimpressed at first.* To Get a Wealthy, High-Class Partner: Decorate your home with class, not crass. You'll learn why a TV or a certain type of carpeting in your living room can knock you out of the running. In fact, take the "How Classy Is Your Home?" quiz to see where your dwelling stands on the totem pole. * To Get a Principled Partner: Get caught in one teensy little lie and your credibility goes out the door. And the mate with integrity will soon follow. * To Get an Interesting, "One of a Kind" Partner: Just don't do anything "normal." Leil shows you how to be a desirable "nut" who will win the hearts of those creative types. Best of all, you'll learn to make the qualities you want in others a part of your own life. You'll learn to like yourself better, and so will everyone else. And that's probably the biggest benefit of all.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Nonfiction, Self-Help. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Fiction · Nonfiction · Self-Help

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Reading lengthA standard-length read288 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2003
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Nonfiction and Self-Help
ISBN-13
978-0-0714-0309-2
Language
English
Edition record
OL7299418M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

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Read for connection, not completion.

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