Bless His Heart: The GRITS Guide to Loving (Or Just Living With) Southern Men by Deborah Ford (Dutton, $24.95)

In such chapters as "Spotting a Southern Man in the Wild" and "Care and Feeding of the Southern Man," the author once again adds to her GRITS (Girls Raised in the South) milieu. This time, she tackles the male side of the equation. In her magnolias-and-moonlight style, Deborah Ford doles out advice and commiseration to women who are bewildered and befuddled by the men in their lives.