For those of us who have forsaken sex as a past time of carefree, bygone years, The Today Show offers you this — Prime: Adventures and Advice on Sex, Love and the Sensual Years, a tome, nay bible on the topic of sex past age 50. Dr. Pepper Schwartz has assembled this book from 3 decades of answering questions on sex, emotions and relationships, and in the process, addresses more or less everything you could think of. As The Today Show puts it, “whether you’re looking to wake-up a tired sex life, start a new relationship, explore cyber-dating, indulge in a four-hand massage, flirt with gigolos on vacation or commit to the love of your life,” this book has what you need.

A brief excerpt has been posted on The Today Show Website.

What do you mean, you’re not green? Being green is the new anti-drug! Do you hate the environment? You’re lucky Al Gore doesn’t kick you in the shins!

Even though scientists say we have roughly a decade to effectively deal with global warming, it’s still not too late to check out Elizabeth Rogers’ and Thomas Kostigen’s newest, The Green Book. The authors stopped by The Today Show to demonstrate a few of the dozens of simple things American’s can do to cut down on its massively disproportionate energy consumption.

For instance, cook your food with a microwave, which is roughly four times more efficient than a traditional electric oven. If every American used a microwave for every meal, the authors point out that we would save as much energy as the entire continent of Africa consumes in one year.

For more greenish tips, including ones from Cameron Diaz and Will Ferrell (!), watch the interview and read the excerpt.

In this day and age, it seems as though cheating is more commonplace than successful monogamy. Maybe you’ve cheated, or been cheated on, or simply known someone who’s been involved with it. Whatever the relation, it’s touched millions of people’s lives, but never before has it been taken head on like this: The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives and Lovers Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal.

Edited by Victoria Zackheim, the book contains memoirs and essays from women on both sides of the coin. The Today Show has both posted the first chapter on its Website, and caught up with a number of these women, assembling their stories in a clip viewable here.

Has your ungrateful newborn left you with a flabby stomach and newly-minted self-esteem issues? How do those other, sexier moms do it? I’ll tell you how: Lean Mommy: Bond with Your Baby and Get Fit with the Stroller Strides(R) Program, by saviors Lisa Druxman and Martica Heane. The book is full of simple ways to incorporate fat-burning exercises into your daily routine. Great detail is paid to the changes a pregnant body undergoes, what you’re left with post-baby and what you can do to reclaim your former physique.

Poor posture? Separated abs? Lower back pain? Check out this book.

The Today Show has posted an excerpt of the book on its Website which you may read here.

In June 2005, a group of Navy SEALs embarked on a mission to the mountains of Afghanistan to scope out a rumored Taliban hideout. They were not supposed to engage any one, let alone a group of goat herders. Convinced that if the SEALs executed these herders the bodies would be found and their whereabouts would be compromised, they let them go. In what Marcus Luttrel writes is “the stupidest, most southern-fried, lame brained decision I ever made in my life to vote to let them go. I must have been out of my mind taking a vote that I knew would sign our death warrant.” Some 45 minutes later, a 100 plus Taliban fighters were on the four SEALs. Only Luttrel survived.

Matt Lauer conducted an interview with Luttrel on The Today Show about the ex-SEAL’s memoir, Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team Ten. Luttrel and Lauer go through the whole harrowing episode in detail, including how Luttrel survived in the months following the tragedy.

You may watch the interview here and read the corresponding excerpt on the show’s Website.

Emma Forrest has noticed a phenomenon: women share secrets not just with hairdressers, but with their masseurs, Chi Gong teachers, bikini waxers and aestheticians, too. Though who can blame them, really? Those are the people she trusts to keep her aesthetically on track and looking as she feels she should. The sort of intimacy that warrants secret-sharing is inherent in the relationship from the start.

Forrest took this concept and ran with it, assembling essays on how personal grooming has effected personal relationships from notables such as Rose McGowan, Minnie Driver, Francesca Lia Block and Judy Raines. Damage Control: Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies, and The Today Show has made the introduction available on their Website. You may view it here.

Apparently, we’ve gone from Generations X, to Y, to Broke. I can certainly attest to that one, being as I am, in debt up to my eyeballs from college loans, rent and general cost of living. Mine is certainly not a unique story and the Bronze Goddess of Finance, Suze Orman, has come to realize this. Just for us 20-somethings, she’s written The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke, which should give us the know-how, if not the wherewithal, to get us unbroke as quickly as possible.

The Today Show posted a brief excerpt on its Website. Do you know what FICO stands for? Then I suggest you read it.

Victoria Colligan and Beth Schoenfeldt’s Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship and Creativity as a Lifestyle is the latest in a long line of books designed to encourage readers to break free of your cubicular, 9-to-5 restraints and follow your dream, be it starting your own business, or, well, starting your own business.

Unique to Colligan and Schoenfeldt’s book, however, is that it focuses solely on the success stories of women. They have edited together professional tips and advice with examples of “actual” women who made the program work.

The Today Show has posted the introduction, which you may read here.

Bachelor Matthew Boggs, having just endured his own parents’ divorce, was understandably jaded about the whole concept of marriage. It does seem like relationships fail a whole lot these days, so what’s the point of even bothering? Right? He/she probably doesn’t even know you exist anyway.

But wait! Boggs’ grandparents were married for 63 years, so is there hope? There must be! He and his friend and fellow bachelor Jason Miller traveled around the country, seeking tips from those rare couples married 40 or more years and have distilled them down into this: Project Everlasting: Two Bachelors Discover the Secrets to America’s Greatest Marriages.

For those couples in more dire straights or just too lazy to read (which could be why your marriage isn’t working), The Today Show has paraphrased Boggs’ and Miller’s book down into seven common sense steps. Save your marriage here.

Cosmopolitan’s John Searles uses Today as a vehicle to display his wonderful taste in the form of 10 summertime books “for when you’re loafing around in your bikini.” Searles’ two cents include Khaled Hosseini’s newest, A Thousand Splendid Suns, which is, by no stretch of the imagination, a beach read, as well as new books by other chipper folk like Ian McEwan (On Chesil Beach) and Justin Evans (A Good and Happy Child).

It’s not all gloom and doom, though. “The Simpsons” producer and supervising writer Larry Doyle’s newest is I Love You, Beth Cooper, which details one Denis Cooverman’s public proclamation of love for cheerleader Beth—at his own graduation, no less—and the ensuing 17 hours.

You can view the whole list here, and tailor your wish lists accordingly.