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April and Casey are best friends and they're about to go away to study on separate coasts. April plans one last sleepover at the end of the summer so they can do all those girlish, silly things together like doing makeovers, watching chick flicks and playing dress-up, and having a cereal eating contest before they have to go be grown-ups. But when a game of double-dog-dare goes too far, the girls find themselves saying a far more heated goodbye than either of them had planned.

Super-smart, shy Violet has a huge crush on her roommate, Chloe - but Violet can't come out with her confession, because nobody knows that Violet prefers girls. Chloe invites Violet to join the sorority sisterhood of Eta Nu Pi and in spite of her reservations, Violet can't resist Chloe's persuasive argument, but when the girls find themselves involved in an erotic, mind-blowing hazing, both of them discover something about themselves - and each other.

A trip to Vegas for her best friend's bachelorette party is the perfect break from her high-stress job, and it serves to be lucky for Jodie, when handsome millionaire Dorian Cole asks her to roll dice for him at the craps table. Always lucky with dice, Jodie wins him $200,000. Grateful, Dorian offers to tip her, but Jodie refuses, ready to go off with her friends to a night on the town. And that's when Jodie gets a real-life indecent proposal - an invitation to be the billionaire's "date" for the weekend.

Bailey's graduate science classes are much harder than she expected them to be, and strict, young Professor Jacobs, in particular, seems out to get her, finding minute mistakes in her work, making her re-do assignments she's already meticulously completed. When he forces her to start staying late in the lab, Bailey complains to her roommate that she's about ready to quit school altogether, but what she doesn't know is that her stern professor has a carnal lesson he's waiting to teach her.

In this modern version of the fairy tale classic, who wouldn't want to marry a rock star? That's what Petra told herself when she agreed to fly from Minsk to Los Angeles - a mail-order bride to the lead singer of Bluebeard, one of the most popular American rock bands of the twentieth century. The question really was - why would a rock star want to marry her? Find out in this modern tale on the Bluebeard fairy tale by Selena Kitt!

In Life's Fingerprint, Dr. Robert V. V. Hurst offers an illustrative and funny look at how birth order is directly related to behavior - how people work, how people live, and how people love. A revealing questionnaire helps you navigate the variety of information Dr. Hurst offers to help you pinpoint your real birth order. Unique to this book is the discussion of double birth order and families within families.

Katie has a secret wish--she wants to be a submissive. She dreams of being a man's sex slave--forced, bound, gagged, taken and used for a man's pleasure. But single, sedate, librarian Katie doesn't run in those circles and has no idea how to make that happen, until she sees an ad on Craiglist. Her friend, Lori, tells her it's too dangerous, and she's right.

Kelsey never dreamed her first job out of college with her bachelor's degree in hand would be as a secretary. Still, she's grateful to have any job at all, with the economy at a standstill, and she consoles herself that she is, after all, an "executive" secretary to one of the most powerful men in the country. Oliver Pierce turns out to be a harsh taskmaster, and while her friends wonder how Kelsey got the job at all, with such a thin resume, Kelsey doesn't have to wonder. It becomes quite clear very quickly that her lack of experience is exactly what Oliver Pierce was looking for....

"Alye parusa" - radiospektakl' po odnoimennoj povesti Aleksandra Grina o nepokolebimoj vere v chudo i vsepobezhdajushhej, vozvyshennoj mechte. Povest' rasskazyvaet istoriju o zhizni devochki Assol', kotoraja poterjala svoju mat', kogda ej bylo pjat' mesjacev. Assol' zhila so svoim otcom-morjakom. Posle otstavki on stal delat' igrushki, chtoby zarabotat' sebe i malen'koj Assol' na zhizn'. I odnazhdy Assol' v lesu vstrechaet starika po imeni Jegl', kotoryj rasskazyvaet ej, chto kogda ona stanet vzrosloj, k nej priplyvjot princ na korable s alymi parusami.

Her first year away from home has been a disaster for shy, awkward Emily, falling in with the wrong crowd, just trying to fit in with the other girls. When Mark, the campus psychologist, takes her under his wing, she's more than grateful, and under his tutelage, Emily blossoms into ripe, luscious fruit, just ready to be plucked. By the time Mark realizes his mistake, it's too late - Emily has fallen for him, and he for her. God help them both.

Ellie is living the life of a true starving artist in a small efficiency apartment in dangerous downtown Detroit, but more dangerous than her surroundings are the men to whom she pays rent. Denied help by the man who raised her, a prosecutor who believes she's wasting her life on art, Ellie finds herself in a precarious position and surrenders helplessly to her predicament. However, a strange twist of fate gives Ellie a chance at revenge. Will she take it?

Ty has been hurt by life and has sworn off relationships, but his curiosity is piqued by a motorcycle-riding hunk who comes through his Wal-Mart line and buys the same thing day after day: two Slim Jims, a sixty-four count box of crayons and Cracker Jacks. Ty's curiosity gets the better of him and he goes out with Jonah, but Ty's best friend, Lucky, is sure Jonah is bad news, and it does seem that both mens' pasts threaten their future together. Will they find a second chance with one another?

In a last ditch effort to save their marriage, Laura drags her husband, Rick, to a couples workshop. But Laura gets a little more than she bargained for when the workshop leader proposes a rather unorthodox experiment, leaving her helpless to her husband's whims. She finds herself wondering, will her man be a caveman or a gentleman--and which one does she really want him to be?

"Pozdnjaja ljubov'" - p'esa Aleksandra Ostrovskogo (1823 - 1886), napisana v 1873 godu. Kogda-to Margaritov byl odnim iz samyh izvestnyh moskovskih advokatov, vel bol'shie dela. No pisar' vykral u nego dokument na dvadcat' tysjach, prodal dolzhniku, i Gerasim Porfir'ich obnishhal. Zhena umerla ot gorja, on i sam mechtal o smerti, no tol'ko iz zhalosti k malen'koj docheri Ljudmile ne zatjanul petlju. Proshli gody. Margaritov s vzrosloj docher'ju snimaet komnatu v bednom dome.

"Gorjachee serdce" - odna iz samyh znamenityh p'es A.N.Ostrovskogo, govorja o kotoroj specialisty, prezhde vsego, otmechajut ostrotu ee satiricheskogo zvuchanija. Zhizn' imenitogo kupca Kuroslepova prohodit v besprobudnom p'janstve. Ego vtoraja zhena Matrena izmenjaet emu s prikazchikom, voruet muzhniny den'gi i vsjacheski pritesnjaet doch' Kuroslepova ot pervogo braka Parashu. Sjuzhet zakruchivaetsja vokrug propazhi krupnoj summy deneg.

Idiot - radiospektakl' po odnoimennomu romanu Fjodora Mihajlovicha Dostoevskogo. Knjaz' Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin vozvrashhaetsja iz Shvejcarii v Peterburg posle lechenija. V poezde knjaz' znakomitsja s Parfjonom Rogozhinym, synom bogatogo kupca. Intriga zakruchivaetsja vokrug zaplanirovannogo braka Nastas'i Filippovny i Gani Ivolgina. Vse, kogo vstrechaet knjaz' Myshkin, fatal'nym obrazom svjazany s Nastas'ej Filippovnoj - rokovoj zhenshhinoj s izlomannoj sud'boj…

In this steamy installment of Jet-Setting Escort, Ariella's love life is everything she's ever dreamed of: hot, steamy, and romantic...until she meets her fiance's wealthy parents. Will they approve of her? And if they don't, will her relationship survive?

Nashi sootechestvenniki v nachale XX veka organizujut jekspediciju na Mars i nahodjat tam civilizaciju, kotoruju obrazovali vyhodcy s pogibshej Atlantidy. Ajelita, doch' glavy Marsa, vljubljaetsja v zemljanina - inzhenera Losja.

«Otec Gorio» — odin iz naibolee znachitel'nyh romanov cikla «Chelovecheskaja komedija». Tonkopsihologichnaja, umnaja i vremenami otkrovenno nasmeshlivaja istorija o hanzhestve, religioznom dogmatizme i izvechnom odinochestve umnyh, neobychnyh ljudej, ne vybirajushhih sredstv v bor'be za «mesto pod solncem», napisannaja poltora veka nazad, i sejchas chitaetsja tak, slovno sozdana tol'ko vchera!

The short story of discovering the secret to eternal life. What if someone discovered the very secret to avoiding death? Wouldn't that be the ultimate source of knowledge? But with any new discovery many times we rush to the conclusion without thinking about the consequences of our actions. The paradox of eternal life may be something better left to God to decide and control.