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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....

Ivy's car has broken down in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere on the way back from a summer babysitting job, her cell phone neglectfully uncharged, and she's never been so grateful to see flashing lights in her rearview mirror. The familiar, rugged, gorgeous cop who comes to her rescue is sympathetic, inviting Ivy into the front seat of his cruiser where he intends to call for a tow-truck.

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?

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?

Tomboy mechanic Cat has fixed up a classic 1978 Chevy Nova in the shop, but unless she passes everything else to get into a prestigious college, her mother's new husband, Ted, won't let her drive it. Unfortunately, math is not Cat's subject, but while her parents hope David, the British tutor they find for her, will help her find a way to navigate geometry, Cat finds herself wishing he would teach her something much more interesting.

"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.

«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.

En este audiobook hay varios personajes, los principales son tres mujeres hablando sin editar de los temas cotidianos de la vida. Solo para adultos mayotes de 18 anos.

Frank Lewis is an affable old man who just happens to tell "Tall Tells' to pass the time. However, each time he tells a story or gives advice it usually comes to pass. Many family members don't see his "gift" as special as they are too close to the source. One day the governor comes to visit his mom in a nursing home where Frank is visiting his ailing wife. The Governor accepts his advice on an issue (housing for poor and elderly), and wins a 2nd term based on this valued advice! The story is circa 1929 (Depression Era).

«Krazha» - luchshaja drama Londona. Jeta istorija objedinila i ljubovnye otnoshenija, i spekuljaciju politicheskimi interesami, muzhestvennye postupki i otkrovennoe predatel'stvo. Po svidetel'stvu ego zheny Charmian London, pisatel', sozdav «Krazhu», schital, chto na sej raz on napisal «dovol'no horoshuju p'esu». Odnako n'ju-jorkskie teatral'nye agentstva, kotorym dramaturg predlozhil svoe proizvedenie, edinodushno ot nego otkazalis', i Londonu tak i ne udalos' uvidet' «Krazhu» v scenicheskom ispolnenii.

This genealogy classic, written in the bad old days of shoe leather and courthouse basements before the Internet, tells of a Southern man's discovery of his Native American ancestry in the 1990s. Among fascinating regional and local stories, you'll discover how the Yateses of Virginia coped on the frontier…how some Cherokees escaped the Trail of Tears…what the Southern drawl really means…where The Tree That Owns Itself is…how Elisabeth Yates stole her cattle back from Gen. Sherman.

Katerina Kabanova zamuzhem za slabovol'nym Tihonom, kotoryj nahoditsja pod kablukom u vlastnoj materi, Kabanihi. Sestra muzha - legkomyslennaja Varvara - ne ispytyvaet k Katerine osoboj privjazannosti, no odnazhdy provociruet vstrechu Kateriny i Borisa, v kotorogo vljublena Katerina. Poterjav golovu ot ljubvi, Katerina vse zhe obnaruzhivaet trusost' i bezvolie Borisa, rasskazyvaet vse muzhu i zakanchivaet zhizn' samoubijstvom, utopivshis' v Volge.

«Damy i gusary» - blestjashhaja komedija pol'skogo dramaturga Aleksandra Fredro. V chem prichina ee neuvjadaemosti? V zaputannosti intrigi, vnezapnosti slozhnyh povorotov, v zabavnosti i koloritnosti harakterov.

Welcome to another Lone Pine Western by award-winning author, Mark Stephen Taylor. Still Waters is a journey amidst the heartbeat of the High Sierra; Lone Pine California and Mount Whitney - the highest mountain in the contiguous U.S.A. This is a story of the great, white wolf, who in legend takes on the spirit of a Native American man and seeks to protect both the animals and the people of 1874 Lone Pine.