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Susie's finally found a sex education program she can support, but it's got a twist. This program helps parents practice talking to their teenagers about sex by trying out conversations with stand-in teens. Step one for a productive talk with your teenager: know thyself, sexually at least. Then, Susie ponders the new lesbian rumors surrounding pop diva Britney Spears. And, in her mailbag, Susie hears from a man who says it's an older woman he wants.

Take it from a man whose family background includes brawls, visits from "aliens," star-billing on FBI wanted posters, and, oh yes, an altercation with the Swedish Mafia - families can be brutal! But because we all have one, Louie Anderson has written this honest, funny, and brilliant survival manual for anyone who's ever choked on the F Word.

"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it." Raphael, a failed writer, deep in debt, and unrequited in love, is about to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Just in time, he discovers the "Magic Skin" in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant every wish but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of 19th century France.

It's enough to keep Susie up at night. She's worried that President Bush's choice to head the Food and Drug Administration's panel on women's health - Dr. W. David Hager - will be more concerned with a woman's relationship with Jesus than her body. Then, Susie offers her list of specific ways to improve your sex life on campus this semester, starting immediately! And, in her mailbag, Susie reads a follow up letter from a man who's proud to say he walked naked among strangers and lived to tell the tale.

Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than 7 million copies in the United States and Canada, and translation into more than 23 languages, it has made publishing history, with more than 10 years on The New York Times best seller list.

You want specific how-to's? You got 'em. First, in response to a multitude of letters, Susie decides to grab the muff by the horns and ride out the definitions and misinformation about barebacking and muffdiving. Then, Susie talks about what's currently tickling her sex toy aesthetics. In her Try This at Home mailbag, Susie reads a love letter to Viagra. Don't forget, you can send your confidential sex questions and feedback about the show to susie@audible.com.

From within the hopelessness and terror of China's Cultural Revolution, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening, and the magical power of storytelling. "An unexpected miracle," raves the Los Angeles Times Book Review, "a delicate, and often hilarious, tale."

John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art.

Susie looks at a recent study of jealousy that turned up the same old ground - men get jealous about sexual infidelity and women get upset by emotional infidelity. Sure, it sounds nice and simple, but Susie says the differences aren't just biologically predetermined. Susie also takes a look at an unusual plan to increase the birth rate in Sweden. In her mailbag, Susie revisits her recent dis-invitation to speak in Minnesota and reads an email from a happily married woman who loves the (swinging) lifestyle.

Susie thinks back fondly to her early viewings of the Joy of Sex. But, a recent New York Times interview with author Alex Comfort's son and a recent reissue of the 1972 mega-best seller have Susie taking a second look at the old erotic war horse. And, at last, In Bed with Susie Bright listeners, you'll get an earful of a Susie conspiracy theory (hint: think breasts vs. vaginas). In the Try This at Home mailbag, Susie helps a man learn to dominate and woman learn to say "No."

Susie's eyes recently spied an article about a Florida elementary school teacher who quietly resigned after being spotted in a porn film. Then, in an expanded mailbag, Susie answers a letter from a man who wonders how many affairs he can pull off before he puts his marriage in jeopardy and a newlywed wonders if she should tell her hubby what she really wants in bed. Don't forget, you can send your sex questions, feedback about the show, and your picks for the best erotica of 2002 to susie@audible.com.

Step by step, Carol Adrienne, co-author of the best-selling The Celestine Prophecy - An Experiential Guide, explains how to locate the source of your innate energy and focus it, how to align yourself with the natural forces swirling around you, and how to develop the intuition that will help you discover you soul purpose and lead you to spending your life doing what you love.

Susie's favorite TV show is HBO's hit series The Sopranos and when the characters aren't killing each other, Susie says she loves the realistic and interesting sex on the show. Then, Susie finds that conservatives are figuring out which big corporations make the most from porn - they're mad as hell and their not going to take it lying down. In this week's Try This at Home mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a man who wonders are Chinese sex balls really that dangerous?

Wilder's stories consistently explored the connections between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, always returning to fundamental questions about the meaning of life. This Pulitzer Prize-winning tale concerns the lives of five people who fall to their deaths from a Peruvian rope bridge in 1714. A humble Franciscan, Brother Juniper, witnesses the accident and determines to learn about the lives of the victims in order to find out whether this accident happened by chance or by plan.

If you want to start meditating or you want to deepen your current practice - this unique audio is a perfect compliment to your own personal regimen. Whether you're an experienced or a beginning meditator, this audiobook will help you achieve all the life-enhancing benefits of meditation. This program contains meditations - with no distracting commentary or introductory remarks - specifically designed for particular issues and times of day.

It's an encore presentation of In Bed with Susie Bright this week featuring Susie's tips on "How to Have an Erotic Holiday." Susie's got just the right ingredients for you to get through - and even enjoy - this time of year. Then, Susie peruses the panoply of erotic self-help best selling books (and audiobooks!) and makes her recommendations for what goes into the most helpful types of sex books. Finally, from her Try this at Home mailbag, Susie tries the Fukuoku 9000 fingertip vibrator.

Fierce Conversations is the master guidebook to transforming the conversations that are central to your success, offering a new way of relating to people - at work, at home, and in every area of your life.

It's Susie's second anniversary show! Susie's terrific Los Angeles interview series kicks off with Jill Soloway, one of the writers and producers of HBO's hit series Six Feet Under. Even if you've never seen the show, the behind-the-scenes story of how the characters are developed is fascinating.

Susie talks with Dan Cullinane from Alyson Publications, the oldest publisher of books for the gay and lesbian community. Susie and Dan talk about early sex lessons, trends in gay and lesbian literature, and why men no longer need to "bear" it all to be sexy. In her mailbag, Susie has a letter from an unlikely listener looking for some ways to spice up his sex life.

With My Face to the Enemy is one of the most provocative and wide-ranging anthologies on the Civil War to come along in years. Its illuminating essays examine the war from perspectives that were critical to its outcome - the larger-than-life personalities of its important players and the national strategies and key battle tactics that shaped the four-year-long crisis.