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41) Borderline
42) The Specialists
45) No Score
In this sinfully silly coming-of-age adventure, a young orphan works a series of very odd jobs, attempting to make his fortune and lose his virginity in one fell swoop Chip Harrison thought he was normal until his parents blew their brains out. An orphan at seventeen, he is cast out of his prep school with nothing in his pocket but $27.46 and a vintage prophylactic, determined to make his fortune as soon as he manages to lose his virginity. He
...The lady-friend of an assistant to a peculiar PI dies mysteriously, and her grieving boyfriend must investigate her own family to find the killer
The ever-randy hero of No Score and Chip Harrison Scores Again has gone to New York City to work for master detective Leo Haig, a Nero Wolfe wannabe who needs Chip Harrison as his Archie Goodwin. Chip's main squeeze is Melanie, a rich girl slumming it in the East Village whose sisters
...48) Killing Castro
A pair of disaffected Midwestern youths meet, fall in love, and light out on a cross-country killing spree Jimmie John Hall wasn't anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn't anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are Betty's parents, but Betty isn't bothered. She only wants to be with her man—the first person to ever make her feel special. They set off on
...51) Carla
When a woman from the slums marries a rich man who can't pleasure her, she is driven to hunt for love outside the home
Carla is a beautiful girl. She was plucked from the obscurity of a Polish slum to be the wife of a wealthy man—a man who seemingly gives her everything a wife could want. Except the one thing that she needs most: the pleasure she burns for while he snores beside her, the passion that only a lover can give.
But adultery
...An aspiring gigolo takes to crime to better his position in life
Johnny Wells is a boy with goals. Not noble ones, perhaps, but, still, he has ambition. He intends to be the best damn hustler New York has ever seen. He wants sharp suits, rich food, and high-class women who pay to take him home. He has the looks; he has the charm. But he needs cash to get started.
An easy mark gives him the opportunity. He runs his usual game, charming his way
...Four women are trapped in suburbia, bored and eager for their next torrid affair Roz is left unfulfilled each day when her husband sets off for work. So is Maggie, whose frustration with her own marriage sends her looking for comfort in the beds of other men. And as Elly waits patiently for a handsome and willing deliveryman to appear on her doorstep, Nan picks up the phone to arrange her next scandalous tryst. For in this picturesque suburb, once
...54) Campus Tramp
When Linda Shepard arrives on the Clifton College campus, she's a virgin with a mission: the next man she meets will be her first As Linda's college dalliances lead to another and another, the polite coed from Shaker Heights acquires quite the reputation. As her highly erotic encounters take her from guy to guy to gal, she realizes that her lust is getting out of control. Can she find her way back from being the campus tramp before it's too late?
...A hack writer struggles to restart his career after a love affair turned frigid sends him into an alcoholic tailspin
Dan Larkin is a hack writer who has always found it easy to churn out scripts, empty bottles, and bed young women. But he meets his match in Allison—a natural blonde who can feel no pleasure. When the sting of unrequited love makes writing impossible, Dan goes into a tailspin that leaves him broke, fired from his job at a
...Trying to put her wild past behind her, a young woman struggles to be the perfect wife—and teaches her husband the pleasures of being bad Andrea Kleinman is getting married, and her life is going to change. It has to, because for Mrs. Benstock to be perfect, she's going to have to forget all about Miss Kleinman—the wild young girl who rushed straight from Bryn Mawr to the West Village, where easy love and free-flowing liquor sent her
...59) Candy
When a married businessman falls for a small-town minx, his obsessive love will spur him to give up anything to have her
Jeff Flanders has a nice little job, a nice little wife, and absolutely nothing to get excited about. All that goes down the drain when he meets Candy, a small-town girl who looks as sweet as her name, but is bitter to the core. She offers him her body—the best he's ever seen—for the bargain price of $1,000, and
...60) Warm and Willing
An emotionally and sexually frustrated divorcée explores her mounting attraction to women Rhoda's divorce has her thinking that romance is not for her. But maybe she just needs to look in a new direction. Megan is an attractive blonde who instantly sees what Rhoda's love life has been missing: a woman's touch. As Megan guides Rhoda into the sensuous—but hidden—world of women who love women, the two unlock a passion that may be too
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