They confess their love to us, wiping their saliva on our dress suit and leaving traces of dirty paws on a white shirt. And one of the most interesting ideas for expressing our feelings when we are not at home is to make a nest of pants, socks, tights and sweaty T-shirts. Nature endowed them with paws, teeth and a sense of smell, although sometimes they mainly consist of only one nose. They...

The best cure for blues and depression. Slava Se is the pseudonym of the Latvian author Vyacheslav Soldatenko, who writes in Russian. He is a psychologist by training and works as a plumber. He also plays the guitar, gives concerts in the theater and writes books... Thanks to his good sense of humor and the quality of his literature, his books are very popular.

She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom...News flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo always meets her at the airport!) Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.) Shock of the century: Like it or not, Mia is prime princess material. The worst part: Princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks...

Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic...