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After defecting from Cuba's Special Forces and making a harrowing escape from his homeland, Frank faces new challenges in America. With five dollars in his pocket and a boatload of determination, he rejects an offer to join the CIA and takes his chances on achieving the American dream. Frank and his sweetheart Magda want nothing more than marriage, children, and a nice life for themselves. Frank dreams of celebrating milestone anniversaries with Magda, but his dreams are dashed.

In this collection of five tales of backdoor experimentation, you'll see lovely girls stretching (forgive the pun) their boundaries to have a first experience with anal sex. There are sweet moments as well as blisteringly rough encounters. From unexpected first anal sex with a stranger to a Valentine's day surprise to a new fiancé, the varied paths to these first experiences are sure to please as much as the explicit sex itself.

It's that time of year again, and Dancing With Bear Publishing has collected eight of the most beautiful Halloween romance stories that you are sure to love!

Make Waves encourages listeners to step up and be the one to initiate change in their work and lives. Author Patti Johnson walks listeners through the tools and techniques that they can use to create change in their own situations. Johnson elaborates on these tools even further to give listeners a sense of how to encourage and instill these "wave-making" behaviors in others within their organization.

Eve and Cooper Morrison are Savannah's power couple. They're on every artistic board and deeply involved in the community. She owns and operates a letterpress studio specializing in the handmade; he runs a digital magazine featuring all things southern gentlemen. The perfect juxtaposition of the old and the new, Eve and Cooper are the beautiful people. The lucky ones. And they have the wealth and name that comes from being part of an old Georgia family. But things may not be as good as they seem.

When I discovered my husband had a secret bucket list and that one of the items was anal sex, I determined to make his birthday something he'd never forget. I was terrified. I'd heard horror stories about anal sex but I was determined that no matter what happened, I'd go through with it. Daymon's 35th birthday present would be his wife, ready and willing to have her first anal sex.

For weeks, I'd been spicing up my sex life with my husband by telling him fantasies about having a threesome. As I got better at it, I added more and more details. We even had it down to two different kinds of women, and life had never been better. Then, one day while I was having coffee, I met Lena. She was exactly how I described our perfect third, almost like she'd just stepped out of one of my fantasies. I had no idea that Lena was going to make my fantasy a reality!

My best friend was always quirky and a little bit crazy, so when she whisked me away for a day of relaxation as a birthday present months late, I wasn't all that surprised. I sure got surprised when I realized what happened at this particular business! While I was enjoying the heat from a hot spring pool, a bunch of naked women came in, and they were prepared to give me my first lesbian sex experience. Let's just say I have a new appreciation for day spas!

When I found out my husband's best friend asked him about swapping wives, I was a little bit put off. Still, after a few minutes of conversation, the thought of my husband sleeping with another woman and the thought of him getting turned on because I was with another man really excited me. We took the plunge, and when it happened it was rough, intense, and beyond anything I'd ever expected. My husband and me, swingers doing wife swaps!

As a boy, Frank Mederos’ grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much-needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy for Fidel. He thirsts for freedom and longs to join his girlfriend who has left Cuba for America. Frank yearns to defect, but his timing couldn’t be worse. Frank’s true story, a tale of love, loss, and courage, will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.

Lia Stanton, a woman who likes things safe, accidentally gets caught in a wormhole when she's just supposed to be getting a nice, easy fluff piece to write. It throws her forward in time and space, landing her on a planet she doesn't recognize. On the heels of her arrival, she's accused of espionage and forms a connection to a man she never should have met. Troll Maglaya is on his third tour of duty on Jarved Nine. Just when he thinks nothing here can surprise him, he's assigned to watch a suspected spy. As soon as he sees Lia, he knows her claim of time travel is true - he's carried a drawing of her for years, one made fifty years earlier.

Communications specialist Ravyn Verdier is on a mission to test the habitability of Jarved Nine when her team is mysteriously killed. Sent to rescue her, commander Damon Brody becomes stranded on the planet with her. Trapped on a world harboring an unimaginable evil, Ravyn and Damon must depend on one another - and they discover love is the only force strong enough to battle their unseen enemy.

Capt. Kendall Thomas has been plagued by dreams of blood, dreams so horrifying they leave her trembling in the night. Kendall has good reason to be afraid. She's discovered thieves are stealing artifacts from the alien city on Jarved Nine, and the smugglers will do anything to protect their lucrative sideline - even commit murder.

Mark’s dog, Wolfie, is part malamute, part German shepherd, and all heart. Mark can hardly imagine life without his big, loving canine companion. But in 1969, the Vietnam War is still raging, and when Mark learns that the army needs scout dogs, he decides to send Wolfie. As his dad says, a smart dog like Wolfie could save a lot of soldiers - soldiers like Mark’s brother, Danny. Besides, it seems like the patriotic thing to do. Inspired by real events, this is a heartbreaking story about sacrifice, loyalty, and the complex meanings of patriotism.

A storm the size of Texas brews when Gloria Powell and Kai Chang meet in a Ft. Worth hotel. They have come to discuss the future of Lily, the daughter Gloria adopted from China and the sister Kai hopes to reclaim. Kai is a doctor who had to give up her little sister during the Cultural Revolution and has since discovered that an inherited genetic defect may be waiting to fatally strike Lily. Gloria's relationship with her daughter is tattered and strained, and the arrival of Kai, makes Gloria fearful.

Recorded on January 29, 2005 at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Cambridge, MA.

Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.

Brothers Jimmy and Jack Sullivan live a nomadic life doing what they love: touring with their band, The Unknown Souls. But Jack’s recent engagement to Kara has everyone looking forward to a Christmas destination wedding in Ireland. Unlike his brother, Jimmy never expected to fall in love. But he feels a sense of peace and happiness whenever he’s around Kara’s best friend, Charlotte - which has him wondering what he’s missing. Over Thanksgiving, Jimmy and Charlotte write a song while sitting together on the back porch.

How can local, independent businesses thrive in the age of e-commerce, delivery choices, and big box stores when they're feeling the pricing squeeze? You don't have to adapt to their way of doing business or struggle to compete in the global economy! UpSolutions: Turning Teams into Heroes and Customers into Raving Fans is a new way forward for the best game of all: your own.

Meet the members of the Love, Joy, Peace, and Deliverance Community Choir, a group of young adults joined together through their passion for singing the Lord’s praises - although their hearts are far from the things of God. Patrice Russell was raised in the church, but she is hell bent on living like the devil, not even trying to get help for the sex addiction she knows she has. Lorene McCall has been Patrice's best friend since childhood. When she's not singing, Lorene is cussin' like a sailor.