Kirjahaku

"Ordinary People" is Book Two of the "Carmen & Rose: A Love to Remember" Series. Carmen La Pierre met Rose Oliver when she was working at Jiffy's Seven-Eleven Sunoco in Piney Knoll, North Carolina. For both, it was love at first sight and a love that was destined to grow with them. It is their destiny that becomes this book, ten years after their first meeting in Volume 1, "Secret Love".They have survived a hurricane, homophobic relatives, robbery, a claustrophobic rural town - rebuilding their lives emotionally in creative ways, learning to grow together.After all these years, they are still in love.This volume is approximately 250 pages.

Jasmine Jones and Asia Reynolds go chasing down an international cyber crime gang in this whiz-bang, brain twister of a computer intrigue. Flying to London they try to map the mysterious underground places there and in the surrounding countryside -- the clandestine places that their criminal hackers might be broadcasting from.

This is not a book for those looking to escape from today's politics. Sure, this is a steamy lesbian teen romance and a view of lesbian teens in the Sixties. There are vast similarities between the demonstrations of 2020-2021 and the protest marches of the Sixties. The author's life has been a deep politic, and she was very active in demonstrating for civil rights. Dreamcatcher is a personal and fictionalized memoir from that era. The 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act freed Black Americans from the terrors of the violent white racist American south under Jim Crow and set off many liberation movements in which the author was delighted to join including the anti-war movement that rid the United States of the military conscription known as "the draft" in 1973. She also worked for Gay Liberation and Women's Liberation. The author has met Gloria Steinem personally, and went to a live anti-war event featuring Jane Fonda. She supported the abortion-on-demand movement, a woman's right to choose and marched in the first Gay Pride parade in Chicago. She was a super hippie with feathers in her hair just like Julietta Bonaventura, our main character. The intimate love between Julie and Shainah and their struggles with family and community are the same today. In the Sixties, no lesbian was normally allowed to keep her children. No matter how abusive the father was - or how long and violent a felony record he had, he was always awarded custody. Homosexuality was considered a crime against nature. It was not seen as natural to love someone of the same gender. Despite Julie, Reese and Shainah's struggles to be free and the spitefulness of their rural community, Julie's dad and his girlfriend Chun-hua always supported the girls. Their lives should ring true today loud and clear. Peace, Love and Happiness...Know Justice, Know Peace Stay Safe, Stay Strong

Asia Reynolds, a documentary film maker looks for love in the middle of chaos. She lives in heaven, a beautiful town on the Mississippi river, sparkling countryside, soaring hawks and eagles and more action than she could wish for. Her research skills are in demand for an international political tangle involving an assassination...and another local problem involving a murderous gay love triangle. Then...she meets Jasmine Jones...a young hippie artisan and her known world flips around...

Carmen La Pierre lives in small town America. She loves the country, but craves the freedom and anonymity of the big city, preferably Manhattan.She meets the love of her life while working at Jiffy's Seven-Eleven. A torrid romance grows from there.Carmen might be approaching fifty, but she is fit, beautiful and athletic. Her new girlfriend is twenty-two, but still within the social realm of high school. The attraction was electric and immediate. It was love at first sight.