Books with author Debbie Reynolds

Kim spends the summer before her sophomore year in high school in San Diego, California, trying to find a family and a place to call home. She's has the summer to decide if the current family she’s living with will fit her needs. But her search for greener pasture comes with a few obstacles. Along with adjusting to the dynamics of living with a “normal” family, she has to figure out how to co-exist with Andrea, the territorial teenage girl who lives there. Kim befriends two girls, Quaneisha and Marrisa while taking a dance class. Both girls live with their foster mother in an environment that is just as dysfunctional as the one Kim left behind in Texas. Kim also meets Davion, the sexy swimming instructor who lives next door. As the challenges mount with her new family and her new friends introduce her to more trouble than she bargained for, Kim learns several valuable lessons about friendship, loyalty, and most importantly, survival.

Kim spends the summer before her sophomore year in high school in San Diego, California, trying to find a family and a place to call home. She's has the summer to decide if the current family she’s living with will fit her needs. But her search for greener pasture comes with a few obstacles. Along with adjusting to the dynamics of living with a “normal” family, she has to figure out how to co-exist with Andrea, the territorial teenage girl who lives there. Kim befriends two girls, Quaneisha and Marrisa while taking a dance class. Both girls live with their foster mother in an environment that is just as dysfunctional as the one Kim left behind in Texas. Kim also meets Davion, the sexy swimming instructor who lives next door. As the challenges mount with her new family and her new friends introduce her to more trouble than she bargained for, Kim learns several valuable lessons about friendship, loyalty, and most importantly, survival.

After Kim loses her mother at 13, her world falls apart. Her brother–Kevin, can't take it anymore and leaves Kim with their no good alcoholic father, who thinks the bottle is the answer to everything. While attending the hottest party of the year, Kim finds herself in a situation that she thought she could handle; but ends up hurt and betrayed and now trusts no one. Until she meets Keith–6"1' with smooth chocolate skin and a body that is RIGHT! Will Kim fall in love or is there too much pain for love?Summoning her inner strength, Kim must learn about life while discovering what it takes to survive.

After Kim loses her mother at 13, her world falls apart. Her brother Kevin, can't take it anymore and leaves Kim with their no good alcoholic father, who thinks the bottle is the answer to everything. While attending the hottest party of the year, Kim finds herself in a situation that she thought she could handle; but ends up hurt and betrayed and now trusts no one. Until she meets Keith 6"1' with smooth chocolate skin and a body that is RIGHT! Will Kim fall in love or is there too much pain for love? Summoning her inner strength, Kim must learn about life while discovering what it takes to survive.

The action is hot in Kansas City during the 1960s. Gordon Reynolds happens to be a vicious criminal who has served prison time in five different states over a period of twenty-five years. Gordon is determined to muscle his way into major rackets such as prostitution, bootlegging whiskey, robbery, hijacking and contraband cigarettes. He eventually meets up with Alla Mae Briggs. She knows the prostitution racket very well, since she worked the Kansas City streets for several years. She too has a lengthy rap sheet of twenty-five criminal convictions for the solicitation of prostitution. Gordon needs someone to help him operate his main bawdy house.Alla Mae is the perfect recruit to help him forge stronger relations between his hookers and their customers. The collaboration of their experiences on the streets proves highly profitable. But unforeseen danger causes things to come crashing down all around them. Racist cops, ruthless gangsters, a white supremacist group, jealous pimps and rival hookers are the opposing forces that this interracial couple are destined to face. Crossing the racial line puts them at incredible odds with the law and fellow criminals alike. Based on the true story of how a white man and a black woman fell in love and broke all the rules in order to make their living together illegally.