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A Thousand Tomorrows (Cody Gunner #1)
In this mass market edition, #1 bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a powerful story of a young couple whose love must face the ultimate challenge.
Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life...more
Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life...more
Hardcover, 238 pages
Published
October 15th 2007
by Center Street
(first published 2005)
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How would you deal with your dad leaving when you were five and saying that he is never coming back? well Cody Gunner didn't take it very well and struggled with anger. He thought he would never love again. Karen Kingsbury's A Thousand Tomorrows was an amazing and very interesting book.
There are five characters but Cody's dad walked out in the beginning so it doesn't say much about him. Cody has a brother named Carl Joseph, he has Down Syndrome. Cody's mom is a loving mother that was left alone...more
There are five characters but Cody's dad walked out in the beginning so it doesn't say much about him. Cody has a brother named Carl Joseph, he has Down Syndrome. Cody's mom is a loving mother that was left alone...more
I read this sweet beautiful sad book this afternoon. I can
hardly wait to read more Karen Kingsbury books.
hardly wait to read more Karen Kingsbury books.
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Kingsbury delivers a powerful and emotional story about Cody Gunner whose football playing father abandons his mother, mentally handicap brother and himself because he can not handle having a son with mental disabilities. Cody lives with this pain in his heart and when his high school suggests he play football Cody turns and finds bull riding. Bull riding gives him a place to push his anger and soon Cody rides to the top rankings. He meets Ali Daniels who is a barrel racer with a determination t...more
A Thousand Tomorrows by Karen Kingsbury
At 8 years old Cody watched his father leave stating he couldn't do it anymore. He couldn't love his wife Mary, son Cody and disabled son Carl. His football career was over with and he wanted out. Cody hated him and his mother also as she told him to leave and never come back.
He didn't want to follow in his father's footsteps: football so he helped out with the 4H and raising animals and love the bulls and the riding in the rodeos.
Allie Daniels is a barrel...more
At 8 years old Cody watched his father leave stating he couldn't do it anymore. He couldn't love his wife Mary, son Cody and disabled son Carl. His football career was over with and he wanted out. Cody hated him and his mother also as she told him to leave and never come back.
He didn't want to follow in his father's footsteps: football so he helped out with the 4H and raising animals and love the bulls and the riding in the rodeos.
Allie Daniels is a barrel...more
I have read a great many Christian fiction novels over the years. In fact, Christian fiction is the genre that has spoken to my heart, soul, and nature since I became a Christian and found a true, lasting relationship with Jesus Christ at the age of 11. But, I had never experienced such intrigue, admiration, and clarity about the honest meaning of "living out faith" and "feeling God move" in a Christian's life until I read this tender, moving, heart-stirring novel by Karen Kingsbury. "A Thousand...more
Such a delightful surprise. I don't often venture into the realm if Christian fiction but I took a chance with this one. I'll be honest in saying the title is what intrigued and hooked me from the get go. Though the story itself is beyond predictable, I still found the two main characters, Cody and Ali, very lovable with a simplicity to their depth. While religion definitely took a back seat to this story it is still quite evident to see the underlying meaning of love conquering all and even man...more
Book review on “A Thousand Tomorrows” by stacy b
A Thousand Tomorrows is about a lonesome cowboy Cody gunner, whose father a professional football player who got hurt and was forced to retire from football, left him and his mother, mainly because he felt like he couldn’t be a father to his Down syndrome son Carl Joseph. Cody is destroyed from that point on when he chased his father who was in the cab, crying “dad don’t go!” Cody has grown up with anger, even hatred for his father, and his mother...more
A Thousand Tomorrows is about a lonesome cowboy Cody gunner, whose father a professional football player who got hurt and was forced to retire from football, left him and his mother, mainly because he felt like he couldn’t be a father to his Down syndrome son Carl Joseph. Cody is destroyed from that point on when he chased his father who was in the cab, crying “dad don’t go!” Cody has grown up with anger, even hatred for his father, and his mother...more
A Thousand Tomorrows by Karen Kingsbury is an amazing love story about a National Champion bull rider and the best barrel racer in the Professsional Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA). Both Cody Gunner and Ali Daniels are mysterious and keep to themselves at all rodeos, neither of them have any friends. Both characters have a secret that drives them to their excellence and puts them above all the other competition. But when Cody tries to help Ali when she has a coughing spasm after a run on her hor...more
This was an excellent book that I would highly recommend. It is my first Karen Kingsbury book and won't be my last, I have already bought the sequel to A Thousand Tomorrows, Just Beyond The Clouds which continues the Cody Gunner story. This book is classified as Christian Fiction but it didn't seem preachy, it does have a soft undertone of God and Christian principles in it but it isn't pushy which I like as it doesn't detract from the story, it enhances it. The main goal of this story , is love...more
March 7, 2009
In "A Thousand Tomorrows," Karen Kingsbury tells the powerful story of two young people, both with different personal problems, who become best friends and eventually fall in love.Kingsbury, “America’s favorite inspirational storyteller,” captured me the moment I read the synopsis on the back of the book.
Cody Gunner, one of two main characters, lived a difficult life. When Cody was only eight years old his father, an ex-professional football player, left his family because his yo...more
In "A Thousand Tomorrows," Karen Kingsbury tells the powerful story of two young people, both with different personal problems, who become best friends and eventually fall in love.Kingsbury, “America’s favorite inspirational storyteller,” captured me the moment I read the synopsis on the back of the book.
Cody Gunner, one of two main characters, lived a difficult life. When Cody was only eight years old his father, an ex-professional football player, left his family because his yo...more
I think that this book would be more for girls. I liked this book because i can relate to Cody when he was left by his dad when he was young and didn't see or hear of him for thirteen years. I can relate to the feeling he had when his dad left and didn't know the reason why and how he was mad when his dad thought he could come back into their life like nothing had happened.On Ali side i cant because ive never been so sick to the point where my life was running out but i can only imagine how she...more
A Thousand Tomorrows is about a lonely cowboy named Cody gunner, whose father a professional NFL player who got hurt and was forced to retire from football, left him and his mother, mainly because he felt like he couldn’t be a father to his son Carl Joseph who had Down syndrome. Cody is a mess from that point on. Cody chased his father who was in jumping into the cab, crying “dad don’t go!” Cody has grown up with anger, even hatred for his father. His mother, who he believes that she told him to...more
This book made me cry. It was a really good love story that I had a lot of connection with. The way that Cody mastered anger through finding love is reality for me. I thought that the way that the book was written kind of had a boring tone to it. But somehow it kept making me want to read it more. I guess that means it's written well, right? The book portrays a love that every person in the world should one day find and hope to keep for the rest of their lives. It really puts life in perspective...more
It was difficult to stay interested in this book - the only thing that made me want to keep reading was the sweet love story. That part was the best part of the book. The author did a great job in my opinion of showing how two people gradually fell in love. Otherwise, there was no surprise in the ending - you see it coming from the beginning. No surprises along the way, either.
I should quantify that I'm not a big fan of the rodeo, and this is heavily set in and around the rodeo - bull riding an...more
I should quantify that I'm not a big fan of the rodeo, and this is heavily set in and around the rodeo - bull riding an...more
This is a rare book that involves 90% accurate accounts of rodoeing. I am very critical on books that have horses in them & are by author that could only do their research via google.com. I was even more so ready to point out every wrong in a book that involved Barrel Racing. It is my passion, afterall. If any thing, the ending made this book. It was at best a mediocre write for Kingsbury, but she pulled it together in the end. It is a tear jerker. Maybe because of a horse losing his girl &...more
While this book did help me learn more about cystic fibrosis, this was about the only thing I liked about it. it included an unbearably unrealistic love story. Also, I was disappointed that Cody never found true forgiveness, the kind that comes only through the cross. Cody only found a sort of pseudo-forgiveness from the change Ali brought in his life. As I said, the love part was sadly unrealistic and shallow (I skipped some parts I didn't feel the need to read) considering Cody's past. I found...more
This book is probably my favorite realistic fictions book. I cried, laughed and cried some more while reading it. It touched me in ways a book hasn't before. I had wanted to read it early but couldn't get a hold of it but I wouldn't have appreciated it as much as I do now since finding out a fellow student has CF. It really made me think of how life can be cut short quick but that you can live life to its fullest no matter the amount of time and that love conquers all. Karen Kingsbury is wonderf...more
If you are sap for love stories that bring two people together with different hurts, you wil love this one. Cody with his past and the anger that he now has and Ali with the secret that keeps her fighting to be the best. I liked the back drop of the rodeo and I thought it played very well with the story. It was a very quick read that showed how forgiveness gives new begininngs along with healing. A real tear jerker. I thought it was interesting that faith was not a big part of this book however,...more
A Thousand Tomorrows by Karen Kingsbury has to be my new favorite book. The action in the beginning that shows the feelings behind Cody Gunner's anger is very traumatic. Cody grows up with the feeling of hatrid never leaving his heart. HIs father abandon's his family because of shame with having a son (Carl Joseph) with Down Syndrome. Little does he know how amazing Carl Joseph truly is. Cody goes on to become a national championship bull rider. All along no one knows that he rides with nothing...more
Not one of Karen Kingsbury's better works.
Cody Gunner is a professional bull rider. Ali Daniels is a professional barrels racer. They each have their own problems and don't want to or know how to love another.
The story starts with Cody Gunner as a six year old. His former professional football playing father left because of his younger brother having Down's Syndrome. He didn't understand how someone could not live his brother. It ate at him and ate at him until he found bull riding and found a r...more
Cody Gunner is a professional bull rider. Ali Daniels is a professional barrels racer. They each have their own problems and don't want to or know how to love another.
The story starts with Cody Gunner as a six year old. His former professional football playing father left because of his younger brother having Down's Syndrome. He didn't understand how someone could not live his brother. It ate at him and ate at him until he found bull riding and found a r...more
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berhubung cerita a thousand tommorow ini, salah satu tipe cerita favoritku jd kasih bintang 5
a thousand tommorow kurang lebih sama inti cerita dengan Love Story nya Erich Segal & A walk to remember (nicholas spark)
menyentuh dan tentunya byk pesan mengenai bagaimana menata kembali hubungan antar keluarga yg kurang harmonis
disini lagi-lagi ak menemukan tokoh utama pria, memiliki kerenggangan hubungan dengan orang tuanya trutama dg sang ayah (sebelumnya di Love Story, problemnya juga sama).
Adal...more
a thousand tommorow kurang lebih sama inti cerita dengan Love Story nya Erich Segal & A walk to remember (nicholas spark)
menyentuh dan tentunya byk pesan mengenai bagaimana menata kembali hubungan antar keluarga yg kurang harmonis
disini lagi-lagi ak menemukan tokoh utama pria, memiliki kerenggangan hubungan dengan orang tuanya trutama dg sang ayah (sebelumnya di Love Story, problemnya juga sama).
Adal...more
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Repost: "People need to understand that children with 'special needs' are NOT SICK. They are NOT searching for a cure, just acceptance. Give them unconditional love. This week is for special needs education." (NOTE: 93% of people will not copy and paste this. Will you be part of the 7% that will and will you leave it on your wall for at least an hour?)
April 29, 2010
Finished reading "A Thousand Tomorrows" by Karen Kingsbury and I once again learned the true meaning of Love. As my elementary teach...more
April 29, 2010
Finished reading "A Thousand Tomorrows" by Karen Kingsbury and I once again learned the true meaning of Love. As my elementary teach...more
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Karen Kingsbury is an extremely good writer. Her books are all faith based and give hope for tomorrow.
Cody Gunner who was deserted by his father due to the fact that his brother had down syndrom and Ali Daniels who has Cystic Fibrosis meet while they are both doing rodeos. Convinced that life has nothing to offer either of them, they fall in love and get married. I won't give away the ending, but life is what it is.
The story continues in Just Beyond The Clouds which is what I started today.
Cody Gunner who was deserted by his father due to the fact that his brother had down syndrom and Ali Daniels who has Cystic Fibrosis meet while they are both doing rodeos. Convinced that life has nothing to offer either of them, they fall in love and get married. I won't give away the ending, but life is what it is.
The story continues in Just Beyond The Clouds which is what I started today.
Mar 09, 2013
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Wow - amazing book about a barrel racer who has cystic fibrosis and meets up with Cody Gunner, a bull rider, and a friendship is formed. The trials of the disease and how it affects Alli's performance are revealed to Cody as their friendship blossoms, and really makes you think about how we sometimes take our own health for granted. Definitely a "tear-jerker" through a happy but sad journey, dealing with issues of broken families along the way. Definitely worthy reading!!
A Thousand Tomorrows, is a sad book to begin with, but gives a good lesson for life. Karen Kingsbury, the author, is a christian author and tells the story like watching a movie you don't want to turn off. She draws you in, and keeps you interested all the way through. Cody Gunner and Ali Daniels fall in love together in the midst of bull riding, sickness, and health. They both find God through each other and experience life to its fullest.
I enjoyed this book very much. Karen Kingsbury has a way of drawing you into her characters, and this book is no exception. Cody Gunner struggles with his childhood relational pains, which have embittered his heart; Ali Daniels battles the disease of cystic fibrosis. They make a good match, and they help each other with their hurts. It doesn't have a rosy colored Disney-type ending, but the ending is well done and pleasing to the reader.
Love Karen Kingsbury! Everything she writes touches my heart. There's always love and family issues that need resolution. God is always the center of that resolution. She has a way of sharing scripture that brings it to a new light for me. I just plain feel good when I read her books. They are an easy read...a curl up in your favorite chair and just enjoy!
This story was hard to read in some aspects because there are sad parts and some might say that it's a sad ending. But I also thought this book was SO moving and inspiring and also that maybe the ending wasn't as sad as some might think. Highly recommend this book and the 2nd one in this series, Just Beyond the Clouds. I'll be reviewing that one next. :)
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USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America’s #1 inspirational novelist. There are more than 15 million copies of her award-winning books in print, including several million copies sold in the past year. Karen has written more than 40 novels, ten of which have hit #1 on national lists.
Karen has a true love for her readers, and she has nearly 1...more
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USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America’s #1 inspirational novelist. There are more than 15 million copies of her award-winning books in print, including several million copies sold in the past year. Karen has written more than 40 novels, ten of which have hit #1 on national lists.
Karen has a true love for her readers, and she has nearly 1...more
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