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Sarah Hickner

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Sarah makes her author debut with Stories from the Barn Aisle. Always a storyteller and a bit of an adventurer, she finally decided to write her stories for the world to read. As a kid, her favorite books were from the Thoroughbred series, and the books inspired her to leave her home state of Mississippi to gallop racehorses in Kentucky while in college. Sarah is now settled down (which sounds more grown up than she feels) in Virginia with her husband, two kids, a horse, a dog, and a bearded dragon.

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Finding the Good in a Bad Book Table

Most of us have been there. You spend hours preparing for an event, invest in inventory, block off your calendar, and line up help at home to cover responsibilities.

At the end of the day, you pack up nearly all the books you had set out in hopeful anticipation—frustrated, dejected, and probably with less cash than when you started (unless you thought ahead and brought your own food and drinks).

Did

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	Finding Gideon: A Broken Dream, a Missing Horse, and the Faith of a Mustard Seed 4.48 avg rating — 188 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories from the Barn Aisle: Real Life Tales of Humor and Grace from a Horse Obsessed Girl 4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Holly Jolly Christmas Cubicle: A Clean Romance Podcast Novella by Tiffany Noelle Chacon (Goodreads Author), Sarah Hickner (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storyteller: A Creative Writing Journal and Guide to Unlock Your Inner Wordsmith it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thoroughbred Life Horse Coloring Book: Color your way from the racetrack to new adventures it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christmas Night: A Short Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Week to Fall: A Clean Christian College Romance (A Rekindle Romance Prequel Novella) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Stories from the Barn Aisle: A Prompt Journal and Guide for Writing Epic Short Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

by Natalie Goldberg

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Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

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What an incredible story. Cyrene and Duncan were supposed to be enemies, but somehow they could never seem to hate each other. I thoroughly enjoyed this story of the way Gods hand can hold you and guide you even when your heart has wondered. This is ...more
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Reinert perfectly captures the insatiable longing of every horse girl at every stage, and the rare moments when we open our eyes and realize we’re living the life we once only dreamed of. I’m not sure how Natalie Keller Reinert has written an entire ...more
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“This must be what heaven smelt like, minus the hotdogs.”
― Sarah Hickner, Finding Gideon: A Broken Dream, a Missing Horse, and the Faith of a Mustard Seed

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“The metal smell of blood clung to me for hours, my new perfume.”
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“I would have done just about anything to be part of this new world we had stumbled into. Maybe I didn't have the words for it yet, but I instinctually knew that the barn was safer, better, than home—an island in the middle of all the trouble that we couldn't escape otherwise. And I was determined to do anything I could to keep coming back.”
― Kareem Rosser, Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever

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“just realized that I didn’t need to make everything so damned hard. My habit of standing”
― Kareem Rosser, Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever

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“Sometimes I liked to forget about the fact that Cholo was not really my horse. Sometimes I liked to imagine that he would be the first of my string of ponies. That someday I would ride him as I made the winning goal at nationals. That much later, he would retire to the greenest, lushest pasture on my farm, where maybe he'd teach my own kids to ride like Angel had taught me. I would visit him every day and bring him an apple and scratch his nose where it had gone gray.

Sometimes I just liked to imagine that someone—anyone— I loved could stay.”
― Kareem Rosser, Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever

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“Maybe he didn't realize it then, but David saved my life. He brought me to the horses, he showed me a world I never knew existed. He was the first person to lift me onto a pony. The first person to lead me around the ring. He opened the door that changed everything for me. He handed me the map that led me out of the same streets that would take his life so many years later.

When it came to his safety, David has always been fearless, reckless even. But when it came to me, his little brother, he didn't let me take a single chance. He delivered me to the best, safest place he could find, and then, as always, he slipped away.”
― Kareem Rosser, Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever

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