![]() Reading Group GuideĪshley was only three years old when she was taken from her mother - too young to understand why she couldn't stay with the mother she adored and she could not possibly have realized that she was going to spend the next nine years bouncing from one foster family to another. In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage to succeed - and in doing so, discovers the power of her own voice. ![]() Painful memories of being taken away from her home quickly become consumed by real-life horrors, where Ashley is juggled between caseworkers, shuffled from school to school, and forced to endure manipulative, humiliating treatment from a very abusive foster family. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. ![]() "Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. ![]() ![]() An inspiring true story of the tumultuous nine years Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent in the foster care system, and how she triumphed over painful memories and real-life horrors to ultimately find her own voice. ![]()
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![]() Reviewed in the United States on DecemThe book was great, as usual. With nowhere else to turn, influential Senators decide to call in someone who can operate outside the FBI's constraints: Lucas Davenport. 12,275 global ratings Masked Prey (A Prey Novel Book 30) by John Sandford Write a review How customer reviews and ratings work See All Buying Options Top positive review All positive reviews Bob Duval Great book great service. ![]() ![]() The anonymous photographer can't be pinned down to one location or IP address, and more importantly, at least to the paper-processing bureaucrats, no crime has actually been committed. It's obviously alarming-there's an unstated but deadly threat here-but when the FBI is called in, there isn't much the feds can do. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of extremist groups. of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. ![]() Lucas Davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() The individual emphasis is so strong that even the horses seem to have "personalities." This sophisticated novel is written not only for sports fans but for lovers of good fiction. Personal jealousies, financial reward and sexual conquests are likewise factors that drive these intense, charismatic and sexy athletes. The story focuses on a group of British riders for whom competition is not limited to winning a team victory. They steal each other's horses and love each other's women as they push themselves and their mounts to impossible extremes, until their feud erupts, with devastating consequences, at the Los Angeles Olympics.įrom Publishers WeeklyThe average American may not view show-jumping as a particularly glamorous sport, but this glimpse into the world of the international equestrian is likely to change any such perception. ![]() ![]() Within this arena we meet the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, who is driven by his hatred of Rupert Campbell-Black, the handsome and supremely confident star of the show ring. Welcome to a world of cutthroat competition populated by fearless athletes, wealthy sponsors, and beautiful starlets and set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world. “From the queen of the British bestseller lists comes the classic hit every Englishwoman remembers with a sigh - Riders, the steamy, scandalous tale of sexual and equestrian competition within the heroic world of international show jumping. ![]() ![]() Zhao’s first two features, Songs My Brothers Taught Me and The Rider, were both set on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and focused on characters played by first-time actors in stories deeply inspired by their own lives. As the United States weathers another seismic economic and humanitarian crisis, Zhao’s film offers insightful perspective on how terrifying and tenuous the American dream can be. It’s also overflowing with Zhao’s empathetic style of storytelling, and the ensemble largely features nonactors playing themselves, relaying stories of survival on the road in the aftermath of 2008’s Great Recession. Zhao’s epic sweep of a movie, which travels the American West from Nevada to South Dakota, is crammed with beautiful photography of some of the country’s most dramatic landscapes. She’s a newly widowed woman in her early 60s searching for meaningful existence in a nation that’s become hostile to ordinary citizens in need of help. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Fern is not a bullheaded cowboy fighting on the frontier. She drives around the country in her van, living as self-sufficiently as possible, and carries a flinty affect with people, revealing little about herself and the turmoil that has led to her life on the road. Fern (played by Frances McDormand), the hardscrabble hero of Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, is the kind of resolute, independent protagonist that has dominated American movies since the dawn of the Western genre. ![]() |