Micala Brogan is a traveler in the foster home system, but no matter where she goes, her dreams remain the same. She loves horses, and she loves racing. She comes to Colorado with grand dreams and little else. She is temporarily placed with a high country rancher who knows about life's uncertain events. Would this open her dreams, or shatter them? She wrestles with ridicule from classmates and encounters agonizing moments. She will discover that the path to her dreams may have too many obstacles. Could her love for a black stallion help her make the journey?
The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom. "Gut wrenching and incredible.”— Sabaa Tahir #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes "This novel is a remarkable achievement."—Kelly Barnhill, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist "Beautifully epic."—Ibi Zoboi, author American Street and National Book Award finalist Dream Country begins in suburban Minneapolis at the moment when seventeen-year-old Kollie Flomo begins to crack under the strain of his life as a Liberian refugee. He's exhausted by being at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community. When his frustration finally spills into violence and his parents send him back to Monrovia to reform school, the story shifts. Like Kollie, readers travel back to Liberia, but also back in time, to the early twentieth century and the point of view of Togar Somah, an eighteen-year-old indigenous Liberian on the run from government militias that would force him to work the plantations of the Congo people, descendants of the African American slaves who colonized Liberia almost a century earlier. When Togar's section draws to a shocking close, the novel jumps again, back to America in 1827, to the children of Yasmine Wright, who leave a Virginia plantation with their mother for Liberia, where they're promised freedom and a chance at self-determination by the American Colonization Society. The Wrights begin their section by fleeing the whip and by its close, they are then the ones who wield it. With each new section, the novel uncovers fresh hope and resonating heartbreak, all based on historical fact. In Dream Country, Shannon Gibney spins a riveting tale of the nightmarish spiral of death and exile connecting America and Africa, and of how one determined young dreamer tries to break free and gain control of her destiny.
She Mixed Business With Pleasure. . . All Allison Masters wants is to show her tyrannical father that she's tough enough to climb to the top of the family's business, a chain of luxury hotels. So she's devastated when he exiles her to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to manage one of the company's more modest inns. Not only does fast-track Allison feel out of place in laid-back Jackson; she is horrified to discover that singer Beau Beaudine, the sexy stranger who nearly seduced her on her first day in town, is booked for a six-month gig at the inn's bar. . . .And Got Mixed-Up In Love A devastating plane crash forced Country/Western star Beau Beaudine to stop touring, but it didn't dampen his mischievous spirit. So when he runs into a distraught Allison, he can't help offering his own brand of comfort--a sympathetic ear and some memorable kisses. When Allison refuses to be just another conquest for a legendary ladies' man, Beau finds himself intrigued by the fiery beauty. Something about her makes him want to believe that the intoxicating passion they shared could be the start of something real. . .something mountain dreams are made of.
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Her old college crush in Canyon Springs When Olivia Diaz promised her parents she'd manage their mountain cabin resort for the summer, she thought she'd find some direction for her life. She didn't expect to be working side by side with Rob McGuire. Rob's as handsome--and as guarded--as ever. Can free spirit Olivia get him to open up about his life, his faith...his mysterious past? Because the more time they spend together, the more Olivia realizes Rob could be Mr. Forever.
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