A Thousand Tomorrows (Cody Gunner Series #1) [Hardcover]

Karen Kingsbury (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 13, 2005

- Karen Kingsbury has written three novels in her successful Red Gloves series: Sarah's Song was just published in September 2004, with 73,000 copies in print, Maggie's Miracle (2003) sold over 45,000 copies, and Gideon's Gift (2002) sold over 63,000 copies.
- Karen Kingsbury's Treasury of Miracles series debuted in 2001 with her well-received Christmas edition. Since then the series has sold close to 145,000 combined copies in hardcover.
- Award-winning author Karen Kingsbury has written more than 40 fiction and nonfiction books with more than 2 million copies in print. She was previously a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News. Her true-crime thriller, Deadly Pretender (Dell, 1994), was produced as Every Woman's Dream, a CBS Movie of the Week.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Kingsbury, a CBA bestselling author, delivers her signature mix of melodrama, formula and genuine emotional punch in this novel about two young rodeo stars and their experiences with Down syndrome and cystic fibrosis. The young leads inhabit Christian romance fiction clichés: Cody Gunner is the ruggedly handsome outdoorsman with a painful past (his backstory, as it happens, is identical to that of the male lead in Susan May Warren's Happily Ever After) and Ali Daniels is the daintily beautiful yet doggedly determined young cowgirl who wins his heart. Both characters are driven to succeed by a need to overcome hidden pain. Cody has suffered from besetting anger at both of his parents since the day his father left the family because he was unable to handle Cody's brother's Down syndrome. Ali, on the other hand, secretly has cystic fibrosis, and she rides in horse races despite the dust, hay and allergens associated with her sport, which will shorten her already brief life expectancy. When these two predictably fall in love, they provide each other with some measure of healing before the novel reaches its telegraphed conclusion. Despite the plot's limitations, Kingsbury fans will undoubtedly be pleased by more of the inspirational fiction for which this author has become beloved. (Apr. 13)
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"A touching story…will bring the author many new fans." -- Dorothy Garlock, author of Hope’s Highway

"Karen Kingsbury is one of my favorite writers." -- —Pat Williams, senior vice president, Orlando Magic

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 238 pages
• Publisher: Center Street; 1ST edition (April 13, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931722625
• ISBN-13: 978-0446529679
• ASIN: 0446529672
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #495,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America's #1 inspirational novelist. There are nearly 20 million copies of her award-winning books in print, including several million copies sold in the past year. Karen has written more than 50 novels, ten of which have hit #1 on national lists.

Karen's newest novel, Unlocked, released Oct. 12 and has stayed in Amazon's top fifty for the past few weeks. Unlocked debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times Bestsellers list. Another recent and popular title of Karen's is Shades of Blue - the story of a 28-year-old ad executive who is six weeks away from marrying the girl he loves. But as he prepares for his wedding, something brings up his past girlfriend - a girl he dated in high school. He realizes he can't go forward and say, "I do," until he goes back to Holden Beach, finds the girl he loved back then, and tell her he's sorry.

Karen's novel Like Dandelion Dust is the subject of a major motion picture currently in theaters. Like Dandelion Dust stars Academy Award winning Mira Sorvino and Barry Pepper, along with Cole Hauser and Maxwell Perry Cotton. The film has received more than 30 awards in the Film Festival Circuit including numerous Best Picture awards. Several of Karen's books are currently under theatrical development.

Karen's most recent series - the Above the Line Series, which began with Take One, in March, 2009 and wrapped up in June, 2010 with Take Four. The series is about two producers looking to change the world with the power of film. The Above the Line series also includes Karen's popular characters from the fictitious Baxter Family. The Baxters were first introduced to readers through the five-book Redemption series, and then the five-book Firstborn series, and finally the four-book Sunrise series.

Dubbed by Time Magazine as the Queen of Christian Fiction, Karen has also been a featured guest on the Today Show, Fox News, USA Today, and numerous other television programs and magazines. Her fiction has made her one of the country's favorite storytellers. Others of her emotionally gripping titles include the 9-11 Series, Even Now, Ever After, and Between Sundays.

Karen is also a public speaker, reaching more than 100,000 women annually through various national events. Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest with their six children, three of whom are adopted from Haiti.

Customer Reviews

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52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not the usual Karen Kingsbury, April 16, 2005

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Amy - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Thousand Tomorrows (Cody Gunner Series #1) (Hardcover)

I've never read a Karen Kingsbury book that I didn't like. The heart she puts in the development of her characters has always touched me and I don't believe I've ever read one of her books without shedding some tears. "A Thousand Tomorrows" certainly was no different. However what I did notice was different about this novel was the abscence of reference to scripture. In previous books scripture tended to be threaded througout the entire book. This just wasn't the case in this novel. Again, I certainly still enjoyed the book a great deal and read it in one sitting because as usual, Karen's characters drew me in and gripped my heart. There just seem to be a change in this book from her previous books. With that said, I learned that Karen's books don't have to meantion specific scripture to teach us all lessons about the love of God. Incredible author.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Time To Love, February 20, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: A Thousand Tomorrows (Cody Gunner Series #1) (Paperback)

A Thousand Tomorrows is and inspirational book about how to live your life to the fullest. In this book Cody Gunner goes through life missing someone special to him. The reason why this person left causes Cody a lot of anger that he expresses through bull riding. He doesn't care that he might die doing this; all he cares about is the eight seconds that he is on the bull. This is only way to let out his anger but this is a secret that he keeps to himself. Ali Daniels is on the Pro Rodeo Circuit, too, and she has a secret she keeps from the rest of the riders. This until she meets Cody. Ali learns that she can learn to trust Cody and with the trust they give each other they fall in love. When a tragedy happens, they both have to live life together fully because the time they have may be short. Anyway this is an amazing book, and the ending is so sweet that you may end up crying.
Karen Kingsbury is an inspirational author who knows how to write a good book that you take it to heart. She is an amazing Christan author. In A Thousand Tomorrows she portrays two people's lives in which all they can do is live life to the fullest or they are cheating themselves of the time they have. This is an amazing book that all you can do is love.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Novel Worth Reading and a Note., May 7, 2005

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livvie (Toronto, Ont) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Thousand Tomorrows (Cody Gunner Series #1) (Hardcover)

This novel, like all of Karen Kingsbury's novels, was great. You identified with her fcharacters, you learned lessons, and you grew from reading this book.

A Note to anyone reading this novel: This is NOT a Christian Fiction novel, like you have come to expect from karen kingsbury. this is by her own admission, a secular nove, written for a secular audience, but clean enough so her Christian readers would feel comfortable. That had (in my estimation) been achieved. This is a novel I would use to give to someone who was interested reading Christian fiction, but didn't know where to start, or didn't want to go BOOM right into the "preachy-teachy" as some people think books end up like in this genre.

I unlike some people who have mentioned this, appreciate the realism in Kingsbury's stories. Life does not have a happily ever ending to it, instead she makes her endings as I like to call Happily After All. Yes, there is sadness and sorrow and death, but usually (as there is a sequel or a series to nearly all of her works), things work out in the end. Maybe not in a happy, rah rah yay! kind of way, but in a spiritual, uprising way.

Why the 4 Stars? Too short for my taste and read way too fast.

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