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![Renting Lacy: A Story of America's Prostituted Children by [Linda Smith, Cindy Coloma]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Xzywp5FdL._SY346_.jpg)
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- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 1, 2013
- File size907 KB
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I am a survivor of human trafficking, prostitution, alcohol, drug addiction, rape, incest, and homelessness, and I thought the book was very honest and real. I really appreciate the truth being told, and the heart of the girls being revealed. People need to see the nightmares and devastation they endure, and that there are a lot of evil people out there who are very good at what they do. But, I know my God is greater, because of all the healing, restoration, and blessings he has given me. Thank God for Shared Hope, Linda Smith, and many loving, compassionate, empathetic hearts to reach beyond themselves to strangers, and let them know they are somebody, and their lives are worth saving. --Jeanette Bradley, Social Services, Ohio
The stories in the book really made it come alive. The message was shocking, disturbing, horrifying. But it is also necessary. We in America need to know what is happening to our children right under our noses. We need to wake up to the fact that this horrific abuse is occurring and that we are allowing and even at times encouraging it. What will it take to change this? I challenge anyone to read Renting Lacy and not be motivated to do something to implement change in the abuse of children in America. --Student, Indiana --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- ASIN : B00GEJDTKO
- Publisher : Shared Hope International; 1st edition (November 1, 2013)
- Publication date : November 1, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 907 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 168 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #620,487 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #10,643 in Sociology (Books)
- #574,131 in Kindle eBooks
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About the authors
Cindy Coloma is a national bestselling author who has published 12 novels, including: Beautiful (2010 Christy Award finalist for Young Adults and 2011 Revolve Young Adult Tour featured book); The Salt Garden (one of Library Journal's best genre books in 2004); Song of the Brokenhearted (2013 ECPA bestseller with coauthor Sheila Walsh); Orchid House (2008 ECPA bestseller); and Winter Passing (2001 Christy Award finalist and Romantic Times Top Pick).
Cindy has collaborated on fiction projects with bestselling author, singer, and speaker Sheila Walsh, and as a ghostwriter with a former federal prosecutor and national TV legal-news analyst.
Her nonfiction projects include collaborations on memoirs such as The Waiting (May 2014, Tyndale Momentum) and It's a Wild Life: How My Life Became a Zoo(June 2014, Medallion Press), a book about an exotic animal zoo in Michigan and the Nat Geo Wild television program. Cindy developed and wrote the nonfiction book Renting Lacy: A Story of America's Prostituted Children (coauthored with former Congresswoman Linda Smith) and has also written over one hundred published articles.
Cindy is a speaker, book doctor, and writing coach. Her writing coach clients have included both aspiring and professional writers. She tailors her programs to meet their individual needs and goals.
She's spoken at such events and conferences as the World Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany; Mt. Hermon Christian Writers Conference; Simpson University Faculty Retreat; LittWorld in Tagaytay, Philippines; and many others. In her local area, she has co-led a writer's group for seventeen years.
With five children ranging in age from their early twenties to a baby boy, Cindy's life is always full of laughter, joy, and toys to trip over. She can't own enough books or watch enough movies, has more travel dreams than possible for a human (including underwater and outer-space itineraries), but loves home best of all. She and her extended family have lived in the Redding, California area for over thirty-five years.
In November 1998, U.S. Representative Linda Smith founded Shared Hope International to fight sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation and to serve the long-term restoration needs of women and children in crisis. Today, as a 20-year veteran and leader in the movement, Shared Hope strives to prevent the conditions that foster sex trafficking, restore victims of sex slavery, and bring justice to vulnerable women, girls and boys.
Linda is the primary author of From Congress to the Brothel, Renting Lacy, the upcoming Invading the Darkness: Inside the Historic Fight against Child Sex Trafficking in the United States, and co-authored The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and the DEMAND Report. Linda served as a Washington State legislator from 1983 to 1993 before she was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1994 as a result of a write-in campaign. Her compassionate and uncompromising belief that every individual has dignity has carried her from the halls of Congress to searching out victims in the United States and around the world.
Linda resides in Vancouver, WA, and is a proud parent and grandparent with her dearly late husband, Vern Smith.
You can learn more about the issue of child sex trafficking at sharedhope.org.
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Renting Lacy is short and so well written that it reads easily, although the subject is anything but easy. Children as young as 10 pressed into captive lives of prostitution — it sounds like a fringe underworld but the victims number in the hundreds of thousands. It's not just a crime, it's an entrenched, vigorous industry and difficult to break. Renting Lacy is well researched, with facts and figures and intertwined with fictionalized accounts of typical cases which make it real.
It's sobering and could perhaps be depressing, but there is progress, there's hope, and there are things we can do -- such as encouraging others to read this book.
Read this and it will haunt you, too. And you can no longer say, "I didn't know."
The book is very readable, but not easy to read. In other words, once you start reading, the book is hard to put down, but the horror you begin to feel at what is happening to these young girls makes the book difficult to read. Multiple times the book caused me to break out in tears.
The strength of the book is not only in the story that is told, but in the facts, statistics, and reports that the author includes at the end of each chapter. Linda Smith goes into great detail about how many children are enslaved, where they come from, how they are enslaved, what is being done to stop child sex slavery, and what organizations are out there that you and I can get involved with.
As a result, this is easily one of the best and worst books I have read in a long time. I highly recommend it, not so that you read it and put it on your shelf, but so that you read it and then get involved in helping rescue girls from forced prostitution in America.
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