by Joyce Magnin
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Praise
Nobody writes characters like Joyce Magnin, and Harriet Beamer does not disappoint. A story that’s all heart; you’ll be cheering Harriet on with every page.
JENNY B. JONES, award-winning author
of Save the Date and There You’ll Find Me
Absolutely delightful! There’s surely a bit of Harriet Beamer in all of us — that mixture of trepidation but desire for adventure, and a relishing of God’s pleasure in becoming all He’s created us to be. I’d barely swiped away my tears before breaking into new peals of laughter. Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus is Joyce Magnin’s best yet.
CATHY GOHLKE, award-winning author
of Promise Me This
If you want to feel God’s pleasure, take this delightfully unpredictable journey with Harriet Beamer and the unrivalled Queen of Quirk, Joyce Magnin. I know of no other author who can bring the truth of the Gospel so close to earth and yet lift the reader so high. Ya gotta get on this bus.
NANCY RUE, Christy Award-winning author
of The Reluctant Prophet
You’ll love Joyce Magnin’s tale of a grandmother’s unconventional cross-country trip toward family togetherness.
RICHARD L. MABRY, MD, author of the Prescription
for Trouble Series
Grab your toothbrush and pack extra jammies — you’re in for quite a ride! Harriet Beamer rocks.
REBECCA PRICE JANNEY, author of nineteen books,
including On a Steed of Iron
Harriet Beamer’s adventure sparks that longing in all of us to who, as Thoreau said, when it’s time to die, don’t want to discover that we have never truly lived. I fell in love with Harriet when she decided that money, a cell phone, and God were all she needed for her journey. And what she comes to learn in her travels is a lesson for life — that being who God intended us to be can bless others beyond measure.
CHRISTA ALLAN, author of Love Finds You in New
Orleans, Edge of Grace, and Walking on Broken Glass
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Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus
Copyright © 2012 by Joyce Magnin
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Magnin, Joyce.
Harriet Beamer takes the bus / Joyce Magnin.
p. cm.
I. Title.
PS3601.L447H37 2011
813'.6 — dc23
2011036018
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