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Ruthie Hammond had a dream. After high school she was moving to a big city...anywhere but Brewster. Surely God had a plan for her, and it wasn't in this small, nowhere town. Twenty years later she's back in Brewster working at a failing radio station with her boyfriend Jack. She's given up on God and if she wants to get out of town, she'll have to do it solo. But when her first love, Paul, moves back, Ruthie wonders if happiness really does lie beyond this podunk town. In this second novel in the Coming Home to Brewster series, Roxanne Henke offers another wonderful story about relationships, choices, and spiritual growth.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 janvier 2003
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736935852
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	13 Mo

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All Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. The “NIV” and “New International Version” trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by International Bible Society.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Henke, Roxanne, 1953– Finding Ruth / Roxanne Henke. p. cm. — (Coming home to Brewster; 2) ISBN 0-7369-0968-0 (pbk.) 1. North Dakota—Fiction. 2. First loves—Fiction. I. Title. PS3608.E55 F56 2003 813'.6—dc21

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Philippians 4:12-13

I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation… I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

To the people of Wishek, North Dakota, my Brewster, the somewhere I callhome.

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The many readers who wrote to me after reading my ﬁrst novel, After Anne. Your letters are the reward for all the lonely hours at my computer. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and encouragement. The meek might inherit the earth, but I hope letter writers get ﬁrst place in the checkout line in heaven’s library. My editor, Nick Harrison, whose eagle eye and heart for ﬁction made this a MUCH better book. And to the wonderful staff at Har-vest House, who held the hand of this new-kid-on-the-block this past year as I waded through the “new author” landscape. You made my journey joyful! Thank you. Dean Mastel of Cumulus Broadcasting in Bismarck, North Dakota. Everything I know about the radio business, you taught me. Anything I got wrong is purely my imagination run wild. You are a gem in station manager’s clothing. Jenel Looney, my writing friend (whom Istillhaven’t met), and my sister Kim, both early readers. Your feedback gave me the courage to keep writing. Many thanks. Debbie Turner, the only other member in our Book Club for Two. Who else would understand the “need to read” (and write) like you do? My Mt. Hermon friends Cathy Elliott, Bob Russell, Henriet Schapelhouman, Dee, and B.J. Your e-mail friendship has meant the world. Jackie Baumgarten and Yvonne Engelhart. Whenever I need an ear, or a boost, you’re there. How do you say thanks for that? My mom, Jean Klein, who has embraced my writing career with enthusiasm only a mother could muster, and my sisters, Kim Anderson and Ann Jensen, who offer unconditional love and unfailing support, for which I am beyond grateful. My husband, Lorren, and my daughters, Rachael and Tegan…you hold my heart. Always. Thank you from the bottom of it.

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Brewster, North Dakota. Middle America, USA. The kind of town where everybody knows your name. Where everybody knows what everyone else is doing…or thinking of doing. A place where neighbors run cookies over with the latest gossip. Where the waitress at the café is your next-door neighbor. Nine-man football. A twenty-bed hospital. A grocery store that offers home delivery on Thursdays. All these things can be found in Brewster. What else can be found there? People with hopes and dreams. People in love and people with broken hearts. Friends and foes. Families and faith. When you get to know the people of Brewster, you’ll ﬁnd it isn’t all that different from where you live. Welcome to Brewster…it’s a good place to call home.

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Prologue

Ruthie

For Jack, it was always about the music. He’d walk around lis-tening to his own drummer, drumming his way down the school hallways, thumping on desks with his ﬁngertips, tapping his feet in a syncopated rhythm that even had the band teacher yelling, “Jack, stop it!” I didn’t know him then, but I knew who he was. “Musicman,” we called him. For Jack, it was always about the music. Not for me. For me, music was my way out. Out of my boring life. Out of my conﬁning small town. Out from under my parents’ control. Out of Brewster and on to somewhere else. Anywhere. If I turned up the music loud enough, it was even my ticket away from me. All I ever wanted was a chance to dream. A chance to live my dream somewhere besides in my imagination. I wanted a chance to ﬁnd somewhere where I belonged, and I just knew that place was somewhere beyond Brewster, North Dakota. Ironically, it was the music, and Jack, that brought me to that place. To the place I could truly, ﬁnally, call home. But that makes it sound so simple. It wasn’t. It took me a long time to ﬁnd that place. Very long. You see, I’ve taken the “Detroit Route.” A saying in my family that means going completely out of your way to get to where you intended to be in the ﬁrst place. That’s me, Ruthie Hammond, ﬁnally home, via “Detroit.”

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ROXANNESAYLERHENKE

It may be clearer if I start at the beginning. Well, not exactly the beginning. More like somewhere in the middle, but by the time I’m done you should know the whole story, via Detroit.

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