Harriet Beamer Strikes Gold (28 page)

1. Do you think Harriet handled the whole gold mine thing in the best way? Should she have consulted Henry and Prudence first?

2. What would you do if you were in Harriet’s Chucks and just moved in with your son and daughter-in-law? Go looking for adventure?

3. God is often a God of second chances. It seems Martha is getting a second chance here with Lily. Have you ever had a second chance?

4. In book one Harriet learned what it means to feel God’s pleasure, at least for her. But it seems it might not have taken so well in book two. What does it mean to you to feel God’s pleasure?

5. Prudence never got to know her mother and many of us feel estranged from our own. How does God fill that loss?

6. Henry struggles with being a writer and wanting to have a regular job to support his family. If you were married to Henry, what would you tell him?

7. Martha says that after Wyatt’s trial and incarceration she learned a valuable lesson, that she could survive. Is that good enough, to survive? Or do life and God require more from us?

8. In some ways Harriet laid down her life for Henry and Prudence, like putting up with living without her beloved salt and pepper shakers, leaving her best friend, and moving clear across the country. In what ways are you called to lay down your life?

9. Harriet is drawn to Lily almost immediately; it was almost like she was looking for someone to mother. Do you agree? Why would she do that?

10. Harriet and Henry were finally able to talk about the elephant in the room—his father’s business. Do you have an elephant in your living room?

T
HANK YOU TO
J
IMMY
R
UE FOR TEACHING ME ABOUT
gold mines.

Special Thank you to Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan.

Thank you also to Pam Halter, Nancy Rue and the Crue for unflagging support.

JOYCE MAGNIN
is the author of five novels, including the popular and quirky Bright’.s Pond Series and the middle-grade novel
Carrying Mason
. She is a frequent conference speaker and writing instructor. Joyce lives in Pennsylvania with her son, Adam, and their crazy cat, Mango, who likes to eat nachos.

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.

J
ENNY
B. J
ONES
, 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.

C
ATHY
G
OHLKE
, 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.

N
ANCY
R
UE
, 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.

R
ICHARD
L. M
ABRY
, 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.

R
EBECCA
P
RICE
J
ANNEY
, 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.

C
HRISTA ALLAN
, author of
Love Finds You in New Orleans, Edge of Grace
, and
Walking on Broken Glass

Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus

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HE
B
RIGHT
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S
P
OND
S
ERIES

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M
IDDLE
G
RADE
F
ICTION

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Cake

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Harriet Beamer Strikes Gold

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Magnin, Joyce.

Harriet Beamer strikes gold / Joyce Magnin.

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