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Here If You Need Me: A True Story
enlarge	Author: Kate Braestrup Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Category: Book List Price: ~~$23.99~~ Buy Used: $2.80 You Save: $21.19 (88%) New (49) Used (53) from $2.80 Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 224 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 ISBN: 0316066303 Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780316066303 ASIN: 0316066303 Publication Date: August 1, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Standard used condition ie... could have dj tear, bump, or corner crease.This is a new book that received the above wear during its delivery. Has remainder mark.

Editorial Reviews: Product Description Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well. Then early one morning Drew left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he protected every day, an oncoming driver lost control, and Kate lost her husband. Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to continue her husband's dream and became a minister herself. And in that capacity she found a most unusual mission: serving as the minister on search and rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing, and to the wardens who sometimes have to deal with awful outcomes. Whether she is with the parents of a 6-year-old girl who had wandered into the woods, with wardens as they search for a snowmobile rider trapped under the ice, or assisting a man whose sister left an infant seat and a suicide note in her car by the side of the road, Braestrup provides solace, understanding, and spiritual guidance when it's needed most. HERE IF YOU NEED ME is the story of Kate Braestrup's remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness. It is dramatic, funny, deeply moving, and simply unforgettable, an uplifting account about finding God through helping others, and the tale of the small miracles that occur every day when life and love are restored.

Customer Reviews: Read 64 more reviews... Warm, funny, thoughtful September 6, 2008 I first picked up this book because I, too, am a widow. I was hoping for insight on someone else's life by hearing their story. This isn't the story of widowhood, it is the story of strength, love and grace. I found this to be a truly moving book about a "plucky widow" who found she had a heart to share and share she does by becoming a chaplain to the Maine Warden Service. It inspires me to be a better person and to see the good around me. Well written, full of stories, reflections and events I found it hard to put down and was sorry to come to the end. I hope she will someday write about her own personal journey in greater depth. Here If You Need Me August 11, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Outstanding book. It was hard to put it down until I had finished reading it. Unlike any other book I've read. The author wrote ths book with her heart. wisdom on paper August 8, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful one of the best memoirs i've read in years and it's my job to read them. this is an act of love. i felt the leaves crunch beneath my feet as kate took me into the wilderness, both internal and external. beautiful. -lauren elise daniels, prose editor A memoir in the truest sense of the word July 30, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful A memoir is a written account of the events that have been observed by someone throughout their life; an autobiography is the story of a person's life as written by that person. Most "memoirs" these days are really autobiographies. But in Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup makes sure that the star is her colleagues, her "clients," her state, and the God she shares with all of them. Surrounded by death, accidents, and lost children, Braestrup reveals that an amazing kind of grace can come with witnessing trauma on a daily basis. She lives on the turn of a dime in others' lives, where loved ones don't come home and lives end. Somehow, though, it isn't sad. It's beautiful and thoughtful and poignant and funny, and though you may cry, you feel somehow blessed after reading it. Braestrup clearly loves her job, which more than anything consists of just "being there" for others in some of their most trying moments. The title couldn't be more appropriate. I'm being pretty saccharine about this book. But in a world where "minister" usually gets attached to political agendas, Braestrup is a reassuring figure, there only to make the transition easier, no matter what kind of transition it is. Be warned--it may move you so much that by turns you will want to either become a Unitarian Universalist minister or move to Maine. Moving and honest July 23, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This book is incredibly moving in its honesty. It is extremely readable, and the development of Kate's story is gripping. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I became aware of Kate's writing by listening to an interview by Krista Tippett on the program "Speaking of Faith" on National Public Radio. The book more than met my expectations.

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