Kate Braestrup, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (211p) ISBN 978-0-316-06630-3
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t may take ingenuity to interest browsers in a memoir by a middle-aged mother who, 11 years ago, was suddenly widowed, then became a Unitarian-Universalist minister, and now works as chaplain to game wardens in Maine. But good memoir writing does...
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Kate Braestrup, Author . Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur $24.99 (217p) ISBN 978-0-316-03191-2
In this breezy, soft-pedaling exercise in spiritual empowerment, Braestrup (Here If You Need Me
) shares some of her hard-won marital wisdom. As an ordained minister, Braestrup counsels couples to love and cherish one another, even in the face of a...
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Kate Braestrup, Free Press, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8426-4
Braestrup (Here If You Need Me), a Unitarian Universalist minister who serves as chaplain to the Maine Warden Service, graciously escorts true prayer into real life. In her fourth book, Braestrup approaches prayer from 24 angles, including from the...
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Kate Braestrup, Author Viking Books $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-82888-3
Though sprightly, this first novel lacks the substantial center that its dense encirclements of theological musing lead the reader to expect. The author's intellectual elaborations often seem banal and fail to cohere dramatically within the...
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Kate Braestrup. Little Brown, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-37378-4
Braestrup (Here if You Need Me) cuts an intriguing figure in her warm, thoughtful chronicle of her time in the trenches as a parent and on the job. A mother of four with two stepchildren from her second marriage, she goes for a Masters in Divinity...
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Kate Braestrup, Author, Kate Braestrup, Read by , read by the author. Hachette Audio $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-929-0
Braestrup’s narration about her work as a chaplain with Maine’s fish and game wardens is filled with the same comfort she offers those she ministers to. Her friendly, easygoing northeastern-accented voice is instantly soothing whether...
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