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Howard
May 2016
On Sale: May 3, 2016
Featuring: Thomas Everly; Ruth Warren
336 pages
ISBN: 1476794839
EAN: 9781476794839
Kindle: B010MHATUG
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Romance Historical | Inspirational Historical
When a young oil rig widow escapes her grief and the Texas Dust Bowl, she discovers a surprising futureβand new passionβ awaiting her in California in this lyrically written romance by the author of SING FOR ME. Newly married to her childhood sweetheart, twenty-one-year-old Ruth Warren is settling into life in a Depression-era, East Texas oil town. Sheβs making a home when she learns that her young husband, Charlie, has been killed in an oil rig accident. Ruth is devastated, but then gets a chance for a fresh start: a scholarship from a college in Pasadena, CA. Ruth decides to take a risk and travel west, to pursue her one remaining dream to become a teacher. At college Ruth tries to fit into campus life, but her grief holds her back. When she spends Christmas with some old family friends, she meets the striking and compelling Thomas Everly, whose own losses and struggles have instilled in him a commitment to social justice, and led him to work with Mexican migrant farmworkers in a camp just east of Los Angeles. With Thomas, Ruth sees another side of town, and another side of current events: the forced deportation of Mexican migrant workers due to the Repatriation Act put into place during President Herbert Hooverβs administration. After Ruth is forced to leave school, she goes to visit Thomas and sees that he has cobbled together a night school for the farmworkersβ children. Ruth begins to work with the children, and establishes deep friendships with people in the camp. When the camp is raided and the workers and their families are rounded up and shipped back to Mexico, Ruth and Thomas decide to take a stand for the workersβ rightsβall while promising to love and cherish one another.
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