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L C Russell

L C Russell

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In addition to writing fantasy/adventure, my "day job" consists of teaching  courses at University of Phoenix, Ashford University and Ultimate Medical Academy.  I am  author of DEATH BY STUDENT LOAN - a time-travel mystery and the "November" book series starting with NOVEMBER IN SALEM: The Bargain of Witches. 

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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<strong><em>&quot;I could try to compare this young adult book to the popular &quot;A Discovery of Witches&quot;, but I won't, because this one is a lot more entertaining, moves faster and involves a lot less food and whine (pun intentional) &quot;  </em><span>Amanda Richards - Top Amazon Reviewer 7/2<span>0</span>11 </span></strong><br /><span style="color:#111111;vertical-align:middle;"><strong><br />&quot;Wow!! -- POWERFUL --- LOVED IT!!&quot;</strong>, --JayneSeer (Amazon.com)<br /><br /><span style="color:#111111;vertical-align:middle;"><strong style="font-family:'Arial Black';"><em style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Harry Potter move over..!&quot;</em></strong><strong>  DannyParkerJazz (Reviews)<br /><br /></strong><font style="color:#c00000;" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:'Arial Black';"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:'Arial Black';">&quot;Must not miss&quot; novel...&quot;</span></span>   Conalrad (Reviews) Amazon - Barnes&amp;Noble</font><font color="#000000"> </font><br /></span></span>