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Ann Bell

Ann Bell

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Author of 11 Christian novels, 3 educational technology books, and 1 children's book.

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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<span style="font-family:'lucida grande';font-size:11px;line-height:normal;">This concept that Ann has used in writing this charming book is genius!! How better to explain to younger children about the Holy Trinity. IT's difficult enough to understand, and then one can say, &quot;well, just teach them faith.&quot; This is the best<br />way to do it. IT shows them, which is the best way. If you<br />have a grandchild or a young child that you <span class="text_exposed_show">would like to share this book with, please consider &quot;The Adventures of<br />Scampy Churchmouse.&quot; I'm so jealous I didn't think of it<br />first, but then that's a typical writer's lament!  ~ Phyllis Moses</span></span>