Under A Stand Still Moon

by Ann Howard Creel

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Set in the American Southwest in about 900 A.D., this is the story of Echo, a young woman whose destiny as a wife and mother is suddenly changed by an accident. She is forced to leave her village life and her family to marry an aged High Priest, esteemed and feared by the People. In her new life, Echo gains the priest's knowledge and magic, which permit her to help the People in a fearsome time of angry gods and the end of her civilization as she knows it. An archaeological accurate and show more engrossing journey in time to one of the great North American archaeological sites. show less

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Ann Howard Creel was born on July 24, 1953. By the age of ten she was writing daily in a diary, and by the age of twelve she had written a novel. She attended the University of Texas, received a degree in nursing, and became a Registered Nurse. After moving to California in 1985 she went back to school and earned a Master's degree. She loved her show more nursing career, but the urge to write never left her, so she began to write again at night after work when she moved to Colorado. She took two creative writing courses in Durango, Colorado and then wrote her first novel, Water at the Blue Earth. She still works as a school nurse in the Denver area and writes part-time. Her titles include A Ceiling of Stars, Call Me the Canyon, and The Magic of the Ordinary Days. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Tween, Fantasy
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3553 .R339 .U53Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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