the magic of ordinary days by ann howard creel

“Would your parents help you get started?” I asked him. “My resort will be the finest and most efficiently run.” Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. “But the degree I earned will help to open opportunity.” He gazed up and down the river. The Magic of Ordinary Days: A Novel is written by Ann Howard Creel and published by Penguin Books (P-US). He smiled in that way I now imagined whenever I closed my eyes. “I learned more from watching my parents operate a business than from anything else,” he said. ests there, and the river ran full to its brim with early summer runoff.Įdward most enjoyed talking of his plans.

Some of the Canada geese were already returning to build their n. After eating, we walked along the path that followed the Platte River. On the walls were hundreds of animal heads, spoils from the chase. We met again outside the five-and-dime, then we went for lunch at an old saloon-turned-steak-house, where the owner walked around and talked to customers weighted down with a holster belt and a six-shooter. He had managed to get leave from his base, and at first chance, had called me to meet him. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: Contact her through her website: reading level is The Magic of Ordinary Days book? For book clubs, Ann will visit you via Skype. In the works are new novels about an American horsewoman joining an all-female group of doctors, nurses, and ambulance drivers during World War I and a tale of an American teacher needing an escape who inherits a Paris nightclub just as Europe is steadily marching toward war.īesides writing, Ann's other interests include old houses, new yoga routines, red wine, and all things cat. Ann immediately saw a woman dragging her abusive husband’s body to the river to let floodwaters take it away.

The spark for THE RIVER WIDOW came while learning about The Great Flood of 1937 along the Ohio River. When asked where she gets her ideas, Ann answers, “From history.” She doesn’t know when the muse will strike, but often while reading about history, she sees an image in her mind. And in WHILE YOU WERE MINE, a New York City nurse must give up the child she has raised as her own during World War II. In THE WHISKEY SEA, a fierce young woman becomes one of the only female rumrunners on the Atlantic Coast during Prohibition. In her new novel, THE RIVER WIDOW, a former tarot-card reader turned widow and stepmother must escape the clutches of an evil family while also facing the crime she herself has committed. Ann Howard Creel writes historical novels about strong female characters facing seemingly impossible obstacles and having to make life-changing decisions.

The magic of ordinary days by ann howard creel