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Susan Harris Howell

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I am a psychologist, speaker, and author of The Spirit of Vanderlaan, my debut novel released in December of 2024. This book is a fun, cozy, ghost story featuring a professor, Samantha Hayes, and her lively band of students who get caught up in solving a campus mystery. This book draws on my teaching career of over thirty years to capture the camaraderie and warmth between a professor and the assortment of personalities which inhabit her office.

I have also published extensively on equality between women and men. My first book, Buried Talents, explores the subtle ways women are discouraged from entering male-dominated occupations. Buried Talents was named a winner in InterVarsity Press’s 2022 Readers’ Choice Awards.

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The day had been long, and I was tired and grumpy. We were visiting my grandparents who lived about an hour’s drive from our house. I loved Grandma and Grandpa and enjoyed spending time with them. But on this day I was more than ready to go home. As a young teenager, I had things to do. Important things. Like talking for hours on the phone with my best frien

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