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Mary Howard

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in Ames IA, The United States

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Though I was born in Iowa, I flew off to Southern California in my youth to live by the Pacific for a while and figure out where to go from there. Later I lived in Woodstock, Illinois, for years, a forty-minute train ride from downtown Chicago, on Lake Michigan. Attracted by water both times, I guess, and craving adventure. Now I live in Ames, Iowa, where I counseled students in the College of Design for seventeen years and raised two fabulous sons.

My novels are set in small Midwest towns. I have written three suspense (mystery) novels and am now working on a novel that is just as suspenseful, but focused on a provocative family secret, not involving a crime. I am fascinated by the extraordinary natures of my characters and strive to know ...more

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I Still Run In My Dreams: A Physical and Spiritual Journey Through Quadriplegia

by David R. Moore

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Mary Howard said: " This is a moving and inspiring memoir. Told, after a horrific car accident, that he would never walk again, the author began a journey to prove that he could teach his body to compensate, to a remarkable degree, for his paralysis. It's an honest book ...more "

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