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Invasion of the Dream Wheel

Edward Gauthier

In the year 2204, PharmaGov is secretly putting serum 232, a mind control drug, into every marketable medicine available. This plot is discovered only after 91% of the population has been inoculated. Nevertheless, a revolt forms. Logonus won’t join the revolution because he is enthralled with building the Trance Interface Platform (Dream Wheel). But then Antonio Stravieda, the President/CEO of PharmaGov himself, kills Logonus’ mother. Logonus’ reaction is explosive. He joins the revolution and takes on the rebel’s Bonsai Project to destroy serum 232. Invasion of the Dream Wheel is classic science fiction that encompasses time travel within a highly adventurous story of rebellion. Meet Acuity Nine, a giant nine tentacle octopus that can out calculate any known computer and that communicates through mental telepathy. There are chloro-humans whose skins perform photosynthesis as they feed on sunlight, and there is the Dream Wheel (front cover) capable of sensing past trauma of its passengers and reproducing that traumatic scene upon its deck for all to witness. We discover why Oksan, a Zen Buddhist monk, would go against all her training to seek revenge. How is it Kevin, of economically depressed Detroit, finally escapes his serum influenced fate? And might Miriam, a girl of 1860s Wales, be able to assist Logonus in his quest while managing to hold her struggling family together?
Watch out, for the Dream Wheel will invade your mind as soon as you open the book.

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A Treasury of Louisiana Writers, Volume 2

Carrier-of-Bones

John Francois

In the turbulent years of the French and Indian War, two world powers are battling for a continent. Two Acadian boys, Jean-Claude and Louis, are cast into this crucible when one tries to keep a promise made to his father to bring family remains back to their ravaged homeland in Nova Scotia.

They are changed forever by their experiences in the wilderness as death stalks them all the way from Louisiana to Acadie in Nova Scotia. And at the end, if they survive, they must face the wrath of a vengeful Seneca warrior who swears to kill them for what they did to his brother.

Revolutions

John Francois

Allain deGravelles, 18, a young and naive American from New Orleans, arrives in Paris in February of 1848 to attend the famous École Polytechnique. At the engineering school, he finds himself attracted to an upperclassman, Louis Candat, who harbors the same desire as himself, that of becoming an artist.

This story of a young man willing to pay any price to become an artist will not be an easy one to forget.

Small Town Love: Emily

Julia E. Davis

Can one woman make the difference in the survival of a small town? Emily, newly widowed, has returned to her hometown to make a new life for herself and her young son, but that may not happen. The local lumber mill, which employs the majority of Pinewood residents, is threatening possible closure. Determined to save her home and the town, she will do what needs to be done to keep the mill open, but how far will she go? Is she willing to face her own fears and befriend the handsome company man that has arrived? Mitch came to Pinewood to review the stability of the mill for his company. He never imagined meeting a beautiful woman that electrified his emotions. Now, will he find a way to save the historic dying town that he has become as fascinated with as well as the woman that has stolen his heart? If she rejects him, will the mill close and condemn the town?

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Publisher: Page Publishing
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A Harlot Bride

James R. Manuel

In the ancient Hebrew writings, there is an oddity. Very few women are mentioned. Fewer still have a lineage that can be traced. Rahab, the harlot, is among those. This is a story of what may have been.

On that fateful day when Rahab protected the spies, she could not have imagined what would happen next. In modern terms, she was going from Amsterdam to the Amish. Rahab would exit a culture where her profession was part of the mainstream to a culture where it did not exist. She leaves a city where she had access to the palace for a place where the best structure was a tent.

Rahab was in for an emotional roller coaster. So enjoy the ride, and if you pick up a tidbit that benefits you along the way, the author would be extremely pleased.

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Don’t Judge Job’s Wife

Tanya Carron Cormier

In her latest work, Don’t Judge Job’s Wife, the author delves into the often-overlooked story of Job’s wife, offering a fresh and thought-provoking interpretation of her experience that resonates with the author’s own personal journey. Her compelling narrative invites readers to reconsider their judgments and embrace a more compassionate understanding of the characters from this ageless account.

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Publisher: WestBow Press
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The Returning

Jean Sorrell Hurley

It is the summer of 1951 in Kansas City, six years following the end of World War II. The worst flood of the century is about to happen, but eleven-year-old Sara Johnson and the rest of her neighbors along Southwest Boulevard have no idea of the impending disaster. Sara clings to the belief that haer father, missing in action since the battle of Iwo Jima, will return to her. She finds a kindred spirit in her friend, Nathalie Springer, a Jewish refugee from France, whose uncle owns the bookstore down the street. The two girls, with the help of a mysterious book and its author, Aaron Fishchel, explore the idea of soul transference, where people are reborn into the body of someone else. The reason for their interest is connected to the new pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church. Reverend Emmett Bell looks amazingly like Sara's daddy, and he was there on Iwo Jima, but his severe wounds obscured some of his features and left him with amnesia. Is it possible the new minister is actually Sara's father, or Sara's father in the body of Emmett Bell? The coincidences add up and the idea tantalizes the girls, but their investigation leads to heartbreak and division in their families, among the neighbors and their new minister. The folks who live on Southwest Boulevard want to bury physical and emotional wounds suffered during the war. Sara's questions go too far. What is God's plan for the hereafter? It might be unexplainable to the folks who live on Southwest Boulevard in Rosedale, Kansas, but not to an eleven-year-old girl, who proves that love can cross all boundaries, including death.

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Shadow of Death

Jean Sorrell Hurley

1940 Louisiana. The body of Sister Mary Gretchen is discovered hanging from the balcony in a deserted mansion next to the leper colony on the banks of the Mississippi River.

In New Orleans, her sister, Catherine Lyle, doesn’t want to retrieve the nun’s body. It’s not because she doesn’t love her older sister, but because she’s afraid to go outside her house. For almost twenty years Catherine has lived with a terrible secret, carried deep inside her subconscious, suppressed behind the safety of her portraits and her restoration of damaged works of art. But while the journey terrifies her, Catherine knows she has no other choice but to go.

As Catherine tries to put her fears aside, she finds compelling reasons to reject her sister’s death was suicide. From the hemp noose around her sister’s neck to the brutal murder of a leper patient, strange, unrelated clues are compiled: clues of Nazi infiltration of the colony and death threats to others. As Catherine gets closer to discovering the murderer, she finds herself marked for death. In the midst of the lush, exotic setting of a lonely leper colony on the banks of the Mississippi River, readers will find themselves transported to a time and a place that is no more.

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Publisher: Inkwater Press