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Written on
location in Quebec, New Brunswick, and in the antiquated hills
of Perche, France, Pelletier
Chronicles - 500 Years is part memoir, part history
and part evaluation of all that is Canadiana. This non-fiction evolves as
the family's moves coincide with pioneering settlements: in 1501 in Perche,
France, 1641 to Quebec, 1827 to New Brunswick and with a move in 1901 to
the Rocky Mountains.
Emile Pelletier, a Western Canadian, born in 1899, and Guillaume
Pelletier born in 1598, are both shown to be idealistic and naive, as
they survive the World War I trenches of France, or life three hundred
years prior, both having stumbled in nearby fields.
The generations and
the related French and Canadian History of over five hundred years are
presented.
"The Lad From Chartres, The Man of French Antiquity, The Pioneer, The Artist, The Paternal Parent,
The Farmer, The Medieval Traditionalist, The Rebel Philosopher, The Renaissance
Man, The Roots Seeker, The Subtle Comic, and The Author" are
some of the characters within the
story line. Born in the late
1490's, the grandmother begins the narrative, as
she hides in a vegetable bin in Chartres, France, during a 1568 battle.
Sales
have been successful on five continents - to the author's amazement!
Future marketing will be assigned to another distributor in late 2010.
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Library & Archives
Canada classification:
CS90.P44 2007 929'.20971 C2007-900834-8
© Lonnie P.
Pelletier 2006. ISBN number 978-0-9781536-0-X
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Sea
Scout Sea Spoils is
set in the Gulf Islands of Canada's Pacific coast and are chronicles
that had evolved
through eight years of this author's excursions as a Sea Scout Leader
and Venturer Company Advisor. As young men from eleven years of age to seventeen, their lives revolved around
respect for the power of the sea
and for nature. While the ongoing
presentation became that of a recruitment novel for the Sea Scouting
movement in general; the stories coincided with an overview of an offbeat
developmental psychology relative to the individual evolution of these
boys and their personal growth - as they became young men.
Both humorous and philosophical, it is a narration about sailing, camping, and just
having fun.
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"Rough Passage", a
short story about ancient sailing is
included. Retail outlets of Scouts
Canada successfully sold the book for a three year period.
Library classification:
PS8631 E461 S43 2007
jC813/ .6 22
©
Lonnie P. Pelletier 2006. ISBN
number 978-0-9781536-1-8
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Straw
Man, as non-fiction, explores the realm of Hypnotherapy and Psychology and the necessity of dealing with both successes and failures. The narrative unfolds like
that of a detective story, with twisting turns of decision making and
fact finding. Flashbacks of childhood brutality occur in dealing with Dissociative
Systemized Amnesia.
A first step in its treatment is the retrieval of lost memories,
followed by a self-reflective process relative to life choices of both
vocation and relationships. The protagonist has
been controlled throughout his life and only comes to the realization of this through a
process of memory retrieval.
Being in his
fifties he is able to
reflect on both the negative and positive controls set forth by his female loves,
his relatives, and
his long term friends. The love interest is shown to experience repeated
Dissociative Identity Disorder symptoms (DID. or Multiple Personalities)
as the story evolves around coping with her personal history, her
resulting actions and final hospitalization. These
types of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder have only been defined within
the last two decades. As a love story it may be described as
intellectually romantic. "Tony" while in denial, must
realize
that amnesia existed by way of flashbacks - not
knowing if he is sane with accepting memories - or insane with false
memories, and in that a
happy ending.
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Library
& Archives Canada classification: CS90.P44 2007 929'.20971
C2007-900834-8 ©
Lonnie P.
Pelletier 2006. ISBN 978-0-9781536--3-4
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Anne And Jean is a novel based on both the
unique life of Jean
Pelletier, from 1627 to 1698 and Anne's unusual marriage at thirteen
to him. Danger and adventure in the unknown, as Jean
Pelletier leaves France at fourteen years old and begins his life in
early Canada - is also a struggle of being fulfilled with being an
artist, versus being a farmer. Seventeenth
century mythology, the controls and rigidity of the Catholic Church,
along with daily fears of the unknown, are all subtlety incorporated throughout the
story.
As a young man, Jean's obedience to church and family is consistent,
however, the story evolves through his struggles with being an
artist in a land of rugged toil. He becomes known throughout the two
lands for his pottery, but is tied to being a farmer, father and
obedient son. Anne is a woman with free thought, at a time when
individuality was not acceptable.
The story is based on documented
history, albeit documents showing the negative impact on Jean and
Anne,
as they were used as pawns by both church and state. Twenty-first century perceptions create
opportunities
to contemplate the past in a manner never before considered - as a
novel, in
film, in a play and in the translations.
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(Translation cover)
The 17th century
Pelletier home
© 2008
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 Interested
in viewing
the original paintings,
from which the covers
were created? Enjoy!
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Novels written prior to 2005 are not
listed.
Future marketing of the above
novels will be
assigned to another distributor in late 2010.
Instar Publishing Inc. is no longer the distributor.
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