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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, and part evaluation of all that is Canadiana with related French and Canadian History. 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. 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. Emile Pelletier, a Western Canadian, born in 1899, and Guillaume Pelletier born in 1598, are shown to be idealistic and linked, as Emile fights in the World War I trenches of France, in a nearby field to where Guillaume had survived life three hundred years prior.
      "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 among the Pelletier generations. 
      Sales have been successful on five continents!  The book is still available ordered directly by email.
 Library classification: CS90.P44 2007 929'.20971 C2007-900834-8 © Lonnie P. Pelletier 2006. ISBN number 978-0-9781536-0-X

      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 such that as a love story it is intellectually romantic. "Tony" while in denial, must grasp the reality of his flashbacks - not knowing if he is sane with accepting memories - or insane with false memories, and in that evolves a happy ending.
                          "Straw Man" will finally be published in 2012.

Library & Archives Canada classification: CS90.P44 2007 929'.20971 C2007-900834-8 © Lonnie P. Pelletier 2006. ISBN 978-0-9781536--3-4

     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.
      "Rough Passage", a short story about ancient sailing is included.
      Retail outlets of Scouts Canada successfully sold the book in Ontario and BC, for a three year period, however, like many books of this genre, the "market place shelf life" has come to an end. Expired shelf life of approximately two years is a reality and a shock to most writers, given the minimum time of two years required to develop and create a novel in the first place. The process has to be enjoyable, which it is. 
      Library classification: PS8631 E461 S43 2007 jC813/ .6 22 © Lonnie P. Pelletier 2006. ISBN number 978-0-9781536-1-8