Bøger af John Ouellet

There is that part of our childhood which is bathed in mystery and suspense, tempered with the promise that all things will be revealed in time. For children of war there is no such promise. They are waiting still. In 1964, six-year old, Nasser and his fourteen-year old sister, Sureia are sent with their grandfather to a small village in the West Bank from their home in South Chicago. As second generation Americans, it's the intention of their parents to save them from the mean streets of the city by learning the ways of Islam from their aunt and uncle. Issues arise for Nasser from competition with his cousins, and while Sureia is immersing herself in the culture and in secretly learning Christianity, things around her are unwinding fast. Within a few months their grandfather departs after falling ill, and Sureia is sent home just before Christmas in the midst of her tailspin. The next two and a half years are harrowing for Nasser who is alone in a family disintegrating from within and in a land destined for war. On June 5th, 1967, Nasser finds himself lost in Ramallah at the start of The Six Day War with his mentally challenged cousin, Adli. The result of his struggles to find his way back home have shaped the rest of his life. The Captive Dove is based upon actual events in the lives and childhood of several extraordinary people whose spirit transcended the madness of the day.

Two uniquely disturbing tales of not-so-common and cuddly cats and dogs.Cats takes seven members of Montana's Lincoln County Sheriff's Department to the remote and abandoned Sweet Grass Psychiatric Hospital for a week of uninterrupted tactical training. The hospital was closed a decade earlier after a suspicious fire that swept through the top floors, killing staff and patients. The legend of a mysterious Catman settles into the long lore of Sweet Grass Hills, intensified by the enormous clowder of cats that has populated the hills. A clash between reality and myth is about to take place on a very uneven playing field.Dogs examines a world where conflict resolution is taken to a deep, dark place on Maine's Stryker John Island where Trent Aress has moved his wife and twin sons. Trent has left behind his high-stress Washington world as a lobbyist to establish a resort of the remote island. But his dream is not met with the enthusiasm he expected. The reserved islanders, especially his neighbor, Abe Carver, do not appreciate his plans to turn their island into a resort. While the islanders are content to let their feelings come through in words, Carver answers back with his pack of wild dogs that patrol the property line. Trent's response is a pack of his own. But no one can control a rogue weapon. The arm's war escalates to the level of MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction.