Chatelain: 20 books

An often overlooked aspect of the American Civil War was the effort by the Confederate Navy to defend the Mississippi River in 1861 and 1862. Confederate officials struggled to build a navy from nothing, converting steamers into gunboats while working to build several ironclad warships from the keel...

This short autobiographical story examines the year when my Mom died. The lessons she learned and those I learned by being there, taught me more about living than about dying.

Our Cosmic Ancestors is a dynamic work unraveling the messages of universal astronauts and decoding the symbols and visual mathematics they have left for us in the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, the Mayan calendar, the Maltese cross, and the Sumerian zodiac.  The book is captivating...

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...

This biographical short story reviews a dream I had about a friend, Mark, shortly after he died. It was my only experience with a ghostly visitation, if that's what it was. Judge for yourself.

Dirmac Nor is the Neutral, a rare creature who is a natural psycho-detective. He and his assistant, Clem Wilson, go to the remaining Earth Colony, to find out what is causing their communities to revolt and self-destruct. What they find tells them the Empress Empire is in big trouble. The...

The Secret of Immortality Revealed In Book One, 'The Caves of Etretat', Canadian bookstore owner Paul Sirenne was thrust into a quest for answers in the town of Etretat, France, on the trail of a hundred year old mystery hidden in the pages of 'The Hollow Needle', by Maurice Leblanc. Together...

The Vostok Juncture is a bobsled run of a story, hurtling headlong to an unstoppable collision. Filled with claustrophobic scenes, intense danger, murder, horror, and deadly action, the Vostok Juncture is what happens when man and nature collide. Nature always wins. An insane blend of...

Ultimate Confrontation, Ultimate Answers In the previous books of the series, Paul Sirenne was changed into a fledgling immortal in the caves of Etretat, France. Based in the caves, Sirenne was preparing for an ultimate confrontation against the Greyman, the oldest immortal on earth. With countless...

Canadian Memories is an assemblage of non-fiction stories reviewing a variety of events which occurred during the life of a Canadian. Nobody special really, apart from how many crazy things happened to him. He (me, really) is also a bit funny or, at least, he thinks he is (I do). That's why I've decided...

More of my Canadian Memories. This time, it's about the big field behind our house where, as kids, we could go have all sorts of adventures, usually without telling our parents. There's chasing mice, crossing the deepest water holes, building forts, avoiding traps, and all sorts of other mischief....

Canadian Memories stories are collections of the real memories of a real Canadian. He is, uh, I mean I am writing these collections to exorcise said memories. I don't know if you are like me but some memories just keep popping into my head, unbidden I might add, If it was here and there, it might...

The World on the Brink of Disaster In Books One (The Caves of Etretat) and Two (The Four Books of Etretat), Paul Sirenne is led to discover a complex of hidden caves in the cliffs of Etretat, France. Chased by an immortal serial killer, and assisted by the Abbey, a thousand-year old organization,...

While on vacation, all Weissmuller wanted was some time to kill and be with archaeologists, two of his favourite activities. That’s why he accepted the invitation to participate in the Archeo Troop’s televised dig of the oldest port in Britain. He had it all planned. Days spent with historians...