Hi civilwar,
I have written several Catholic-themed books and booklets, fiction (mystery) and non-fiction. They are free to download from my blog. The booklets are very short and the books less than 300 pages each. Here are the book descriptions and the links. The books and booklets are pictured in the right column of the blog. You can click the pictures to get to them. I have written about a variety of subjects and my blog address is:
womanatwell.blogspot.com/ .
Unto Others is a mystery fictional story with Catholic themes. It is set in a rural parish in West Michigan where the fruit orchards bring migrant workers every summer.
Yesenia Rios Rivas fled the Civil War of El Salvador and has labored for years in the fields of the United States. Though she crossed the border illegally, she found refuge among the parishioners of Santa Rosa Catholic Church and works toward her dream of citizenship. But her status may be exposed when a disappearance takes place and she has no choice but to get involved in the investigation.
The terrors of the Civil War come back to haunt her, and Yesenia must overcome her fears in order to fight this secret aggression.
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womanatwell.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_3.html
Biotech Swirl is a medical mystery thriller set in the current explosion of biotechnology. The Catholic Chaplain Jan Pace is pulled into the dark side of scientific research when Dr. Hunter Balik suspects dangerous genetically engineered bacteria in several of his patients and asks her to help him investigate. Though she is not a medical expert, he feels she is trustworthy and he frankly needs a friend. As they proceed, they fear bioterrorism but the crimes seem personal and murder canāt be discounted.
Dr. Balik, who practices at Fenwood Hospital in West Michigan, has a harsh bedside manner and has made no time for relationships. Though he resents the workaholic habits of his physician parents, he is repeating their mistakes. As Hunt and Jan work together, she attends to his spirituality as much as investigating the mystery.
Though the story starts with a medical crisis, the plot leads to persons with the tools and know-how to manipulate genes and with disturbing disregard for life. The suspects include a biotechnology business director who desires her company to embrace human embryonic stem cell research, a professor who wants to develop made-to-order genetically enhanced babies and an in-vitro fertilization clinic manager with questionable motives for disposal of the unborn. The reader encounters todayās culturally misguided sense of ābioethicsā through these and other characters.
Dr. Hunt Balik starts on this dangerous investigation without friends or faith. Jan Pace must confront potential terror. Somehow the two of them must summon the courage to overcome the deadly threat.
womanatwell.blogspot.com/p/biotech-swirl.html
I hope you will consider checking them out.
