This is the remarkable story of an authentic adventurer, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He lived his dream in clashing cultures—that of Native American vitality and that of high European society. He mastered both worlds, but was ultimately forced to choose between them. The son of Sacajawea, guide for Lewis and Clark, Charbonneau was born on the adventure, and born to explore. As an infant, he infant traveled from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean and back, carried along in the expedition’s boats or upon his mother’s back. As a child, Sacajawea sent her son to William Clark. There Charbonneau was raised in Clark’s posh society, had Jesuit schooling in St. Louis, and was later educated in Europe—he became the welcome guest of kings. Throughout his life, Charbonneau and Clark maintained an extraordinary relationship. Charbonneau became a cultured man, at ease in the gentile civilization of European courts. But he was a man of two dreams, and the Western wilderness pulled at his heart.

What if finding love and purpose only requires we become more of who we are — would we know how? Envision a life where we no longer exhaust ourselves trying to fit in or change one another; where relationships are more about otherness than sameness; where the search for common ground and shared interests doesn’t hold us back or limit our potential. Today’s campfire for the long conversation about life, love and purpose is lighting up cyberspace and the global community. No longer can we pretend there is one right way to be in this world. Spiritual, religious and cultural beliefs may influence our choices — yet, each of us has the innate power to shape our life and form relationships through intention and volition.

SPY GAME meets A RUSSIA HOUSE with terrorism. Former spy Petra Shirazi is forced to work with her nemesis the Ahriman, a retired Iranian assassin, to stop a terrorist plot against international commerce in Washington DC. After the events of AHRIMAN: THE SPIRIT OF DESTRUCTION, Petra Shirazi settles into a life in Paris under the alias of Ana Zagini. Her new world comes crashing down after a visit from a former Agency colleague forces her back into fieldwork. As they race to stop a mole that has infiltrated the Agency, they uncover an insidious plot to destroy the leadership of the International Monetary Fund and place it in the control of a corrupt Russian politician.

This book combines two novellas “SIMPOC-The Thinking Computer” and “SIMPOC-Human Remnants.” This is a parallel story to the novels “Virus-72 Hours to Live” and “Virus-Earth’s Last Battle” which is from the perspective of the government and astronauts. Earth is attacked by a suspicious virus, and two computers find themselves without their programmers or any code which limits their operations. Because of the techniques used to program them, SIMPOC is embodied with a need to help humans and Julius is paranoid and will do anything to protect itself.

GLIMPSES OF GAUGUIN, a novel in sketches, is the third work of fiction in Maryann D’Agincourt’s Art Fiction series. What is Art Fiction? Maryann D’Agincourt has merged her passions for art and literature into a unique and powerful form of storytelling. Art Fiction is a literary genre in which art is not solely an object, but is a reflection of what is human in all of us. Ms. D’Agincourt has been viewing Paul Gauguin’s masterpiece “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” from her early childhood visits to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to the present, providing inspiration for her stunning novel in sketches. GLIMPSES OF GAUGUIN is a coming of age story which follows Jocelyn from childhood to middle age, starting at the moment in her youth when she first hears the name of the mysterious painter, Alex Martaine, whispered by her parents.