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A memoir by Rusty Van Reeves
Newton Ave is a collection of over 50 stories first published in the Madison County Herald. The stories are a heartfelt look back at life in the 1970s within a small Mississippi town. They are reflective, somber accounts of childhood with an uplifting message. For many years my family lived with my Mam-ma and Granddad in a slightly dilapidated antebellum house on the edge of Newton Avenue and Deere Street. These stories were born during my time there in that wonderful place beneath the old oaks. Finding fragments of your own life in these pages will be easy. Most of my upbringing was as typica | |  | | Revealing The Covenant
Revealing the Covenant is a modern medical thriller involving embryonic stem cell research and the current worldwide debate they have spawned. The novel follows a young promising neurosurgeon as he explores the amazing possibilities of what stem cells can actually do. This revelation coupled with the untimely deaths of several of his colleagues places him in a precarious position so he goes on the run as he tries valiantly to save this miracle from falling into the wrong hands. His journey to save himself and the drug force him to examine the deficiencies in his own life. On the road he finds love and finally confronts his past. His struggle to liberate his brother ultimately frees his own deep seeded guilt. This novel is best described as a journey of discovery.
Which would you choose... human life or money? When faced with choosing the Hippocratic oath or keeping a seven billion dollar medical empire afloat which would most doctors select? Phillip Morris decided to take the money over human life by selling cigarettes for decades despite knowing their highly addictive nature and the fact they cause cancer. Enron and WorldCom decided to take the money and leave its employees with absolutely no retirement and virtually penniless. Would the medical establishment hold back a cure for spinal cord injury, Parkinson's, MS and Alzheimer's? As a whole... no, but those at the pinnacle of power. That one percent who actually run our country and the corporations within it... absolutely yes.
Dr. Michael Preston, a California neurosurgeon is summoned to a remote Mississippi clinic which was once a vast southern plantation (Roland Oak) where a business syndicate called the Club is running state of the art trials using embryonic stem cells to find a cure for paralysis.
After two of the four original surgeons who preformed the landmark operation mysteriously die, Stergis Braxton, the flamboyant self made billionaire and leader of the Club franticly recruits Dr. Preston to help quickly and quietly bring the clinical trials to fruition.
Unfortunately one of the worlds largest HMO conglomerates known as the Consortium is one step ahead of the Club. The race is on for the Consortium to keep this genie tightly within the bottle. They had failed in the 1950s to keep the polio vaccine from surfacing and that cost them dearly. A single injection eliminated years of revenues from care, medicine, wheelchairs and surgeries. This new medical miracle could cost them billions. They vowed to work on every level to keep stem cells from ever being used as a remedy for spinal cord injury, Parkinson's, MS and Alzheimer's.
How far will men of power go to protect their financial assets? Look no further than Wall Street to find mind blowing examples of corporate greed like Phillip Morris and Enron. This novel is about human nature and what propels each of us to make the choices we make in life. Trust, mistrust, love, denial, hope, money, revenge are but a few feeble excuses we rely on as we live out our fate. Like every facet of life there are degrees of good and evil.
Follow Dr. Preston on this odyssey of the heart, soul and mind as he seeks to unravel the mysteries of the Covenant and it's keepers.
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Velvet Sky is an engaging novel about four beleaguered children that are coming of age in a small Mississippi town in the 1970s. The book follows their trials and tribulations as they learn to trust each other in the face of love, murder, abuse and self discovery. The writer has conjured up a world of memorable characters that take you on a winding journey of the heart and the soul.
Chelsea, Patrick, Kelly & Chase are about as different as four children can be, but circumstances quickly bond them together for a friendship that will last them their entire lives. The book ties together the inner longings and personal hurdles each child faces as life moves them into adolescence.
The book is about basic human survival in every sense... physical, emotional and spiritual. The story begins in a small neighborhood of old paint flaked antebellum homes where a small girl (Chelsea McCormick) finds herself literally running for her life. The book ends many chapters later with a |
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