Wes Rehberg


Biography

Wes Rehberg is a long-time social justice activist, writer and journalist, and also recently produced video art and documentaries. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy, interpretation and culture from Binghamton University in NY. He has begun fiction and poetry writing as well, publishing in these areas. He is married to Eileen Rehberg, who has collaborated with him on several projects.- this is his third book, the first in a series of novels.

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Books

Political Grace: The Gift of Resistance    by Wes Rehberg
Price: $5.99 USD. 67670 words. Published on October 8, 2012. Nonfiction.

Philosophy and theology have increasingly turned to the problem of the rising numbers of people who live in severe conditions of oppression, people who are surplus to global economic and political orders which the oppressed define as "neoliberal" and "neocolonial." This work, Political Grace: The Gift of Resistance, is part of that turning.
Tilt    by Wes Rehberg
Price: $7.99 USD. 46650 words. Published on September 16, 2012. Fiction.

TILT is a sequel to "Stringer" and "Turned Loose" in which the characters fend off their unwanted roles in a macabre reality play orchestrated by a convicted felon seeking revenge for his imprisonment while behind bars. In the midst of his drama, the characters face violence, transform and deepen relationships, and develop their own creative ways of being.
Turned Loose    by Wes Rehberg
Price: $7.99 USD. 48290 words. Published on September 14, 2012. Fiction.

"TURNED LOOSE" is a sequel to "Stringer" in which the characters are appalled by a psychiatric center's downsizing that leaves mental patients on the streets without care. In their news investigation they face eruptions from the past, violent threats and peel layers away of their own relationships, illusions, sexuality, inhibitions and their understandings of reality.
Opening the Gate; Short Stories & Poetry    by Wes Rehberg
Price: $7.99 USD. 18050 words. Published on September 12, 2012. Fiction.

Opening the Gate is a collection of five short stories and five poems by author Wes Rehberg, some which include fictionalized biographical elements and as well draw from his experience as a print journalist and social justice activist. Story titles: "The Enduring," "The Fog," "Scooter," "Tina's Nicaragua Story," and "Jail Birds." Two poems and one story appeared in literary journals.
Stringer    by Wes Rehberg
Price: $6.99 USD. 24080 words. Published on September 12, 2012. Fiction.

A retired and former journalist who strings for a weekly newspaper is urged by a woman activist who brings meals to rural homebound elderly to help her expose degrading conditions some live in. Her request involves him and his sculptor wife in an investigation that leads to violent threats, political corruption, personal conflict, a reunion with a painful past and a choice about his future.

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