Like a ship in the mist, there emerges from these tragicomic lives, fraught with desires and delusions, a recognition of ourselves. "Well-crafted ... character-driven. An impressive book of short stories about people going about their lives, experiencing change, facing hardships. Finn writes skillfully and his style is particularly suited to the short story." - Keith Collier, reviewer, Newfoundland Quarterly, Spring 2011 "Tom Finn's stories demonstrate consistently controlled use of language, and the author's sense of dialogue is keen. It is tuned to the way people speak, and the way his characters speak and think. At times comic, it harmonizes well with Finn's often wry, omniscient third-person narration. Finn writes well, and these stories are good ... some real gems." - Darrell Squires, Library Resources Board, Newfoundland, 2010

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Literature & Fiction

FINN, TOM

Literary

Petra Books

Mid-century speculative fiction … … … The Second World War. Nuclear Power. Space Exploration. Three powerful forces that forever changed the course of history. In these nine new stories Gilles Messier explores our intimate and often fickle relationship with science and technology in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and how it came to define our past, present and future.

Our Own Devices

Science & Math

Messier, Gilles

Technology

"...a rich chronicle of one of the greatest leaders of this diocese." -Marcel André Gervais, Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa, Canada "...the opportunity to get to know a great figure of the Canadian Episcopate." -Luigi Ventura, former Apostolic Nuncio to Canada Alexandre Vachon 1885-1953 completed his studies for the Catholic Priesthood with distinction. He became a science teacher and pursued studies at Harvard and MIT. Early on, he realized the need to improve the lot of French-Canadians, not only in the Province of Quebec, but throughout Canada. As Director of the Advanced School of Chemistry and then Dean of the Faculty of Science, and finally as Rector at Laval University, he encouraged French-Canadian youth to choose scientific studies and, while maintaining good relations with English Canadians, to take their due place in the Canadian society. The Church recognized his talents and, in 1939, turned to him to lead the Ottawa diocese as Bishop. Rome noticed the success of his work, particularly the 1947 Marian Congress, and he was entrusted with new responsibilities which extended to the Catholic Church at large.

Alexandre Vachon: the scholars' cleric and the clerics' scholar

Biographies & Memoirs

Vachon, André N.

Leaders & Notable People

Set between war-torn Syria and the West, Stripped to the Bone explores issues of identity, love, strife, courage and resilience in seven fictional portraits of Syrian women. Syrian-Canadian author and translator Ghada Alatrash is a Doctoral Student at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary She has an MA in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma. One of her goals is to amplify the voices of the marginalized through her writings. She translated and published a collection of Arabic poems in English, entitled So that the Poem Remains.

Stripped to the Bone: Portraits of Syrian Women

Alatrash, Ghada

Community & Culture

David Gibson's reality was altered in a moment on September 18, 2013. His eloquent and poignant requiem chronicles his efforts to re-orient himself to a world whose boundaries and reference points abruptly disappeared...he chronicles his experiences in a way that helps us understand the hidden struggle of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. -- Dr. Larry Cebulski, clinical psychologist.

The Other Side of Resaon: A journal on PTSD

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gibson, David B

Mental Health

Patrick Kerwin was born in 1889 in Sarnia, Ontario Canada. He studied law at Osgoode Hall in Toronto, was called to the bar of Ontario in 1911, became King's Counsel in 1928, and became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario in 1932. In 1935, he became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and in 1954 he became Chief Justice.
"In truth the individual is the most important fact in the world in all enlightened systems and it must be the aim of the State to preserve his natural rights while at the same time ensuring that the rights of one do not interfere with those of another." -- P.K., Harvard University address, 1955
..".a dear devoted friend who was always happy to deputize for me, sometimes at great inconvenience to himself. For many years he has filled with grace and wisdom his exalted office. I shall miss his friendship and help." -- Governor-General Georges Vanier, 1963
"Mr. Kerwin is well equipped by training and temperament for his new office. He never gets ruffled in court, is always courteous to counsel ...Those who disagree with him will declare without hesitation that Mr. Kerwin is fair-minded, absolutely without bias or prejudice." -- Globe &amp; Mail, 1954

Grace and Wisdom: Patrick G. Kerwin 1889 - 1963, Chief Justice of Canada

McKenna, Stephen G

Historical

Seven short stories about the plight of Syrian women, all different, in all walks of life, whether in the homeland or abroad, intersperssed with well-known Middle Eastern poetry and songs. A reflection of life in Syria, with light shed on aspects of the culture, people's names, and Arabic and Persian words. The writing shows inter-connectedness, extended families and a network of caring, among persons of various faiths. Fictional portraits, but infused with realism and true to life. Memories of childhood, forbidden love, motherhood, disappointment, self-discovery and more. An exploration of the Syrian homeland through its women. Short, simple and appealing writing that touches on delicate issues.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Set between war-torn Syria and the West, Stripped to the Bone explores issues of identity, love, strife, courage and resilience in seven fictional portraits of Syrian women.Author and translator Ghada Alatrash is a doctoral student at the University of Calgary and has an MA in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma. One of her goals is to amplify the voices of the marginalized through her writings. Ghada also translated "So that the Poem Remains," by Youssef Abdul Samad.

Late-K Lunacy

"Panarchy invites us to conceive of the world as a vast interlocking set of interactive systems that pass through phases over time. If we can thoroughly understand the implications of panarchy's dynamic, we can perhaps begin to avoid behaviors that quicken the progression of human and ecological systems toward collapse. That is the challenge before us now." -- Katja Nickleby, "Over the Cliff" in Late-K Lunacy
Dr. Stefan Friemanis arrives at Gilligan University of Ohio with a powerful model called Panarchy. As a young professor, his job is to help his students navigate their way through a precarious stage of planetary history known as Late-K. He and his students are drawn into a protest movement to halt the university's plan to burn fracked natural gas lying beneath a campus nature reserve. 
As the world catapults toward the Late-K cliff, the students occupy the university's central quad. This enmeshes them in national and international energy politics and a labyrinth of blackmail, offshore shell schemes, tax evasion, political corruption, and far-reaching iniquity. Things go sideways and their world unravels as Panarchy and their beloved mentor had predicted. Thirty years later, they regroup in a downsized world stripped of modernity yet brimming with possibility and hope.

Bernard, Ted

Biological Sciences

"Panarchy invites us to conceive of the world as a vast interlocking set of interactive systems that pass through phases over time. If we can thoroughly understand the implications of panarchy's dynamic, we can perhaps begin to avoid behaviors that quicken the progression of human and ecological systems toward collapse. That is the challenge before us now." -- Katja Nickleby, "Over the Cliff" in Late-K LunacyDr. Stefan Friemanis arrives at Gilligan University of Ohio with a powerful model called Panarchy. As a young professor, his job is to help his students navigate their way through a precarious stage of planetary history known as Late-K. He and his students are drawn into a protest movement to halt the university's plan to burn fracked natural gas lying beneath a campus nature reserve. As the world catapults toward the Late-K cliff, the students occupy the university's central quad. This enmeshes them in national and international energy politics and a labyrinth of blackmail, offshore shell schemes, tax evasion, political corruption, and far-reaching iniquity. Things go sideways and their world unravels as Panarchy and their beloved mentor had predicted. Thirty years later, they regroup in a downsized world stripped of modernity yet brimming with possibility and hope.

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Our Own Devices

Alexandre Vachon: the scholars' cleric and the clerics' scholar

Stripped to the Bone: Portraits of Syrian Women

The Other Side of Resaon: A journal on PTSD

Grace and Wisdom: Patrick G. Kerwin 1889 - 1963, Chief Justice of Canada

Stripped to the Bone: Portraits of Syrian Women

Stripped to the Bone: Portraits of Syrian Women

Late-K Lunacy

Late-K Lunacy