Petra Books: 24 books

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. Preface Story 1 – Zahrah11 Story 2 – Reem & Mayyada27 Story 3 – Lama49 Story 4 – Um Jaad67 Story 5 – Hanaan &...

Travel memoir. Family and social relations. Gay community. Growing up and coming out in New Brunswick, Canada.

A personal geography through a West Quebec season Canadian Nature Essays

Gerhardt was born to be a soldier - to fight and die with honour for his country. But when a chance encounter in the North African desert finds him pitted against the legendary French Foreign Legion, Gerhardt embarks on a harrowing odyssey across the changing landscape of modern warfare, discovering what it truly means to be a soldier.

Olivia knows the power of science and technology. As radiotherapist, she sees miraculous cures every single day. But an unexpected patient will put her resolve - and personal integrity - to the ultimate test.

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 Messier explores our intimate and often fickle relationship with science and technology in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s,...

Finn gives us "real gems" (Darrell Squires, Library Resources Board, Newfoundland) -- sketches from the social fabric and the subtle influence of the American presence in Newfoundland, Canada, in the 1940s and 1950s. Like a ship in the mist there emerges from these ardent, tragicomic...

Adam is the greatest 12-year-old chemist in the world - at least, as far as he knows. To prove his prowess, he attempts his most audacious feat yet: an experiment that will bring the fundamental forces of the universe to the confines of his potting-shed laboratory - and forever cement his reputation.

“Here is the budding consciousness of a young girl in a small Newfoundland fishing community during the final years of its prosperous isolation. As a treasured only child, she weaves diverting observations with delicate introspection to create an intriguing view of her society and herself. Wonderingly,...

Stranded half a million miles from home, cosmonaut Alexei grapples with his existence as the loneliest man in the universe.

“However long our life may be, it will not be forever … Every day, our existence denudes itself, it shortens, it vanishes, like a rose that loses a petal with every breath of wind.” —Alexandre Vachon Alexandre is the last child of a family of thirteen, his parents being of modest means...

Beverly Diana Blanchard is a First Nation Ojibway from Northern Ontario. She holds a degree in Economics from Laurentian University. A former Public Servant, she has been a consultant to First Nation and Inuit organizations in a variety of areas including homelessness, suicide and violence prevention,...

From 36 kilometres up, the earth is a beautiful - and terrifying - place.

This journal hopes to raise awareness and provide knowledge of the complexities surrounding PTSD; there are passages that may be distressing to some readers. The book is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. “David...