New Releases by Michael Hurley

Which mountain has the highest point on the Earth''s surface? Why is K2 known as the "Savage Mountain"? Which species of frog lives only on Table Mountain? The world has many mountains--from high, snowy peaks to wide, flat, plateaus. Find out about the incredible weather systems that help shape these landforms, the animals make their homes here, and the brave explorers who first climbed them.

A fledgling love affair in Rhodes weaves in and out of different realities...a couple staying in a farmhouse in northern France try and find love for the child they were forced into wanting...a Polish immigrant confronts his fears in an alien city...two lovers find a simple truth about the people in their lives in a child''s picture book. These and other stories in the collection navigate the strange landscape between endings and beginnings.

A couple attempt to recapture a lost relationship but their memories disintegrate the world about them...A widow tries to understand the brutality of her husband''s death...Three soldiers confront the image of man''s struggle with his own aggression...A writer finally begins to understand the frailty of words. Often stark, often brutal, often hopeful, these stories find lives falling apart under the strain of entrapment but also celebrate the pleasurable cages that we wilfully and inevitably impose upon ourselves.

In the tradition of Thoreau, author Michael C. Hurley offers insights on life, faith and family as revealed in wilderness journeys. Exquisitely illustrated stories transport readers to canoeing expeditions in the north woods and peaceful afternoons on southern streams. With a quiet wisdom, Hurley evokes universal truths hidden in wild places and invites readers to re-discover those truths for themselves. FAM045000; NAT024000; SPO010000

Discusses and prescribes possible solutions to the remaining ecumenical issues of inter-church relationships. The initiatives which result from and which enlarge and enrich this ecumenical vision lead to growing mutual understanding on the issues which c

The core of this book is a five-night series of meetings for parishioners who are interested in meeting together for faith-sharing -- expressing and developing their faith by prayer, reflection on the scriptures, listening to and then sharing with each other on a teaching arising from the scripture reading. At the end of the meetings, an option is offered to the participants to create a support structure for themselves in the form of parish cell groups. The development of these parish cell groups has revolutionized parishes where they have been set up. They offer maximum involvement for the parishioners in the mission of the church, mutual support in prayer, scripture reflection and faith development, and minimal extra work for the pastor.

This guide contains over 1000 entries listing Australian gay and lesbian writers and their publications, as well as subject entries ranging from AIDS to sado-masochism. Non-fiction as well as fiction writers are represented, and the text provides information on the reception of these publications.

John Richardson was Canada''s first native-born poet-novelist and ''The Father of Canadian Literature.'' Michael Hurley offers the first detailed account of Richardson''s fiction rather than of his life or sociological importance. Hurley makes a convincing case for Richardson as an important early cartographer of the Canadian imagination and the originator of ''Southern Ontario Gothic.'' He explores Richardson''s influence on James Reaney, Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Christopher Dewdney, Frank Davey, and Marian Engel. Arguing that Wacousta and The Canadian Brothers hold central places in our literature, Hurley shows how these two works established a set of boundaries that our national literary discourse has largely kept hidden. Focusing on the protean concept of the border in the fiction of this man from the periphery, The Borders of Nightmare underlines the importance of boundaries, margins, shifting edges, and the coincidence of equally matched opposites in necessary balance to both Richardson and subsequent writers. In an age of postmodernism these novels – riddled as they are with discontinuities, paradoxes, ambiguity, and unresolved dualities that problematize the whole notion of a stable, coherent national or personal identity – anticipate and define a number of concerns that preoccupy us today.

Letter of appreciation to Inspector Michael Hurley, Police Station, Port Pirie, from the Chinese Consul-General, 10 Feb. 1910.