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Judith Adamson will be participating in the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series on Thursday:

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Learn more about Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography: https://buff.ly/3w6J6ZC

We've got 16 new books out this month!

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Montreal writer JUDITH ADAMSON is launching the new season of our Lunchtime Series on THURSDAY, September 5 at 12:30 pm.

She’s discussing her book GHOST STORIES: On Writing Biography about her work as the biographer of literary luminaries of the 20th century.

Link for the site of publisher McGill-Queen's University Press:

https://www.mqup.ca/ghost-stories-products-9780228021032.php

The book talk is IN PERSON in the Atwater Library's Adair Auditorium and ONLINE by Zoom – your choice.

It's free and everyone is welcome.

To REGISTER for the Zoom link, go here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuezlaIY2mhl3-LaxcO1r86ggtkgeXFFRRnL39-fGhElBLcQ/viewform

There's no registration process for in-person attendance. It's first come, first seated.

Alasdair Roberts will be giving a talk on his new book, The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century at Missouri Southern State University and on Zoom on September 17th!

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Judith Adamson will be participating in the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series on September 5th:

https://buff.ly/3SSyw0I

Learn more about Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography: https://buff.ly/3w6J6ZC

MQUP's executive director Lisa Quinn is at !

A book launch will be held for Eighteenth-Century Ukraine: New Perspectives on Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History at the Eighth Annual Conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission in Warsaw, Poland (and on Zoom!) on September 11th:

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Jane Cooper will be participating in a public reading and Q&A about her new book at the Ottawa Library on September 7th: https://buff.ly/3WUynuJ

Learn more about What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy: https://buff.ly/3yIlhZz

A new podcast interview with Nina Studer about her upcoming book The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink on the French History Podcast!

Firefox or Safari browsers preferred – or select your podcast platform of choice.

The Green Fairy and France with Dr. Nina Studer Dr. Nina Studer talks about the absinthe craze and peril in France from the 1830s to its ban in 1915.

School is almost back in session! We’ve compiled a list of education studies titles to help you get back in the school spirit.

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Enjoy a 30% discount on our Education Studies books, with discount code MQED: https://buff.ly/3T7BfDl

Patrick Girard will be giving a talk about his new book followed by a collective book launch party at the 2024 Canadian Society for Epistemology Annual Meeting at Concordia University on September 13: https://buff.ly/3WTGzLV

Learn more about Logic in the Wild: https://buff.ly/4ai0AjN

Here are exciting additions to our collections to choose from for your end-of-summer reading and viewing pleasure!

FICTION
– Natasha Kanapé Fontaine’s story of an Innu artist reconnecting with her Indigenous roots, translated from French by Howard Scott
– Ghanaian writer Peace Adzo Medie’s novel about two female cousins who are best friends
– No. 10 in James Oswald’s DCI McLean series set in a spooky Edinburgh
– Vanda Symon’s first New Zealand Detective Sam (Samantha) Shephard murder mystery

NONFICTION
– the audiobook of Roger Deakin’s ode to wild swimming in Britain, read by Roy McMilan
– Jamie Jelinski account of commercial tattooing in Canada over the past century
– US journalist Becca Rothfeld’s bracing essays skewering minimalism and relishing excess

DVD
– the 2024 tennis love triangle film starring Zendaya and Josh O'Connor

Link for our catalogue:

https://atwater.insigniails.com/Library/Home

Our members can access our eBooks and audiobooks any time at all:

https://atwaterlibrary.overdrive.com/

For information and help:

514-935-7344

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Learn more in Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul https://bit.ly/3KwkgWX

💭 Reminiscing about Summer School? Fall term is right around the corner!

Many thanks to Joe Ragbir for sharing this testimonial about his experience at Summer School:

Have you ever thought of leaving from the pulpit radically, without completing your thought, but just leaving it at that? Or have you ever seen a preacher boldly leave an incomplete statement which causes you to wonder? Will Willimon’s masterclass Leading from the Pulpit has taught me both to lead and preach from the pulpit in radical and Christ-centered ways. I’ve learned a greater depth of why preachers preach and why leaders lead. I have learned to balance preaching from scripture and leading with stories of life. Willimon has been an invaluable professor in teaching me about asking the right questions and reading scripture through different lenses. Lastly, Leading from the Pulpit has taught me to leave some divine mystery, allow others to use their biblical imagination, and allow listeners to be in awe and wonder of the majesty of our trinitarian God.

My first week of Summer School allowed me to see the Apostle Paul in a different light: Paul placed on the background of Leonard Cohen. I bet you never thought of that, comparing a Biblical character with a modern-day person! In comparing Paul and Leonard in Summer School, I experienced the Paul we love and hate through a different lens. Paul in light of Leonard has changed the way I view Paul. Matthew Anderson has taught me that in some ways, Cohen was more priestly than Paul and Paul was more poetic than Leonard. Although Paul and Leonard were both Jewish men, with a similar background, they had different senses of feminism and following God. Comparing the modern man to the ancient Jewish apostle has been invaluable and now I can better understand Paul.

Conclusively, Summer School was a blast, seeing people from different walks of life and indulging in meaningful conversation and relationship. I highly recommend summer school at VST!

A lovely review of Eating the Ocean by Brian Payne below.

Learn more about the book: https://bit.ly/3WQ9tMQ

Review of Payne, Eating The Ocean The book reminds us that a deep and high-level commitment to high-volume industrial resource extraction often precedes the identification of stable and sufficiently wealthy consumer market(s).

Paul Huebener, author of Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep was recently interviewed by D, a current a current affairs magazine by Italian newspaper la Repubblica!

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Perché dormiamo male e poco: il sonno come problema di giustizia sociale e culturale Nonostante il boom di app per misurare il riposo, materassi smart, integratori... in Occidente dormire è sempre più un problema legato ad ansia, lavoro, perfor…

A lovely review of the swailing, and interview with author Patrick James Errington in The Los Angeles Review: https://buff.ly/4cIBtIk

Learn more about the swailing: https://buff.ly/3z07nSt

The Swailing by Patrick James Errington Review by Clelia Albano and Interview by Tiffany Troy - The Los Angeles Review The Swailing by Patrick James Errington Review by Clelia Albano Interview by Tiffany Troy Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press Publication Date: March 15, 2023 ISBN: 978-0228016755 Pages: 120 “The Sacred Fire of Poetry in Patrick Errington’s The Swailing” by Clelia Albano This first co...

Judith Adamson will be participating in the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series on September 5th!

More details: https://buff.ly/3SSyw0I

Learn more about Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography: https://buff.ly/3w6J6ZC

It's National Honey Bee Day, which recognizes the Honey Bee's essential role in keeping the planet healthy!

As human actions erase habitats and raise the planet’s temperature, plant diversity is dropping and a growing list of pollinators faces decline or even extinction. Paths of Pollen chronicles pollen’s vital mission to spread plant genes, from the prehistoric past to the present, while looking towards an ecologically uncertain future.

Paths of Pollen by Stephen Humphrey https://buff.ly/4drQmzU

Ian S. MacLaren was interviewed about his landmark four-volume study of Paul Kane in Saturday's edition of The Globe and Mail.

Learn more about Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America: https://buff.ly/4c7buKO

Today's 's Featured in-store is 'Lost in the Crowd: Acadian Soldiers of Canada's First World War' by Gregory M W Kennedy, a great read for week! 💕🇨🇦📚

"In December 1915, Acadian leaders meeting in New Brunswick deplored how their soldiers were ‘lost in the crowd’ of Anglophone Maritime units in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. They successfully lobbied the federal government for the creation of an Acadian national unit that would be French-speaking, Catholic, and led by their own. In Lost in the Crowd, Gregory Kennedy leverages multiple sources including military archives, censuses, newspapers and soldiers’ letters to present a revolutionary kind of history focusing on the experiences of soldiers and their families before, during, and after the conflict. He shows that Acadians were just as likely to enlist as their English-speaking counterparts in the Maritime Provinces, but the backgrounds of the volunteers were quite different. Kennedy tackles controversial topics often missing from traditional regimental histories, such as underage recruits, desertion, and discipline. Further, with the help of the 1921 Canadian Census, he explores the factors that influenced postwar outcomes, positive and negative. A major contribution to Acadian and Atlantic Canadian history, this groundbreaking study also showcases the potential for new methods from the digital humanities to fundamentally alter the field of Canadian history. Over a thousand Acadians from across the Maritimes, Quebec, and the northeastern United States answered the call to military service. Although largely forgotten because their unit was later disbanded and most members relegated to the Canadian Forestry Corps, this important contribution from a French-speaking minority group deserves attention as important piece of a more inclusive history of Canada’s First World War."

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The 1976 Summer Olympics were the most riveting Games the world had ever seen, but planning efforts in Montreal were complicated by a wilful mayor, an inexperienced head of the IOC, a federal government that stayed at arm’s length, and a provincial government split along federalist/separatist lines.

Learn more in The Montreal Olympics by Paul Charles Howell: https://buff.ly/3SSzRoj

Check out our latest blog post for our complete 2024 Paris Olympics reading recommendations: https://buff.ly/3Ssu9ZK

In Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World, 1618-1968, Stuart Anderson explores the many meanings now attached to the word ‘pharmacopoeia’ in scholarly writing.

I his guest blog, he describes the origins and background to the book, some of the problems that can arise, and indicates what scholars can do to ameliorate them:

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