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Love and loneliness, the quest for family happiness and sexual fulfillment, odd encounters and comical miscalculations-these stories move between city and country and display a wide range of men, women and children in search of joy, pleasure, and a success in life that often seems just out of reach. Less People in love (Blue Menus, Prime Time), cheating spouses (Storm Warnings, Intruders, Blue Menus), people near the breaking point ( Intruders...

The Fire Lessons, Tom Henighan's third book of poetry, is a work of art that can be enjoyed on many levels. Echoes of ballads, nursery rhymes, the one-breath note of haiku, the jagged, startling challenge of contemporary verse, carry the reader into new perspectives of contemporary angst and joy. These poems, a distillation of a life's experiences, thoughts, and profound engagements with the arts, take the chaos of everyday life and reveal to ...

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Deadly nightshade -- the poison plant par excellenc-- and in historic Quebec City at an important scientific conference concerning the genetic manipulation of trees it means "murder"!Police, RCMP, and a mysterious FBI agent from Washington converge on the scene. But the sharpest eye belongs to Sam Montcalm, a despised "bedroom snooper" from Ottawa whose primary concern is to clear a First Nations activist of the crime. Sam is middle-aged, toug...

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Fiction by Tom Heinighan.

Tom Henighan's numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry include The Maclean's Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture, The Well of Time, and the YA novel Viking Quest (2001). He lives in Ottawa, and teaches at Carleton University.

Natural Space In Literature: Imagination and Environment in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction and Poetry.

When Rigg and Ari hunt a wolf in medieval Greenland, their skill and courage are pitted against wily adversaries, with the survival of their people at stake.

Tom, a shy high school student, finds himself the only one standing up against a corrupt organization with an agenda of genetic experimentation on his classmates.

In the tradition of Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Ray Bradbury, Tom Henighan skillfully explores the twilight realm where the tilt of reality toward chaos suggests a new kind of order. Strange Attractors is made up of nine stories, often rooted in reality but with a dark, eerie element of the fantastic. Enter a world where: a Canadian missionary re-enacts Eden among the ghostly Tasaday, a son plots to kill his robotic mother, a child has a Christmas...

Fifteen-year-old Rigg, son of Leif Eriksson, makes an amazing discovery: the Vikings aren't alone in the New World. But who inhabits it with them -- demons, giants, or another human tribe?

A summer holiday in a remote corner of Ontario's Rideau Lakes turns into a nightmare when Chip and Lee are drawn into a complex web of past and present, they struggle to make sense of these ancient mysteries, aided by a visiting anthropologist and a beautiful young woman who lives on an island with her reclusive and powerful grandfather.

In 2099, North America is in chaos after years of war and ecological destruction. When a motorcycle gang attacks, Toby travels across the countryside to save his father.

Born in Manitoba of Icelandic parents, Vilhjalmur Stefansson (18791962) became one of Canada's most famous and controversial Arctic explorers. After graduate studies in anthropology at Harvard University, Stefansson lived with and studied Inuit in the