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  • Rhode Island's Founders

    From Settlement to Statehood

    by Patrick T. Conley ...
    Take a journey with us back to early America, where Rhode Island's founders laid the groundwork for America's policy of religious freedom. Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's preeminent historian, is our guide for this expedition, teaching us about the individuals and events that shaped Rhode Island's identity. Learn what led Roger Williams to write The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution and discover ... Read more

    $18.24 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Makers of Modern Rhode Island

    by Patrick T. Conley ...
    Picking up where Rhode Island's Founders left off Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's preeminent historian and president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, takes us through the Ocean State's history from 1790 to 1860. Learn how Samuel Slater, the so-called Father of the Factor System, pioneered the making of modern Rhode Island, how Elizabeth Buffum Chace founded the Rhode Island Women's ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE DIGITAL AGE: MICROCHIPS, FLESH, BONES, AND —POSSIBLY —SOULS

    by Patrick Conley ...
    Years after the death of their rst born son Sean, his memory still occupies the minds and souls of his parents, Ted and Kate. Both parents struggle to make sense of what they feel may be a meaningless death in a meaningless war. They know that life goes on and that they still have two other children to love and nurture. What will be their fate? They are growing up in the Digital Age, where ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Dialogues Among the Species

    by Patrick Conley ...
    Adam Albright had spent his entire life winning, or so he thought. He excelled in school, won recognition as an athlete, and basked in the sunshine of popularity, especially among women. He had succeeded as a lawyer and even more so as a lobbyist. All was going well in the popular estimation. However, a select few recognized that all his success lacked something, a soul perhaps or at least some ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • An Evening of Eternity

    by Patrick Conley ...
    Pete and Mary find their humdrum life interrupted dramatically by a spirit from the past. All on the surface appears banal and excruciatingly normal, but this ordinary couple must grapple with questions that otherwise they would have conveniently and blithely ignored. The title suggests one of the key questions that Mary and Pete explore. How can an evening—a measure of time—co-exist with eternity ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Two Quests in an Age of Uncertain Spirits

    by Patrick Conley ...
    The two tales portray some of the problems facing many American families: bipolar bosses, unemployment, cancer, the seemingly unending hustle for money, and adolescent children coping with the meaning of the puzzling adult world. In ‘67 Ford Mustangs: The Long Drives, the unemployed protagonist undergoes three journeys, including a literal trip to Hell and back. As he scours the country for ‘67 ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Tales of Profit, Promotion, and Even Grace

    by Patrick Conley ...
    The two novellas in this collection both describe a world gone mad with a frenzied rush for profit and promotion, a world in which bureaucracy seemingly trumps all other considerations. The first novella, “So, This Is It,” finds its protagonist unable to find work anywhere except in the ever-expanding government bureaucracy. Reluctantly, he finds himself employed in the Office of the Word. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Convocation of Five

    by Patrick Conley ...
    SYNOPSIS OF A CONVOCATION OF FIVE What is the value of an ordinary guy’s life and who assesses that value? As Tom Albright approaches the end of his days on earth, five individuals meet to evaluate his life. They begin with hearing and commenting on a baby boomer who grew up with illusions of battlefield glory only to lose those illusions during the turbulence of the 60’s. Likewise, Tom immersed ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Thirty by Thirty Solution

    by Patrick Conley ...
    Imagine a world in which work is rare, pot and booze flow freely, and no one seems to have any real concerns—at least no one other than a few elites who run the New Way. Such a world may appear to have few drawbacks. After all, robots have relieved mankind of the tedium of menial jobs, and totally mechanized armies fight the wars in distant countries; even the infantry consists of robotic soldiers ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence

    Immigration to Rhode Island

    by Williams J. Jennings Jr., Patrick T. Conley ...
    In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in nine of these individuals elected to settle in Rhode Island after landing in Providence, amounting ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World War II Rhode Island

    by Christian McBurney, Brian L. Wallin, Patrick T. Conley, John W. Kennedy, Maureen A. Taylor ...
    Series series Military
    Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size.Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at Quonset Point. Three special, top-secret German POW camps were based in Narragansett and Jamestown. ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Tales for the Twenty-Twenties

    by B. Patrick Conley ...
    BUFFY’S BURRITOS “Illegal immigration,” “undocumented workers”—Mike Leahy and many Americans have heard these terms every day, but for Mike, these phrases have existed mainly as vague abstractions. A chance meeting with an old high school classmate initiates a whole series of events that propel Mike past the nebulous world of abstraction into the very real and enigmatic world of undocumented ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD