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http://www.macintyrepurcell.com www.macintyrepurcell.com NEW FOR THE FALL ISBN: 978-1-77276-109-2 The Nova Scotia Book of Lists My Nova Scotia Home: ISBN: 978-1-77276-111-5 Author: Vernon Oickle Editor: Vernon Oickle Price: $19.95 Nova Scotia’s best writers riff on the place they call home Price: $19.95 Pub date: September Humans are obsessed with lists. We have our shopping lists and our list of things to Pub date: September Rights held: World do. We also have lists of the Top Ten Movies, Top Ten Songs, Top Ten Books, Top Ten Nova Scotia’s best writers riff on what it means to call or have called Nova Scotia home. Rights held: World 6 x 9/softcover Places to Eat, Top News Stories of the Year and so on and so on. In this no-holds barred look at the province, writers captivate and capture the true es- 6 x 9/softcover sence of Nova Scotia. From these personal accounts of life here, the writers reveal the But what about Nova Scotia? What about the 10 best fishing holes in Nova Scotia? great joys and small pleasures but also the schisms, foibles, and missed opportunities Marketing plans How about the top 10 weather events to occur in Nova Scotia? Who were the Top 10 of a life made in Nova Scotia. By revealing themselves, they make the province larger, Marketing plans • National and regional print and digital ads most influential people in the history of Nova Scotia? What were the 10 worst crimes • Regional print and digital ads • Provincial media and review mailing more welcoming, more interesting, and certainly more colourful. This book is proof • Provincial media and review mailing ever committed in Nova Scotia? Which 10 notable Nova Scotians would you want to positive that life really is a search for home. • Targeted marketing campaign have a drink with? If you could, which 10 famous Nova Scotians would you invite to • Targeted marketing campaign • Provincial tour featuring contributing a dinner party at your house? Media treatment: Province-wide media Contributing writers include: Chief Daniel Paul, Sheldon Currie, George Elliot Clarke, authors in public forum interviews by author with daily and com- Darren Greer, Donna Morrisey, Lesley Choyce, Carol Bruneau, Silver Don Cameron, In The Nova Scotia Book of Lists, seasoned author Vernon Oickle compiles a collection munity papers as well as radio and television Elaine McCluskey, Janet Barkhouse, Allan Lynch, Acadia University President Dr. Peter of lists on anything you can think of about Nova Scotia. Among the lists, we get: appearances and book signings. Ricketts, Phil Milner, Ian Colford, Chris Benjamin, Vernon Oickle, Jan Coates, Janice • Joe Canada’s Top10 qualities that define a “real” Nova Scotian. Landry, John J. Guiney Yallop, Theresa Meuse and Alice Burdick. • Natalie MacMaster’s wish list of the Top 10 Nova Scotians she would like to perform for. • Jimmy Rankin’s 10 favourite songs ever performed by a Nova Scotian. Vernon Oickle is an international award winning journalist, editor and writer. He is the author of 28 books, including Red Sky at Night and the bestselling series of books based on the saying, “One Crow Sorrow …” Vernon continues to reside in Liverpool where he was born and raised. 2 MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. Fall, 2018 3 OUT OF OLD KITCHENS SERIES ISBN: 978-1-77276-110-8 Saskatchewan Hockey Out of Old Ontario Kitchens ISBN: 978-1-77276-112-2 Editor: Allan Safarik Author: Lindy Mechefske Price: $19.95 Our Passion for Canada’s Game Price: $24.95 Out of Old Ontario Kitchens is the story of people and the food they prepared. With Pub date: September Pub date: September Rights held: World Saskatchewan produces more NHL players per capita than any other place in the more than 50 photos, it is a window into life as it was then. If you want to know Rights held: World 6 x 9/softcover world. From dugout and pond hockey on farms in rural Saskatchewan to hockey in what life was really like in early Ontario, come to the table with us. 7 x 9.5 / hardcover First Nations communities, small town rinks and urban arenas, this collection from some of Saskatchewan’s best writers illustrates the Prairie passion and devotion to Out of Old Ontario Kitchens pays homage to the First Peoples and the earliest Marketing plans Marketing plans the game called hockey. settlers; those who trapped and fished and hunted; those who cleared the • Regional print and digital ads land and planted crops; and to all those women — our mothers and aunts, our • Regional print and digital ads • Provincial media and review mailing grandmothers and great-grandmothers and great-great grandmothers — who • Provincial media and review mailing • Targeted marketing campaign Contributing writers include: Stephen Michael Berzensky, Bill Boyd, Kelley Jo • Targeted marketing campaign Burke, Lorna Crozier, Robert Currie, Calvin Daniels, Darrell Davis, Wes Fineday, got up and lit the fire; who toiled and stirred and cooked and baked and who kept families alive. Media treatment: Province-wide media Myrna Garanis, Gerald Hill, Gary Hyland, Michael P. J. Kennedy, Don Kerr, Laurie Media treatment: Province-wide media interviews by contributing authors with daily Muirhead, James O’Shea, Dolores Reimer, William Robertson, Mansel Robinson, interviews by author with daily and and community papers as well as radio and Allan Safarik, Stephen Scriver, Glen Sorestad, Maureen Ullrich and Brenda Zeman. Lindy Mechefske is author of the award-winning Sir John’s Table and A Taste of community papers as well as radio and television appearances and book signings. Wintergreen. She is the food columnist for the Kingston Whig-Standard and also television appearances and book signings. writes for The New Quarterly, the Ottawa Citizen, Today Magazine, and Kingston Life. Also, appearances at various book and food She makes her home in Kingston, Ontario. festivals such as Kingston WritersFest 2018. 4 MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. Fall, 2018 5 Out of Old Maine Kitchens NEW THIS FALL Recently released Out of Old Maine Kitchens is the story of people and the food they prepared. With more than 50 photos, it is a window into life as it was then. If you want to know what life was really like in early Maine, come to the table with us. British Columbia Burning Out of Old Maine Kitchens is a tantalizing blend of early cuisine dating back to first settlers and beyond. See how wave after wave of Europeans brought with More of British Columbia had gone up in smoke in eight days in July 2017 than during the entire them their own recipes while also learning new techniques from the original 2016 season. It was a year for the record books. By the time the flames were finally extinguished, inhabitants. Feast on memories of food prepared on the campfire, the hearth 2017 ranked as the worst wildfire season in British Columbia history. and the cast iron stove, from lobster stew and fish chowder, to beanhole beans, blueberry melt-in-your-mouth, moose meat pie and oysters right out of the shell. By the end of the summer, more than 65,000 people had been forced to leave their homes and ISBN: 978-1-77276-090-3 wildfire smoke was choking the air as far away as Victoria and Saskatchewan. In British Columbia Author: Nancy Griffin Nancy Griffin grew up in Boston and has lived in coastal Maine for more than 40 Burning, Bethany Lindsay uses words and images to follow firefighters, evacuees and those who Price: $24.95 stayed to save their communities in this unforgettable wildfire season. years. A former newspaper editor and author, her books include The Remarkable Pub date: September Stanley Brothers, Maine 101, Making Whoopies, Fifty Things to Do in Maine Before You ENGAGING ISBN: 978-1-77276-090-3 Rights held: World Die and How Maine Changed the World. “A vivid and engaging look at a summer of unprecedented wildfires, British Columbia Author: Bethany Lindsay 7 x 9.5 / hardcover Burning takes the reader inside the communities that were forced to flee the flames. An Price: $19.95 important book that everyone should read.” — Rob Shaw, co-author, A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens for B.C Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens is the story of the people and the food they For The Record prepared. Saskatoons to sauerkraut. Bannock to baked beans. Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens is a tantalizing blend of pioneer cuisine and rich culinary Former Senator Wilfred Moore has been part of the political and cultural fabric of heritage dating back to the fur trade and beyond. With dozens of photos, it is a Nova Scotia and Canada for the best part of 50 years. From Halifax alderman and window into life as it was then. If you want to know what life was really like in early deputy mayor, chair of the Halifax Metro Center and chair, too, of the Bluenose Saskatchewan, come to the table with us. II Preservation Trust, to ultimately Senator representing Nova Scotia. One of 2018 official Senator Moore’s great pleasures was reading into the public record of Canada the Saskatchewan selection - One Book, One Province A CULINARY CLASSIC small and large acts of ordinary and extraordinary Nova Scotians. For The Record “This blending of characters, recipes and stories serves up a menu of home. In the provides a two-decade tribute to the people and province of Nova Scotia. ISBN: 978-1-927097-61-8 tradition of iconic Canadian food writers Anita Stewart, Marie Nightingale, and Author: Amy Jo Ehman Edna Staebler, Amy Jo Ehman has penned a culinary classic.” FASCINATING ISBN: 978-1-77276-104-7 Price: $19.95 — dee Hobsbawn-Smith, chef and award-winning author “For The Record gives fascinating insight into Senator Moore’s eclectic interests, Author: Senator Wilfred P.