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Fall 2016 Page I FALL 2016 CATALOGUE Pick up one of our recent award-nominated titles today

Nathan MacKinnon Mayann’s Train Ride Paul Hollingsworth Story by Hon. Mayann Francis $17.95 | 978-1-77108-331-7 Art by Tamara Thiébaux Heikalo Hackmatack Children’s $19.95 | 978-1-77108-348-5 Choice Award Lillian Shepherd Award for Illustration

Music is for Everyone Amazing Grace Aftershock Stubborn Resistance Story by Jill Barber Lesley Crewe Janet Maybee Brian Cuthbertson Art by Sydney Smith $19.95 | 978-1-77108-316-4 $19.95 | 978-1-77108-344-7 $24.95 | 978-1-77108-346-1 $19.95 | 978-1-77108-150-4 Dartmouth Book Award Dartmouth Book Award for Atlantic Book Award for Moonbeam Award and Lillian for Fiction Non-Fiction and Margaret and Scholarly Writing Shepherd Award for Illustration John Savage First Book Award

Be a Beach Detective Atlantic Coastal Gardening Fire in the Belly Jacob’s Landing Peggy Kochanoff Denise Adams Gordon Pitts Daphne Greer $14.95 | 978-1-77108-267-9 $27.95 | 978-1-77108-367-6 $29.95 | 978-1-77108-178-8 $12.95 | 978-1-77108-279-2 Hackmatack Children’s Best Atlantic-published Book National Business Book Award Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award and Dartmouth Book Award Choice Award and Silver for Non-Fiction Birch Award

Touch of Gold Oak Island What Kills Good Men A Sea Glass Journey Vivien Gorham Joan Hamilton-Barry David Hood Teri Hall $12.95 | 978-1-77108-324-9 $15.95 | 978-1-77108-342-3 $21.95 | 978-1-77108-350-8 $24.95 | 978-1-77108-312-6 Hackmatack Children’s Hackmatack Children’s Dartmouth Book Award Best Atlantic-published Book Choice Award Choice Award for Fiction and Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel

Catologue cover: male Blackburnian warbler, photograph by Scott Leslie from Untamed Atlantic Canada, page 9. NEW VAGRANT

Mary, Mary Lesley Crewe

New novel from award-winning author of Relative Happiness and Amazing Grace

In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier. Her well-off aunt, the only other normal person in the family, wants to help her, but Mary’s mother is too prickly and proud. So Mary goes to work, comes home, takes care of her family, and wonders if there will ever be more to life. When a young couple moves into the apartment upstairs, it sparks a series of changes that leads to major family revelations, and Mary discovers that sometimes doing the wrong thing is the exact right thing to do. Tender, authentic, and crackling with Lesley Crewe’s irrepressible humour, Mary, Mary is a book for anyone who’s ever had a family—good, bad, or a messy mix of both.

Lesley Crewe is the author of several novels, including Amazing Grace, Chloe Sparrow, Kin, and Relative Happiness, which has been adapted into a feature film. Previously a columnist and freelance writer, Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia. Visit her at lesleycrewe.com.

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• Local book launch • Author library tour (Halifax, Cape Breton, Dartmouth) • National media and review mailing • Literary festivals Amazing Grace Relative Happiness Kin Lesley Crewe Lesley Crewe Lesley Crewe • National print ads 978-1-77108-316-4 978-1-77108-209-9 978-1-55109-922-4 • ABT Holiday Reading Guide $19.95 $17.95 $19.95 • Goodreads giveaway paperback paperback paperback

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The Fundy Vault A Rosalind Mystery

Linda Moore

Anticipated follow-up to gripping literary mystery Foul Deeds sees the return of thespian-criminologist Rosalind

Linda Moore’s long-awaited sequel to Foul Deeds is another highly engaging mix of art and environmental justice. Finally working a real job as a researcher for the Public Prosecution Service, Roz is on her first paid vacation. She has rented a cottage on Nova Scotia’s beautiful Minas Basin with plans to explore ideas for her next theatre production. Accompanied by her cat and a stack of Samuel Beckett plays, she has no sooner settled in than she spots what looks like a woman’s body tangled in the roots of a floating tree. Before the local RCMP can send a boat out, the body is retrieved by helicopter, and Roz watches it disappear over North Mountain. It’s time to call in her old sleuthing partner, McBride. When McBride completely disappears, Roz and her longtime theatre friend Sophie roam the backroads and small towns of the Annapolis Valley in search of clues, narrowing in on the out-of-the-way quarry no one seems to want them to visit, the tanker trunks that nearly run them off the road, and a young journalist who seems to have come too close to the truth. $19.95 | Fiction | 978-1-77108-421-5 The Fundy Vault is a lightning-paced literary mystery that will keep eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-422-2 the heart pumping and the brain ticking long after the final page. 5 x 8 | 184 pages | paperback Rights held: World | Pub date: September Linda Moore resides in Halifax and has a cottage in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, on the Minas Basin. She works as a theatre director across Canada and was Artistic Director of Neptune Marketing plans Theatre in Halifax throughout the nineties. She has received several Robert Merritt Awards, including the 2015 award for • Author tour (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Stratford, Outstanding Direction. Linda has been a guest director at Halifax) McGill, Memorial, UVic and Dalhousie and was the Crake • National & regional media and review mailing Fellow in Drama at Mount Allison. She is the recipient of an • Literary festivals Honorary Doctor of Letters from Saint Mary’s University. The • National & regional print ads Fundy Vault is her second novel in the Rosalind Mystery series. • ABT Holiday Reading Guide • Goodreads giveaway Related Interest • ARCs

Foul Deeds Linda Moore 978-1-55109-946-0 $15.95 paperback

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Disposable Souls Phonse Jessome

Gritty first novel from award-winning journalist and true-crime author

The body of Pastor Sandy Gardner, a TV preacher with a global following, turns up near a Halifax container pier. The mysterious case lands with Cam Neville, a city cop with a dead wife, PTSD, and a haunting past. Can Neville, a former biker and war hero, solve the killing and find himself? In search of the truth, Neville and his partner, a Mi’kmaw Mountie named Blair Christmas, enter a perilous world of strippers, kiddie porn, and corruption that threatens to destroy them. Meanwhile, Neville is torn between loyalties to his two brothers, one still with the Satan’s Stallion bike club founded by their father, and another, a priest who wants to save everyone, including Cam. In Disposable Souls, author Phonse Jessome has created a complex and compelling protagonist and placed him in a gritty underbelly of bikers, cops, and killers, masterfully blurring the lines between good and bad, sinners and saints.

Phonse Jessome is an award-winning Canadian journalist and bestselling author. He has covered some of the biggest stories in Canada and abroad over the past thirty-five years. His book Murder at McDonald’s was lauded as one of Canada’s best true crime titles. Somebody’s Daughter takes readers inside the deadly world of human trafficking. Phonse $24.95 | Fiction | 978-1-77108-417-8 lives in Halifax, where he is now taking decades of experience eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-418-5 covering crime into the field of crime fiction. 6 x 9.25 | 344 pages | paperback Rights held: Canada | Pub date: September Related Interest Marketing plans

• Local book launch • Author tour (Digby, Halifax, Moncton, Toronto, Ottawa) • National & regional print ads • National & regional media and review mailing • Literary Festivals • ABT Holiday Reading Guide • Books for Everyone catalogue • Goodreads giveaway What Kills Good Men Somebody’s Daughter • ARCs David Hood Phonse Jessome 978-1-77108-350-8 978-1-55109-174-7 $21.95 $21.95 paperback paperback

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Not My Party The Rise and Fall of Canadian Tories, from Robert Stanfield to Stephen Harper

Tom McMillan

Compelling political memoir of Canada’s Conservative Party from former federal Cabinet minister

This outspoken book by former Mulroney Cabinet Minister Tom McMillan indicts Stephen Harper for destroying the historic Canadian Conservative Party while prime minister and party leader, accusing him of turning a force for progressive Canadian values into an American Republican-style vehicle for right- wing ideologies. Lamenting Harper’s hyper-partisan “cult of personality” politics, McMillan argues the Conservative Party is no longer the national institution founded by Sir John A. Macdonald and nurtured by successive Tory leaders until the 2003 Reform/ Canadian Alliance Party merger.

In a crisp, conversational tone, McMillan contrasts this new brand of Conservatism with Robert Stanfield’s 1960s/’70s “politics of thoughtfulness,” assessing the impact of Stanfield’s legacy on successive Conservative leaders. He urges Conservative progressives to reclaim their party from right-wing extremists and revive its commitment to nation-building and national unity; to re- brand itself, once again, as Progressive Conservative. $34.95 | Politics | 978-1-77108-423-9 eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-424-6 (February 2017) A fascinating political memoir from a long-time Conservative Party 6 x 9 | 624 pages | hardcover insider, Not My Party explores the evolution—or devolution— Rights held: World | Pub date: October of Canada’s Conservative Party, how backroom party politics operates, and political leaders succeed or fail.

Tom McMillan is a former federal Cabinet minister and was Marketing plans Canada’s Consul General to New England. He served as a Member of Parliament from PEI for nine years. Before that, he • Author tour: (Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Halifax, was Policy Secretary to Rt. Hon. Robert L. Stanfield. McMillan Charlottetown) graduated from St. Dunstan’s (UPEI) and Queen’s Universities. A • National print ads political scientist, he resides in Boston and has three daughters. • National media & review mailing • ABT Holiday Reading Guide • Books for Everyone catalogue Related Interest

The Charlottetown Conference Deirdre Kessler and Douglas Baldwin 978-1-77108-320-1 $15.95 paperback

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A Tale of Two Countries How the Great Demographic Imbalance is Pulling Canada Apart

Richard Saillant Foreword by Donald J. Savoie

Policy expert explores impact of Canada’s aging population in timely must-read

What author Richard Saillant calls Canada’s Great Demographic Imbalance—“the highly uneven pace at which Canada’s regions are aging”—policy analyst Donald J. Savoie, in his foreword, calls “one of the countries most demanding challenges for the next two decades.” With a broad scope deeply anchored in demographics, A Tale of Two Countries focuses on Saillant’s argument: that the “twin forces of economic and demographic gravity” spell trouble for Eastern Canada, and for the country as a whole, if we don’t act now. First we must face a harsh truth: “the contrast is stark between have and have-less provinces and it is about to get starker.” The result? Two distinct Canadas: one poorer, older; the other younger, dynamic. Without a significant shift in perspective, Saillant argues, Canada will be a country torn apart.

A Tale of Two Countries is a must-read for those seeking an $22.95 | Politics | 978-1-77108-447-5 accessible, evidence-based policy analysis of Canada’s uncertain 5.75 x 8.75 | 200 pages | paperback future, recommendations for addressing its consequences, and Rights held: World | Pub date: September their potential impact on all Canadians.

Richard Saillant is the director of the Donald J. Savoie Institute at the Université de Moncton. Originally from Val-Comeau, New Marketing plans Brunswick, Saillant is a former vice president of the Université • Eastern Canada print ads de Moncton and senior public servant. He has spent nearly fifteen • National & regional media & review mailing years in Ottawa in various departments, including the Privy • ABT Holiday Reading Guide Council Office, Industry Canada, and Transport Canada. He is the author of Over the Cliff? Acting Now to Avoid New Brunswick’s Bankruptcy (2014), a study of the province’s public finances.

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What I Learned About Politics Graham Steele 978-1-77108-210-5 $21.95 paperback

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New Brunswick Was His Country A Life of William Francis Ganong

Ronald Rees

Definitive narrative and pictorial biography of New Brunswick’s greatest scholar

Regularly described as New Brunswick’s greatest scholar, William Francis Ganong (1864–1941) wrote more than many people have ever read. His range of interests is reflected in his vast body of work: botany, cartography, and native languages were all within his reach. But his greatest interest was New Brunswick. Ganong endeavoured to write even his most scholarly papers for the general reader, and that is what historian Ronald Rees has done in New Brunswick Was His Country. An appreciation of Ganong’s work and a biography of the man behind it, rather than an exhaustive critical assessment, this fascinating overview will appeal to any reader interested in New Brunswick’s natural and settlement history and the working life of its most extraordinary scholar. This is an essential addition to Atlantic Canada’s historical canon. Includes 25 black and white photographs from Ganong’s collection.

Ronald Rees is a former professor of historical geography $24.95 | History | 978-1-77108-448-2 who taught at the University of Saskatchewan and, as adjunct eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-449-9 (February 2017) professor, at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. He has 6.5 x 9.25 | 280 pages | paperback | 25 b/w images World | September written books on the landscape and settlement of the Canadian Rights held: Pub date: prairies, on garden history, on science and industry in nineteenth- century Wales, and on United Empire Loyalist settlements in the Maritimes. He was born in Wales and for the past twenty-five Marketing plans years has lived in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. • Author library tour (Halifax, New Brunswick) • Regional print ads Related Interest • Regional media & review mailing • ABT Holiday Reading Guide

New Brunswick: An Islands of New Know New Brunswick Illustrated History Brunswick Dan Soucoup Ronald Rees Allison Mitcham 978-1-89442-032-7 978-1-77108-152-8 978-1-77108-022-4 $17.95 $22.95 $16.95 paperback paperback paperback

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Truth and Honour The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland

Greg Marquis

Riveting account of the high-profile murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland and the trial of his son Dennis Oland

Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and conviction of the victim’s son Dennis Oland for second-degree murder. Oland’s trial would be the most publicized in New Brunswick history. What the trial judge called “a family tragedy of Shakespearean proportions,” this real-life murder mystery included adultery, family dysfunction, largely circumstantial evidence, allegations of police incompetence, a high-powered legal defence, and a verdict that shocked the community. Today, the Oland family maintains Dennis Oland’s innocence. Author Greg Marquis leads readers through the case, from the discovery of the crime to the conviction and sentencing of the defendant. Offering multiple perspectives, Truth and Honour explores this question: was Dennis Oland responsible for the death of his father? $29.95 | Current Affairs | 978-1-77108-425-3 eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-426-0 (February 2017) Greg Marquis is a professor at the University of New Brunswick 6 x 9 | 272 pages | hardcover | 16 colour photographs (insert) Saint John where he teaches courses in Canadian and criminal Rights held: World | Pub date: October justice history. He is author of In Armageddon’s Shadow: Canada’s Maritime Provinces and the Civil War (1998) and The Vigilant Eye: Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11 (2016). He lives in Quispamsis, NB, with his wife, Donna. Marketing plans • Eastern Canada print ads Related Interest • National & regional media & review mailing • ABT Holiday Reading Guide

Twenty-First- Last Canadian Beer: Century Irvings The Moosehead Story Harvey Sawler Harvey Sawler 978-1-55109-944-6 978-1-55109-738-1 $16.95 $17.95 paperback paperback

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Field Notes A City Girl’s Search for Heart and Home in Rural Nova Scotia

Sara Jewell

Award-winning journalist and former city girl’s heartfelt memoir about starting over in rural Nova Scotia

Sara Jewell has collected lots of addresses—eighteen in total— including four in Vancouver, British Columbia, and three in her hometown of Cobourg, Ontario. But there was one address that always remained constant: Pugwash Point Road in rural Nova Scotia. She was nine years old the first time her family vacationed in the small fishing village about an hour from the New Brunswick border, and the red soil stained her heart. Life, as it’s wont to do, eventually took Jewell away from the east coast. But when her marriage and big-city life started to crumble, she only wanted one thing: a fresh start in Pugwash. Field Notes includes forty-one essays on the differences, both subtle and drastic, between city and country living. From curious neighbours and unpredictable weather to the reality of roadkill and the wonders of wildlife, award-winning narrative journalist Sara Jewell strikes the perfect balance between honest self- examination and humourous observation. | Memoir | 978-1-77108-419-2 Sara Jewell is an award-winning journalist whose articles and $17.95 eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-420-8 essays have been published in newspapers and magazines 5.5 x 8.25 | 232 pages | paperback | 5 line drawings across Canada. Her “Field Notes” column, which was an Rights held: World | Pub date: September Atlantic Community Newspaper Awards finalist in 2013, appears bi-weekly in the Citizen-Record newspaper. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Sara received her Arts and Education degrees from Queen’s University, then supported her freelance writing by Marketing plans working as a radio newscaster, substitute teacher, and a lay • Local book launch worship leader. Sara now lives near Port Howe, Nova Scotia. • Regional print ads • ABT Holiday Reading Guide Related Interest • Regional media & review mailing • Blog tour

Country Roads In the Company of Animals Edited by Edited by Pam Chamberlain Pam Chamberlain 978-1-77108-224-2 978-1-55109-759-6 $22.95 $19.95 paperback paperback Fall 2016 Page 8 NEW ADULT

Untamed Atlantic Canada Exploring the Region’s Biodiversity Havens

Scott Leslie

Photo essays from award-winning photographer showcase Atlantic region’s diverse wildlife

Spanning 1,200 kilometres from New Brunswick’s Passamaquoddy Bay to Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula, Atlantic Canada stands as a nexus between North America and the North Atlantic Ocean. Its diverse geography, variable climate, and surrounding ocean currents coalesce to create a rich medley of habitats both on the land and in the sea. There are currently 8,000 known species in this little corner of the world, and award-winning nature photographer Scott Leslie has captured a beautiful selection of them on these pages. In Untamed Atlantic Canada, discover the stunning array of animals living in the region—from elusive black foxes, to clouds of semi-palmated sandpipers, and endangered right whales— $27.95 | Photography | 978-1-77108-416-1 through 140 colour images with detailed, narrative captions. This 7 x 9 | 200 pages | paperback with flaps | 140 colour images photographic collection is perfect for seasoned naturalists and Rights held: World | Pub date: October novice nature lovers alike.

Scott Leslie is an award-winning nature photographer, author, and naturalist living in Bear River, Nova Scotia. Widely published, his work has appeared in The New York Times, National Wildlife, Marketing plans Reader’s Digest, National Geographic Publications, Canadian Geographic, and Saltscapes, among others. His previous books • Local book launch covered the natural history of birds, endangered species, and the • National and regional print ads Bay of Fundy. He also teaches photography workshops. Untamed • National media & review mailing Atlantic Canada is his seventh book. Visit scottlesliephoto.com. • Wildlife magazine mailing • ABT Holiday Reading Guide Related Interest

Journeys Through Hope for Wildlife Wild Nova Scotia Eastern Old-Growth Ray MacLeod Len Wagg Forests 978-1-55109-817-3 978-1-55109-945-3 Jamie Simpson $19.95 $21.95 978-1-77108-130-6 paperback paperback $21.95 paperback Fall 2016 Page 9 NEW ADULT

Vintage Christmas Holiday Stories From Rural PEI

Marlene Campbell

A collection of true, mid-century Christmas stories from rural Prince Edward Island

Travel back in time to when Christmas was a simple affair: children were content to receive an apple, an orange, or a piece of barley candy in their stockings; clothes, meals, and decorations were all homemade; and it was time spent with family—not expensive gifts—that warmed hearts during the holiday season. This nostalgic collection recalls Christmas celebrations of the 1930s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, transporting readers to the unheated farmhouse bedrooms and cozy barn stalls of rural Prince Edward Island, and the thrilling “big-city” department store visits to nearby Summerside. It turns out one thing has not changed: the most memorable part of any Christmas cannot be bought and sold. Includes eighteen non-fiction stories, collected and retold by scriptwriter, playwright, and historical author Marlene Campbell.

Marlene Campbell grew up in the 1960s and ‘70s in Lot 16, Prince Edward Island, and enjoyed listening to stories of $17.95 | Holiday | 978-1-77108-450-5 the adults around her. She has a degree in political science eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-451-2 and has worked in a number of fields, including cultural 5.75 x 8.5 | 160 pages | paperback programming. Her interest in writing has led her to create radio Rights held: World | Pub date: September dramas, historical vignettes, film scripts, a full-length play, and three earlier books that reflect PEI history. She lives in Tyne Valley, PEI. Marketing plans

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The Finest Tree The Christmas An Atlantic Canadian Edited by Secret Christmas Reader Dan Soucoup Edited by Introduction by 978-1-77108-170-2 Dan Soucoup Lesley Crewe $16.95 978-1-55109-933-0 978-1-55109-785-5 paperback $16.95 $15.95 paperback paperback

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The Big Book of Lexicon: Volumes 7, 8, 9 Puzzles to Challenge & Entertain

Theresa Williams

Popular puzzle books back in print in one large volume

Theresa Williams’s lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, lexicon puzzles engage and entertain fans of all ages. This edition brings back volumes 7, 8, and 9 and presents them as one large book for hours of fun!

Born in Halifax, Theresa Williams now lives with her husband, David, in Truro, Nova Scotia. She is the Human Resources Manager with the Halifax Herald Limited and a graduate of Saint Mary’s University. When not working or making lexicon puzzles, she enjoys running, gardening, and spending time with her $17.95 | Puzzles family and friends. Visit her at lexiconpuzzle.com. 978-1-77108-428-4 8.125 x 10.625 | 224 pages | paperback Rights held: World | Pub date: October

Mersey River Lodge A Window on History and Nature

Blair Beed

The area defined by Nova Scotia’s Mersey River has been home to many: the Mi’kmaq, the English, the French, the Black Loyalists, even pirates and rum-runners. In 1930, the Mersey River became home to anouther important resident: the Mersey Folk Lodge. Originally intended as a respite for friends and family, and potential business partners, of Liverpool’s Bowater Mersey Paper Mill, the Mersey River Lodge $28.95 | History has since become a tranquil retreat for both personal and professional 978-1-77108-362-1 excursions. 8.5 x 10.5 | 96 pages | hardcover Rights held: World | Available Now Written by Halifax historian Blair Beed, with breathtaking photographs by David Burns and Farhad Vladi, this beautiful keepsake celebrates the history of the Mersey River area, its industry, its people, and the lasting cultural legacy of the Mersey River Lodge.

A graduate of Saint Mary’s University, Blair Beed’s tourism career has involved tour guiding, planning, and training. Active in heritage preservation and municipal politics, he has served as a consultant on various community projects. He was a member of the 75th Anniversary Explosion Commemorative Committee, and is the author of 1917 Halifax Explosion and American Response. He lives in Halifax.

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The Snow Knows Story by Jennifer McGrath Art by Josée Bisaillon

Lyrical, whimsical, hide-and-seek picture book exploring the wild animals of winter

The snow knows where the rabbit goes. It knows the hush-shush of the owl’s wing. In this deceptively simple children’s picture book, a pair of award-winning storytellers share the joys of winter. A lyrical prose poem, The Snow Knows introduces readers of all ages to animals both domestic (a tabby cat by the wood stove) and wild (a slinking lynx; a choir of coyotes), celebrating wilderness and $22.95 | Children’s Picture Book | 978-1-77108-441-3 outdoor play. This beautiful book is destined to be a perennial eISBN (ePDF): 978-1-77108-442-0 winter favourite. 10 x 9 | 32 pages | hardcover | 15 colour illustrations World | October Jennifer McGrath is a professional writer and award-winning Rights held: Pub date: Ages 3-8 children’s author from Moncton, New Brunswick. Her two middle grade adventure books, Chocolate River Rescue and White Cave Escape, were shortlisted for the Silver Birch and Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice awards with Chocolate River Marketing plans Rescue winning the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award as well. You can find out more about Jennifer and her stories at • Local book launch jennifermcgrath.ca. • Appearance at OLA Superconference • National & regional print ads As a young girl, Josée Bisaillon loved drawing cats and • Library wholesaler ads houses. She pursued her education all the way to university, • National media & children’s review mailing where she fell in love with illustration. Since then, scissors and • Library & book store signings brushes in hand, Josée has been illustrating children’s books, • Literary festival circuit magazines, and newspapers. Her illustrations for The Emperor’s • Children’s review mailing Second Hand Clothes were nominated for the Governer • ABT Holiday Reading Guide General’s Award. Josée lives just outside of Montreal with her spouse and their three children.

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Gadzooks, the Christmas Goose Story by Jennifer McGrath Art by Ivan Murphy 978-1-55109-794-7 $19.95 hardcover

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Abigail’s Wish Story by Gloria Ann Wesley Art by Richard Rudnicki

Heartwarming children’s picture book set in early years of Birchtown, Nova Scotia

Spring. Beautiful blossoms. Chirping peepers. Trees swaying in their new greenery. Pussy willows glistening in furry white coats. Rain and warmth. New births and new beginnings… Ten-year-old Abigail Price is excited about spring in her new home of Birchtown. Spring means lots of things, like flower buds and fresh leaves and her Aunt Dinah’s new baby. She’s hoping it also means she’ll get a new dress to wear for the celebration, but new clothing, like many things, is hard to come by. The first children’s picture book set in historic Birchtown, Nova Scotia, Abigail’s Wish is a window into the life of a Black Loyalist family during the early years of the historic colony. Through the eyes of young Abigail, this stunning collaboration between poet and novelist Gloria Ann Wesley and award-winning illustrator Richard Rudnicki will teach young readers about Black Loyalist life, and the value of friendship and patience. $22.95 | Children’s Picture Book | 978-1-77108-439-0 eISBN (ePDF): 978-1-77108-440-6 Gloria Ann Wesley is the author of three books of poetry and 8 x 10 | 32 pages | hardcover | 15 colour illustrations two historical novels, If This Is Freedom and Chasing Freedom, Rights held: World | Pub date: October the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2012 Ann Connor Brimer Ages 5-9 Award for Young Adult Fiction. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Richard Rudnicki is the award-winning illustrator of Gracie the Public Gardens Duck, I Spy a Bunny, and Viola Desmond Won’t Marketing plans Be Budged. He gives private lessons and workshops in painting and drawing. He lives in Halifax. • Appearance at OLA Superconference • Regional author tour • Regional kids’ workshops Look Inside • Library readings • National media & children’s review mailing • Library wholesaler ads • ABT Holiday Reading Guide

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A Harbour Seal in Halifax Doretta Groenendyk

Celebrated author-illustrator tells true story of curious harbour seal’s adventure in downtown Halifax

Seal went for a stroll… The icy puddles were too small for swimming. The rocks were too tall for climbing. Seal saw bright lights. They sparkled. Seal liked the snow.

One snowy night in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, a strange figure peeks out from behind a parked car. A woman screams! So begins a lost harbour seal’s adventure through the steep streets of the sleepy winter city. Soon, Constable and Officer are on the case, and if they work together they just might be able to help the harbour seal find his way back home.

Celebrated children’s author and illustrator Doretta Groenendyk brings the true story of Halifax’s famous winter 2015 flip-slippery $22.95 | Children’s Picture Book | 978-1-77108-414-7 eISBN (ePDF): 978-1-77108-415-4 visitor to life with colourful paintings and simple text. A Harbour 8 x 10 | 32 pages | hardcover | 27 colour illustrations Seal in Halifax is destined to become a local family favourite. Rights held: World | Pub date: October Ages 4-9 Doretta Groenendyk, a painter, writer, and teacher, lives with her husband and three children in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Doretta is the author and illustrator of several children’s books by both The Acorn Press and Nimbus Publishing. Marketing plans Snow for Christmas, Thank You for My Bed, and I’m Drawing • Appearance at OLA Superconference a Picture, have been shortlisted for the Lillian Shepherd • Regional print ads Memorial Award for Illustration. See more of Doretta’s work at • Regional media & children’s review mailing doretta-art.com. • Regional tour • ABT Holiday Reading Guide Look Inside

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Fiddles and Spoons Story by Lila Hope-Simpson Art by Doretta Groenendyk 978-1-55109-903-3 $17.95 hardcover

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L’nuk The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada

Theresa Meuse

Full-colour children’s non-fiction book about Atlantic Canada’s largest Indigenous band

The Mi’kmaq lived in Canada long before the country even got its name. Before Europeans arrived, they lived in homes called wigwams and hunted and fished throughout the Maritime provinces, living off and giving back to the land. They enjoyed storytelling, drumming, and dancing within their tight-knit communities. In L’nuk: the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada, First Nations educator and bestselling author Theresa Meuse traces the incredible lineage of today’s Mi’kmaq people, sharing the fascinating details behind their customs, traditions, and history. Discover the proper way to make Luski (Mi’kmaw bread), the technique required for intricate quillwork and canoe-building, what happens at a powwow, and how North America earned its Aboriginal name, Turtle Island. | Children’s Non-Fiction | 978-1-77108-452-9 Includes informative sidebars, highlighted glossary terms, $17.95 6.75 x 8.5 | 80 pages | paperback | 60 colour images recommended reading, a historic timeline, index, and over Rights held: World | Pub date: October sixty full-colour historical and contemporary images. Ages 7-10 Born and raised in the Bear River First Nation community, Theresa Meuse is a First Nations educator and advisor. She is the author of The Sharing Circle, and has contributed articles Marketing plans to the Mi’kmaq Anthology (volumes 1 and 2) and the book L’sitkuk: The Story of the Bear River Mi’kmaw Community. • Local book launch Theresa lives in Elmsdale, Nova Scotia. • Appearance at OLA Superconference • Regional media & review mailings Related Interest • Targeted regional & national print ads • Library and school visits • Library wholesaler ads • ABT Holiday Reading Guide

The Sharing Circle The Thundermaker Story by Theresa Meuse Alan Syliboy Art by Arthur Stevens 978-1-77108-329-4 978-1-55109-450-2 $19.95 $10.95 hardcover paperback

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Cure for Wereduck Dave Atkinson

The quirky (and quacky!) follow-up to Hackmatack Award-nominated Wereduck

Kate is an odd duck—literally. When the full moon arrives, the rest of her family turns into wolves, but she is a happy wereduck. Relatively happy, that is. Her family has been uprooted from the wilds of New Brunswick to a placid farming community in Ontario, thanks to a fellow werewolf, Marcus, selling them out to sleazy tabloid journalist Dirk Bragg. When Kate discovers her great-great-grandmother’s recipe “A Cure for Werewolf,” she can’t help but wonder—is it really possible? Could she one day resist the call of the moon? Could she be free from the constant threat of exposure? When Marcus’s abandoned werewolf son, John, books a desperate train journey back to New Brunswick at the full moon in search of a long-lost family member, the ancient recipe and its arcane ingredients are put to the test. Will Dirk Bragg finally corner Kate and John in their were-forms and expose them to the world, or will Cure for Werewolf keep them safe? A rare sequel that is as full of action and revelations as its predecessor, Cure for Wereduck is imaginative, exciting, and peppered with Hackmatack Award-nominated David Atkinson’s delightful humour. $12.95 | Middle Grade Fiction | 978-1-77108-445-1 is an award-winning freelance journalist, Dave Atkinson eISBN (ePDF): 978-1-77108-446-8 columnist, and broadcaster, and the author of Wereduck, 5 x 7.5 | 184 pages | paperback nominated for a Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award. Rights held: World | Pub date: September Originally from Leamington, Ontario, his work for the CBC Ages 8-12 has appeared on The Current, The Sunday Edition, Tapestry, Maritime Magazine, In the Field, and regional radio programs across the country. He and his wife are homeschooling their Marketing plans three silly kids in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. • Appearance at OLA Superconference Related Interest • National print ads • National media & children’s review mailing • Literary festival circuit • Library and school visits • ABT Holiday Reading Guide • Bookmarks

Wereduck Flight of the Griffons Dave Atkinson Kate Inglis 978-1-77108-219-8 978-1-77108-132-0 $9.95 $19.95 paperback hardcover

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Black Water Rising Robert Rayner

A fast-paced YA novel exploring environmentalism and corruption in small-town New Brunswick

When heavy November rains threaten to flood the small town of Black River, New Brunswick, the community calls on the hydroelectric company to open the gates of its dam and drop the water level. But local management has been overruled by their parent company and ordered to keep it closed. It’s got some people hinting it’s time they took things into their own hands.

Seventeen-year-old Stanton Frame is caught in between: his father is manager at the dam but his girlfriend, Jessica, has joined an environmental group that’s taken an interest in the matter. With just hours until the town floods, things come to a violent clash between police and protesters. The next morning the dam has been sabotaged, Jessica is missing, and Stanton has more questions than answers.

Suspenseful and authentic, with a fine ear for the nuances of local politics and teenage sensibilities, celebrated YA author Robert Rayner’s new novel combines activism, love, and mystery.

Robert Rayner is the author of three adult novels, nine young adult novels, and five teen novels. His books have been shortlisted for the Ann Connor Brimer Children’s Literature Award and (four times) for the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award. Six have been included in the Canadian Children’s Book $17.95 | YA Fiction | 978-1-77108-443-7 Centre annual “Best Books” list, and one on the US Young eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-444-4 Adult Library Services Association “Best Books to Get Teens 5 x 8 | 160 pages | paperback Reading” list. He lives in St. George, New Brunswick. Rights held: World | Pub date: September Ages 12-15 Related Interest Marketing plans

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Lost on Brier Island Oak Island Revenge Buried Secrets at Jo Ann Yhard Cynthia D’Entremont Louisbourg 978-1-55109-819-7 978-1-55109-899-9 JoAnn Yhard $12.95 $12.95 978-1-77108-018-7 paperback paperback $12.95 paperback

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Sidney Crosby (Hat Trick Edition)

Paul Hollingsworth

New edition of bestselling, stat-packed profile of Cole Harbour hockey icon

Sidney Crosby: The Story of a Champion follows the young Cole Harbour hockey phenomenon through his early years in minor hockey, his dominating run through the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, his record-breaking play with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and his spectacular contributions to Team Canada at international competitions. With colour photographs of Crosby in action and featuring interviews from coaches, teammates, and hockey insiders like Pierre McGuire, this accessible, visual book is the account of a once-in-a- generation hockey talent and his path to greatness. | Sports | 978-1-77108-427-7 This new edition features updates and a new chapter and photos showcasing $19.95 7.5 x 9 |104 pages | paperback Crosby’s recent achievements. 60 colour photographs World | October Paul Hollingsworth is a correspondent for TSN. As a result of his passionate Rights held: Pub date: and knowledgeable sports coverage, Paul won a Gemini Award in 2003 for sports reporting. Paul is the author of Sidney Crosby and Brad Richards, and co-author of All Sorts of Sports Trivia. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

The Black Duffy Battalion Stardom to Senate 1916–1920 to Scandal

Canada’s Best Kept Dan Leger Military Secret

Calvin W. Ruck Mike Duffy made his name Foreword by Lindsay Ruck as a political reporter, and in the process became one of Prince Edward Island’s Black military heritage in most famous exports. He Canada is still generally cast himself as the ultimate unknown. Most Canadians insider, Parliament Hill’s have no idea that Blacks served, fought, and died, all in the man in the know. It made him a household name and one of name of freedom. The story of the overt racist treatment of Black Canada’s best-paid journalists. But Duffy wanted to get even volunteers is a shameful chapter in Canadian history. It does, closer and lobbied his way into the Canadian Senate, with dire however, represent an important part of the Black legacy and the results. Veteran journalist Dan Leger tells the story of Duffy’s rise Black experience. to the top in Canadian media, his entanglement with the Harper Conservatives, and the scandal that made him one of the most In this thirtieth-anniversary edition of Ruck’s celebrated history of controversial figures in contemporary politics. This paperback Nova Scotia’s No. 2 Construction Battalion, known as the Black edition includes a new chapter on the 2015 expenses trial, a Battalion, the original text is presented for a new generation foreword by CBC’s Peter Mansbridge, and an eight-page colour of readers, along with a new foreword and photographs from photo insert. journalist Lindsay Ruck, Calvin W. Ruck’s proud granddaughter.

Ontario Moments Camas & Sage George Fischer A Story of Bison Life on the Prairie

For more than a million square Story by Dorothy Patent kilometres in central Canada, Art by Christina Wald the province of Ontario extends from the country’s southernmost point to the In Camas and Sage: A Story fringes of the Arctic. This offers visitors endless possibilities of Bison Life on the Prairie, for unique year-round experiences that are depicted in kids are invited to explore and discover the northern plains in photographer George Fischer’s vibrant moments. His views a truly unique way: through the eyes and ears of a bison calf. transport readers deep into lush forests, shimmering waterways, From Camas’s first attempt to stand on wobbly legs, this tale and rich farmland—and introduces them to soaring cathedrals of an adventure-filled first year will have young readers hooked. of commerce, remarkable historical sites, and colourful cultural Full-colour illustrations splash across the page, illuminating festivities. each of Camas’s firsts, including encounters with rascally prairie dogs, a crackling and booming thunderstorm, and irritable bulls. $39.95 | Photography | 978-1-77108-437-6 | 10 x 10 Kids won’t want to wait to turn the page to see what happens 224 pages | hardcover | Publisher: Nimbus Publishing next! Pub date: November $12.00 | Children’s Picture Book | 978-0-87842-641-6 8.5 x 10 | 48 pages | paperback | Publisher: Mountain Press Available Now

Dancing on a The Same Old Powder Keg Story

Ilse Weber Ivan Goncharov

On May 6, 1939, Ilse Weber, Goncharov’s first novel, in writing to her sister-in-law, Obyknovennaya Istoriya Zofiah Mareni, noted “You or The Same Old Story, will probably be happy to wittily presents the conflicts know how do we live here between the excessive now? Well, at least we’re romanticism of a young not pestered by boredom. Russian nobleman who It’s like dancing on a powder freshly arrived in Saint keg. The air is impregnated Petersburg from the provinces with insane rumors, which we no longer believe.” Starting in and the sober pragmatism 1933, Ilse’s letters recorded the lives of her small family during of his bourgeois uncle. It appeared in 1847 in the periodical a time of increasing danger, when Europe descended from “The Contemporary,” and created a sensation, marking the peace to the chaos of war. debut of one of Russia’s greatest writers. It deserves an equal place with Goncharov’s classic Oblomov. Ilse Weber’s letters document her life as a young Jewish author of children’s books, as she and her family were $20.00 | Fiction | 978-1-93348-040-4 | 6 x 9 gradually trapped and persecuted in Nazi-occupied 300 pages | paperback | Publisher: Bunim and Bannigan Czechoslovakia. Her poems, written and performed in the July Theresienstadt Ghetto, have become an international symbol Pub date: of the camp and ghetto poetry. Ilse saved her older son, but she and her younger son were gassed in Auschwitz.

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Bay of Fundy’s Through the Eyes Hopewell Rocks of Mary

Kevin Snair The Mary Morehouse Diaries (1920-1958)

Every year, thousands of Sharon Bird and visitors from around the Mary Morehouse world descend the stair- case at Hopewell Rocks to walk on the ocean floor. Bay of Fundy’s Hopewell Rocks offers an intimate, behind-the- The Mary Morehouse Diaries scenes tour of this striking and fascinating place. The book is give the reader a vivid pic- full of intriguing tidbits on the history and natural history of the ture of life in rural New Hopewell Rocks Park at all times of the year. Snair’s descrip- Brunswick in the early twentieth century. Through Mary, tions of the tidal action and geology of the area are easy to un- the reader can follow the highs and lows of village life derstand and the self-guided tour portion will help readers make during the 1920s, 1930s, and the war years of the 1940s. Bird the most of their trip to the Rocks. His images of one of the has researched this time period for her other books, and her most photographed places in New Brunswick are both stunning annotations and introductory sections give context to the and original, so the book will become a treasured souvenir of individual diary entries. this natural wonder of the world. $18.95 | Biography | 978-0-98774-706-8 | 6 x 8 288 pages | paperback | Chocolate River Publishing $19.95 | Photography | 978-0-98774-702-0 | 8 x 8 Publisher: September 100 pages | paperback | Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing Pub date: Available Now

Follow the Goose Maya and Butt, Camelia Mitaine Airheart! From Saint John to Story by Odette Barr, Paris Colleen Landry, and Beth Weatherbee Story by Joanie Duguay Art by Odette Barr Art by Réjean Roy

Poor Camelia Airheart. She Maya is off to Paris with her is easily distracted and her mother to attend a haute GPS—Goose Positioning couture fashion show of System—is faulty. When she an up-and-coming Acadian designer, Elise Bourque. But her gets separated from her flock, she gets lost and starts on a jour- elderly cat, Mitain, is not well and Maya is worried that she ney that will take her all over New Brunswick. Will she ever find won’t be there when she gets back. She’s also worried about her way home to her flock? missing her father’s trip to port because he is working on the Queen Mary II. This is a beautifully illustrated early chapter book for children designed to appeal to grade two and up. The Paris fashion scene is bound to delight young readers, and the loss of a beloved pet will tug at their heartstrings. $10.95 | Children’s Fiction | 978-0-98774-704-4 | 5.5 x 8 This early chapter book is beautifully illustrated by Réjean Roy, 72 pages | paperback | Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing and the endpapers resemble a passport to go with the travel Available Now theme. It is a translation of the Bouton d’or Acadie title Maya et Mitain : De Saint-Jean à Paris.

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New England Newfoundland Masts and The and Labrador King’s Broad Outstanding Arrow Outhouse Reader

Samuel F. Manning Vernon Oickle

Author/illustrator Sam Manning Do you know when the Vikings has brought to life a pe- established their settlement riod in history which makes at L’anse aux Meadows? Or this book valuable, but not that the only known case of simply because you will Germans landing in North understand how the ship- America during the Second building industry worked World War was in Newfoundland? When was the last public from the 1600s–1800s. Manning shows what governments execution held in Newfoundland and what was it like on were doing, why, and how it directly parallels the twentieth- execution day? From North America’s oldest city to the most and twenty-first century policies of nations to spend blood and eastern point in North America, the Newfoundland and treasure to ensure they can control the supply of natural Labrador Outstanding Outhouse Reader is the book that should resources for their national security. With 1600s Europe unable be in every Newfoundlander’s outhouse. If you love Newfound- to supply the big tall masts needed for their navies, Great Britain land and Labrador (and we know you do), you simply must established a policy of marking trees in New England which were have the Newfoundland and Labrador Outstanding Outhouse specifically the Crown’s, to be cut, processed, and shipped back Reader. to England. Without proper masts, the navy could not carry sails to propel their ships—much like the need for oil today. $19.95 | History | 978-1-77276-012-5 | 5 x 7 264 pages | paperback | Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing $9.95 | History | 978-1-93498-213-6 | 6 x 9 Pub date: September 64 pages | paperback | Publisher: Wooden Boat Publications Pub date: June

Tu Dois Venir Du You Might Be Québec Si... From Texas If...

Richard Vallerand and Nick Anderson Paul Bordeleau

You Might Be From Texas If... Tu Dois Venir Du Québec is a delightful, illustrated romp Si... is a delightful, illustrat- through this one-of-a kind ed romp through this one-of-a kind place. Award-winning place. Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Nick Anderson delivers cartoonists Richard Vallerand and Paul Bordeleau deliver their his unique take on America’s most unique state, tickling the funny unique take on Canada’s most extraordinary province, tickling bone on every page. As Anderson proves, this is a state that is the funny bone on every page. As Vallerand and Bordeleau proud of who it is and likes nothing better than a good laugh. prove, this is a province that is proud of what it is and likes nothing better than a good laugh. $19.95 | Humour | 978-1-77276-006-4 | 9 x 8.25 132 pages | paperback | Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing $19.95 | Humour | 978-1-77276-011-8 | 9 x 8.25 Pub date: September 132 pages | paperback | Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Pub date: September

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Dieppe Cape Breton’s Christmas, Book Canada’s Forgotten Heroes Three

John Mellor A Treasury of Stories and Memories

Gripping in its intensity, this Edited by Ronald Caplan 75th-anniversary edition of the 1942 Canadian raid on a well-fortified German- Once again, the heart of Cape held French town is told Breton radiates through in the with fairness, eloquence, all-new Book Three of Cape and compassionate detail. Breton’s Christmas—another Mellor fought at Dieppe, and puts the reader in landing craft lasting collection of Cape Breton memories and stories, including and on the beaches with individual Canadians who formed tales of compassion, hilarious events, touching family gatherings, the bulk of the attackers. He follows survivors into P.O.W. and Christmas far from home—plus memories of the sacrifices camps, where courageous leadership and successful tunnel that made the holidays work. For anyone who loves wit, celebration, escapes sustained men for three long years. and the generosity of Maritime life—these are stories to be read again and again. $19.95 | History | 978-1-92690-842-7 | 6 x 9 | Holiday | 978-1-92690-843-4 | 6 x 9 200 pages | paperback | Publisher: Breton Books $17.95 160 pages | paperback | Breton Books Pub date: September Publisher: Pub date: October

Buzzed: Beers, Huntin’ and Booze, and Fishin’ with the Coffee Brews Ole Man Where to Enjoy the Story by Dave O’Connor Best Craft Beverages Art by John Hulub in New England

Erik Ofgang Huntin’ and Fishin’ with the Ole Man is a beloved collection of humourous, fictional Buzzed taps into New essays about hunting England’s burgeoning craft beer industry, longtime coffee- and fishing originally pub- house culture, and the up-and-coming world of craft distilling. lished by Maine Outdoors With an everyman perspective and sharp wit, award-winning Publishing, but with limited food and travel writer Erik Ofgang takes readers on a rollicking circulation. The Islandport edition includes all-new material tour of New England’s booming craft beverage scene. Focusing and introduces all the fun and characters to a wider audience. on craft beverage clusters (areas where breweries, distilleries, In stories like “Before You Bust a Cap” and “Rain Ain’t Nothin’ and great coffeehouses can be found in close proximity to one But Water” the Ole Man and company find themselves in another), Buzzed tells readers all they need to know about plenty of pickles that require ingenuity, humour, outdoor know- visiting a particular drinking establishment. This travel guide is how, and a lot of patience to endure. Huntin’ and Fishin with packed with inside information gathered directly from brewers the Ole Man is sure to become a staple at camp or in the and distillers, as well as bar trivia facts, historical tidbits, and Ofgang’s canoe, and come in handy when the snows come or the fish smart, humourous observations. Ofgang also suggests side trips won’t bite. Just don’t laugh too hard or you may flip your boat! that make New England such a vibrant vacation destination. $16.95 | Fiction | 978-1-93901-756-7 | 5.5 x 8.5 $14.95 | Travel | 978-1-93901-765-9 | 5.5 x 7 276 pages | paperback | Publisher: Islandport Press 200 pages | paperback | Publisher: Islandport Press Pub date: June Pub date: June

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Full Service Straw Man

David Hill Gerry Boyle

David Hill has travelled the When worlds collide, few main streets and back roads are spared the collateral of Maine to photograph damage—least of all crime beautiful and largely forgotten reporter Jack McMorrow, cars from the “golden age” who has learned the hard of America’s love affair with the automobile. But beautiful to way that trouble often blooms David’s eye is not always fresh paint and polished chrome, in the cracks of human rela- but rather cars and trucks with stories to tell and histories to tionships. In this, the latest share; cars with rust and trucks with scars that reveal small installment of the popular bits and pieces of their decades-long journeys. David always Jack McMorrow mystery keeps his eyes open, wondering what he might find alongside series, veteran author Gerry the road, behind the next barn, or hidden in the trees. Com- plete with gorgeous photography and personal essays, Full Boyle takes his readers into territory all-too-familiar from the daily Service chronicles David’s journey back to the past to give headlines: illegal gun sales, culture clashes between old and these worn and weathered pieces of Americana a chance to new, cyberbullying, and the random acts of violence that pose a be seen as beautiful one last time. real threat to even the closest of communities. Prosperity, Maine is no longer the refuge from the real world that it once was, and $18.95 | Photography | 978-1-93901-775-8 | 10 x 8 Jack and his wife, Roxanne, will be forced to face their most 144 pages | paperback | Publisher: Islandport Press destructive enemies yet—each other. Pub date: June $24.95 | Fiction | 978-1-93901-793-2 | 6 x 9 334 pages | hardcover | Publisher: Islandport Press Pub date: June

New in Paperback New in Paperback Cover Story Once Burned

Gerry Boyle Gerry Boyle

It’s been seven years since Life is briefly as it should be Jack McMorrow left New for Jack McMorrow: he and York for small-town Maine. his wife, Roxanne, have re- His years of stringing stories treated from the stress and and murders together in the danger of their day jobs to backwoods has been an raise their daughter, Sophie. adventure, sure, but they But when development and have also put a big dent in arson threaten the nearby his bank account. In this, town of Sanctuary and a the sixth installment of the crazy accident brings back popular Jack McMorrow mistakes from Roxanne’s series, McMorrow is hired back at The New York Times to past, Jack’s nose for crime leads him into a darker and deeply cover his old Metro beat. Unsure at first, Jack soon regains twisted tale. Something explosive is smoldering beneath the his journalistic footing and settles into the incessant hustle and glossy facades and picturesque town square in Sanctuary, flow of the city. When the mayor is murdered in a hotel rest- and the enemy is closer than he thinks. In Once Burned, the room, Jack thinks he is working on the ultimate cover story. tenth installment of the popular Jack McMorrow series, Jack Instead, Jack is about to become the prime murder suspect in takes readers along as he hunts a killer with a long memory his own newspaper story. Called an outstanding crime novel and a dangerously short fuse. by Booklist when it was first published in 2000, Cover Story is Boyle at his best. This redesigned edition includes a new $16.95 | Fiction | 978-1-93901-791-8 | 5.5 x 8.5 introduction by the author. 413 pages | paperback | Publisher: Islandport Press Pub date: June $16.95 | Fiction | 978-1-93901-777-2 | 5.5 x 8.5 396 pages | paperback | Publisher: Islandport Press Pub date: June

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Albert’s Almost A Blanding’s Amazing Turtle Story

Adventure Story by Melissa Kim Marty Kelley Art by Jada Fitch

A Blanding’s Turtle ventures Albert’s vacation was across streams, over roads, amazing—or so he thought. and through wetlands To friends, his time in Maine to find food and a safe was boring. Dull. Lame. nesting place in this fascinating and educational board book. They’ve got a more vivid Readers will join the intrepid turtle as she travels, facing some and exciting idea of what Albert could—and should—have unexpected challenges along the way. Through a simple done on his trip. But Albert might just have a surprise for his narrative with beautiful illustrations, young readers will learn friends after all. Marty Kelley tells this wonderful read-aloud about the Blanding’s Turtle’s behaviours and habitat, threats to story in a fresh and imaginative way, contrasting panels of its survival, and respectful human interaction to help conserve black-and-white charcoal drawings of dull old Albert with won- this rare endangered species. This is the third in a four-part derful colour spreads of what Albert’s friends imagine for his series of board books done in partnership with Maine Audubon, summer adventures. Did Albert really tussle with ninjas and following A Snowy Owl Story and A Little Brown Bat Story. parlay with pirates? Or did he spend his time in Maine in the most boring ways imaginable? What really made his amazing $10.95 | Children’s Board Book | 978-1-93901-792-5 | 7 x 7 summer vacation so amazing? 24 pages | board | Publisher: Islandport Press Pub date: June $17.95 | Children’s Fiction | 978-1-93901-769-7 | 8 x 10 32 pages | hardcover | Publisher: Islandport Press Pub date: June

New in Paperback Mystery on Mystery of the Pine Lake Missing Fox

Story by Tamra Wight Story by Tamra Wight Art by Carl DiRocco Art by Carl DiRocco

Cooper thought living at a The stakes have never been campground would be cool. higher for Cooper Wilder. But ever since his parents When an accident puts bought the lakeside camp- Cooper’s dad in the hospital, ground, he’s had more Cooper must shoulder new chores and less time to ex- responsibilities at the camp- plore. And as if babysitting ground. But he’s distracted. his little sister and cleaning First, he finds a fox caught in the bathrooms weren’t bad enough, his ex-friend Roy has an illegal trap on the camp- chosen him as this summer’s bullying target. Cooper’s only ground’s land. Then kits start to go missing from the fox den. bright spot this summer is his new friend, Packrat, a guy who Who would want to steal the foxes? And why? Cooper joins carries the world in his coat pockets and leaves his troubles forces with his friends, Packrat and Roy, to solve the mystery. behind. But trouble has come to the Wilder Family Camp- The three young detectives must protect the den, find the kits, ground and Pine Lake, where a family of loons is building a and (hopefully) rule out Summer, the new girl who lives across nest. First, someone dams up the lake and floods the nest. the lake, as a suspect. Juggling new work duties, feeling guilty Then, when Cooper and Packrat build a raft where the loons about his father’s accident, and desperate to help the fox kits, can make a new nest, it gets destroyed by someone with big Cooper faces tough decisions about who—and what—should footprints. It’s up to the boys to figure out who, why, and how come first. to stop the culprit before it’s too late. $16.95 | Children’s Fiction | 978-1-93901-789-5 | 6 x 9 $12.95 | Children’s Fiction | 978-1-93901-702-4 | 6 x 9 200 pages | paperback | Publisher: Islandport Press 152 pages | paperback | Publisher: Islandport Press Pub date: June Pub date: June

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Hit the Ground Summer of Then Running and Now

Mark Burley Danielle Webster

Seventeen-year-old Eric Kate Thornhill and Kit Cava- receives an urgent video naugh are sent to summer message from his brother. at the King’s Royal Hotel in Their parents have disap- Owen Sound, where they peared because of a mysteri- meet Desmond Bartley. ous project. With a group of Only the girls live in two friends, the Vancouver Island totally separate time periods teen sets out to find the more than 80 years apart. truth, but gets far more than While Kit develops a relation- he bargained for when they ship with Desmond in the uncover powers beyond imagining. And violent people who will past, Kate researches old events and finds surprising and tragic do anything to get a hold of those powers. connections in the present.

L’Île-au-Crâne de Le Doubas Show

Shediac Story by Nicole Poirier Story by Denis M. Boucher Art by Anne-Marie Sirois Art by Paul Roux

So, you think a sock’s life is The Three Musketeers are all comfort and joy? Think back, and this time they’re again! It’s not so cushy when in Shediac. The famed trio you’re constantly forced in should be enjoying fried and out of tight spaces, or clams and beach time; after when the dreaded dryer is all, they’ve already had five looming just around the corner. major adventures around New Doubas (Soft Sock) brings you along on his adventures in Cape Brunswick! But Gabriel is Breton. But don’t worry: there is a happy ending for storytelling entrigued by the island socks. Doubas will end up at the local public library, as a star facing their cottage. When the friends and their dog meet puppet! Roland with his boat, off they go exploring Skull Island. But others also seem quite eager to get to the small island. And they $10.95 | Children’s Picture Book | 978-2-89750-028-3 are not so friendly. 9 x 11 | 24 pages | paperback | Publisher: Bouton d’or Acadie Pub date: June $19.95 | Children’s Fiction | 978-2-89750-031-3 6 x 9 | 206 pages | paperback | Publisher: Bouton d’or Acadie Pub date: June

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Acadie Then Discover Canada

and Now Leigh McAdam A People’s History Leigh McAdam, a gifted Warren Perrin, Phil Comeau photographer, experienced and Mary Broussard all of the adventures detailed in this book within the last two years—travelling from In its French edition, Acadie coast to coast. Her goal is Then and Now: A People’s to show the possibilities and History won the International inspire. She receives 50,000 Literary Award, 2015 Prix views per month on her France-Acadie Prize. The website HikeBikeTravel.com. book is an international col- You can also try to keep up lection of articles from fifty-five authors, which chronicles the with her on Facebook or join her 10,000 Twitter followers for historical and contemporary realities of the Acadian people dynamic posts and photos @hikebiketravel. worldwide. This book includes sixty-five articles on the Acadians living $29.95 | Travel | 978-1-92699-146-7 | 6 x 9 today in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New 230 pages | paperback | Publisher: Granville Island Publishing Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Quebec; Available Now in the American states of Louisiana, Texas, and Maine; and in the French regions of Poitou, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, and St-Pierre et Miquelon. It takes an international perspective and provides the readers with new insights on the past, present, and future of Acadian descendants from all the Acadies of the world.

Louis R. Comeau Midnight Sally Ross Marauders Geraldine Tuck Louis R. Comeau has always, above all, been an advocate This 1931 adventure high- for the Acadian commu- lights rum runners along nity. Elected to the House Nova Scotia’s south shore. of Commons in 1968, he When eleven-year-old Dan was at the forefront of the Veinott boards the Martha shift that bilingualism and Rae, he discovers that the biculturalism brought to the town peddler, Corker, is status of French-language smuggling rum. But he can’t minorities in Canada in the tell his father because he 1970s. With the energy, owes Corker his life. Join foresight, and skills to be an agent of change, he brought Dan and his friend Becky as they try to foil Percy Brown’s Université Sainte-Anne into the modern era and he led Nova illegal business. For things to change on the baseball lot, they Scotia Power from a public utility to a profitable enterprise. must also face the town bully. Author Sally Ross, an expert in Acadian history and society, First published in 1991, Midnight Marauders was selected as explores the diverse paths that Louis R. Comeau has followed an Our Choice book by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. since his childhood in rural Nova Scotia, to Parliament Hill, as an MP, then back to Church Point, and Halifax (never far from his Acadian roots). Here is a man who moves seamlessly $9.95 | Children’s Fiction | 978-1-89746-239-3 | 5 x 8 between politics, education, and industry, ready to lead others 124 pages | paperback | Publisher: Glen Margaret Publishing towards progress. Available Now

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Mister 100 Things You Nightingale Don’t Know

Paul Bowdring About Nova Scotia

When self-described mid-list Sarah Sawler Newfoundland author James Nightingale makes a brief sojourn to his St. John’s Inspired by the success of home for the re-release of her popular Halifax Magazine his seminal novel, he’s forced column, “50 Things You to confront his failings, both Don’t Know about Halifax,” familial and artistic. Imbued Sawler has expanded her with the language of literature focus to include interesting and the imagery of a Newfoundland in flux, Mister Nightingale anecdotes and facts about is at once a fitful meditation on the writing life, and a keen and the social, political, economic, and cultural history of Nova Scotia. poignant exploration of one man’s coming to terms with la vie quotidienne. $17.95 | History | 978-1-77108-377-5 eISBN (PDF): 978-1-77108-378-2 $21.95 | Fiction | 978-1-77108-379-9 5.5 x 8.25 | 128 pages | paperback | 25 b/w images eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-380-5 Rights held: World 6.25 x 9 | 352 pages | paperback with flaps Rights held: Canada

The Wine The Little Book Lover’s Guide to of Newfoundland Atlantic Canada and Labrador

Moira Peters and John Sylvester Craig Pinhey

In The Little Book of New- Whether it’s racking up foundland and Labrador, international awards or award-winning photographer attracting tourists to the John Sylvester has beautifully east coast in droves, the captured the quintessential world has taken notice fishing villages, magnificent of Atlantic Canada’s wine. The Wine Lover’s Guide to Atlantic natural landscapes, and stunning array of wildlife that make up Canada is the definitive guide to Atlantic Canada’s wine regions, Canada’s easternmost province. exploring the history, climate, and industry of winemaking, and Through nearly eighty stunning photographs with captions, read- showcasing the various grape varietals, styles, and influences ers will be transported across rugged coastlines, through national of these four provinces. Includes sidebars, maps, and over 100 parks, and into the homes of the people who give “The Rock” its photographs from acclaimed photographer Jessica Emin. reputation for warm hospitality and east coast charm. | Food and Wine | 978-1-77108-401-7 $34.95 | Photography | 978-1-77108-370-6 eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-355-3 $17.95 6 x 8 | 80 pages | hardcover | 78 colour photographs 7.75 x 9.5 | 230 pages | hardcover | 175 colour photographs Rights held: World Rights held: World

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For the Love of Sable Island in Lobster Black and White

Celebrating Atlantic Jill Martin Bouteillier Canada’s Favourite Crustracean The newest addition to the Images of Our Past series, Denise Adams Sable Island in Black and White is a fascinating look at day-to-day life on Nova You don’t have to travel Scotia’s most secluded out- very far in Atlantic Canada to see an image of a red lobster on post through a nineteenth- a roadside billboard or dominating a restaurant menu. In recent century lens. decades, the once-lowly crustacean, traditionally reserved for the lunch pails of the less fortunate in the region’s coastal This narrative history—accented by more than 100 black and communities, has become an international delicacy. white photographs of the island’s famous shipwrecks, wild horses, and visitors—tells the incredible true story of a stalwart In this unique photographic gift book, author-photographer group of ordinary people who called Sable Island home. Denise Adams tells the “rags to riches” story of lobster, exploring the biology of this mysterious, well-armored underwater | History | 978-1-77108-381-2 insect, the history and evolution of Atlantic lobster fishery, and $15.95 6.5 x 9.25 | 136 pages | paperback | 125 b/w photographs offering humane cooking methods and delicious traditional lobster recipes with a modern twist. Includes over 100 colour Rights held: World photographs.

“The Saddest Wildflowers of Ship Afloat” the Maritimes The Tragedy of the A guide to identifying MS St. Louis 150 of the region’s wild plants Allison Lawlor Edmund Redfield

The latest in the Stories of Our Past series explores Wildflowers of the Maritimes the WWII Jewish refugee was written to meet the ship refused safe harbour needs of hikers, students, in Halifax. Illustrated with amateur naturalists, resource photos and sidebar features professionals, or anyone on the voyage, the lives of passengers, a look at Canada’s looking for an affordable, postwar refugee policy, and memorials of this tragic event in compact, easy-to-follow guide to take with them into the field. Canadian immigration history. Includes a glossary and index. Discover the wide array of wildflowers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island with detailed photographs, $15.95 | History | 978-1-77108-399-7 drawings, and profile descriptions that include information on 5.5 x 8 | 128 pages | paperback | 60 b/w images a plant’s origins, leaves, flowers, fruits, frequency, habitat, and Rights held: World range. Naturalist Edmund Redfield profiles 150 species of wildflowers from 53 plant families in an organized and easily accessible way. Includes over 350 colour photographs and black and white illustrations.

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Sea Glass Be a Pond Summer Detective

Heidi Jardine Stoddart Solving the Mysteries of Lakes, Swamps, and Pools Molly loves searching for sea glass at Gram’s Peggy Kochanoff cottage. Each morning after breakfast and tea, they wander the beach together, searching under driftwood, in be- Do dragonflies bite? What is tween pebbles, and in the surf for these ocean treasures. That the difference between a frog and a toad? Are leeches dangerous? is, until the day the moving truck comes. Suddenly Molly finds herself spending autumn, winter, and spring in a faraway city. Naturalist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers these questions When a surprise parcel arrives from Gram, Molly wishes with and more in this illustrated guide to solving pond mysteries. all her might for another sea glass summer. Will her wish come From the life cycle of mosquitoes to the many uses and varieties true? of pond plants, Kochanoff takes young readers on an entertain- ing and enlightening tour of life in and around a freshwater pond. A gentle, lyrical story with vibrant paper-collage illustrations, Sea This book is the perfect way to discover the nature mysteries in Glass Summer explores the powerful lure of the ocean, and the your own backyard! meaningful treasures within.

Let’s Read! Cyrus Eaton Carol McDougall and Champion for Peace Shanda LaRamee-Jones Richard Rudnicki

Let’s Read! brings parents, babies, and books togeth- Award-winning artist Richard er to celebrate the joys of Rudnicki uses vibrant imag- reading. This latest book ery and accessible text to tell in the popular Baby Steps the true story of Nobel Peace series shows the many ways babies engage with books at dif- Prize–winning billionaire Cyrus ferent ages and stages, from looking and listening to pointing Eaton. From Eaton’s roots in at pictures and choosing their bedtime books. See the founda- rural Pugwash, Nova Scotia, the book introduces a new gen- tion of reading build, from a newborn listening to their parent’s eration to the industrious pacifist who helped make the world voice to a toddler excited about reading. Evocative photos of a safer place. babies interacting with books and bouncy read-aloud text will appeal to baby and parent alike. Every new parent will want $19.95 | Children’s Non-Fiction | 978-1-77108-396-6 Let’s Read! on their baby’s bookshelf. eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-397-3 8 x 10 | 40 pages | hardcover | 15 colour illustrations $9.95 | Baby Board Book | 978-1-77108-368-3 Rights held: World eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-369-0 Ages 7-12 6.5 x 6.5 | 16 pages | board | 12 colour photographs Rights held: World Ages 0-2

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A Change of If I Were a Heart Zombie

Story by Alice Walsh Story by Kate Inglis Art by Erin Bennett Banks Art by Eric Orchard

Finally, the remarkable story In this hilarious picture book of Lanier Phillips is available for young children in this heart- written by Hackmatack warming picture book. Award-nominated author Kate Inglis and brilliantly A young African American, Lanier Phillips escapes the violence, illustrated by Eric Orchard, racism, and segregation of his Georgia home by joining the two best friends imagine navy during the Second World War. But tragedy strikes the ordinary life as classic monsters and mythical creatures. What USS Truxtun off the southeastern coast of Newfoundland, and would Evan the Zombie do for the school talent show? Who Lanier is the lone Black survivor of the shipwreck. Covered in would Poppy the Muddy Wood Fairy have over for dinner? oil when he arrives onshore, the community’s kindness and From an alien with three hundred eyeballs to giants and goblin humanity brings him back to health and changes his outlook queens, this book of tickle trunk fun will delight kids of all ages. on life. He went on to march for Black rights with Martin Luther King, and remained forever grateful to the small town of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. $19.95 | Children’s Picture Book | 978-1-77108-356-0 eISBN (ePUB): 978-1-77108-357-7 $19.95 | Children’s Picture Book | 978-1-77108-371-3 8 x 10 | 32 pages | hardcover | 16 colour illustrations eISBN (ePub): 978-1-77108-372-0 Rights held: World 10 x 8 | 32 pages | hardcover | 14 colour illustrations Ages 4-12 Rights held: North America Ages 4-9

Chasing the Prisoner of Phantom Ship Warren

Deborah Toogood Andreas Oertel

Matt has two weeks left to As the Second World War enjoy summer with his best nears it’s terrible climax, friends, Danny and Emma, Warren’s dad announces but he has to include his that he’s bringing home a younger cousin Adam. German prisoner of war Matt’s summer takes on to help work on their New an unexpected adventure Brunswick farm. Fearing when he and Adam spot a for his life, Warren decides burning, ghostly ship and to kill the POW before he become determined to unravel the mystery. Recruiting Danny and his family are murdered by him. But getting rid of a house and Emma, the four set out to find the ship, only to encounter guest isn’t easy, especially when you become friends. other, very real dangers on the Northumberland Strait. $14.95 | Middle Grade Fiction | 978-1-77108-375-1 $12.95 | Middle Grade Fiction | 978-1-77108-382-9 eISBN (ePUB): 978-1-77108-376-8 eISBN (ePUB): 978-1-77108-383-6 5.25 x 7.75 | 160 pages | paperback 5 x 7.5 | 140 pages | paperback Rights held: English, World Rights held: World Ages 8-12 Ages 8-12

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An Atlantic Canadian The Christmas Secret Mary Morrison’s A Maritime Christmas Christmas Reader Edited by Dan Soucoup Cape Breton Christmas Treasury Introduction by Lesley Crewe $16.95 | 170 pages | paperback Bette MacDonald Various Authors $15.95 | 172 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-933-0 $19.95 | 104 pages | paperback $29.95 | 96 pages | hardcover 978-1-55109-785-5 978-1-77108-322-5 978-1-77108-087-3

The Finest Tree The Best of Buddy the To Every Thing There is a The Magical Christmas Edited by Dan Soucoup Bluenose Reindeer Season Light of Old Nova Scotia $16.95 | 168 pages | paperback Story by Bruce Nunn Alistair MacLeod Story by Bruce Nunn 978-1-77108-170-2 Art by Brenda Jones $14.95 | 34 pages | paperback Art by Yolanda Poplawska $14.95 | 114 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-943-9 $12.95 | 48 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-871-5 978-1-55109-463-2

Gadzooks the A Christmas Dollhouse A Bluenose Twelve Days Christmas with the Christmas Goose Richard Rudnicki of Christmas Rural Mail Story by Jennifer McGrath $18.95 | 32 pages | hardcover Story by Bruce Nunn Story by Lance Woolaver Art by Ivan Murphy 978-1-55109-868-5 Art by Doretta Groenendyk Art by Maud Lewis $19.95 | 32 pages | hardcover $17.95 | 32 pages | hardcover $12.95 | 24 pages | board 978-1-55109-794-7 978-1-55109-938-5 978-1-55109-790-9

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Winner of Winner of the Dartmouth Atlantic Book Book Award for Award for Non-Fiction Historical Fiction

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Winner of Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing

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South Shore Facts and Sailing Alone Around Halifax Warden of Oak Island Gold Folklore the World the North William S. Crooker Vernon Oickle Captain Joshua Slocum Thomas H. Raddall with $17.95 | 222 pages | paperback $15.95 | 214 pages | paperback $14.95 | 304 pages | paperback updates by Stephen Kimber 978-1-55109-049-8 978-1-55109-898-2 978-1-55109-931-6 $16.95 | 374 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-715-2

Shortlisted for Atlantic Winner of Book Award AESE for Scholarly Outstanding Writing Publication Award

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Shortlisted Shortlisted for the for Best Atlantic Hackmatack Published Book Award Award Over 50,000 sold!

Shortlisted for Silver Birch and Golden Oak Awards

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Shortlisted for Dartmouth Award for Fiction

Shortlisted for the Hackmatack Award

Fall 2016 Page 37 FOOD AND WINE

Out of Old Nova Scotia The Taste of Nova Scotia Green Shutters The Apple a Day Kitchens (revised edition) Cookbook Cookbook Cookbook Marie Nightingale Charles Lief and Hilda Zinck Janet Reeves $15.95 | 229 pages | paperback Heather MacKenzie $18.95 | 224 pages | paperback $16.95 | 220 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-914-9 $24.95 | 176 pages | paperback 978-0-92105-457-3 978-1-55109-858-6 978-1-55109-875-3

Almost 10,000 sold!

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Shortlisted for the 2010 Cuisine Canada Cookbook awards

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Bud The Spud Kisses Kisses Baby-O! The Memory Stone Children of the Titanic Story by Stompin’ Tom Connors Story by Sheree Fitch Story by Anne Louise Christine Welldon Art by Brenda Jones Art by HildaRose MacDonald $14.95 | 92 pages | paperback $12.95 | 16 pages | board $6.50 | 12 pages | board Art by Joanne Ouellet 978-1-55109-892-0 978-1-55109-811-1 978-1-55109-646-9 English $7.95 | 24 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-697-1 Also available in paperback French 978-1-55109-442-7 $8.95 | 24 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-745-9 Mi’kmaq 978-1-55109-429-8

Shortlisted for the Lillian Shortlisted Shepherd for the Memorial Hackmatack Award Award

Return to the Sea East to the Sea A Day With You Lasso the Wind Heidi Jardine Stoddart Heidi Jardine Stoddart In Paradise Story by George Elliott Clarke $10.95 | 32 pages | paperback $10.95 | 32 pages | paperback Story by Lennie Gallant Art by Susan Tooke 978-1-55109-606-3 978-1-55109-577-6 Art by Patsy MacKinnon $24.95 | 66 pages | hardcover $12.95 | 32 pages | paperback 978-1-77108-050-7 978-1-55109-832-6

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Shortlisted for the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award

Toes in my Nose There Were Monkeys Sleeping Dragons Mabel Murple And Other Poems in My Kitchen All Around Story by Sheree Fitch Story by Sheree Fitch Story by Sheree Fitch Story by Sheree Fitch Art by Sydney Smith Art by Sydney Smith Art by Sydney Smith Art by Michele Nidenoff $12.95 | 24 pages | paperback $15.95 | 48 pages | paperback 12.95 | 32 pages | paperback $12.95 | 32 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-859-3 978-1-77108-218-1 978-1-55109-994-1 978-1-55109-772-5

Winner of the Moonbeam Award Winner Shortlisted of the Lillian for the Lillian Shepherd Shepherd Memorial Memorial Award Award

The Thundermaker Mayann’s Train Ride Music is for Everyone Atlantic Puffin Alan Syliboy Story by Hon. Mayann Francis Story by Jill Barber Story by Kristin Bieber Domm $19.95 | 32 pages | hardcover Art by Tamara Thiébaux Heikalo Art by Sydney Smith Art by Jeffrey Domm 978-1-77108-329-4 $19.95 | 32 pages | hardcover $19.95 | 32 pages | hardcover $9.95 | 32 pages | paperback 978-1-77108-348-5 978-1-77108-150-4 978-1-55109-518-9

Winner of the Lillian Shepherd Winner of the Memorial Mayor’s Award Award for Illustration

The Terrible, Horrible, Up Home Tangled in the Bay Lobster Fishing Smelly Pirate Story by Shauntay Grant Story by Deborah Tobin on the Sea Story by Carrie Muller and Art by Susan Tooke Art by Jeffrey Domm Story by Maureen Hull $8.95 | 32 pages | paperback Jacqueline Halsey $19.95 | 32 pages | hardcover Art by Brenda Jones 978-1-55109-660-5 978-1-55109-441-0 $8.95 | 32 pages | paperback Art by Eric Orchard Also available in paperback 978-1-55109-754-1 $10.95 | 32 pages | paperback $12.95 | 32 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-655-1 978-1-55109-911-8

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Theodore Too and Theodore Too and Theodore Too and Theodore Too and the the Too-long Nap the Shipwreck School the Mystery Guest Excuse-Me Monster Story by Michelle Mulder Story by Michelle Mulder Story by Michelle Mulder Story by Michelle Mulder Art by Yolanda Poplawska Art by Yolanda Poplawska Art by Yolanda Poplawska Art by Yolanda Poplawska $9.95 | 24 pages | paperback $8.95 | 24 pages | paperback $9.95 | 24 pages | paperback $9.95 | 18 pages | board 978-1-55109-571-4 978-1-55109-609-4 978-1-55109-659-9 978-1-55109-807-4

Shortlisted for the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award

Shortlisted for the Hackmatack Award

My Goat Gertrude I Spy a Bunny The Children of Africville Oak Island and the Story by Starr Dobson Story by Judy Dudar Christine Welldon Search for Art by Dayle Dodwell Art by Richard Rudnicki $15.95 | 82 pages | paperback Buried Treasure $18.95 | 32 pages | hardcover $12.95 | 32 pages | paperback 978-1-77108-100-9 Joann Hamilton-Barry 978-1-55109-861-6 978-1-55109-942-2 $15.95 | 88 pages | paperback Also available in paperback 978-1-77108-342-3 $12.95 | 32 pages | paperback 978-1-55109-920-0

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Shortlisted Shortlisted Shortlisted for the for the Silver for the Hackmatack Birch Award Hackmatack and Silver Birch Award Awards

Shortlisted Winner of the Shortlisted for the Hackmatack for the Silver Hackmatack Award Birch Award Award

Fall 2016 Page 43 MACINTYRE PURCELL BACKLIST

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