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A cover with a “Classic” Poetry ...... 3 ribbon on it indicates it was published before 2011 Fiction ...... 4
People ...... 9
History ...... 12
Non-Fiction ...... 15 Find out how to Nature ...... 17 win a basket full of Food ...... 19 books! Page 31 Photography ...... 20
Art ...... 21
Local Interest ...... 22
Activities ...... 23
Holiday ...... 24
Young Readers ...... 26
The Great Book Giveaway...... 31
Bookstore Listings...... Back Cover
Poetry
What Really At First, Lonely Happened is This Tanya Davis A Poetry Memoir Musician and a spoken- Dianne Hicks word performer, poet Morrow Tanya Davis has now taken to the page. In This poetry memoir this collection, she focuses on the reflects on life’s many ten-year journey passages: falling in love, of an adult “only searching for truth and child” as her beloved the search for home. parents face declining health and death. $17.95, pb, 64 pages 978-1-89483-854-2, These poems are wry, Acorn Press poignant, humorous and sometimes heartbreaking. $18.95, pb, 80 pages 978-1-89483-862-7, Acorn Press 3 Fiction
That Forgetful Shore Trudy J. Morgan-Cole Triffie and Kit are closer than sisters. But for two girls growing up in a tiny outport community at the dawn of the twentieth century, having the same dreams and ambitions doesn’t mean life will hand them the same opportunities.
$19.95, pb, 312 pages 978-1-55081-362-3 $17.95, eBook 978-1-55081-371-5, Breakwater Books
The Beothuk Expedition Big Town Derek Yetman A Novel of Africville “Derek Yetman tells the story of Cartwright’s Stephens Gerard Malone expedition more It is Halifax in the early 1960s, and seventeen-year- thoroughly and vividly old Early and his young friends hear whispers that the than it’s ever been told city wants to move the residents of Africville out of before. His depiction their homes. Big Town is an unforgettable account of of the encounter of a community in crisis and the remarkable spirit that the Europeans with the persists in the face of adversity. Beothuk is unsentimental, “Malone is adept at details and dialogue” never idealized, yet —The Globe and Mail powerfully moving.” $18.95, pb, 224 pages 978-1-55109-854-8, Nimbus Publishing —Wayne Johnston, A World Elsewhere $19.95, pb, 208 pages 978-1-55081-360-9 $17.95, eBook 978-1-55082-374-6, Breakwater Books
A Possible Madness New Formac Fiction Treasures by Maritime authors from past times A Novel Frank Macdonald The High Heart “A reporter discovers Basil King, introduction by an all too plausible Mary Lu MacDonald conspiracy that will With a backdrop of New York society destroy his community during the First World War, an idealistic and its cultural and young Halifax woman faces hard physical ecology. Frank choices about love and nationality. Macdonald—social and $16.95, pb, 420 pages 978-0-88780-970-5 political observer, $14.95, eBook 978-0-88780-972-9, Formac journalist and novelist —at his finest.” The Lily and the Cross —Linden MacIntyre, A Tale of Acadia The Bishop’s Man James DeMille, introduction by Michael Peterman $24.95, pb, 368 pages Revenge, intrigue and romance set against the back- 978-1-897009-65-9, Cape Breton University Press ground of eighteenth century Grand Pré and Louisbourg. $16.95, pb, 230 pages 978-0-88780-974-3 $14.95, eBook 978-0-88780-976-7, Formac 4 Fiction
Breaking Ground A Julie Williamson Mystery William D. Andrews A mystery filled with characters and history—a well-known benefactor of the Ryland Historical Society is murdered and the society’s puzzle-loving director can’t help but want to solve the murder. $18.95, pb, 272 pages 978-1-93403-138-4, Islandport Press/ Nimbus Publishing
Death at Christy Burke’s A Collins-Burke Mind over Mussels Mystery A Shores Mystery Anne Emery Hilary MacLeod “Emery’s sixth mystery Amateur sleuth Hy McAllister trips over a body on (after 2010’s Children the beach. It’s cottager Lance Lord, dressed like Jimi in the Morning) makes Hendrix, his head split open by an axe. As Hurricane excellent use of its Angus moves up the coast, Mountie Jane Jamieson early 1990s Dublin and Hy vie to figure out who killed who and why. setting and the period’s The Shores is sheltering a murderer whose motive is endemic violence possessive love, whose mind is the weapon and who between Protestants could kill again. and Catholics.” $22.95, pb, 320 pages 978-1-89483-860-3 —Publishers Weekly $11.99, eBook 978-1-894838-603, Acorn Press $26.95, hc, 380 pages 978-1-55022-988-5 $16.95, eBook 978-1-77090-091-2, ECW Press Also available Revenge of the Lobster Lover $22.95, pb, 320 pages 978-1-89483-848-1 $14.99, eBook 978-1-89483-867-2, Acorn Press The Curse of Death of A Flowervilla Lesser Man Anastasia English Thomas Rendell Curran A captivating tale of Gunshots shatter the romance and faith, stillness of a rainy mystery and betrayal; night in an upscale in this thrilling multi- neighbourhood of St. generational family John’s, Newfoundland. epic, readers are Harrison Rose, a exposed to the best businessman and war qualities of humanity— veteran, lies dead. To and some of the worst. find the killer, Inspector $19.95, pb, 204 pages, Eric Stride confronts 978-1-927099-00-1 the darker side of post- $11.99, eBook World War II St. John’s. 978-1-927099-03-2, Boulder Publications $19.95, pb, 304 pages 978-0-9865376-2-2 $11.99, eBook 978-0-9865376-6-0, Boulder Publications
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This Will Be Difficult To Explain and Other Stories Johanna Skibsrud With this collection, Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud introduces us to an astonishing array of characters. Insightful and masterfully crafted, these stories bear the mark of one of Canada’s most remarkable voices, and linger in the mind long after the final page has been turned. $28.00, hc, 176 pages 978-0-670-06630-8, Hamish Hamilton Canada Glass Boys A Novel You Could Believe in Nothing Nicole Lundrigan Jamie Fitzpatrick With vivid and Jamie Fitzpatrick’s debut novel tells of a muddled unflinching prose, adulthood in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Derek is Nicole Lundrigan has forty-one years old. His girlfriend has left him, his created a suspenseful father is going to court and his rec hockey team and deeply human saga is up in arms. The Globe and Mail describes it as a of the persistence of “fast-moving, unsentimental look at amateur hockey, evil and the astonishing masculinity, mid-life crisis, drink, drugs and family power of love. Set in secrets.” Newfoundland. $19.95, pb, 288 pages 978-1-55109-856-2, $22.95, pb, 304 pages $11.99, eBook 978-155109-882-1, 978-1-55365-797-2 Nimbus Publishing $22.95, eBook 978-1-55365-798-9, Douglas & McIntyre
Wrecked Upon Mercy of St. Jude This Shore Wilhelmina Fitzpatrick Kate Story At times irreverent At the novel’s centre is and darkly humorous, Pearl Lewis: abused by Mercy of St. Jude is a her father at a young age, story of profound loss, she is wild, charismatic and the unforeseen and damaged. We follow effects that secrets can Pearl through the eyes have on those we love. of her son Stephen, but $19.95, pb, 225 pages also from the viewpoint 978-1-89717-475-3, of Mouse, the girl she Creative Book Publishing befriends and falls in love with as a teenager. $19.95, pb, 330 pages 978-1-897174-76-0, Creative Book Publishing
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The Town That Tide Road Drowned Valerie Compton Riel Nason On a strangely warm Living with a weird day in January, Stella brother can be tough. vanishes without a Falling through the ice trace, leaving behind a may be grounds for young daughter and a embarrassment. But mother bewildered by when Ruby Carson her sudden absence. discovers that her In this brilliant debut town is about to be novel, Compton tells swallowed by the the gripping story of a rising water of a family forced to grapple massive dam, she knows with the unknown. that her life is about to change for good. $19.95, pb, 280 pages 978-0-86492-640-1 $19.95, pb, 240 pages 978-0-86492-635-7 $19.95, eBook 978-0-86492-705-7, Goose Lane Editions $19.95, eBook 978-0-86492-700-2, Goose Lane Editions
Cold Clear Morning Lion Hunter New Revised Edition John Clarke Lesley Choyce A war novel about Taylor Colby grew up German secret agent in a tiny Nova Scotia Hans Farber and his fishing village but his plot to assassinate guitar-playing skill Sir Winston Churchill led him to become during a rendezvous a studio musician in with President Franklin Los Angeles. A novel Roosevelt off the coast about dreams realized of Ship Harbour, and dreams shattered, Newfoundland. love and loss, hurting $17.95, pb, 185 pages and healing, grief and 978-1-897317-41-9, forgiving. Flanker Press $22.95, pb, 300 pages 978-1-89742-632-6 $7.99, eBook 978-1-897426-39-5, Pottersfield Press
Contributing Call of a Distant Factors Shore Joe Beaton Corinne Hoebers Ronnie Doucette Historical fiction is dead—lying on based on one family’s a cold, metal slab emigration to Nova in the ME’s office. Scotia in 1751. After But what happened? two years of scraping What circumstances to survive within the take an innocent confines of the boy and turn him Dartmouth palisade, into a thief, a thug, they follow the colony a corpse? to Lunenburg in 1753. $18.95, pb, 272 pages $24.95, pb, 399 pages 978-1-92700-301-5, 978-1-897530-02-3 Bryler Publications $9.99, eBook 978-1-897530-17-7, 4th Floor Press Inc.
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Diligent River The Social Worker Daughter A Novel Bruce Graham Michael Ungar Set during 1914-1917, A controversial and this is the story of provocative story Charlene Durant, a set amid the hidden strong-willed young world of those whose woman from the motivations to help Parrsboro Shore can be as difficult to who fights for her understand as the independence and systems for which identity in a most they work. troubled time. $22.95, pb, 240 pages $22.95, pb, 224 pages 978-1-897426-26-5 978-1-897426-23-4, $9.99, eBook Pottersfield Press 978-1-897426-31-9, Pottersfield Press
The Entangling The Men’s Ainslie Stewart Breakfast An enthralling mix of 19 New Stories from mystery, mythology Cape Breton Island and romance, The Edited by Ronald Entangling follows the Caplan lives of two women living 200 years apart These terrific stories on the same piece of confirm Cape Breton land, connected by Island’s place on the tragedy and a shared map of acclaimed gift. Canadian fiction. Some writers have $21.95, pb, 344 pages broken into fame; many 978-1-927003-03-9, Bryler Publications are happy discoveries. From tenderness to brute force—The Men’s Breakfast is entertaining, lasting, thought-provoking reading. $18.95, pb, 176 pages 978-1-926908-08-3, Breton Books Strange Heaven Like the Whistling Lynn Coady of the Wind What do you do when Francis R Phillips, Ph.D. the psych ward is more A sophisticated, stable than home? If imperious but resilient you’re a survivor like mother and heroine Bridget, you won’t let a strives to keep her family little thing like family together during the get in the way of American Revolutionary happiness. Don’t miss War with husband and this new reader’s guide sons on opposite sides edition of Lynn Coady’s in the conflict: Loyalist stunning début novel. vs. Patriot from New $19.99, pb, 216 pages York to Saint John. For 978 -0-86492-617-3 avid readers. $19.99, eBook 978-0-86492-691-3, $23.95, pb, 336 pages, original Goose Lane Editions music, photos, sketches 978-1-89581-438-5, New World Publishing
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Two Crows Joy Orchids for Billie Vernon Oickle Jennifer Hatt Thrill-master Vernon In this Finding Maria prequel, Oickle returns with this Little Jack has lost his father spine tingling sequel and his hope until a surprise to last year’s One Crow inspires him to grow a rare Sorrow. Two Crows orchid. Will it bloom in time Joy turns it up with a to save his family? haunted house and $18.00, pb, 180 pages a new heroine. 978-0-9867576-2-4 $18.95, pb, 312 pages 978-1- $2.99 eBook 978-0-9867576-3-1, 927003-15-2, Marechal Media Inc. Bryler Publications Also available One Crow Sorrow Finding Maria Vernon Oickle Jennifer Hatt $18.95, pb, 328 pages $25.00, pb, 392 pages 978-0-98664-252-4, 978-0-9867576-0-0 Bryler Publications $2.99, eBook 978-0-9867576-1-7, Marechal Media Inc. Dramatic Life of a Mennonite Girl Country Doctor Mary Ediger Fifty Years of Disasters With an undeniable wit and Diagnoses and unfailing humour, Dr. Arnold Burden Mary Ediger tells the with Andrew Safer world about growing Dr. Burden was the first up Mennonite in a medic to enter the non-Mennonite mines after the Springhill community. It is a true mine disaster. He writes coming-of-age story candidly of his dealings for the child in all of us. with patients, unusual $18.95, pb, 272 pages cases and brave efforts 978-1-92700-300-8, Bryler Publications made under difficult conditions. $16.95, pb, 192 pages, 2 diagrams 978-1-55109-872-2 $11.99, eBook 978-155109-885-2, Nimbus Publishing
The One Eyed Trapped Gunner Leif Morrison Gary Chisholm The true story of Larry Sutherland’s one man’s harrowing story is one of bravery, 7655-kilometre journey courage and the across the Atlantic strength of the human Ocean in a decrepit spirit. With a birth 160-foot longliner to a defect that should land where corruption have made it impossible, and ruthlessness are an Larry not only survived everyday occurrence. the war—he became a $18.95, pb, 200 pages legend. 978-0-98138-198-5, Bryler Publications $18.95, pb, 304 pages 978-1-92700-302-2, Bryler Publications
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Molly Kool Captain of the Atlantic Christine Welldon The sea was long the dominion of men, but thanks to Molly Kool, that all changed. By fighting to work in a profession she loved, she opened doors for all women who came after her. $15.95, pb, 114 pages, 45 photos 978-1-55109-836-4, Nimbus Publishing
Elizabeth Bishop Nova Scotia’s The Golden Age of Liberalism “Home-made” Poet A Portrait of Romeo LeBlanc Sandra Barry Sandra Barry takes Naomi E.S. Griffiths, foreword by Jean Chrétien readers through the Noted Acadian historian Naomi Griffiths gives us highlights in Bishop’s an engrossing biography of New Brunswick’s Roméo life, from her years Leblanc. Journalist, politician, cabinet minister and in Great Village, Governor-General, Leblanc was a political leader in Nova Scotia, to her the Pearson-Trudeau-Chrétien era when Liberals publications, her dominated Canadian politics. Along the way, Dr. travels, as well as Griffiths reveals many fascinating insights about her examining some of her subject’s contemporaries including Lester Pearson, most famous poems. Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien. $15.95, pb, 122 pages, $35.00, hc, 376 pages 978-1-55277-896-8 60 images $18.00, eBook 978-1-55277-897-5 , Formac 978-1-55109-823-4, Nimbus Publishing
African Chronicles Through the Gates Burris Devanney of Hell and Back A two-volume memoir The private war of of the turbulent 1960s a footslogger from in two very different ‘The Avenue’ African countries: John O’Brien and colonial Rhodesia, Devonna (O’Brien) gripped by an absurd Edwards but tragic commitment to “petty apartheid”, Unabridged and independent infantryman’s Nigeria, on the brink of humourous memoir civil war. of WWII. From basic training, through mud $24.95, pb, 448 pages, photos 978-1-89581-442-2, and destruction, until New World Publishing a concussion blast ended his war. O’Brien served with the merchant navy, West Novas and Halifax Rifles. $21.95, pb, 160 pages, photos 978-1-81958-141-4, New World Publishing
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Righting the Wrongs Gus Wedderburn’s Quest for Social Justice in Nova Scotia Marie Riley During his fifty years in Nova Scotia, H.A.J. (Gus) Wedderburn fought social injustice, and was a driving force for many years in the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. $17.95, pb, 176 pages, photos 978-1-897426-28-9, Pottersfield Press
Sanctuary The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka The Amazing Foot Race Deborah Carr of 1921 The remarkable story of a pioneering Halifax to Vancouver in 134 Days environmentalist. Shirley Jean Roll Tucker From wartime Poland The race that became known as Canada’s amazing to Mary’s Point, Mary race was a welcome antidote to a bleak economy, Majka has lived a high unemployment and a nation still healing from remarkable life. the scars of war. This lively account of this largely $19.95, pb, 248 pages, forgotten Canadian sporting event uses the 978-0-86492-624-1 vernacular of the day, with newspaper stories and $19.95, eBook 978-0-86492-710-1, the hikers’ own words. Goose Lane Editions $19.95, pb, 224 pages 978-1-55109-855-5, Nimbus Publishing
Faulkner East Coast NHLers A Hockey History Paul White T.P. Rossiter Even before superstars George Faulkner never Crosby and Marchand, made the Montreal East Coast hockey Canadiens’ roster, despite players have been a his extraordinary skating part of the NHL. Paul skills, unmatched White tells the stories dedication, and of more than a dozen endurance. Richard NHL hockey players, Winston ‘Dickie’ Moore current and past, who said, “George Faulkner learned the game was the best player I in communities on ever saw who never Canada’s East Coast. made it to the NHL.” $16.95, pb, 160 pages $19.95, pb, 224 pages 978-0-88780-969-9 978-1-55081-376-0 $14.95, eBook $17.95, eBook 978-1-55081- 978-0-88780-971-2, Formac 387-6, Breakwater Books
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People of the Sea The Devil and the Clarence Vautier Deep Blue Sea People of the Sea is Steven Laffoley a new collection of A cold-case murder stories from Clarence investigation about a Vautier about the schooner sailing from highliners (the captains Boston to Argentina in and their crews) of 1896—on which three twentieth-century people were murdered Atlantic Canada. with an axe. The $19.95, pb, 234 pages, schooner eventually b&w photos ended up in Halifax and 978-1-926881-46-1, stunned the people of Flanker Press that city. $19.95, pb, 192 pages 978-1-897426-27-2, Pottersfield Press
In the Great Rogues and Rascals Days of Sail True Stories of 14 Sea Stories Maritimes Lives Archibald and Legends Macmechan, edited Bob Kroll by Elizabeth Peirce This anecdotal history Edited and with of the Maritime an introduction by provinces includes Elizabeth Peirce, In 200 odd, interesting the Great Days of Sail and obscure short tales brings fourteen tales of of con men and worldwide adventure, hangmen, murderers pirates, storms, fires, and soul savers, heroes, rescues and tragedies failures and more. for a new generation $17.95, pb, 224 pages of readers. 978-1-55109-864-7 $17.95, pb, 201 pages $11.99, eBook 978-1-55109-821-0, 978-155109-883-8, Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing Riots and Religion in Newfoundland Come From Away The Clash between Protestants and Catholics Nurses who Immigrated to Newfoundland in the Early Settlement of Newfoundland and Labrador David Dawe Jeanette Walsh and David Dawe retraces Marilyn Beaton the foundation of The third volume in the Newfoundland’s best-selling nursing history religious history and series, this collection of explains how the battle stories sheds light on between the English the challenges nurses Protestants and the encountered in the Irish Roman Catholics workplace and highlights continued from the old the commitment and country to the New strong attachment they World. grew to have for their $19.95, pb, 244 pages, adopted home. b&w photos and illus. $18.95, pb, 288 pages 978-1-926881-04-1, 978-1-55081-359-3 Flanker Press $16.95, eBook 978-1-55081-373-9, Breakwater Books 12 History
Stories from the Hole in the Ceiling Anne Galway The hole in the kitchen ceiling was a source of heat for the rooms upstairs. This collection tells about the secrets and lessons that children learned through the hole in the ceiling. $17.95, pb, 182 pages, b&w illus. 978-1-926881-43-0, Flanker Press
Cape Breton Facts and Folklore Bill Doyle Heroes of the Acadian Cape Breton Facts and Resistance Folklore is full of fun and interesting facts The Story of Joseph Beausoleil about the people, Broussard and Pierre II Surette places and events that shaped this fascinating 1702-1765 island. A must-have Dianne Marshall for every Cape Breton Well-known local historian Dianne Marshall tells the home. unique and little-known story of the young men who $15.95, pb, 256 pages, led the armed Acadian resistance in eighteenth century 20 images Nova Scotia. She provides a fresh perspective on the 978-1-55109-867-8, tragic story of the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians. Nimbus Publishing $22.95, pb, 208 pages 978-0-88780-978-1 $14.95, eBook 978-0-88780-980-4, Formac
Necessaries and Only in Sufficiencies New Brunswick Planter Society in New Stories from Londonderry, Onslow David Goss and Truro Townships, David Goss 1761-1780 Popular Saint John Carol Campbell and storyteller David James F. Smith Goss delivers over Social, political and forty-five stories of material micro-history ghosts, werewolves of eighteenth-century and local personalities, life in the district of all gleaned from his Cobequid, now part years as a columnist of Colchester County: and tour guide. migration, settlement $17.95, pb, 222 pages, and the evolution of New England and Irish cultural 50 b&w images mores in this wilderness setting. 978-1-55109-834-0, Nimbus Publishing $24.95, pb, 324 pages 978-1-897009-52-9, Cape Breton University Press 13 History
From the War of 1812 to World War II, these new volumes provide telling accounts of the naval battles of the War of 1812 in the Bay of Fundy, of the Canadian nurses who volunteered for World War I and of the battles in northern Italy fought by Atlantic Canada’s historic “mechanized” cavalry. Goose Lane Editions and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society Steel Cavalry The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign Lee Windsor $18.95, pb, 200 pages 978-0-86492-657-9 $18.95, eBook 978-0-86492-709-5 Battle for the Bay The Naval War of 1812 Joshua M. Smith $16.95, pb, 128 pages 978-0-86492-644-9 Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War Shawna M. Quinn $16,95, pb, 174 pages 978-0-86492-633-3 Canada’s Soldiers in The Canadair South Africa Argus Tales from the Boer The Untold Story of War, 1899-1902 Canada’s Cold War John Boileau Maritime Hunter A new addition to Cary Baker and Bert Formac’s Amazing Stories Campbell, Adam series, Halifax military Murray and Rob historian John Boileau Arsenault recounts fascinating The first book ever stories about the published on this experiences of young amazing plane, with Canadians fighting in this hundreds of newly little-known conflict. released photographs; $9.95, pb, 144 pages, The Canadair Argus is a great reintroduction to one b&w photos of Canada’s finest pieces of aviation history. 978-1-55277-725-1 $59.95, hc, 200 pages, b&w and colour photos, illus. $7.95, eBook 978-1-92700-306-0, Bryler Publications 978-1-55277-726-8, Formac Canadian Forces The Spring Rice An Historical Salute Document to Those on The Front Newfoundland at Line War, 1914-1918 Art Montague Jack Fitzgerald This book is an This story of unabashed salute to Newfoundland during those who have risked WWI sheds new light their own lives for causes on decisions made and Canadians believe in. If battles fought, enhancing you believe in heroism the admiration and and bravery, this is a respect of those whose must read. No Canadian courage, dedication will be unmoved. and loyalty contributed $19.95, pb, 200 pages to changing world history. 978-1-926916-09-5, $18.95, pb, 275 pages, 25 b&w illus. 978-1-897174-79-1, MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Creative Book Publishing
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Media Mediocrity Vanishing Schools, Waging War Against Threatened Science: How the Communities Television Makes The Contested Us Stoopid! Schoolhouse in Richard Zurawski Maritime Canada This book shows how Paul W. Bennett the vested interests of A colourful history of the world, through our our schools and the mass media, have been principles that formed waging a relentless and the basis of the public highly successful war education system— against science. principles that we $24.95, pb, 152 pages should return to in 978-1-55266-400-1, order to better serve Fernwood Publishing the needs of our children and our communities. $24.95, pb, 192 pages, b&w photos 978-1-55266-401-8, Fernwood Publishing Bathtubs but Stop Signs No Water Cars and Capitalism A Tribute to the on the Road to Mushuau Innu Economic, Social and Gerry Steele Ecological Decay The oral history of the Yves Engler and Canadian government’s Bianca Mugyenyi 1967 resettlement of An anti-car road-trip the Mushuau Innu— story that is a must the Aboriginal people read for all those of Labrador—on Davis who wish to escape Inlet. the clutches of auto $14.95, pb, 112 pages insanity. 978-1-55266-405-6, $19.95, pb, 252 pages Fernwood Publishing 978-1-55266-384-4, Fernwood Publishing
Paved With Good About Canada: Queer Rights Intentions Peter Knegt Canada’s Development Is Canada a “queer utopia”? This NGOs on the Road book examines the history of from Idealism to the struggle for queer rights in Imperialism Canada. Nik Barry-Shaw, Yves $17.95, pb, 128 pages 978-1-55266-437-7, Engler and Dru Oja Jay Fernwood Publishing A critical history that About Canada: Media examines the relationships Peter Steven between NGOs, the Canadian government An examination of all things and social movements, CanCon, this book argues that the in both the North and Canadian people must reclaim South. the media from elite interests in order to ensure its democratic and $14.95, pb, 128 pages 978-1-55266-399-8, quality future. Fernwood Publishing co-published with Red Publishing $17.95, pb, 144 pages 978-1-55266-447-6, Fernwood Publishing 15 Non-fiction
Campus Confidential Eco-Innovators 100 startling things Sustainability in you don’t know about Atlantic Canada Canadian universities Chris Benjamin Ken S. Coates and With chapters Bill Morrison on reducing University insiders consumption, Coates and Morrison greening the home, offer a bestselling look sustainable eating, at all aspects of dressing, transportation university life; 100 short and vacationing, this chapters with facts, is an important look figures and realities at the commitment to we don’t often see. viable green options. What every parent—and $22.95, pb, 216 pages, 37 photos 978-1-55109-863-0 teen—should know if they’re thinking about college. $11.99, eBook 978-155109-888-3, Nimbus Publishing $22.95, pb, 248 pages 978-1-55277-650-6 $16.95, eBook 978-1-55277-651-3, Lorimer
Power Failure? Imaginary Line Richard Starr Life on an Former journalist, civil Unfinished Border servant, political staffer Jacques Poitras and freelance policy Travelling the length adviser Starr writes of the border, from that three centuries of Madawaska to experience have done Passsamaquoddy Bay, nothing to teach Nova Poitras uncovers an Scotia governments arbitrarily drawn line how to use energy that has created resources, raising key divisions and cemented questions about our friendships, even as energy future. Canada and the US $24.95, pb, 264 pages, re-imagine their b&w photos relationship for the twenty-first century. 978-0-88780-953-8 $19.95 eBook, $19.95, pb, 344 pages 978-0-86492-650-0 978-0-88780-955-2, Formac $19.95, eBook 978-0-86492-703-3, Goose Lane Editions
Danny Williams, Inside The Game Please Come Back The Stories Behind Bill Rowe Nova Scotia’s Sports A collection of political Headlines commentaries that Chris Cochrane challenges the reader In Inside the Game, to take on political sports columnist Chris lightweights and Cochrane goes beyond heavyweights alike and the headlines to tell to always question the real stories behind motives and demand ten of the province’s answers from those in most memorable power. sporting events and $19.95, pb, 273 pages achievements. 978-1-926881-18-8, Flanker Press $17.95, pb, 192 pages, 30 b&w images 978-1-55109-838-8 $11.99, eBook 978-1-55109-879-1, Nimbus Publishing
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Angels and the How to Fix Afterlife Your Head Laverne Stewart Lesley Choyce As a journalist with over In How to Fix Your twenty-four years of Head, Choyce freely experience, Laverne shares his most hilarious Stewart writes about and entertaining dozens of people misadventures who have had angelic along with some of his encounters and who best advice on topics have been contacted ranging from plumbing by deceased friends to bad jobs. and relatives. It includes $17.00, pb, 148 pages heartfelt stories of 978-1-894987-54-7, people whose lives have Wolsak & Wynn Publishers been changed forever. $19.95, pb, 176 pages 978-1-897426-24-1, Pottersfield Press Blue Cheese for The Gift Breakfast A MADD Mother’s Helping the Widow Journey of Healing learn to Smile Again Margaret Miller Frances L. Taggart When Margaret A book of innovative Miller’s son was killed ideas, techniques and at age twenty-six by a strategies for making drunk driver, her grief life more bearable threatened to consume following the loss of her. But through MADD, your life partner, it is she found a way to use written in a sincere, her grief and anger to yet light tone, with help other families understanding and and to fight impaired compassion. driving across the country. $14.95, pb, 96 pages, b&w $19.95, pb, 184 pages 978-1-55109-825-8 visuals 978-1-897462-19-5, $11.99, eBook 978-1-55109-877-7, Nimbus Publishing Glen Margaret Publishing
Reluctant Target: Hope for Wildlife Avoiding motor True Stories of vehicle collisions and Animal Rescue other survival tips Ray Macleod James F. (Jim) Mitchell Hope for Wildlife tells Written by an expert in the stories of fourteen traffic accident analysis different wild animals and police work whose that have passed professional books are through the centre. The used worldwide. stories are educational, Speed, lane changes, heart-warming and turns, winter driving, sometimes heartbreaking skids, roll-overs and —but always filled with escape, braking, hope. steering, night driving, $19.95, pb, 170 pages, 50 photos 978-1-55109-817-3 parking lots, distractions, $11.99, eBook 978-1-55109-878-4, Nimbus Publishing cross-walks. For all teens and older drivers. $15.95, coil pb, 96 pages, pocket-size 978-1-89581-423-1, New World Publishing 17 Nature
Newfoundland and Labrador Trees & Shrubs Todd Boland A fabulous guide to more than 130 of the province’s woody plants with icons that aid at-a-glance scanning of each species, tabs of each plant’s favoured habitats and photos of each plant’s key features. $34.95, pb, 312 pages, colour photos 978-0-9865376-4-6, Boulder Publications
Plants for Atlantic Gardens Handsome and Hard-Working Shrubs, Trees and The Atlantic Coast Perennials Jodi DeLong A Natural History Well-known Harry Thurston, photos by Wayne Barrett gardening columnist Written by the region’s best-known nature writer, Jodi DeLong profiles The Atlantic Coast draws upon the most up-to-date over 100 of the science on the ecology of the region as well as best species for the author’s lifetime experience as a biologist and gardening in Atlantic naturalist. It is both a personal tribute and an Canada—this book accessible, comprehensive guide to an intriguing is your go-to ecosystem. resource for $45.00, hc, 336 pages, colour illus. 978-1-55365-446-9 growing perennials, $27.00, eBook 978-1-55365-965-5, shrubs and trees. Greystone Books with David Suzuki Foundation $29.95, pb, 253 pages, 200 colour photos 978-1-55109-798-5, Nimbus Publishing Salmon Country Waterfalls of New Brunswick’s New Brunswick Great Angling Nicholas Guitard Rivers Visit a hidden Doug Underhill world of natural and André wonder with Gallant with author- Jacques Héroux photographer A stunning tribute Nicholas Guitard. to the rivers, $24.95, pb, colour, traditions and 152 pages people of this 978-0-86492-543-5 $24.95, eBook sport of sports. 978-0-86492-733-0, Goose Lane Editions $45.00, hc, 264 pages, colour 978-0-86492-629-6 $45.00, eBook 978-0-86492-728-6, Goose Lane Editions
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A Treasury of Nova Favourite Recipes Scotia Heirloom from Old New Dishes Brunswick Kitchens Florence Hilchey Mildred and Stuart Featuring recipes Trueman dating back to the early Mildred Trueman twentieth century, this collected these recipes collection includes by scouring old note- easily prepared dishes books and recording and readily available the dishes that had ingredients. Spiral-bound. been passed down $19.95, pb, 120 pages, colour through generations by photos 978-0-9865376-9-1, memory. This edition Boulder includes an index. $15.95, pb, 172 pages 978-1-55109-850-0, Nimbus Publishing
Prince Edward The Apple A Day Island Seafood Cookbook Local Fare, Janet Reeves Global Flavours Apples are both good Paul Lucas to eat and good for This gem of a cookbook you. Author Janet covers recipes from Reeves has compiled shellfish to white fish, over 250 apple dishes with global influences —everything from from Newfoundland appetizers to main to Thailand. Chef Lucas courses, soups to takes the mystery out salads and preserves of preparing and to pastries. cooking seafood. $16.95, pb, 208 pages $12.95, pb, 60 pages 978-1-55109-858-6, 978-1-89483-858-0, Nimbus Publishing Acorn Press
A Taste of the The Taste of Nova Maritimes Scotia Cookbook Local, Seasonal Recipes Charles Lief and the Whole Year Round Heather MacKenzie Elisabeth Bailey Now back in print, In addition to seventy- this collection of the five mouth-watering best crowd-pleasing recipes for making the recipes from popular most of what’s on offer inns, restaurants and from our fields, orchards home kitchens from all and waters all year, this around Nova Scotia is book also highlights the brought together in this benefits of local and unique cookbook. seasonal eating. $24.95, 164 pages, colour $22.95, pb, 152 pages, insert 978-1-55109-875-3, 40 colour photos Nimbus Publishing 978-1-55109-869-2, Nimbus Publishing
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Little Book of Prince Edward Island John Sylvester With beautiful images of every corner of the Island in all seasons, this is a charming and captivating look at the Island in all its colours. John Sylvester’s imagery portrays the landscape like none other. $16.95, hc, 78 pages, 978-1-89483-859-7, Acorn Press
Fresh and Healthy Cooking for Two Easy Meals for Everyday Life Ellie Topp and Marilyn Booth Over seventy-five great recipes for twosomes— breakfast, lunch and dinner—that all follow Canada’s Food Guide recommendations for healthy eating. A unique focus on what’s fresh, what’s healthy and Sable Island what’s delicious and easy to prepare. Photography by Damian Lidgard $24.95, pb, 160 pages, full-colour photos 978-0-88780-982-8 Damian Lidgard $18.00, eBook 978-0-88780-984-2, Formac Sable Island includes over 100 stunning images that showcase this magnificent island in its rarely seen splendour. Damian Lidgard’s photography is an expression of the island’s unique beauty. $27.95, hc, 112 pages 978-1-55109-870-8, Nimbus Publishing Scrumptious and Sustainable Fishcakes Lives and A Collection of the Best Sustainable Fishcake Landscapes Recipes from Canadian Chefs, Coast to Coast A Photographic Edited by the Formac Cookbook Team Memoir of With stunning full-colour photography, Scrumptious Outport and Sustainable Fishcakes offers a collection of Newfoundland delicious and and Labrador, imaginative recipes from 1949-1963 some of Canada’s best Elmer J. Harp chefs. Includes detailed information on the most “Harp has a great eye and all the shots are enticing, sustainable seafood descriptive and greatly add to the text.”—William W. options available from Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Institute both Canadian coasts. $39.95, pb, 288 pages, 200 colour photos 978-0-7735-3924-2, $24.95, pb, 96 pages, McGill-Queen’s University Press full-colour photos 978-0-88780-983-5 $18.00, eBook 978-0-88780-985-9, Formac
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Logging in New Black Ice Brunswick David Blackwood Lumber, Mills & River Prints of Drives Newfoundland Dan Soucoup David Blackwood With over 140 historical Black Ice—a photographs with comprehensive extensive captions this and sumptuously book reveals forgotten illustrated logging practices, retrospective— unique details of river features over drives and how the seventy prints early sawmills were spanning forty years of David Blackwood’s work and built and organized. features essays by Blackwood, Michael Crummey, $19.95, pb, 188 pages Sean Cadigan and more. 978-1-89442-036-5, $40.00, pb, 224 pages, colour illus. 978-1-55365-779-8, Maritime Lines/ Douglas & McIntyre Nimbus Publishing
A Place Jacques Called Away Hurtubise Living and Edited by Sarah Painting in Fillmore Nova Scotia Printmaker, painter, Steven Rhude abstract artist This book extraordinaire collects the Jacques Hurtubise images created calls the Margaree during the Valley home. Yet artist’s career, his art has drawn and gives us a textual background that enables us to comparisons to that better understand what we are seeing. They often of Tousignant, employ familiar coastal icons. Molinari and Gaucher. Experience it up close $60.00, hc, 168 pages, full colour 978-0-9867699-0-0, in this lavish volume. Glen Margaret Publishing $60.00, hc, 204 pages, colour 978-0-86492-662-3 $60.00, eBook 978-0-86492-725-5 Goose Lane Editions and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Elaine Three Centuries Harrison of Public Art I am an Historic Halifax Island That Regional Municipality Dreams Barbara DeLory Jane Ledwell, A first for the entire Kevin Rice Halifax Regional and Douglas Municipality—three Sobey centuries of the history of the region through Elaine Harrison was an artist and a poet. Inspired by its public art with maps the Group of Seven, she found her subject matter in and directions to each the cliffs and waves, the sunflowers in her garden, the location plus walking trees and her own cats and kitchen. tours of the historic downtowns. $35.00, pb, 216 pages, 280 colour photos, maps, walking tours $24.95, pb, 80 pages 978-1-89483-863-4, Acorn Press 978-1-81958-143-5, New World Publishing
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Books of Everything You really can give somebody everything. From local slang to the most heinous crimes to the stories behind those unusual place names to the wild weather, it’s all here. There simply are no books more comprehensive. There are no books more fun. Whether you are a lifelong resident or looking for that perfect gift for relatives moved away, think of the best-selling Books of Everything. Nova Scotia Book of Everything John MacIntyre and Martha Walls $13.95, pb, 200 pages 978-0-9784784-3-8
Newfoundland and Labrador Book of Everything Martha Walls $13.95, pb, 200 pages, 978-0-9784784-4-5
New Brunswick Book of Everything John MacIntyre and Martha Walls $13.95, pb, 192 pages 978-0-9738063-2-8
Red Sky at Night The Lunenburg Superstitions and Werewolf Wives’ Tales Compiled And Other Stories by Atlantic Canada’s of the Supernatural Most Eclectic Collector Steve Vernon Vernon Oickle Spanning the length From Atlantic Canada’s and width of Nova best and most eclectic Scotia, these twenty- collector comes five blood-chilling the region’s most stories of the haunted, comprehensive list the supernatural and of superstitions. With the unexplainable contributions from are part history, part Cathy Jones, Joel Plaskett folklore and a lot of and Rita MacNeil, Red frightening fun. Sky at Night is a must read for all Atlantic Canadians… $15.95, pb, 160 pages 978-1-55109-857-9 superstitious or not. $11.99, eBook 978-155109-886-9, Nimbus Publishing $16.95, pb, 176 pages 978-1-926916-10-1, MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Newfoundland Old and New Modern World Highland Architecture in Bagpiping the Smallwood John G. Gibson Years, 1949-1972 An innovative use Robert Mellin of oral history that The first challenges accepted comprehensive accounts of traditional work on an bagpiping by the author important period of Traditional Gaelic of architectural Bagpiping, 1745-1945 and The Back o’ the Hill. development in urban and rural Newfoundland by the author of the award-winning book on the outport of $34.95, pb, 448 pages, illus. 978-0-7735-3923-5, Tilting, Fogo Island. McGill-Queen’s $59.95, hc, 320 pages, 225 illus., colour throughout University Press 978-0-7735-3902-0, McGill-Queen’s University Press
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Sea Glass Hunter’s Fragile and Handbook Fanciful C.S. Lambert The Story of Sea glass connects Nova Scotia civilization and nature, Glass often in surprising ways. Deborah Trask This guide investigates The glittering how tiny bits of glass history of and ceramic have Nova Scotia’s engaged generations nineteenth of avid collectors and twentieth- throughout the world. century glass $14.95, pb, 96 pages $22.95, pb, 120 pages, illus. factories 978-0-89272-910-4, 978-0-86492-655-5, and their Down East/Nimbus Goose Lane Editions distinctively Publishing patterned glassware.
Lifetime of Rug A Whale of a Tale. . . Hooking With Hooks, Lines Doris Eaton and Singers Now in paperback, Frances Ennis, Maxine A Lifetime of Rug Ennis and Five Island Hooking features Rug Hooking Group over eighty of the Nova Scotian artist A beautiful book that Doris Eaton’s rugs in follows the progress of spectacular detail, a rug-hooking project, complete with the tells the stories behind inspiration and the rugs and includes materials behind practical instructions, their creation. with accompanying photos, on how to create exquisite hooked rugs. $26.95, pb, 94 pages, 80 colour photos $21.95, pb, 76 pages, col. and b&w photos and illus. 978-1-55109-846-3, 978-1-926881-38-6, Flanker Press Nimbus Publishing
Crosswords from Lexicon 13 Atlantic Canada Theresa Williams Volume 3 Half crossword, half Walter D. Feener word search, the lexicon engages and Test your knowledge entertains fans of of New Brunswick, all ages. Puzzle buffs Nova Scotia, Prince will delight in this Edward Island and opportunity to try Newfoundland and fifty-two all-new Labrador, as well puzzles. as current affairs, popular persons and $7.95, pb, 80 pages 978-1-55109-874-6, notable locations Nimbus Publishing with these fifty puzzles. $12.95, pb, 120 pages 978-1-55109-873-9, Nimbus Publishing
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The Winter House And Other Christmas Stories From Atlantic Canada These twenty stories showcase Christmas scenes past and present, real and imagined—a revelry with a gang of rowdy mummers; childhood memories of school Christmas concerts; the tale of New Brunswick’s very first Santa Claus; and many more. Selected fiction and non-fiction includes stories by David Adams Richards, Ernest Buckler, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gary L. Saunders and many others, with a foreword by Bruce Nunn. $16.95, pb, 176 pages 978-1-55109-862-3, Nimbus Publishing
An Island Christmas Reader (New edition) David Weale, illustrations by Dale McNevin With three new stories, bestselling author David Weale invokes the spirit of Christmas past and present in this collection of eighteen stories about Christmas on Prince Edward Island. $17.95, pb, 124 pages 978-1-89483-861-0, Acorn Press
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A Newfoundland Christmas Dawn Baker Join Sarah and Michael as they taste delicious Newfoundland treats, chop down their own Christmas tree, go on a sleigh ride and experience their first Christmas in outport Newfoundland. $9.95, pb, 21 pages, colour illus. 978-1-926881-45-4, Pennywell Books, an imprint of Flanker Press
Best of Buddy the Bluenose Reindeer Bruce Nunn, A Christmas Dollhouse illustrations by Richard Rudnicki Brenda Jones Dot is captivated by a beautiful dollhouse in the Both Buddy books window of the drugstore, but there is no money to now in one handsome be spent on the raffle for it. This is a story about edition! First heard hope in the face of hardship, and about communities on CBC radio, Buddy taking care of each other. Set in Nova Scotia during the Bluenose Reindeer the Great Depression, this story will appeal to became an instant anyone who believes in the magic of Christmas. Maritime Christmas $18.95, hc, 32 pages 978-1-55109-868-5, Nimbus Publishing classic. $14.95, pb, 120 pages 978-1-55109-871-5, Nimbus Publishing
Snow for True Meaning Christmas of Crumbfest Doretta David Weale Groenendyk Winner of the With a Christmas Ann Connor Brimer wish for snow, a Award for Children’s child’s family Literature; over conjures up 17,000 copies in print; snow-filled animated Christmas memories, creating special on TELETOON, a heart-warming with the spin-off book perfect for series, this book is a sitting with around Christmas classic. the tree, telling $7.95, pb, 28 pages stories, while the 978-0-96986-064-8, snow falls outside. Acorn Press $12.95, pb, 28 pages 978-1-89483-849-8, Acorn Press 25 Young Readers
Bud the Spud Stompin’ Tom Connors, illustrations by Brenda Jones A Canadian classic by a legendary folk hero is now in a board book! $12.95, boardbook, 16 pages 978-1-55109-811-1, Nimbus Publishing Also available as a board book Hockey Night Tonight Stompin’ Tom Connors $12.95, board book, 24 pages 978-1-55109-733-6, Nimbus Publishing Treasures There Were Monkeys to Find Dale McNevin in My Kitchen This magical picture Sheree Fitch, illustrations by Sydney Smith book will inspire First published in 1992, There Were Monkeys in My children to love Kitchen won the Canadian Children’s Book Centre reading. These Mr. Christie Award for Best Canadian Children’s book, fantasy-filled ages eight and under. With hilarious new illustrations illustrations will by Sydney Smith and Sheree Fitch’s zany rhymes, transport the whole this edition will introduce the bestselling book to a family beyond the whole new generation. story, leaving them $19.95, hc, 32 pages 978-1-55109-866-1, Nimbus Publishing wanting to read even more books. Also available new in paperback $12.95, pb, 24 pages Mabel Murple 978-1-89483-855-9, Sheree Fitch, illustrations by Sydney Smith Acorn Press $12.95, pb, 24 pages 978-1-55109-859-3, Nimbus Publishing
Thank You for My Bed Dreamtime Doretta Groenendyk Deirdre Kessler, illustrations by Christina Patterson Cuddle up for a cozy adventure as we see how This simple picture book for young children makes for children from all over the world snuggle up and say a beautiful lullaby. Gentle text and playful illustration “Thank you for my bed”. Although cultures may differ, marry to evoke a quiet nighttime in Charlottetown, a we all need to go to sleep at night. perfect going-to-bed story. $9.95, pb, 24 pages 978-1-89483-866-5, Acorn Press $15.95, pb, 24 pages 978-1-89483-864-1, Acorn Press
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Chung Lee Loves Lobsters Hugh MacDonald, illustrations by Perri and Glen Craig Mr. Chung Lee is a retired restaurant cook who buys one lobster a month with his old age pension cheque, takes the lobster to the seashore and releases it into the sea. Now with new illustrations. $9.95, pb, 24 pages, 978-1-89483-856-6, Acorn Press
A Day With You In Paradise Lennie Gallant, My Goat Gertrude illustrations by Starr Dobson, illustrations by Dayle Dodwell Patsy MacKinnon CTV’s Starr Dobson is a little girl living in a big, This beautiful picture rambling house in the country with her family and book depicts a family’s lots of pets—including a mischievous goat, Gertrude fun-filled day at a Allawishes, who is notorious for eating anything Prince Edward Island and everything. Although some names have been beach, racing past changed to protect certain cousins, Starr’s account dunes, building sand of Gertrude Allawishes and her bizarre tastes is castles and singing absolutely true. songs by a bonfire at $18.95, hc, 32 pages 978-1-55109-861-6, Nimbus Publishing night. $12.95, pb, 32 pages, 28 colour illus. 978-1-55109-832-6, Nimbus Publishing
Miss Wondergem’s Dreadfully Dreadful Pie Valerie Sherrard, illustrations by Wendy J. Whittingham
The Jelly Bean Row As much as Verna, Myra and Bradley McGrew love Susan Pynn Taylor, illustrations by Elizabeth Pratt their mother, they dread what comes out of her kitchen—and with very good reason. When the three How did Jelly Bean Row get its name? Here’s a slap- young McGrews meet the owner of the new bakery happy tale nestled inside dozens of bright, rainbow- in town, they’re in for a most unpleasant surprise. drenched illustrations that will tickle the imagination $12.95, pb, 32 pages, 28 colour illus. 978-1-89717-481-4, and bring a sparkle to the eye of codgers and kids alike. Creative Book Publishing $12.95, pb, 32 pages, 28 colour illus. 978-1-897174-80-7, Creative Book Publishing 27 Young Readers
Schnider ’s World A Harp Seal Story $14.95, pb, 40 pages, colour illus. 978-1-897009-59-8 Selina An Atlantic Salmon $14.95, pb, 48 pages, colour illus. 978-1-897009-57-4 Selby The Lobster $14.95, pb, 40 pages, colour illus. 978-1-897009-58-1 Don Downer, illustrations by Gisele LeBlanc-Turner Cape Breton University Press Follow the lifecycles of three marine species familiar to our region— the harp seal, lobster and salmon—as they go about their lives. Each is told in a way that engages young readers with the fragility of aquatic life. Don Downer is a retired marine biologist living in Corner Brook, NL.
Sable Island My Cat, Coon Cat The Wandering Sandy Ferguson Sandbar Fuller, illustrations Wendy Kitts by Jeannie Brett Wendy Kitts When a young girl introduces the moves into a new wonders and stark home, she wins the realities of this affection of a shy wild place. Full of Maine coon cat as he photographs and meets the girl’s kitten, sidebars, this is chases dragonflies and an accessible and teaches her to explore exciting look at this the neighborhood. protected, untamed $19.95, hc, 36 pages ecosystem. 978-1-93403-132-2, $15.95, pb, 96 pages, Islandport Press/ 50 photos and illus. Nimbus Publishing 978-1-55109-865-4, Nimbus Publishing Tonsillitis Knees Larry the Loon $12.95, pb, 24 pages Judith McMurray, D.A. 978-0-98664-257-9 Dunford and the Tobin The Month of Julune School for Fine Art $14.95, pb, 32 pages $19.99, hc, 40 pages 978-1-927003-07-7 978-1-92700-305-3, Bryler Publications Kimberley McMillan, illustrations by Adam Murray Next the Unhappy Lobster Bryler Publications Judith McMurray, In these rhyming children’s Adam Murray books, Kimberley McMillan $12.95, pb, 24 pages offers a hilarious story of 978-0-98138-193-0 one girl’s first day at school Judith McMurray brings two of with an unusual affliction the Maritime’s favourite animals and reminds us that to life in these heart-warming, seconds chances are beautifully illustrated picture books. Larry the Loon is always within our reach. a National Bestseller, featuring an alternate ending. 28 Young Readers
The Adventures What If ... of Gus and Isaac By the students Debbie Hanlon, of Valerie illustrations by Dockendorff’s Grant Boland Springvale When Isaac the Elementary bob-tailed cat 5/6 Class is being beat up Students in grade by the backyard five and six at bullies, Gus the Springvale seagull comes to Elementary are the rescue. raising awareness $12.95, pb, 32 pages, about problems faced by kids all over the world by colour illus. imagining what it would be like if the problems 978-1-55081-363-0, didn’t exist. Breakwater Books $9.95, pb, 24 pages 978-1-89483-865-8, Acorn Press
Sigmund Mortimer Water Hazard Ganymede Crumb Hélène Boudreau, The One illustrations by Wendy Umlah Jeffrey Domm In a world where no Water Hazard, the one is capable of second in Hélène solving their own Boudreau’s Red Dune problems, Sigmund Adventure series, is an is born. It’s a riotous, exciting and action- laugh-out-loud packed book for young adventure as Sigmund and reluctant readers. must learn to use $8.95, pb, 84 pages, 15 b&w his gift of problem illus. 978-1-55109-828-9, solving for the whole Nimbus Publishing town. $11.95, pb, 232 pages, b&w illus. 978-1-927003-08-4, Bryler Publications
Emily Finds The Boy Who a Dragon Was Bullied Paul Burns, John Peters Humphrey illustrations by —Drafter of the Jennifer Aikman-Smith United Nations Emily Aylesworth wants Universal Declaration to be the best vet in the of Human Rights world but her newest Born in Hampton, New pet might be more than Brunswick in 1905, even she can handle. An John Peters Humphrey illustrated chapter book suffered much personal ideal for grades four loss, including the to six. loss of his left arm $9.95, pb, 88 pages, illus. at age six, however, 978-0-9784880-0-0, he rose above tragedy and bullying to become an Dragon Dreams, distributed international hero. by Glen Margaret Publishing $19.95, pb, 168 pages, b&w photos 978-1-897462-21-8, Glen Margaret Publishing
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The Year Mrs. Lost on Brier Island Montague Cried Jo Ann Yhard Susan White Moving, funny and When Taylor is just honest, this is a nine years old, her powerful story of brother Corey becomes losing loved ones and terminally ill. She finding yourself, set journals of this time against the stunning making for a story that backdrop of Brier encourages discussion Island. of many important $12.95, pb, 176 pages, issues faced by young 978-1-55109-819-7 adults. $11.99, eBook 978-1-55109-881-4, $12.95, pb, 160 pages Nimbus Publishing 978-1-89483-857-3, Acorn Press
Chasing Freedom Edge of Time Gloria Ann Wesley Susan M. MacDonald A story that follows “It’s the best kind of the journey of black story… and Susan M. loyalist slaves leaving MacDonald is the best post-revolutionary kind of writer…you can America in search of hardly stand to put the freedom in Birchtown, book aside until you’ve Nova Scotia. finished.” —Orson Scott $18.95, pb, 232 pages Card, Ender’s Game and 978-1-55266-423-0, Speaker for the Dead. Roseway Publishing $15.95, pb, 272 pages 978-1-55081-357-9 $13.95, eBook 978-1-55081-372-2, Breakwater Books
Sinking Deeper Ghosts of the Or My Questionable Pacific (Possibly Heroic) Philip Roy Decision to Invent The fourth volume of a Sea Monster the Submarine Outlaw Steve Vernon series takes Alfred As moving as it is irresistibly through the Northwest funny, Steve Vernon’s Passage into the Pacific portrait of Roland and where he decides he Deeper Harbour is must fight those who perfect for anyone who’s are destroying the ever been struck badly ocean. enough to do something $11.95, pb, 254 pages awesomely, brilliantly, 978-1-55380-130-6 heroically stupid. $9.99, eBook 978-1-55380-136-8, $12.95, pb, 168 pages Ronsdale Press 978-1-55109-777-0 $11.99, eBook 978-1-55109-880-7, Nimbus Publishing 30 The Great Book Giveaway The Great Book Giveaway Win a beautiful basket full of books!
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Win a basket of books! Please fill out this form and mail to Atlantic Books Today Book Giveaway: 1484 Carlton Street, Halifax NS B3H 3B7. One basket per Atlantic Canadian province. Contest closes Friday, January 13, 2012. No purchase necessary. The information below will not be used for any purpose other than contacting the winning entry. Name: Address: Phone: Please list any books featured in this Holiday Reading Guide that you may consider purchasing this holiday season:
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31 books in this catalogue can be found at these fine establishments For more information on Atlantic Canadian Books, visit www.atlanticbookstoday.ca New Brunswick Nova Scotia independent bookstores independent bookstores • Bathurst Book Gallery, Bathurst • Admiral Benbow Trading Company, Lunenburg • Benjamin’s Books, Rothesay * • Antigonish 5¢ to $1.00 • Books Inn, Miramichi • At the Sign of the Whale, N.S. Crafts and Gallery, Yarmouth • Boutique la Baleine/The Whale Store, St. Andrews • Bainton’s Tannery Outlet/Mad Hatter Bookstore, • Fundy Guild Bookstores, Visitor Centre Annapolis Royal – Fundy National Park • Blue Heron Gift Shop Ltd., Baddeck • InPrint, Saint John • Bluenose II Company Store, Lunenburg • Sharla Books, Oromocto • Bookmark II, Halifax • The Book Gallery/Blue Mountain Pharmacy • Box of Delights, Wolfville • The Museum Shop, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John • Carrefour Atlantic Emporium, Halifax • Tidewater Books, Sackville • Cape Breton Curiosity Shop, Sydney • University of New Brunswick Bookstores, • Just Browsing, Eastern Passage Fredericton, Saint John • Downtown Book Exchange, New Glasgow • Westminster Books Ltd., Fredericton • Marine Heritage Store, Maritime Museum of the * Specialty children’s bookstores Atlantic, Halifax chain retailers • Pugsley’s Pharmacy Ltd. Amherst • R. D. Chisholm Ltd., Stationary & Books, Kentville • Chapters: • Relay Books, Halifax International Airport, Enfield – Regent Mall, Fredericton • Sagors’ Bookstore Ltd., Bridgewater – Champlain Place, Dieppe • Simple Things Booksellers and Gift Shop, Mahone Bay • Coles: • Snug Harbour Books and Gourmet Shop, – Brunswick Square, Saint John Lanes Privateer Inn, Liverpool – Lancaster Mall, Saint John • Tattletales Books, Dartmouth * – McAllister Place, Saint John • The Inside Story, Greenwood • Indigo: • The Mast Head Giftshop, Yarmouth – East Point Shopping, Saint John • The Ridge Shop, Stewiacke • The Whirligig Book Shop, Shelburne Prince Edward Island • Word By Word Bookstore, Antigonish independent bookstores • Woozles Children’s Bookstore, Halifax * * Specialty children’s bookstores • Bookmark Inc., Charlottetown chain retailers chain retailers • Chapters: • Indigo: – MicMac Blvd., Dartmouth – University & Belvedere, Charlottetown – Bayers Lake Power Centre, Halifax • Coles: • Coles: – County Fair Mall, Summerside – Amherst Shopping Centre, Amherst – Antigonish Mall, Antigonish Newfoundland – Bedford Place Mall, Bedford independent bookstores – Bridgewater Mall, Bridgewater • Downhomer Distributing & Retail, St. John’s – Country Fair Mall, New Minas • Island Treasure, Corner Brook – Halifax Shopping Centre, Halifax • The Bookery on Signal Hill, St. John’s – Highland Square, New Glasgow • The Book Worm, Gander – Mayflower Mall, Sydney • The Bookmark Ltd., Grandfalls–Windsor – Scotia Square, Halifax • Newfoundland Emporium, Corner Brook – Truro Mall, Truro • Winterhouses Gift Shop, Botwood – Yarmouth Mall, Yarmouth Heritage Centre, Botwood • Indigo: – Sunnyside Mall, Bedford chain retailers • Chapters: eBooks in this catalogue are available – Kenmount Road, St. John’s through the following vendors • Coles: • Apple iBookstore – Avalon Shopping Centre, St. John’s • Amazon Kindle – Corner Brook Plaza, Corner Brook • Barnes & Noble – Village Shopping Centre, St. John’s • Kobo Books • Smashwords • Sony eBookstore Also check publishers’ websites for eBook availibilty