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Atlantic Canadian Presents Books for the Holidays Atlantic Canadian presents Books for The Holidays OVER 140 NEW TITLES FOR GIFT- GIVING! books for everyone on your list AtLAntIC pUBLIsHERS MArKETInG AssOCIAtIOn Atlantic Canadian Books for the Holidays has been produced by the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association and is presented by Atlantic Books Today. We wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund. The Association also thanks the participating booksellers and publishers. Please visit or call the bookstores listed on the back cover to purchase these fine Atlantic Canadian titles. eXeCUtIVe DIreCtOr Peggy Walt [email protected] prOJeCTS MAnAGer Heather Fegan [email protected] DESIGn Meghan Rushton [email protected] photographer Shannon George [email protected] Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association 1484 Carlton Street Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3B7 Tel: (902) 420-0711 Atlantic Canadian Books Fax: (902) 423-4302 E-mail: [email protected] for the Holidays is on our website! Website: www.atlanticpublishers.ca contents 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. 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