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Best Sellers (20)
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Coming Soon (39)
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New and Featured (78)
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There’s a Song in the Forest (pb)
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Wild Foods of Prince Edward Island
Publisher: Acorn Press$29.95Prince Edward Island is famous for potatoes and seafood, but our forests, meadows, marshes, and shores are home to hundreds of species of edible plants and fungi. Of course, edible and palatable are not the same and award-winning biologist and forager Kate MacQuarrie knows the difference!
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L’Acadie de L’Ile-du-Prince Édouard / The Acadians of Prince Edward Island
Publisher: Acorn Press$27.95This book on the Acadians of Prince Edward Island shows the cultural and historical importance of carefully documented and organized collections of photos. From some points of view this book is like an old-fashioned family album, except that it illustrates the ordinary life of not just one but many Acadian families.
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Prince Edward Island ~ Epekwitk ~ Climate Almanac
Publisher: Acorn Press$27.95From devastating hurricanes to blizzards that have shut down the Island for days, Jardine creates a fascinating deep-dive into the changing weather patterns of Prince Edward Island and their effect on the landscape. Complete with maps, photos, and tables, this month- by-month guide is an essential reader for those interested in weather, climate change and Island history.
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The Belfast Riot of 1847
Publisher: Island Studies Press$29.95On March 1, 1847, Prince Edward Island experienced the second-worst election riot in Canadian history. About 200 Scottish Protestants and 300 Irish Catholics got into a brawl, resulting in at least three men dead and up to 100 others injured. This event set the stage for the hardening of the sectarian conflict between Protestants and Catholics on Prince Edward Island for the next 125 years.
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A Stroke of Luck
Editor: Penelope JacksonPublisher: Purple Porcupine Publishing$21.95After suffering a series of devastating strokes, musician Bruce Hughes faced a future where walking, talking, or playing music again seemed impossible. But through grit, humour, and sheer determination, Bruce defied the odds. His memoir is a moving and often humorous account of recovery, offering hope to stroke survivors and anyone overcoming life’s toughest challenges.
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When the Banyan Sways, Folktales from India
Artist: Radha RaulgaonkarEditor: Dushy GnanapragasamPublisher: Running the Goat$21.99Four folktales from India—full of magic and wisdom.
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Every Little Thing, How Small Acts of Kindness Make a Big Impact
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95Author Janice Landry was diagnosed with Lyme disease during the summer of 2023. Following her recovery, Landry realized that a small thing, a tiny tick, has had a big impact on her life. The author has deliberately woven the theme of small versus big throughout Every Little Thing via heartwarming stories of acts of kindness and connection. Landry proves in the end that the little things really are the big things.
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The Queen Anne House, A Nova Scotia Saga
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95This novel spanning over two hundred years is the story of one house and the amazing people who lived on the high ground in Cumberland County. Throughout, the story of love and loss is told in a most unique and unusual way that is both innovative and revealing.
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In Search of Puffins, Stories of Loss, Light and Flight
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95In Search of Puffins is the third book in a series of memoirs, beginning with Coastal Lives and Year of the Horse. Journalist and author Marjorie Simmins completed this third memoir four years after the death of her husband, writer Silver Donald Cameron, a charismatic public figure much loved across Canada, and with an international reputation as an environmentalist and a filmmaker. In Search of Puffins is a story of love and loss, reinvention and humour.
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The Illogical Adventure, A Memoir of Love and Fate
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95The Illogical Adventure recounts the story of an unlikely cross-continental romance between two independent-minded travellers – from their brief but fateful first meeting in Cape Town, through to a dowry ceremony in rural Africa a few years later during the Covid pandemic and beyond.
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Someone Else’s Saint, How a Scottish Pilgrimage Led to Nova Scotia
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95The Whithorn Way is a 1600-year-old pilgrimage route from the city of Glasgow to the shrine of St. Ninian—a mysterious Celtic saint whose lonely cave still looks out over the waves toward England, Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man. When the path was recently revived, pilgrimage scholar Dr. Matthew Anderson gathered the first group of Canadians to walk it.
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Through My Looking Glass: Nova Scotia: 50 Year Photographic Retrospective 1973-2023
Photographer: Joseph RobichaudPublisher: Pottersfield Press$27.95Through My Looking Glass is the culmination of fifty years of documentary photography in Nova Scotia, spanning from 1973 to 2023. It chronicles a half-century of life in a province where the intertwining of diverse cultures and experiences creates a rich and multifaceted narrative. The striking images in this book reflect the many threads of Indigenous, Acadian, and Black experiences. The Mi’kmaq people, the original stewards of this land, have walked these shores for millennia, forging a deep connection with the natural world. Their resilience has shaped the province?s identity, and their stories are integral to understanding Nova Scotia?s historical and spiritual landscape.
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Making a Life Twenty-Five Years of Hooking Rugs (pb)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$34.95A paperback edition of the heartfelt memoir and coffee table book from beloved rug-hooking artist, featuring images of her favourite projects over the span of her career.
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Black Ice The Lost History of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925 (Twentieth-anniversary edition)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95Expanded and revised edition of the pioneering work of history about the Coloured Hockey League, founded in Halifax, NS. Now a documentary film.
Black Ice is the first written record of the Colored Hockey League in the Maritimes, founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1895, more than 20 years before the founding of the National Hockey League. The Colored Hockey League was a force in Canadian hockey that was conveniently ignored and whose contributions were stolen as other leagues emerged. Black Ice explores the unique culture that still exists today.
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Every Leaf on Every Tree
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.95A tender and playful baby board book bursting with declarations of love from the bestselling author/illustrator of The Hidden World of Gnomes.
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Black Boy, Black Boy (pb)
Artist: Ibeabuchi AnanabaPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.95A powerful spoken-word poem encouraging Black boys of every shade, size, and passion to reach for the stars. Features vibrant artwork depicting famous Black men such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Chadwick Boseman, and more.
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The Last Farm on McNabs | A Family History of Twentieth – Century Life on the Island
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95A personal, historical portrait of Halifax Harbour’s largest and most storied island from 1920–1970, featuring anecdotes, photographs, and maps.
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Where the Ghosts Are
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95If you’re from Halifax, you’ve probably heard that the Five Fisherman Restaurant is supposedly haunted, and that Georges Island is overrun with ghosts. If you’re from Nova Scotia, you probably know about rumours of buried treasure on Oak Island, or about the UFO sighting in Shag Harbour. But what about the Grey Lady of Stoney Beach? Or the Ghost of Haddon Hall? Featuring addresses and GPS coordinates, this guide to Nova Scotian haunts maps out the origin stories of 50 spooky tales.
Author Steve Vernon has covered every corner of the province in search of the spooky, bizarre, and unexplained. The perfect companion for those interested in the history of the province and thrill-seekers alike, Where the Ghosts Are is a DIY-ghost tour of Nova Scotia’s most haunted spots.
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Westray
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$18.95Vernon Theriault was off shift when the Westray mine exploded in 1992, killing twenty-six men in Plymouth, Nova Scotia. Theriault took part in the perilous rescue operation that followed. As the magnitude of Westray took hold, Theriault found himself struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and nightmares. When he tried to re-educate himself for another line of work, he discovered that he was both illiterate and dyslexic. Theriault found new purpose when he became part of a labour movement that successfully lobbied the federal government to bring in a worker-safety law that became known as the Westray Bill.
Theriault openly discusses his complicated journey in this straightforward, simply written memoir, which begins with the promise of a good job with good pay at Westray.
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Treat Them Where They Lie
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$26.95When Ron Stewart—a coal miner’s son from the east coast of Canada—took a residency in emergency medicine in Los Angeles in 1972, emergency care was still in its infancy. First responders—often dispatched from fire departments or funeral homes, with hearses serving as ambulances—could put on bandages and perform CPR, but that was about it.
Stewart took on a dual role as emergency physician and advisor (earning the nickname “Doc Hollywood”) on the popular TV series Emergency!—where the fictional accident victims had a better chance of surviving than his real-life patients. Stewart’s life’s work was closing that gap, a mission he advanced by training the first generation of paramedics in LA.
After sixteen years of high-stakes trailblazing in the US emergency medical system, Stewart took on the Minister of Health job in his native Nova Scotia, where he battled long odds and fierce opposition to introduce a modern Emergency Health Services system.
In Treat Them Where They Lie, Ron Stewart and co-author Jim Meek tell a captivating story of passion and determination while exploring the highs and lows of a life well lived. With fifteen colour images, and forewords from prominent US physician and author Dr. Brian Zink and Canada’s foremost medical journalist, Dr. Brian Goldman, this riveting memoir offers readers an unvarnished look at a man who played a key role in the development of modern emergency medicine.
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