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Northern Nurse
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Set in the late 1920s, this is the true story of an Australian-born nurse who comes to Labrador to work.
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Spring Wildflowers
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$12.95Spring Wildflower is a handy field guide that will help you identify most flowers that bloom in the spring. It is well organized, easy to follow and features fine pen and ink drawings of almost 250 flowering plants.
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Peggy’s Cove
Artist: Sherman HinesPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$10.95A truly unique place, here is Peggy’s Cove in all its glory: sea, surf, lighthouse, birds, and fishing boats.
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Lure of the Labrador Wild
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.95The improbable collaboration between an ambitious young writer, Leonidas Hubbard, and a forty-year-old New York attorney, Dillon Wallace. They set off in the spring of 1903 with George Elson, an Aboriginal guide with no first-hand knowledge of their destination—the incompletely mapped Lake Michikamau region of interior Labrador. Beset by delays, the men paddle past their intended route, the Naskaupi River, and head up the dreadful Susan River instead. When in early September they finally glimpse the vast waters of Michikamau from atop an unknown mountain, the cold winds have already begun. With almost no food left the three begin a desperate struggle against starvation and the quickening pace of a cruel winter, heading homeward in a race for their lives.
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Louisbourg Phoenix Fortress
Photographer: Chris ReardonPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$17.95A wonderful photographic look at the fortress accompanied by text that illuminates its history.
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Six Crucial Decades
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$16.95An insightful account of Maritime history. By isolating and examining specific events that occurred during six decades, the author shows how the course of history in this region was altered and examines the social and economic consequences that followed.
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Sugar Bush Connection
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$17.95Part of the popular Connection Cookbook series, this is a wonderful look at maple sugar, a unique tradition and cooking favourite. Sugar Bush Connection includes traditional recipes and hints for collecting the syrup.
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Flavours of New Brunswick
Photographer: Heidi JirotkaPublisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$34.95Whether you consider yourself a foodie or dine out only a few times a year, Flavours of New Brunswick offers you a window into the best food the province has to offer.
Canada’s only bilingual province has long been a gathering place for people of differing cultures from around the world. The natural beauty and quality of life that draws people to New Brunswick is today attracting a new generation of chefs, bringing with them new flavours and experiences, and we are all the richer for it.
Some hail from places halfway around the world and bring with them the cooking traditions and sensibilities of their homelands. For those who grew up on the East Coast, they have not only kept the culinary traditions of their home province alive but have adapted them and given them new life. The result is a food scene that has never been more innovative or diverse.
In Flavours of New Brunswick, the best of the regions epicurean leaders take food lovers on a culinary journey through the province’s emerging hotspots. The book is a celebration of the culinary scene in all its resplendent glory.
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Fishing for a Living A Nova Scotia History in Pictures
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$24.95With more than 140, never-seen-before photos, Fishing for a Living: A Nova Scotia History in Pictures captures the world?s most dangerous profession. We see up close the men and women (and often children) whose livelihood was derived from the sea. Indeed, it is the sea that provided not only sustenance and a living but shaped every aspect of their lives.
This stunning historical portrait is a tour de force that will appeal to Nova Scotians and tourists alike. It is a visual window into the much-fabled life of Fishing for a Living.
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We Love Nova Scotia A People’s Portrait
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$24.95Drawn from the images on the “We Love Nova Scotia” community Facebook group, these photos prove being in the right place at the right time does matter. From Meat Cove to Cape Forchu and down every back road and into every cove along the coast, We Love Nova Scotia is a collection of stunning photography from photographers from around the province. This is no ordinary photography book. It is a book about Nova Scotia by people who love Nova Scotia. Curated by author Vernon Oickle.
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New Brunswick Book of Everyting 2nd edition
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$14.95Everything you wanted to know about New Brunswick and were going to ask anyway can be found in this revised and updated classic. From the number of kilometers of coastline, to the stories behind those weird place names (hello Skeedaddle Ridge), to profiles of Stompin’ Tom and Frank McKenna, no book is more comprehensive than the New Brunswick Book of Everything. No book is more fun.
Whether you are a life long resident or visiting for the first time, there simply is no other book that delivers the goods. If you love New Brunswick, you’ll love the New Brunswick Book of Everything.
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Mammals of Prince Edward Island and Adjacent Marine Waters
Publisher: Island Studies Press$49.95This long overdue book provides a comprehensive guide to the Island’s terrestrial and marine mammals. Rooted in historical accounts and local research, this book illuminates the lives of PEI mammals large and small. From the Little Brown Bat to the Long-finned Pilot Whale, this book highlights each species in illustrated detail and outlines the continued need for conservation efforts in this province.
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Return of the Wild Goose
Publisher: Island Studies Press$14.95Return of the Wild Goose explores the life of writer and activist Katherine Hughes. Set against the intimate relief of a PEI landscape, these poems are inspired by what is known—and unknown—about her contradictory life and character as Catholic teacher, journalist, public servant, and Irish nationalist. This (auto) biographical dialogue between Jane Ledwell and Katherine Hughes offers the reader a fierce remembrance of a PEI radical.
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From Palette to Palate Culinary Artworks from the Digby Pines Kitchen
Artist: Lynda ShalaganPublisher: SSP Publications$15.95Chef Dale Nichols and artist Lynda Shalagan have collaborated to create a mouth-watering and eye-opening masterpiece — the finest dishes the venerable Pines has to offer. Yes, there are scallops but so much more — for the vegetarian, the holistic and the environmentally responsible.
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Our Maud The Life, Art and Legacy of Maud Lewis
Publisher: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia$29.99Our Maud: The Life, Art and Legacy of Maud Lewis tells the story of Maud’s life, and traces her impact on Nova Scotia, her fame, the saving of her painted house, and the Nova Scotia folk art renaissance sparked by her example. The book looks at how Maud Lewis has become a role model for children with juvenile arthritis, her posthumous role in the creation of Atlantic Canada’s largest art museum, and how her story has become known around the world, culminating in the hit feature film Maudie starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke.
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New Brunswick Phrase Book
Publisher: Maritime Lines$13.95New Brunswick has its fair share of distinctive dialects and colourful language. These New Brunswickisms are perplexing, hilarious and downright fascinating. This handy book has captured the essence of the province, the words and phrases that are so often heard by not always understood or explained. Included are over 1,000 sayings, phrases, descriptions and curious names that are listed in alphabetical order and defined in plain English.
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Logging in New Brunswick, Lumber, Mills & River Drives
Publisher: Maritime Lines$19.95Lumber was and is New Brunswick’s largest inustry and throughout the 19th century the province largely remained a timber colony dependent on its vast forests for most of its revenue. And for 150 years, New Brunswikcers entered the wilderness each fall, lived in primitive lumber camps while cutting, skidding, yarding, and hauling logs to the riverbanks and waited for spring break-up. This Is the story of a great industry, of lumberjacks, the teamsters, scalers, raftsmen, shantyboys, swampers, and rossers. From the wangan, tote road, twitching horse, sacking, due bills, and the corporation drive, the reader is taken inside the lumber world of yesterday. Over 140 historical photographs with extensive captions reveal forgotten logging practices, unique details of river drives, and how the early sawmills were built and organized.
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Railways Of New Brunswick
Publisher: Maritime Lines$19.95Dan Soucoup is the author of numerous books on New Brunswick and the Maritimes including Know New
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Know New Brunswick
Publisher: Maritime Lines$17.95Active in bookselling and publishing for many years, Dan Soucoup is the author of numerous books including Historic New Brunswick, McCully’s New Brunswick, and The New Brunswick Phrase Book.”Dan Soucoup’s articles are well documented, interesting, articulate, unbiased, and are really going back in the history of our province.” Edmond Bourgeois, Grand Digue, New Brunswick
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Where the Water Meets the Land
Publisher: Saltscapes$17.95In 1976, the Waterfront Development Corporation Limited was created, with responsibilities for the redevelopment of the Halifax, Dartmouth and-later-Bedford waterfronts to restore the flavour and vigour of an earlier time. In Where the Water Meets the Land, author and historian John Boileau recounts the story of Halifax Harbour and its waterfront from prehistory to the modern day, detailing the rise and decline of the historic area, and its rejuvenation during the last 30 years under the guidance of the Waterfront Development Corporation Limited.
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Following the Vision
Editor: William PopePublisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Following the Vision features sixty full-page colour images from six very talented Nova Scotia artists-Tom Forrestall, Joy Laking, Alex Livingstone, Heather MacLeod, Dawn MacNutt, and Robert Pope. These artists follow their own particular vision wherever it leads, probing all manner of experience, often calling upon imagination and intuition to bring freshness and insight to their work. Following the Vision is a compelling read and the images are a delight to examine and ponder.
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The Old Place
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95The Old Place Describes the plants and animals that live about the author’s property, and encourages readers to become familiar with the large variety of living things that live around their communities.It discusses the wonderful ways in which plants and animals are adapted to life in their particular habitats,and emphasizes the importance of protecting those habitats.
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Halifax in Your Pocket
$9.95A photographic tour of Halifax’s most popular and historic sights, this little book is ideal for pocket or purse. Acts as a first step in exploring Halifax’s colourful past, as well as the vibrant present day city.
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A Stone on Their Cairn
$24.95Set in the Cape Breton highlands, this Celtic saga traces the lives of ten Scottish families from the turn of the 20th century to the outbreak of the Great War as they forge a community on the shores of Lock Dubh, while proudly resisting all attempts to assimilate the ?Gaelic Speakers?. Features Gaelic dialogue (with English translations), a fold-out map, glossary of Gaelic terms and the genealogy of the Loch Dubh families.
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Emily & the Captain: A Woody Point Story
Artist: Mel D'SouzaPublisher: Downhomer$12.95Santana, an evil sea imp, has sealed Capt. Woody McKenzie in the Woody Point lighthouse (Bonne Bay, NF). But Captain Woody isn’t just in the lighthouse, he’s part of it!
Glow-ria, the northern light becomes the Captain’s guardian angel. She tells the Captain the secret to breaking the spell but he cannot reveal it to anyone. Emily must discover the secret for herself, in her own heart.
The years pass and there seems to be no way to save the Captain. Then the Wood Point lighthouse is due to be torn down. Something has to be done now!
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Emily & the Captain: A Winter Adventure
Artist: Mel D'SouzaPublisher: Downhomer$12.95The story continues from the bestselling Emily & the Captain: A Woody Point Story. On a winter visit to Woody Point, Newfoundland, from her home in Virginia, Emily discovers a little lost fox, Rhett. Amazingly, Rhett is also from Virginia. But why has he fled Virginia and how has he gotten all the way to Newfoundland?
Emily and her animal friends find food and shelter for Rhett and they all enjoy the fun of the deep snows of a Newfoundland winter in the Mystical Forest.
But Rhett is homesick and longs to return to Virginia. Glow-ria, the northern light, finds a way to get Rhett home, if that’s what he really wants. It seems Emily and the animals must part with their new-found friend forever.
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Gallery Cookbook
Editor: Downhome MagazinePublisher: Downhomer$19.95A collection of recipes and photos of Newfoundland and Labrador that has been submitted by the readers of Downhome magazine.
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Captain Bob Bartlett and the Karluk Adventure
Artist: Mel D'SouzaPublisher: Downhomer$12.95It was 1913 and the ship Karluk left British Columbia on a scientific expedition to Canada’s Artic. At her wheel was Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, the “Master Mariner of the North” from Brigus, Newfoundland.
The Karluk became trapped in the early winter ice and was carried across the Artic Ocean, where it was crushed and sank. The crew and passengers set up camp on the ice and months later, when daylight returned to the Artic, they walked to an island. From there, the brave Captain Bartlett left the survivors while he and a young Inuk walked a treacherous 700 miles down the coast of Siberia to get help. This is one of the greatest stories of heroism and survival ever told.
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Downhome Reflections
Editor: Downhome MagazinePublisher: Downhomer$27.95Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So behold—Downhome’s first published collection of photographs submitted by our magazine readers. Every page of Downhome Reflections is a celebration of our place in the world.
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Downhome Memories
Publisher: Downhomer$14.95It’s life as you remember it.
Downhome Memories brings together stories, poems and images guaranteed to strike a sentimental chord with every reader. Through the words of regular people—your siblings, your parents and your grandparents-histories are shared and the years that separate past and present slip away. The writing is honest and from the heart, born of a longing to recapture the simpler, finer things in life. There are elements in this collection to make you laugh, make you cry, make you proud and, most of all, make you remember.
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Downhomer Almanac Cookbook 2
Publisher: Downhomer$19.95This book is a follow-up to the first Downhomer Household Almanac & Cookbook, which became a Canadian Best Seller in less than eight months.
Contents
- Recipes – Five hundred and eighty new recipes of all kinds from all over the world, contributed by readers of Downhomer magazine, and laid out in ten easy-to-find categories.
- Tonic For The Soul – All new stories, writings, poems, information, jokes and real life’s funny experiences. This section will make you laugh and make you cry.
Additions to Almanac & Cookbook 2
- Grassroots Healing – Eighteen pages on the use of natural products for a healthier body and mind.
- Astro Guide – A general horoscope by Madam Doziac.
- Kids’ Recipes – Twenty pages of simple recipes that younger children can do themselves, as well as some interesting and educational reading for the younger set.
- VIP Pages – A guestbook with a place to record birthdates and anniversaries of the Very Important People in your life, along with historical events and a though to live by for each day of the year.
