The Manager A Novel
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press$11.95Tina is short, but she packs a wallop.
And she knows every move a boxer needs to get to the top.
It’s 1979, and the glory days of the sport are over. With the family gym about to fold, and her father unwilling to listen to a word she says, Tina explodes and takes off, leaving Sydney’s Whitney Pier behind her for good.
But it isn’t her temper that turns things around, it’s a road trip with her sister, and a Mi’kmaw light-heavyweight they meet along the way. Tina’s convinced he’ll go the distance –with her as Manager.
Malagawatch Mice and the Cat Who Discovered America
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press$14.95The Malagawatch Mice are well settled in their believed church, now at the Nova Scotia Highland Village in Iona, Cape Breton. But they are not alone–Henry, a stray cat with a mysterious past has taken up residence in the church and the mice are convinced that life will never be the same.
Yet, there is something familiar about this cat and, determined that there must be some good in him, Grandpa sets out to prove to Henry that he is much more than a no-good stray.
A monument in Halfway Cove, on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore, acknowledges that Prince Henry Sinclair of the Orkney Islands made the first transatlantic crossing and landed there in 1398, almost a century before Columbus. The monument describes his landing in Chebabucto Bay, and the fact that he spent a year exploring Nova Scotia, with the help of the kind Mi’Kmaq people.
Malagawatch Mice and the Church that Sailed
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press$11.95When the Highland Village Museum adopted and moved Malagawatch Church across the Bras d’Or lake in 2003, children’s author-illustrator Caroline Stellings asked herself: “What about the church mice?”
The answer is an imaginative tale of The Malagawatch Mice who, after living under the church for generations, learn that they are about to lose the floorboards from over their heads.
Ms. Stellings’ soft watercolour illustrations and delightful rhyming narrative follow the Malagawatch Mice–and the church–to their new home in Iona.
Around the Year with the Malagawatch Mice
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press$11.95Follow the antics of Cape Breton’s favourite Celtic creatures –the Malagawatch Mice –as they observe and celebrate the customs and traditions of their Highland heritage. Featuring Caroline Stelling’s wonderful watercolour illustrations, Around the Year includes explanations of numerous holidays, observances and pastimes
Skippers Save the Stone
Artist: Hector MacNeilPublisher: Cape Breton University Press$11.95Skippers Save the Stone is the second adventure of the Skipper dogs. When they travel to Scotland, the Skippers learn that the legendary Stone of Scone has been stolen by a clan of squirrels! The only way they can save the stone is to win a boat race, but the crafty Chief McNut has a trick up his sleeve. Can the Skippers bring back the Stone of Destiny?