Powerfuel Food Planning Meals for Maximum Performance
$19.95If your goal is to improve your performance and health so that you can get the most out of your exercise, then this book is for you. Its more than just a cookbook. With over 100 athlete tested recipes, it will take you through a step by step guide on how to incorporate those recipes into a healthy meal plan that will FUEL your activity. You’ll find all of the answers to your questions surrounding sports nutrition from one of the most credible sports dietitians around.
Italians
$9.95Professor Mohamed H. Abucar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia and has taught at a number of universities in Canada.
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.
Discover Canada
$29.95The author, a gifted photographer, experienced in the last two years all of the adventures detailed in this book – travelling from coast to coast. Her goal is to show the possibilities and inspire. She receives 50,000 views per month on her website HikeBikeTravel.com. You can also try to keep up with her on Facebook or join her 10,000 Twitter followers for dynamic posts and photos @hikebiketravel.
Midnight Marauders
$9.95This 1931 adventure highlights rum runners along Nova Scotia’s south shore. When eleven-year-old Dan Veinottboards the Martha Rae, he discovers that the town peddler, Corker, is smuggling rum. But he can’t tell his father because he owes Corker his life. Join Dan and his friend Becky as they try to foil Percy Brown’s illegal business. For things to change on the baseball lot, they must also face the town bully. First published in1991, Midnight Marauders was selected as an Our Choice book by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
Wreck Hunter 2
$19.95Spend some time in the company of an adventurer. Experience the thrills, excitement and challenges associated with searching for shipwrecks and sunken treasure. The adventure continues into future unchartered areas of shipwreck exploration.
Moonlight Marauders
$9.95Junior detective Dan Veinotte and his best friend, Becky Wentzelle, are on a wild treasure hunt to find the missing gold nuggets. This is the second book in the Marauder Mystery Series, after bestselling Midnight Marauders.
Are You Looking for Me ?
$9.95Finding the animal hiding in plain sight in each professional photograph of the natural world will both challenge and fascinate children. The author has created a fun puzzle book for young children that will also delight the adults in their lives.
Charming, informative and interactive. Includes a glossary and colour-coded animal classification.
Pamela Pollock’s Perilous Adventure
$12.95Pamela Pollock is a small fish that lives in Nova Scotia. She gets caught in a current and swept away to a place she has never been, where the water is warm, and the fish don’t look familiar, and aren’t friendly.
She wants desperately to go home but doesn’t know how until she sees a boat that looks familiar. The Bluenose. Pamela is certain if she stays close to the Bluenose she will find her way home.
Cable Captain
$25.00This is the remarkable story of Captain Melville Henry Bloomer and the cable ships he commanded. The Lord Kelvin participated in the repair of cables damaged by the great seaquake of 1929 and the five year expedition to develop an undersea plough to bury cables in the ocean bed. That project is considered one of the greatest marine accomplishments of all times. The Minia was one of the ships that rescued Titanic survivors. Complemented by nearly 150 photos and drawings.
Vittorio’s Journey
$25.00Vittorio Rappini was born in Bologna in 1921. At the start of World War II, he survives the sinking of his submarine in the Mediterranean Sea and, for six years, suffers the degradation, drudgery and hardships of life in Allied prisoner of war camps. Finally able to return home, Vittorio confronts the aftermath of war in Italy, which sets him on the road to emigration to Canada. Vittorio’s Journey fits into the broader historical memory of all those who fought, suffered or perished on both sides during this tragic period of modern history.
Canadian Maple Syrup
Artist: Marijke Simons$9.95Based on the real-life story of the Allaway family of Tantallon, Nova Scotia. Brian and Simmone Allaway started their backyard project with children Cara and Brian William in the 1980s, and as the popularity of their maple syrup grew, so did their small family business. Acadian Maple Products Ltd. has since developed into a large processing and retail facility with a world- wide distribution network. It employs twenty people and is still fully owned and operated by the Allaway family.
Jigs and Reels A cruise in Maritime waters
Artist: Marijke Simons$9.95Silas and his cousin Rose are on an adventure in search of whales and mermaids as they go with their grandparents on a cruise around Nova Scotia. The sea voyage begins in Shediac, New Brunswick, continues to Prince Edward Island, explores the Cape Breton coastline, before sailing along the Nova Scotia shores to the Bay of Fundy. Along the way encountering an abundance of marine life above and below the water.
Premier Steven McNeil
$19.95The McNeils and Mombourquettes established a joint heritage that began in Cape Breton, then to Spryfield and continues in Upper Granville, in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.
Stephen, our present Premier and the twelfth of seventeen siblings, was a mere eight years old when his father died suddenly. It thrust the family, led by his mother, into some challenging yet rewarding times. Older brothers and sisters took on new roles and created a bond that continues to this day.
Phone Book: Essential Telephone Communication Skills
$21.95Since 2006 Mary Jane has embraced her alter ego, The Phone Lady, a North American company that focuses on excellent telephone communication skills. Mary Jane has worked with over 300 clients and her expertise has been recognized throughout North America and Europe by a wide-range of business media-radio, television and print-including the Wall Street Journal.
The Island Hoppers
$19.95This is the world’s first glimpse into the existence of The Island Hoppers, strange and remarkable creatures who roamed Cape Breton ten thousand years ago.
Creating Good Food
Artist: George BernardEditor: Wanda Bernard$19.95African Nova Scotians are well known in their families and communities for creating good food. In addition, they have always been able to make delicious meals for large families. Making the link between food and health, the Association of Black Social Workers has worked with seniors to convert some of their cherished traditional recipes to more healthy versions. We were inspired by the seniors’ willingness to try new twists on their old favourite recipes.
Towns of Nova Scotia
$24.95This book profiles the incorporated towns of Nova Scotia with four pages of information and colour visuals. They are ranked in fourteen categories that include affordability of housing, multicultural population, climate for gardening, the number of children, income and educational levels, and even the single population. Although everyone would not require all of the categories, it does show that the top rated town has a range of strengths.
Like an Ever Rolling Stream
$19.95When two men head off on a weekend canoe trip in 1976, they have little idea of the epic journey they have launched upon. Over the next two decades their annual outings take them on explorations of the rivers, lakes and coastal regions of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, paddling from one hair-raising adventure to another. This is the often hilarious, frequently irreverent and always entertaining account of those trips.
Common Courtesy Makes Good Golfing Sense
$14.95Reminding ourselves that it’s just a game is of the utmost importance if we are to have success on the golf course. This self-improvement guide for amateur golfers is interspersed with thought-provoking quotations and clever cartoons making it an easy and delightful read.
Promised Land- A Novel of Cape Breton
$19.95Awarded the 2014 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal For Humour, The Promised Land skillfully and hilariously navigates the ebb and flow of island life on Cape Breton where things go from bad to worse to Oh My Goodness! And all the while, the author shares his characters’ belief that “They’re all good days if we’re here to see them.”
Get More Power From Your Brain
$21.95Reading this book will stimulate you to nurture and challenge the power from your brain so that you can focus and concentrate at will, become action oriented, acquire learning skills easily, and retain more information as you read faster. You will be able to enhance your memory, turn your stress into interesting opportunities, improve your relationships, defeat procrastination, treat mistakes as good feedback, and live mindfully.
Peggy’s Cove – Mist & Rocks
Photographer: Ron Webber$19.95Acclaimed photo landscape artist Ron Webber has interpreted exciting and interesting locations across Canada. And it was an unexpected pleasure when he came under the spell of Peggys Cove, a place close to his home. He was enchanted first by the land, then by the village, and finally by the diffused coastal lighting that brings them together in a painterly way. Over severalmonths, and with no preconceived direction, Webber followed the well trodden path of visitors before him. The resulting photographs, combined with archival images, capture the true spirit of Peggys Cove, both past and present.
Acadie Then and Now: A People’s History
$30.00Acadie Then and Now: A People’s History in its French edition won the international literary award, 2015 Prix France-Acadie Prize. The book is an international collection of articles from 55 authors, which chronicles the historical and contemporary realities of the Acadian people worldwide. This book includes 65 articles on the Acadians living today in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec, in the American states of Louisiana, Texas and Maine, and in the French regions of Poitou, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, and St-Pierre et Miquelon. It takes an international perspective and provides the readers with new insights on the past, present, and future of Acadian descendants from all the Acadies of the world.
