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Dunk River Murders
Publisher: Acorn Press$22.95Maggie is burnt out on her old political job and is running away from her problems by way of fly fishing, until dead bodies keep inconveniently popping up in her river. From the writer of Ken’s Corner. Same place, new dirtbags
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Camino Chaos: Taking it All in Stride Across Croatia and Portugal
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95Navigating endless olive groves, vineyards, bottles of wine, gypsy dogs, nudists, wild boars, the “Valley of the Moon” and cancelled flights, Camino Chaos is laced with Torti’s signature sarcasm, Super Bock, watermelon-eating sheep, U-turns, profanity, insanity history and heroics.
Follow the determined duo as around Croatia’s Krk Island and Coastal Portugal as they find their way back to Santiago on two very trying Camino routes with a sense of bewilderment and humour (and hives for Kim).
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Family Secrets: A Daughter’s Search for Her Parents’ Hidden War
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95When an elderly father finally breaks decades of silence, his daughter embarks on a search through archives and historical records to uncover her parents’ hidden wartime past. Debut author Alice Switocz Goldbloom discovers not just her family’s remarkable stories in Nazi-occupied Poland, but a broader tragedy that touched every Polish family. A powerful memoir and historical detective story about heritage, inheritance, and learning to honour the immigrant roots she once tried to escape.
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What seas sing through our bones: Passages through Canada, the United States and Mexico
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95What seas sing through our bones is a journey poem and a queer love story co-created and recounted during a time of war, censorship and extreme border control. In a voyage that runs from Nova Scotia to San Diego, then along the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja peninsula into the Sea of Cortez, the poem’s narrators relate the marvels and disasters they encounter as they move from one language to another, and between land and sea.
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Winning Prizes
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$19.95Winning Prizes is a collection of essays dealing with topics ranging from faith, murder, love of place as well as historical and literary individuals. He writes passionately about individuality and the courage it takes to strike out on one’s own and to stand one’s ground against the odds, a critical part of living that sooner or later all of us must deal with in our own way.
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I’ll be with you in a moment
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95Beth Callahan can stop time by winking. Owen possesses no mystical powers, and until now, hasn’t even managed to make a solid friend. He has no idea why Beth’s chosen him to share her secret, but once she does, everything looks different. Set near the lake and throughout dreary suburbs, I’ll Be With You in a Moment is a bittersweet coming-of-age story about belief, connection, and the people who see us before we see ourselves.
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Nine Bags of Gold: The Real-Life Hunt for the Lost Treasure of Acadie
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$24.95The little-known search for an elusive eighteenth-century New Brunswick treasure, researched like never before, featuring dozens of illustrations.
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Another Landscape
Publisher: Island Studies Press$18.95Judy Gaudet’s Another Landscape addresses the ordinary wonders of a life shared with her partner and their dog, where “Nothing is needed. Everything is here between us.” These poems gather small but notable moments of Island life and insist we look closer, for “this is life, as long as we have it.”
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Anne’s House of Dreams & Anne of Ingleside
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$15.95A new series of beautiful bind-ups with cover illustrations by Briana Corr Scott brings readers affordable collectors’ editions of the beloved Anne of Green Gables novels.
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Bluenose Bluebirds
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$22.95A comprehensive history of the Nova Scotian nurses who served in World War I, from a leading historian and author of Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919.
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Canada’s Endangered Animals—Twelve Species At Risk of Disappearing Forever
Artist: Alex MacAskillPublisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$17.95A full-colour illustrated guide to animals at risk of extinction in Canada, from the Hackmatack–shortlisted illustrator behind Canada Wild.
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The Little Book of New Brunswick (pb)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$16.95Paperback edition of a compact, travel-sized photography book of Canada’s “picture province.”
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Nova Scotia from the Air (pb)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$29.95The bestselling author of Then & Now gives readers a bird’s-eye view of Nova Scotia through stunning aerial photographs paired with archival images, now available in paperback.
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The Little Book of Nova Scotia (pb)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$16.95Paperback edition of the bestselling travel-sized photography book.
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The Little Book of Newfoundland and Labrador (pb)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$16.95Beautiful, compact photographic book of Newfoundland and Labrador, now available in paperback.
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My First Book of Canadian Birds
Artist: Angela DoakPublisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$18.95The celebrated collage-style picture book introducing young readers to Canada’s feathered friends is now available as a durable board book!
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Brain Storms: My Life with a Brain Tumour—A Family Doctor’s Memoir
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$22.95A poignant, darkly funny, and hopeful memoir of the psychological impact of illness from a retired New Brunswick doctor.
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100 Things You Don’t Know About Nova Scotia
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$19.95The bestselling book of narrative trivia about Canada’s Ocean Playground is back in print, in an expanded and updated edition.
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Skate On, Shirley!
Artist: Brandon MitchellPublisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$14.95An inspiring picture book about a young Indigenous girl who just wants to play hockey—co-written by a two-time world champion hockey player and former member of the Toronto Sceptres and Ottawa Charge.
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Oceans of Rum: The Nova Scotia Banana Fleet in Rum-Runner Heaven (2nd ed)
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95Excitement, camaraderie, drama on the high seas, love affairs, big payoffs, and fast cars – these were the returns for a life of smuggling in Atlantic Canada during Prohibition for those who dared. Oceans of Rum recalls the glory days of rum running on Nova Scotia’s South Shore based on first-hand accounts.
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Amazing 2SLGBTQIA+ People in Atlantic Canada: Stories of Activism, Education, and Pride
Artist: James BentleyPublisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$24.95The newest installment in the popular illustrated series about Amazing Atlantic Canadians, featuring incredible 2SLGBTQIA+ people from across the region.
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Children of the SS Atlantic
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$22.95The newest addition to the popular, full-colour Compass series for young readers explores one of the deadliest maritime disasters before the Titanic.
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Blood Typed
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$22.95An uproarious and satirical contemporary mystery set in Nova Scotia’s author community from the author of Fishnets & Fantasies.
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How I Made It: Secrets of a Self-Made Multi-Millionaire
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$25.95An accessible, practical, and timeless guide to entrepreneurship from the founder/developer of some of Canada’s most successful businesses, including Premiere Van Lines and Moore Executive Suites.
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Twenty-six
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$24.95A new edition of the bestselling, Giller Prize finalist work of literary fiction inspired by Nova Scotia’s Westray mining disaster.