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If You Could Be Anything
Artist: Briana Corr ScottPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95A gentle lullaby celebrating the abundant nature of the East Coast, from the illustrator of Wildflower and The Book of Selkie.
If you could be anything, what would you be?
I’d be a tall ship, racing fast on the sea
I’d fill up my sails with the salty cool breeze
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The Little Book of Nova Scotia
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$18.95Journey through the incredible landscape of Nova Scotia with award-winning photojournalist Len Wagg. Experience all the colours of one of this scenic paprovince in this travel-friendly book. Features 85 photos with captions.
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Memories on the Bounty A Story of Friendship, Love, and Adventure
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95In 1960, Roy Boutilier and twenty-four fellow Nova Scotians set sail for Tahiti aboard the newly built replica sailing ship Bounty. The ship stayed in Tahiti for almost a year while MGM Studios filmed the epic historical drama Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando.
Roy’s year on Bounty and his experiences in Tahiti are themselves the stuff of movies. But it took a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease for Roy and his long-time friend, Janet Sanford, to realize that a fascinating story would be lost if someone didn’t capture those memories.
And so began a series of Monday-morning meetings as Roy and the author embarked on a race against time. Memories on the Bounty goes far beyond re-telling Roy’s story; it explores the boundaries of memory, the challenges of storytelling, the pain of saying goodbye, and the enduring bonds of friendship.
With dozens of never-before-seen photos from Bounty’s maiden voyage and her time in Tahiti, Memories on the Bounty is a touching story of adventure, love, and loss.
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Cultivating Success The Life of Acadian Seaplants Founder Louis Deveau
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95Louis Deveau was born in the Acadian village of Salmon River, Digby County, NS, in the early years of the Great Depression. He inherited his father’s work ethic and his mother’s entrepreneurial flair, soon pioneering the creation of the commercial crab industry?now the second-largest fishery in Atlantic Canada. That work put him on the front lines of the industry he would transform over a lifetime: the seaweed business.
At forty-nine, Louis incorporated Acadian Seaplants Limited (ASL), and doggedly grew the company by capitalizing on research and development innovations. Today, ASL employs hundreds of people in more than a dozen nations, keeps a research staff of about fifty, and exports a wide range of products to over eighty nations worldwide.
With dozens of black and white photos and two colour inserts, this comprehensive biography tells the story of a visionary whose determination to build a successful business in Nova Scotia, and whose commitment to church, family, community, and Acadian culture transformed ASL into a world-leading, research- and technology-driven juggernaut.
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Mi’kmaw Daily Drum Mi’kmaw Culture for Every Day of the Week
Artist: Alan SyliboyPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.95Mi’kmaq artist Alan Syliboy’s daily drum artworks paired with a different day of the week in an accessible and beautiful baby board book.
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Wildflower
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95You cannot own a wildflower.
An old woman’s wish for a child is granted in the form of a thumb-sized girl born inside a flower. Though the child brings the woman much joy, Wildflower cannot be planted in one place; she must go where the wild wind blows. And if her mother really loves her, she must let her go.
In Wildflower, artist Briana Corr Scott (The Book of Selkie) brings her whimsical illustrations and gentle poetry to the beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, “Thumbelina.” Maintaining the original spirit of Andersen’s tale, celebrating love between mother and child, kinship between humans and animals, and bravery—no matter your size or shape—this refreshing retelling gives newfound agency to Wildflower, and offers young readers a tender lesson about the importance of respecting nature.
Wildflower is the perfect gift for new mothers and mothers-to-be, recent graduates, and anyone with a love and appreciation for nature.
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Brighten the Corner Where You Are A Novel Inspired by the Life of Maud Lewis
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$24.95In this bittersweet novel inspired by the life of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis, master storyteller Carol Bruneau gives voice to the artist, allowing her to speak from beyond the grave, freed from the stigmas of gender, poverty and disability that marked her life and shaped her art.
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Canada Above & Beyond
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$32.95One of the country’s most celebrated photographers brings Canada to vivid life with this brand new aerial photography book, featuring spreads of all thirteen provinces and territories, as well as detailed captions that add local colour. From the Rocky Mountains and the True North to the outports of Newfoundland, and the Prairie, great lakes, and rugged terrain and cityscapes in between, Canada: Above & Beyond is a cross-country tour for locals and tourists alike.
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Over by the Harbour Counting in Outport Newfoundland and Labrador
Artist: Thérèse CiliaPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$12.95 -
A Sea Glass Journey Ebb and Flow
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95A Sea Glass Journey is your go-to resource for everything sea glass. Sea glass collector and artist Teri Hall describes the origins of sea glass, where the best glass is found, a handbook of sea glass shapes and colours, and tips for easy, fun sea glass projects. Includes 50 colour photographs.
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Atlantic Seafood Recipes from Chef Michael Howell
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$24.95Chef Michael Howell shares over fifty of his favourite seafood recipes, covering fourteen different types of fish with dishes ranging from classic to contemporary.
Atlantic Seafood is full of easy tips for buying locally and ethically, presenting dishes to impress, and making simple substitutions. With over forty vivid colour photographs, Atlantic Seafood appeals to the fish connoisseur in all of us.
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Somebeachsomewhere A Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$26.95It’s November 2006 and Brent MacGrath, a car salesman from Nova Scotia, has just had his first glimpse of a gorgeous yearling at the Lexington Yearling Sale—and his heart skips a beat. He takes another look. Even this young, the bay stallion has size and “presence.” Against all odds, and with limited funds, MacGrath makes a successful bid for the colt.
Somebeachsomewhere: The Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable is a work of narrative non-fiction that follows the life and career of the Ohio-born, Canadian-sired superstar pacer known as “Beach” who belonged to a syndicate of six owners from Canada’s East Coast. From a relatively humble lineage, Somebeachsomewhere turned out to be a horse of a lifetime: a world-champion Hall of Famer, smashing records and setting a single-season earning record as a three-year-old. Many consider Beach, who died unexpectedly in 2018, the greatest pacer and Standardbred sire of all time. Canadian and American racing fans loved the friendly stallion with “an extra gear,” and threw “Beach Parties” whenever he raced.
This is the first-ever complete, generously illustrated account of “the Beach,” a horse who captivated the world with his speed, courage and near-flawless gait. It is also a story of improbabilities and magic, featuring dozens of interviews with top American and Canadian horsemen and women, the owners of Empire Stallions in Avenel, Australia, and harness racing industry professionals.
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Read Talk Play Baby Steps to Reading
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.95Rub a dub dub
Splashing in the tub
You can say bubble
BUB, BUB, BUBBLE
Rub a dub dubThe road to reading begins at birth, and talking, playing, and reading with your baby lays a solid foundation to build a lifetime of loving books and learning.
Read Talk Play is three books in one: the perfect starter collection to introduce babies to the joy of books and reading. It features photo images that will capture a babys attention, and bouncy text that is fun to read aloud. Divided into three “mini books,” each section is introduced with helpful tips for caregivers on how babies learn to talk and read, and how play is essential to learning—all based on developmental research. Perfect for families, libraries, baby shower gifts, and early literacy promoters and educators.