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St. Paul Island The Story of Lighthouses, Shipwrecks, and Lives on "The Graveyard of the Gulf"
Publisher: Breton Books$19.95History of life-saving and lighthouse keeping on a noted hazard to shipping—a rock with over 300 known shipwrecks on its shores.
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The Sniger and the Floose
Artist: Katie BrosnanPublisher: Running the Goat$13.99On a very Random Island
in the North Atlantic Sea,
some very Randomanimals
are hiding in the trees…
So begins Ashley Fayth’s delightful nonsense poem in which readers meet a range of “wild and wondrous” beasts—like the sniger, the floose, the squiffin, and the butterflabbit. With its playful rhymes and rollicking rhythm, this book is a perfect read-aloud. Yet even in its silliest moments, The Sniger and the Floose is a gentle reminder to respect and preserve the beauty of the natural world around us, and a joyous celebration of imagination.
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Jack and the Manger A Christmas Jack Tale
Artist: Darka ErdeljiPublisher: Running the Goat$14.95The Christmas story told with a folktale twist. This reverently irreverent story gives a whole new take on the birth of Jesus.
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Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves
Artist: Darka ErdeljiPublisher: Running the Goat$14.95When her husband Jack is duped by an underhanded sea captain, Mary disguises herself as a man, ships aboard a vessel, and sets out to save Jack and restore their fortunes. An award-winning tale of love, treachery, perseverance, and cherry cake.
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The Ferryland Visitor
Artist: Gerald L. SquiresPublisher: Running the Goat$21.95When she moves into an abandoned lighthouse-keeper’s house with her family, Esther is excited by her new surroundings. One day the former constable comes to welcome her family to their new home. But just who is this mysterious man?
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Winter Road
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$19.95Winter Road is the latest collection of short stories by one of Canada?s most gifted and accomplished storytellers. An award-winning master craftsman of short fiction, Wayne Curtis takes us on a journey from early schooldays to old age, all in a singular rural New Brunswick setting of times gone by.
Here are illuminating stories of love, heartbreak, daydreams, and expectations – fulfilled and unfulfilled. Curtis charts the lives of small-town boys and girls, men and women who struggle with the challenges and limitations of poverty, isolation, and a kind of discrimination rarely documented in fiction.
Each work is marked by the insight of a veteran author whose life has been dedicated to the creation of a singular fictional world unique to the Maritimes but universal in its echoes of the unending longing of the human spirit. It is a world where dreams are born and die and sometimes live on despite the odds.
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Women Who Care
Editor: Lori Hanson, Nili Kaplan - MyrthPublisher: Pottersfield Press$19.95Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and physician. She has expertise in determinants of health, women’s health, disability studies and Indigenous self-determination in health, with a strong commitment to action-based qualitative research, feminism and social justice. Her three wonderful children, her friends and family haven’t let her quit medicine yet.
Lori Hanson, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan with interests in community activism, gender and development, health equity, sexual and reproductive health, health promotion, and transformative education. In her spare time, she raises her two sets of twins and works with a great group of community and university women involved in the Saskatoon Women’s Community Coalition.
Patricia Thille, BSc (PT), MA, is a former physical therapist and health services researcher. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Calgary and balances her academic work with community outreach as a healthy sexuality educator with Venus Envy. -
The Trouble With Everything
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$15.00This audiobook offers 27 studio readings of poems accompanied by original music.
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Canada Wild
Artist: Alex MacAskillPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.95Canada Wild, Animals Found Nowhere Else on Earth is a full-colour illustrated guide to Canada’s endemic species for young readers, from the award-winning author of Snooze-O-Rama: The Strange Ways that Animals Sleep.
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Kisses Kisses, Baby-O! Trilingual Edition
Artist: HildaRosePublisher: Nimbus Publishing$10.95Kisses Kisses Baby-O! is a story for newborns told from the point of view of a parent or caregiver, but with high interaction with baby’s world and tuned to events in baby’s day.
Beloved Canadian children’s author Sheree Fitch delivers fun, intelligent, participatory text that is a joy to read. Using rhythm and onomatopoeia, Sheree’s bubbly text begins with baby waking, and follows through eating, bathing, playing, and finally sleeping. Repetition, rhythm and active verbs create a lively story that can be read again and again.
Heart-warming illustrations by HildaRose combine realism and a whimsical, artistic style, while paying close attention to the needs of newborn readers, including such elements as: stimulating visuals, patterns, baby faces, cultural diversity and interaction with others.
This brand new trilingual edition features English, French, and Mi’kmaw text, and thick paper stock for durability.
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Westray (French Edition)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$18.95L’explosion de méthane éventre la mine Westray, en Nouvelle-Écosse. Vingt-six mineurs y sont pris au piège. Les résidents de Plymouth retiennent leur souffle tandis que les sauveteurs partent à la recherche de survivants, bravant des conditions extrêmement dangereuses pendant des jours. Vernon Theriault, un mineur de Westray décoré pour sa bravoure, s’était joint aux équipes de sauvetage. Malheureusement, nul des vingt-six mineurs n’avait survécu à l’explosion, et seuls quinze de leurs corps auront pu être retrouvés. Westray, synonyme de la négligence des employeurs et de l’indifférence des gouvernements, est cependant devenu le cri de ralliement des syndicalistes et des familles des disparus. La tragédie a donné naissance au projet de loi Westray, une loi fédérale visant à protéger la sécurité des travailleurs, qui a fait l’objet de plusieurs campagnes de lobbying sous la bannière Plus jamais de Westray.
Dans ce livre, Theriault décrit son expérience dans la mine du comté de Pictou, ses combats personnels à la suite du désastre et la façon dont il a donné un sens nouveau à sa vie en participant à la campagne de lobbying de longue haleine du Syndicat des Métallos, qui a mené à l’adoption de la Loi Westray en 2004.
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Lexicon 19 Puzzles to Challenge & Entertain
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$10.95Theresa Williams’s lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published by the Halifax Chronicle-Herald in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, the lexicon engages and entertains fans of all ages. Puzzle buffs will delight in this opportunity to try 52 all-new puzzles.
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EveryBody’s Different on EveryBody Street
$22.95If ever you go travelling
On EveryBody Street
You’ll see EveryBody’s Different
Than EveryOne you meetSheree Fitch’s playful words lead you into this beautiful children’s book and invite you to celebrate our gifts, our weaknesses, our differences, and our sameness. Fitch displays her wit and mastery of words in quick, rollicking rhymes that are complemented by Emma Fitzgerald’s lively illustrations. EveryBody’s Different on EveryBody Street was originally produced in 2001 as a fundraiser to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Festival of Trees in support of the Nova Scotia Hospital and to raise awareness for mental illness and addiction.
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Amazing Grace
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest?
Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she’s lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d’Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher Parsons, a giant teddy bear who’s not even her husband. But Grace’s blissful life is rudely interrupted when her estranged son calls from New York City, worried about his teenaged daughter.
Before she knows it, Grace finds herself the temporary guardian of her self-absorbed, city-slicker granddaughter, Melissa. Trapped between a past she’s been struggling to resolve and a present that keeps her on her toes, Grace decides to finally tell her story. Either the truth will absolve her, or cost her everything.
Crackling with Lesley Crewe’s celebrated wit and humour, Amazing Grace is a heartfelt tale of enduring love and forgiveness, and the deep roots of family.