• Decoding Dot Grey
  • Sketches of Historic Truro
  • Fairy Dells and Rustic Bowers The Creation of Victoria Park, Truro NS

    Fairy Dells and Rustic Bowers The Creation of Victoria Park, Truro NS

    Publisher: SSP Publications

    The development of Truro’s magnificent Victoria Park is a very compelling read. Full of romance, little known facts (the Olmsteds, of New York’s Central Park fame were involved) and vintage Notman photographs, Joe Ballard’s study is an eye-opener.

    $14.95
  • Historic House Names of Nova Scotia

    Historic House Names of Nova Scotia

    Mount Uniacke, Acacia Grove, Winckworth, Saint’s Rest, Spruce Tree Cottage. Ever wonder how Nova Scotia houses got their names? The better-known names are largely connected with prominent historical figures who resided in commodious homes with sprawling grounds, but the naming tradition was far more prevalent than that. Historic House Names of Nova Scotia provides a fascinating look at the house-naming tradition in Nova Scotia. What sorts of names did Bluenoses create, and what did the names mean? Author and historian Joe Ballard has amassed a wealth of historical information and photos on the subject.

    $17.95
  • Dusty Dreams and Troubled Waters A Story of HMCS Sackville and the Battle of the Atlantic

    Dusty Dreams and Troubled Waters A Story of HMCS Sackville and the Battle of the Atlantic

    Created by: Brian Bowman
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    They said I was a sailor, now. But this was my first time on the ocean. And I was going to war…

    By 1942 most of Europe was under the heel of the Nazis. Only the United Kingdom remained free to oppose them. Knowing Britain needed supplies from overseas, the German navy built a large fleet of U-boats to hunt merchant ships. It was up to Canada to protect all shipping from North America to Britain. Corvettes like HMCS Sackville were crewed by young men from across Canada, and from all walks of life. The Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945), the longest of the Second World War, was Canada’s battle, and the outcome sealed Hitler’s fate.

    Following young Wally as he leaves the family farm on the prairies to pursue a daring career in the navy—leaving love interest Winnie behind—this striking graphic novel is a high-stakes adventure, a love story, and an important historical lesson. Features meticulously detailed black and white drawings, an illustrated diagram of the Sackville, information on wartime propaganda, glossary, and an illustrated map.

    $19.95
  • Affairs With Old Houses

    Affairs With Old Houses

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    This beautifully illustrated book profiles the architectural heritage of Nova Scotia and describes the personal and loving efforts of a number of residents to restore these fabulous buildings.

    $19.95
  • Turning Points 15 Pivotal Moments in Nova Scotia's History

    Turning Points 15 Pivotal Moments in Nova Scotia’s History

    Created by: Paul W. Bennett

    Paul Bennett tells the history of Nova Scotia through 15 key turning points. From Nova Scotia’s problems with Confederation to wartime Halifax, the Springhill Mining Disaster, Viola Desmond and Ray Ivany’s ‘Now or Never’ report, Bennett recounts these decisive moments that have shaped the province’s destiny.

    With rarely seen photography, Bennett shows how these turning points helped define the Nova Scotia we live in today. Each episode helped forge the province’s identity, change its trajectory, and shape its collective sense of purpose.

    $22.95
  • Flavours of Halifax and Road Trips

    Flavours of Halifax and Road Trips

    Created by: Tom Mason
    Photographer: Heidi Jirotka

    Whether you consider yourself a foodie or you only dine out a couple of times a year, Flavours of Halifax and Road Trips offers you a window into the best food the city has to offer.

    In Flavours of Halifax and Road Trips, the best of the region’s epicurean leaders take food lovers on a culinary journey through the city’s emerging hotspots. Quite simply, it is a celebration of the culinary scene in all its resplendent glory.

    $34.95
  • Flavours of New Brunswick

    Flavours of New Brunswick

    Created by: Tom Mason
    Photographer: Heidi Jirotka

    Whether you consider yourself a foodie or dine out only a few times a year, Flavours of New Brunswick offers you a window into the best food the province has to offer.

    Canada’s only bilingual province has long been a gathering place for people of differing cultures from around the world. The natural beauty and quality of life that draws people to New Brunswick is today attracting a new generation of chefs, bringing with them new flavours and experiences, and we are all the richer for it.

    Some hail from places halfway around the world and bring with them the cooking traditions and sensibilities of their homelands. For those who grew up on the East Coast, they have not only kept the culinary traditions of their home province alive but have adapted them and given them new life. The result is a food scene that has never been more innovative or diverse.

    In Flavours of New Brunswick, the best of the regions epicurean leaders take food lovers on a culinary journey through the province’s emerging hotspots. The book is a celebration of the culinary scene in all its resplendent glory.

    $34.95
  • The Philosopher

    The Philosopher

    Created by: Malcolm Murray

    Rooted in the absurdist tradition, this collection of one-act plays by philosophy professor Malcolm Murray focuses on existential themes. Provocative, perceptive, and rife with questions about the motives and morality of our everyday conduct, his characters range from a philosopher in chains brought up from the basement to entertain guests to a psychologist who assists a traumatized patient to become more self-aware, only to result in greater angst.

    $24.95
  • What-cha Doing
  • Play it Like You Sing It - Volume 1 History, Culture and Images

    Play it Like You Sing It – Volume 1 History, Culture and Images

    Created by: Barry W. Shears
    Publisher: Bradan Press

    In Nova Scotia throughout the 19th century, bagpipe music was interwoven with fiddle music, Gaelic singing, and dance traditions. Volume One of The Shears Collection tells the story of the many families and individuals who maintained piping traditions in the Gaelic-speaking communities of the mainland and Cape Breton, through history, culture, and over 100 images of pipers and their instruments in 19th and 20th-century Nova Scotia.

    $39.99
  • Play it Like You Sing It - Volume 2 The Music

    Play it Like You Sing It – Volume 2 The Music

    Created by: Barry W. Shears
    Publisher: Bradan Press

    In Nova Scotia throughout the 19th century, bagpipe music was interwoven with fiddle music, Gaelic singing, and dance traditions. Volume Two of the Shears Collection presents bagpipe arrangements and their Gaelic words as they were played and sung in Nova Scotia. The book contains 230 settings of pipe tunes, 19 fiddle tune settings connected to the piping tradition, numerous port-á-beul lyrics, and 75 images of 19th and 20th-century Nova Scotian pipers.

    $69.99
  • Remembrance Road A Canadian photographer's journey through European battlefields

    Remembrance Road A Canadian photographer’s journey through European battlefields

    Created by: Justine MacDonald
    Publisher: SSP Publications

    Nova Scotian photographer Justine MacDonald’s poignant impressions from her 2001 and 2017 tours of western European battlefields are indelible reminders of the horror and utter futility of war. While they inform and memorialize, they do not take sides. One cannot read this book and not be profoundly moved.

    $6.95
  • The Cove Journal

    The Cove Journal

    Created by: JoDee Samuelson

    In eight years of writing her monthly column for PEI’s entertainment newspaper, the Buzz, artist JoDee Samuelson continues to capture the soft edges of rural life on the peaceful south shore of Prince Edward Island. The passing of the seasons, the growing of gardens, the friendship of neighbours, and the earthly pleasures of life are all presented with the enduring backdrop of “the shore.” JoDee’s expressive illustrations are the perfect touch.

    $19.95
  • Under the Floorboard

    Under the Floorboard

    Created by: Wendy Ranby

    15-year-old Aileen never feels good enough to please her mother. When she pries up the floorboard at her aunt’s house, she sheds a light on the dark secret she worked so hard to forget. Why does no one ever talk about her baby sister Claire and what happened to her?

    Then her mother announces she’s pregnant and starts acting strange. After the baby is born, her mother descends into a depression, and Aileen has to cope with the effect this has on both her and her family. Life isn’t easy when your parent has a mental health issue. Especially when no one talks to you about it. Honesty is tough. Is it possible her mother has secrets of her own and is Aileen ready for the truth? Miscommunications abound, but underneath there is love—even if it is hard to feel it sometimes.

    $12.95
  • Watchman Against the World

    Watchman Against the World

    Created by: Flora McPherson
    Publisher: Breton Books

    The story of Reverend Norman McLeod and his people.

    $18.95
  • Dignity, Democracy, Development A Citizen's Reader

    Dignity, Democracy, Development A Citizen’s Reader

    Created by: Tom Urbaniak
    Publisher: Breton Books

    With these 61 readable essays, Cape Breton’s Tom Urbaniak brings a courageous, critical and constructive eye to problems of our time. Whether it’s revitalizing struggling communities, harnessing the power of small investors, reforming tired institutions or protecting parliamentary democracy, he is able to point to workable solutions. This is a practical and thought-provoking reader, challenging everyone to engage with their region and with the world.

    $19.95
  • In the Public Square A Citizen's Reader
  • Un Gamin Acadien L'odyssée de Roméo Leblanc vers Rideau Hall

    Un Gamin Acadien L’odyssée de Roméo Leblanc vers Rideau Hall

    Created by: Beryl Young
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    Né sur une ferme dans le village de l’Anse-des-Cormier, au Nouveau-Brunswick, le jeune Roméo LeBlanc ne se doutait pas que, grâce à l’amour de sa famille et à l’aide inattendue de ses soeurs, il aurait un jour la chance de faire des études secondaires et universitaires, de devenir enseignant d’histoire puis journaliste, et de gravir les échelons politiques jusqu’au plus haut sommet! Malgré tout, Roméo LeBlanc conservera toute sa vie une grande modestie et un grand sens de l’humour.

    Découvrez l’odyssée d’un gamin acadien jusqu’à Rideau Hall, la résidence officielle du gouverneur général à Ottawa.

    $19.95
  • A Boy From Acadie Roméo Leblanc's Journey to Rideau Hall

    A Boy From Acadie Roméo Leblanc’s Journey to Rideau Hall

    Created by: Beryl Young
    Artist: Maurice Cormier
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    Young Roméo LeBlanc, from Cormier Cove, New Brunswick, did not expect that one day, thanks to his family and sisters, he would have the chance to go to high school and university, become a history teacher, then a journalist, and finally a politician, climbing up the ladder to the highest position! Nevertheless, he stayed modest and kept his great sense of humour all his life.

    $19.95
  • Comptines et cuisine

    Comptines et cuisine

    Created by: Sophie Gayer
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    A cheerful parade of creatures and animals creating amusing, original and easy-to-remember nursery rhymes in their trail. Plus, dishes dreamed up by the author and based on these bizarre creatures with easy, mostly no-cook recipes. Children can prepare and taste their dishes without turning the kitchen upside down. Simple ingredients and festive, mainly healthy results. Children and parents may even want to create their own delicious bestiary!

    $13.95
  • Coquelicot sur un rocher

    Coquelicot sur un rocher

    Created by: Aurélie Resch
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    Carla, journalist covering the war in Afghanistan, is on a quest. She’s searching for something significant to bring back for her son Théo.

    For his part, Tom, a nineteen-year-old American, try to make sense of this war for which he embarked without knowing why. His mother deeply worried at the thought of her son.

    Laïla and Amir, living in a dusty Kabul, are separated by the conflicts.

    These mothers and their child are bound by the same fight, the one for love.

    $14.95
  • A tool box for inclusion in the classroom and in the school

    S’ouvrir A tool box for inclusion in the classroom and in the school

    Created by: Collective
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    Through real life situations, here is a resource for anyone struggling or interested in the inclusive classroom and school. Without shying from the true and demanding challenges of an all-encompassing inclusive learning space, this is a must-read, must share proposal, coming straight from the classrooms and schools trying to meet these challenges.

    $24.95
  • Pirate Year Round

    Pirate Year Round

    Created by: Marla Lesage
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Despite her peg-leg, Pirate has adventures through the seasons

    Join Pirate as she goes on her pirate adventures through the seasons. Whether it is Halloween or Valentine’s Day, Pirate is always up for an adventure, peg leg or not. Even the winter snow doesn’t slow her down!

    $14.95
  • Welcome to Camp Fill-in-the-Blank

    Welcome to Camp Fill-in-the-Blank

    Created by: Hope Dalvay
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Page’s perfectly organized life turns upside down when her parents send her to Prince Edward Island to babysit her cousins Crusoe and Danger (those are their real names) for the summer. The only problem is that her cousins feel that they are too old to have a babysitter—they would rather be at summer camp. Page realizes the solution to the problem is to give her cousins exactly what they want: summer camp in their own backyard. Despite Page’s meticulous efforts to plan a different theme for each week of Camp Fill-in-the-Blank, she quickly learns that life with her cousins rarely goes according to plan.

    $12.95
  • My Year as a Space Cadet
  • The Multiplication Rap Multiplying is a snap…when you know the “Multiplication Rap”!
  • Butter Tart Island

    Butter Tart Island

    Created by: Hope Dalvay
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Twelve-year-old Jane Smith isn’t surprised when her parents announce they’re relocating, but her life is about to change, big-time. Maybe she isn?t the only one with secrets.

    $17.95
  • Historic PEI : Vintage Postcards of Prince Edward Island

    Historic PEI : Vintage Postcards of Prince Edward Island

    Created by: Ed McKenna
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Throughout Canada’s early days, Prince Edward Island was a thriving province with a strong tourist industry. Historic Prince Edward Island portrays the quaint lifestyle and the busy industry that Canada’s smallest province had to offer. With unique messages to friends and family, these early postcards paint a picture of history not available in history books.

    $22.95
  • Prince Edward Island National Park Past and Present

    Prince Edward Island National Park Past and Present

    Created by: Parks And People
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Since Prince Edward Island National Park was first created in 1937 it has welcomed visitors from around the world, captivating the hearts of all who experience its serene and tranquil beauty. Stretching for about 40 km along the north shore of Prince Edward Island between New London and Tracadie Bays and the tip of the Greenwich Peninsula in St. Peters Bay, this dynamic coastal landscape is constantly changing, shaped by the wind and waves. The sand dunes and beaches, wetlands and forests provide a home for many plants and animals. Wildflowers add colour everywhere and marram grass glistens in the sunlight, rippled by the coastal breezes. Great blue herons grace the ponds and marshes and shorebirds feed along the water’s edge. Several species at risk are protected in the park, including the endangered piping plover. People have been part of this coastal landscape for thousands of years. At Greenwich, archaeological evidence reveals 10,000 years of cultural history, from early Aboriginal peoples to the Mi’kmaq, early French and Acadian settlers and immigrants from the British Isles. Once an elegant summer home built in 1896, Dalvay-by-the-Sea National Historic Site is now a heritage inn. Green Gables Heritage Place, also part of L. M. Montgomery`s Cavendish National Historic site, inspired L.M. Montgomery’s setting for Anne of Green Gables. This book, with stunning new photography by the Island’s best photgraphers complimented with archival photos, captures the essence of this special place, preserved and protected for you to return to again and again.

    $16.95
  • Use Your Imagination!

    Use Your Imagination!

    Created by: Kris Bertin
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    A woman becomes obsessed with a story about her family from 1890—when a naked, mute girl stumbled onto their property—and whether or not it really happened. A self-help guru and his chief strategist take their most affluent and unstable clients on a harrowing nature hike that destroys their company. A young convict in a prison creative writing class chronicles the rise and fall of his cellblock’s resident peacemaker. A rural neighbourhood becomes obsessed by the coming of a strange and powerful new homeowner who is in the middle of reinventing herself.

    The stories of Use Your Imagination! are about stories, about the way we define and give shape to ourselves through all kinds of narratives, true or not. In seven long stories, Kris Bertin examines the complex labyrinth of lies, delusions, compromise, and fabrication that makes up our personal history and mythology. Sometimes funny, strange, or frightening, these stories represent Bertin’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed, award-winning debut, Bad Things Happen.

    $19.95