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Bay of Fundy’s Hopewell Rocks
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$19.95Every year, thousands of visitors from around the world descend the staircase at Hopewell Rocks to walk on the ocean floor. Bay of Fundy’s Hopewell Rocks offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes tour of this striking and fascinating place. The book is full of intriguing tidbits on the history and natural history of the Hopewell Rocks Park at all times of the year. Snair’s descriptions of the tidal action and geology of the area are easy to understand and the self-guided tour portion will help readers make the most of their trip to the Rocks. His images of one of the most photographed places in New Brunswick are both stunning and original, so the book will become a treasured souvenir of this natural wonder of the world.
This spring, the author was exploring the beach when he discovered that the Elephant Rock formation pictured on the New Brunswick medicare card had partially collapsed. Historical photos of this formation can be seen on pg 8 (from the 1900s, showing a previous rock fall) pg 13 (1935) pg 61, pg 91 (both before the current collapse.)
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Follow the Goose Butt, Camelia Airheart !
Artist: Odette BarrPublisher: Chocolate River Publishing$10.95Poor Camelia Airheart. She is easily distracted and her GPS — Goose Positioning System — is faulty. When she gets separated from her flock, she gets lost and starts on a journey that will take her all over New Brunswick. Will she ever find her way home to her flock? A beautifully illustrated early chapter book for children.
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Through the Eyes of Mary The Mary Morehouse Diaries (1920-1958)
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$18.95The Mary Morehouse diaries give the reader a vivid picture of life in rural New Brunswick in early twentieth century. Through Mary, the reader can follow the highs and lows of village life during the throughout the 1920s, 1930s, and the war years of the 1940s. Bird has researched this time period for her other books and her annotations and introductory sections give context to the individual diary entries.
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Maya and Mitaine:From Saint John to Paris
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$11.95A trip to Paris to attend a fashion show! Maya is worried but looking forward to it. Will her elderly cat, Mitain, still be alive when Maya returns from Paris’ And will she miss seeing her father who is working on the Queen Mary II’ This story of travel, haute couture, and the loss of a beloved pet is a translation of Maya et Mitain published by Bouton d’ors Acadie.
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Maud Lewis Colouring Book Volume 2
Publisher: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia$6.95The Maud Lewis Colouring & Activity Book Volume 2 features pictures to colour, crosswords, word searches, connect-the-dot, and other activities. Inspired by the artwork of Maud Lewis, Canada’s most beloved and best-known folk artist, this delightful book is suitable for children between the ages of 3-10.
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Faroe Islands Dancing Between Sea & Sky
Photographer: George Fischer, Jón Gauti JónssonPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$39.95A picturesque archipelago between Norway and Iceland, the 18 tiny Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean beckon nature lovers, adventurers, birdwatchers and sightseers. Through George Fischer’s lens, you’ll soar with giant gannets, rappel down sheer cliffs and revel in unspoiled beauty. You’ll stand on hallowed historical soil, admire ancient ruins – and savour the sea’s bounty in Faroese cuisine. And in this country inhabited by more sheep than people, you can learn how to hand-knit a legendary Faroese sweater.
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Take off to Tantramar
Artist: Odette BarrPublisher: Chocolate River Publishing$14.95Camelia Airheart is back. She’s on an adventure to the Tantramar Wetlands, in southeast New Brunswick. She is looking for “leg bling”, just like the kind her Aunt Tilly has. This picture book is a prequel to Follow the Goose Butt, Camelia Airheart! and tells the story of how Camelia came to acquire her very own leg band. It is bound to delight Camelia fans, both young and old.
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Allons à Tantramar
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$14.95In Allons à Tantramar loveable Camelia Airheart is looking for “leg bling,” just like the kind her Aunt Tilly has. This picture book is a prequel to Follow the Goose Butt, Camelia Airheart! and tells the story of how Camelia came to acquire her very own leg band. It is bound to delight Camelia fans, both young and old.
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Deer Island Mystery
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$11.95Jamie’s heritage project on Captain Nehemiah Butler quickly turns into a search for buried treasure, and he and his friends have to draw on their deductive, orientation, and science skills to find it. Tension mounts when an important clue goes missing at school. Will someone else beat them to the treasure? This mystery read for ages 9-12 is set on New Brunswick’s Deer Island.
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Henrietta’s Nightlight
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$12.95Henrietta is staying overnight at her grandparents? cottage for the first time. She would love to see the great blue heron that visits in the morning, but there?s no electricity or running water at the cottage, and the night noises are scary. After a grownup day exploring nature with her grandparents, will she be able to make it through the night?
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Called to Serve Georgina Pope, Canadian Military Nursing Heroine
Publisher: Island Studies Press$27.95Georgina Pope is one of the 14 Valiants whose bronze bust at Confederation Square, Ottawa, is viewed by thousands of people every day. The Canadian Mint issued a $5 coin bearing her image. How does a young woman, born in 1862 into privileged circumstances in Prince Edward Island, rise to the top echelons of Canadian military nursing leadership and become a national hero?
Called to Serve details Pope’s path to power through the second half of the 19th century and into the 20th. It addresses the significance of her privileged and powerful lineage, the influence of her parents on her world view, and the inspiration of Florence Nightingale.
Featuring photos from Georgina Pope’s personal photo album with handwritten notes illustrating her wartime experiences PLUS biographies of the Pope family.
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New London: The Lost Dream
Publisher: Island Studies Press$27.95Sometimes, fact is better than fiction. In 1773 a group of Quaker tradespeople and their families from London, England settled on Prince Edward Island’s north shore. Rather than farming or fishing, their dream was to create a “new”– a bustling, commercial outpost–on what they considered to be a doorstep to the new world. New London survived and occasionally thrived for twenty years. This is its remarkable story.
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Iceland Reflections on the Ring Road
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$24.95In a new compact edition, vast landscapes, extraordinary natural sculptures of rock and ice, cascading waterfalls, wildlife, and a wonderful culture are revealed through three photographers. Travel the Ring Road and circumnavigate the country with award-winning photographer George Fischer and Sean Fischer. Discover geothermal vistas, ice caves, glaciers and verdant valleys with Jon Gauti Jonsson, Mountain Guide and photographer. Images from different viewpoints bring this remarkable region to life.
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Simple Beauty The Art of Texture, Form & Colour
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$44.95Focusing his intuitive photographic lens on beauty in the commonplace, George Fischer brings to light a vivid world beyond technology, traffic, and tension. A place to pause with inspirational gems and moments of splendour. A realm where deeply sensitive images of life spark amazement and awaken joy.
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From Black Horses to White Steeds Building Community Resilience
Editor: Laurie Brinklow, Ryan GibsonPublisher: Island Studies Press$29.95This book discusses how small communities can survive and flourish. Edited by Laurie Brinklow and Ryan Gibson, it celebrates and critiques the dynamics of innovation, governance, and culture in place. Case studies from both sides of the North Atlantic illustrate episodes of “turning around”: the evolution, transformation, and visionary strategy that breathe new life into the term “think global, act local.”
The book’s chapters focus on the strength of local initiatives, the impacts of collective power, and re-envisioning local assets. They explore how various “black horses”–including minorities, small towns, peripheries, Aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice, or political leverage–can rise to the occasion and chart livable futures.
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Maritime Melange
Photographer: Shannon WilliamsPublisher: Chocolate River Publishing$12.95Maritime Melange was inspired by New Brunswick?s coastlines and the International Sculpture Symposium that was hosted by Sculpture Saint John. The award-winning poem is illustrated by the photography of Shannon Williams as it appears in print for the first time. Previously, it was set to music and performed by the New Brunswick Symphony Orchestra at the 2016 Sculpture Symposium in Saint John, NB.
A map showing the locations of the sculptures is included.
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Miss Nackawic Meets Midlife
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$14.95Colleen Landry’s delusional alter ego, Miss Nackawic 1981, is ready for her second coming. Oh sure…it’s been 37 years since she reigned over her tiny town wearing a tiara and sash, but she has clung to the memory of adoring fans and paparazzi chases ever since. Her husband and two sons hardly ever clap or take her picture when she enters a room so she has no choice but to seek fame and glory elsewhere–the Miss World pageant! Despite more than three decades of unanswered requests for information about the pageant, Miss Nackawic 1981 refuses to give up hope that there is life after picking up soggy towels, burning Thanksgiving turkeys, and trying to make her menfolk understand that throw cushions are never to be touched.
This middle-aged writer’s hilarious and delusional observations about raising boys, surviving(ish) menopause and searching for meaning in mid-life will make you laugh out loud…at her expense.
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Bird Calls The Island Responds
Publisher: Island Studies Press$14.95In 1854 British travel writer Isabella Lucy Bird visited Prince Edward Island for six weeks and published an account of her stay there that was both scathing and charming. “Paris may be the gayest city in the world,” she wrote, “and London the richest, but Charlottetown was the most gossiping.” “I never saw a community,” she continued,” in which people appear to hate each other so cordially.”
Contemporary Island poet Jane Ledwell was both fascinated and exasperated by Bird’s haughty, privileged judgement and decided to “write back”–160 years later. The result is Bird Calls: The Island Responds.
Bird Calls weaves the travel prose of Isabella Lucy Bird with Ledwell’s poems written in response, and delivers an intriguing conversation for the reader which contrasts PEI then and now, and showcases the talents of two accomplished writers, from very different generations.
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Manitoba Mosaic
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: George Fischer$39.95One of Canada’s Prairie provinces, Manitoba is centrally located, boasting the distinction of being “where Canada’s heart beats.”
Frame by frame and beat by beat, George Fischer fashions an expansive mosaic from Manitoba’s natural, cultural and historical realities. His striking images reflect the province’s disparate elements while his ingenuity and insight form the mortar that cements the pieces into an intriguing tale. A formula sure to make your heart beat faster.
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Spectacular Northwest Territories, Canada
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: George Fischer$39.95The top of the world brings accounts of sprawling landscapes dotted with lakes and imposing mountains, and a surviving culture that transcends the whims of prevailing fashion. This untamed country will challenge your spirit and thrill your soul.
George Fischer, one of Canada’s most celebrated and prolific landscape photographers has journeyed from the mosaic flatlands and roaring waterfalls to the jagged peaks, capturing images inspired by the joy of discovery. The Nahanni National Park Reserve and Wood Buffalo National Park – both UNESCO World Heritage sites – are just two of the spectacular regions depicted in this new compact edition.
Fischer will guide you on the northern routes and introduce you to the people and their culture. Witness a land steeped in natural riches and lore–a land for the bold and the adventurous. Spectacular!
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Our Maud The Life, Art and Legacy of Maud Lewis
Publisher: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia$29.99Our Maud: The Life, Art and Legacy of Maud Lewis tells the story of Maud’s life, and traces her impact on Nova Scotia, her fame, the saving of her painted house, and the Nova Scotia folk art renaissance sparked by her example. The book looks at how Maud Lewis has become a role model for children with juvenile arthritis, her posthumous role in the creation of Atlantic Canada’s largest art museum, and how her story has become known around the world, culminating in the hit feature film Maudie starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke.
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Crossing Troubled Waters Abortion In Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Prince Edward Island
Editor: Colleen MacQuarrie, Shannon StettnerPublisher: Island Studies Press$29.95Accessing abortion services is challenging in many countries around the world; women living on islands face additional challenges caused by geographic isolation. This collection of scholarly papers discusses two islands–Ireland (north and south) and Prince Edward Island, Canada–and considers for each why and how abortion was historically restricted, the impact of those restrictions, the ongoing efforts to improve access, and recent activist successes.
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Transatlantique
Publisher: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia$12.00Transatlantique considers the development of the Art Deco aesthetic in Paris and Halifax evidenced in prints and drawings of fashion and costume designs from both cities, with particular attention given to the work of George Barbier. A special feature of this publication is the eight images of works in the exhibition that have been printed on high-quality paper for possible removal and framing.
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Follow the Goose Butt to Nova Scotia
Artist: Odette BarrPublisher: Chocolate River Publishing$10.95Camelia Airheart, the lovable Canada goose, is back! In this humorous early chapter book, she follows her Aunt Tillie’s goose butt to Nova Scotia where she meets interesting characters like Spike, the cuddly porcupine, Cindy Crowsby, the famous hockey player and Willow, the bookworm donkey. Will she find her way after she becomes stranded on a beach, lost in a pea-soup fog, and alone and afraid on the Bluenose?
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Under the Floorboard
Publisher: Chocolate River Publishing$12.9515-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.
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The Cove Journal
Publisher: Island Studies Press$19.95In 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.
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Witnesses to a New Nation
Publisher: SSP Publications$29.95From pioneer houses to elegant neo-Classical churches, this collection from Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia is based on an exhibition of the same name that toured the province in 2017, to great acclaim. A must-have for historians, conservationists and architecture buffs, this volume is replete with great colour images and solid research and writing.
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A Wholesome Horror Poor Houses in Nova Scotia
Publisher: SSP Publications$15.95Brenda Thompson’s poignant treatise on the treatment of the poor in Nova Scotia and the evolution of private and government-subsidized poor houses. None of these 32 buildings remain. This is a very important book that makes us pause and ask serious questions.
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From Palette to Palate Culinary Artworks from the Digby Pines Kitchen
Artist: Lynda ShalaganPublisher: SSP Publications$15.95Chef Dale Nichols and artist Lynda Shalagan have collaborated to create a mouth-watering and eye-opening masterpiece — the finest dishes the venerable Pines has to offer. Yes, there are scallops but so much more — for the vegetarian, the holistic and the environmentally responsible.
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Fairy Dells and Rustic Bowers The Creation of Victoria Park, Truro NS
Publisher: SSP Publications$14.95The 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.
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Peggy of the Cove: Ransomed Book 3
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.00Author, artist, and storyteller Ivan Fraser brings to life the charming character, Peggy of the Cove, who some claim the famous fishing village of Peggy’s Cove was named after. Ivan’s love of the ocean, this rugged coastline and quaint village inspired him to take you on a heartwarming adventure that will make you fall in love with Peggy, the Cove and the people of Nova Scotia.
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Remembrance Road A Canadian photographer’s journey through European battlefields
Publisher: SSP Publications$6.95Nova 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.
