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Sharing a Robin’s Life
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.95This is a true story of two unusual individuals: County, a robin, who chose to share her life with a human, and Linda Johns, an artist, who was happy to accommodate her. Through her delightful and descriptive narrative, Johns draws us into the mysterious realm of an intelligent and responsive creature. Throughout the harrowing experiences of bug-collecting, nest-building, egg-swapping, and parenting, we begin to share with the author a growing respect for the resourcefulness of these tiny creatures and our commonality with them in the remarkable process called life.
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Bluenose II
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$34.95In this magnificent work, L.B. Jenson, noted marine artist and historic illustrator, has adapted and expanded his limited edition portfolio to create a lasting memento of the great fishing schooners. These measured drawings of the Bluenose II were carefully produced and checked while she was a fully-rigged and working schooner.
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Dawning of the Dinosaurs
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$13.95Author of Tidal Life and Against Darkness and Storm, naturalist Harry Thurston has spent his life exploring the mysteries of the Bay of Fundy. Over the last decade, he has followed the major fossil discoveries made along Fundy’s dramatic coastal cliffs. The result is Dawning of the Dinosaurs, which throws new light on the rise and eventual demise of the dinosaurs.
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Northern Nurse
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Set in the late 1920s, this is the true story of an Australian-born nurse who comes to Labrador to work.
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A Victorian Nova Scotia Christmas
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.95It’s Christmas Eve in the fair town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, and sparkling snowflakes crown the pointed roofs of houses as stately as Victorian ladies. It has been a day of well-loved traditions: visits to the ill and elderly, candlights services, and a favourite story told by father at the fireside.
And upstairs in the attic, a little girl has just found a long-lost treasure that will make tomorrow a Christmas to remember for years to come.
Molly Simmons, author and illustrator of A Victorian Nova Scotia Christmas, was that little girl in the attic, and it is through the eyes of a child that she rekindles all the warmth, wonder, and tradition of a time gone by.
This is a magical tale that speaks to the child in everyone, with exquisitely simple prose, delightful drawings, and cherished family recipes that offer a gift that will last for years to come.
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Nature & Hiking Guide To Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$18.95Complete with easy-to-use maps, plant lists, glossary, and index, and illustrated with line drawings and woodcuts, A Nature and Hiking Guide to Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail is your complete guide to this natural treasure trove.
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Nova Scotia (James)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95From details of fishing villages and our built heritage to panoramas of orchards and cityscapes, Terry James’s collection of stunning photographs captures the spirit of all that is Nova Scotia, a province rick in appearence and moods.
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Eastern Coyote
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95Biologist Gerry Parker has studied this versatile and successful coyote and tracked the animal’s origins and population patterns. A fascinating animal, and a comprehensive book.
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Adventurer’s Guide to the Magdalen Islands
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$17.95Offering a wide range of hiking, cycling, and climbing routes for every experience level, this is the companion guide to the beautiful Magdalen Islands.
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Trees of Nova Scotia
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$16.95An informative guide to 45 native and exotic species of trees and shrubs that inhabit Nova Scotia.
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Wildlife of Nova Scotia
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.00Did you know that snowshoe hares can run up to 17km/hr, or that Ruby-throated hummingbird eggs are as small as peas? Have you wondered how animals such as “moose” got their names, or which of the many wonderful animals we share the seas and forests with are really endangered species?
You will find these and a wealth of other facts about Nova Scotia’s surprising range of wildlife –from amoebas to moose, from hummingbirds to whales- in Julie Towers book of Wildlife of Nova Scotia.
This handy reference addresses popular questions and little known facts about more than seventy species of wildlife, including where they live, what they eat, (and eats them), their life cycle habits, and behavior. Detailed illustrations will help you identify each species while tables with facts about offspring and breeding seasons provide a glimpse of their migration and reproduction patterns. A glossary of unfamiliar terms and a bibliography for further reading also provided.
Nova Scotia is still rich in wildlife, despite the encroachment of humans and industries. The more we know about the animals that live around us, the more we will be able to enrich each others lives.
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Walk Historic Halifax
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.95Use this convenient guide book to find all the interesting historic buildings and facts about the historic old port city.
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Prince Edward Island True Colours
Photographer: Anne MacKay, Wayne BarrettPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$21.95Wayne Barrett and Anne MacKay are a professional photographic team that have published numerous books including True Colors A Writer’s Garden, and the award winning Spirit of Place. They live in St. Catherines, Prince Edward Island.
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Woman of Labrador
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.95Originally published in 1973, Woman of Labrador is Elizabeth Goudie’s enduring and candid story of her pioneering life as a trapper’s wife in the early 1900s. She was left alone much of the year to rear eight children while her husband worked the traplines, providing furs for their meagre income. Independent and resourceful, Elizabeth filled multiple roles as homemaker, doctor, cook, hunter, shoemaker, and seamstress for her growing family.
In the span of eighty years, she witnessed radical changes to Labrador, such as the construction of an airport at Goose Bay during the Second World War. Where once there had been pride and contentment in a harmonious relationship with the land, there came displacement and despair as the wilderness was overtaken by military and industrial projects. One of Elizabeth Goudie’s greatest triumphs was her steady pride in Labrador, her “country,” and her ideal of peace among neighbours. Her memoir is not about bitterness and defeat but courage and love, recounted with pride and humour.
In 1975, Elizabeth was awarded an honorary degree from Memorial University. She died in Happy Valley, Labrador, in 1982.
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Somebody’s Daughter
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$21.95First released in 1996, Somebody’s Daughter takes us inside the lives of real players in Canada’s prostitution game. This book is about what we don’t know about prostitution and perhaps what we don’t want to know; what goes on inside that violent underworld know as The Game, and who the girls in the tight skirts really are. Author and reporter Phonse Jessome traces the short careers of several young girls actively recruited by pimps and describes the anti-pimping efforts of law enforcers who work to get teenage girls out the The Games and off the streets.
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A Guide to Whale Watching in the Maritimes
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$9.95In this easy-to-use guide, you will find interesting facts about a total of sixteen whale, dolphin, and porpoise species that frequent the waters from Brier Island to northern Cape Breton, the Golf of St. Lawrence, the Atlantic Coast, and the Bay of Fundy.
With illustrations for each species and their field marks, and quick reference fact boxes, this useful guide will assist identification of the cetaceans in our waters, providing information about behaviour, diet, habitat, and physical features. Complete with a glossary and a select listing of Maritime whale-watching tours, you’ll want this guide in your pocket when you set out to watch these magnificent mammels. -
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The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis
Photographer: Bob BrooksPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$35.95Maud Lewis (1903-1970) was recognized and revered in her own lifetime. She offered her endearing images to the passing world through her roadside sign, “Paintings for Sale,” and was rewarded by the enthusiastic response she received from both the community and tourists as well as from art collectors.
The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis is an invitation to share once again with the world the perceptions of this celebrated Nova Scotia folk artist in prose, photographs, and reproductions of her works.
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Louisbourg: Reflet d’un Époque
Photographer: Chris ReardonPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$17.95Un merveilleux photographique regarde la forteresse le texte accompagné de qui illumine l’histoire de la forteresse.
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Story of the Chestnut Canoe
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95The Chestnut Canoe Company began in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1897 and its impact was unequaled on the development of recreational canoeing and the canoe itself. Photos and images from the famed catalogues illustrate this intriguing Maritime story.
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St Margaret’s Bay
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$16.95St. Margaret’s Bay, ‘The Bay’ to most Haligonians, is home to Peggy’s Cove, the major tourist attraction in Nova Scotia. Included here are photos of the past and genealogical resources.
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Historic Yarmouth
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Photography, perhaps more than any other medium, provides the most immediate and evocative window to our past. In Historic Yarmouth the unique historical features of this remarkable Nova Scotia town and surrounds are wonderfully presented in photographs taken between the mid-1800s and the early 14940s by photographers who lived and worked in the town itself.
Included here are streetscapes from Yarmouth and it country’s villages; scenes of special events; photographs of ships that made Yarmouth famous during the age of sail; changing modes of transportation; houses and buildings in which local folks lived and worked; and, of course, photographs of the townspeople themselves.
All the photographs presented here, and thousands more, are apart of the Yarmouth’s extraordinary past. This book is a tribute to the people of Yarmouth whose foresight and support have contributed so much posterity.
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Building the Bridge to PEI
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95The popular story of the construction of the fixed link from the mainland to PEI. It includes the details of the design challenges and construction solutions for this monumental achievement.
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Genealogical Research in Nova Scotia
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$17.95Revised and updated this popular resource for amateur genealogists and history buffs is the best package for finding out more about the people who populate the province.
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Discover Nova Scotia Guide to Wildlife Viewing Sites
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$1.99A full colour guide to viewing wildlife in Nova Scotia, organized by travel routes with information about habitat and safety for viewers and animals.
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Roland’s Flora of Nova Scotia
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$75.00Roland’s Flora of Nova Scotia is the most comprehensive book ever published on the province’s plants. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in what grows where in Nova Scotia.With easy-to-read descriptions, foolproof keys and complete, illustrated glossary, readers can quickly find the information they need. Each plant description outlines the features most helpful in identifying that plant, and includes interesting facts about it’s folklore, herbal applications, toxicity, and edibility. The many distribution maps and illustrations also support accurate and simple plant identification. Volume one of two.
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Tidal Life
Artist: Stephen HomerPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$29.95Tidal Life is the definitive natural and human history of the unique and massive Bay of Fundy. With visual reminders of the Bay’s immensity and impact. Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Award for non fiction, the Dartmouth Book Award for non-fiction and the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Choice Award.
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Tracking Treasure
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Lost, stolen, or undiscovered treasures have long been rumored to be buried throughout Atlantic Canada. Stories abound of loot squirreled away on islands and beaches by pirates and privateers, of fortunes in gold, silver and precious stones lost in the holds of ships wrecked on the jagged rocks of the rugged coast. In Tracking Treasure, Crooker investigates mysterious sites that are the subject of story, myth and song. Some are documented in historical accounts, while others belong to folklore.
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Historic Dartmouth
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$18.95Historic Dartmouth is a fascinating glimpse of this charming city’s social, economic, and cultural life over the last two centuries. From its beginning as a settlement of British immigrants on an Aboriginal campsite in 1750, Dartmouth’s growth was uncertain and sporadic. In 1759, it was used as a temporary billet for Wolfe’s troops before his attack on Quebec; in 1785 it was, briefly, the home of the influential Nantucket Whaling Company; and in 1826 the building of the Shubenacadie Canal gave it new life until the coming of the railway in 1870.
Finally incorporated as a town in 1873, Dartmouth’s location on the east side of Chebucto Harbour, and its thousands of inland lakes and rivers, made it an ideal place for thriving communities, and a destination for leisure and pleasure seekers. Its “golden era” at the turn of the nineteenth century is the focus of this book.
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Anne of Green Gables
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$10.95“The sweetest creation of childlike yet written” – Mark TwainSince it was first published on 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been treasured by millions of readers around the world. Anne Shirley, an orphan, arrives at Green Gables by mistake; the Cuthberts wanted a boy. But for Anne, Green gables is a dream come true. Thanks to her endearing nature, she wins the hears of the Cuthberts, finds “kindred spirits” and “a bosom friend,” and takes a staid island community on a merry ride of adventure and surprise.In this Classic Edition, Nimbus presents Anne of Green Gables as it originally appeared–complete, easy to read, and as enduring as the heartwarming story of Anne herself.Lucy Maude Montgomery was born in the charming village of New London, PEI, in 1874. She grew up in nearby Cavendish, surrounded by rolling farmlands and the sparkling waters of the ocean. Anne of Green Gables is based on her own childhood experiences.
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Shrubs of Nova Scotia
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.95Nova Scotia has some of the most colourful and attractive shrubs found anywhere in North America. Fortunately, many of them can easily be transplanted or propagated for landscaping around our homes and in our gardens.
Native plants are perfectly adapted to our climate and soil conditions and are often far more suitable for growing than many of the costly introduced species.
The author’s detailed drawings, useful keys and descriptions provided throughout the book make it easy to identify more than 100 species of shrubs, small trees, and woody vines native to Nova Scotia. A glossary of applicable terms, an extensive reference list, and indexes of both common and scientific names are also provided.
