• You Can Too Canning, Pickling and Preserving the Maritime Harvest

    You Can Too Canning, Pickling and Preserving the Maritime Harvest

    Created by: Elizabeth Peirce
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    More and more Maritimers are recognizing the many benefits of eating locally and even growing their own food, and starting to wonder how to get even more value from their kitchen gardens or their favourite farmer’s stall. Enter Elizabeth Peirce, vegetable-gardening guru and lifelong preserver of food! In You Can Too! Peirce describes all the best ways to preserve Maritime crops: Canning, pickling, dehydrating, freezing, fermenting, and using root cellars. She also includes inspiring interviews and profiles of some of this region’s most enthusiastic preservers of food.

    With detailed instructions, full-colour photographs, and recipes for old Maritime favourites like mustard pickles as well as innovative new concoctions like spicy plum ketchup, You Can Too! is a complete how-to for anyone interested in eating delicious local food all year round—and doing it on the cheap!

    $19.95
  • To Every Thing There is a Season A Cape Breton Christmas Story

    To Every Thing There is a Season A Cape Breton Christmas Story

    Created by: Alistair MacLeod
    Artist: Peter Rankin
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    It is Christmastime in Cape Breton, and a young boy describes the anticipation his family feels toward the holiday and most of all, to the homecoming of his older brother, Neil, working in Ontario on the “lake boats.”

    To Every Thing There is a Season was first published in 1977, yet its impact remains powerful to this day. This new softcover edition features 20 of Peter Rankin’s splendid illustrations, a perfect complement to a classic Canadian Christmas story.

    $14.95
  • Toronto

    Toronto

    Created by: Jacob Richler
    Photographer: George Fischer
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Toronto has grown to such a size and come to possess such a scope of urban possibilities that it defies generalization. The city outgrew its original nickname of Hogtown decades ago, and the moniker Toronto the Good is just as dated and irrelevant. Now Toronto is a city with a readily identifiable skyline that speaks of skyscrapers and prosperity. But it is also a conglomeration of distinct neighbourhoods and immigrant hubs, and each tells a different story of the different people that play a part of the whole. Combined, its temples to sport and religion are sometimes interchangeably grand. The seasonal festivals run from film to art, Caribbean culture to Greek food. The best of its historic hotels, theatres, and concert halls are as iconic as its immediately recognizable streetcars and streetscapes. In these pages award-winning photographer George Fischer turns his revealing lens on every aspect of that rich visual fabric, to uncover all of Toronto’s beauty and truth, and Jacob Richler adds the words that fill in the picture.

    $29.95
  • Be a Wilderness Detective
  • Cumberland County Facts and Folklore

    Cumberland County Facts and Folklore

    Created by: Laurie Glenn Norris
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Cumberland County is one of Nova Scotia’s oldest and largest counties and its personalities, history, geography, natural life, and legends are second to none. Its shores are touched by the majestic Bay of Fundy and the beautiful Northumberland Strait, its landscape was carved by glaciers, and its prehistoric climate created and preserved fossils that today are worthy of UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. From Amherst to Advocate, Minudie to Malagash, Port Howe to Port Greville, the beauty of its forests, crystal-clear lakes and rivers, and pastoral scenery are a delight for visitors and locals alike.

    Discover this incredible part of Nova Scotia through amusing anecdotes, fun facts, and quirky trivia in Cumberland County Facts and Folklore

    $15.95
  • My Grandfather's Cape Breton (new edition)

    My Grandfather’s Cape Breton (new edition)

    Created by: Clive Doucet
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    This is the timeless story of a young boy and his grandfather. It is a voyage of discovery that starts for both of them when young Clive arrives one summer at his grandfather’s farm in Cape Breton. Clive, with all the uncertainty of approaching adolescence, has only the vaguest impression of what a cow looks like and what is expected of him. Under the gentle guidance and wry wit of his Acadian grandfather he learns how to gallop a horse without falling off, how to save the hay crop from from an approaching storm, and how to assist with the birth of a calf. This is a story of Grand Étang, a humorous, sensuous vibrant place, and of a boy growing up wise one summer in Cape Breton.

    $20.95
  • Hockey's Home (new edition)

    Hockey’s Home (new edition)

    Created by: Martin Jones
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Hockey’s Home includes a wealth of information about the origins of the great game of hockey in Nova Scotia with particular emphasis on the role that the community of Dartmouth has played in forming the game.

    $17.95
  • Foul Deeds

    Foul Deeds

    Created by: Linda Moore
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    A professional criminologist, Rosalind works with a cranky private investigator named McBride—a long-time association that has led her from one sordid foray to another in the world of crime. Her passionate escape is theatre and her latest venture is with a company of out-of-work actors putting on an independent production of Hamlet. Shakespeare’s language is a fabulous distraction until the uncanny parallels between life and art begin to unnerve her. Peter King, a respected environmental lawyer working tirelessly to keep water in the public domain, dies suddenly. Is it murder? His son Daniel thinks so. And as Roz and McBride delve deeper into the case, it becomes all too clear that there are those who will stop at nothing to ensure their foul deeds stay buried.

    $15.95
  • Wild Nova Scotia (pb)

    Wild Nova Scotia (pb)

    Created by: Len Wagg
    Photographer: Len Wagg
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Nova Scotia has designated thirty-three Crown-owned areas as Wilderness Areas, consisting of about five percent of the provincial land-mass. The wilderness area designation means no mining or logging is allowed, but people are free to hunt, fish, hike, and camp as they have for generations. These Wilderness Areas- from the massive Tobeatic Wilderness Area that covers five counties to tiny McGill Lake- showcase the best of natural Nova Scotia, and Len Wagg has photographed them all for Wild Nova Scotia. Over the last year and a half, Wagg spent close to a hundred days in the province’s wilderness, logging over fifteen thousand kilometres and taking beautiful, telling portraits of the province’s most secret and lovely places. Photos of important areas not designated Wilderness Areas are included as well- like the shores of the Northumberland Strait, where herds of seals find places along the shores to have their young; the Bay of Fundy, where world-class tides erode massive cliffs; Keji National Park, where the sounds campers hear are all natural; and Nova Scotia’s “barren” Sable Island, home to birds, plants, seals and a herd of wild horses. Each area has distinctive characteristics that make it unique. Wild Nova Scotia showcases the special places, protected or not, allowing people to bring home some of the amazing natural beauty of this province.

    $21.95
  • My Goat Gertrude

    My Goat Gertrude

    Created by: Starr Dobson
    Artist: Dayle Dodwell
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Starr Dobson is a little girl living in a big, rambling house in the country with her family and lots of pets–including a mischievous goat, Gertrude Allawishes, who is known for eating anything and everything. One day Starr’s cousin Leanne comes to visit, but this time, she’s only brought one chocolate bar and doesn’t want to share with Starr. Before either Starr or Leanne realize what is happening, Gertrude arrives and solves the problem! Although names have been changed to protect certain cousins (who usually shared their chocolate just fine), Starr’s account of Gertrude Allawishes and her bizarre tastes is absolutely true! Now available in a softcover edition.

    $12.95
  • I Spy a Bunny

    I Spy a Bunny

    Created by: Judy Dudar
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Mandy and her Aunt Carla are spending the day at White Point Beach. They are playing I Spy, but Mandy is too busy climbing rocks, building sandcastles, and watching surfers to find the white-nosed bunny rabbit Aunt Carla spies.

    This is a wonderful book for anyone who loves Nova Scotia beaches, bright colours, and bunny rabbits!

    Now available in softcover.

    $12.95
  • The Christmas Secret

    The Christmas Secret

    Created by: Dan Soucoup
    Editor: Dan Soucoup
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The Christmas Secret is a homemade collection featuring twenty tales of Atlantic Christmases past and present, plucked from the memories and traditions of famed purveyors of local lore. This edition features a veritable buffet of Atlantic holiday celebrations and experiences, from the heartwarming holidays inside a lighthouse on Bon Portage Island to a struggling Cape Breton coal mining community, to the spirit of “old Christmas” in Island Cove, Newfoundland.

    $16.95
  • Crosswords from Atlantic Canada Volume 4

    Crosswords from Atlantic Canada Volume 4

    Created by: Walter Feener
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    A lifetime resident of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Walter Feener has been constructing crossword puzzles for twenty-nine years. He has completed crosswords for the National Post, Forever Young Magazine, the Winnipeg Free Press, and several other newspapers across Canada. He is also the author of Crosswords from Atlantic Canada (Volume Three) and O Canada Crosswords (book 11).

    $12.95
  • A Bluenose Twelve Days of Christmas

    A Bluenose Twelve Days of Christmas

    Created by: Bruce Nunn
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    On the fifth day of Christmas,
    My true love gave to me
    Five Highland flings!
    Four coal seams,
    Three lobster traps,
    Two fiddle tunes,
    And a Bluenose in at Pier Three.

    “The Twelve Days of Christmas” gets a taste of Nova Scotian revelry in this energetic retelling by storyteller Bruce Nunn. With Doretta Groenendyk’s charming and funny illustrations, readers young and old will want to read–and sing!–this version of the carol every Christmas.

    $17.95
  • Black Loyalists Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

    Black Loyalists Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    During the American Revolution (1775-1783), the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters as a way of ruining the American economy. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia.

    After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Blacks came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City.

    Black Loyalists is an attempt to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia to bring back into our awareness the context for some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to liberty and human dignity.

    Includes an insert of 20 historical images and documents.

    $29.95
  • What's Going On at the Time Tonight?
  • Underground New Brunswick Stories of Archaeology

    Underground New Brunswick Stories of Archaeology

    Created by: Paul Erickson
    Editor: Jonathan Fowler
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Underground New Brunswick features fifteen accessible essays from practicing archaeologists, professors, and enthusiasts detailing recent excavations and restorations from around the province. Stories range from the prolific to the downright unusual, and include the discoveries of New Brunswick’s most famous treasure-hunter, the preservation of a Golden Hawk aerobatic jet, and a Miramichi forensic investigation aided by a psychic. The collection also features recent work at some of the province’s National Historic Sites, such as Wolostoq, Augustine Mound, Forts La Tour and Jemseg, and Fredericton’s Old Government House.

    Including over 100 photographs of excavation sites, historical documents, and recovered artifacts, as well as a glossary, educational sidebars, and recommended readings, Underground New Brunswick will widen the horizons of archaeology enthusiasts and history lovers.

    $24.95
  • Maritime Fresh Delectable recipes for preparing, preserving, and celebrating local produce

    Maritime Fresh Delectable recipes for preparing, preserving, and celebrating local produce

    Created by: Elisabeth Bailey
    Photographer: Kelly Neil
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    In this one-of-a-kind cookbook and grower’s guide, Taste Canada Food Writing Awards nominee Elisabeth Bailey (A Taste of the Maritimes) celebrates a medley of home-grown Maritime produce, from apples to zucchini. Featuring 150 recipes and 80 accent photos, Maritime Fresh covers everything that the aspiring chef-gardener needs to know, from how to get the most out of the local farmers’ market, to the benefits of Community-Supported Agriculture, to tips for growing and preserving produce and, of course, unique recipes for creating beautiful dishes that the whole family will enjoy.

    $27.95
  • Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens (revised edition)

    Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens (revised edition)

    Created by: Marie Nightingale
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Now an established regional classic, Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens was first published in 1970 and became an instant hit, selling more copies than any cookbook ever published in the province. A collection of traditional Nova Scotia recipes, the book remains extremely popular today and has proven to be a practical guide as well as a delight for armchair cooks. Besides providing easy-to-use recipes for the province’s traditional dishes, Marie Nightingale also tells the stories of the people who prepared this unique cuisine.

    $22.95
  • Baby Play

    Baby Play

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Playing with baby is a bit like a dance-a joyful, back-and-forth rhythm. Baby Play gets the fun rolling with this loving look at baby’s day. Babies will love listening to the bouncy rhythm and rhyme of the text and looking at the bright, bold photos of a baby and family. This is the perfect board book for new parents, baby programs, and baby shower gifts. Extra information for parents is also available through the web link provided on the book’s back cover. Baby Play is the first book in a new series, “Baby Steps”. Each book in the series will focus on a key developmental stage in baby’s first year.

    $9.95
  • Lighthouses of New Brunswick Past and Present

    Lighthouses of New Brunswick Past and Present

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The largest of the three Maritime provinces by area, New Brunswick is home to the third-largest number of lighthouses in the country. Lighthouses of New Brunswick is a guide to the province’s remaining lights as well as for those “lost lights” that are gone forever.

    Photographs and descriptions of all 126 lights accompany a brief history of each light, and handy icons allow the reader a quick assessment of each existing light’s accessibility, historic significance, and scenic quality.

    Accompanied by a reference map and with an index of each light profiled, Lighthouses of New Brunswick is the definitive resource for exploring the province’s iconic structures.

    $22.95
  • Islands of New Brunswick

    Islands of New Brunswick

    Created by: Allison Mitcham
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Culled from her collections Offshore Islands and Paradise or Purgatory (1984), New Brunswick Islands is part ecocritical exploration and part historical survey, as Mitcham explores the province’s not-so-far-off islands in search of their unique stories. The result is an extraordinary collection of essays that illuminates the social and cultural histories behind New Brunswick’s islands.Exposed are the complexities of island history, from the Aboriginal peoples of Indian Island to the generations of lighthouse keeping on Miscou, to the tragic quarantine history of Passamaquoddy’s Hospital Island (Partridge Island). Industrious islands, from the once-lucrative quarries of Grindstone Island, to the still-flourishing fisheries of Grand Manan are also investigated, as well as the mysterious histories behind the now-uninhabited Heron and Shediac Islands, which have largely been reclaimed by nature.This revised edition features the original illustrations by Peter Mitcham.

    $16.95
  • Up Home

    Up Home

    Created by: Shauntay Grant
    Artist: Susan Tooke
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Happy memories sparkle in this journey through poet Shauntay Grant’s childhood visits to North Preston, Nova Scotia. Her words bring to life the sights, sounds, rhythms, and people of a joyful place, while Susan Tooke’s vibrant illustrations capture the warmth of one of Canada’s most important black communities. Up Home celebrates the magic of growing up, and the power in remembering our roots now in a new softcover edition.

    $12.95
  • Fredericton

    Fredericton

    Created by: Brian Atkinson
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Fredericton, the city of stately elms, is nestled within the Saint John River Valley in the heart of New Brunswick. Founded between 1783 and 1785, mostly by Loyalists and their sympathizers, the city was to become a stronghold for the Church of England, headquarters for the British military and a centre for culture. Dominated by politics and education and rich in history and the arts, Fredericton is home to the Centennial Building, the seat of the provincial legislature, and the University of New Brunswick. As well, it boasts many elegant homes, museums, galleries, and magnificent buildings such as Christ Church Cathedral. Picturesque and tranquil, blending historic charm with the amenities of modern commerce, Fredericton remains the perfect small city, retaining its intimate charm and air of gentility.

    This revised edition features several new images of the city.

    $27.95
  • Miramichi Facts and Folklore

    Miramichi Facts and Folklore

    Created by: Ken Smith
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Find out how moose got to Newfoundland, the truth about the Dungarvon Whooper, and which farmers’ markets, bike trails, recipes, and heritage sites will most tickle your fancy. In Miramichi Facts and Folklore, extensive geographical, historical, and cultural lessons will have you schooled in the life of a true “Miramichier.”

    This mighty book is a fact-filled journey through northern New Brunswick’s Miramichi region, from the golden age of immigration and industry through years of tragedy including illnesses, shipwrecks, and the Great Miramichi Fire–to the heritage destination it is today. The newest edition in the “Facts and Folklore” series, Miramichi Facts and Folklore is the perfect companion for anyone looking for an eccentric yet educational guide to this fascinating region.

    Includes 15 photographs of important landmarks and people.

    $14.95
  • Time Flies When You're Chasing Spies A Halifax Mystery

    Time Flies When You’re Chasing Spies A Halifax Mystery

    Created by: Allison Maher
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Andrew’s mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear to keep world leaders safe. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to find her. Luckily, Andrew and his best friend, both thirteen, are no strangers to danger, and they follow Andrew’s instincts-which run directly counter to the instructions his father gave him.When the two friends are nearly caught in a huge explosion at Citadel Hill, Andrew realizes his mother could be in even deeper trouble than he thought. Enlisting help from a credulous news reporter, the boys chase clues all over the HRM, narrowly avoiding serious harm on many occasions.Finally, they finally uncover a top-secret assassination plot-but are they just in time, or just a little too late?

    $12.95
  • Halifax Tastes Recipes from the Region's Best Restaurants

    Halifax Tastes Recipes from the Region’s Best Restaurants

    Created by: Liz Feltham
    Photographer: Scott Munn
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Halifax Tastes is the newest installment in the popular Tastes series. Halifax is famous for its flavourful seafood but as the largest city in the Maritimes, it should be no surprise that Halifax also boasts plenty of variety when it comes restaurants. From zesty Italian to spicy Thai, from tangy Chinese to carefully presented Japanese, from delightful Greek to classic Canadian cuisine, there is sure to be a restaurant to suit everyone’s liking. Easy access to Halifax’s much loved farmers’ market has allowed many of the area’s chefs the freedom to add local, fresh ingredients to their menus. Liz Feltham has chosen 27 restaurants from Halifax and Dartmouth so you can find a great spot to eat no matter where you are located. Featuring tried and tested recipes and approximately 60 mouth-watering photographs of the food and the scenery, Halifax Tastes will tempt your taste buds and give you some fantastic ideas for where to eat on a night on the town.

    $22.95
  • Joshua Slocum The Captain who Sailed Around the World

    Joshua Slocum The Captain who Sailed Around the World

    Created by: Quentin Casey
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The newest title in the Stories of our Past series tells the tale of the Brier Island boy who went to sea at sixteen and never looked back. The first person to circumnavigate the globe alone, Captain Joshua Slocum has remained a nautical icon since the publication of Sailing Alone Around the World in 1900.

    In Joshua Slocum, journalist Quentin Casey takes readers from the treasured sea captain’s humble upbringing on Westport, Brier Island, through his lifelong quest for adventure on the sea. Follow Slocum’s career from ordinary seaman to master of celestial navigation, and experience a rare look into his personal life, trouble on and off the sea, and his mysterious disappearance. Includes sidebar features on little-known Slocum facts and over 60 images, including photographs, maps, and illustrations.

    $15.95
  • Long Shots

    Long Shots

    Today, the National Hockey League holds a monopoly on professional hockey, at least on this side of the Atlantic. In the early 1900s, a host of professional, minor-pro, senior, junior, and college leagues competed across the continent. More than a decade remained before the Stanley Cup would become the sole property of the NHL. In this era, it was a challenge cup, and it seemed as though every Canadian town–big or small–had a fair shot at the big prize.

    In these pre-NHL days, four teams from the Maritimes took up the challenge, competing for what was, even then, hockey’s biggest prize. The 1900 Halifax Crescents club was followed in 1906 by the New Glasgow Cubs, in 1912 by the Moncton Victorias, and in 1913 by the Sydney Millionaires. In Long Shots, author Trevor Adams traces the development of early hockey in the region and follows these four Maritime clubs that competed for hockey’s greatest prize, from their hard-fought victories and local celebrity, to their crushing disappointments.

    Includes 25 historical photos and an appendix of statistics and standings.

    $16.95
  • Evangeline

    Evangeline

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The epic poem Evangeline is a superb example of romantic poetry and a masterpiece of world literature. The publication of Evangeline represented a “milestone in the awakening of the collective consciousness of the Acadian people. By lifting Acadie out of the forgotten past, Longfellow honoured the courage and tenacity of the Acadians.” This new edition of the classic text includes a critical introduction from scholars Sally Ross and Barbara LeBlanc.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American poet. Sally Ross and Barbara LeBlanc are both Acadian scholars and authors living and working in Nova Scotia.

    $13.95
  • A Portrait of Lunenburg County Photographs and Stories from a Vanished Way of Life

    A Portrait of Lunenburg County Photographs and Stories from a Vanished Way of Life

    Created by: Peter Barss
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The legendary schooner fishing days are gone forever from the coast of Nova Scotia, but the spirit of those days, and the hard and heroic men who endured them, lives on in the stories and photographs of A Portrait of Lunenburg County.

    Stripped of romantic myths, told without editorial comment in the stark and simple words of fishermen themselves, here are tales of harsh conditions and sometimes cruel captains, of body-breaking work for low wages, and of tragedy and daring adventure faced amid the awesome forces of the elements. Here, too, are plain, straightforward expressions of human values nurtured in tightly knit communities: close family ties, honesty, kindness, respect, and willingness to share. The stories are accompanied by 48 photographs, black and white portraits of the colourful people and the hard lives that they led.

    First published in 1978, A Portrait of Lunenburg County is a moving tribute to the warmth, humour, and vitality of a people whose lives have formed a rich and vital chapter in Canada’s past. This new edition includes a new preface from the author and an updated design.

    $19.95
  • Maritime Murder

    Maritime Murder

    Created by: Steve Vernon
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    In his uniquely homespun style, sinister storyteller Steve Vernon digs up the dirt on Maritime murders from 1770 to 1929—along with a few bodies along the way. Unearthing historically buried, and occasionally unsolved, violent crimes from across Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Vernon’s versions of these 19 macabre tales will chill you to the bone.

    Featuring a bevy of questionable characters from the darkest recesses of Maritime history, Maritime Murder divulges a diverse array of bygone crimes, trials, and the eerie aftermath. From botched executions and poisonous tea, to axe murders and curious cover-ups, bear witness to the villains and victims of some of the dastardliest deeds this side of the Atlantic.

    $19.95