• Crosby and Me

    Crosby and Me

    Created by: Hugh MacDonald
    Artist: Dale McNevin
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    I’m off to play hockeybut I’m starting to thinkdad’s dreams are the reasonwe go to the rink.He’s doing the drivingwith Mum at his side,our frisky dog Crosbycomes along for the ride.

    $9.95
  • Chung Lee Loves Lobsters

    Chung Lee Loves Lobsters

    Created by: Hugh MacDonald
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Mr. Chung Lee is a retired restaurant cook who buys one lobster a month with his old age pension cheque, takes the lobster to the seashore, and releases it into the sea. This book, a PEI favourite, was originally published in 1992 by Annick Press, but it has since gone out-of-print. New illustrations and fresh text will make it a favourite for a new generation of Islanders. This story won the L. M. Montgomery Children’s Literature Award in 1990.

    $9.95
  • Morgan's Boat Ride

    Morgan’s Boat Ride

    Created by: Hugh MacDonald
    Artist: Anna Bald
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Morgan and her dog head out on an accidental journey down the river that flows past the summer cottage where they holiday with Morgan’s mother. As they float along the river they observe landscape and life on the water, various birds and people enjoying the activities the river has to offer. But the story is not only about their adventure, it is also about community, about how all the people who see them drifting past hurry off to make sure that they come to no danger. The story ends at the local wharf where the entire community comes together to celebrate their adventure and their safe return.

    $12.95
  • And All the Stars Shall Fall

    And All the Stars Shall Fall

    Created by: Hugh MacDonald
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    After years of struggle by Blanchfleur to maintain its independence, the idyllic walled city of Aahimsa, a community of girls and women dedicated to making a life of peace free of the brutality and aggression of outsiders, and its prospering Manuhome, are suddenly victims of a brutal surprise attack by the forces of The World Federation of City States. Mabon and Nora are in hiding outside the city where they witness all the horrors of the assault. Adam, their adoptive son, is no longer with them, having been placed under the protection of Doctor Ueland at the Manuhome. Adam, known to the federation as The Last Wild Boy has been hunted down since his unauthorized birth in Aahimsa. Blanchfleur the mayor of Aahimsa along with her daughter and granddaughter Tish, flee for their lives along with hundreds of the Manuhome workers. A few of them are thrown together and, although some are strangers and long-time enemies, they are forced by circumstance to attempt to find a way to escape extinction in the outside world against powerful and relentless common enemies, traitors and especially the federation’s murderous and heartless robotic army. They must deal with great dangers and unexpected revelations. Can they manage to work together and adjust their thinking enough to survive and find happiness against such seemingly insurmountable odds?

    $12.95
  • Our Rock and Our Salvation
  • On Both Sides of the Law (new edition)

    On Both Sides of the Law (new edition)

    Created by: Hugh Corkum
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    As a boy in the 1920s, Hugh H. Corkum anticipated every summer when he could sail from Lunenburg and work with his father on cargo ships. When he quit school at 15, his got his ideal job at sea. The cargo wasn’t what he expected, however, and Hugh found himself initiated into the world of rum-running.

    In this memoir, Hugh recounts the volatile captains, honourable crewmen, and gangsters whom he dealt with while fleeing police and enjoying New York nightlife. Although he trained in railway telegraphy, the money and excitement of smuggling drew him back in.

    After his third arrest, Hugh became a police officer in Lunenburg. Drawing upon specific events, he explains how his past gave him a keen understanding of people and morals that enabled him to become Chief of Police. With 25 photos, including rare pictures of rum-running ships.

    $19.95
  • From the Hearth

    From the Hearth

    Recipes from the World of 18th-century LouisbourgThe recipes presented here are those that the authors believe were once served in the house and inns of historic Louisbourg. Modern interpretations?giving specific quantities and cooking times?have been provided for all but a few preparations.Though research has not turned up any individual recipes used in 18th-century Louisbourg, historians and archaeologists do know most of the foods they ate. They also know the regions in France from whence many of the inhabitants of Louisbourg (or their parents) originally came.

    $12.95
  • Green Shutters Cookbook

    Green Shutters Cookbook

    Created by: Hilda Zinck
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The Green Shutters Cookbook, with its hearty, simple, downhome recipes, has been a Nova Scotia favourite for over 50 years. Featuring recipes from Hilda Zinck’s Green Shutters Inn, now closed, the book includes timeless favourites like hot cross buns, fish chowder, meatloaf and banana bread.

    $18.95
  • Revenge of the Lobster Lover A Shores Mystery

    Revenge of the Lobster Lover A Shores Mystery

    Created by: Hilary MacLeod
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    It’s lobster season at The Shores, a fishing village isolated from The Island in a storm surge. Parker, a collector of antiquities, has moved there with his partner Guillaume, a chef just out of rehab. “Hy” McAllister, a website writer looking for lobster recipes for a client’s newsletter, also needs a speaker for her Women’s Institute meeting. Enter Camilla, founder of the Lobster Liberation Legion, spouting crustacean right-to-life rhetoric. The legion starts freeing lobsters from their traps, angering the villagers and the man who runs Parker’s fisheries empire. In the tragic events that follow, the hidden connection between Parker, Guillaume and Camilla reveals itself.

    $22.95
  • Mind Over Mussels A Shores Mystery

    Mind Over Mussels A Shores Mystery

    Created by: Hilary MacLeod
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Nothing big ever happens in The Shores. Ceilidhs, yes. Killings, no.

    That all changes when amateur sleuth, Hy McAllister trips over a body on the beach and tumbles head first into a murder case. Cottager Lance Lord, dressed like Jimi Hendrix, has had his head split open with an axe. As Hurricane Angus storms up the coast, Hy and Mountie Jane Jamieson vie against the elements to uncover the murderer in a village where almost everyone has something to hide.

    $22.95
  • All is Clam A Shores Mystery

    All is Clam A Shores Mystery

    Created by: Hilary MacLeod
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    It’s Christmas at The Shores. There’s no snow yet, but there are so many outdoor lights that the tiny coastal village can be seen from space. Apart from Ian Simmons’ place, and he’s considered odd, there’s only one house in the village that isn’t lit up. It’s been dark for years. That’s about to change. Wild Rose Cottage is about to come to life, and death, once again. Meanwhile, the villagers wish for snow to complete the Christmas portrait. When it comes, it’s with the body of newcomer, Fitz Fitsimmons, a former acrobat turned bully and drunk. Mountie Jane Jamieson has seen murder here before, but none where she’d rather not catch the killer.

    $22.95
  • Something Fishy A Shores Mystery

    Something Fishy A Shores Mystery

    Created by: Hilary MacLeod
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Herrings are falling from the sky over The Shores – an unusual phenomenon anywhere, but especially so in this case. A newcomer, Anton Paradis, has set up a restaurant that specializes in dangerous dining, cooking up food that can kill to tantalize the palates of wealthy clients. It’s a recipe for death. Someone’s bound to get hurt.

    Someone does. Oddly, the victim dies laughing. By accident or design?

    Mountie Jane Jamieson suspects it’s no accident. But could there really be another murder at The Shores?

    All the while, a wind turbine slices its blades over the cape, menacing the villagers with its eerie presence. Death is in the wind as well as on the dinner plate.

    $22.95
  • Bodies and Sole A Shores Mystery

    Bodies and Sole A Shores Mystery

    Created by: Hilary MacLeod
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    The Shores is celebrating a killer 200th anniversary. A skull tossed up on the beach sparks a heritage murder investigation.

    Meanwhile, serial widow Vera Gloom moves into the village with her three ex- husbands. Are they one big happy family? Amateur sleuth, Hy McAllister has her doubts, and things get even more interesting when Vera starts working on husband number four. Hy has to convince Mountie Jane Jamieson that these people are more than just a little dysfunctional—before it’s too late.

    $22.95
  • Cod Only Knows A Shores Mystery

    Cod Only Knows A Shores Mystery

    Created by: Hilary MacLeod
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Finally! A new book in the popular Shores Mysteries series!

    For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod.

    A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores’s mysterious Abel Mack almost landed the most giant of the giant cod the last time they appeared.

    At all costs, two powerful men with competing interests are after the biggest cod. They are closing in on The Shores–but the fisherman is missing.

    Ninety-year-old Abel Mack has disappeared. At the best of times, Abel is there one minute, gone the next. His best friends and family are not sure they would recognize him if they found him.

    Is he dead, by foul play or misadventure, or dead of exposure, as Mountie Jane Jamieson suspects? Or is he alive and sure to return, as his wife Gus Mack insists? Does the never-at-home Abel even exist outside Gus’s memory or imagination, Hy McAllister wonders? Or has he been kidnapped for what he knows about the codfish?

    In this sixth Shores mystery by Hilary MacLeod, everyone is after the one that got away. But does anything–or anyone–who is attached to The Shores ever actually get away…alive? Cod only knows.

    $22.95
  • For the Love of Sea View
  • Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History An Illustrated History

    Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History An Illustrated History

    Created by: Herb MacDonald

    Cape Breton’s rail lines are perhaps best known for their substantial roles in the coal and steel industries-and their decline as those industries faded away. Yet, despite their prominent connections to coal and steel, railways played many other important roles in the life of the Island. From transporting mail and freight to giving Cape Bretoners the ability to travel to and from the Island, they were important to the community culture. This book looks at those railways in the contexts of what was happening on and beyond the Island.Cape Breton’s railways were shaped by factors such physical geography, availability of both capital and customers, and the distribution of population and industries. In response to those factors, railway builders and operators often had to make difficult choices and try to deal with factors they could not control.

    $24.95
  • Evangeline, Illustrated (French)

    Evangeline, Illustrated (French)

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    En suivant l’odyssée du peuple acadien, déporté de la Nouvelle-Écosse entre 1755 et 1763, le poète Henry Wadsworth Longfellow a immortalisé l’Acadie. Son célèbre poème Évangeline raconte l’histoire émouvante d’Évangéline et de Gabriel, jeunes amoureux séparés au moment de la déportation des Acadiens de Grand-Pré. Évangéline parcourt l’Amérique à la recherche de son bien-aimé et, après des années d’errance, elle le trouve sur son lit de mort. Publié en 1847 et traduit par, Pamphile LeMay en 1865, Évangéline connaît un succès international retentissant. Depuis plus d’un siècle et demi, le courage et la fidélité de l’héroïne de Longfellow ne cessent de nous émouvoir. Agrémentée d’illustrations en coulers et en noir et blanc ainsi que d’une excellente introduction de Sally Ross et Barbara LeBlanc, cette belle edition d’Évangéline saura charmer aussi bien les lecteurs et les lectrices qui connaissent déjà le poème que ceux et celles qui le découvrent pour la première fois.

    $18.95
  • Evangeline, Illustrated (English) A Tale of Acadie

    Evangeline, Illustrated (English) A Tale of Acadie

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The famous poem with a historical introduction and numerous color and black and white illustrations. First published in 1847, Evangeline is a classic of romantic literature that tells the epic story of a young Acadian couple who are separated during the tragic Acadian expulsion of 1755.

    $19.95
  • Evangeline

    Evangeline

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    La Nouvelle-Écosse est hantée par son passé—l’Acadie qui fut établie en 1605. Longfellow décrit magnifiquement la beauté des lieux qui devinrent le “Pays d’Évangéline,” dans son conte d’amants qui furent séparés pendant la déportation des Acadiens en 1755; une des oeuvres les plus aimées de la littérature canadienne. Personne ne peut lire l’histoire de Grand Pré sans avoir le désir de visiter l’Acadie; personne ne peut visiter l’Acadie sans être fasciné par son histoire.

    $13.95
  • 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
  • Historic Black Nova Scotia
  • Une journee poney! Pemkiskahk'ciw ahahsis!

    Une journee poney! Pemkiskahk’ciw ahahsis!

    Created by: Hélène deVarennes
    Artist: Paul Lang
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    Joséphine looks at her grandfather and wonders whether he’s serious. After all, he loves to joke around! A pony has neither a steering wheel to drive it, nor seat to sit in… how will she ever stay on a pony and guide it to the pond?

    $14.95
  • Où tu vas, Emma?
  • Acadian Star

    Acadian Star

    Created by: Helene Boudreau
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The Acadian Star competition is the biggest thing to ever happen in Meg Gallant’s small Cape Breton town. Meg dreams of performing onstage with her best friend Nève. If they’re lucky, they might even make it to the finals in Halifax. But Meg’s weird old aunt, Tante Perle, has been acting stranger and stranger—and just before the finale of the competition, she whisks Meg away from everything she knows. Meg suddenly finds herself trapped in the time of the tragic Acadian Deportation—and she has to choose between escaping to her own time and saving a girl who looks remarkably like Neve. Why is she trapped in the eighteenth century? Will she be able to save this stranger, so quickly becoming a friend? And where does Tante Perle fit in with all this?
    This remarkable book for middle readers introduces us to contemporary Acadian characters, and also offers a young girl’s perspective on the Acadian Deportation.

    Hélène Boudreau is an Acadian writer and artist. A native of Isle Madame, Nova Scotia, she writes fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults from her home in Markham, Ontario. This is her first novel.

    $10.95
  • Évangéline Récits pour jeunes lecteurs

    Évangéline Récits pour jeunes lecteurs

    Created by: Helene Boudreau
    Artist: Patsy MacKinnon
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem, Evangeline, tells the story of two young people deported from beautiful Acadie just before they are to be married—and their search for each other that lasts the rest of their lives. First published in 1847, the poem has been important to Acadian identity ever since.In Évangéline: Récits pour jeunes lecteurs, the tragic story of Evangeline and Gabriel’s Deportation is recounted to a new generation. In simple prose true to Longfellow’s poem, Hélène Boudreau describes the utopian village of Grand-Pré where Evangeline grows up, the traumatizing Deportation, and Evangeline’s relentless search across America for her true love. Patsy MacKinnon’s stunning illustrations bring the story to life in full colour.Évangéline: Récits pour jeunes lecteurs is a vital, French-language interpretation for children of Longfellow’s classic.

    $11.95
  • Evangeline for Young Readers

    Evangeline for Young Readers

    Created by: Helene Boudreau
    Artist: Patsy MacKinnon
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem, Evangeline, tells the story of two young people deported from beautiful Acadie just before they are to be married and their search for each other that lasts the rest of their lives. First published in 1847, the poem has been important to Acadian identity ever since.

    In Evangeline for Young Readers, the tragic story of Evangeline and Gabriel’s Deportation is recounted to a new generation. In simple prose true to Longfellow’s poem, Hélène Boudreau describes the utopian village of Grand-Pré where Evangeline grows up, the traumatizing Deportation, and Evangeline’s relentless search across America for her true love. Patsy MacKinnon’s stunning illustrations bring the story to life in full colour.

    Evangeline for Young Readers is a vital interpretation for children of Longfellow’s classic.

    $17.95
  • Yellow Boatie

    Yellow Boatie

    Created by: Helen Sylvester
    Artist: Chris Gray
    Publisher: WoodenBoat Books

    Helen Sylvester was born in Maine and has lived in the same house overlooking Blue Hill Bay for nearly seventy years. Chris Gray, also born in Maine, studied at the Maine College of Art and makes custom furniture and cabinets.

    $14.25
  • Finishing School

    Finishing School

    Publisher: Pottersfield Press

    Forty-nine-year-old divorced hair stylist Eileen Novak has recently enrolled in a community college class to complete her high school education, and her first English assignment is to keep a journal. Initially apprehensive about this exercise, Eileen soon discovers she enjoys writing and the opportunity to really let herself go.

    Set in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in the 1980s and resonating with a vivid sense of place, Finishing School chronicles Eileen’s sometimes traumatic, sometimes funny but fully engaged life during the school months. “Always ready to try anything

    $19.95
  • Bluenose Ghosts (2nd Edition)

    Bluenose Ghosts (2nd Edition)

    Ghosts guarding buried treasure, phantom ships, haunted houses and supernatural warnings of death—these are just some of the strange and mysterious phenomena that you will encounter in Bluenose Ghosts. These unexplained mysteries are all the more chilling because they are based on personal experiences of ordinary people, told to Helen Creighton, one of Canada?s most respected and renowned folklorists, over a period of thirty years. So when the moon is full and the wind is howling, be prepared to be spooked by apparitions and things that go bump in the night. Bluenose Ghosts was an instant hit when it was first published in 1957.

    This new edition of Bluenose Ghosts features a new foreword from Nova Scotia writer Clary Croft that explores Creighton’s enduring influence on the province’s folklore.

    $22.95
  • Folk Tale Journey Through the Maritimes

    Folk Tale Journey Through the Maritimes

    Created by: Helen Creighton
    Publisher: Breton Books

    These are the folk tales from Dr. Helen Creighton’s life journey through the Maritime Provinces, collecting songs and ghost stories and old cures–and folk tales. Helen serves as our guide, introducing us to storytellers, setting the scene of the telling–and then she lets the person tell the story just as it was told to her.

    The feel of the kitchen and the fish shed still cling to these stories. Some are long, really miraculous folk tales–miraculous in detail and in that they have managed to survive. Others are the brief riddle or the tantalizing quick-telling that a folklorist can expect along the way. Helen kept it all. And taken as a whole, the reality and intensity of those rare smaller pieces reveal their value in among the more finished, well-told tales.

    Both Helen Creighton and A Folk Tale Journey Through the Maritimes are Atlantic treasures. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Taft and Ronald Caplan, and a Motif Index by Michael Taft.

    $21.95
  • Bluenose Magic

    Bluenose Magic

    Created by: Helen Creighton
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Bluenose Magic, first published in 1968, is considered a classic of Maritime literature, and its author, Dr. Helen Creighton, is one of Canada’s best-loved and most respected folklorists.
    This fascinating and engaging companion to the author’s best-selling Bluenose Ghosts welcomes readers into a world of forerunners, enchantment, dreams, divination, buried treasure, guardian ghosts, home remedies, and mystical occurrences. These unique tales have been passed on from generation to generation of Nova Scotia’s families.

    $24.95
  • East to the Sea

    East to the Sea

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Imagine being crammed into the backseat of the family car, pyjamas already on, staking out space amidst sisters, knapsacks, blankets and pillows. Excitement is in the air as everyone gets ready to start the long drive though the dark, starry night. Sound like a familiar start to a summer vacation?Join a young girl and her family on a nostalgic journey to her grandparents’ summer cottage on the east coast, where afternoons at the beach and bonfires at dusk become magical, extraordinary events when viewed through the eyes of a child.Heidi Jardine Stoddart holds a Master of Arts degree in Art Education from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and was an elementary school teacher where she grew up, in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. She currently lives in Rothesay, New Brunswick and spends much of her time teaching, drawing, painting, and looking for shells at the seashore.

    $11.95