• A Breed Apart

    A Breed Apart

    Created by: Gail MacMillan
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    This is the best-selling story of Nova Scotia’s famous tolling dog. The legends and stories of the old tolling men and their dogs of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, is part fact and part fiction. Here, at last, is the full story of the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever and the men and women who bred them, trained them and brought them to prominence.

    The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever is Canada’s first and only true Canadian bred dog. For almost two hundred years the dog was unknown outside of southwestern Nova Scotia. The dog’s particular hunting technique – tolling – was first recorded in North America by Nicholas Denys and became part of the folklore of the Maritimes. Straight out of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” is the dog’s astonishing ability to lure waterfowl.

    This powerful and mesmerizing effect in drawing waterfowl toward the shore is just one of the many intriguing secrets associated with this amazing canine. Gail MacMillan became enthralled with Tollers many years ago and became determined to unlock the dog’s engaging past.

    $19.95
  • Dis dix dinosaures / Say Ten Dinosaurs

    Dis dix dinosaures / Say Ten Dinosaurs

    Created by: Gaetane Pinet
    Artist: Denise Paquette
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    This is Bouton d’or Acadie’s first foray into the world of dinosaurs. Dis dix dinosaures steps into a burgeoning world where each page is an opportunity for children to have fun counting and associating details of the images to numbers. On the splash page, one finds the scientific names of dinosaurs frequently found in other works, but (in our opinion) never illustrated with such stunning colours. Denise Paquette, one of Acadie’s most seasoned illustrators, had the time of her life with this one. As for the Moncton author Gaëtane Pinet, with such imagination, she makes a striking debut!

    $8.95
  • Prince Henry Sinclair

    Prince Henry Sinclair

    Created by: Frederick J. Pohl
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    It is one of the anomalies of human history that despite our passion for knowledge, we are still in doubt as to who actually “discovered” the North American continent. According to author/historian Fredrick J. Pohl, the glory should go to none other than Prince Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, who set off on a voyage of discovery for “a very great country” and dropped anchor in Guysborough Harbour, Nova Scotia, on June 2, 1398 almost a century before Columbus’s and Cabot’s Historic voyages.

    $16.95
  • Windjammers Downeast

    Windjammers Downeast

    Created by: Fred LeBlanc
    Publisher: WoodenBoat Books

    The images in this book are termed photographic impressions–paintings created from photos and software, using a stylus as the paintbrush, producing a unique form of artwork.

    $14.95
  • Better Off Dead Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Canadian Armed Forces

    Better Off Dead Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Canadian Armed Forces

    Created by: Fred Doucette
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Fred Doucette always wanted to be a soldier. In the 1960s he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Cyprus in the 1970s and ’80s and Bosnia in the 1990s. When he returned home to New Brunswick in 1999 after his last overseas tour, he was diagnosed with severe chronic post-traumatic stress disorder. Eventually released from the army, Fred found a position with the Operational Stress Injury Social Support (OSISS) program, where he supported serving soldiers and veterans for ten years.

    Better Off Dead chronicles Fred’s efforts in helping to rehabilitate and support soldiers and veterans suffering from what the military terms “operational stress injuries.” We meet Ted, saved from a suicide attempt by a timely phone call; Bob, at wit’s end and reluctantly seeking help to overcome severe PTSD; Roger, caught in a cycle of violence and drug and alcohol abuse; and Jane, diagnosed with PTSD after having been sexually assaulted while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. These accounts are raw, desperate, and often angry, but as Doucette shows, there is hope and real progress for those able to obtain proper diagnosis and treatment. Includes a colour insert with 15 photos.

    $19.95
  • Jerome

    Jerome

    Created by: Fraser Mooney Jr.
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    For many Nova Scotians the name Jerome is synonymous with Maritime mystery, much like Oak Island, the Marie Celeste, or the Shag Harbour UFO crash. Jerome was the name given to the nearly dead, legless stranger who washed up on a Digby Neck beach in 1863. During the next fifty years, Jerome spoke only a few words and never revealed his identity.
    Author Fraser Mooney Jr. embarked on a ten-year investigation to find the remarkable truth about Jerome. Using newspaper articles, historic documents, and interviews, Mooney explores and dispels the myths that have long been associated with Jerome and provides amazing detail about his life on Digby Neck. He takes us through Jerome’s life-from his appearance on the beach, through the time he spent living with a number of families in the region, to his death. Most importantly, Mooney discovers the truth behind the identity of the anonymous, mutilated man who took his secret to the grave. Including photos of Jerome, the beach where he was discovered, and those who knew him, Jerome is an incredibly well researched, intriguing book that will appeal to readers who enjoy Maritime mysteries and historical non-fiction.

    $17.95
  • Rockbound
  • TR's Adventure at Angus the Wheeler's

    TR’s Adventure at Angus the Wheeler’s

    Created by: Frank Macdonald
    Artist: Virginia McCoy

    On a warm summer day, ten-year-old T.R. decides to share a secret with his bored brothers, the Terrible Twins and Sunny James. Elves and Fairies live in the garden of their neighbor.

    But all is not well in this secret garden; Guks have abducted a Princess and are holding her hostage at a farmhouse known as Angus the Wheeler’s. T.R., the Terrible Twins and Sunny James team up with the Fairies and set out to free the Princess.

    What follows is an epic battle between the Fairies and the Guks and T.R. has to use his own gentle magic against a darker magic to free the Princess and protect the Fairies.

    Filled with wonder and strong characters—and, best of all, a happy ending—T.R.’s Adventureis supported by colourful and fanciful illustrations making it suitable for young readers and younger audiences.

    $14.95
  • A Possible Madness

    A Possible Madness

    Created by: Frank Macdonald

    Like many smallish and inelegant towns that dot the coastlines and crossroads of this country, Shean’s postwar, post-industrial economy is in desperate disrepair, and the lengths that some civic leaders will go to in order to do “what’s best” for a town like Shean sometimes requires a leap of faith that has unintended consequences. When a global corporation plans a daring scheme to exploit the remaining coal from an improbable source – and thus to secure Shean’s economic future – politicians try to marginalize the few voices of dissent. Some voices, however, are not easily silenced.

    $19.95
  • Tinker and Blue A Novel

    Tinker and Blue A Novel

    Created by: Frank Macdonald

    At age 19 and 20, respectively, Tinker Dempsey and his oldest friend Blue figured it was time they followed generations of Cape Bretoners and crossed the Canso Causeway, if for no other reason than to find a few stories they could call their own when their wandering ways brought them back home. It had been Blue’s idea to drive their fourth-hand 1957 push-button Plymouth out to San Fran­cisco to look at those Haight-Ashbury types.

    Hitch-hiking hippies and homespun humour and wisdom, love troubles and trouble with the law – Tinker and Blue’s California adventures are a funny and poignant flashback.

    $19.95
  • A Forest for Calum

    A Forest for Calum

    Created by: Frank Macdonald
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The story is Roddie’s. The stage is his guardian and grandfather Calum’s. A quiet and stoic man, Calum Gillies and his aging friends illuminate for us the changing world around them: the loss of the coal mines, the labour strife and lean years endured, the religious parochialism that divides families and communities and, most important, a disappearing language. The setting is Cape Breton; the themes of cultural and rural change and decline are universal.

    $22.95
  • The Smeltdog Man

    The Smeltdog Man

    Created by: Frank Macdonald
    Publisher: Pottersfield Press

    “I brushed the crumbs off of the fish and back onto the counter, threw the smelts in the frying pan while I got the eggs out of the fridge and cracked one.”

    The Smeltdog Man is the story of how a Cape Bretoner marshalled his accidental invention, a marijuana-induced, munchie-inspired Smeltdog, into the most successful fast food franchise in Canada. As president of his newly formed Good Karma Corporation, he tells the tale of how his business empire grows beyond his control, turning him into a billionaire.

    While the business booms and the narrator’s wisdom is being constantly tapped for new ideas and strategies, he consults his Granddaddy Blue, whose pragmatic mixture of horse-trader economics and 1960s hippie ideals provide his grandson with the guiding principles and necessary scams he needs to survive in the corporate world.

    From the simplicity of its origins to the ecological disaster of its success, The Smeltdog Man details the influences of country music on our narrator’s understanding of himself, the longing of unrequited love and the accumulation of wealth possessing more zeros than our hero can count.

    $21.95
  • Dip & Veer Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville

    Dip & Veer Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville

    Created by: Frank Ledwell
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Frank Ledwell has previously published one volume of prose and poetry, The North Shore of Home (Acorn Press, 2002) and two collections of poetry, Crowbush and Other Poems (Ragweed, 1990) and Dip & Veer: Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville (Acorn Press, 1996). He has performed as a popular storyteller in venues across Prince Edward Island. Frank Ledwell is a Professor Emeritus of the English Department of the University of Prince Edward Island, where he taught creative writing for many years. He was the first recipient of the PEI Council of the Arts’ Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts, and for many years was known as the Island’s unofficial poet laureate.

    $14.95
  • Taste of Water

    Taste of Water

    Created by: Frank Ledwell
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    The taste of water is something we all know but need to be reminded of once in a while: how it tastes of shared memory, and of what it means to be human, and of the earth.Prince Edward Island’s second Poet Laureate, Frank Ledwell, invites us to enter his words and world, seeking to share a sense of our common humanity and our interdependent fates, and to recognize communal experience in the particularities of personal experience.The traditional role of the Poet Laureate is to mark occasions, and Ledwell’s poems masterfully make quotidian Island events and lives into special occasions that sing with the “spirit of the spoken word taking hold.”

    $15.95
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    Island Sketchbook

    Created by: Frank Ledwell
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    With characteristic warmth, generosity, and humour, Frank Ledwell seamlessly weaves personal memoir and communal folk wisdom into 60 prose sketches of Island characters, anecdotes, and traditions. The stories are based on real people or incidents; others are fictionalized, evoking the true, remembered landscape of Ledwell’s childhood at St. Peter’s Bay on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, his experience as a student, teacher, and professor at St. Dunstan’s University, and his later life as a professor, husband, and parent in rural Queen’s County. The sketches also evoke the author’s love of people and place and mark his point of view as that of an inveterate Islander.

    $19.95
  • North Shore of Home

    North Shore of Home

    Created by: Frank Ledwell
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    Since it was first published in 1986, Frank Ledwell’s The North Shore of Home has had an enduring place in Island literature. In warm-hearted prose and poetry, in a voice keenly tuned to the music of Prince Edward Island English, Ledwell explores the Island’s North Shore, and especially the richly historied community of St. Peter’s Bay. Taken together, his poems and stories create a portrait of a community surviving through the Depression and the Second World War – a community at the Island’s edge and at the very cusp of the dramatic changes that would affect all small Prince Edward Island communities in the postwar years.

    $18.95
  • I Owe It All to Rock & Roll(and the CBC)

    I Owe It All to Rock & Roll(and the CBC)

    Created by: Frank Cameron
    Publisher: Pottersfield Press

    In this hilarious and insightful memoir, Frank Cameron takes readers from his childhood to his professional days at CHNS and then the CBC and on to his present life, hosting a show at Seaside FM. Frank just can’t get radio out of his blood. In between is a satisfying chronicle of a media personality who never takes himself too seriously. Frank is funny, but he also doesn’t shy away from stating his opinions and telling it like it is.

    $19.95
  • Le trésor d`Elvis Bozec

    Le trésor d`Elvis Bozec

    Created by: Francoise Enguehard
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    Elvis Bozec a un rêve : découvrir des vestiges laissés par les marins français qui sont venus, il y a très longtemps, pêcher la morue à Terre-Neuve. Avec l’aide de sa sœur et d’un vieux monsieur sympathique, réussira-t-il à retrouver les traces de son ancêtre sur l’île Rouge, où l’on ne voit pourtant plus rien du passage des Bretons ?

    $9.95
  • Le Trésor d'Elvis Bozec 2nd Ed
  • Herreshoff

    Herreshoff

    Publisher: WoodenBoat Books

    Franco Pace is a yachting photographer of international repute, known for his stunning action shots and superb composition. His work regularly appears in the major international yachting magazines, and he has several other books to his credit, including William Fife: Master of the Classic Yacht and Sparkman & Stephens: Classic Modern Yachts. Franco Pace lives in Trieste, Italy.

    $65.95
  • Years Before Anne (new edition)

    Years Before Anne (new edition)

    Created by: Francis Bolger
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Francis W. P. Bolger, who teaches history at the University of Prince Edward Island, has compiled an informative and complete picture of the fascinating life and brilliant career of Lucy Maud Montgomery, drawing on her scrapbooks, letters, diaries, photos and conversations with family members.

    $18.95
  • Destination White Point

    Destination White Point

    Publisher: Pottersfield Press

    White Point Beach Lodge has been in operation since 1928, persevering through early bankruptcy, the Great Depression, World War II, and a sometimes unforgiving climate in the hospitality industry. The resort is situated on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, where authors Zane Grey and Albert Bigelow Paine once travelled to write about the charms of the undisturbed wilderness.The evolution of tourism in southwest Nova Scotia owes much of its early progress to well-connected foreign anglers and hunters, who used their own pipelines to broadcast this Canadian destination as a bountiful game reserve and a gem for tourists to discover. This book depicts the contribution of some of these foreigners, notably Philip Hooper Moore, the creator of White Point. His conception was a vacation haven where discerning sportsmen could hunt and fish while their families enjoyed the state-of-the-art amenities at the resort. The Lodge remained a seasonal destination for several decades until the 1980s heralded a shift to year-round operations. A convention centre and more accommodations were added, all designed to blend with the original rustic log buildings.Destination White Point draws on the oral history of former and current staff and guests, some whose experiences date back to the 1930s, to paint authentic pictures of work and play at White Point. The descendants of a number of guests have perpetuated the White Point vacation tradition, travelling from New England as well as Upper and Lower Canada on an annual basis. Multi-generational connections are commonplace at White Point with a half-dozen or more family members employed at the resort across several decades.For the last thirty years or so, stories of ghostly sightings and manifestations have been circulating around the property. One of the supernatural visitors is believed to be Ivy Elliot, who co-managed White Point with her husband Howard for over forty years. These events recently attracted a group of paranormal investigators, who paid a visit to White Point. Since the 1980s, colourful rabbits have delighted children and adults alike. Today, the lodge remains a popular destination for both Canadians and foreigners and a vital link to our storied past.

    $17.95
  • Skipper

    Skipper

    Publisher: Pottersfield Press

    Frances Jewel Dickson is a native of Quebec. She has held management positions in human resources administration, written personnel policy for the Speaker of the House of Commons in Ottawa and led audit teams in evaluating the performance of government departments across Canada. Her first book, The DEW Line Years, was published in 2007 by Pottersfield Press. Frances has lived on Nova Scotia’s South Shore since 1987.

    $15.95
  • Dutch Oven 2nd edition

    Dutch Oven 2nd edition

    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    The town and county of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, has a tradition of hospitality that dates back over two centuries, when German settlers first arrived to carve a new life from the wilderness. Augmenting their farming produce with the abundant harvest from the sea, they developed a unique cuisine that combines longstanding traditions with contemporary ingredients and methods.

    This wonderful collection of recipes from Lunenburg kitchens began as a fundraising project by the Ladies Auxiliary for the Fisherman’s Memorial Hospital and was first published in 1953. This new edition features an updated design and index of recipes for ease of use.

    $24.95
  • How to Build the Footy Model Presto

    How to Build the Footy Model Presto

    Created by: Flavio Falcoi
    Publisher: WoodenBoat Books

    A “Footy” is a internationally recognized model boat sailing class, taking its name from the 12” long box the hull must fit into to comply with the rules.The book is packed with step-by-step building photos, suppliers of materials including radio control units, a reduced sized complete set of building plans (yes, you could scale-up) a lengthy intro to the evolution of the PRESTO design, as well some Flavio sketches for ideas of other boats.Built from solid balsa, PRESTO complies with the Footy model rules by fitting into the 12” x 6” box… on the diagonal, to give her just a bit more length. Flavio is very competitive. And, you’ll find his wave-length / hull-drag test info quite interesting. But the thing that will absolutely grab you is the boat itself–quite handsome, and packed with personality.About the author: Flavio Faloci resides in Genoa, Italy, where he makes his living as a naval architect at the head office of the Registro Italiano Navale, the Italian equivalent of the American Bureau of Ships. He is also team captain and chief designer of the Trieste Waterbike Team, current holder of the Guiness record for longest distance covered in 24 hours. He is also the Italian registrar for the Footy model class, as well as a skilled cook of cakes, ice creams, and cookies.

    $21.95
  • Land Mammals of Rockies & Pacific Northwest - Folding Guide

    Land Mammals of Rockies & Pacific Northwest – Folding Guide

    Created by: Fiona Reid
    Publisher: Earth, Sky + Water

    This FoldingGuide covers 56 mammals, both large and small, found the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest. It includes bats, moles, rabbits, as well as the large signature mammals of the regions such as elk, bears, foxes, and mountain lions. Its range includes our Canadian Rockies and British Columbia.

    $11.95
  • Sailing in Circles, Goin' Somewhere Not Your Typical Boat Story

    Sailing in Circles, Goin’ Somewhere Not Your Typical Boat Story

    Created by: Finley Martin
    Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

    Not all dreams have happy endings. Sailing in Circles, Goin’ Somewhere is the funny, bittersweet memoir of a Prince Edward Island man who, over seven years, builds a classic 1930s wooden sailboat and, in 2004, attempts to circumnavigate eastern North America. The author leaves a small fishing port on the Island and tracks along the rugged coast, up the St. Lawrence River, and through the Great Lakes. Alone, he encounters heavy fog, near-collisions with freighters, mechanical breakdowns, enormous seas, several brushes with disaster, and even a hostile reception at one French-speaking port. He meets odd and curious people. It all comes to an inglorious and mundane end when the author and his boat, the Arja D., are stuck in, of all places, Peoria, Illinois. Was it worth it? Maybe.

    Written by Finley Martin, a respected Island fiction writer, this finely crafted and humorous book will appeal to adventurers, sailors, and lovers of a good yarn.

    $22.95
  • The Reluctant Detective

    The Reluctant Detective

    Created by: Finley Martin
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    A young widow, orphan and mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, a Charlottetown private investigator, leaves Anne and her fourteen-year-old daughter a small savings account and his business, where Anne has worked as office manager for six years. What follows is Anne’s struggle to protect her family, find justice for her clients, and forge a new life for herself in this page-turning thriller.

    $17.95
  • Dead Letter

    Dead Letter

    Created by: Finley Martin
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    It is 2001 and the police constable’s girlfriend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage. When the constable realizes what he has done, he manages an elaborate cover-up. Only one person knows the truth.

    Flash forward to 2012. Anne Brown is still running her late uncle, Bill Darby’s, detective agency after spending four or five years as his assistant. One day, the postman delivers an eleven year-old letter. The letter is addressed to her uncle from a woman named Carolyn Jollimore. She says she has evidence about a murder and begs for help from Darby. But Bill Darby is dead. And when Anne looks up the letter’s author, she finds that Jollimore too is now dead. Troubled with the evidence at hand, Anne must decide if she should investigate this eleven-year old murder.

    $19.95
  • Killings at Little Rose

    Killings at Little Rose

    Created by: Finley Martin
    Publisher: Acorn Press

    In a coastal village where what’s been buried doesn’t stay buried, what’s lost at sea doesn’t stay lost.

    Sleuth Anne Brown finds herself in an eastern PEI fishing community, working undercover for the new owner of a seafood-processing plant plagued by vandalism, loss, and ill luck. The community around Little Rose Harbour has been shocked by the discovery of old, secret remains of a baby, and all their entangled secrets are coming to the surface.

    On the cusp of a clandestine love affair and herself keeping secrets, Anne must sort through gossip, rumours, and lies—and dodge the menace of violence—to uncover the canker at the core of Little Rose.

    But will she learn in time to prevent the mystery from becoming motive for murder?

    $22.95
  • Flynn's War

    Flynn’s War

    Created by: Finley Martin
    Publisher: Acorn Press
    $22.95
  • Tombent les nuages

    Tombent les nuages

    Created by: Évelyne Foëx
    Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie

    Mariesol and Loïc love watching clouds as they take on many silly shapes. But when they wake up one morning, the whole town is buried under a big, fluffy white blanket. The clouds are falling! Cars can no longer drive about, and an old man has even lost his cat. What a disaster! It is time to find a way to hang the clouds back up in the sky!

    $11.95