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Herreshoff
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$65.95Franco 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.
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Years Before Anne (new edition)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$18.95Francis 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.
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Destination White Point
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$17.95White 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.
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Skipper
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$15.95Frances 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.
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Dutch Oven 2nd edition
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$24.95The 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.
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How to Build the Footy Model Presto
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95A “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.
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Land Mammals of Rockies & Pacific Northwest – Folding Guide
Publisher: Earth, Sky + Water$11.95This 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.
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Sailing in Circles, Goin’ Somewhere Not Your Typical Boat Story
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$22.95Not 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.
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The Reluctant Detective
Publisher: Acorn Press$17.95A 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.
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Dead Letter
Publisher: Acorn Press$19.95It 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.
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Killings at Little Rose
Publisher: Acorn Press$22.95In 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?
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Tombent les nuages
Artist: Jacinthe ChevalierPublisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$11.95Mariesol 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!
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We Keep A Light
$15.95In We Keep A Light, Evelyn M. Richardson describes how she and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life there for themselves and their three children. On an isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia, the Richardsons shared the responsibilities and pleasures of island living, from carrying water and collecting firewood to making preserves and studying at home. The close-knit family didn’t mind their isolation, and found delight in the variety and beauty of island life.
We Keep A Light is much more than a memoir. It is an exquisitely written, engrossing record of family life set against a glowing lighthouse, the enduring shores of Nova Scotia, and the ever-changing sea.
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We Keep a Light – Nimbus Classic
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$19.95In We Keep A Light, Evelyn M. Richardson describes how she and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life there for themselves and their three children. On an isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia, the Richardsons shared the responsibilities and pleasures of island living, from carrying water and collecting firewood to making preserves and studying at home. The close-knit family didn’t mind their isolation, and found delight in the variety and beauty of island life.
We Keep A Light is much more than a memoir. It is an exquisitely written, engrossing record of family life set against a glowing lighthouse, the enduring shores of Nova Scotia, and the ever-changing sea.
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Celtic Threads: A Journey In Cape Breton Crafts
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press$24.95In Celtic Threads, Eveline MacLeod shares her lifetime of research and collecting the history, methods, patterns and people of Cape Breton’s considerable tapestry of practical and ornamental weaving and other fibre art and crafts.
For more than sixty years, Eveline MacLeod’s life has been inextricably woven into the art and the craft of weaving in Cape Breton. An avid weaver herself, Eveline became an ardent student of the art and a teacher of the craft, tracing its roots from the glens of Cape Breton to the Highlands of Scotland and beyond.
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Eva and Me
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$14.95How radically lives can be altered by sudden twists of fate . . . by luck . . . by backroom politics in a darkened corridor in Beijing. From an orphanage in Guongdong, South China and the 13,000 kilometre (8,000 mile) journey to a village on Nova Scotia’s south shore, this is just one story in what was the largest exodus of children from a single country in the history of mankind. This is the story of Eva and Me.
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Prince Edward Island Book of Musts
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$13.95From potters and painters in Breadalbane to a museum devoted exclusively to seaweed in Miminagash, open mic at Baba?s Lounge in Charlottetown to a sleep over at the West Point Lighthouse and the wonders of the Daylily farm in Belfast, this is the MUST list every Islander MUST have. From a beach with sand that sings, to the best greasy breakfast for your buck, it is all here.We also get Islanders from across the province to weigh in with their MUST Lists. Singer-songwriters Lennie Gallant and Rose Cousins, professor Brent MacLaine, photographer Anna Karpinski and historian George Dalton all have secret places you simply MUST visit.This is the ultimate insider MUST list. If you love Prince Edward Island, you simply MUST have the PEI Book of Musts.
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Gus the Tortoise Takes a Walk
Artist: Richard RudnickiPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$18.95It’s a busy day at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax. Gus the Tortoise is getting his new home, and while the curator is away, Elliot is in charge of moving all the boxes in and out of the museum to set up Gus’s home. But Elliot makes a big mistake, and the box with Gus in it gets left outside long enough for Gus to wander away! He strolls up and down Spring Garden Road, taking in all the exciting Halifax sights, while Elliot frantically searches for him. Finally Gus ends up in a quiet, shady corner of the Public Gardens, just right for a tortoise. Elliot goes to the Public Gardens to make a wish in a fountain that he will find Gus—and it comes true! He brings him back to his comfortable new home in the museum and Gus settles in for a long sleep after his big adventure.
Based on true events, when Gus really did “run” away from the museum!
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How to Build the Shellback Dinghy
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$16.50Easy to build from the separately supplied plans or a kit of pre-cut pieces, the Shellback is a dinghy of traditional design and modern glued-plywood construction.
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It’s Not Just a Game My Journey From the Streets to Professional Basketball
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$13.95“Where I am today all started from the bottom. I want to tell the story of my journey from there to here.”Refusing to become a victim of his circumstances, Eric Crookshank went from a child counting his father’s drug money to a university graduate with a degree in business administration; from a benched teenager with dreams of conquering the basketball court to the captain of the National Basketball League of Canada’s Halifax Rainmen.Eric Crookshank has become a role model to a new generation of basketball players, both on and off the court. In this powerful story, Crookshank invites us to experience the highs and lows of his life so far as he overcomes adversity and grows into a leader.
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The Scottish Gaelic Tattoo Handbook Authentic words & phrases in the Celtic language of Scotland
Publisher: Bradan Press$14.99The ultimate “think before you ink” guide to accurate tattoos in Scottish Gaelic. Written by a Gaelic speaker in Nova Scotia, the book features tips on how to incorporate Scottish Gaelic words into a tattoo design, illustrations of real-life Gaelic tattoos gone wrong, a brief history and description of the Gaelic language, and a glossary of nearly 400 Scottish Gaelic words and phrases suitable for tattoos, jewelry, and crafts.
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Tara Timi et la nuit
Publisher: Bouton d'or Acadie$9.95Tara and Timi, two close friends, are very excited to travel away on an adventure to the Fall Fair. However, Timi prefers being cautious to exploring, and as soon as things don’t go as planned, he becomes quite nervous. Luckily, the two meet a wise old woman along the way.
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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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Pamela Pollock’s Perilous Adventure
$12.95Pamela Pollock is a small fish that lives in Nova Scotia. She gets caught in a current and swept away to a place she has never been, where the water is warm, and the fish don’t look familiar, and aren’t friendly.
She wants desperately to go home but doesn’t know how until she sees a boat that looks familiar. The Bluenose. Pamela is certain if she stays close to the Bluenose she will find her way home.
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Grow Organic A Simple Guide to Nova Scotia Vegetable Gardening
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95Grow Organic deals with specifically Nova Scotian issues, giving advice about our growing season, which types of vegetables grow best here, and where to get local organic seeds. The book also contains a chapter of inspirational profiles of specific gardeners and farmers from around the province. The book is written in a friendly, straightforward manner, and is intended as a simple and accessible guide for people with a specific interest in organic vegetable gardening. It includes many illustrative photographs and recipes.
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You Can Too Canning, Pickling and Preserving the Maritime Harvest
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95More 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!
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Gentlemen & Jesuits
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$19.95This is the definitive account of early life in Acadia. The reprint of this outstanding book (originally published by the University of Toronto Press in 1986) coincides with the resurgence of interest in Acadian culture.
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Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest Wildflowers & Flowering Shrubs from British Columbia to Northern Calif
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing$14.00Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest introduces seaside visitors and residents to 164 common wildflowers and flowering shrubs of the rugged Pacific shore from southern British Columbia to Mendocino, California.
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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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When I’m With You
Artist: Leslie MansmannPublisher: Islandport Press$15.95Elizabeth Elder has worked as a teacher and a journalist. When I’m With You is her third book and her first full-color children’s book.
Leslie Mansmann has a degree from the Philadelphia College of Art and has worked for more than 25 years
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Sugar Mountain Snow Ball
Publisher: Islandport Press$16.95Cheerful Ruby LaRue and reserved Eleanor Bandaranaike couldn’t be more different. Ruby has lived her whole life in a small ski town while Eleanor’s family comes from Sri Lanka. But these unlikely best friends share one thing: they both have BIG plans. So when a fortune teller urges them to go outside their world to unlock their dreams, they plunge down a whirlwind path to try to reach their goals.