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Our December Guest Maritime Christmas Stories
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95In Our December Guest, Wayne Curtis once again draws on his own experiences to craft nineteen stories of autumn and winter life in rural New Brunswick in an age gone by. Authentic and true in every detail, his characters combine the strength and resilience required to eke out a living from the woods and the rivers as well as a sensitivity to the beauty of nature and an appreciation of the arts.
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The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson (3rd ed)
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95Set on the East Coast, and focusing on 69-year-old Jonas, this novel reflects the title character’s energy, rage and humour as he looks upon his world, past and present, and is filled with memorable characters, adventures, and a pervading rugged gentleness.
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Van Gogh’s Grasshopper
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$19.95Van Gogh’s Grasshopper is a collection of fifty poems about insects and other very small creatures. Each poem focuses on particular aspects of a specific tiny life form: their name and what it means, their overall design and structure, the superstitions we have about them, and their particular strategies to survive.
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What’s the Point? An Irreverent History of Point Pleasant Park
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95Here is a book of history in its most entertaining form: the story of Point Pleasant Park, a unique 190-acre collection of paths, ponds, and port-o-potties; flora, fauna, and fungi; battlements, monuments, and burial mounds all situated at the far south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Trips That Went South From Point A to Beware
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95If you’ve wondered how trips can go sideways, Torti vulnerably shares her misadventure archives from Ecuador, Colombia, Thailand, Newfoundland, Belize, Iceland, China and beyond.
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In Search of Puffins, Stories of Loss, Light and Flight
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95In Search of Puffins is the third book in a series of memoirs, beginning with Coastal Lives and Year of the Horse. Journalist and author Marjorie Simmins completed this third memoir four years after the death of her husband, writer Silver Donald Cameron, a charismatic public figure much loved across Canada, and with an international reputation as an environmentalist and a filmmaker. In Search of Puffins is a story of love and loss, reinvention and humour.
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The Illogical Adventure, A Memoir of Love and Fate
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95The Illogical Adventure recounts the story of an unlikely cross-continental romance between two independent-minded travellers – from their brief but fateful first meeting in Cape Town, through to a dowry ceremony in rural Africa a few years later during the Covid pandemic and beyond.
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The Queen Anne House, A Nova Scotia Saga
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95This novel spanning over two hundred years is the story of one house and the amazing people who lived on the high ground in Cumberland County. Throughout, the story of love and loss is told in a most unique and unusual way that is both innovative and revealing.
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Through My Looking Glass: Nova Scotia: 50 Year Photographic Retrospective 1973-2023
Photographer: Joseph RobichaudPublisher: Pottersfield Press$27.95Through My Looking Glass is the culmination of fifty years of documentary photography in Nova Scotia, spanning from 1973 to 2023. It chronicles a half-century of life in a province where the intertwining of diverse cultures and experiences creates a rich and multifaceted narrative. The striking images in this book reflect the many threads of Indigenous, Acadian, and Black experiences. The Mi’kmaq people, the original stewards of this land, have walked these shores for millennia, forging a deep connection with the natural world. Their resilience has shaped the province?s identity, and their stories are integral to understanding Nova Scotia?s historical and spiritual landscape.
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Oceans of Rum
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95Excitement, camaraderie, drama on the high seas, love affairs, big payoffs, and fast cars – these were the returns for a life of smuggling in Atlantic Canada during Prohibition for those who dared. Oceans of Rum recalls the glory days of rum running on Nova Scotia’s South Shore based on first-hand accounts.
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Winning Prizes
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$19.95Winning Prizes is a collection of essays dealing with topics ranging from faith, murder, love of place as well as historical and literary individuals. He writes passionately about individuality and the courage it takes to strike out on one’s own and to stand one’s ground against the odds, a critical part of living that sooner or later all of us must deal with in our own way.
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I’ll be with you in a moment
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95Beth Callahan can stop time by winking. Owen possesses no mystical powers, and until now, hasn’t even managed to make a solid friend. He has no idea why Beth’s chosen him to share her secret, but once she does, everything looks different. Set near the lake and throughout dreary suburbs, I’ll Be With You in a Moment is a bittersweet coming-of-age story about belief, connection, and the people who see us before we see ourselves.
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Family Secrets
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95When an elderly father finally breaks decades of silence, his daughter embarks on a search through archives and historical records to uncover her parents’ hidden wartime past. Debut author Alice Switocz Goldbloom discovers not just her family’s remarkable stories in Nazi-occupied Poland, but a broader tragedy that touched every Polish family. A powerful memoir and historical detective story about heritage, inheritance, and learning to honour the immigrant roots she once tried to escape.
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What seas sing through our bones: Passages through Canada, the United States and Mexico
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$21.95What seas sing through our bones is a journey poem and a queer love story co-created and recounted during a time of war, censorship and extreme border control. In a voyage that runs from Nova Scotia to San Diego, then along the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja peninsula into the Sea of Cortez, the poem’s narrators relate the marvels and disasters they encounter as they move from one language to another, and between land and sea.
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Camino Chaos: Taking it All in Stride Across Croatia and Portugal
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$22.95Navigating endless olive groves, vineyards, bottles of wine, gypsy dogs, nudists, wild boars, the “Valley of the Moon” and cancelled flights, Camino Chaos is laced with Torti’s signature sarcasm, Super Bock, watermelon-eating sheep, U-turns, profanity, insanity history and heroics.
Follow the determined duo as around Croatia’s Krk Island and Coastal Portugal as they find their way back to Santiago on two very trying Camino routes with a sense of bewilderment and humour (and hives for Kim).
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Blacks
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$14.00This book documents the experience of the Blacks in the Maritimes, the difficulties they encountered and the institutions that sustained them. It profiles a selection of prominent individuals who overcame the prejudice and discrimination of a dominant culture to become outstanding in their careers while contributing to the greater good of society.
