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When A Parent is Sick 2nd Edition
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$12.95What do you tell children when a parent has been diagnosed with a serious illness? What should you do? What should you talk about? When do you ell them? What words do you use?
This book provides parents and other caregivers with suggestions on how to approach children with the information that their parent is seriously ill. There are lots of examples of how and what to say to children and teens.
The author reviews a child’s understanding and response to serious illness at different stages of development. She provides suggestions of how adults may help children cope with the daily disruptions the illness has created.
The book also includes chapters on what to do when a parent is dying and what to do when a parent dies.
Also included is a list of books and other resources for parents and children who want to read further on the subject.
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Oblomov
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$20.00Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifetime, today he is remembered for one novel, Oblomov, published in 1859, an indisputable classic of Russian literature, the artistic stature and cultural significance of which may be compared only to other such masterpieces as Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. Stephen Pearl’s new translation, the first major English-language publication of Oblomov in more than fifty years, succeeds exquisitely to introduce this astonishing and endearing novel to a new generation of readers.Review”[Goncharov is ten heads above me in talent.”—Anton Chekhov(Anton Chekhov )“Oblomov is a truly great work, the likes of which one has not seen for a long, long time. I am in rapture over Oblomov and keep rereading it.”—Leo Tolstoy(Leo Tolstoy )
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Mendel Rosenbusch, Tales for Jewish Children
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$18.95Mendel Rosenbusch lives in a small house behind the synagogue in a rural village. All the children love Mendel – he always has a bowl of delicious baked goods when they visit him on the Sabbath. Decent, friendly people love Mendel without knowing what makes him so likeable; while stingy, unfriendly people frown at him without knowing why. Mendel Rosenbusch seems to know everything, and he has a wonderful gift for reading in people’s eyes their most secret thoughts. You see, Mendel has a secret. One night an angel appeared and gave him ma magic coin. When Mendel puts it in his pocket, he becomes invisible. That was the wonderful gift God gave him for being so kind-hearted. Do you wonder what Mendel Rosenbusch does with his magic invisibility?
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Final Judgement
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$20.00Famous author, Kenneth Flear, becomes a creative writing professor at an eminent university. A brilliant college senior invites the professor to support her protest to prevent President George W. Bush from delivering the keynote at her commencement. After her self-sacrifice stops the president, Flear is commissioned to write a drop-in bestseller about the incident that ultimately asserts the insanity of the student. Attending Book Expo America in Washington D.C. in May 2006, the professor is featured at an author breakfast and panel discussion. With booksellers everywhere in foment over the book’s conclusions, readers must make a final judgment for themselves.
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You Are as Young as Your Spine
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$12.95This book is written for all those who suffer from back problems, and the neck pain, rheumatism, sciatica, and other pain they cause. Editha Hearn explains scientifically, though in plain language, why these problems are so common and why the origin of backache is usually related to the spine.
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Lure of the Labrador Wild
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$15.95The improbable collaboration between an ambitious young writer, Leonidas Hubbard, and a forty-year-old New York attorney, Dillon Wallace. They set off in the spring of 1903 with George Elson, an Aboriginal guide with no first-hand knowledge of their destination—the incompletely mapped Lake Michikamau region of interior Labrador. Beset by delays, the men paddle past their intended route, the Naskaupi River, and head up the dreadful Susan River instead. When in early September they finally glimpse the vast waters of Michikamau from atop an unknown mountain, the cold winds have already begun. With almost no food left the three begin a desperate struggle against starvation and the quickening pace of a cruel winter, heading homeward in a race for their lives.
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My Two Grandmothers
$12.95Acadian Mémère and Scottish Nannie seem to have nothing in common but their grandchildren, but in this beautiful picture book from bestselling author Diane Carmel Léger and illustrator Jean-Luc Trudel, difference is celebrated. A co-publication with Bouton d’or Acadie, published simultaneously in French.
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Lobster in My Pocket
Artist: Brenda JonesPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$7.95This Maritime classic tells the magical story of Lee, a lonely girl in a coastal fishing village. One day she meets Lucky, a talking lobster trapped in a crate on the wharf. Lee sets Lucky free, and the two become friends. When Lee falls into the ocean during a terrible storm, Lucky shows how much he cares about her!
Now in a new, full-colour edition, Lobster in my Pocket is a joyful tale of friendship that will delight readers of all ages.
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Chocolates, Tattoos, and Mayflowers
$24.95Did you know that goose grease apparently cures the common cold, while salt fish draws a fever? How about the fact that “Torpedos” (automobiles) were manufactured in Kentville in 1910? These are just some of the tidbits of Maritime wisdom and little-known facts that you will find in Chocolates, Tattoos, and Mayflowers.
Collected over the years for Clary Croft’s popular radio column on CBC’s Mainstreet, these stories, memories, photographs, and advertisements show a fascinating side of Maritime popular culture and history. From accounts of sea monsters and famous duels to the history behind Maritime staples like Pot of Gold chocolates and Morse’s Tea, these entertaining and evocative pieces are sure to spark conversations around your kitchen table—just like any good Maritime subject!
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Grandma Says (pb) Weather Lore From Meteorologist Cindy Day
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$21.95On Cindy Day’s grandmother’s farm, the weather wasn’t predicted with a computer or official forecast, but by accumulated wisdom and careful observation. Cindy’s grandma was a constant prognosticator, making predictions about the weather that more often than not, proved correct!
Grandma Says is a collection of 80 weather-related sayings that Cindy recalls from her grandmother. Now CTV Atlantic’s meteorologist, Cindy explains the science behind this traditional weather lore, and over 40 accent illustrations complement the text.
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Beulah Kettlehole and the Patriarchal Ice
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$16.95Bogotá, Colombia, 1971. This is the atmospheric and humorous tale of Claire Chesterton, blonde and flashy, newly posted to the British Trade delegation, who fears herself on the brink of ineligibility. A makeover brings several suitors, among them Jeremy Jooning, the delegation’s Number Three, a charming lush in a tired marriage. Claire’s cruel dismissal, upon following Jooning to New York, provides the finally spur to satisfying independence.
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The Grieving Time A Year's Account of Recovery from Loss
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$8.99Like the millions of people who face a time of grieving, Anne Brooks looked desperately for something to read that would offer comfort after her husband’s death. Finding nothing that moved her, she began a monthly journal about the deeply personal side of her loss, her loneliness, and her struggle to come to terms with her independence and her new self. The Grieving Time is the intensely moving and deeply comforting account of her recovery-enduring today as the best book for grieving spouses or anyone facing the loss of a loved one through death or divorce. Thousands of counselors, psychologists, social workers, health care providers, ministers, and hospice workers have found it to be one of the most helpful books in their libraries-a testament to its universal significance and appeal.
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Baldwin Street
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$28.00Leonard Abelson is one of seven children. He lives above Abelson’s Hardware on Baldwin Street in Kensington Market in Toronto. It’s the 1930s. Leonard’s father, Sam, a former merchant sailor who speaks fourteen languages, does the purchasing for the store; his mother, Pearl, a Ukranian ?migr? who was a victim of pogroms and marauding Cossacks after WWI, runs the shop floor. Leonard wants to be a writer. He witnesses the affections, struggles, and meager hopes of his neighbors?fuel for his imagination. Periodically, Leonard has to look after a young philosophy professor from the University of Toronto, Menasha Rifkin, who suffers from fugue states, squatting among the stalls on Baldwin Street reading Spinoza, Kant, and the Globe & Mail. Halloween 1936. A band of young Italians invades Baldwin Street in search of blood. Marshall McDonald, the Irish cop who failed to quell the famous ?Wop? vs. ?Yid? riot at Christie Pits six years earlier, now must investigate the death of Bernie Altman, a young boy whose senseless slaughter lingers over the Jewish community like a bad dream. In the tradition of James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan and Nelson Algren’s Man with the Golden Arm, Alvin Rakoff’s Baldwin Street is literary fiction at its best. This powerful novel presents a vivid mosaic of characters, the rich fa
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Lofting
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$21.95Allan Vaitses is an able and versatile builder, having a marvelous ability to devise solutions for the dilemmas that arise in boatbuilding.
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Nova Scotia (Wagg) 2nd edition
Photographer: Len Wagg$29.95Nova Scotia is celebrated the world over for its rugged coastline, charming villages, and pristine wilderness. The province’s natural beauty is on full display in this incredible collection of images from photographer Len Wagg.
Vivid, colourful photographs of the spectacular coastline along the Cabot Trail, the Peggy’s Cove lighthouse under a sparkling night sky, and the rich farmland of the Shubenacadie River Valley–among many others–reveal the very essence of Nova Scotia.
For long-time residents and first-time visitors alike, these unforgettable images affirm the province’s reputation as one of the world’s cultural and natural treasures.
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In Their Own Words
$21.95What was the First World War really like for Maritimers overseas? This epistolary book, edited by historian Ross Hebb, contains the letters home of three Maritimers with distinct wartime experiences: a front-line soldier from Nova Scotia, a nurse from New Brunswick, and a conscripted fisherman from Prince Edward Island. Up until now, these complete sets of handwritten letters have remained with the families, who agreed to share them in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of the Great War’s end in 2018. These letters not only give insight into the war, but provide greater understanding of life in rural Maritime communities in the early 1900s.
In Their Own Words includes a learned introduction and background information on letter writers Eugene A. Poole, Sister Pauline Balloch, and Herry Heckbert, enabling readers to appreciate the context of these letters and their importance.
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One Strong Girl
$21.95One Strong Girl is a mother’s vivid account of what it is like to lose her daughter, India, to a rare debilitating disease. The story is a bold description of what it means to deal with deep sorrow and still find balance and beauty in an age steeped in the denial of death. At ten, India climbed the highest on the rope at gymnastics, yet by sixteen was so weak she was unable to even dress herself. The narrative follows the six-year fight for answers from the medical community. Finally, after the genetic testing of India’s DNA, it was discovered there were two mutations on her ASAH1 gene, a deadly combination. Today her cells are alive in a research lab at the University of Ottawa. This is a legacy that cuts both ways, a point of pride and pain. One Strong Girl is a story of what it’s like to outlive an only child. It describes the intensity of loving a dying child and most importantly, the joy to be found, even amidst the sorrow.
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Land of Contrast Jordan
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$24.95The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a land of mesmerizing beauty and contrast. All around, modern and thriving communities surround remnants of civilizations long since relegated to the history books. Discover the most unforgettable images of the ancient Nabataean city of Petra, craved from the rocks over two thousand years ago, to the new temples of tourism such as those found at the Dead Sea and Aqaba. Follow the famous King’s Highway to the four corners of this diverse country, rich in history and culture.
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