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  • NOVA SCOTIA’S HISTORIC HARBOURS
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    NOVA SCOTIA’S HISTORIC HARBOURS
    JOAN DAWSON
    With twenty-five historical photos, and featuring profiles of more than fifty harbours—from the Bedford Basin to Shelburne Harbour to Cobequid Bay, Louisbourg, and Canso—Nova Scotia’s Historic Harbours explores each harbour’s historical significance and explores how these communities have been shaped by the sea, and how Nova Scotia’s growth has been driven by its harbours.Inhab...

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  • THE MERMAID HANDBOOK
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    THE MERMAID HANDBOOK
    TAYLOR WIDRIG
    Adapted from From history and folklore to recipes and tips for ocean preservation, as well as profiles and original illustrations of mer-maidens from around the world, The Mermaid’s Handbook features everything you need to know to follow the mermaid way of life. Includes an introduction by Dr. Alan Critchley with everything you’ve ever wanted to know about seaweeds, and origin...

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  • THE LOST SISTER
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    THE LOST SISTER
    ANDREA GUNRAJ
    The anticipated sophomore novel from the celebrated author of The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha, which Quill & Quire called "an exciting, memorable debut." Partially inspired by the real-life experiences of a former resident of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, The Lost Sister bravely explores the topics of child abuse, neglect, and abduction against a complex interp...

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  • IN THEIR OWN WORDS
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    IN THEIR OWN WORDS
    What 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 h...

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  • FIRST DEGREE
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    FIRST DEGREE
    KAYLA HOUNSELL
    A murder, a missing body, and a sensational trial that gripped Nova Scotia. Will Sandeson seemed like a model son. A member of the Dalhousie University track and field team, he was about to start classes at Dalhousie’s medical school. He worked at a group home for adults with disabilities. He came from a good family. “There’s times for whatever reason that things don’t go quite...

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  • A SOLDIER'S PLACE
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    A SOLDIER'S PLACE
    WILL R. BIRD
    Nova Scotia–born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia. Determined to tell the stories of the brave soldiers who served, Bird became one of the most prolific authors on the subject, completing both fiction and non-fiction works. For nearly two decades following the war, Bird published war stories in magazines and periodicals, which h...

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  • THE BLIND MECHANIC
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    THE BLIND MECHANIC
    MARILYN DAVIDSON ELLIOTT
    Eric Davidson was a beautiful, fair-haired toddler when the Halifax Explosion struck, killing almost 2,000 people and seriously injuring thousands of others. Eric lost both eyes—a tragedy that his mother never fully recovered from. Eric, however, was positive and energetic. He also developed a fascination with cars and how they worked, and he later decided, against all likeliho...

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  • NOVA SCOTIA'S LOST COMMUNITIES
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    NOVA SCOTIA'S LOST COMMUNITIES
    JOAN DAWSON
    Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone, one a casualty of long-ago colonial warfare and the other a victim of misguided urban renewal. In this fascinating book, author Joan Dawson loo...

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  • FIRE SPOOK
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    FIRE SPOOK
    MONICA GRAHAM
    Just below the Antigonish-Guysborough County line, there is an overgrown spot, nearly impossible to find without a guide, where the cursed MacDonald farm once stood. Though no physical trace remains, the legend of the mysterious events that once took place lives on.In the newest addition to the Stories of our Past series, Monica Graham exposes the fascinating history behind the...

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  • AFTER MANY YEARS
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    AFTER MANY YEARS
    L. M. MONTGOMERY
    Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and stories.This collection brings together rare pieces originally published between 1900 and 1939 that haven't been in print since their initial periodicals. Collins and Woster have carefully curated a mixture...

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  • CURE FOR WEREDUCK
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    CURE FOR WEREDUCK
    DAVE ATKINSON
    p>Kate is an odd duck-literally. When the full moon arrives, the rest of her family turns into wolves, but she is a happy wereduck. Relatively happy, that is. Her family has been uprooted from the wilds of New Brunswick to a placid farming community in Ontario, thanks to a fellow werewolf, Marcus, selling them out to sleazy tabloid journalist Dirk Bragg. When Kate discovers he...

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  • BLACK LOYALISTS
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    BLACK LOYALISTS
    RUTH HOLMES WHITEHEAD
    Black Loyalists is an attempt to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to bring back into our awareness the context for some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way...

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  • OAK ISLAND GOLD
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    OAK ISLAND GOLD
    WILLIAM S. CROOKER
    For over two centuries, the mysterious labyrinth of shafts and tunnels under Oak Island, a tiny island on Nova Scotia's South Shore, has been the scene of a frantic search by scores of treasure hunters from two continents. They believe that the shafts and intricate man-made flooding system hold the secret to a treasure of untold wealth. Although millions have been spent, bitter...

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  • CHOWDERS AND SOUPS
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    CHOWDERS AND SOUPS
    LIZ FELTHAM
    Soups can comfort you when you’re sick, tickle your taste buds at the start of a meal, and envelop you with warmth on a winter’s day. Soup can be simple and rustic, or elegant and complex. And each culture’s cuisine has a soup that is instantly identifiable. In the Maritimes, that soup is chowder.Chowders and Soups is a collection of over 50 recipes accompani...

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  • I'M MOVIN' ON
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    I'M MOVIN' ON
    VERNON OICKLE
    A biography on the Canadian country musician, from his poor childhood in Nova Scotia to international celebrity on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. In I’m Movin’ On, journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow’s hardscrabble life, from his dest...

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  • HOW TO RETIRE DEBT-FREE AND WEALTHY
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    HOW TO RETIRE DEBT-FREE AND WEALTHY
    CHRISTINE IBBOTSON
    For most people, planning for the future is usually last on the to-do list. They simply wait to long to save and plan—and then panic. Licensed Financial Advisor Christine Ibbotson offers accessible and realistic guidelines in a series of achievable steps, from debt elimination to wealth management. Ibbotson’s book is sure to leave readers with all the tools and techniques to cr...

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  • ATLANTIC CANADA'S GREATEST STORMS
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    ATLANTIC CANADA'S GREATEST STORMS
    DAN SOUCOUP
    Wind, waves and snow: Atlantic Canada has experienced more than its share of dramatic and tragic storms. In this accessible narrative, author Dan Soucoup takes readers from the eighteenth century to present day, as he details the blizzards, floods, tornadoes—and even tsunamis—that have brought havoc to the East Coast. ...

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  • MY TWO GRANDMOTHERS
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    MY TWO GRANDMOTHERS
    DIANE CARMEL LÉGER
    Acadian Mémère and Scottish Nannie seem to have nothing in common but their grandchildren, but in this endearing picture book from bestselling author Diane Carmel Léger and noted illustrator Jean-Luc Trudel, difference is celebrated. A co-publication with New Brunswick’s award-winning Bouton d’or Acadie and simultaneously published in French, Nannie and  Mémère is a whimsically...

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  • TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IRVINGS
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    TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IRVINGS
    HARVEY SAWLER
    Three generations after the Irving family arrived in Canada from Scotland, the name K. C. Irving hit the Forbes top billionaires list, making K. C. one of the richest men in the world and the most powerful businessperson in Canada. But there is much more to the Irving story than the fascinating and brilliant K. C. and his immediate legacy.Twenty-first Century Irvings takes a ca...

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  • MEMOIRS OF A CAPE BRETON DOCTOR
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    MEMOIRS OF A CAPE BRETON DOCTOR
    C. LAMONT MACMILLAN
    Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan had no idea of the life that awaited him when he began his medical practice in Baddeck, Cape Breton, in 1928. At that time it was more common for doctors to travel to their patients. As a result, navigating the rural landscape was often more difficult for these doctors than providing diagnoses. In Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor, MacMillan relates over f...

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  • FOSSIL HUNTER OF SYDNEY MINES
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    FOSSIL HUNTER OF SYDNEY MINES
    JO ANN YHARD
    Thirteen-year-old Grace already has too much going on -- grieving over her father's mysterious death, dealing with her distraught mother's erratic parenting, and evading her creepy nosy neighbour, Mr. Stuckless, just for starters. She and her friends Fred, Mai Ling, and Jeeter like to get away from it all by hunting for fossils near their secret hideaway, the abandoned mine th...

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  • HERO
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    HERO
    PAUL BUTLER
    In a St. John's hospital in 1945, Elsa Evans keeps a furtive vigil over the deathbed of Abram Kean, the renowned sealing captain. Remembering her first husband and her two brothers killed in the trenches thirty years before, and another young friend, Noah, frozen on the ice during the sealing disaster of 1914, Elsa contemplates a hideous revenge. The shock of her own bitterness...

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  • BITTER, SWEET
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    BITTER, SWEET
    LAURA BEST
    Pru Burbidge lives a simple life on the family homestead on Dalhousie Road in 1940s rural Nova Scotia- until her father abandons the family and her mother falls ill. Her life is turned upside-down by these events, and she is forced to take on the role of primary caregiver to her siblings, Jessie, Flora, and Davey. Things go from bad to worse when Pru's mother dies, leaving Pru...

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  • BLUENOSE GHOSTS
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    BLUENOSE GHOSTS
    HELEN CREIGHTON
    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 ...

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