Ali's lyrical, hypnotic storytelling takes us on an unlikely journey to a place that only now exists in his childhood memories: a remote industrial community in the boreal forest of Northern Canada. I was mesmerized by the voice of...
Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic 2021
A 2021 collection of new and recent Atlantic Canadian authored and published books, provided by the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association (APMA) in partnership with the Nova Scotia Public Libraries, Halifax Public Libraries, and New Brunswick Public Libraries’ “Read Atlantic” campaign. The collection includes a range of fiction and non-fiction books in both English and French for readers of all ages.
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Author:Ali, KazimSummary: - Author:Aragon, Andrea, McCann, SéanSummary:
In this deeply personal memoir, co-written with wife Andrea Aragon, singer-songwriter and renowned mental health, addiction, and recovery advocate Séan McCann leaves no stone unturned. Detailing, in powerful and lyrical prose, a...
- Author:Escott, Helen C.Summary:
In 2018, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary executed Operation Wormwood, an investigation into a mysterious disease that targeted some of the worst criminals this province has ever seen. At the same time, the Royal Canadian Mounted...
- Author:Escott, Helen C.Summary:
A Newfoundland and Labrador Crime Thriller An elderly man is carried into the emergency department of the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, setting off a chain of events that leaves doctors mystified. He is the first of many victims...
- Author:Devarennes, HélèneSummary:
Every night when putting Emma to bed, her father always wonders: What is she dreaming about? Is she diving in a river? Is she howling with wolves? Is she becoming a butterfly? A tender and affectionate story between a father and his...
- Author:Rondina, CatherineSummary:
P.K. Subban is a remarkable athlete and role model. A talent on the ice, playing for some of the best teams in the NHL, P.K. has set records and won the Norris Trophy, the highest honor in hockey for a defenseman. Often the center of...
- Author:Tattrie, JonSummary:
Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life. Before the war began in Syria, Isam had run a chocolate company for over twenty years. But that life was gone now. The...
- Author:Caplan, RonaldSummary:
In a winning new book, Pearleen Oliver: Canada's Black Crusader for Civil Rights brings to life a compassionate and passionate African Nova Scotian, the story of her growth and activism - a book that shows how one woman's...
- Author:Melanson, FabienSummary:
Un beau matin, Petit Pico sort de son oeuf. Tout juste éclos, il part à la recherche de son père. Petit Pico questionne la vache, le lama, le cheval... Cui-cui, qui peut bien être son père? Quand enfin ils se retrouvent, Petit Pico...
- Author:Elliott Clarke, GeorgeSummary:
I take Liberties-poetic-and take license to relate her story in her voice, to tell history. Who she was-as I hear her say or sing. [...] But still you will come face-to-face with a "Portia," whose life outshines all brilliance this...
- Author:Lee, PhilipSummary:
The Restigouche River flows through the remote border region between the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, its magically transparent waters, soaring forest hillsides, and population of Atlantic salmon creating one of the most...
- Author:Roy, Réjean, Léger, Diane CarmelSummary:
Deux adolescents, une Américaine et un Acadien, vivent une quête hors de l'ordinaire d'un bout à l'autre du continent. Après s'être connus lors du Congrès mondial acadien de 1994, Sara et Justin entreprennent une...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
This book celebrates the ordinary: the everyday disasters and discoveries that shape a life. In this, his one hundredth book, Lesley Choyce takes readers along as he writes about nearly everything under the sun from his home by the sea...
- Author:Scott, Shirley A., LeGrow, ChristineSummary:
From the top of your head to the tips of your toes, Saltwater Classics will keep you toasty warm with beautiful hand-knitted hats, mitts, gloves, socks and vamps. As their follow-up to the best-selling Saltwater Mittens, Christine...
- Author:Cotter, CharisSummary:
Adapted from family stories told across Newfoundland and passed down over generations, these 10 spine-tingling tales traverse centuries and introduce readers to nooks and the Island's nooks and crannies. This spooky collection...
- Author:Waddleton, TraceySummary:
With birth, death, contemplation, and close calls, Send More Tourists... the Last Ones Were Delicious explores how we respond to the weight of social expectations. From the hidden pressures of wall paint and tarot card predictions, to...
- Author:MacKinnon, Bobbi-JeanSummary:
A national bestseller, now updated, expanded, and revised to tell an even bigger story. On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was bludgeoned to death in his Saint John office. In a shocking turn, the...
- Author:Rhindress, CharlieSummary:
Stompin' Tom Connors is a legend. There are very few Canadians who don?t know the foot-stompin' patriot in the cowboy hat who sang almost exclusively of the country he loved and called home. But there is much more to Tom Connors than '...
- Author:Fitch, ShereeSummary:
Hello toes, our tootsie friends. Hello, summer feet again! Canada's Dr. Seuss, Sheree Fitch, is back with a brand-new tongue-twisting picture book that celebrates all things summer. From those first barefoot days, wobble-dy walking...
- Author:Thompson, Reginald 'Dutch'Summary:
Reginald-better known as 'Dutch'-Thompson is a multi-faceted storyteller with unforgettable voices-those of Roy from Murray Harbour North, Adelaide from Bunbury, Gus from Chepstow, and countless others-to tell the stories of the Bygone...
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