It's 1998 and Antony Williams is about to meet his match. A native of Windsor, Ontario, Antony is the child of a demanding single mother and an absconding Vietnam War resister who got too used to leaving home, country, and family. With...
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- Author:Whetter, DarrylSummary:
- Author:Whetter, DarrylSummary:
It's 1998 and Antony Williams is about to meet his match. A native of Windsor, Ontario, Antony makes his living as a house painter by day before catapulting loads of Canadian weed across the river to Detroit by night. Then he meets Kate...
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
The story of three generations of a Cape Breton family, beginning in Glace Bay in the 1930s and ending in Round Island in 2011.
- Author:Dawydiak, OrysiaSummary:
Twelve-year-old Kira loves to swim. But her parents, who adopted her as a baby, have forbidden her to go near the sea where they live on the north Atlantic coast. Frustrated by their rules, Kira decides to rebel and jumps into the icy...
- Author:Sawler, HarveySummary:
Featuring important insights from the company's current executives and employees, Last Canadian Beer: The Moosehead Story is not only a fascinating company history, but also a candid look at how a small New Brunswick business remains...
- Author:Mowat, ClaireSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Andrea Baxter is thrilled when she's offered a summer job in Cape Breton. Although her mother worries that she is too young to move so far away, Andrea welcomes the chance to strike out on her own. It seems the perfect...
- Author:Yhard, Jo AnnSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Alex's life is in ruins. Her family ripped apart by tragedy, she is stuck on Brier Island for the summer with her aunt. At first, Alex is desperate to escape this place where everyone's business is public knowledge and...
- Author:Shaw, R. C.Summary:
"This crazy beautiful quest narrative puts Don Quixote on a bicycle and sends him out to face history with a surfboard. Half hilarious dream-adventure, half marathon nightmare, the end result is a madcap love letter to Nova Scotia."-...
- Author:Harding, LesSummary:
McCurdy and the Silver Dart recounts the thrilling story of J. A. McCurdy, Canada's aviation pioneer. Born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, he assisted world-famous scientist and inventor, Alexander Graham Bell in fascinating and dangerous...
- Author:Roy, PhilipSummary:
Alexander Graham Bell, Baddeck's most illustrious resident, and one of the world's greatest inventors, is also famous for the greatness of his compassion. It's 1908, and ten-year-old Eddie MacDonald shares the friendly inventor's...
- Author:MacMillan, C. LamontSummary:
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...
- Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:
Nothing big ever happens in The Shores. Ceilidhs, yes. Killings, numbers That all changes when amateur sleuth, Hy McAllister trips over a body on the beach and tumbles head first into a murder case. Cottager Lance Lord, dressed like...
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More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom is about Indigenous resistance and resurgence across lands and waters claimed by Canada. Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors describe and analyze struggles against contemporary colonialism...
- Author:Adams, KarinSummary:
Riley and his best friend Finn know that their zombie movie has what it takes to win the class film competition. But Riley's plan to get their video some attention at a hockey game is ruined when the camera focuses on Finn as a dancing...
- Author:Dingwall, David C.Summary:
Every day, people make deals that matter. But very few of us benefit from the public scrutiny and analysis that have helped Canada's leading negotiation experts hone their craft. Hockey team executives, cabinet ministers, bank...
- Author:Rees, RonaldSummary:
Originally the land of the Maliseets, Mi'kmaqs, and Passamaquoddies, and settled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by marsh workers and farmers from northwestern France and thousands of Loyalist refugees from a newly...
- Author:Dale, StephenSummary:
One hundred years ago saw the declaration of a war that would forever change our understanding of war. With a staggering loss of life, World War One was, by all accounts, a brutal and devastating tragedy. One-hundred years later,...
- Author:Crooker, William S.Summary:
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...
- Author:Crooker, William S.Summary:
For over two centuries, the 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 many treasure hunters from two continents. They believe that the shafts...
- Author:Knockwood, IsabelleSummary:
In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them...