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Series: Failed to Return Canada’s Bomber Command Sacrifice in the Second World War Paperback Keith C. Ogilvie 9781772033816 $26.95 HISTORY Nov 02, 2021

A compelling look at sixteen stories of Canadians killed and missing in the line of duty while serving in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, one of the most dangerous assignments in the Second World War.Royal Air Force Bomber Command was one of the most dangerous divisions for Allies serving in the Second World War. Despite the risks, the opportunity to fly was seen as exciting and glamorous, attracting a steady stream of young volunteers. Of the some 125,000 aircrew who served in Bomber Command, 45% were killed in action. Nearly 10,000 Canadi... + Read More
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Series: Aggie and Mudgy The Journey of Two Kaska Dena Children Paperback Wendy Proverbs 9781772033755 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Nov 02, 2021

Based on the true story of the author’s biological mother and aunt, this middle-grade novel traces the long and frightening journey of two Kaska Dena sisters as they are taken from their home to attend residential school. When Maddy discovers an old photograph of two little girls in her grandmother’s belongings, she wants to know who they are. Nan reluctantly agrees to tell her the story, though she is unsure if Maddy is ready to hear it. The girls in the photo, Aggie and Mudgy, are two Kaska Dena sisters who lived many years ago in a remote vi... + Read More
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Series: Little Wolf Series White Raven Hardcover Teoni Spathelfer 9781772033779 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 20, 2021

Little Wolf, grown up with children of her own, moves to the country where her mother, White Raven, shares a sad story from her childhood.All grown up with a family of her own, Little Wolf moves from the big city to the island of her ancestors. She wants to share the beauty and mysteries of nature with her children, and she wants them to learn as much about their culture as possible. One day, Little Wolf’s mother, White Raven, visits and begins to tell her grandchildren stories from her own childhood. But the stories are not happy ones. As a c... + Read More
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Series: Little Wolf Series Little Wolf New edition Paperback Teoni Spathelfer 9781772033809 $12.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 14, 2021

A young Indigenous girl moves to the big city and learns to find connections to her culture and the land wherever she goes, despite encountering bullies and feelings of isolation along the way.When Little Wolf moves to the big city with her mom and sister, she has difficulty adjusting to their new life. She misses living close to nature and seeing animals wherever she goes, and she misses fishing with her grandfather and seeing dolphins leaping beside their boat. Most of all, she misses feeling connected to her culture. At school, Little Wolf h... + Read More
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Series: Menno-Nightcaps Cocktails Inspired by that Odd Ethno-Religious Group You Keep Mistaking for the Amish, Quakers or Mormons Hardcover S. L. Klassen 9781771513586 $26.00 COOKING Oct 12, 2021

A satirical cocktail book featuring seventy-seven cocktail recipes accompanied by arcane trivia on Mennonite history, faith, and cultural practices.At last, you think, a book of cocktails that pairs punny drinks with Mennonite history! Yes, cocktail enthusiast and author of the popular Drunken Mennonite blog Sherri Klassen is here to bring some Low German love to your bar cart. Drinks like Brandy Anabaptist, Migratarita, Thrift Store Sour, and Pimm’s Cape Dress are served up with arcane trivia on Mennonite history, faith, and cultural practices... + Read More
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Series: All the Quiet Places A Novel Paperback Brian Thomas Isaac 9781990071027 $22.00 FICTION Oct 12, 2021

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionLonglisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeWinner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021****"What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a c... + Read More
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Series: Pro Dingbats* Pro B5 Bee Notebook - Plain Hardcover 5285003137600 $37.95 Mar 30, 2021
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Series: Pro Dingbats* Pro B5 Cactus Notebook - Plain Hardcover 5285003137617 $37.95 Mar 30, 2021
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Series: Pro Dingbats* Pro B5 Bee Notebook - Dotted Hardcover 5285003137624 $37.95 Mar 30, 2021
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Series: Pro Dingbats* Pro B5 Cactus Notebook - Dotted Hardcover 5285003137631 $37.95
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Series: The History of Rain Paperback Stephens Gerard Malone 9781771089791 $21.95 FICTION Sep 14, 2021

Literary historical fiction set in war-torn Europe and glamorous Old Hollywood, following a lonely landscape gardener, from author of Big Town and I Still Have A Suitcase in Berlin.Our story begins in 1915. While convalescing in a French army hospital, Rain, a veteran of the Great War now raging across Europe, finds solace in aiding the buildings' groundskeeper. An unlikely apprentice gardener, he buries himself in this work. The bulbs, the tubers, and the soil care not that his face is now deformed forever. "I say give the earth your rage, you... + Read More
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Series: The Sound of Fire Paperback Renee Belliveau 9781774710180 $22.95 FICTION Oct 12, 2021

A breathtaking, fast-paced work of historical fiction based on the tragic true story of the 1941 Mount Allison University residence fire. I have a history here. I am part of this landscape. I have forged it, shaped it, and renewed it time and again. At times, I have been a mishap. Once or twice, I was brought forth at the hands of mischief. This time, I was sparked to life. I awoke from the elements, timid and trembling. In the basement of a residence at a small liberal arts university in rural New Brunswick, while war rages overseas, a fire ... + Read More
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Series: Beneath Her Skin A Kes Morris File Paperback C S Porter 9781771089814 $19.95 FICTION Oct 26, 2021

A literary crime thriller from a mysterious new voice in Atlantic fictionShe knew her process. Knew the itch in her nerves. The cold hardness creeping in. She was pulling on the killer’s skin too fast. Something wild flickered across her heart. When she fully donned it, there wouldn’t be room for anyone else but the killer and her. When a small east coast town falls prey to a series of shocking murders, city homicide detective Kes Morris is called in to lead the case with the aid of the local precinct. As usual, she's the only woman in the roo... + Read More
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Series: Death on Darby's Island Paperback Alice Walsh 9781771089753 $21.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

A gripping contemporary murder mystery set in rural Newfoundland from the author of Last Lullaby Nothing exciting ever happens on Darby's Island, Newfoundland. That is until one summer afternoon in 1975 when a Chevy towing a trailer drives off the ferry. The Great Prospero, Hypnotist and Magician is printed in large red letters across the side. People on the island are thrilled that the renowned Prospero is going to perform at the community hall. However, after the hypnotist suggests his subjects are seagulls, Jake Pickford, with arms flapping... + Read More
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Series: I Kid You Not Chronicles of an Ordinary Family Paperback Lesley Crewe 9781774710722 $21.95 HUMOR Sep 07, 2021

Bestselling author of The Spoon Stealer brings more of her sharp Cape Breton wit to the follow-up non-fiction collection to Leacock–longlisted Are You Kidding Me?! I Kid You Not! is a follow-up to bestselling author Lesley Crewe's first hit column-and-essay collection, Are You Kidding Me?! Here Lesley is hilarious and insightful as ever, giving us her take on everything from hockey to wildlife to the ache of missing our ancestors in ninety essays. She shares details of her proposal for the Mere Mortal Awards (Best Director goes to the "poor,... + Read More
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Series: Lesley Crewe Classics Her Mother's Daughter Paperback Lesley Crewe 9781774710326 $19.95 FICTION Sep 10, 2021

Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe’s novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller format editions. Sisters Bay and Tansy are complete opposites. Widowed mother Bay has never lived anywhere but Louisbourg; restless Tansy left the town as a teenager and stayed away for years. And now, Tansy is home. Home, and unwittingly falling in love with her sister's almost-boyfriend. Home, and befriending Ashley when all Bay can do is fight with her teenaged daughter. Home, and desperately hiding the real reason she fled all thos... + Read More
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Series: Lesley Crewe Classics Kin Paperback Lesley Crewe 9781774710302 $22.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe’s novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller format editions. Traditions, created, and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wild beauty of Cape Breton Island. And above all, kin, in all its convoluted forms. In Kin, bestselling author Lesley Crewe traces the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations of families. Beginning with Annie Macdonald, an effervescent seven-year-old living in Glace Bay in the 1930s, an... + Read More
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Series: We Rise Again More Stories of Hope and Resilience from Nova Scotia during the COVID-19 Pandemic Paperback Len Wagg 9781774710227 $19.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 09, 2021

Follow-up to national bestseller Stay the Blazes Home featuring inspiring photos and stories of Nova Scotians during the second and third waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's been more than a year since COVID-19 arrived in Nova Scotia. In the spring of 2020, then-premier of Nova Scotia Stephen McNeil implored citizens to "stay the blazes home" — and they did. But the full-scale lockdown is now a thing of the past. As wide-scale testing and vaccines begin to have an impact, many people have returned, in limited ways, to their businesses, their ... + Read More
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Series: It's Tracy & Martina, Hun A Guide to Cape Breton Livin' Paperback Justine Williamson 9781774710708 $24.95 HUMOR Nov 16, 2021

Full-colour guide to all things Cape Breton from the dynamic comedy duo Tracy & Martina, featuring photos, stories, and activities for mainlanders and Capers alike. Meet Tracy and Martina — two Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, gals who love a cig, a drink, and a healthy dose of drama — not necessarily in that order. Their mission: to introduce you to life as they know it on "the Island": from meat darts to shootin' the drag to their comprehensive Cape Breton Food Guide (where funeral sandwiches and double-doubles play featuring roles). Featuring full... + Read More
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Series: The Rural Entrepreneur: John Bragg The Force Behind Oxford Frozen Foods and Eastlink Hardcover Donald J. Savoie 9781771089951 $25.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 27, 2021

The long-awaited story of Maritime entrepreneur from bestselling, award-winning author of Thanks for the Business Oxford, Nova Scotia – population 1,190 – doesn't spring to mind as a place to start or grow a business with a global reach. But don't tell that to John Bragg. From humble beginnings, this deeply committed Maritimer has grown Oxford Frozen Foods into the world leader in harvesting, processing, and marketing wild blueberries. He's done the same with Eastlink Communications, which he launched as a modest cable television operation in... + Read More
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Series: A Womb in the Shape of a Heart My story of Miscarriage and Motherhood Paperback Joanne Gallant 9781771089760 $22.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Sep 21, 2021

An intimate memoir of miscarriage, premature birth, and motherhood from a bold and brilliant new voice in Atlantic Canada. A thirty-year-old pediatric nurse with dreams of motherhood, Joanne Gallant was confident that she and her partner would conceive soon after they married — it was a matter of when, not if. And yet. Her first pregnancy, a set of twins, is riddled with dangerous complications that endanger her life, and results in devastating loss. After emergency surgery, Gallant is diagnosed with a bicornuate uterus, a rare condition also k... + Read More
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Series: Atlantic's Last Stop Courage, Folly, and Lies in the White Star Line's Worst Disaster Before Titanic Paperback Robert G. Chaulk 9781774710104 $25.95 HISTORY Oct 19, 2021

The long-awaited, definitive, shocking history of SS Atlantic, the worst shipwreck in Nova Scotia’s history, authored by the vessel’s recognized authority. In the pre-dawn hours of April 1, 1873 — as the lookouts looked, the steersman steered, and the captain slept — something was happening to the SS Atlantic. The tide had quietly carried the White Star Line ocean liner twelve miles off course, and land was closer than anybody realized or was willing to believe. The wreck of the SS Atlantic would become the worst transatlantic passenger ship di... + Read More
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Series: A Matter of Equality The Life's Work of Senator Don Oliver Hardcover Donald Oliver 9781774710203 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 28, 2021

The long-awaited autobiography of former Canadian Senator, lawyer, and outspoken spokesperson for diversity and minority advancement, detailing his life as a Black man working within the system to bring change to Nova Scotia and beyond. Growing up in the only Black family in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Donald Oliver felt duty-bound to honour his great-grandparents, who had fled slavery in the US. His childhood, surrounded by music, family, and respected, hard-working role models, was idyllic. His family's fundamental family creed was "work hard, b... + Read More
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Series: Good Burdens How to Live Joyfully in the Digital Age Paperback Christina Crook 9781771089784 $21.95 SELF-HELP Oct 12, 2021

From the “Marie Kondo of Digital” comes a thoughtful book about realigning our energies, increasing intentionality, and prioritizing our well-being in the digital age. The things we're most proud of in life — the child we're raising; the marathon we completed; the major project we hit out of the park — these required all of us: all of our attention, all of our love, all of our effort. Could we control the outcome? No. Were we all in? Hell, yes. These effortful pursuits are what digital well-being pioneer Christina Crook calls good burdens. In... + Read More
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Series: Small Structures of Nova Scotia Spaces of Solitude, Necessity, and Simplicity Paperback Jessie Hannah 9781774710289 $22.95 HOUSE & HOME Oct 19, 2021

For fans of Cabin Porn, a full-colour, narrative and pictorial celebration of Nova Scotia’s tiny structures, including homes, cabins, fish huts, artist’s studios, and more. Small structures are heralded as the new minimalist way of living. They have, however, always existed, reflecting the necessity for a simple space built for a particular function: tiny homes, cabins, forestry camps, fishing shacks, treehouses, and places of art, worship, or healing. In Nova Scotia, our history, culture, and landscape are reflected in these small spaces, whi... + Read More
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Series: A Canadian Nurse in the Great War The Diaries of Ruth Loggie, 1915-1916 Paperback Ross Hebb 9781774710128 $19.95 HISTORY Sep 14, 2021

A fascinating collection of letters from a Maritime nurse who served overseas during the First World War from the author of In Their Own Words and Letters Home. More than two thousand Canadian women served as army nurses overseas during the First World War. The opportunity to read a diary written by one of these women — a document which was, strictly speaking, not supposed to be kept in the first place — is a unique privilege. A Canadian Nurse in the Great War grants a peek, through the diary of Ruth Loggie, into a little-known moment of our ... + Read More
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Series: Meditations for Makers Daily Affirmations for a Creative Life Paperback Deanne Fitzpatrick 9781774710029 $19.95 SELF-HELP Nov 09, 2021

365 vignettes for makers, crafters, and artists of all stripes from celebrated artist and author of Making A Life and Simply Modern. To lead a creative life is to experience dizzying highs and gloomy lows, and Deanne Fitzpatrick, a veteran textile artist and entrepreneur, has been there and back again. In this keepsake book, she shares thoughtful insights gleaned from over 25 years of making, offering 365 short vignettes encompassing themes of attention and mindfulness, beauty and design, community, faith, family, and embracing and overcoming f... + Read More
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Series: Lexicon 20 Puzzles to Challenge & Entertain Paperback Theresa Williams 9781774710692 $10.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 19, 2021

20th volume of popular puzzles for all ages! Theresa Williams's lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published by the Halifax Chronicle-Herald in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, the lexicon engages and entertains fans of all ages. Puzzle buffs will delight in this opportunity to try 52 all-new puzzles.
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Series: Pop-up Halifax Board book Brad Hartman 9781774710265 $29.95 TRAVEL Nov 15, 2021

A colourful pop-up book featuring 6 full-colour scenes of Halifax and area, suitable for all ages.Nova Scotia is home to some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world, and in Pop-up Halifax, six iconic scenes of its capital city and beyond are brought to vivid new life. Visit Peggys Cove village, the Halifax and Dartmouth waterfronts, Fairview Lawn Cemetery, where many Titanic victims are laid to rest, the Halifax Public Gardens, and surfer's paradise Lawrencetown Beach. A full-colour, interactive way to explore Canada's Ocean Playground!
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Series: A Very Silly Alphabet Paperback Jeannie Hillman 9781774710142 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 4 - 8 Oct 26, 2021

A riotous, quirky nonsense-poetry alphabet with a focus on literacy featuring bright and silly illustrations of a diverse cast of charactersA Very Silly Alphabet is a collection of twenty-six delightful read-aloud poems. It's playful and packed with wonderful words and curious characters – like little Leila, who just cannot stop licking things, and Queen Quinlan the Querulous, a wretched quibbler. Will Silly Sally find happiness with a sausage by the sea? Will Idris Iago Inigo Crump ever get the lump out of his pillow? Created by former literac... + Read More
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Series: Slowpoke the Bell Island Mine Horse Paperback Heather Smith 9781774710241 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 4 - 8 Nov 02, 2021

A heartwarming picture book about an iron ore–mine horse and a timid young miner in Bell Island, Newfoundland, from award-winning author of Mr. Hirota’s Garden and The Agony of Bun O’Keefe Out in Conception Bay, on the northern Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, sits tiny Bell Island, a tight-knit community where iron ore has been mined for centuries. Slowpoke The Bell Island Mine Horse tells the story of eleven-year-old Jimmy, who enters the mine in place of his father, who died in a tragic accident years earlier. To help support h... + Read More
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Series: Be a Nature Detective Be a Camouflage Detective Looking for Critters That are Hidden, Concealed, or Covered Paperback Peggy Kochanoff 9781774710005 $14.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 7 - 12 Oct 05, 2021

Silver Birch– and Hackmatack-nominated Be A Nature Detective series explores animal camouflage. How do insects hide themselves in the woods? Can flounders really change the texture of their skin to blend in with sandy sea bottoms? Why do hares change the colour of their fur depending on the season? Naturalist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers these queations and more in this illutrated guide to solving nature mysteries, for young readers. From the anatomy of a sea anemone to the dappled feathers of snowy owls, Kochanoff takes readers on a f... + Read More
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Series: One Summer in Whitney Pier Hardcover Mayann Francis 9781771089609 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 9 May 02, 2022

A nostalgic picture book set in the diverse Cape Breton community of Whitney Pier from the duo behind Mayann's Train Ride, written by Nova Scotia's first Black lieutenant-governor. School is out for the summer, but eleven-year-old Mayann Francis doesn't have much to look forward to. Her two best friends, Eunice and Betty, will be away and her older sister won?t let her play on her baseball team, the Hankard Street Crew. But Mayann's parents won't let her feel sorry for herself. They remind her how much she loves to help them cook traditional Ca... + Read More
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Series: A Giant Man from a Tiny Town A Story of Angus MacAskill 2nd edition Paperback Tom Ryan 9781771088978 $13.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Jul 20, 2021

A paperback edition of the true tall tale of the infamous Cape Breton Giant and the international adventures that brought him right back to where he needed to be: home. When Angus MacAskill was still just a boy, he began to grow...and grow...and grow! Known far and wide as the Cape Breton Giant, Angus was loved by his neighbours as much for his beautiful singing voice as for his renowned strength. But as much as Angus loved his little town of Englishtown, Cape Breton, he decided to leave and seek fortune and adventure. With heartfelt text from... + Read More
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Series: Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo 2nd edition Paperback David Myles 9781771089104 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 26, 2021

The paperback edition of this fun holiday picture book about a young boy pining for his most-hoped-for holiday gift. Santa never brings me a banjo And I can never understand why Every Christmas Eve I see it in my dreams But every Christmas morning I cry... The celebrated holiday song from multi-talented and multiple-award-winning Halifax-based roots musician David Myles is now available as a bright and fun children's picture book. Young David writes frantic letters to Santa every year, requesting a banjo, but to no avail: "How does he miss ... + Read More
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Series: A Sure Cure for Witchcraft Paperback Laura Best 9781771089777 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 8 - 12 Sep 07, 2021

From the acclaimed author of the Cammie series, a stand-alone middle-grade novel about witchery, friendship, and healing, set in 18th-century Germany & present-day Nova Scotia. Witches are hated in Württemberg, in what is now Germany, in the eighteenth century. It's not so long since they were burned, and any woman who knows too much, who's too clever or quick or skilled at healing, is suspect. Young Lilli knows this, and yet she also knows that the wise woman she's learning from, Alisz, isn't evil. She is teaching Lilli which plants cure a ... + Read More
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Series: Amazing Atlantic Canadians Amazing Atlantic Canadian Women Fascinating Stories of Excellence and Determination Paperback Stephanie Domet 9781774710166 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 8 - 12 Oct 26, 2021

The third installment in the celebrated illustrated series about Amazing Atlantic Canadians, featuring incredible women from across the region.You've likely heard of some of the most famous women from Atlantic Canada – women like activist Viola Desmond, painter Maud Lewis, and singer-songwriter Anne Murray. But this book celebrates some amazing women you may not have heard of, like pioneering radio producer Betty Riley, lawyer Linda Lee Oland, or engineer Mona El-Tahan. With profiles of over 70 amazing women past and present from Nova Scotia, ... + Read More
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Series: I Lost My Talk Paperback Rita Joe 9781774710050 $13.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 04 - 09 Feb 28, 2021

I lost my talkThe talk you took awayWhen I was a little girlAt Shubenacadie school. One of Rita Joe's most influential poems, "I Lost My Talk" tells the revered Mi'kmaw Elder's childhood story of losing her language while a resident of the residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. An often quoted piece in this era of truth and reconciliation, Joe's powerful words explore and celebrate the survival of Mi'kmaw culture and language despite its attempted eradication. A companion book to the simultaneously published I'm Finding My Talk by Reb... + Read More
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Series: I'm Finding My Talk Paperback Rebecca Thomas 9781774710067 $13.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 9 Feb 28, 2021

Paperback edition of companion picture book to to Rita Joe’s I Lost My Talk from Mi’kmaw spoken word champion and former Halifax Poet Laureate. A response to Rita Joe's iconic poem I Lost My Talk, and published simultaneously with the new children's book edition illustrated by Pauline Young, comes a companion picture book by award-winning spoken-word artist and Mi'kmaw activist Rebecca Thomas. A second-generation residential school survivor, Thomas writes this response poem openly and honestly, reflecting on the process of working through the d... + Read More
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Series: Doodle Lovely Doodle by Number A Guide to Calming the Chaos Paperback Melissa Lloyd 9781777136307 $17.99 ART Mar 01, 2020

It's the first of its kind – designed to be the easiest way to beat stress. It’s even simpler than paint by number. Doodling is the fastest way to engage the powerful part of your brain that lowers stress and it’s as easy as picking up a pen. Do you need a creative activity to enhance your imagination, uplift your mood, refresh your mind and promote your wellbeing? Simply pick up a pen and calm the chaos. This beginners guide to Doodling has the power to lift your weariness, divert thoughts of worry, shift anxieties and indulge yourself with ... + Read More
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Series: Doodle Lovely Doodle by Number A Canine Guide to Calming the Chaos Paperback Melissa Lloyd 9781777136369 $17.99 ART Oct 01, 2020

It’s the first of its kind – designed to be the easiest way to beat stress. It’s even simpler than paint by number. Doodling is the fastest way to engage the powerful part of your brain that lowers stress and it’s as easy as picking up a pen.Looking for a way to unscramble your busy brain, to rest your weary worries, and to let your inner artist out into the light?With a stroke of a pen you can enjoy a journey through play, mindfulness, andcreativity, one number at a time. And along for the ride is everyone’s favourite furry friend: the dog. Ea... + Read More
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Series: Doodle Lovely Doodle by Number A Puuurfect Guide to Calming the Chaos Paperback Melissa Lloyd 9781777136376 $17.99 ART Oct 01, 2020

It’s the first of its kind – designed to be the easiest way to beat stress. It’s even simpler than paint by number. Doodling is the fastest way to engage the powerful part of your brain that lowers stress and it’s as easy as picking up a pen.Looking for a way to unscramble your busy brain, to rest your weary worries, and to let your inner artist out into the light?With a stroke of a pen you can enjoy a journey through play, mindfulness and creativity, one number at a time.Along for the ride is everyone’s favou... + Read More
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Series: Doodle Lovely Creative Mind Happy Soul Journal Doodle Your Way to Inner Calm Paperback Melissa Lloyd 9781777136314 $24.99 ART Sep 01, 2020

This combines four pillars of wellness and self-care in one unique journal. Every page is a guided journey to greater inner calm and focus. Doodling to lower anxiety, journaling to untangle your mind, mood trackers to monitor feelings and gratitude nudges to help you shift your mind to positive thinking.This journal is one of the top self-care books on the market today. Doodling has long been featured in a number of research and scientific publications for alleviating stress. Now Creative Mind, Happy Soul brings therapeutic doodling to life lik... + Read More
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Series: The Crochet Crowd Inspire, Create & Celebrate Paperback Michael Sellick 9781772761603 $22.95 CRAFTS & HOBBIES Jul 26, 2021

As a solitary young boy, Michael Sellick took refuge in the art of crocheting. As an adult, that refuge would grow into a passion. He started sharing videos to fellow crocheters in something he called The Crochet Crowd — a far-flung group that now includes three million people around the world on Youtube, Facebook and Instagram. For Mikey the passion and joy are stronger than ever, and now he's hanging with the "in" crowd too: The Crochet Crowd. Packed with pictures, personality and 15 patterns, this book will resonate with first-time and exper... + Read More
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Series: My Dad's Funnier than Your Dad Growing Up with Tim Conway in the Funniest House in America Hardcover Kelly Conway 9781493057696 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 30, 2021

Comic and television star Tim Conway (The Carol Burnett Show, McHale's Navy, Dorf) enjoyed enormous popular appeal. In this humorous, loving, and surprising memoir, Tim's eldest of his six children, Kelly, reveals that the Conway home life was as riotous as some of her father's legendary comedy sketches. Kelly Conway allows readers an intimate look at an American childhood set in 1970s and 80s Los Angeles, from the studios of CBS to the racetrack of Santa Anita Park where her father taught his kids the art of horse betting. Tim Conway took his ... + Read More
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Series: The Lost History of the Capitol The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building Hardcover Edward P. Moser 9781493055906 $35.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2021

The Lost History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times, including the events of January 6, 2021.
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Series: The Ile de France and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel High Style on the High Seas Hardcover Thomas Kepler 9781493053490 $59.00 HISTORY Dec 01, 2021

When the luxury liner Ile de France sailed into New York harbor for the first time in 1927, she brought to America the first great, coordinated example of what the French then called L'Art Moderne. The revolutionary Art Deco interiors found on the Ile de France were unlike anything previously seen on the North Atlantic and set a standard in ocean liner décor for decades to come. Although neither the fastest nor the largest liner of her time, one writer said of the Ile de France, “She was handsome without being grand, comfortable without being o... + Read More
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Series: One Hundred and Sixty Minutes The Race to Save the RMS Titanic Hardcover William Hazelgrove 9781633886971 $38.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 2021

One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history sinking by inches with luminaries from all over the world. It is a story of a network of wireless operators on land and sea who desperately sent messages back and forth across the dark frozen North Atlantic to mount a rescue mission. More than twenty-eight ships would be involved in the rescu... + Read More
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Series: Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans Paperback Garrett Ryan 9781633887022 $28.95 HISTORY Sep 01, 2021

Most books on the Roman and Greek Empires deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things that seldom appear in history books: myths and magic, barbers and birth control, fine wine and the daily grind. This book, based on questions Roman historian Garrett Ryan, PhD gets most often on Quora and the popular Reddit forum, AskHistorians, reveals the nitty gritty details on how Romans and Greeks lived in a series of short and engaging essays, organized into six categories: Daily Life, Societ... + Read More
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Series: Pure Narco One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels Hardcover Jesse Fink 9781538155516 $38.95 TRUE CRIME Nov 11, 2021

For a quarter century, Luis Antonio Navia worked as a high-level cocaine transporter for all of the major Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel, and flooded the United States and Europe with cocaine before his dramatic arrest in Venezuela in 2000 during the 12-nation Operation Journey. The story of Navia’s rise, fall, takedown, imprisonment, and redemption is expertly researched and told by acclaimed biographer Jesse Fink, who has gathered interviews with Navia, Navia’s family, and a dozen law-enforcemen... + Read More
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Series: Hollywood Horrors Murders, Scandals, and Cover-Ups from Tinseltown Paperback Andrea Van Landingham 9781493060078 $25.95 TRUE CRIME Nov 01, 2021

Hollywood Horrors shares known and lesser-known stories from Hollywood such as the Black Dahlia murder, Roscoe “Fatty’ Arbuckle’s trial for the murder of Virginia Rappe, Johnny Stompanato’s murder and more. It features unforgettable stories from the early days of Hollywood through the 1950s that fall under Murders, Scandals, and Cover-Ups.
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Series: A Century of Swindles Ponzi Schemes, Con Men, and Fraudsters Paperback Railey Jane Savage 9781493053681 $25.95 TRUE CRIME Sep 01, 2021

From the Gilded Age through WWII, America was rife with ne’er-do-wells on a never-ending search for the next big score. Between 1850 and 1950 lawlessness melded with ingenuity, fueled by optimism and ruthlessness: America was dangerous, buzzing, and where opportunity came to take flight. The perfect conditions for swindlers. The gall and gumption of their hustles strain credulity. Fake diamond fields? War with Canada? Sir Francis Drake’s unclaimed fortune? Apparently, all was fair in the quest for something-for-nothing. The scammers in this v... + Read More
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Series: Stealing the Show A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts Paperback John Barelli 9781493057788 $25.95 ART Oct 15, 2021

When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum’s staff, the millions of visitors, as well as American presidents, royalty, and heads of state from around the world. For the first time, John Barelli shares his experiences of the crimes that occurred on his watch; the investigations that captured thieves and recovered artwork; the lessons he learned and share... + Read More
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Series: Killer Looks The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons Hardcover Zara Stone 9781633886728 $38.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 26, 2021

Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man. In the beginning, this was a haphazard affair -- applied inconsistently and unfairly to inmates, but entering the 1960s, a movement to scientifically quantify the long-term effect of such programs took hold. And, strange as it may sound, the criminologists were right: recidivism rates plummeted. In this highly o... + Read More
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Series: How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions Paperback Christopher DiCarlo 9781633887121 $28.95 PHILOSOPHY Nov 15, 2021

This anniversary edition of the classic guide to critical thinking features a new introduction by author Christopher DiCarlo and provides you with the tools to allow you to question beliefs and assumptions held by those who claim to know what they're talking about.
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Series: The Red Menace How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History Hardcover Ilise S. Carter 9781633887107 $37.95 HISTORY Nov 15, 2021

In America, lipstick is the foundation of empires; it’s a signature of identity; it’s propaganda, self-expression, oppression, freedom, and rebellion. It’s a multi-billion-dollar industry and one of our most iconic accessories of gender. This engaging and entertaining history of lipstick from the colonies to the present will give readers a new view of the little tube’s big place in modern America from defining the middle class to building Fortune 500 businesses to being present at Stonewall and being engineered for space travel. Lipstick has se... + Read More
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Series: Pitch Battles Sport, Racism and Resistance Paperback Peter Hain 9781786615237 $25.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 28, 2022

“There will be a black Springbok over my dead body.” — Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969 Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid spor... + Read More
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Series: Nemecene Nemecene Ripples in the Triverse Paperback Kaz Lefave 9781988814209 $23.95 FICTION Nov 07, 2021

The time for hiding is over. Twins Keeto and Elize have achieved sufficient mastery in the versal arts to intimidate those who hunt them, and so an unspoken truce brings cautious cooperation between rivals. But Elize remembers everything — the nightmares, the murder, now their faces. With her recovery complete, Keeto drifts without purpose only to lose himself in a secret relationship that threatens the preternatural bond between the siblings. Will his demons ultimately consume him? In this sixth episode of the Nemecene™ series, layers of decei... + Read More
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Series: A Brigit of Ireland Devotional Sun Among Stars Paperback Mael Brigde 9781789046953 $29.95 RELIGION Sep 01, 2021

A Brigit of Ireland Devotional - Sun Among Stars will inspire the devotee and inform the student. Mael Brigde’s passion for Brigit and careful research make this a valuable reference book as well as a moving and contemplative text.
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Series: The Eye of the Heart A New Translation with Selected Letters Paperback Frithjof Schuon 9781936597703 $25.95 RELIGION Sep 07, 2021

This new edition of The Eye of the Heart, one of perennialist author Frithjof Schuon’s earliest works, features a fully revised translation from the French original as well as over 50 pages of new material, including previously unpublished selections from the author’s letters and other private writings. Also featured is a foreword by renowned religion scholar Huston Smith, an editor’s preface, extensive editor’s notes, a glossary of foreign terms and phrases, an index, and biographical notes.Schuon’s perspective is that of the sophia perennis o... + Read More