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Series: Atlantic Salmon Treasury, 75th Anniversary EditionAn Anthology of Selections from the Atlantic Salmon Journal, 1975-2020Hardcover
Charles Gaines9781773103013
$45.00SPORTS & RECREATION
Apr 04, 2023
“Few fish have captured the souls and minds of men and women quite like wild Atlantic salmon.” — Bill Taylor, President, Atlantic Salmon FederationCelebrating 75 years of conservation, the Atlantic Salmon Treasury works as a “best of” for the influential Atlantic Salmon Journal. This fascinating volume includes a curated selection of articles and essays by some of North America’s best sport writers on the art and lore of the wild Atlantic salmon.Beginning in 1948, the Atlantic Salmon Journal began publishing ... + Read More
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Series: Maud LewisPaintings for SaleHardcover
Sarah Milroy9781773101460
$40.00ART
Jul 23, 2019
From black cats to iconic snowscapes, Maud Lewis paints our waking dreams.One of Canada's most beloved folk artists, Maud Lewis was famous in her lifetime for her brightly coloured and endearing paintings of rural Nova Scotia. Working from her tiny, road-side house in Marshalltown, she produced hundreds of small works that captured aspects of rapidly changing country life. Until now, the story of her difficult life has dominated the discussion of her art: her triumph over her physical disabilities and poverty, the harsh treatment she received a... + Read More
Maud Lewis has become one of Canada’s favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with arthritis, but Maud earned her living by painting Christmas cards and pictures and selling them from her tiny, gaily painted one-room house beside the highway near Digby, Nova Scotia.Originally issued in 1997 and now available in this updated edition, Christmas with Maud Lewis paints a portrait of how this spirited woman celebrated the se... + Read More
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Series: The Painted House of Maud LewisConserving a Folk Art TreasurePaperback
Laurie Hamilton9780864923349
$19.95ART
Oct 15, 2001
For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the tour was over, half a million people had become acquainted with her delightful work. Between 1938, when she married Everett Lewis, until her death in 1970, Maud Lewis lived in a tiny one-room house near Digby, Nova Scotia. Over the years, she painted the doors inside and out, the windowpanes, the ... + Read More
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Series: La Maison peinte de Maud LewisConservation d'un trésor folkloriquePaperback
Laurie Hamilton9780864923356
$22.95ART
Oct 15, 2001
Maud Lewis a peint l’intérieur de sa minuscule maison d’une seule pièce — : pas seulement les murs, mais aussi l’intérieure et l’extérieure des portes, les cadres de fenêtres, les boîtes à pain, le petit escalier menant au grenier, le poêle à bois, bref tout ce qu’elle avait sous la main. Sa demeure était un plaisir à regarder.Quatorze ans après sa mort, l’Art Gallery of Nova Scotia a fait l’acquisition de la maison peinte de Maud Lewis, alors bien connue main en très mauvais état. La stabilisation et la restauration de ce précieux artefa... + Read More
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Series: Peace by ChocolateThe Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to CanadaPaperback
Jon Tattrie9781773101897
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 06, 2020
Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, and Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives)Nominated for 3 Gourmand AwardsAn Atlantic BestsellerA Hill Times Top 100 SelectionFebruary 2016. 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 factory was destroyed, and he and his family had spent three years in limbo as refugees before coming to Canada. So, in an unfami... + Read More
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Series: A Taste of AcadiePaperback
Marielle Cormier-Boudreau9780864921093
$22.95COOKING
Jan 01, 1991
For A Taste of Acadie, Melvin Gallant and Marielle Cormier-Boudreau travelled all over Acadia, from the Gaspé Peninsula to Cape Breton, from the tip of Prince Edward Island to the Magdalen Islands, and around northern New Brunswick and southern Nova Scotia. They gathered the culinary secrets of traditional Acadian cooks while there was still time, and then they adapted more than 150 recipes for today's kitchens. First published in 1991, A Taste of Acadie, the popular English translation of the best-selling Cuisine traditionalle en Acadie, is av... + Read More
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Series: Acadian DriftwoodOne Family and the Great ExpulsionPaperback
Tyler LeBlanc9781773101187
$22.95HISTORY
Jun 02, 2020
Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingFinalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Margaret and John Savage Award for Best First Book (Non-fiction)A Hill Times' 100 Best Books in 2020 SelectionOn Canada's History Bestseller ListGrowing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Tyler LeBlanc wasn’t fully aware of his family’s Acadian roots — until a chance encounter with an Acadian historian prompted him to delve into his family history. LeBlanc’s discovery that he coul... + Read More
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Series: EarthkeepingLove Notes for Tough TimesPaperback
Gary Saunders9781773102696
$24.95NATURE
Oct 04, 2022
The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other.In nine sections, Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and earthkeeping, on forage fish and robinsongs, and on the stewardship of our ecological landscape. Offering an antidote to the world’s anxiety about climate change, plastic pollution, and biodiversity loss, Saunders writes with a deep connection to the natural world and his signature humane zest for life. Lo... + Read More
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Series: RestigoucheThe Long Run of the Wild RiverPaperback
Philip Lee9781773100883
$22.95NATURE
Jun 16, 2020
Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) Longlisted, Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Awards (Non-Fiction)A CBC New Brunswick Book List SelectionAn Atlantic Books Today Must-Have New Brunswick Books of 2020 SelectionThe 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 storied wild spaces on the continent. In Restigouche, writer Philip Lee follows ancient p... + Read More
An Atlantic BestsellerNew Brunswick offers a dizzying array of hiking challenges, spectacular views, and amazing wildlife. In this expanded and updated fourth edition of Hiking Trails of New Brunswick, veteran trail enthusiasts Marianne and H.A. Eiselt lead hikers from one end of the province to the other, along river valleys, through provincial and national parks, along the coasts, and up and down mountains.Newly illustrated in full colour with striking photographs and maps, this comprehensive guide includes more than 100 trails, with detailed... + Read More
An Atlantic BestsellerNew Brunswick is home to more than five billion trees, many native to the Acadian forest and some exotics introduced by settlers. For this new edition of The Great Trees of New Brunswick (the first edition was published in 1987), forester David Palmer and conservationist Tracy Glynn have prepared a book that doubles as an informative guide to the province's native and introduced species and a compendium of "champion" trees, drawn from nominations from all corners of the province.Divided into sections on hardwoods, softwood... + Read More
This revised edition has new and detailed information on 40 new hiking trails on Cape Breton Island, ranging from its very northern tip at Money Point all the way to the Ghost Beach Trail, which begins as soon as you cross the Canso Causeway. This hands-on account of the most enjoyable, challenging, family-oriented, and entertaining hiking trails in Cape Breton have been personally mapped, explored, and conquered by the author and provide accurate, helpful and poignant tips and pointers on how to enjoy each of these hikes — from a quick stroll ... + Read More
Pack up and get ready to hike the beautiful trails of Nova Scotia. From Yarmouth to the Canso Causeway, this new updated edition of Hiking Trails of Mainland Nova Scotia, a companion to Hiking Trails of Cape Breton, provides illustrated descriptions of the most enjoyable and challenging hikes that mainland Nova Scotia has to offer. Michael Haynes hiked and mapped every trail in 2011 and describes the featured routes — from quiet afternoon excursions to serious multi-day expeditions. Profiling 60 trails, including Cape Split, Brier Island, and p... + Read More
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Series: Waterfalls of Nova ScotiaA GuidePaperback
Benoit Lalonde9781773100227
$27.95TRAVEL
May 29, 2018
An Atlantic BestsellerNova Scotia is blessed with numerous must-see waterfalls, and this volume from self-described “waterfall addict” Benoit Lalonde brings together 100 of the province’s best.Conveniently categorized by the government of Nova Scotia scenic route system, this rich compendium includes famous waterfalls such as Garden of Eden Fall, Wentworth Falls, Cuties Hollow, Annandale Falls and Butcher Hill Falls, as well as lesser-known but easy to locate gems. In addition to providing useful information on the height, type, and hiking dist... + Read More
This new guide features more than 50 trails for hiking and cycling on Prince Edward Island, Canada's own emerald isle, included in the book are new trails in Prince Edward Island National Park and the just-completed Confederation Trail, the final (or initial, depending on which way you're facing!) leg of the Trans-Canada Trail. Michael Haynes hiked and mapped each trail and provides detailed maps, trail descriptions, and GPS coordinates, as well as information on time, length, difficulty, and facilities available on each route. He also includes... + Read More
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Series: Waterfalls of New BrunswickA Guide, 2nd Edition2nd editionPaperback
Nicholas Guitard9781773101859
$27.95TRAVEL
Apr 13, 2021
An Atlantic Bestseller"A nature lover’s delight." — Chronicle HeraldNo one has done more to bring New Brunswick’s waterfalls to popular attention than Nicholas Guitard. He has sought out and documented hundreds of waterfalls, first on his website and then in a bestselling trail guide.Now ten years after the publication of the first edition, Guitard has a newly updated guide. From well-known favourites like Hays Falls and the "Grand Canyon of New Brunswick" at Walton Glen Gorge to previously unpublished waterfalls like Cigar Falls in Dalhousie, ... + Read More
Who would have guessed that a small province could hold so many falls? Overall, New Brunswick is home to more than 1,000 waterfalls — some remote, and some surprisingly accessible. Spilling over an incredible range of ancient geological terrain, each of the fifty-five waterfalls photographed for this richly illustrated volume is complemented by descriptions, directions, and background information on each site. Guitard's photographs are composed with an eye to the diversity and particular beauty and geological situation of each watercourse. A ma... + Read More
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Series: Fishing the High CountryA Memoir of the RiverPaperback
Wayne Curtis9781773100838
$19.95NATURE
Oct 16, 2018
The timeless story of an always-moving river.From the first sentence, "I come from a long line of river people," to the last, "Bad luck to kill a moose bird," Wayne Curtis signals that this book occupies the territory of a classic, a lyrical memoir of a river and those who submit to its call.New Brunswick's Miramichi River is one of the most entrancing salmon rivers in the world. In Fishing the High Country, Curtis has created what can only be described as a river masterpiece, a lyrical record of time and place, of those who are drawn to its si... + Read More
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Series: The Lost WildernessRediscovering W.F. Ganong's New BrunswickPaperback
Nicholas Guitard9780864928771
$24.95HISTORY
Oct 06, 2015
Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wilderness of New Brunswick, systematically mapping previously uncharted territories, taking photographs, and documenting observations on the physical geography of the province that laid the foundations for the modern study of New Brunswick's rich natural history. In The Lost Wilderness, acclaimed photographer and naturalist Nicholas Guitard retraces many of these journeys, comparing his notes with thos... + Read More
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Series: Government House HalifaxA Place of History and GatheringHardcover
Christopher McCreery9781773102016
$45.00ARCHITECTURE
Jun 16, 2020
Government House Halifax is the home of the Sovereign’s representative in the Province of Nova Scotia and the ceremonial home of all Nova Scotians. It has also served as a home away from home for members of the Royal Family over its two-century history.Government House Halifax: A Place of History and Gathering tells the story of this historic building. Beginning with its construction in 1800 and continuing through its extensive renovations in 2009, this sumptuous book tells the story of the building’s royal residents, the household staff, and t... + Read More
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Series: ColvillePaperbackPaperback
Andrew Hunter9780864928962
$39.95ART
Jun 27, 2017
"Andrew Hunter has looked with fresh eyes at [Colville's] paintings and made a coherent argument that Colville deserves to be understood far beyond the normal borders of the art world." — Robert Fulford, The National Post This magnificent, best-selling volume is now available in a deluxe paper-bound edition. The original hardcover edition sold more than 15,000 copies. Colville both honours the legacy of an iconic Canadian artist and explores the contemporary reverberations of his work. Colville was known for being his own man. His paintings dep... + Read More
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Series: Black IceDavid Blackwood: Prints of NewfoundlandPaperback
Dr. Katharine Lochnan9780864928542
$45.00ART
Oct 07, 2014
David Blackwood was born in 1941 in the outport community of Wesleyville, to a family with a long seafaring history. Recognized as an artistic prodigy, he was awarded a Government of Newfoundland Centennial scholarship to study at the Ontario College of Art, in Toronto. By the age of twenty-three, one of his etchings had been purchased by the National Gallery of Canada. Blackwood has been telling stories about Newfoundland in the form of epic visual narratives for 30 years. To bring this narrative to life, the book situates Blackwood's prints i... + Read More
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Series: Peter PowningA Retrospective / Une RétrospectiveHardcover
John Leroux9781773101927
$45.00ART
Nov 17, 2020
A CBC New Brunswick Book List Selection"I start with an original object, break it, and transform parts of the piece into other materials. These pieces gather meaning and explanation as I work with them."Peter Powning is simultaneously referred to as a sculptor and a ceramist, but his art does not fit easy categorization, incorporating and combining elements from one medium into another. His work challenges the viewer to reconsider the object, its form, and its function. This inventiveness has resulted in numerous exhibitions, awards, and commis... + Read More
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Series: James WilsonSocial StudiesHardcover
John Leroux9781773101880
$40.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Aug 04, 2020
There's something strange, interesting, unsettling yet wonderfully compelling about these portraits, which reveal perhaps more than they should."The same stage, but different actors," explains Wilson. "There is something interesting to me about separating people from their environment, about keeping the focus on the individual."James Wilson’s studio portraits capture subjects from all walks of life. They document soldiers and street people, builders and bakers, artists and labourers. There is an intimate intensity in his photographs, which tog... + Read More
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Series: The Imperilled OceanHuman Stories from a Changing SeaPaperback
Laura Trethewey9781773101156
$22.95NATURE
Feb 04, 2020
A Globe and Mail Top 100 SelectionA Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book of the YearACBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction SelectionA Hill Times Top 100 Selection (2020)Silver Medal, Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book AwardsAn exploration of the earth's last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future.On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana wonders whether he will reach Europe alive, and whether he will be allowed to stay. In the North Atlantic, a young chef disappears from ... + Read More
Muscle sinew bone.Luke Tremblett is one of five fishermen lost at sea off the coast of Newfoundland. Rose is left to pick up the pieces and learn to live with his sudden absence. And then there are three children, including two-month-old Emily, struggling to face an unbearable loss that has engulfed them.This sharp, hard-edged novel begins two years after Luke’s disappearance, at the moment that Rose takes her first step through the wall of the house Luke was building when he died. Her body vibrating, she enters a space where Luke waits f... + Read More
A Globe and Mail Top 100 SelectionHamilton Reads 2021 SelectionA Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book of the YearA 49th Shelf Books of the Year (Fiction) SelectionOne of "20 books you need to read this winter," Maclean's For those who loved Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior comes a new climate-themed, Shakespeare-inspired novel from bestselling author Catherine Bush.The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A Category Five hurricane sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America, leaving devastation in its wake, it... + Read More
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Series: Some HellishPaperback
Nicholas Herring9781773102559
$24.95FICTION
Sep 13, 2022
Winner, Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeHerring is a hapless lobster fisher lost in an unexceptional life, bored of thinking the same old thoughts. One December day, following a hunch, he cuts a hole in the living room floor and installs a hoist, altering the course of everything in his life. His wife Euna leaves with their children. He buries the family dog in a frozen grave on Christmas Eve. He and his friend Gerry crash his truck into a field, only to be rescued by a passing group of Tibetan monks.During the spring lobster season, ... + Read More
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Series: Crow GulchPaperback
Douglas Walbourne-Gough9781773101019
$19.95POETRY
Sep 17, 2019
Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry AwardShortlisted, NL Reads, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster AwardLonglisted, First Nation Communities READ AwardFrom the author: I cannot let the story of Crow Gulch — the story of my family and, subsequently, my own story — go untold. This book is my attempt to resurrect dialogue and story, to honour who and where I come from, to remind Corner Brook of the glaring omission in its social history.In his debut poetry collection, Douglas Walbourne-Gough reflects on the legacy of a community that sat on ... + Read More
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Series: Shadow of DoubtThe Trials of Dennis Oland, Revised and Expanded Edition2nd editionPaperback
Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon9781773101668
$22.95TRUE CRIME
Oct 22, 2019
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 multimillionaire’s only son, Dennis, was arrested for second-degree murder. Found guilty by a jury in 2015, Dennis Oland successfully appealed his conviction and was retried three years later.In this new revised and expanded edition, MacKinnon takes readers inside every stage of one of Canada’s most gripping murder t... + Read More
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Series: Black River RoadAn Unthinkable Crime, an Unlikely Suspect, and the Question of CharacterPaperback
Debra Komar9780864928764
$19.95TRUE CRIME
Sep 06, 2016
Shortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardIn 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly decomposed bodies. The authorities suspected foul play, but the identities of the victims were as mysterious as that of the perpetrator. From the twists and turns of a coroner's inquest, an unlikely suspect emerged to stand trial for murder: John Munroe, a renowned architect, well-heeled family man, and pillar of the community. Munroe was arguably the fi... + Read More
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Series: The Bastard of Fort StikineThe Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr.Paperback
Debra Komar9780864928719
$19.95TRUE CRIME
May 05, 2015
Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fiction, and Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History AwardIs it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed? Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. — the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later become British Columbia — was shot to death by his own men. They claimed it was an act of self-defence, thei... + Read More
At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler — a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl — was strung up under a porch with a slipknot noose. The hanging was state-sanctioned but it was a lynching all the same. Now, a re-examination of his case using modern forensic science reveals one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Canadian history. On the night of January 27, 1896, 14-year-old Annie Kempton found herself home alone in the picturesque village of Bear River, Nova Scotia. ... + Read More
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Series: The Ballad of Jacob PeckPaperback
Debra Komar9780864929037
$19.95TRUE CRIME
Mar 26, 2013
Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disembowelled his own sister, before dumping her lifeless body in a rural New Brunswick snowbank. The Ballad of Jacob Peck is the tragic and fascinating story of how isolation, duplicity, and religious mania turned impoverished, hard-working people violent, leading to a murder and an execution. Babcock was hanged for the murder of ... + Read More
In 1943, the New Brunswick Rangers were sent to Britain, converted into a heavy weapons support unit, and shipped off to Normandy.Originating as a 19th century militia, the New Brunswick Rangers were placed on active service for the first time during the Second World War, serving first in the Maritimes and Newfoundland. In 1943, the Rangers were sent to Britain, where they were converted to a heavy weapons support unit, armed with machine guns and mortars in preparation for the invasion of Normandy.In this illuminating account, Matthew Douglass... + Read More
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Series: "Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers"Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945Paperback
Andrew Theobald9781773101248
$18.95HISTORY
May 07, 2019
Winner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingWhat happened in Canadian Internment Camp B?From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War. Chosen for its remote rural New Brunswick location, Camp B interned hundreds who were deemed by the Canadian government to be enemy sympathizers.In the first year of its operation, the camp incarcerated German and Austrian Jewish refugees dispatched from Britain. In May 1940, fearful that the refugee... + Read More
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Series: A Family of BrothersSoldiers of the 26th New Brunswick Battalion in the Great WarPaperback
Brent Wilson9780864929235
$22.95HISTORY
Oct 09, 2018
The powerful story of over 5,700 brothers in arms.They fought at Ypres in the fall of 1915, on the Somme at Courcelette and Regina Trench in 1916. They carried on to Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, and Passchendaele in 1917. They were part of the battles at Amiens and the Hundred Days campaign of 1918. The 26th Battalion was the only infantry unit from New Brunswick (and one of only 24 from the rest of Canada) to serve continuously on the Western Front from 1915 until the Armistice in 1918. More than 5,700 soldiers passed through its ranks during the Firs... + Read More
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Series: The Water BeetlesFirstPaperback
Michael Kaan9780864929662
$22.95FICTION
Apr 11, 2017
Winner, 2018 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, 2018 McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and 2018 Margaret Laurence Award for FictionShortlisted, 2017 Governor General's Award for Fiction and 2018 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First BookA National Post Best Book of 2017A Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended Historical Novel of 2017On CBC Books' list of writers to watch in 2018The Leung family leads a life of secluded luxury in Hong Kong. But in December 1941, the Empire of Japan invades the colony. The family is quickly dragged into a spi... + Read More
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Series: Lintels of ParisHardcover
Thaddeus Holownia9781895488319
$60.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Jan 31, 2020
A CBC New Brunswick Book List SelectionThaddeus Holownia’s Lintels of Paris provides a taste of the urban qualities of Paris, its quartiers, and its exquisite architectural details. Working with his trusted large-format banquet camera, Holownia has completed a series of horizontal portraits of carved stone lintels sitting atop the large doorways that line the streets and sidewalks of France’s capital. This large-format volume, featuring over 40 stochastic duotones, offers an unexpected tour of one of the defining features of the "City of Light.... + Read More
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Series: Linteaux de ParisHardcover
Thaddeus Holownia9781895488333
$60.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Jan 31, 2020
Linteaux de Paris dévoile les qualités urbanistiques et l’élégance architecturale de la ville et de ses quartiers sous un angle inusité. Pour ces portraits horizontaux en deux tons, Thaddeus Holownia a braqué sa fidèle chambre photographique grand format sur des linteaux de pierre sculptés qui coiffent des portes majestueuses dans la capitale française. L’ouvrage de grandes dimensions réunit plus de quarante clichés qui offrent une vision insolite d’un aspect distinctif de la Ville Lumière. Le livre accompagne l’exposition du même nom présentée... + Read More
In Tantramar Revisited, Revisited, Thaddeus Holownia returns repeatedly to record the landscapes and architecture of the Tantramar Marshes and Cumberland Basin. In the accompanying essay, Tom Smart examines how Holownia’s acute vision chronicles the relationships he observes, how the land reveals its history, and how time and human events affect change. This Smythe-sewn paperbound edition features 29 duotone reproductions.
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Series: Ova AvesPaperback
Thaddeus Holownia9781895488456
$35.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 2011
This large-format chapbook includes 13 full-colour reproductions of Holownia’s photographs, accompanied by 13 poems by Nova Scotia naturalist and poet Harry Thurston. A stunning integration of image, text, and typography, the book is typeset in Walbaum and printed offset on HannoArt paper.
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Series: The Nature of NatureThe Photographs of Thaddeus Holownia 1976-2016Hardcover
Thaddeus Holownia9781554577248
$90.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 2017
The Nature of Nature celebrates 40 years of production from one of Canada’s leading photographers. Firmly located within the North American documentary genre, Holownia’s unique practice, using predominantly analogue technologies, merges high craft with prolonged inquiry. This book includes a critical analysis of his work by Sarah Filmore, David Diviney, and Peter Sanger as well as 161 stochastic reproductions in colour and black & white of Holownia’s contact prints.
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Series: EastportHardcover
Thaddeus Holownia9780692132067
$90.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 2018
The first in-depth study of a community’s architecture along the eastern coast of Maine. Thaddeus Holownia took more than a thousand large-format photographs for this project, including interiors and exteriors of buildings, wider streetscape and landscape views, and a whole series of portraits of trees. The result is a magnificent book of photographs, accompanied by essays by architectural historian John Leroux and an introduction by Hugh French. This casebound, Smyth-sewn, large-format volume features 175 duotone stochastic reproductions.
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Series: Silver GhostAn Homage to the Salmon Rivers of Atlantic CanadaHardcover
Thaddeus Holownia9781895488340
$175.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 2008
Thaddeus Holownia travelled to the many salmon rivers of eastern Canada, in all seasons, to capture their essential qualities. Harry Thurston’s accompanying essay explores the elemental nature of these rivers that both nurture Atlantic salmon and inspire the salmon fisher. This 1,000-copy edition includes 50 full-size stochastic duotone reproductions of Holownia’s 17 × 7-inch contact prints, casebound in quarter cloth with a printed card slipcase.
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Series: Autism ArtsA Partnership between Autism Nova Scotia and the Art Gallery of Nova ScotiaHardcover
Dale Sheppard9781773101965
$45.00ART
Feb 23, 2021
Winner, Canadian Museums Association’s Outstanding Achievement in Audience OutreachHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association’s Outstanding Achievement in ResearchArt has the potential to bring us together and create lasting connections. As humans, we have a universal need to express ourselves, find meaning, and experience a sense of belonging in our communities.In 2006, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Autism Nova Scotia partnered to develop a recreational art program that provided a safe and supportive environment for participants to ... + Read More
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Series: Good EarthThe Pots and Passion of Walter OstromHardcover
Walter Ostrom9781773101972
$50.00ART
Mar 16, 2021
Walter Ostrom has been described as an "innovative traditionalist," a disruptive force shaking up ceramic conventions while simultaneously enriching them. Hired to teach studio and Asian art history at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1969, Ostrom was one of many American artists who moved north to Canada in the fallout from the Vietnam War.Ostrom’s work, from his embrace of conceptual art in the 1970s to his current exploration of the vast history, hybridization, and social foundation of ceramics, marks him as a major force in the deve... + Read More
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Series: Graeme PattersonSecret CitadelHardcover
Graeme Patterson9781554576197
$49.95ART
Jan 01, 2014
Secret Citadel showcases Graeme Patterson’s spectacular and intricate multimedia installation, exploring the trials and tribulations of male friendship through a four-part sculptural/video installation and an experimental stop-motion animated narrative. Here, guided by subtle gestures and intense interactions, an anthropomorphic bison and cougar create a bond that spans all stages of maturity, playful creativity bringing them together and violent awkwardness tearing them apart.Secret Citadel présente l’installation multimédia spectaculaire bien... + Read More
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Series: TerroirA Nova Scotia SurveyHardcover
David Diviney9781554576920
$49.99ART
Jan 01, 2016
From painters, weavers, sculptors, printmakers, makers of video and installation art, rug hookers, and beyond, Nova Scotia is home to some of the country’s finest artists. Terroir showcases that talent and unearths its roots by exploring how local histories and traditions, the landscape, and the human condition give rise to works of art specific to time and place.
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Series: The Lost CityIan MacEachern's Photographs of Saint JohnHardcover
John Leroux9781773100814
$35.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Oct 02, 2018
A portrait of a lost Saint John.From the 1950s through the 1970s, cities throughout North America engaged in disruptive periods of massive “urban renewal” of older, poorer areas. Neighbourhoods were razed to make way for freeways, housing projects, public amenities, sports arenas, and subdivisions. Planned communities replaced older urban neighbourhoods that had evolved over generations.Ian MacEachern worked for CHSJ-TV in Saint John from 1962 to 1966, and he witnessed the profound transformation of Canada's oldest city as it was buffeted by th... + Read More
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Series: Slow SecondsThe Photography of George Thomas TaylorHardcover
Ronald Rees9781773101361
$35.00PHOTOGRAPHY
Sep 24, 2019
Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction)The photographs of George Taylor (1838-1913) offer viewers a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century New Brunswick. Taylor's career coincided with a period when photographers began to provide Canadians with images of the "wilderness." Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of Indigenous guides, Taylor travelled not only through settled parts of New Brunswick, but also into the wilderness of the north, providing views of hitherto unfamiliar and unknown terrain and helping to popularize the ou... + Read More
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Series: The Best of The Great Trail, Volume 1Newfoundland to Southern Ontario on the Trans Canada TrailPaperback
Michael Haynes9781773100005
$29.95TRAVEL
Sep 04, 2018
See the beauty that Canada has to offer. Walking and biking is a big Canadian pastime for people wanting exercise and fresh air. Here, at last, is the essential companion to the eastern part of Canada's national trail. Profiling 30 separate sections, crossing 6 provinces, and traversing more than 900 km of trail, this guide for the adventurous offers a connoisseur's sampling of the finest components of eastern Canada's Trans Canada Trail.Beginning at Cape Spear and ending on the shores of Lake Huron, Michael Haynes follows the Great Trail ... + Read More
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Series: The Best of The Great Trail, Volume 2British Columbia to Northern Ontario on the Trans Canada TrailPaperback
Michael Haynes9781773100326
$29.95TRAVEL
Jun 11, 2019
What is the longest, most exciting hiking and cycling trail in the world? It can only be The Great Trail. Spanning the entirety of Canada, from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic Oceans, this improbable route covers 24,000 kilometres.The Best of The Great Trail is the essential companion to this national trail. In volume 2, Michael Haynes completes his two-book set on The Great Trail, leading hikers and cyclists through thirty "must-see" trails of Western Canada in five provinces.Beginning in downtown Victoria, Haynes sets off for the fo... + Read More
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