Folklorist, recording artist, actor, songwriter, broadcaster, storyteller, author, archivist, artisan, and designer: over a career spanning more than fifty years, Clary Croft has woven the threads of his vast array of talents into a...
Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic
The Nova Scotia government, in partnership with members of the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association, contributes titles in accessible formats to the NNELS repository, highlighting Atlantic Canadian authored and published books. The Atlantic Canadian collection includes a range of fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages, including adventure stories, mysteries, classics, ghost stories, general histories, tales of pirates, ghosts and rogues, and much more.
Check out the Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic 2021 Collection
- Auteur:Croft, ClarySommaire:
- Auteur:Maillet, MargueriteSommaire:
Album trilingue: francais, mi'kmaq, anglais. English: This Mi'kmaq legend explains in its own way some of the mysteries surrounding the Petitcodiac River. In the past, the river was crystal-clear and full of fish. A giant eel was...
- Auteur:Harwood-Jones, MarkusSommaire:
Full of colourful, authentic characters and set in Toronto, Confessions of a Teenage Drag King highlights diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, and identity. Seventeen-year-old Lauren tries to navigate the tricky waters of teen...
- Auteur:Léger, Isabelle, Poirier, NicoleSommaire:
Sophie sautille de joie. Elle a imaginé entrainer sa maman à la plage pour un congé bien mérité. Bien sûr, il faut tout préparer : jeux, parasols, crème solaire ; il faut s'y rendre aussi. Puis, régler de multiples petits problèmes...
- Auteur:Butler Hallett, MichelleSommaire:
Constant Nobody takes readers deep into the brutal hearts of darkness of both civil war Spain and Soviet Russia during Stalin's purges. In those hellish places, men and women struggle with duty and survival while tormenting their...
- Auteur:Spurway, AmySommaire:
When Stacey Fortune is diagnosed with three highly unpredictable - and inoperable - brain tumours, she abandons the crumbling glamour of her life in Toronto for her mother Effie's scruffy trailer in rural Cape Breton. Back home, she's...
- Auteur:Walbourne-Gough, DouglasSommaire:
Shortlisted, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster Award. Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award. From the author: I cannot let the story of Crow Gulch - the story of my family and, subsequently, my own story - go...
- Auteur:Atkinson, DaveSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Béchard, Deni EllisSommaire:
Almost unbelievable. You'll swear it's fiction. "You haven't read a story like this one, even if your father was the kind of magnificent scoundrel you only find in Russian novels. Béchard is the rare writer who knows the secret to...
- Auteur:Choi, JohnSommaire:
Emerson Yeung seems to have every reason to be happy-- he gets good marks, has some friends, and has a part time job at his parents' dry cleaning business. But Emerson has been hiding something. The pressure to be the perfect son put on...
- Auteur:Howe, MilesSommaire:
In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New...
- Auteur:Zimmerman, LillianSommaire:
With incredible wit, wisdom, and thoughtfulness, author Lillian Zimmerman exposes and challenges pervasive ageist assumptions and stereotypes that continue to permeate society. She offers positive and inspirational messages in response...
- Auteur:Knockwood, DougSommaire:
Mi'kmaw elder Doug Knockwood recounts the story of his life.
- Auteur:Burden, Arnold, Safer, AndrewSommaire:
Dr. Arnold Burden's career began unintentionally when he performed his first surgery in the woods following a hunting accident at age 14. As a 20-year-old hospital clerk, he handed battle casualties after D-Day in France and Germany....
- Auteur:Roy, Réjean, Léger, Diane CarmelSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Parsi, ArshamSommaire:
To be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country's harsh Islamic code of Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individuals who avoid execution are often subjected to severe lashings, torture and imprisonment. It...
- Auteur:Soucoup, DanSommaire:
Do you remember the invasion of Newfoundland’s hydroponic cucumber? How about New Brunswick’s ill-fated space-age sports car? In this dynamic collection, Dan Soucoup follows the money trail up the political ladder to deliver the dirt on...
- Auteur:Truth and Reconciliation Commission of CanadaSommaire:
This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the...
- Auteur:Sherrard, Valerie, MacDonald, PamelaSommaire:
Avalon Monday doesn't mind telling schoolmates that her mother ran off to California to live with a guy she met on the internet. After all, that's way less embarrassing than the truth. One fresh start and three years later...
- Auteur:Loring, Philip A.Sommaire:
Imagine a world where humanity was not destined to cause harm to the natural world, where win-win scenarios-people and nature thriving together-are possible. No doubt contemporary western society is steeped in the legacy of white...