Smart, sarcastic TV reporter Mercy Pepper struggles with feelings of guilt after her cameraman dies while on assignment with her. A news tape that he had hidden in his personal effects contains a secretly recorded conversation, and...
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
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Auteur:Stanton, MarleneSommaire: - Auteur:Sommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Mercer, RobertSommaire:
Robert Mercer's life could have been very different. He was born with very low vision and, as a youngster, struggled in school. But through the intervention of a caring teacher and the support of his family, he found his way to the...
- Auteur:Adams, KarinSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Dingwall, David C.Sommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Ali, KazimSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Crooker, William S.Sommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Crooker, William S.Sommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Aragon, Andrea, McCann, SéanSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Escott, Helen C.Sommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Escott, Helen C.Sommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Knockwood, IsabelleSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Devarennes, HélèneSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Rondina, CatherineSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Tattrie, JonSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Caplan, RonaldSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Melanson, FabienSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Crooker, William S.Sommaire:
Along miles of rugged coastline, in secret bays and hidden inlets, and even in the busiest ports lurk stories of the infamous pirates who visited the North Atlantic in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Captain Kidd...
- Auteur:Maynard, RobynSommaire:
Policing Black Lives is a timely and much-needed exposure of historical and contemporary practices of state-sanctioned violence against Black lives in Canada. This groundbreaking work dispels many prevailing myths that cast Canada as a...
- Auteur:Elliott Clarke, GeorgeSommaire:
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...
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