Hunter and fisherman Russell Lynds' memoir.
Nova Scotia Collection
In the Nova Scotia Collection, you will find titles about, featuring, or written by an author from Nova Scotia. We have gathered these collections together in the hopes of making it easier to find content that highlights the stories unique to the provinces and territories across Canada. If you know of a book that should be included in this collection, let us know!
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Auteur:Lynds, RussellSommaire: - Auteur:Cobden, MichaelSommaire:
His was a life worth living, a story worth telling. So Jim Spatz describes the story of his father, Simon Spatz, in the introduction to this fascinating biography of the high-profile Jewish Nova Scotian businessman (1913–2007). In Simon...
- Auteur:Robson, WandaSommaire:
In Sister to Courage, Wanda takes us inside the world she shared with Viola and ten other brothers and sisters. Through touching and often hilarious stories, she traces the roots of courage and ambition, good fun and dignity, of the...
- Auteur:Bennet, JimSommaire:
In this memoir Jim Bennet portrays the Halifax of the 1930s and '40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs of young boys, freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader "down the bank" with him to adventures all over the city's...
- Auteur:Coates, Jan L.Sommaire:
Katie Dupuis Pearson wants to find her real mother; her only clues are her Lavender Lady, a piece of amethyst, and a bookmark from Lunenburg. While spending a month in lovely Lunenburg with her foster mother, Katie makes friends with...
- Auteur:Watson, Joan, Creed, MurraySommaire:
Nova Scotia's Ross Farm Museum is a living window into the province's agricultural history. Since the museum opened in 1970, it has been a favourite destination for school children, who have been educated about early times and farming....
- Auteur:Elliott, Marilyn DavidsonSommaire:
Eric Davidson lost both eyes in the Halifax Explosion when he was two years old. Against all odds, he taught himself to become an auto mechanic and had a successful decades-long career as “one of the boys.” Eric Davidson was a beautiful...
- Auteur:Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way...
- Auteur:Grant, ShauntaySommaire:
Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridgeexplores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one by one from the brothers themselves...
- Auteur:Sullivan, RandallSommaire:
A fascinating account of the strange, rich history of Oak Island and the intrepid treasure hunters who have driven themselves to financial ruin, psychotic breakdowns, and even death in pursuit of answers. Now as Michigan brothers Marty...
- Auteur:Burden, ArnoldSommaire:
Dr. Arnold Burden's career began unintentionally when he performed his first surgery in the woods following a hunting accident at age 14. At age 20, he handled battle casualties after D-Day in France and Germany. His early years as a...
- Auteur:Stehelin, Paul H.Sommaire:
This is the true story of the Stehelins, a prestigious family from Normandy, France, who came to Nova Scotia in the early twentieth century to carve out a new life in the wilderness. The family's achievements were legendary--they built...
- Auteur:Moore, LindaSommaire:
Linda Moore's long-awaited sequel to Foul Deeds is another highly engaging mix of art and environmental justice. Finally working a real job as a researcher for the Public Prosecution Service, Roz is on her first paid vacation. She has...
- Auteur:Esrock, RobinSommaire:
On his personal quest to check off the best of his home country, travel writer and host Robin Esrock catalogues must-sees, including nature, food, culture, history, adrenaline rushes and quirky Canadiana. After spending years crafting...
- Auteur:Bacon, John U.Sommaire:
In 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an extraordinary disaster took place: the largest man-...
- Auteur:DeMont, JohnSommaire:
For lovers of history, travel writing, and sharp social observation comes a finely etched portrait of Nova Scotia by one of the province's most gifted writers. No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales, and fog-soaked...
- Auteur:Komar, DebraSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Pachai, BridglalSommaire:
The Nova Scotia Black Experience Through the Centuries is a comprehensive account of the African Nova Scotian struggle to build a vital community in the face of racial discrimination. Originally published in two volumes as Beneath the...
- Auteur:Taylor, WandaSommaire:
In 1921, prominent lawyer and Nova Scotia Black leader James R. Johnston’s vision of a place welcoming of Black children came to reality. In an era of segregation and overt racism that saw most orphanages refuse to take in Black...
- Auteur:Gaston, BillSommaire:
Indian summer, 1607. Intrepid explorer and map-maker Samuel de Champlain has founded a new and precarious settlement in Annapolis Royal, New France (present-day Nova Scotia). As winter looms, two threats emerge: boredom amongst the men...
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