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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:J. Savoie, DonaldSommaire: - Auteur:Sawler, SarahSommaire:
Did you know that the Halifax? Dartmouth ferry was once operated by a team of nine horses? Or that Babe Ruth used to visit Yarmouth regularly for hunting and fishing vacations? Enter journalist Sarah Sawler: your guide to discovering...
- Auteur:Procter, AndreaSommaire:
Left out of the national apology and reconciliation process begun in 2008, survivors of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland received a formal apology from the Canadian government in 2017. This recognition finally brought...
- Auteur:Forsey, HelenSommaire:
This book is for Canadians who care about our democracy and the future of our planet. What if we had a Senate that was independent of party politics, truly committed to "sober second thought" and dedicated to the common good? What if...
- Auteur:Pratt, MarySommaire:
Mary Pratt: A Personal Calligraphy features Mary's own writings, drawn and adapted from her personal journals, the essays that she has written for numerous publications ranging from The Globe and Mail to The Glass Gazette, and the...
- Auteur:McNally Smith, AdrianSommaire:
When Adrian McNally Smith was writing his family memoir Finding Forgiveness, he was struck by the number of times he had had spiritual encounters. The journey of writing the story of his life and his relationships brought home to him...
- Auteur:Béchard, Deni EllisSommaire:
A time warp into the strange and painful life of men past, present, and future. The second time Andrew sees his half-brother, Hugh, is at their father's funeral. Andrew has little interest in the father with whom he grew up, but...
- Auteur:Whiteside, HeatherSommaire:
In a public-private partnership, or P3, a private, for-profit corporation assumes control over the design, construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure and services. P3s have been used in Canada since the early 1990s,...
- Auteur:Pannozzo, LindaSommaire:
In About Canada: The Environment, award-winning author Linda Pannozzo examines the philosophical, economic and ideological landscape of our current environmental worldview. She connects our faith in the free market and our adherence to...
- Auteur:Brownlee, JamieSommaire:
Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to...
- Auteur:LeBlanc, TylerSommaire:
Growing 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...
- Auteur:Smith Dow, LeslieSommaire:
When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Adèle Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman...
- Auteur:Guimond, Danielle, Plourde, Mélanie, Guimond-Plourde, RenéeSommaire:
Jacoby, qui a aidé de nombreux enfants à gérer leur anxiété et les a encouragés à lire, est très malade. Devant sa douleur, Madame Ève se résout à l'emmener chez la vétérinaire pour le faire euthanasier. Alors qu'elle apprend à vivre...
- Auteur:Grant, ShauntaySommaire:
À quoi ressemblait la communauté ? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline ; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football ; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting ; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de...
- Auteur:Daigle, RolandSommaire:
Aldouane, Nouveau-Brunswick, 1943. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, alors que John et son oncle Fred partent à la pêche à l'éperlan, ils voient un avion militaire s'écraser, et un parachute s'envoler... En pleine nuit...
- Auteur:Nason, RielSommaire:
Shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction. A novel of absence and adolescence by the author of the award-winning The Town That Drowned. It's 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet is left behind by her parents to manage their...
- Auteur:Walters, EricSommaire:
In this poignant story, we follow young Emily who has recently lost her grandfather. As she grows, she discovers a series of letters he left behind for her, offering grandfatherly advice at life's most pivotal moments: first day...
- Auteur:Boileau, JohnSommaire:
Celebrate the amazing accomplishments of kids from across the East Coast in this book, the first in a new illustrated series about Amazing Atlantic Canadians. Learn about incredible young people excelling as athletes and inventors,...
- Auteur:Ruck, LindsaySommaire:
This fascinating, full-colour illustrated book features over 50 amazing Black people from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, sharing their incredible stories and accomplishments, past and...
- Auteur:Stote, KarenSommaire:
During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among "undesirable" populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of...
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