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...
Atlantic Canadian
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.
- Author:Roy, Réjean, Léger, Diane CarmelSummary:
- Author:Parsi, ArshamSummary:
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...
- Author:Soucoup, DanSummary:
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...
- Author:Soucoup, DanSummary:
Do you remember the invasion of Newfoundland's hydroponic cucumber? How about New Brunswick's Bricklin sports car? Dan Soucoup follows the money up the political ladder to deliver the dirt on the most devastating failed business...
- Author:Sherrard, Valerie, MacDonald, PamelaSummary:
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...
- Author:Loring, Philip A.Summary:
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...
- Author:Best, LauraSummary:
Cammie Deveau began life with a few strikes against her. She's visually impaired, abandoned by her mother at birth, her father was a casualty of the Second World War-and if all that isn't enough, she's being raised by her bootlegging...
- Author:Katz, ShawnSummary:
In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec's governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees. Enraged that the government would destroy a legacy of public education, so hard won during the 1960s Quiet...
- Author:Larsen, PattiSummary:
Ten-year-old Chloe Sutton arrives on Prince Edward Island to live with her Aunt Laverne (Larry) after the loss of her parents. Her first night in her new home, Chloe is tormented by the loss of her mother and father and hides in the...
- Author:Sock, Serena M., Mitcham, Allison, Roy, RéjeanSummary:
Tout comme le Loch Ness ou le lac Memphrémagog, le lac Baker du Haut Madawaska, serait-il infesté par un monstre? Les trois mousquetaires acadiens plongent dans leur première enquête! Trois jeunes écoliers acadiens (et leur chien) se...
- Author:Best, LauraSummary:
It's 1960, and Elizabeth has a good life. A husband who takes care of her, two healthy children, a farm in the Forties Settlement. But Elizabeth is slowly coming apart, her reality splintering. She knows she will harm her children...
- Author:Campbell, Robert A.Summary:
Governance and Social Leadership examines the inadequacies of current theories on leadership in order to help us better understand the process of leadership and to suggest mechanisms for change. The proliferation of examples of poor...
- Author:Andrews, WilliamSummary:
William Andrews' first novel examines life in a small PEI community in the 1940s and 50s as changes, so common in the rest of the world, begin to take hold. Using a road as an allegory, he weaves a lyrical tale of simple country people...
- Author:Busch, Frank ChristopherSummary:
In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. With only one...
- Author:Bruce, HarrySummary:
In 1971, Harry Bruce, recognized as one of Canada's top non-fiction writers, lost his mind-according to his peers-when he left bustling, lucrative Toronto and moved his family to the tough little seaport of Halifax. Harry was already...
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
From best-selling author Lesley Crewe comes a poignant and moving novel. Sisters Bay and Tansy are complete opposites. Widowed mother Bay has never lived anywhere but Louisbourg; restless Tansy left the town as a teenager and stayed...
- Author:Cadieux, MarieSummary:
Martin est un adolescent normal vivant à Dieppe. Mais la guerre fait rage et son pays, la France, est occupé par les Nazis. La cohabitation est difficile et les conditions de vie, précaires. Logé chez Madame Agnès, une vieille dame...
- Author:Paul, Daniel N.Summary:
Ce n'était pas nous les sauvages relate l'histoire de la quasi-disparition, du point de vue des Mi'kmaq, des anciennes Premières Nations démocratiques d'Amérique du Nord, causée par l'invasion européenne des...
- Author:Powning, BethSummary:
Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, Beth Powning came to...
- Author:MacLeod, RaySummary:
One day, a couple who had run over a skunk with their car brought it to the Dartmouth Veterinary Hospital. When the veterinarians couldn't look after it, Hope Swinimer decided to take the helpless animal into her care, and that was the...