Lexie Ivy loves her little house in Cape Breton, her big family, and the endless sea that surrounds her. She wouldn't trade her life for anything, but at thirty she's starting to feel like something's missing. Enter Adrian, a charming...
Atlantic Canadian
The Nova Scotia government, in partnership with members of the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association, contributed 84 titles in accessible formats to the NNELS database, 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. Added to NNELS in January 2017.
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Author:Crewe, LesleySummary: -
Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:It's lobster season at The Shores, a fishing village isolated from The Island in a storm surge. Parker, a collector of antiquities, moved there with his partner Guillaume, a chef just out of rehab. "Hy" McAllister, a writer looking for...
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Author:Florence, MelanieSummary:Raised on a reserve in northern Ontario, seventeen-year-old Joe Littlechief tries to be like the other guys. But Joe knows he's different -- he's more interested in guys than in any of the girls he knows. One night Joe makes a drunken...
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Author:Rainnie, BruceSummary:With over 25 years of broadcasting experience, Bruce Rainnie has collected stories from every news, political and sports arena. He has forged a unique partnership with PEI's legendary weatherman, "Boomer" Gallant, and has worked closely...
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In the middle of the night, five teens break into a small town high school that has been closed by the regional school board. They are there to protest the decision to move them to a big city school and make their little town that much...
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Author:Kroll, Robert E.Summary:In Rogues and Rascals Bob Kroll tells more than 200 true tales of our maritime ancestors, and introduces us to heroes, failures, and murderers who bring the everyday history of the Maritimes to vivid life. With tales from the 1700s...
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Author:Glover, Douglas HSummary:An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013, A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013, and a Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013, Longlisted, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
Savage Love marks the long-awaited literary return of one...
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Author:Kroll, Robert E.Summary:A miserly miller with a stash of gold, some sly smugglers who nevertheless remember to send a thank you note, a stern schoolmaster who couldn?t tell time, and a thief with two left feet are just some of the fascinating individuals who...
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Screening Justice in Canada is a scholarly exploration of films that focus centrally on crime and justice in Canada. Defining Canadian crime films as those that focus significantly on crime and its consequences in Canadian society, the...
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Author:Donovan, KevinSummary:"It began as rumours. Whispers at dinner parties. Warnings about bad dates with a Canadian celebrity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, superstar CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi revealed his interest in "rough sex" in a long Facebook post,...
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Author:Kitz, Janet F.Summary:This book, the most comprehensive ever written on the Explosion, details the terrific devastation, the aftermath and the restoration. It encompasses dozens of previously unpublished stories, photographs, and documents, along with some...
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Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:Elsie Brooks' banished husband lives in the basement, her only sister lives in the attic, her twenty-something daughters come and go and when the ninety-one-year-old archaeologist they all know as Aunt Hildry comes home to die, her poor...
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Author:Vernon, SteveSummary:The tiny community of Deeper Harbour is in trouble-and so is young Roland MacTavish. Roland's mom wants to move with him to Ottawa, away from his father, his weird friend Dulsie, and his even weirder grandfather. So Roland does what any...
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Author:Mechefske, LindySummary:Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, Sir John's Table is a refreshing look at Canada's first prime minister. Sir John's Table traverses the colourful life of Macdonald, from his passage as a...
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In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada's neoliberal...
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Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:Herrings are falling from the sky over The Shores - an unusual phenomenon anywhere, but especially so in this case. A newcomer, Anton Paradis, has set up a restaurant that specializes in dangerous dining, cooking up food that can kill...
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Author:Jenkins, Glenna LandriganSummary:In Somewhere I Belong, we meet young P.J. Kavanaugh at North Boston Station. His father has died, the Depression is on, and his mother is moving them back home. They settle in, and P.J. makes new friends. But the P.E.I. winter is harsh...
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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...
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Author:Creelman, ElizabethSummary:In the mid-1970s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. But sixteen-year-old identical twin sisters April and Pilgrim live happily on their parents' farm. Their father recruits a young Bahamian...
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Author:White, SusanSummary:A moving story of losing family but finding a new one. Thirteen-year-old Rachel is bad news, or so her foster care worker tells her. She's been shuttled from one rotten foster family to another ever since her mother and brother died in...
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