Patricia Robertson's new collection of short fiction, Hour of the Crab, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original vision, intriguing characters, and sophisticated skill. Readers will travel with...
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:Robertson, PatriciaSummary:
- Author:Ibbotson, ChristineSummary:
For most people, planning for the future is usually last on the to-do list. They simply wait to long to save and plan-and then panic. Licensed Financial Advisor Christine Ibbotson offers accessible and realistic guidelines in a series...
- Author:Ledwell, PatrickSummary:
No man is a Prince Edward Island. That’s a good thing, because the tiny province is eroding a metre per year. In his new collection of side-splitting essays, I am An Islander, Patrick Ledwell explores the hilarity of life viewed from...
- Author:Asal, HoudaSummary:
While "Arabs" now attract considerable attention - from media, the state, and sociological studies - their history in Canada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in Canada begins to rectify this invisibilization by...
- Author:Chamberlain, PamSummary:
In this collection, thirty-seven writers from across Canada tell thought-provoking stories of extraordinary encounters with a variety of animals—from rats and salamanders to wolves and bears. From tributes to a favourite cat or dog to...
- Author:Benjamin, ChrisSummary:
In Indian School Road, journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first...
- Author:Young, JaredSummary:
Daniel Solomon is not having a good day. Somewhere between Bangkok and Tokyo, zipping through the stratosphere, the jetliner on which he's travelling cracks open like an egg, ejecting Daniel and his fellow passengers into the great blue...
- Author:Lauren Taylor, WandaSummary:
Award-winning writer Wanda Lauren Taylor delves into the history and development of the Preston area, the organizations and churches that helped bolster the population, and the struggles, successes, and personal stories of several...
- Author:Cohoon, Cassie DeveauxSummary:
Descended from one of the three most prominent families in Acadia, Jeanne Dugas (1731-1817) and her family lived for more than thirty years under the threat of capture and deportation by the British militia and attacks by pirates and...
- Author:Whetter, DarrylSummary:
It's 1998 and Antony Williams is about to meet his match. A native of Windsor, Ontario, Antony is the child of a demanding single mother and an absconding Vietnam War resister who got too used to leaving home, country, and family. With...
- Author:Whetter, DarrylSummary:
It's 1998 and Antony Williams is about to meet his match. A native of Windsor, Ontario, Antony makes his living as a house painter by day before catapulting loads of Canadian weed across the river to Detroit by night. Then he meets Kate...
- Author:Martin, FinleySummary:
In a coastal village where what's been buried doesn't stay buried, what's lost at sea doesn't stay lost. Sleuth Anne Brown finds herself in an eastern PEI fishing community, working undercover for the new owner of a...
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
The story of three generations of a Cape Breton family, beginning in Glace Bay in the 1930s and ending in Round Island in 2011.
- Author:Dawydiak, OrysiaSummary:
Twelve-year-old Kira loves to swim. But her parents, who adopted her as a baby, have forbidden her to go near the sea where they live on the north Atlantic coast. Frustrated by their rules, Kira decides to rebel and jumps into the icy...
- Author:Comeau, Marie-FranceSummary:
Une pomme jaune garde en son coeur un secret étoilé. Au milieu de centaines de pommes rouges, une pomme un peu différente se laisse bercer par un rayon de lune. Une berceuse révèle enfin le secret derrière l'étoile mystérieuse...
- Author:Boucher, Denis M.Summary:
TLes Trois Mousquetaires devraient se prélasser sur les plages de Shédiac, au Nouveau-Brunswick, mais Gabriel ne peut s'empêcher de s'imaginer les pires scénarios autour d'une île qui ne porte pas seulement un nom étrange. L'Île-au-...
- Author:Roy, Réjean, Léger, Diane CarmelSummary:
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...
- Author:Bourgeois, Stéphanie, Marcotte, Danielle S.Summary:
Été 1786. Deux garçons orphelins de quinze ans sont sur un voilier parti de Southampton, en Angleterre, pour le Nord-Est du Pacifique. Alexis, d'origine acadienne, cherche ce qu'il reste de sa famille dispersée, et Hugh rêve d'une vie...
- Author:Sawler, HarveySummary:
Featuring important insights from the company's current executives and employees, Last Canadian Beer: The Moosehead Story is not only a fascinating company history, but also a candid look at how a small New Brunswick business remains...
- Author:Mowat, ClaireSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Andrea Baxter is thrilled when she's offered a summer job in Cape Breton. Although her mother worries that she is too young to move so far away, Andrea welcomes the chance to strike out on her own. It seems the perfect...