Sara Jewell has collected lots of addresses--eighteen in total--including four in Vancouver, British Columbia, and three in her hometown of Cobourg, Ontario. But there was one address that always remained constant: Pugwash Point Road...
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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Author:Jewell, SaraSummary: - Author:Hounsell, KaylaSummary:
A murder, a missing body, and a sensational trial that gripped Nova Scotia. Will Sandeson seemed like a model son. A member of the Dalhousie University track and field team, he was about to start classes at Dalhousie's medical school....
- Author:Stinson, KathySummary:
Set in the beautiful environs of the Canadian East Coast, this novel draws the reader into the struggles of two troubled teens whose encounter helps them to confront and overcome their problems. An excellent starting point for giving...
- Author:Boutilier, Alex D.Summary:
It begins with the founding of Halifax; the development of Nova Scotia and how it devolved into the Maritime provinces (ca.1785); the failure of Maritime Union, evolution of responsible government and the Canadian Confederation.
- Author:Oickle, VernonSummary:
"Are you afraid of things that go bump in the night? Do you think someone is watching you even though no one is there? Do doors and windows open and close on their own? If you've answered yes to even one of these questions, then join...
- Author:Parker, MikeSummary:
Hunting, fishing and woodsmanship are inscribed in North American culture. Once the survival skills of the Mi'kmaq people, they became recreational pastimes for British officers arriving in Nova Scotia in the nineteenth century. The...
- Author:Feltham, Liz, Munn, ScottSummary:
Halifax Tastes is the newest installment in the popular Tastes series. Halifax is famous for its flavourful seafood but as the largest city in the Maritimes, it should be no surprise that Halifax also boasts plenty of variety when it...
- Author:Croft, ClarySummary:
Helen Creighton was born at the turn of the nineteenth century and until her death in 1989, she made a remarkable contribution towards retrieving the stories, songs, and legends that have shaped the culture and the people of the...
- Author:Dallison, Robert L.Summary:
Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over...
- Author:Leeming, Mark R.Summary:
As environmental deterioration became a major social and political issue near the end of the twentieth century, activists in Nova Scotia stood together to defend the places they called home. Political radicals and conservatives alike...
- Author:Davison, NicolaSummary:
When Emily and her family move back to Nova Scotia from Calgary, it is a return to the coastal landscape that already haunts her-and the waters where her father died. She meets her neighbour Linda, a gruff but loving widow and Linda's...
- 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:Cochrane, ChrisSummary:
“Many of Nova Scotia's best sports stories have never entirely been told, at least not to the extent they deserve.” In Inside the Game, sports columnist Chris Cochrane goes beyond the headlines to tell the real stories behind ten of the...
- 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:Robertson, CarmenSummary:
La fugueuse, c'est Léa, la propriétaire d’une librairie de Québec, terriblement ébranlée par la disparition soudaine de sa sœur, victime d’un accident d’avion au large de la Nouvelle-Écosse. Cette mort tragique provoque une crise qui...
- 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...
- Author:Mills, ChrisSummary:
Imagine living your life perched on a tiny island, without electricity, exposed to the fury of the sea, and always at the service of the mariner. This is how lightkeepers and their families spent their lives, even up until the 1960s. We...
- Author:Jefferson, JoanneSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Evans is the privileged and naive only child of prominent New Englanders, part of a group of Planters who settled in Nova Scotia following the deportation of the Acadian people. As a teenager, she is...
- Author:McDonald, EllenSummary:
The author's memoirs of growing up in Nova Scotia, the hardship of life on the prairies, her marriage, her children, and her working life as a teacher. She has recounted the stories and memories for her family.
- Author:Shaw, R. C.Summary:
"This crazy beautiful quest narrative puts Don Quixote on a bicycle and sends him out to face history with a surfboard. Half hilarious dream-adventure, half marathon nightmare, the end result is a madcap love letter to Nova Scotia."-...
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