On an October night in 1899 the body of a well-regarded city councilman is found floating under a Halifax wharf. Detective Inspector Culligan Baxter embarks on an investigation that leads from the waterfront, through the city's streets...
Nova Scotia--Halifax
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Author:Hood, DavidSummary: -
Author:Maher, AllisonSummary:Andrew's mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to find her. Luckily, Andrew and...
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Andrew's mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear to keep world leaders safe. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to...
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Author:Bird, Michael J.Summary:The Town That Died is a moving and detailed account of the greatest human-made explosion before Hiroshima- the terrible disaster known as the Halifax Explosion. It is the first documentary account, told from the personal experiences of...
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Author:Ungar, MichaelSummary:Joey is not your typical social worker. He burns down houses to solve bureaucratic deadlocks, steals to get his clients bigger welfare cheques, and lies if it will help prevent his supervisor from intruding in the lives of his young...
- Author:Bhat, ShashiSummary:
A humorous coming-of-age novel and a sharp-edged look at how silence can shape a life, from the winner of the Journey Prize. A Chatelaine Summer Reads pick. Named one of the most anticipated books of the fall by CBC Books and 49th Shelf...
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Author:Foster, NormSummary:Experienced tailor Norman Davenport has barely opened the doors to his new clothing store in downtown Halifax when Sophie, an exuberant young woman, barges in looking for work, followed by Patrick, a single father who claims to be handy...
- Author:Bennet, JimSummary:
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:Emery, AnneSummary:Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times has Monty Collins wished for a client who is intelligent, articulate and tattoo-free? Now he has one, but it’s not long before his mother’s warning comes back to...
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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: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...
- Author:Lawson, JulieSummary:
When Jane Mooney's older brother Connor lies about his age and enlists in the Great War at age fifteen, she can't imagine ever being more devastated. But a few months later on December 6, 1917, when two ships collide in Halifax Harbour...
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Author:Doucette, H. PaulSummary:A murder mystery set in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the Second World War. Halifax is struggling with the new demands placed on the city as, once again, it gears up to be the leading demarcation point for men and materials to support the...
- Author:Mercer, RobertSummary:
Robert Mercer's life could have been very different. He was born with very low vision and, as a youngster, struggled in school. But through the intervention of a caring teacher and the support of his family, he found his way to the...
- Author:Laffoley, StevenSummary:
Following the Second World War, a new generation of politicians and planners across North America set out to reimagine their cities. With great verve and vision, they conceived of brave new urban landscapes filled with elevated highways...
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Author:Baker, KeithSummary:Annie Welles is an officer with the Halifax Regional Police?s Robbery and Violent Crimes Unit. Recently divorced without custody of her two young sons, Annie?s career, too, is now stalling under the ambitions of her ruthless colleagues...
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Author:Wishinsky, Frieda, Lewis-MacDougall, Patricia AnnSummary:Since discovering the Canadian Flyer, a magical time-traveling sled, in Emily’s attic, Matt and Emily have outrun dinosaurs in the Alberta badlands, evaded slave catchers on the Underground Railroad, and seen the last spike driven into...
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Author:McCluskey, ElaineSummary:In this punchy, uproarious romp of a novel, the Halifax boxing world — peopled with has-beens, wannabes, and posers dressed in spandex, leopard prints, and tie-die — touches gloves with the colourful world of sports reporting. Both...
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Author:Doucette, H. PaulSummary:The job was hard enough since Halifax became the focal point as the major staging area for the convoys supplying the war effort in England. Robichaud had his hands full dealing with the influx of people looking for work, foreign...
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Author:Emery, AnneSummary:Beau Delaney is a bit of a showboat, a prominent lawyer whose exploits have become the subject of a Hollywood film. He's also the father of ten children (many adopted). Now he's charged with the murder of his wife, Peggy. It's another...
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