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Mercy Among the Children
by David Adams Richards
When twelve-year-old Sidney Henderson pushes his friend Connie off the roof of a local church in a moment of anger, he makes a silent vow: Let Connie live and I will never harm another soul. At that very moment, Connie stands, laughs, and walks away. Sidney keeps his promise through adulthood despite the fact that his insular, rural community uses his pacifism to exploit him. Sidney's son Lyle, however, assumes an... (more)
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The Gravesavers
by Sheree Fitch
“An odd shaped shell caught my eye. . . . I turned it over. . . . It was a tiny, perfect skull.” In the wake of a family tragedy, twelve-year-old Minn Hotchkiss is sent to spend the summer with her sour grandmother in the tiny seaside town of Boulder Basin, Nova Scotia. Almost as soon as she arrives, Minn discovers the skull of a human child on the beach. She is swiftly caught up in a mystery that reaches back... (more)
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The Lost Highway
by David Adams Richards
What had happened, from those days until now? And why had it? And how had his life gone? And who was to blame? Or why did he think he had to blame anyone? Certainly he couldn’t even blame Mr. Roach, caught in the same turmoil as everyone believing half-truths in order to blame other people. (p. 141) These are the forlorn thoughts of Alex Chapman, the tragic anti-hero of David Adams Richards’ masterful novel The... (more)
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Galore
by Michael Crummey
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date. An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and... (more)
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The Birth House
by Ami McKay
An arresting portrait of the struggles that women faced for control of their own bodies, The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare—the first daughter in five generations of Rares. As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss Babineau, Dora learns to assist the women of an isolated Nova Scotian village through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies, and unfulfilling sex... (more)
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The Friends of Meager Fortune
by David Adams Richards
In his major new novel, The Friends of Meager Fortune, Richards explores the dying days of the lumber industry in the mid-twentieth century. This is a transfixing love story of betrayal, envy, and sexual jealousy, which builds to a tragically inevitable climax. It is also a devastating portrait of a pre-mechanized time, and a brilliant commemoration of the passing of a world. ... (more)
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Rockbound (Literature of Canada: poetry and prose in reprint)
by Frank Parker Day
Frank Parker Day's classic novel about a windswept island off Nova Scotia and its ruthless fisherman king was chosen by CBC Radio's CANADA READS panel as the one book all Canadians should read this year. Now, the CBC's magnificent serialization of Rockbound (narrated by Richard Donat and broadcast on "The Round Up" and "Between the Covers" in March 2005) is available on CD. The story of David Jung, who arrives on... (more)
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River of the Brokenhearted
by David Adams Richards
Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing and overt violence. She trusts nobody other than family. Spanning generations this title explores the life of this formidable person.
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The Republic of Nothing
by Lesley Choyce
A small Canadian island declares its independence to the world and benign anarchy reigns. A god-like ocean deposits many a thing, yet it also takes away. The 1960s blaze off shore and draw the island's inhabitants into politics, the Vietnam War, and the peace movement. Sound impossible? Not on Whalebone Island, AKA the Republic of Nothing. Where else can a dead circus elephant, a long-dead Viking, the discovery of... (more)
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What They Wanted
by Donna Morrissey
In What They Wanted, the second part of the Sylvanus Now Trilogy, award-winning author Donna Morrissey explores both new and familiar terrain: a divided house on the shores of Newfoundland and the equally challenging environment of an Alberta oil rig. After Sylvanus has a heart attack, family tensions rise to the fore. Sylvie must deal with her feelings of estrangement from her mother, Addie. Meanwhile, Chris, a... (more)
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Timeless Island and Other Stories
by H. R. Percy
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Submarine Outlaw
by Philip Roy
"Submarine Outlaw" takes YA readers on a unique journey when Alfred, a young boy who wants to be an explorer - not a fisherman, as his family demands - teams up with a junkyard genius to build a submarine that he sails around the Maritimes. When the submarine is mistaken for a Russian spy sub and chased by the coastguard, a thrilling high-seas chase ensues. The first prize winner of the Atlantic Writers... (more)
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For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
CROSS-COUNTRYHugh MACLENNAN
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CROSS-COUNTRY
by Hugh MACLENNAN
Scotchman's Return and Other EssaysHugh Maclennan
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Scotchman's Return and Other Essays
by Hugh Maclennan
Seven Rivers of CanadaHugh MacLennan
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Seven Rivers of Canada
by Hugh MacLennan
The PrecipiceHugh Maclennan
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The Precipice
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THE DREAMERS
by Thomas Head Raddall
Raddall creates ten entertaining short stories about his beloved Nova Scotia. Using the unforgiving background and hardship of the environment, Raddall celebrates the people who value humour and common sense.
Whylah FallsGeorge Elliott Clarke
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Whylah Falls
by George Elliott Clarke