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Best Maritime short stories
By George Peabody. 1988
Constellations (Vintage contemporaries)
By Janice Kulyk Keefer. 1988
After 15 years, Claire Saulnier returns to Nova Scotia to teach at a local college. She becomes involved with four…
people: Mariette, a disturbed teenager; Bertrand, a self-centred and reluctant teacher from Paris; a promising oboeist from Halifax; and Hector, the college janitor, a dropout from a philosophy Ph.D program. 1988.Blood ties
By David Adams Richards. 1976
The love and strength of the MacDurmot family members cannot keep the best of their young people from leaving while…
the family home falls into the hands of outsiders. Set in New Brunswick. Strong language. 1985, c1976.Cape Breton Road
By D. R MacDonald. 2000
It is the late 1970s, and nineteen-year-old Innis Corbett is deported from his home near Boston for car theft and…
returned to his mother's birthplace on Cape Breton Island to stay with his uncle Starr. Desperate to get away, Innis starts to grow a secret cash crop of marijuana and looks for a car to steal. When Starr's girlfriend comes to stay while fleeing another relationship, a bitter jealous rivalry begins to rage between the two men that leads ultimately to violence. 2000.Ash
By David Walker. 1976
Soldier of fortune, member of the Canadian establishment, now wanted for murder, Ash is on the run in the New…
Brunswick bush. An exciting novel with marvellous descriptions of the Canadian woods. 1976.Annabel
By Kathleen Winter. 2010
Coastal Labrador, 1968. A mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but…
both at once. Together the parents and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina, make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self - a girl he thinks of as Annabel - is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2010.Anne of the island: an Anne of Green Gables story (Anne of Green Gables. #3.)
By L. M Montgomery. 1962
Anne's world is changing -- childhood friends are marrying and Anne herself leaves P.E.I. for college. She hopes for love,…
but it seems to elude her. Sequel to "Anne of Avonlea" (DC14239). Followed by "Anne's house of dreams" (DC00862). Grades 5-8. 1962. 1915. (Anne of Green Gables ; 3)Alligator: A Novel
By Lisa Moore. 2005
Intertwined characters knowingly, and even wilfully, place themselves in danger. Colleen watches violent videos, tries her hand at eco-terrorism, and…
finally runs away to find alligators in Louisiana. Madeleine, her aunt, scrambles to finish a movie while ignoring her failing health. And Frank, a 19-year-old still reeling from his mother's death, obsesses over Colleen and finds himself intertwined with Valentin, a bloodthirsty Russian gangster. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2005.An audience of chairs: a novel
By Joan Clark. 2005
Moranna MacKenzie lives alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, fighting the symptoms of mental illness. Highly creative, she plays the…
piano, sings, writes, sculpts, and bakes - all perfectly - but also behaves erratically and alienates her friends and family. Still grieving the loss of her two daughters, who were taken from her over thirty years previously, she then learns that one of them is about to get married. 2005.All the men are sleeping: collected fiction
By D. R MacDonald. 2002
Short stories of Cape Breton Island that explore the misunderstanding between men and women, the nature of seduction and infidelity,…
and the heartache of longing. For a fisherman in "The flowers of Bermuda", time has not repaid the loss of his young son's life. In the title story, the compassion of a rural doctor imperils a horse and a woman the doctor once loved. Some strong language. 2002.The story of Anna Elisabeth, one of the settlers of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In 1753 Lunenburg is a rocky hillside…
of forest, not the prepared homesteads she and her family had been expecting. With no shelter, no crops planted, and no experience at frontier life, how will she survive and thrive in her new home? c2010.A fit month for dying
By Myrtis T Dohaney. 2000
Tess Corrigan is a popular politician. Originally from a coastal village, she now lives in St. John's with her husband…
and twelve-year-old son. Urged on by her mother-in-law, she decides to track her bigamous father down. Preoccupied with this and her political work, Tess has no inkling of trouble until a decision triggers a series of betrayals and revelations that forever change her family and the village of The Cove. 2000.The present tense of Prinny Murphy
By Jill MacLean. 2010
An alcoholic mother, a distracted father, a best friend who spends all his time with his new "girlfriend," and three…
relentless schoolyard bullies: Prinny Murphy's past, present, and future certainly are "tense." Adding to her misery, she still can't read well enough to escape from remedial lessons with the dour Mrs. Dooks. But with the help of a kindly substitute teacher, Prinny discovers that life can be full of possibilities - and poetry. Sequel to “The nine lives of Travis Keating”. Followed by “The hidden agenda of Sigrid Sugden”. Grades 3-6. 2010.Tides of honour
By Genevieve Graham. 2015
In the summer of 1916, Private Daniel Baker, a soldier with Nova Scotia's 25th Battalion, meets Audrey Poulin, a lonely…
French artist, by chance and they fall in love. Danny is wounded in the battle of the Somme and the lovers find themselves building a new life in Halifax just as a new catastrophe threatens. Bestseller. 2015.The lost highway
By David Adams Richards. 2007
Alex Chapman's lifelong feud with his tyrannical great-uncle James, and the ironic twists of his life, drive him to desperation.…
He blames his uncle for an old humiliation that prevented him from admitting his feelings for Minnie, the girl who loved him. He begins a treacherous intrigue against James, aligning himself with Leo Bourque, not realizing that their twinned descent will become deadly. Some descriptions of sex, strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 2007.The wreckage: a novel
By Michael Crummey. 2005
Newfoundland, 1940. Mercedes Parsons is only 16 when she begins an intense relationship with traveling projectionist Wish Furey. Wish enlists…
in the British Army, only to be captured by the Japanese, and Sadie settles in St. John's to wait for his return. Fifty years later, Sadie returns to Newfoundland to scatter the ashes of her dead husband and collides with Wish, whom she believed dead. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2005.The money pit mystery
By Eric Walters. 1999
Sam and Beth accompany their mother on a visit to their grandfather's home on Oak Island. Something strange seems to…
be happening to grand-dad. Apart from losing his memory, he's also spending a lot of time on a hunt for a 200-year-old treasure. Sam is bitten by the treasure bug too, and he and the whole family set out to solve the mystery. Grades 4-7. 1999.Will ye let the mummers in?: stories
By Alden Nowlan. 1984
Waiting for time
By Bernice Morgan. 1995
This sequel to "Random passage" continues the saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. It also tells the story of…
today's Newfoundland, a place where the past overshadows the present and shapes the future. Lave Andrews, a young professional sent from Ottawa to assess the fisheries crisis, discovers her roots as she explores the province. 1995.Various persons named Kevin O'Brien: a fictional memoir
By Alden Nowlan. 1973
Kevin O'Brien returns to the isolated Maritime village of his childhood. In the confusing rural atmosphere which he had once…
sought to escape, he relives the loneliness and desperate shyness of his introspective youth. 1973.