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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 doctor's sweetheart and other stories
By L. M Montgomery, Catherine M McLay. 1979
A country doctor never loses faith in the young woman who swears to return to him; an estranged wife bets…
her future happiness on a horse race; two maiden ladies, scared onto a roof by a dog, ponder marriage to the dog's owner as the price of rescue. Contains 14 previously uncollected stories, published between 1899 and 1935. Grades 5-8. 1979.Our homesick songs
By Emma Hooper. 2018
The fish have mysteriously disappeared, and in the fishing village of Big Running most families had no choice but to…
relocate and find work elsewhere. Aidan and Martha Connor now spend alternate months of the year working at an energy site up north to support their children, Cora and Finn. Plagued by romantic temptations new and old, the emotional distance between Aidan and Martha only widens. Finn Connor develops an obsession with solving the mystery of the missing fish, and is aided by his reclusive music instructor Mrs. Callaghan. Cora spends her days decorating the abandoned houses but--desperate for a bigger life beyond the small town--takes matters into her own hands. 2018.What is left the daughter
By Howard A Norman. 2010
Nova Scotia, 1967. Loner Wyatt Hillyer decides to write a memoir in the form of a letter on the occasion…
of his estranged daughter Marlais' twenty-first birthday. He slowly discloses the events of his parents' scandalous deaths in 1941, his teenage years living with his aunt and uncle, the joys of fatherhood, and what led to his abandoning his only daughter and her mother. 2010.Annabel: roman
By Kathleen Winter, Claudine Vivier. 2012
" En 1968, dans un village côtier du Labrador, un enfant mystérieux voit le jour. Ni tout à fait homme,…
ni tout à fait femme, le secret est gardé par trois personnes : Jacinta et Treadway, ses parents, et une voisine, Thomasina, qui sait tenir sa langue. Le roman suit Annabel-Wayne dans sa découverte du monde et la relation complexe quelle entretient avec son autre nature , celle qui refuse de se taire et laccompagne, telle une ombre fidèle, au gré des expériences. À partir de ce qui pourrait ne sembler quun fait divers, Kathleen Winter nous propose une œuvre dune profonde beauté explorant le fondement même de notre identité et de nos sociétés. Qui sommes-nous et pourquoi sommes-nous obligés par la communauté à renoncer à nous-même, qui que nous soyons ? " -- 4e de couv.Make or Break Spring
By Janet McNaughton. 1998
In the spring of 1945, fifteen-year-old Evelyn McCallum finds herself competing with her best friend, Peter Tilley, and Stan Dawe,…
the golden boy of her school, for the scholarship that bears her father's name. Although he has been missing in action for three years Evelyn clings to the hope that her father might somehow still be alive. As the war ends in Europe and her final year of high school draws to a close, her life alters in ways that will change her forever. Sequel to "Catch me once, catch me twice" (EB67373). Junior and Senior high school readers. 1998.Curse of the Red Cross ring
By Earl B Pilgrim. 2000
Set in Newfoundland in 1929, Azariah Roberts is a successful fisherman and a respected father figure to the people in…
his town. There is nothing he wouldn't do for his people; when there is trouble, Uncle Az, which is known to his friends, could always set things right. But after he and his men unearth the long-dead remains of a Viking warrior, all that is about to change. 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.