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Evening snow will bring such peace: a novel
By David Adams Richards. 1990
Married for only 20 months, Cindi and Ivan Basterache separate after a fight. Ivan, always an outsider, feels trapped and…
powerless as others, motivated with good intentions, intervene in his life. Sequel to "Nights below Station Street". Strong language.Fall on your knees
By Ann-Marie MacDonald. 1996
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, an ambitious Cape Breton father and his Lebanese child-bride raise four extraordinary…
girls. Kathleen is a gifted singer preparing for an opera career; Frances is the bad girl, an incorrigible liar; Mercedes is an obsessive Catholic, trying to protect the flock; but it is Lily who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption. Strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. Canada Reads 2010. Co-winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1996.The second season of Jonas MacPherson
By Lesley Choyce. 1989
The life of reclusive Jonas MacPherson, an Eastern Shore Nova Scotian, is interwoven with mystical Joe Allen Joe, fisherman John…
Kincaid, Muriel Cree and the mulatto Baptist preacher. For Jonas, the sea has always been a force that lures him, although he knows that it can destroy him. Some strong language.Nights below Station Street
By David Adams Richards. 1988
Joe, an unemployed alcoholic, tries to improve his relationship with his teenage daughter, Adele. Set in a remote town in…
northern New Brunswick, this is a story of love, hate, desire and survival. Followed by "Evening snow will bring such peace". Winner of the 1988 Governor-General's Award. 1988.Constellations
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. Some strong language.Courage in the storm
By Thomas H Raddall. 1987
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.