The Sea Wins by Eric Allaby
The Sea Wins: Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy vividly recounts more than forty dramatic tales of the real people who faced great odds in their sailing ships, only to discover that inevitably, the sea wins.
Heather McBriarty
Life Savers and Body Snatchers by Dr. Tim Cook
From Tim Cook, Canada’s top war historian, comes a definitive medical history of the Great War.
The Great Saint John Fire of 1877: The rise, destruction and recovery of Canada’s leading port city by Mark Allan Greene
What most of us don’t know is this: it was the single most devastating urban fire in the 19th century in North America, eclipsing the more famous fires in Boston and Chicago.
In Our Youth by Angus Scully
In Our Youth explores the lives of thirty-two young Canadian military and civilian flyers, viewed through the medium of archival photography.
Possessed by Jowita Bydlowska
Intimate and erotic, Possessed is a dark and funny story exploring sexual obsession, mental illness, and the supernatural.
Nether Regions by Randal Graham
Gear up for laughter in the hereafter as Socrates sets out to assassinate every soul who can remember the mortal world.
Dulse to Donairs: An Irreverent History of Food in Nova Scotia by Steven Laffoley
Far from the canned ravioli and Jell-O salads of his youth, Laffoley discovered that Nova Scotian food could be fresh and fascinating, frivolous and fun.
Brit Happens: Or Living the Canadian Dream by James Mullinger
From the highs and lows of London to beginning anew in New Brunswick, Brit Happens tells gut-busting stories of success and failure and the unpredictable grind of stand-up comedy. It also offers a laugh-out-loud look at life in Atlantic Canada from the region’s funniest outsider-turned-local.
The Mystery Ships of Nova Scotia in the First World War by John N. Grant
n 1917, a small fleet of six schooners sailed from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland ports as live bait for German U-boats.
Shadowboxing by Steven Laffoley
Before Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis, before Sugar Ray Robinson and Jack Johnson, before Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, before all the great Black boxing champions of every age and every weight class, there was George Dixon. He was the first. He was the greatest. And this is his story.
Beneath Her Skin by C.S. Porter
Beneath Her Skin is a literary crime thriller from a mysterious new voice in Atlantic fiction.
The Lost by Heather McBriarty
I remember the year my father went to war, and my mother’s smile went with him. It was also the first time I saw an automobile, the day we drove him in the old farm cart to the city and waved him off on the train.
Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero by Grant Hayter-Menzies
The unusual and moving tale of Muggins, a famed fundraising dog who became a mascot of the Canadian Red Cross during the First World War.
A Canadian Nurse in the Great War: The Diaries of Ruth Loggie, 1915-1916 Edited by Ross Hebb
A Canadian Nurse in the Great War grants a peek, through the diary of Ruth Loggie, into a little-known moment of our history. It also offers a glimpse into forbidden territory-women at war.