A Matter of Equality
The long-awaited autobiography of former Canadian Senator, lawyer, and outspoken spokesperson for diversity and minority advancement, detailing his life as a Black man working within the system to bring change… Read More
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Acadian Lives
The Cape Breton Acadian comes alive in this new collection of conversations with remarkable people in an extraordinary place-Acadians of Cape Breton Island. In their own words, this book is a marvelous introduction to… Read More
Adventures of a Lightkeeper
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Behind the Mic
With close to 50 years in the broadcast industry in Atlantic Canada, Rick Howe has been there, seen it and done it. As a reporter he has covered spectacular murder… Read More
Coming Home
In this collection, Fiona Steele writes about the journey of coming home — to P.E.I. after moving away and to the Island identity she is rooted in. It is organized… Read More
Dear Billie
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Fights, Film, and Folklore
Will the real Terry Ryan please stand up? Guess who?s back? Back again . . . Following the release of his wildly successful bestselling first memoir, Tales of a First-Round… Read More
For the Love of Sea View
It all started with a familiar sign: House for Sale: To Be Moved. Family farms on PEI had disappeared in the thousands in the mid-1900s.Tourists would scoop up the farmhouses,… Read More
Have Guitar, Will Travel
Town Canadian kid who leaped into a legendary life of popular music — from Punk bands like Problem Child to six-nights-a-week bar gigs with the Rubels and on to his… Read More
If I Cry I’ll Fill the Ocean
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In Search of Adventure
In 1949, several young Mounties arrived in Canada?s newest province to enforce federal law. Like those who followed, they were in search of adventure, and they found plenty. RCMP veterans,… Read More
In the Pit
A RARE, EXCITING INSIDER STORY of coal mine life in Cape Breton, filled with humour, pride, terror, and humanity.
From shoveling at the coal face and hand-lifting tons of shaker pans, to… Read More
Island Girl
The life story of Mary Elizabeth LeBlanc in Jackie Muise’s Island Girl is compelling and moving, not because she was highly unusual, but because she experienced, suffered, survived, and triumphed over challenges… Read More
Louisbourg or Bust
A rickety surf rig on wheels. A guide named Don Quixote. No cellphone. Louisbourg or Bust is RC Shaw’s spandex-free pilgrimage up a haunted coastline. Fuelled by Hungry Man Stew and blind… Read More
McNutt’s Island Journal
McNutt’s Island Journal is Elizabeth Walden Hyde’s candid record of her life on this small island off Shelburne, Nova Scotia, from September 1984 to May 1985. During what her… Read More
More Bygone Days
Reginald—”Dutch”—Thompson is back with more stories from the Bygone Days. Dutch, a multi-faceted storyteller and CBC broadcaster’s regular column on CBC Radio’s Mainstreet collects fascinating interviews… Read More
