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When school lets out for the summer, Mayann eagerly prepares for her family’s trip to New York City. She and her mother and father and sister are taking the train from their home in Cape Breton all the way to the big city where they are visiting family in Brooklyn. After a brief stop in Montreal, they arrive in New York where so many exciting adventures await. However, when Mayann leaves her beautiful new purse on the subway, she is heartbroken. A thoughtful gift from a family friend restores Mayann’s dampened spirits but also helps her come to a very important realization.
This sweet, nostalgic tale reads like a fond reminiscence. It genuinely portrays the wonder and excitement that this grand adventure held for yound Mayann while also managing to capture what it meant to her to lose her treasured green purse. Tamara Thiebaux Heikalo’s beautiful watercolour illustrations with their bold, dark outlines and retro feel help transport readers to this earlier time, and vividly depict each stage of the family’s journey.
A simple and lovely story with a satisfying resolution.
Deep in the forest, Little Thunder lives with Giju, his mother, and his father, Big Thunder. His mother and father teach Little Thunder many things about the fish and the animals and the great circle of life. As he learns these lessons, he looks forward to the day when he will become Thundermaker. He will have the important task of trying to create Kluskap by throwing thunderbolts at a mound of clay. When the time comes for Little Thunder to go to the sacred mountain and take on his new role, will he be up to the challenge and will his aim be true?
Still mourning the recent death of her father, Jesse has decided to spend her summer working at a camp. There she hopes to find “old Jesse” again. Having given up on running and her dreams of a scholarship, she’s not really sure who she is anymore. But when she arrives at camp and discovers she is now the counsellor for a cabin full of high-spirited twelve-year-old boys, she digs in her heels and vows to prove to herself and the head counsellor – who always seems to be right there to witness her most awkward moments – that she can do this.
Short story collections are a literary buffet. A sampling of this; a bit of that; an author you wouldn’t mind gorging on… if only there were more.
If eroticism is an antidote to life, poet Sarah Bernstein explores the pheromones of Fréhel (Marguerite Boulc’h), a Parisian singer born into poverty, as she grapples with depression and addiction. Now Comes the Lightning chronicles her career, which spanned both World Wars and the arrival of cinema, and questions celebrity and performance.
n of the Acadians during the mid-1700s. Although many an Acadian story has dealt with the events, Léger wasn’t interested in focusing on “Le Grand Derangement”, but rather the resiliency it brought about in the Acadians. “It’s a story of survival, and a story that offers hope,” says Léger. “I think it shows that here is a people that had something very tragic happen to them, but today they are not resentful or vengeful. If they had been resentful, they would not have survived to this day.”
Dora Russell was a journalist in Newfoundland at a time when married women didn’t usually work outside the home. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she brought up five children, worked as the women’s editor of the Evening Telegram in St. John’s, reported on the National Convention, and wrote newspaper columns, radio plays and books.
The Lost Wilderness is an interesting but quite complex book since it is part photographic “now and then”—historic photos alongside contemporary pictures of the same backwoods location—and part historical travelogue, as well as a present-day commentary on how well Ganong’s beloved wilderness has remained intact in the 21st first century. Perhaps New Brunswick’s most important historian, as well as a noted botanist and cartographer, William Ganong’s unique contribution to his native province is the charting of the untamed wilds. By foot and canoe, he traveled the rivers, valleys, and hills for over forty years in order to document the province’s geography.
Bill Rowe has had many titles — Rhodes Scholar, Member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly, lawyer, public affairs commentator, and bestselling author. His latest book, The True Confessions of a Badly Misunderstood Dog, takes a warm and humorous look at the inner lives of a destined-for-greatness dog named Durf and his human and feline housemates.
Behind the scenes with the literary rabble-rousers at Fernwood
inded publishing house, Fernwood has always gone against the grain. At its core, Fernwood wants to reach readers hungry for social change and social justice. With a focus on social science, gender and women’s studies, critical theory, Aboriginal studies, labour issues, cultural studies, social work and criminology, Fernwood publishes for a general and academic audience, though not exclusively. They launched their Roseway imprint in 2006, a small program geared towards fiction.
Diversion is the seventh volume of poetry from the former poet laureate of St. John’s, George Murray. As usual, he’s pushing the envelope: The idea is to reposition poetic inspiration from the tranquil channel of quiet musings to the infusion of multi-media platforms.
