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FICTION

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Beautiful Sadness

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  <p>It is the 1960s and Professor Jon Andrews is haunted by memories of growing up in an abusive, ultra-religious home.<br><br> He leaves his teaching job in Montreal to go […]

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Because of Nothing at All

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<p>Near the Kenya-Sudan border, a team of international health program evaluators are abducted and force marched under a desert moon. Their pasts and presents — and those of their abductors […]

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Beholden

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Beloved and bestselling Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe’s novels are now available in bright and bold, smaller-format editions. The story begins with Nell, the « spinster on the hill » near St. […]

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Beltane Massacre, The

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<p><strong><em>Simultaneously a high-stakes mystery and an in-depth exploration of grief and loss, The Beltane Massacre is reminiscent of a classic spy novel with a modern twist – Rowan McRae is […]

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Beneath Her Skin

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<p><b>A literary crime thriller from a mysterious new voice in Atlantic fiction</b><br><br>
<i>She knew her process. Knew the itch in her nerves. The cold hardness creeping in. She was pulling on the killer’s skin too fast. Something wild flickered across her heart. When she fully donned it, there wouldn’t be room for anyone else but the killer and her.</i></p>

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Bird Shadows

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<p><i>Bird Shadows</i> is a playful tale of eccentricities, misconceptions, and misogyny. While working on a personal spiritual project, an irreverent artist encourages her religious sister to rethink the marriage that […]

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Birth Road

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<p><b>A bold and evocative work of historical fiction by a debut author that travels from rural Nova Scotia to Boston and back again, told in startling vignettes.</b><br><br> <i>My mother was […]

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Blaze Island

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<p><b>A <i>Globe and Mail</i> Top 100 Selection<br>Hamilton Reads 2021 Selection<br>A <i>Writers’ Trust of Canada</i> Best Book of the Year<br>A 49th Shelf Books of the Year (Fiction) Selection<br>One of « 20 books […]

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Bleeding Light

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<p><b>A howl into the void, a ghost story, and a bit of a metaphysical hellride.</b></p> <p>A misanthropic ghostwriter roams an island off the Kenyan coast. An Arizona teenager awaits the […]

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Blue Tattoo

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<p>Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters – from Boston mayor James Michael Curley to Group of Seven painter Arthur Lismer – <em>The Blue Tattoo</em> tells the sweeping story of the lives caught up in the unbelievable devastation of the Halifax Explosion.  </p>

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Bluenose Ghosts

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<p><b>The classic work of Nova Scotia folklore, available in an attractive new edition.</b></p> <p>Ghosts guarding buried treasure, phantom ships, haunted houses, and supernatural warnings of death—these are just some of […]

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Bluenose Magic (3rd ed)

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<p><b>The classic work of Nova Scotia folklore, available with an attractive new cover and original pen-and-ink illustrations.</b></p> <p><i>Bluenose Magic</i>, first published in 1968, is considered a classic of Maritime literature, […]

FICTION

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Chocolate Cherry Chai

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<p>“This book is a moving contribution to the growing body of fictional writings about migrants and racialized women across transnational borders. An authentic description of events and stories that is profoundly touching.”</p>

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Clearing by Dawn

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<p>Miranda Murray lives in the city where she is immersed in the challenging and exhausting work of creating live theatre. She loves what she does, but when she meets a […]

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Closing Down Heaven

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<p>Closing Down Heaven is on CCBC?s Best Books for Kids & Teens and CanLit for Little Canadians? list of Exceptional Novels for Young Readers.</p> <p>In this highly readable YA novel, […]

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Coastal Healing

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<p>At 27, Heather Hatfield returns to her coastal hometown in Nova Scotia, her military career in ruins and her future uncertain. Seeking solace in the familiar rhythm of the waves, she hopes to rebuild the confidence she’s lost. But when a routine fishing trip turns into a dramatic rescue, Heather is thrust into the spotlight as an unexpected hero. As the media swarms and the past she’s been running from threatens to resurface, she must decide: will she let her past define her, or will she find the strength to rewrite her own story?</p>

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Cod Only Knows

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<p>Finally! A new book in the popular Shores Mysteries series!</p><p>For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod.</p><p>A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores’s mysterious Abel Mack almost landed the most giant of the giant cod the last time they appeared.</p><p>At all costs, two powerful men with competing interests are after the biggest cod. They are closing in on The Shores–but the fisherman is missing.</p><p>Ninety-year-old Abel Mack has disappeared. At the best of times, Abel is there one minute, gone the next. His best friends and family are not sure they would recognize him if they found him.</p><p>Is he dead, by foul play or misadventure, or dead of exposure, as Mountie Jane Jamieson suspects? Or is he alive and sure to return, as his wife Gus Mack insists? Does the never-at-home Abel even exist outside Gus’s memory or imagination, Hy McAllister wonders? Or has he been kidnapped for what he knows about the codfish?</p><p>In this sixth Shores mystery by Hilary MacLeod, everyone is after the one that got away. But does anything–or anyone–who is attached to The Shores ever actually get away…alive? Cod only knows.</p>

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Cold Clear Morning (revised edition)

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<p>Taylor Colby grew up in the tiny Nova Scotia fishing village of Nickerson Harbour, but his guitar-playing skill led him to become a much sought-after studio musician in Los Angeles. Along with him went Laura, his childhood sweetheart and soulmate. In L.A., Laura becomes enamoured with the dark side of rock and roll life, leaving Taylor lost, distraught and deeply damaged. Taylor realizes he has to go back home to Nickerson Harbour, to confront Laura’s parents, to reunite with his father and to understand the truth of his own dysfunctional family.</p> <p>Back in Nova Scotia, Taylor learns that his mother, who had abandoned him as a child, wants to come home to reconcile with her own past. Taylor is haunted by his loss and grief but must also come to terms with some hidden truths about Laura. As he begins to make sense of his past, he befriends an American feminist professor who is trying to start life anew in Canada with her troubled twelve-year-old son. </p> <p><i>Cold Clear Morning</i> is a novel about dreams realized and dreams shattered. It is about love and loss, hunting and healing, grief and forgiving. Taylor Colby speaks his story of what it takes to pick up the remains of a shattered life and find renewed purpose and hope. It is the story of going back to the home that you thought you could never return to. In his odyssey from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and back home, he attempts to find real meaning to his life of adventure and despair. </p>

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Cold Edge of Heaven

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Coming in May. Abandoned at a desolate Arctic outpost and haunted by memories of forbidden desire, Constable Will Grant preserves his sanity by investigating the mysterious deaths of two troubled […]

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Confession Can Be Murder

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Father Ambrose Granchelli hasn’t been late for Mass at St. Jude’s in fifty years. The congregation, understandably concerned, is horrified when he finally appears, toppling out of the confessional with […]

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Counted Among the Dead

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The students at Father Brennan Burke’s school have written a two-act play about the Halifax Explosion. But somebody doesn’t want act two to be performed. The students are threatened, and a young woman is found dead. What, if anything, connects these events and the explosion more than 70 years before?

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Cricket in a Fist

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<p>One night, Agatha Winter’s phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It’s the anniversary of their […]

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Crocuses Hatch from Snow

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In North End Halifax, past and present interweave through the relationships of the characters in <i>Crocuses Hatch from Snow</i>. A soaring exploration of diverse communities across generations, author Jaime Burnet’s debut novel introduces an exciting lyrical voice in queer literary fiction.

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Crow

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Winner, IPPY Award for Best First Book – Fiction and Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction Runner-up, Leacock Medal for Humour Shortlisted, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award […]