Our local book expert recommends adventure-inspiring seasonal reads
by : Pam Estabrook
#75 Spring 2014
Atlantic Canada’s trails expert walks us through the awe-inspiring settings of some of the region’s newest books Atlantic Canada’s distinctive natural environment has shaped a unique people— and has unmistakably […]
Around the world in three new Atlantic Canadian cookbooks
Jeremy Stone
by Lesley Choyce
$12.95, paperback, 174 pp.
Red Deer Press, November 2013
Music is for Everyone
written by Jill Barber, illustrated by Sydney Smith
$19.95, hardcover, 32 pp.
Nimbus Publishing, May 2014
The Dartmouth Book Awards honour the region’s best writers “Toronto had one. Ottawa had one. Why not a book award in Dartmouth?” That was the question Paul Robinson asked himself […]
Rails Across the Rock: A Then and Now Celebration of the Newfoundland Railway
by Kenneth G. Pieroway
$22.95, paperback, 150 pp.
Creative Book Publishing, August 2013
On Poppy’s Beach
written by Susan Pynn Taylor, illustrated by David Sturge
$12.95, paperback, 32 pp.
Tuckamore Books, October 2014
Author John DeMont seeks big truths in the small stories The home page of John DeMont’s website—johndemont.ca—shows him as a toddler standing in a meadow on a plank of wood. […]
Wow Wow and Haw Haw
written by George Murray, illustrated by Michael Pittman
$19.95, hardcover, 32 pp.
Breakwater Books, May 2014
The Lillian Shepherd Award recognizes the region’s best children’s book illustrators Lillian Shepherd loved books. The former buyer for the once-iconic Book Room in Halifax took particular joy in illustrated […]
Dr. Richard B. Goldbloom’s achievements and honours are legion—and the man himself is almost legendary; he served as physician-in-chief and director of research at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax for several decades and has authored more than 200 publications
