<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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<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, […]
<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>
<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>
<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>
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 […]
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 […]
<p><b>Winner, Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award<br>Longlisted, Newfoundland and Labrador Fiction Award and <i>Miramichi Reader</i>’s “The Very Best!” Book Awards (Novel)<br>One of <i>49th Shelf</i>’s Books of the Year</b> </p><p>The time is […]
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?
<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 […]
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.
<p><b>Winner, IPPY Award for Best First Book – Fiction and Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction<br />Runner-up, Leacock Medal for Humour<br />Shortlisted, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award […]
