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The Cartographer of No Man’s Land
- Location(s): France, Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
‘Trust me. I know where I’m going.’ Angus MacGrath, artist, sailor and navigator, is lost, caught between a remote wife, a disapproving father and a son seeking guidance. Far from his coastal village in Nova Scotia, war rages in...
Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
House Parties. Pick-Up Trucks. Cherry-Vanilla Ice-Cream. Prom Night. Unrequited Love. Welcome to the spring of 1987 and the world of Stephen Shulevitz who, with three months of high school to go in the small town of Riverside, Nova Scotia,...
- Location(s): Cape Breton Island
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
She knew high school would be difficult, but not like this… Dulci Oyselle is a 13-year-old girl living on Cape Breton Island, excited about the new experiences that await her in high school. Starting a Celtic music club and...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1790s
Thomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now, he must sit an examination to confirm his rank – or face an inglorious return before the mast. But this is only...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Eleanor Hurley is a woman leading a life of quiet desperation when a single moment of violence changes everything. Eleanor kills a homicidal man to save a group of children. With this lethal act she is released from her...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Near the town of Lunenberg, Novia Scotia, a young boy witnesses an horrific crime. Years later, Scottish journalist John Taggart is headed for Canada to cover one of the biggest stories of his career, haunted by the mystery of...
- Location(s): Alaska, Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend—a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years old, leaving behind no children. Or so the story goes… Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia, World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1600s forward
In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters – barkskins. René suffers...
- Location(s): Nova Scotia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War I
Set against a vivid backdrop of a world at war, “Burden of Desire” opens with a cataclysmic explosion that provides the novel’s extraordinary central metaphor. The blast and its aftermath, which devastates Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917, rocks the...
- Location(s): Halifax
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): World War I
The events of the horrific Halifax explosion are well documented: on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Belgian relief ship Imo collide in the Halifax harbour. Nearly 2,000 people are killed; over 9,000 more...
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