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- [John Boileau discusses his upcoming book, The Lucky and the Lost on Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas](https://nimbus.ca/store/john-boileau-discusses-his-upcoming-book-the-lucky-and-the-lost-on-mainstreet-ns-with-jeff-douglas-2/): Next month marks 112 years since the sinking of the Titanic.
- [Heartbreak Homes wins Crime Writers of Canada Award!](https://nimbus.ca/store/heart-break-homes-wins-crime-writers-of-canada-award-2/)
- [John Boileau discusses his upcoming book, The Lucky and the Lost on Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas](https://nimbus.ca/store/john-boileau-discusses-his-upcoming-book-the-lucky-and-the-lost-on-mainstreet-ns-with-jeff-douglas/): Next month marks 112 years since the sinking of the Titanic.
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## Products

- [The Taste of Charlevoix](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-taste-of-charlevoix.html): The Charlevoix region of Quebec, now one of UNESCO’s World Biosphere Reserves, has been enchanting visitors for more than 200 years. Located just east of Quebec City, Charlevoix offers breathtaking scenery with mountains and a majestic river, and it is proudly perpetuates unique artistic and gastronomic traditions. For the first time, the chefs of the region’s renowned restaurants share with devotees of fine cuisine the secrets of a most authentic regional gastronomy. These top chefs have composed mouth-watering dishes enhanced by their passion for the exquisite quality and extraordinary variety of the ingredients produced in the Charlevoix region.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
- [Thousand Islands](https://nimbus.ca/store/thousand-islands.html): George Fischer's photographs has been featured in dozens of book. He is the author of a number of books including Destination Fundy Trail, Along the St. John River and Rendezvous in the Magdalen Islands. His stunning photography can also be found in a brilliant new book Boldt Castle, the Story of an Unfinished Dream. George Fischer's photographs has been featured in dozens of book. He is the author of a number of books including Destination Fundy Trail, Along the St. John River and Rendezvous in the Magdalen Islands. His stunning photography can also be found in a brilliant new book Boldt Castle, the Story of an Unfinished Dream.
- [Who's Who in Black Canada 2nd Edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/whos-who-in-black-canada-2nd-edition.html): In this second edition of Who's Who in Black Canada, Dawn Williams updates her tome of Black achievements and success in Canada, with over 730 entries. Province by province, this indispensable educational and networking tool puts the spotlight on the impressive range of achievements of Blacks in Canada- from business leaders to musicians to engineers, artists, doctors, judges and filmmakers. Filled with information and inspiration, Who's Who in Black Canada 2 is an excellent resource for schools, libraries, professionals and those working with youth.
- [Historic Houses of Prince Edward Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-houses-of-prince-edward-island.html): The first of its kind, this fully illustrated book examines the evolution of domestic architecture on Prince Edward Island up until the advent of WWI. It describes 82 of the most significant heritage houses on the Island and includes the exquisite black and white and colour photography of Lionel Stevenson, floor plans of selected buildings and interesting aerial photographs of some of these houses in their rural context. Author Scott Smith has won several awards and is himself an historian, publisher and architect.
- [Le chandail de Chéticamp](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-chandail-de-cheticamp.html): It’s time for spring cleaning in Chéticamp. With the help of his parents, Eric is reluctantly cleaning out his wardrobe. To his chagrin, Eric’s favourite sweater, belt, and pants wind up being given to a complete stranger… who doesn’t even have kids! What is Mr. Delaney planning to do with all those clothes?
- [Relative Happiness (movie edition)](https://nimbus.ca/store/relative-happiness-movie-edition.html): Lexie Ivy loves her little house in Cape Breton, her big family, and the endless sea that surrounds her. She wouldn't trade her life for anything, but at thirty she's starting to feel like something's missing. Enter Adrian, a charming backpacker who takes a wrong turn at the U.S. border and ends up on Lexie's doorstep, and Joss, an irresistible man who disappears just as quickly as he arrives. Lexie's peaceful life has suddenly become more complicated than she ever imagined. Lesley Crewe's funny, whip-smart debut novel brims with Cape Breton-style humour. Filled with heartache without succumbing to it, Relative Happiness is the story of life and love in a small town, of four sisters who love, betray, and rescue each other in turn, and of Lexie Ivy's joyful awakening. Released as a feature film in 2015.
- [Witnesses to a New Nation](https://nimbus.ca/store/witnesses-to-a-new-nation.html): From pioneer houses to elegant neo-Classical churches, this collection from Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia is based on an exhibition of the same name that toured the province in 2017, to great acclaim. A must-have for historians, conservationists and architecture buffs, this volume is replete with great colour images and solid research and writing.
- [Historic Architecture of Prince Edward Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-architecture-of-prince-edward-island.html): Architect Scott Smith has complied a thorough and fascinating description of Prince Edward Island’s unique pre-1914 built heritage. From lighthouses to churches, picturesque houses to stately civic buildings, this is the only comprehensive study of architectural history in The Garden of the Gulf. Seen through the eyes of an architect, this limited edition volume s meticulously detailed in its description and beautifully illustrated with black and white and color photography, drawings and archival material. The Historic Architecture of Prince Edward Island is a must have for historians, collectors, students and anyone interested in the material history of this special place.
- [Myth and Milieu: Atlantic Literature and Culture 1918-1939](https://nimbus.ca/store/myth-and-milieu-atlantic-literature-and-culture-1918-1939.html): A lively look at the cultural history of the Maritimes and Newfoundland in the years between the two world wars. This is the world of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Thomas Raddall, E. J. Pratt and Helen Creighton, Margaret Duley and Frank Parker Day. In a wide-ranging review of regional culture, Myth & Milieu explores novels and poetry, painting and folklore, music and film, local dialect and political cartoons.
- [The Winter House And Other Christmas Stories from Atlantic Canada](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-winter-house.html): The Winter House includes a delightful mix of fiction and memories about Christmas in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. These 20 stories showcase Christmas scenes past and present, real and imagined—a revelry with a gang of rowdy mummers; childhood memories of school Christmas concerts; the tale of New Brunswick's very first Santa Claus; and many more. Selected fiction and non-fiction includes stories by David Adams Richards, Ernest Buckler, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gary L. Saunders, and many others, with a foreword by Bruce Nunn. The Winter House will bring yuletide cheer in the best Atlantic Canadian tradition.
- [Maine Community Cookbook, Volume 2 200 More Recipes Celebrating Home Cooking in the Pine Tree State](https://nimbus.ca/store/maine-community-cookbook-vol-2.html): Building on the success of the award-winning Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook, this second volume is a new collection of more than 200 family recipes, stories, and photos.
- [Speakin Maine A Wicked Good Guide to Understanding the Language](https://nimbus.ca/store/speakin-maine.html): A ninth-generation Maine native tackles the language of Maine in a book that reveals the culture and heritage behind the words we use everyday.
- [What's in a Name The Story Behind Every Town Name in Maine](https://nimbus.ca/store/whats-in-a-name.html): From Fryeburg to Frenchboro, Caribou to Kittery, Portland to Passadumkeag, Maine towns often have fascinating stories about why and how they got their names.
- [Mystery of the Lost Lynx](https://nimbus.ca/store/mystery-of-the-lost-lynx.html): When their favorite campground opens for winter break, Cooper, Packrat, and friends are hoping for a week of snowy fun.
- [Speak to the Winds](https://nimbus.ca/store/speak-to-the-winds.html): Three generations after Chin Island was inhabited by a bustling community of laborers, only a few families remain.
- [Moon in Full A Modern-Day Coming-Of-Age Story](https://nimbus.ca/store/moon-in-full.html): Moon in Full, a contemporary coming-of-age story, shines light on one young man's search for truth and compassion in a complicated era as it unwinds the deep-seated challenges we all face finding our authentic voice and true identities.
- [Hector Fox and the Raven's Revenge](https://nimbus.ca/store/hector-fox-and-the-ravens-revenge.html): As a growing flock of ravens circles the Stone Tower where they live, three scared mice send a desperate note to Hector Fox, seeking help.
- [Farmhouse on the Edge of Town Stories from a B&B in the Mountains of Western Maine](https://nimbus.ca/store/farmhouse-on-the-edge-of-town.html): In the late 1990s, Lew-Ellyn Hughes worked as a nurse in Bangor, but her heart was in the mountains of Western Maine.
- [If You Could Be Anything - Lullaby](https://nimbus.ca/store/if-you-could-be-anything-lullaby.html)
- [Women Who Care](https://nimbus.ca/store/women-who-care.html): Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and physician. She has expertise in determinants of health, women's health, disability studies and Indigenous self-determination in health, with a strong commitment to action-based qualitative research, feminism and social justice. Her three wonderful children, her friends and family haven't let her quit medicine yet. Lori Hanson, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan with interests in community activism, gender and development, health equity, sexual and reproductive health, health promotion, and transformative education. In her spare time, she raises her two sets of twins and works with a great group of community and university women involved in the Saskatoon Women's Community Coalition. Patricia Thille, BSc (PT), MA, is a former physical therapist and health services researcher. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Calgary and balances her academic work with community outreach as a healthy sexuality educator with Venus Envy.
- [Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-shaped-by-the-sea.html): The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks and the record books of human glory and error. In this true-life adventure, he provides a down-to-earth journey through the natural and man-made history that is both refreshing and revealing. The story begins after the retreat of the glaciers when the first people arrived, and over thousands of years evolved the highly civilized Mi'kmaq culture. The arrival of the Europeans disrupted their life, unleashing tumultuous conflicts that would last centuries. Then came the power struggle between France and England, which was fought at sea as well as on land. As England emerged the victor, the Acadians were driven from the land they loved. Once the wars subsided, the pirates and privateers still plundered the seas, but the honest sailors and shipbuilders of Nova Scotia led the province into a flourishing world trade. During the First World War, Nova Scotia was again thrust into military action, resulting in one of the most devastating explosions ever to rip through a city. Decades later, Halifax was torn apart again, this time by military riots. Here in the new century, it is clear that the way of life along this coast is changing. But while the wealth of the sea has been plundered by human greed, the dreams of life in harmony with the fierce yet beautiful North Atlantic live on, even as the coastline continues to be carved away by the restless surge of the waves
- [Story of the Chestnut Canoe](https://nimbus.ca/store/story-of-the-chestnut-canoe.html): The Chestnut Canoe Company began in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1897 and its impact was unequaled on the development of recreational canoeing and the canoe itself. Photos and images from the famed catalogues illustrate this intriguing Maritime story.
- [Tonic for the Woman's Soul](https://nimbus.ca/store/tonic-for-the-womans-soul.html): Tonic for the Woman’s Soul is the third in Downhome’s Household Almanac and Cookbook series, the previous two making the Canadian best-seller list. What’s new in Tonic for the Woman’s Soul Understanding Me – Create your own autobiography by simply filling in the blanks—a record of a woman’s life for herself or for those with whom she wishes to share. Life, Love & Laughter – Short stories, jokes, biographies, poetry, facts and much more, all pertaining to women from Newfoundland and Labrador and throughout the world. After all, the best recipe for happiness is to “live, love and laugh.” Recipes – More than 250 recipes contributed by Downhomer readers around the world. Included are Diet and Diabetic recipes with delicious choices for those of us who have to watch a little closer what we eat.
- [Downhomer Almanac Cookbook 1](https://nimbus.ca/store/downhomer-almanac-cookbook-1.html): The Downhomer Household Almanac and Cookbook is the first of its kind. There have been almanacs before, and there have been cookbooks before, and this is not the first cookbook to have home remedies and cures, nor is it the first with household hints. There have been books containing humour, heart-touching stories, thoughts to live by, and even books in which to keep track of your family tree, but this is the first book that incorporates all of these. Not only that, this book also contains calendars covering the 1801 to 2050, cooking conversion tables, metric conversion tables, places to keep important dates, photographs, a place to write a biography of yourself, dedications, and much, much more. It is a wealth of information and a place to keep records to be handed down through the generations. This book is a must for people whose family and roots are near and dear to them, and contains a place to keep track of your future family tree (your children and grandchildren). On top of that, the beautiful writings, stories and poems in this book will make you laugh and make you cry. Downhomer Household Almanac and Cookbook is one of the most interesting books you will ever read.
- [When A Parent is Sick 2nd Edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/when-a-parent-is-sick-2nd-edition.html): What do you tell children when a parent has been diagnosed with a serious illness? What should you do? What should you talk about? When do you ell them? What words do you use? This book provides parents and other caregivers with suggestions on how to approach children with the information that their parent is seriously ill. There are lots of examples of how and what to say to children and teens. The author reviews a child’s understanding and response to serious illness at different stages of development. She provides suggestions of how adults may help children cope with the daily disruptions the illness has created. The book also includes chapters on what to do when a parent is dying and what to do when a parent dies. Also included is a list of books and other resources for parents and children who want to read further on the subject.
- [Noble Newfoundland Dog](https://nimbus.ca/store/noble-newfoundland-dog.html): This is a wonderful look at the history of this popular and well-recognized dog. Hynes begins his book with a history of the breed and moves on to stories about Newfoundland dogs past and present. These tales make up the bulk of the book, and are generally short, illustrating the traits we associate with the breed: Loyalty, bravery, intelligence and gentleness. The stories are grouped by type - rescues, proof of intelligence, acts of kindness, and so on. There are tales of dogs performing heroic sea rescues, catching fish with remarkable skill, acting as dependable hunting partners, and caring for children. One hilarious chapter is devoted to the Newfoundland's subtle sense of humour. Hynes recounts anecdotes himself, but he also quotes historical text extensively, letting past Newfoundland owners talk about their dogs in their own words. The last section of the book deals with the care and training of Newfoundland dogs. Hynes is thorough and honest in his advice - caring for a 150 pound dog requires diligence and devotion. This book is devoted to Newfoundland dogs: heroes, artful dodgers, escape artists, and best friends.
- [Women at Sea in the Age of Sail](https://nimbus.ca/store/women-at-sea-in-the-age-of-sail.html): In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many women experienced firsthand the perils and pleasures of life at sea. These venturesome women went to sea largely to be with their captain husbands and many proved themselves useful far beyond their roles as companions. Luckily for us, many of these seafaring women kept journals. Here, these women recount, in their own words, their impressions of the exotic places they visited, the homes they made and the children they raised afloat on the seas. Donal Baird has published various articles and books on his passions, sailing and firefighting.
- [An Anecdotal History York and Sunbury Counties of New Brunswick](https://nimbus.ca/store/an-anecdotal-history-york-and-sunbury-counties-of-new-brunswick.html): Dorothy Dearborn began writing as a child and published her first poetry and short stories in the 1950s. A television career in the 1960s was interrupted by 6 years of front-line political involvement before choosing journalism as a career. She served in various editorial positions, including that of city editor, at the Saint John Times Globe and was editor of two weekly newspapers, The Kings County Record and the Saint John Citizen. Among her many interests are the promotion of adult literacy in New Brunswick and an often frustrating romance with Duplicate Bridge. Mrs. Dearborn continues to work as a journalist contributing regularly to regional, national and international newspapers and magazines and, in recent years established and publishes her own magazine, We’re Home. When not traveling the province researching and collecting stories and information for her work she can be found in front of her Macintosh computer at the family’s 19th century farmhouse in Hampton, in the company of her new dog, Golden Boy. Ancient pony ‘Soupy’ and a motley assortment of other critters roam the fields. She is married to Fred Dearborn, they have four grown children and numerous grandchildren.
- [Hangman's Noose A New Brunswick Book](https://nimbus.ca/store/hangmans-noose.html): In her book The Hangman's Noose, Dorothy Dearborn explores the stories and traditions of more than 200 years of legal lynchings in New Brunswick. The most successful hangmen turned, what was often perceived as a ghoulish task, into what others considered to be a work of art, the success of which was based on effecting a clean and quick kill.
- [Legends, Oddities and Mysteries including UFO experiences in New Brunswick](https://nimbus.ca/store/legends-oddities-and-mysteries.html): In Legends, Oddities and Mysteries, author Dorothy Dearborn takes readers on a journey through some of New Brunswick's legends and lore. Excerpt from the book: "This time when she took the picture it was as if the black iron door had created a negative image and the outline of the face and features were clearer and sharper than ever ... It was not unusual for well-to-do families to have their own crematoria in their cellars."
- [New Brunswick Haunted Houses and other tales of strange and eerie events](https://nimbus.ca/store/new-brunswick-haunted-houses.html): Best selling mystery writer Dorothy Dearborn takes the reader into the haunted homes of New Bruswick in her book New Brunswick Haunted Houses.
- [Ashtanga Yoga](https://nimbus.ca/store/ashtanga-yoga.html): This ground–breaking guide to Ashtanga yoga, by two of the world's leading teachers, Manju Jois and Greg Tebb, is the only book on yoga you'll ever need.
- [One Strong Girl](https://nimbus.ca/store/one-strong-girl.html): One Strong Girl is a mother's vivid account of what it is like to lose her daughter, India, to a rare debilitating disease. The story is a bold description of what it means to deal with deep sorrow and still find balance and beauty in an age steeped in the denial of death. At ten, India climbed the highest on the rope at gymnastics, yet by sixteen was so weak she was unable to even dress herself. The narrative follows the six-year fight for answers from the medical community. Finally, after the genetic testing of India's DNA, it was discovered there were two mutations on her ASAH1 gene, a deadly combination. Today her cells are alive in a research lab at the University of Ottawa. This is a legacy that cuts both ways, a point of pride and pain. One Strong Girl is a story of what it's like to outlive an only child. It describes the intensity of loving a dying child and most importantly, the joy to be found, even amidst the sorrow.
- [Newfoundland and Labrador Outstanding Outhouse Reader](https://nimbus.ca/store/newfoundland-and-labrador-outstanding-outhouse-reader.html): Do you know when the Vikings established their settlement at L'ase aux Meadows? Or that the only known case of Germans landing in North America during the Second World War was in Newfoundland? When was the last public execution held in Newfoundland and what was it like on execution day? From North America's oldest city to the eastern point in North America, the Newfoundland and Labrador Outstanding Outhouse Reader is the book that should be in every Newfoundlander's outhouse. If you love Newfoundland and Labrador (and we know you do), you simply must have the Newfoundland and Labrador Outstanding Outhouse Reader.
- [Maritime Monsters](https://nimbus.ca/store/maritime-monsters.html): This children's picture book is a field guide to Maritime monsters, taken from local folklore and legends. The monsters described include Prince Edward Island's Old Hook-Snout, New Brunswick's Acadian Werewolf, Nova Scotia's Parker Road Phantom and Newfoundland's Not-So-Cuddly Kraken! Each entry includes a short story featuring the monster and a field guide entry: location, diet, size, frequency, description, and special monster-hunting advice. An indispensable resource for the young Maritime monster hunter!
- [Play it Like You Sing It - Volume 2 The Music](https://nimbus.ca/store/play-it-like-you-sing-it-volume-2-the-music.html): In Nova Scotia throughout the 19th century, bagpipe music was interwoven with fiddle music, Gaelic singing, and dance traditions. Volume Two of the Shears Collection presents bagpipe arrangements and their Gaelic words as they were played and sung in Nova Scotia. The book contains 230 settings of pipe tunes, 19 fiddle tune settings connected to the piping tradition, numerous port-á-beul lyrics, and 75 images of 19th and 20th-century Nova Scotian pipers.
- [Play it Like You Sing It - Volume 1 History, Culture and Images](https://nimbus.ca/store/play-it-like-you-sing-it-volume-1-history-culture-and-images.html): In Nova Scotia throughout the 19th century, bagpipe music was interwoven with fiddle music, Gaelic singing, and dance traditions. Volume One of The Shears Collection tells the story of the many families and individuals who maintained piping traditions in the Gaelic-speaking communities of the mainland and Cape Breton, through history, culture, and over 100 images of pipers and their instruments in 19th and 20th-century Nova Scotia.
- [La mystérieuse boutique de Monsieur Bottom](https://nimbus.ca/store/la-mysterieuse-boutique-de-monsieur-bottom.html): Benoit, a French kid living across the street spies Mister Bottom’s mysterious. Nobody seems to buy anything, ever. Nevertheless, Mr Bottom doesn’t look unhappy. On the contrary, so Benoit decides to resolve this mystery. At the end, it’s Benoit’s own place in the world and his relationships with others that will be challenged… A lovely ‘Old France’ flavored tale, filled with tenderness and philosophy. Take a seat…
- [A Change of Heart](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-change-of-heart.html): The remarkable story of honourary Newfoundlander Lanier Phillips, who survived a shipwreck during the Second World War and went on to become a civil rights activist, is told for children in this heartwarming, vibrantly illustrated picture book.
- [Animal Signatures](https://nimbus.ca/store/animal-signatures.html): Animal Signatures is a handy field guide that teaches one how to recognize and interpret animal signs—the tracks, droppings, and nibbled twigs that animals leave behind.
- [Vintage Cabot Trail](https://nimbus.ca/store/vintage-cabot-trail.html): In 1932, the Nova Scotia and Canadian governments undertook to upgrade centuries-old hardscrabble roadways and pathways that linked numerous isolated communities perched between ocean and mountain, roughly circumscribing the bounds of the Cape Breton Highlands. For 75 years, the Cabot Trail, one of the world’s most stunning travelways, has not only relieved isolation, it has captivated, charmed and challenged motorists, cyclists, runners and walkers alike. This booklet commemorates the 75th anniversary (1932-2007) of the designation of the Cabot Trail by revisiting the Trail’s earliest years through images from the archives of the Beaton Institute at Cape Breton University. Terry MacLean, PhD, is a retired CBU Professor, a writer and heritage consultant living in Sydney. He was former Senior Historian at the Fortress of Louisbourg and is the author of books and articles on aspects of Cape Breton history and culture.
- [Ten Wooden Boats You Can Build](https://nimbus.ca/store/ten-wooden-boats-you-can-build.html): The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.
- [Tidepools of the Pacific - Folding Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/tidepools-of-the-pacific-folding-guide.html)
- [Robin's Impossible, Crazy Idea](https://nimbus.ca/store/robins-impossible-crazy-idea.html): Ever since starting grade four, Robin's days at Ernest Lee Elementary School have been dreary. At the center of this unhappiness is her teacher, Ms. Beetroot, whose stern looks and endless lists of rules leave no room for fun. All this changes when Robin and her class are greeted by a wild and wonderful substitute teacher. "Welcome, children! My name is Mr. Cunningham. That's cunning as in sly, and ham as in joking around. I will be your substitute grade 4 teacher for today. Let the show begin!" He turned, opened the large door, and gave a welcoming bow." Mr. Cunningham brings excitement and fun back into the grade 4 classroom, but that night Robin must face the inevitable - Beetroot would be back the next day. That is when an impossible crazy idea begins to take shape in Robin's mind. But how will she convince the grade 4 class that this crazy idea will work and how will she keep this impossible idea a secret from Ms. Beetroot?
- [Hermit of Gully Lake](https://nimbus.ca/store/hermit-of-gully-lake.html): The Hermit of Gully Lake is a thought-provoking, intimate and respectful look at the life and times of American-born but Nova Scotia-raised Willard Kitchener MacDonald (1916-2003), better known as the Hermit of Gully Lake. For sixty years, MacDonald endured hardship and extreme isolation, living as recluse in a cave-like shelter six feet by nine feet in the deep woods wilderness of northern Nova Scotia. He moved far into the woods after jumping from a troop train that would have taken him to Halifax and on to Europe for World War II. In the past thirty years, as his legend grew, many people began to seek him out, squeezing into his tiny shelter to play fiddles and guitars with the man they call Kitchener, marvelling at his wisdom, his wit and his intriguing views of events in the wider world, which he chose not to be part of. Even when his friends urged him to sign up for his old age pension in the 1980s, he steadfastly refused to sign his name to any document, even a government cheque. He was reluctant to speak about his past, saying only that he had refused to go and fight in World War II because the Bible told him, "Thou shalt not kill." When he died, however, there was enough national interest in this unique individual that both the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star sent reporters to cover the event. Joan Baxter is an award-winning Nova Scotian author who has written extensively about Africa. She is now living in northern Nova Scotia where she has turned her attention to this incredible story of a man of enormous strength and character who became a legend. She is back home after two decades of living in and reporting from Africa for the BBC World Service and Associated Press. Her most recent book, A Serious Pair of Shoes, won the Evelyn Richardson Award.
- [Summer Feet](https://nimbus.ca/store/summer-feet.html): From those first barefoot days, wobble-dy walking over rocks and pebbles, to wandering-wild while searching for sea glass and, finally, huddled-up cozy at a late-summer bonfire, these summer feet flutter kick, somersault, hide-and-seek, and dance in the rain, soaking up all the season has to offer. With Sheree Fitch's classic lip-slippery, lyrical rhymes and Carolyn Fisher's bright and colourful illustrations, Summer Feet will be an instant summertime favourite.
- [Chocolates, Tattoos, and Mayflowers](https://nimbus.ca/store/chocolates-tattoos-and-mayflowers.html): Did you know that goose grease apparently cures the common cold, while salt fish draws a fever? How about the fact that "Torpedos" (automobiles) were manufactured in Kentville in 1910? These are just some of the tidbits of Maritime wisdom and little-known facts that you will find in Chocolates, Tattoos, and Mayflowers. Collected over the years for Clary Croft's popular radio column on CBC's Mainstreet, these stories, memories, photographs, and advertisements show a fascinating side of Maritime popular culture and history. From accounts of sea monsters and famous duels to the history behind Maritime staples like Pot of Gold chocolates and Morse's Tea, these entertaining and evocative pieces are sure to spark conversations around your kitchen table—just like any good Maritime subject!
- [Monster in the Mountains](https://nimbus.ca/store/monster-in-the-mountains.html): After Dylan Maples's terrifying adventure in Alberta, the holiday his "parental units" plan in British Columbia's Rocky Mountains seems like a dream. Swimming, hiking, and loafing around are welcome distractions from vivid memories of his narrow escape from "The Reptile," the frightening criminal who pursued him and his friends through the badlands. But Dylan soon discovers that he is heading into an area teeming with legends of real-life monsters, among them the sea serpent Ogopogo and the awesome sasquatch. In fact, more mysterious creatures are said to exist in BC than in any other place in the world.... Dylan tries not to take it all too seriously. But when he arrives in the resort town of Harrison Hot Springs and meets his eccentric uncle, Walter Middy, he is pulled right into the heart of the sasquatch mystery. Before you can say, "I see a monster!", Dylan, Walter, and their new friend Alice are deep in the wilderness, on the trail of the deadly beast.
- [Bone Beds of the Badlands](https://nimbus.ca/store/bone-beds-of-the-badlands.html): Bone Beds of the Badlands transports readers to the heart of dinosaur country in the most gripping and terrifying Dylan Maples Adventure yet! Dylan and his best friends, Terry, the Bomb, and Rhett, have won first place in the National Science Fair for their amazing mechanical T-rex. The prize: a parent-free trip to one of the coolest places on Earth—the badlands of Alberta, home to ancient dinosaur remains and a landscape that looks like the surface of an alien planet. Unfortunately, it is also the scene of a manhunt for a desperate killer. Recently escaped from custody, known as "the Reptile," this bizarre seven-foot man was last seen heading straight for the badlands, a perfect place to hide if you never want to be found. When the boys and their new friend Dorothy get separated from their guided tour of Dinosaur Provincial Park, they may be lost, but they're not alone...
- [The Secret of the Silver Mines](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-secret-of-the-silver-mines.html): Just when Dylan Maples is settling down after last summer's trip to Ireland's Eye, the parental units are at it again—planning another family adventure. Only this time, it's not a summer vacation, but an extended trip way up north to Cobalt, Ontario, in the middle of a bitter winter. Once a thriving silver mining community, all that's left of the town's rich history are the long abandoned mines. A Toronto millionaire has hired Dylan's dad to retrieve a fortune in silver allegedly stolen from his grandfather back in the early part of the twentieth century. But was the fortune really stolen? And if so, where has it been hidden? The answers to these questions reside with one man—Theobald T. Larocque, Cobalt's oldest citizen. But no one has seen him in years. And no one seems at all eager to help Dylan's dad locate him—except, of course, his devoted son Dylan, and Dylan's newfound friend and accomplice, Wynona Dixon.
- [Phantom of Fire](https://nimbus.ca/store/phantom-of-fire.html): Things aren't going so well for fifteen-year-old Dylan Maples. He's sick of his own reflection, his parental units are driving him nuts, and, worst of all, he's trying to come to terms with the unexpected death of one of his best friends. Now, to top things off, he's been roped into a family trip to stay with family friends in New Brunswick. After just a few hours in Bathurst, Dylan worries this will turn out to be the most boring vacation ever, but when he meets a local girl, Antonine, and the two of them witness what looks like a burning ship on the water, he begins to think that New Brunswick might be more interesting than he thought. As Dylan and Antonine begin to research the famous ghost ship of the Bay de Chaleur, they raise more questions than they answer. Does Antonine's father hold a clue to the mystery? What's the deal with the local right-wing politician who is on everybody's minds these days? And what really happened on the water all those years ago?
- [The Last Canadian Knight](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-last-canadian-knight.html): From a small-town law office in Nova Scotia to the boardrooms of London, England, where he was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's "privatization ace," lawyer and businessman Sir Graham Day has established a sterling international reputation as a tough-minded but charming negotiator. In The Last Canadian Knight, award-winning business journalist Gordon Pitts chronicles Day's meteoric rise and explores the valuable lessons Day has gleaned from a lifetime of global business experience.
- [The Mystery of Ireland's Eye](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-mystery-of-irelands-eye.html): Dylan is twelve years old and embarking on his first ocean kayaking trip with his parents. He has spent the last year convincing them that he is ready for the challenging—and very dangerous—adventure. In fact, he has been determined to go ever since he heard about the destination: Ireland's Eye. The small island off the coast of Newfoundland is the easternmost settlement in Canada. Or it was. It is now hauntingly empty, a ghost town clinging to the edge of the unforgiving Atlantic. What is it about Ireland's Eye that so captivates Dylan he is willing to take such risks to get there? Does the ghost town have anything to do with the dreams Dylan keeps having of his favourite grandfather who has just passed away? And why does the old man on St. John's docks grimly whisper, "Don't go to Ireland's Eye" when he hears of Dylan's plans?
- [Historic House Names of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-house-names-of-nova-scotia.html): Mount Uniacke, Acacia Grove, Winckworth, Saint's Rest, Spruce Tree Cottage. Ever wonder how Nova Scotia houses got their names? The better-known names are largely connected with prominent historical figures who resided in commodious homes with sprawling grounds, but the naming tradition was far more prevalent than that. Historic House Names of Nova Scotia provides a fascinating look at the house-naming tradition in Nova Scotia. What sorts of names did Bluenoses create, and what did the names mean? Author and historian Joe Ballard has amassed a wealth of historical information and photos on the subject.
- [In Their Own Words](https://nimbus.ca/store/in-their-own-words.html): What was the First World War really like for Maritimers overseas? This epistolary book, edited by historian Ross Hebb, contains the letters home of three Maritimers with distinct wartime experiences: a front-line soldier from Nova Scotia, a nurse from New Brunswick, and a conscripted fisherman from Prince Edward Island. Up until now, these complete sets of handwritten letters have remained with the families, who agreed to share them in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of the Great War's end in 2018. These letters not only give insight into the war, but provide greater understanding of life in rural Maritime communities in the early 1900s. In Their Own Words includes a learned introduction and background information on letter writers Eugene A. Poole, Sister Pauline Balloch, and Herry Heckbert, enabling readers to appreciate the context of these letters and their importance.
- [My Two Grandmothers](https://nimbus.ca/store/my-two-grandmothers.html): Acadian Mémère and Scottish Nannie seem to have nothing in common but their grandchildren, but in this beautiful picture book from bestselling author Diane Carmel Léger and illustrator Jean-Luc Trudel, difference is celebrated. A co-publication with Bouton d'or Acadie, published simultaneously in French.
- [Anne of Windy Poplars (Vol 4)](https://nimbus.ca/store/anne-of-windy-poplars-vol-4.html): In the fourth book of the Anne of Green Gables series, Anne Shirley begins a new career and faces a new challenge: the "royal family" of Summerside, the Pringles. Apparently she's not their preferred choice as principal of Summerside High. But she quickly finds friends at Windy Poplars and learns the secrets of her new-found home, triumphing as always.
- [Anne of Avonlea (Vol 2)](https://nimbus.ca/store/anne-of-avonlea-vol-2.html): Now sixteen, Anne is grown up - sort of. The second novel in L. M. Montgomery's classic series follows Avonlea's red-headed darling as she begins her new job as a schoolteacher, and becomes curious about the strange yet handsome Gilbert Blythe. As she enters adulthood, she does so with humour and a sense of adventure.
- [The Sea Was in Their Blood](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-sea-was-in-their-blood.html): The Sea Was in Their Blood explores two key questions: who were the men aboard the Miss Ally, and why were they battered and sunk by a storm forecasted days in advance? Through interviews with the crew's families and friends, rescue personnel, and members of the tight-knit fishing communities of Woods Harbour and Cape Sable Island, award-winning journalist Quentin Casey pieces together the tragic sinking—including important case details not previously reported—and weaves in the backstories of the Miss Ally's crew and the lingering effects of their disappearance.
- [Children of Africville (2nd edition)](https://nimbus.ca/store/children-of-africville-2nd-edition.html): The children of Africville, Nova Scotia, lived in a special community where everyone knew their neighbours, and all helped and cared for each other.
- [The Gathering](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-gathering.html): Alex is attending her first Mi'kmaw spiritual gathering, or mawiomi. Though she is timid at first, older cousin Matthew takes her under his wing. Meeting Elders along the way, they learn about traditional Mi'kmaw culture: the sacred fire, drumming, tanning and moccasin decorating, basket- and canoe-making, and enjoy a Mi'kmaw feast. Most importantly, Alex finds her voice in the talking circle. With contemporary illustrations by the bestselling illustrator Art Stevens, The Gathering is an inclusive story that will educate and entertain Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike.
- [Her Mother's Daughter](https://nimbus.ca/store/her-mothers-daughter-2.html): From best-selling author Lesley Crewe comes a poignant and moving novel. Sisters Bay and Tansy are complete opposites. Widowed mother Bay has never lived anywhere but Louisbourg; restless Tansy left the town as a teenager and stayed away for years. And now, Tansy is home. Home, and unwittingly falling in love with her sister's almost-boyfriend. Home, and befriending Ashley when all Bay can do is fight with her teenaged daughter. Home, and desperately hiding the real reason she fled all those years ago. When crisis hits the family, the sisters draw closer. But the closer they are, the more explosive their relationship, and soon their troubled history threatens to shatter what's left of their family forever. Complex and heartwarming, Her Mother's Daughter is an exploration of family and friends and the tangled skeins of love, mistakes, and secrets twisting between us all.
- [Anne of Green Gables](https://nimbus.ca/store/anne-of-green-gables.html): Now even the youngest Anne of Green Gables fans can celebrate the centennial anniversary. 2008 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic tale of the red-headed orphan who is mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. The story has been translated into many languages the world over and is considered a classic in children's literature, though it continues to be read by children and adults alike. Anne of Green Gables: Stories for Young Readers, adapted by Prince Edward Island writer Deirdre Kessler, is suitable for readers ages six and up. With colourful, historically accurate illustrations by award-winning illustrator David Preston Smith, this adapted version of L. M. Montgomery's wonderful story will delight readers too young for chapter books but nonetheless enthralled by the enduring appeal of this timeless classic story.
- [Foul Deeds](https://nimbus.ca/store/foul-deeds.html): A professional criminologist, Rosalind works with a cranky Private Investigator named McBride--a long-time association that has led her from one sordid foray to another in the world of crime. Her passionate escape is theatre and her latest venture is with an ad hoc company of out-of-work actors putting on a production of Hamlet. Ros finds her work on Shakespeare's language to be a fabulous distraction until the uncanny parallels between life and art bring her face to face with murder. Peter King, a respected environmental lawyer, dies suddenly- supposedly of heart failure- but his son Daniel, haunted by bad dreams, believes otherwise. Before McBride can get to the bottom of the case, Ros's friend Sophie- the actress playing Ophelia- and her advisor Harvie Greenblatt, the prosecutor, are both drawn deep into danger. Ros and McBride discover that the case involves more than either of them bargained for: kidnapping, a city hall cover-up, a late-night chase and family secrets. Set in Halifax, Foul Deeds is an intriguing, fast-paced story with theatrical flare and plenty of humour. Linda Moore is the crime writer Maritime readers have been waiting for.
- [Story of the Hooked Rugs of Chéticamp](https://nimbus.ca/store/story-of-the-hooked-rugs-of-cheticamp.html): This delightful book is filled with full-colour pictures of hooked rugs and rare historic black-and-white photos. This updated edition includes details about the lives of Chéticamp rug hookers, the rug making process, the tools and materials, as well as examples of magnificent tapestries and rugs in the collection of Élizabeth Lefort Gallery, Les Trois Pignons. This book trumpets the skill and pride of an extraordinary people in a beautiful place, the Acadians of Cape Breton Island. Hard work, dedication, disputes and cooperation come to life in this well-researched history of a humble folk craft that grew to a world-renowned art form. Rich with anecdote, beauty and warmth leap from the pages! By Anselme Chiasson and Annie-Rose Deveau; translated from the French by Marcel LeBlanc.
- [Peggy's Cove The Amazing History of a Coastal Village](https://nimbus.ca/store/peggys-cove.html): Here is the complete history of the famous cove and the unique village that hosts thousands of visitors each year. The story begins with the formation of the rocks along these shores and the impact of the glaciers. The Mi'kmaq were the first to live here in the summers, harvesting the riches of the sea. A land grant in 1811 brought the first hardy settlers, who built homes and wharves and discovered that the sea could provide bounty but was also a source of great danger. The story includes the origin of the name, Peggy's Cove, and details about the everyday life of nineteenth-century families living here. A history of the famous lighthouse is included and there are excerpts from many of the famous and not-so-famous visitors who have written about the Cove through two centuries. The author explores the most damaging storms and the shipwrecks, the reports of sea monsters and other strange phenomena. Fishing was always a source of income, but it changed over the years. At times the fish prices were so low it was not worth the effort and, in recent years, dramatic changes to the ocean have seen the collapse of several important species of fish. In the twentieth century, Peggy's Cove attracted artists, writers and ultimately thousands of tourists. Sculptor William de Garthe made his home here and created his monument to the coastal fishermen out of the sheer granite outcropping in his backyard. In 1998, Swissair Flight 111 crashed off the shores of Peggy's Cove and the community opened its doors to the world in an effort to provide support for the rescue workers and the families of the victims. From the earliest days to the present, the story of Peggy's Cove has been a tale of natural wonder and human endurance.
- [Le colosse des neiges de Campbellton](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-colosse-des-neiges-de-campbellton.html): Gabriel, Ania and Mamadou, followed by their faithful dog, are on a ski vacation in Campbellton. But soon, they find themselves scouting a terrifying beast up frozen paths and towards a splendid mansion nestled near Mount Sugarloaf. The owner is a likeable Swiss chocolate millionaire, however Ania, the know-it-all of the young detective trio, is not buying his story. Will the skills of the ‘Three Musketeers’ finally falter on their 7th adventure?
- [2019 WoodenBoat School Engagement Calendar](https://nimbus.ca/store/2019-woodenboat-school-engagement-calendar.html): With fewer engagement calendars available in our electronic world, we thought the huge variety of fantastic images from our WoodenBoat School made it the ideal candidate for a weekly reminder of all aspects of wooden boating. This calendar has an image from the School on each left-hand page, and the days of the week on the right-hand side. There's plenty of room to jot down reminders, plus we've included major holidays, seasonal markers, clock changes, and moon phases. Photos are by staff and students, and yes, some taken during the photography courses. You'll find all kinds of boats, many from our fleet, and you'll get a look (or reminder) of the variety of courses that take place on our WoodenBoat campus—everything from building and repair to foundry work, pond yacht building, boat designing, woodblock artwork, painting landscapes (and sea scapes), building bronze cannons, half-models, and tons more.
- [Mayann prend le train](https://nimbus.ca/store/mayann-prend-le-train.html): Nine-year-old Mayann Francis and her family are travelling from their home in Cape Breton to New York City by train. Everything is exciting to young Mayann, from the beds that fold down to the stop in Montreal to visit friends. Most exciting of all is the chance to show off her brand new purse. When the Francis family arrives in big, bustling New York City, Mayann visits with relatives, goes to the zoo, and rides the subway. She even receives a beautiful black doll, something she has never seen before. But one subway ride, she loses her beautiful purse. At first she's heartbroken, but she just might learn a lesson that makes the whole trip worthwhile.
- [2020 Sea Glass Wall Calendar](https://nimbus.ca/store/2020-sea-glass-wall-calendar.html)
- [Sterling Silver](https://nimbus.ca/store/sterling-silver.html): The personal essay has so much potential as a literary form that it's gratifying to see it being skilfully and engagingly employed in this book. Silver Donald Cameron has plenty on his mind, and he knows how to hold our attention. Cameron easily entices us into his essay "Rocky Mountain High" with this for openers:"Downhill skiing is a certifiably silly sport, I whimper to myself as the chair-lift bears me inexorably over the treetops and gullies, like a slab of beef going around the overhead conveyors in an abattoir. ".
- [Wereduck (audiobook)](https://nimbus.ca/store/wereduck-audiobook.html): Kate’s family has told her that on her thirteenth birthday she’ll hear the “Whooooo” call of the moon, and howl back, and become a werewolf just like them.
- [City Speaks In Drums](https://nimbus.ca/store/city-speaks-in-drums.html): Two boys from North End Halifax explore their neighbourhood and the city beyond, finding music everywhere. At the skate park, by the Public Gardens, down Spring Garden Road, and on the boardwalk, drums and saxophones and dancers and basketballs create the jumbled, joyful, pulsing rhythm of Halifax. Shauntay Grant's playful spoken word-style poem and Susan Tooke's vivid illustrations create a wildly energetic and appealing journey through the big, bright city.
- [Roger Sudden An Historical Novel of Conflict, Adventure, and Passion](https://nimbus.ca/store/roger-sudden.html): Roger Sudden, first published in 1944, is a stirring historical novel set in Nova Scotia during the English/French rivalry over the possession of North America. Roger Sudden, a ruthless trader with both the English and the French, becomes embroiled in the bitter conflict between Halifax and Louisbourg for control of the northern continent.
- [Dread Crew](https://nimbus.ca/store/dread-crew-1.html): The pirates of the Dread Crew, ruthless junk hunters, are on the rampage through the Maritime woods. On their trail is a boy pirate tracker Eric Stewart, who gathers mounting evidence of their hooliganism until one day their clue-laden path of destruction completely disappears. Little does Eric know that the rumbling, stinking pirates are much, much closer than he thinks. This paperback edition includes eight pages of new content including a pirate glossary and praise pages. Check out dreadcrew.com for lots more additional content! This book is recommended for antsy boys who long for glory, for spritely girls inclined to reach out for adventure, and for good-humored grown-ups who like the smack of Limburger and devils's club sandwiches with a dash of junebug pepper. The Dread Crew: Pirates of the Backwoods contains things disgusting, rude, repulsive and crush-like in nature. It also includes the most gigantic party ever seen, a rampaging woodship, random explosions, a prison, an escape, inventions, blackberry sploosh and many, many secrets as well as unexplained stinks.
- [Haven in the Heart of Halifax An Illustrated History of the Public Gardens](https://nimbus.ca/store/haven-in-the-heart-of-halifax-an-illustrated-history-of-the-public-gardens.html): The Public Gardens is one of the finest examples of a Victorian garden anywhere in the world. Nestled in the heart of the city, this important public space has a fascinating history. When you enter the Public Gardens, it feels for a moment as if you have stepped back in time. Everything seems to slow down when you push open one of the iron gates and set foot on the winding gravel paths that meander throughout plantings of astonishing variety. It is seemingly timeless but, of course, it has changed a great deal over almost one hundred years. Nestled in the heart of the city, the Public Gardens' origins date from the 1830s. Inside its gates are a staggering variety of beautiful flowers, shrubs, and trees and the most memorable historic structures. The aesthetic of the Public Gardens was the vision of Richard Power, the Gardens' original superintendent. Over time, the Gardens took its current form, through the addition of familiar features such as the bandstand, cast iron gates, fountain, and bridges. The structures and monuments in the garden themselves are filled with significance. Citizens and visitors alike have found a quiet oasis of calm in the middle of the downtown core. It is a place where memories have been made, as generation after generation have taken in the seven hectares of beauty. When you enter the Public Gardens, it feels as if you are stepping out of a hectic city and back in time. But the Public Gardens has survived through the careful stewardship of a cross section of the community. This lavishly illustrated book is the first comprehensive history of this remarkable place.
- [Apples and Butterflies A Poem for Prince Edward Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/apples-and-butterflies.html): I want to rest inside a sunrise dreaman endless stretch of sea and sand and foamI want to gogo where butterflies dance like children
- [From Land and Sea](https://nimbus.ca/store/from-land-and-sea.html): A near-island bathed in salty sea air and brushed by steady winds, Nova Scotia is often shadowed by dark clouds one moment and lit by a brilliant sun the next. This ever-changing and remarkably diverse landscape makes the province an inspiration for artists. From Land and Sea: Nova Scotia's Contemporary Landscape Artists profiles 70 artists and their works, representing a wide range of styles. Dozay Christmas and Alan Syliboy draw from Mi'kmaw legends, June Deveau and Denise Comeau depict Acadian landscapes, and realists such as Tom Forrestall, Leonard Paul, and Alice Reed immerse us in a rare moment frozen in time. With a foreword from Ray Cronin, director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, From Land and Sea is not only an indispensable guide to the artists themselves, but a stunning portrait of a remarkable province.
- [Prince Edward Island Pictorial Cookbook](https://nimbus.ca/store/prince-edward-island-pictorial-cookbook.html): The combination of beautiful Prince Edward Island photographs and the wonderful recipes of fresh food from the Island is simply irresistible.
- [Coastal Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/coastal-nova-scotia.html): A selective guide to outdoor activity in Nova Scotia, including both challenging, invigorating recreation and relaxing activities. Organized by region, this book has activities for all ages.
- [Skunks for Breakfast](https://nimbus.ca/store/skunks-for-breakfast-1.html): Everyone knows there are no skunks in Nova Scotia...Right? Well, that's what Pamela thinks, until she wakes up one morning to a terrible smell. Now Pamela stinks, her father stinks, her sister stinks, and her mother stinks. Soon her life stinks—her friends at school won't come near her! And no matter how many skunks her father catches underneath the house, there always seems to be another. Join Pamela and her family as they confront the odorous onslaught—and watch Pamela slowly start to like the unexpectedly cute creatures.
- [History of Hangings in Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/history-of-hangings-in-nova-scotia.html): Almost as soon as Halifax was settled by the British in 1749, it became a violent place to live, and in attempts to deal with this, public hangings and floggings were a common occurrence for close to a hundred years. Subject to the British legal system, criminals in Halifax were hanged for crimes that ranged from petty theft to gruesome murders. From the original gallows tree at the bottom of George Street to hangings in rural communities, citizens were always drawn to a hanging. This book explores many of the Nova Scotian crimes that ended with the noose. Some of those included are the Saladin pirates, one of the bloodiest cases ever brought before a court in Nova Scotia; the hanging of Peter Mailman, who murdered his wife but captivated a reporter; and the trial of William Robinson, who not only murdered his wife but desecrated her body and tried to burn the evidence. Hangings may have been grisly events, but they drew large crowds, and are a testament to the prevalent interest in the dark side of history. Issues of deterrence, public opinion, and effectiveness down through the years are explored by the author as she traces the crimes and punishment for murders that prevailed from the very first hanging in the province in 1749 to the last hanging in 1937.
- [Black Snow](https://nimbus.ca/store/black-snow.html): Black Snow is a love story set during the Halifax Explosion. The 1917 disaster was the largest man-made blast the world had ever known, and it cut Halifax off from the rest of the world for the darkest thirty-six hours in its history. Rich in fact and shocking images, the story sets a blistering pace following one man's search through a ruined city for the love of his life as he confronts the wreckage of his past.
- [Money : The Canadian Story](https://nimbus.ca/store/money-the-canadian-story.html): Money: The Canadian Story will tell you everything you want to know about money, but were just too darn timid to ask. From how big is the middle class to the one percenters to the average CEO salary to exactly how much does the public sector cost, it is all here. Where are Canadians working and what are the highest paid professions. What is Sidney Crosby's hourly rate? From gold plated pensions to what prime minister has added the most to the national debt to the gender pay gap, there is no more complete book about money in Canada. We let the numbers do the talking.
- [Electric City Second Edition The Stehelins of New France](https://nimbus.ca/store/electric-city-second-edition.html): This new edition tells the true story of the Stehelins, a prestigious family from Normandy, France, who came to Nova Scotia in the early twentieth century to carve out a new life in the wilderness. The family's achievements were legendary--they built their own railway and installed their own electricity to the incredulity of all those around. Their amazing tale of creating an "electric city" in the wilds of Nova Scotia is the stuff of romance, challenge, and intrigue. Includes updates and a new chapter.
- [Nova Scotia (Wagg) 2nd edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-wagg-2nd-edition.html): Nova Scotia is celebrated the world over for its rugged coastline, charming villages, and pristine wilderness. The province's natural beauty is on full display in this incredible collection of images from photographer Len Wagg. Vivid, colourful photographs of the spectacular coastline along the Cabot Trail, the Peggy's Cove lighthouse under a sparkling night sky, and the rich farmland of the Shubenacadie River Valley--among many others--reveal the very essence of Nova Scotia. For long-time residents and first-time visitors alike, these unforgettable images affirm the province's reputation as one of the world's cultural and natural treasures.
- [We Keep A Light](https://nimbus.ca/store/we-keep-a-light.html): In We Keep A Light, Evelyn M. Richardson describes how she and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life there for themselves and their three children. On an isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia, the Richardsons shared the responsibilities and pleasures of island living, from carrying water and collecting firewood to making preserves and studying at home. The close-knit family didn't mind their isolation, and found delight in the variety and beauty of island life. We Keep A Light is much more than a memoir. It is an exquisitely written, engrossing record of family life set against a glowing lighthouse, the enduring shores of Nova Scotia, and the ever-changing sea.
- [Knots and Splices Revised 2nd Edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/knots-and-splices-revised-2nd-edition.html): Cyrus Day completed his major work over 50 years ago and did a great deal of research into ropes and ropework in general. Colin Jarmen is an accomplished photographer and journalist and the author of Knots in Use.
- [Saint John](https://nimbus.ca/store/saint-john.html): One of New Brunswick's best known photographers , Rob Roy lives and works in the historic Trinity Royal area of Saint John. Roy's photography is at once practical and artistic, bringing together everyday scenes of Saint John and almost missed moments of beauty.
- [Sustainable People](https://nimbus.ca/store/sustainable-people.html): This book deals with a new role that has emerged as communities all over the world struggle to gain more control over their destinies as globalization accelerates.Community entrepreneurs create organizations that encourage people to learn their way out of poverty, dependency and marginalization. By participating in such innovative ventures, individuals become more self-sustaining and able to create good lives for themselves and others in their own communities or wherever the choose to settle.Sustainable People moves discussion about social and economic change from abstract terms such as “community” and “development” by focusing on what individuals and groups are actually doing to encourage personal and community development, it documents the background of the role of the entrepreneur, the kinds of organizations they create, their learning process and the moral basis of their initiatives.
- [Borrowed Beauty](https://nimbus.ca/store/borrowed-beauty.html): Maxine Tynes is a writer who has lived, studied, and worked all of her life in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
- [Lobster in My Pocket](https://nimbus.ca/store/lobster-in-my-pocket.html): This Maritime classic tells the magical story of Lee, a lonely girl in a coastal fishing village. One day she meets Lucky, a talking lobster trapped in a crate on the wharf. Lee sets Lucky free, and the two become friends. When Lee falls into the ocean during a terrible storm, Lucky shows how much he cares about her! Now in a new, full-colour edition, Lobster in my Pocket is a joyful tale of friendship that will delight readers of all ages.
- [Asp of Ascension A Nefertari Hughes Mystery](https://nimbus.ca/store/asp-of-ascension.html): Nefertari “Terry” Hughes has three rules for surviving high school: #1 Don’t attract attention, #2 Don’t get involved, and #3 Don’t make trouble. A year after the accident that left her disabled and took her mother’s life, sixteen-year-old Terry just wants to keep her head down and survive her new high school. When she catches the eye of cute basketball star Zach, all hopes of flying under the radar are gone. She is thrust even further into the spotlight when Fraser, the editor of the school newspaper, learns her father Mr. Hughes is the renowned archaeologist overseeing the new Egyptian display at the museum, which is rumored to include Cleopatra’s sarcophagus. When Fraser stumbles upon the fifty-year-old mystery of a girl who vanished in the museum and Terry’s father falls into a mysterious coma, Terry’s caught up in a whirlwind of events that leads all the way back to ancient times. Before long, the stakes become too high for Terry to ignore. Tossing aside her rules for survival, she teams up with Fraser and her candy-loving new friend Maude to solve the mystery and save her father — before she loses everything.
- [Rideau rouge et pignons verts](https://nimbus.ca/store/rideau-rouge-et-pignons-verts.html): Gracie Finley and Glenda Landry, two young girls from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, both dream of being on stage. This is in the 1960s, just as the Confederation Centre of the Arts opens its doors in their hometown. Gracie and Glenda soon join the new theatre's company of actors and become best friends. To the delight of audiences, they take on the roles of kindred spirits Anne and Diana in the marvelous musical inspired by the novel Anne of Green Gables. Also available in English: Meet Me at Green Gables.
- [Meet Me at Green Gables](https://nimbus.ca/store/meet-me-at-green-gables.html): Gracie Finley and Glenda Landry, two young girls from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, both dream of being on stage. This is in the 1960s, just as the Confederation Centre of the Arts opens its doors in their hometown. Gracie and Glenda soon join the new theatre's company of actors and become best friends. To the delight of audiences, they take on the roles of kindred spirits Anne and Diana in the marvelous musical inspired by the novel Anne of Green Gables. Also available in French: Rideau Rouge et Pignons Verts.
- [S'ouvrir A tool box for inclusion in the classroom and in the school](https://nimbus.ca/store/souvrir-a-tool-box-for-inclusion-in-the-classroom-and-in-the-school.html): Through real life situations, here is a resource for anyone struggling or interested in the inclusive classroom and school. Without shying from the true and demanding challenges of an all-encompassing inclusive learning space, this is a must-read, must share proposal, coming straight from the classrooms and schools trying to meet these challenges.
- [L'Acadie en Baratte](https://nimbus.ca/store/lacadie-en-baratte.html): Nico tours the Maritimes with his grandmother in her vintage Westphalia. With eagerness and imagination, Nico is ready for adventure and so is his "memere". Their camping trip, which takes them to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, becomes a whimsical discovery tour of contemporary Acadian communities and history.
- [Ils Sont...](https://nimbus.ca/store/ils-sont.html): Same-sex couples haven't always been accepted in our society, but it is possible for love and beauty to triumph. Two boys are friends and age gracefully together as a same-sex couple. With this story, Acadian singer-songwriter Michel Thériault adds a string to his bow and illustrator Magali Ben dazzles with exceptional colours.
- [Jean-le-Chasseur et ses chiens](https://nimbus.ca/store/jean-le-chasseur-et-ses-chiens.html): Warning: this book contains heart-pounding and mildly bloody adventure, taken right from the wonderful oral storytelling style of Francophone Louisiana. Zombie-dogs and witch-princesses ahead! Jean-the-Hunter is never apart from his tracking dogs. One day, he meets a young enchantress in an orchard. She agrees to marry him, but only if Jean gets rid of his dogs. Luckily, Jean's mother distrusts her...and the dogs won't stay dead for very long.
- [Le cycle M](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-cycle-m.html): Melanie, an Acadian, and her French friend Garence arrive in Marseilles. An obscure family curse looms over Melanie's trip, which takes quite a turn when she gets her first period. The two friends are mysteriously taken back to the Middle Ages and unwillingly dragged onto the trail of a shady character. Who is the Maure? Where is he hiding? And how will the two return to the 21st century?
- [Tara Timi et la nuit](https://nimbus.ca/store/tara-timi-et-la-nuit.html): Tara and Timi, two close friends, are very excited to travel away on an adventure to the Fall Fair. However, Timi prefers being cautious to exploring, and as soon as things don't go as planned, he becomes quite nervous. Luckily, the two meet a wise old woman along the way.
- [Tombent les nuages](https://nimbus.ca/store/tombent-les-nuages.html): Mariesol and Loïc love watching clouds as they take on many silly shapes. But when they wake up one morning, the whole town is buried under a big, fluffy white blanket. The clouds are falling! Cars can no longer drive about, and an old man has even lost his cat. What a disaster! It is time to find a way to hang the clouds back up in the sky!
- [Zim s'imagine](https://nimbus.ca/store/zim-simagine.html): Domestic cat or street cat, mysterious cat or old cat: all feline friends are adventurers in their own way. Who hasn't laughed at a silly pose a cat has taken? Zim is a kitty with a vivid imagination, and with him children will discover words, rhymes, pictures and incredible situations!
- [Une âme suffit](https://nimbus.ca/store/une-ame-suffit.html): When Cassandre, an orphan, is adopted by a couple, she doesn't suspect that she just entered a mysterious world. Her parents soon give her a gift: eternal youth. But there is a price to pay for immortality, and Cassandre is not ready to submit herself to it! Determined to limit the damage caused by this "gift," she tries to keep a low profile in her new school, but Antoine, a classmate with devastating charm, does not see things the same way. He notices Cassandre's strange abilities hands her a comicbook he made, suggesting that he knows her secret. Neither superhero nor vampire, who is she? Will she have to sacrifice her soulmate to regain freedom?
- [Appi, lutin parfumeur](https://nimbus.ca/store/appi-lutin-parfumeur.html): Appi is a pixie, unlike any other: she is a shy perfume sprite. Despite her legendary shyness, she is preparing for an extraordinary outing: today is the day the purple waterlily blooms, which occurs only once every ten years! Determined to obtain the nectar from the precious flower for its fragrance, Appi goes on a quest. But she is not the only one searching for the treasured extract!
- [Drôle de Soccer !](https://nimbus.ca/store/drole-de-soccer.html): Two young Canada geese discover a strange object in their natural habitat. Believing that it is a dinosaur egg, they alert their flock immediately. They quickly ban together when a group of strangers arrives and begins kicking the abandoned egg. What ensues is a very funny match. Will the geese enforce the rules of the game between man and nature?
- [Le Pit à papa](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-pit-a-papa.html): Here is the story of Petites Lunettes and her love for her father. Papa Arthur loves her too, but he has a weakness for cars. These cars become entertwined with her life: she grows up with them, is bathed in their music, and they will eventually take her away from the beloved island where her family lives. But some cars have wings that can circle back to close the loop on the scenic road of love!
- [Marcher dans le ciel](https://nimbus.ca/store/marcher-dans-le-ciel.html): Poet laureate and spoken word artist Sonia Cotton with the help of Annie Boulanger’s loving illustrations have created a unique book. Arrival of new neighbours, search for self-esteem, loss of a beloved grand-father, existence of time, mental stability, joy of creativity, amongst other, are explored with simple and yet profound words and images. A great high in content, low in reading difficulty book, sure to stimulate family or class room discussions.
- [Une étoile sur la dune](https://nimbus.ca/store/une-etoile-sur-la-dune.html): Written and illustrated by a painter who knows from personal experience how it feels for a child to be locked within oneself; this book travels a unique path. An artist’s book, accessible to the whole family, where imagery and words draw us towards the healing sea. No miracle cures, just a simple story of love, patience, and self-discovery, woven by mother, father, brother and the seashore.
- [Le colosse des neiges de Campbellton](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-colosse-des-neiges-de-campbellton.html): Gabriel, Ania and Mamadou, followed by their faithful dog, are on a ski vacation in Campbellton. But soon, they find themselves scouting a terrifying beast up frozen paths and towards a splendid mansion nestled near Mount Sugarloaf. The owner is a likeable Swiss chocolate millionaire, however Ania, the know-it-all of the young detective trio, is not buying his story. Will the skills of the ‘Three Musketeers’ finally falter on their 7th adventure?
- [Riette l'assiette](https://nimbus.ca/store/riette-lassiette.html): Does Charlotte the artist know that behind her back, Table and Chair are wrestling for Riette the plate’s attention? Riette is so attractive in her yellow polkadotted attire! Take care: this love triangle might just end up with something broken… But take heart: something new will appear, because, after all, an artist is handy with her hands, her imagination and re-using can be so productive!
- [Le trésor de Memramcook](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-tresor-de-memramcook.html): It isn’t easy being the new kid in a seemingly quiet village where everyone shares familiar ties. The school principal insists Marie the grumbler, from Quebec, work with Mathieu Landry, the teaser. Marie resists all she can, but finally, between the wind, Mathieu’s persistence and his grandfather’s insistence there is a treasure to be found in the Memramcook valley, Marie discovers the story about the Acadian Renaissance. And a treasure to boot!
- [Quacko Académie](https://nimbus.ca/store/quacko-academie.html): Quacko is feeling blue. He has friends, but no voice. That's embarrassing for a duck! And how in the world will he get Fine Plume's attention? The big singing contest is coming up soon; Quacko is afraid he'll look bad. However, his instinct to help a competitor ends up helping him learn to sing in his own voice, and win over his sweetheart!
- [Diego l'escargot](https://nimbus.ca/store/diego-lescargot.html): Diego has just landed in New Brunswick, searching someone who will love him more than anything in the world. But it isn't easy to make friends when you leave a long gooey trail behind you! After a few encounters he is dropped by a heron in the Botanical Gardens in St-Jacques du Madawaska. There, a chef from Brittany is cooking up... snail soup! But who knows? Maybe love will conquer!
- [Capitaine Baboune / Captain Crankypants](https://nimbus.ca/store/capitaine-baboune-/-captain-crankypants.html): Arnaud, previously met in The Ogre’s belly finds himself too old for outdoor play. He appears to have mutated into the king of grouches, and so will be kidnapped onto Captain Crankypants’ celestial ship, which strangely enough, runs on grouses and grumbles. Fortunately, Loïc, Arnaud’s little brother, is not too old to trust Dylan of the Mountains, a gentle dragon who has come to Arnaud’s rescue. Armed mostly with good faith, they pair off to save Arnaud. Captain Crankypants better be wary! Crankiness might be the order of the day for Arnaud but will he really enjoy being forcibly enlisted on Captain Crankypants celestial ship?
- [ma maman toute neuve / My Brand New Mommy](https://nimbus.ca/store/ma-maman-toute-neuve-/-my-brand-new-mommy.html): My mom and dad have decided to make a little brother, without asking my half-brother, my half-sisters or my advice. The almost baby brother isn’t even here yet and he is already stealing my thunder. My good old mom has gotten too big and fragile. I need a new one! Our neighbour Sandy would be perfect! I’ve made up my mind; I’m moving!
- [La Sirène des Iles de la Madeleine](https://nimbus.ca/store/la-sircne-des-iles-de-la-madeleine.html): Un conte à saveur écologique où les animaux passent à l’action... On y découvre pourquoi la petite Julie des Îles de la Madeleine est entraînée au fond des mers par le homard Pince-sans-rire. Transformée en sirène, elle ne parcourra plus les plages à la recherche de trésors, mais on pourrait bien l’apercevoir pourchassant les braconniers et les pêcheurs sans scrupule…
- [Noel, Christmas, Noeleoimg](https://nimbus.ca/store/noel-christmas-noeleoimg.html): Seize dessins illustrent un texte inédit. À l’enfant de raconter l’histoire et aux parents ou amis de la noter (en français, en anglais, en mi’kmaq ou dans une autre langue). À différents âges, l’enfant imaginera différents contes. Un livre-souvenir unique en son genre à offrir en cadeau à l’enfant... devenu grand.
- [Le Départ de Julie](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-depart-de-julie.html): Du lever au coucher du soleil, Julie vivait son quotidien. Chaque lundi, elle faisait son lavage. Avec la complicité de mère nature et un « Salut, Marie », les nuages gris disparaissaient. Mais un insecte à six pattes l'observait et attendait son heure. Puis, un jour, les draps blancs de Julie furent noirs de fourmis... Mais où emmène-t-on Julie et sa petite ? Texte poétique magnifiquement illustré. Il a été inspiré par la Déportation des Acadiens de 1755, mais il peut fort bien s’appliquer aux nombreux départs forcés ou déplacements de population actuels.
- [Tihtiyas and Jean](https://nimbus.ca/store/tihtiyas-and-jean.html): À travers le regard de Tihtiyas, on assiste à la grande aventure de l'arrivée, de l'installation et du premier hiver des Français à l'île Muttoneguis (Sainte-Croix). Parmi eux, se trouve Jean qui se liera d'amitié avec Tihtiyas.
- [Calendar of Life in a Narrow Valley: Jacobina Campbell's Diary, Taymouth, NB 1825-1843](https://nimbus.ca/store/calendar-of-life-in-a-narrow-valley-jacobina-campbells-diary-taymouth-nb-1825-1843.html): Over the course of two decades, the ever-observant Jacobina Campbell coordinated the activities of a busy household and reported on the daily lives of family and neighbours. This remarkable woman’s diary introduces an early 19th-century community on the Nashwaak River where life and work were shaped by the seasonal rhythms of the farming-lumbering economy that came to characterize much of rural New Brunswick.
- [Separate Spheres Women's Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes](https://nimbus.ca/store/separate-spheres.html): A best-selling anthology of original articles about the history of women in the Maritime Provinces. The traditional stereotypes surrounding Victorian womanhood are challenged by authors who tell us about farm women and black women, about women in classrooms, churches and factories, about women who struggled against family violence, defended their property rights, participated in public events and campaigned for social reform. Contributors include Rusty Bittermann, Gail Campbell, Janet Guildford, Phillip Girard, Rebecca Veinott, Hannah Lane, Bonnie Huskins, Suzanne Morton, Sharon Myers, Judith Fingard and Gwendolyn Davies.
- [Studies in Maritime Literary History 1760-1930](https://nimbus.ca/store/studies-in-maritime-literary-history-1760-1930.html): From the early diarists and satirists to the women writers of the nineteenth century and the poetic Song Fishermen of the twentieth, Maritime writers have made distinctive responses to the social, political and geographical realities of their time. These essays reveal how the region’s writers have shaped and reflected the identity of the Maritimes.
- [Planter Links](https://nimbus.ca/store/planter-links.html): They came into early Nova Scotia from many backgrounds, carrying the village culture, missionary ideals, political dreams, economic ambitions and ordinary hopes of the eighteenth century. Preachers and privateers, teachers and soliders, merchants and farmers , these men and women founded communities and planted seeds that have made a distinctive contribution to local and regional identities in the Maritime Provinces. This latest volume in the Planters Studies Series features fourteen chapters by writers and scholars in the field, including Richard Lyman Bushman, Robert McLaughlin, Daniel Conlin, David Murray, Peter Haring Judd, David Jaffee, Philip Girard, Eldon Hay, Barry Cahill, Kenneth Paulsen, Nancy Vogan, Patrick Rogers, M.A. MacDonald and Julian Gwyn.
- [Education of an Innocent](https://nimbus.ca/store/education-of-an-innocent.html): An informal personal history by one of the most respected and beloved regional historians of the Maritimes. Insights into schooling and society, family and church, the outdoors and the universities, all of which shaped his character and his work. Edited and introduced by former student Stephen Dutcher, and featuring a conversation with historian John G. Reid.
- [A Reluctant Search for Spiritual Truths](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-reluctant-search-for-spiritual-truths.html): When Adrian McNally Smith was writing his family memoir Finding Forgiveness, he was struck by the number of times he had had spiritual encounters. The journey of writing the story of his life and his relationships brought home to him the fact that he had felt a sense of hubris before many important and life-changing moments in his life. Going through the process of forgiveness and the counseling he needed to forgive his father awakened in him the desire to dig deeper into these encounters and what it means to be embrace spirituality. This reluctant search changed his life and sparked a whole new awareness of spirituality.
- [Mrs. Beaton's Question My Nine Years at the Halifax School for the Blind](https://nimbus.ca/store/mrs-beatons-questions.html): Robert Mercer's life could have been very different. He was born with very low vision and, as a youngster, struggled in school. But through the intervention of a caring teacher and the support of his family, he found his way to the Halifax School for the Blind and into the classroom of Mrs. Beaton. It was there that he discovered his voice, a voice he uses to recount his remarkable journey from a shy little boy to a community leader.
- [Deep Water Pearls A Collection of Women's Memoir](https://nimbus.ca/store/deep-water-pearls.html): Thirteen writers dive into the deep emotional waters of their lives to write their most personal, honest stories. In doing so they transform the grit of female experience into pearls of truth and beauty. Guided by memoir coach and editor Kathleen Hamilton, the writers reveal the most intimate turning points in their lives, memories deeply charged with meaning, moments after which their lives were never the same. The stories are diverse: we meet a PEI farm girl exploring her early intuitive knowings, a tattooed millennial struggling with PTSD, a mature academic rebounding from the betrayal of her marriage, and a bride whose wedding day is a triumph over a treacherous past. In The Strength it Took to Ditch You, a woman reveals her years in an abusive same-sex relationship. High School Reunion is set in Unit 9, a psych ward in Charlottetown. In The Waiting Place, a young mother from western PEI explores the meaning of home.
- [Minding the House Volume II 1993-2017](https://nimbus.ca/store/minding-the-house-volume-ii-1993-2017.html): This follow-up collection of biographies of Prince Edward Island MLAs provides an important resource for political buffs or anyone who is interested in policies that shape the province. It records a part of Island history that is not often told—the stories of those who have dedicated a portion of their career to public life. This second volume of Minding the House will be of interest to all Islanders and those who wish to learn the recent history of Prince Edward Island.
- [A Photographer's Guide to Prince Edward Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-photographers-guide-to-prince-edward-island.html): New by award-winning photographer team. There are very few places as photogenic as Prince Edward Island. With its sweeping landscapes, scenic vistas and miles upon miles of beaches, the Island is a haven for photographers. Taking advantage of potential stunning images of the Island in all seasons, these two award-winning photographers know the best places to set up, when and how best to photograph each corner of the Island and how to get there. The thousands of visitors from all over the world who travel to the Island learn the secrets of these two seasoned experts.
- [The Last Wild Boy](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-last-wild-boy.html): This is a new young adult novel by P.E.I.'s Poet Laureate. It is a dystopic story about Nora who lives in the walled city of Aahimsa, anidyllic community of girls and women working together to make a peaceful life free of the brutality of the outsiders. As the companionof the mayor of Aahimsa's daughter, Alice, she enjoys privileges that other women from the working class can only dream of.But when she and Alice find an outsider baby abandoned within the city walls, Nora starts to question whether the outsiders poseas much of a threat to her civilization as she's been taught. With the baby's life in danger, Nora must decide whether she's willingto give up everything she has to save him, and who she can trust to help her.
- [Ashes of My Dreams](https://nimbus.ca/store/ashes-of-my-dreams.html): Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and cut off from her family, free-spirited and independent Gracie is determined to keep her baby and to raise him on her own. Protecting Elijah Blue from the nuns eager to adopt him out to a "better" home is only Gracie's first battle... It takes a whole community of colourful neighbours and friends—and the dream-wisdom of spirits that protect her—for Gracie to navigate the cruel and impoverishing systems that judge and harass her as a single mom on PEI. She gets through with pride, grit, and humour—but nothing can protect her from her growing son's desire to know his father's identity.
- [Comment Naquirent un poulain,cinq chatons et la Confederation](https://nimbus.ca/store/comment-naquirent.html): L'action du dernier roman de l'auteure primée de livres pour enfants Deirdre Kessler se déroule à l'été de 1864. Les jumeaux Gabriel et Grace, de neuf ans, aident leurs parents à l'écurie familiale de la rue Great George, à Charlottetown. Ils assistent à toute l'excitation provoquée par la venue d'un cirque en ville et l'arrivée par bateau de politiciens des Maritimes et de la province du Canada-Uni. Les jumeaux suivent des leçons de dessin de leur ami, l'artiste Robert Harris, de quatorze ans, qui joue dans l'orchestre chargé de divertir les délégués lors du grand bal et du banquet offerts à l'édifice colonial. Mais les jumeaux sont plus excités à cause de leur cheval préféré, qui va bientàt donner naissance à son premier poulain. Remontez dans le temps et parcourez les rues de Charlottetown pour jeter un regard sur les réunions ayant mené à la Confédération, avec ce livre magnifiquement illustré par l'artiste primée Brenda Jones.
- [Variations on Blue](https://nimbus.ca/store/variations-on-blue.html): This year's poetry book by an Island writer is by former P.E.I. bookseller Pam Martin; this is her first book. As a child Pam Martin had four very sudden and unexpected encounters with death. These experiences shaped her emotional life as she struggled to understand them and to find beauty in a world that seemed fraught with peril. The poems also examine, with delicacy and humour, the world she encountered as a teenager, a social worker and a wife.
- [The Grand Change](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-grand-change.html): William Andrews' first novel examines life in a small PEI communityin the 1940s and 50s as changes, so common in the restof the world, begin to take hold. Using a road as an allegory, heweaves a lyrical tale of simple country people, their strugglesand their joys. The story is told through the eyes of a boy calledJake: he is the witness to life on the Hook Road and the eventsthat change that life forever. The book is in some ways like along poem: the people and the world they inhabit are richlyand meticulously described, and the superb writing takes thereader to a world no one will ever see again.
- [Lionel F. Stevenson Fifty Years of Photographs Fifty Years of Photographs (1962-2012)](https://nimbus.ca/store/lionel-f.-stevenson-fifty-years-of-photographs.html): A companion to an exhibit at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery This survey of work by distinguished Canadian photographer, Lionel F. Stevenson, elaborates on the exhibition Lionel F. Stevenson: Fifty Years of Photographs (1962-2012), and illustrates Stevenson's long fascination with documentary and artistic works ranging from the poetic, personal landscapes, to street scenes, and architectural subjects. Also illustrated are portraits, including selections from his acclaimed series Elders of Prince Edward Island. The book features an essay on Stevenson's career by Pan Wendt. Pan Wendt grew up in Prince Edward Island, where he is now curator at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. He received his M.A. in art history from Williams College, and is a PhD candidate at Yale University. He has contributed writing to numerous art publications, including Funkaesthetics (Justine M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto); A Modern World (Yale University Press); and Oh, Canada! (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).
- [Eating Well with Karin](https://nimbus.ca/store/eating-well-with-karin.html): Eating well has never tasted so good! Karin Antolick brings her experiences from her catering and farmer's market business to the page for the first time. Scrumptious recipes include classics such as Miso Soup and Hummus, but also include some of Karin's signature recipes such as Karin's Crazy Cheese Ball, African Chick Pea and Peanut Stew, and Spelt, Cranberry and Walnut Cake a.k.a Catch (or Keep) a Husband Cake. Working with fresh ingredients that can be sourced locally, Karin has compiled healthy and delicious recipes that include vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free options -- options for every body!
- [Prince Edward Island National Park Past and Present](https://nimbus.ca/store/prince-edward-island-national-park.html): Since Prince Edward Island National Park was first created in 1937 it has welcomed visitors from around the world, captivating the hearts of all who experience its serene and tranquil beauty. Stretching for about 40 km along the north shore of Prince Edward Island between New London and Tracadie Bays and the tip of the Greenwich Peninsula in St. Peters Bay, this dynamic coastal landscape is constantly changing, shaped by the wind and waves. The sand dunes and beaches, wetlands and forests provide a home for many plants and animals. Wildflowers add colour everywhere and marram grass glistens in the sunlight, rippled by the coastal breezes. Great blue herons grace the ponds and marshes and shorebirds feed along the water's edge. Several species at risk are protected in the park, including the endangered piping plover. People have been part of this coastal landscape for thousands of years. At Greenwich, archaeological evidence reveals 10,000 years of cultural history, from early Aboriginal peoples to the Mi'kmaq, early French and Acadian settlers and immigrants from the British Isles. Once an elegant summer home built in 1896, Dalvay-by-the-Sea National Historic Site is now a heritage inn. Green Gables Heritage Place, also part of L. M. Montgomery`s Cavendish National Historic site, inspired L.M. Montgomery's setting for Anne of Green Gables. This book, with stunning new photography by the Island's best photgraphers complimented with archival photos, captures the essence of this special place, preserved and protected for you to return to again and again.
- [This Navy Doctor Came Ashore](https://nimbus.ca/store/this-navy-doctor-came-ashore.html): Dr. Read entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and worked for three years as a flight surgeon. When the war was winding down, he realized that his career as a flight surgeon was also over. But he remembered how much he had enjoyed the three weeks he spent in Charlottetown when he relieved the medical officer at HMCS Queen Charlotte. This city of 20,000, in which this landship was 'moored', was much to his liking partly because he had grown up in Amherst, Nova Scotia, just across the Northumberland Strait, where he thought the culture was very similar. He also knew that as the only medical officer there would be independence, significant responsibility and virtual freedom from naval protocol and politics. One couldn't ask for more. But this was during prohibition on the Island and little did he know that a great deal of his time would be spent writing "prescriptions" for alcohol so that the officers could be allowed to drink. Nor did he know that because of the lack of family physicians on the Island, he would be asked to open a general practice in a rural area of the province. For a flight surgeon who had little experience in family medicine, this would be a whole new adventure. This book chronicles some of the noteworthy events of the time he spent spent as a country doctor.
- [I am an Islander](https://nimbus.ca/store/i-am-an-islander.html): No man is a Prince Edward Island. That's a good thing, because the tiny province is eroding a metre per year. In the collection I am An Islander, Patrick Ledwell explores the hilarity of life viewed from the country's crumbling Eastern edge. Raised in a big family, the Island comedian looks back at his rural roots and asks: I am an Islander is a funny and heartfelt stockpile of standup, sketches, and rants, banked up to defend your good humour against everything that might erode it.
- [Right Place, Right Time](https://nimbus.ca/store/right-place-right-time.html): With over 25 years of broadcasting experience, Bruce Rainnie has collected stories from every arena He has worked intimately with PEI's legendary broadcaster "Boomer" Gallant as well as many other well known characters from across the country. Bruce did the first TV interview with Sidney Crosby back in 1996 and has remained in contact with him ever since. He also worked closely with Olympic Gold Medalist, Heather Moyse. The book will include these anecdotes and stories from his work as a news and sports broadcaster.
- [Riptides New Island Fiction](https://nimbus.ca/store/riptides.html): A call was sent out asking writers to submit unpublished short stories for a fiction anthology featuring newer writers with a significant P.E.I. connection. There were no boundaries for setting or genre, only a limit of 5,000 words. PEI is strong on tradition, which includes out-migration and immigration. Thus, its culture and demographics are changing, and these PEI writers both are Island-born and hail from away - Australia and Calgary, Newfoundland and Ukraine. The result is twenty-three stories, which take the reader from a ritual gathering of PEI widows to Chernobyl in the nuclear disaster's aftermath, from a menacing marital game of hide-and-seek through the Maritime landscape to gender clashes on an outback sheep ranch, from a religious commune in Alberta to the Enlightenment Tour bus into Quebec. Whether the characters are struggling for dear life in breaking surf, gasping for emotional air at a ladies' candle party or fearing the Tall Tailor's scissors, the authors demonstrate a rich variety of fictional talent and imagination emerging from what Island poet Milton Acorn called the "red tongue...In the ranged jaws of the Gulf," and revising our perception of "the land of Anne."
- [What If ? - Springvale](https://nimbus.ca/store/what-if-springvale.html): Students of Valerie Dockendorff's grade 5/6 at Springvale Elementary, Halifax, have written and illustrated a book to address a variety of world issues in a positive manner. We wish to raise awareness about problems faced by kids all over the world by imagining what it would be like if the problems didn't exist! All messages and illustrations depict positive images that send a message of hope and provide concrete ways for readers to take action to celebrate and improve our world….word by word.
- [What Really Happened is This A Poetry Memoir](https://nimbus.ca/store/what-really-happened-is-this.html): This collection of moving poetry puts into words the heartbreak and triumphs of looking after ailing parents.What Really Happened is This is a poetry memoir that focuses on the ten-year journey of an adult "only child" as her beloved parents face declining health and death. The wry, poignant, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking, poems chronicle the poet's struggle to find balance in her life, as she juggles the needs of her family with her own work and creative life. The poems touch on the universal in specific experiences, as the poet faces the death of each parent, and realizes she is now next in line.
- [Sky Pony](https://nimbus.ca/store/sky-pony.html): Elaine Breault Hammond, the author of the best-selling The Secret Under the Whirlpool, Under the Waterfall, and Explosion at Dawson Creek, has lived in six provinces as well as in the United States. She and her family lived on Prince Edward Island. Now she divides her time between PEI in the summertime and Kingston, Ontario, the rest of the year, where she is close to four of her seven grandchildren
- [Great Day Fer Livin'](https://nimbus.ca/store/great-day-fer-livin.html): After living in Australia for 18 years, Juliet Wilson returned to Prince Edward Island for an extended stay. The Island's allure hit her front on: not just the vibration of the gently rolling landscape, with its patchwork quilt of red soil and emerald fields, but the beauty of the people who make up the rich fabric of the Island, their sense of place, and their way of being.She spent the summer of 2009 driving the back roads of Prince Edward Island, introducing herself to people she met on the wharves and in the fields and in their shops, and getting to know them by listening to their stories and eventually photographing them. Like an informal anthropological study, this 48-page book gives a glimpse into the culture, belief, and practices of the primary producers who make up the backbone of Prince Edward Island.
- [Beyond Silence](https://nimbus.ca/store/beyond-silence.html): Beyond Silence: Voices of Child Sexual Abuse is a collection of stories, poems, and images by twelve Island women. In these deeply personal accounts, the women tell about the abuse they suffered as children, the profound effect it has had on their lives, and the reasons why people need to join the fight to stop it. A prevention chapter, written by the group as a whole, focuses on five key areas that need to be addressed in order to end child sexual abuse. These include abusers taking responsibility for their actions and parents taking action to protect their children.Beyond Silence takes a fresh approach to the ongoing work of child sexual abuse prevention by focusing on the knowledge and wisdom of adult survivors. This book has the potential to dramatically change the ways communities respond to child sexual abuse. The stories are raw and real, honest and terrifying. The women dig into the darkness of the past so that others may see the light. They refuse to be silenced and they're determined to make a difference.
- [Mud, Sweat and Tears](https://nimbus.ca/store/mud-sweat-and-tears.html): Mud, Sweat and Tears tells the story of Bud Ings' adventures as a rural veterinarian in the 1950s. As one of Prince Edward Island's first professionally trained veterinarians, Ings set up his practice in the eastern town of Souris before moving to Montague. Farms were rarely close at hand, however, and the sight of Bud Ings behind the wheel of his Volkswagen Bug became a familiar one on the Island's highways and muddy back roads. And whether he was helping to deliver a calf, giving shots of penicillin to a pig, or putting down a beloved horse, Ings treated each animal- and each farmer- with dignity and respect. Ings' memoir is a rich, often humorous account of his first decade as a vet, at time when there were few vacations, no modern tools of the trade, and no request too strange to attend to. It's also the story of a past era, when PEI's farms flourished and the animals were not only the backbone of the economy, but part of the family.
- [Jean Pierre Roma (French)](https://nimbus.ca/store/jean-pierre-roma-french.html): This is the French translation of Jean Pierre Roma and the Company of the East of Isle-Saint Jean. In the 1700s, Jean Pierre Roma brought settlers to carve an international trading empire out of the virgin forests of Isle St. Jean -- now known as Prince Edward Island. A successful entrepreneur in a thriving community, he saw all his accomplishments destroyed by privateers in 1745. Yet the story of Roma lives on as an inspiration and a cautionary tale to leaders and builders. This new edition of a monograph originally published in 1977 ensures that Roma is not forgotten.
- [Growing Up With Julie](https://nimbus.ca/store/growing-up-with-julie.html): Growing Up With Julie is the story of Gerry Steele's childhood with a French-speaking mother in an English-speaking community. Set in Miscouche, near Summerside, Prince Edward Island, in the early part of the 20th century, the story is an historical snapshot of a life heavily influenced by the Catholic church, poverty and the Depression, alcoholism, and cultural tensions between the Acadians and the Scots. At the head of the family is Steele's grandmother, a woman unwavering in her beliefs---regardless of their merit, validity, or tendency to offend. It is also a story of one woman's determination to educate her children in a hard-living rural society coming to terms with modernity. Gifted with an excellent memory for detail, Gerry Steele delivers a story that is rich in integrity and precision, with a good dose of humour to brighten up the dark corners.
- [Shape of Things to Come](https://nimbus.ca/store/shape-of-things-to-come.html): In this new collection, Richard Lemm traces his own journey from the west coast of North America to the east coast of Canada with his first foray into the world of short fiction. His hard-living characters follow their own paths through relationships with parents and siblings, friends and lovers, discovering and sometimes crossing their limits as they try to find their own way in the world. A thirty-something man takes a chance on finding love after he encounters an exotic opera singer on an airplane. Two brothers face their own ghosts as they come to terms with the death of their father. A young man tries to live with his friends' idea of justice after one of them crosses the line. The stories are decidedly masculine - sometimes apologetically so - but always honest. They resonate long after the pages are closed, offering a fresh voice from one of Atlantic Canada's finest poets.
- [Acadian Legends, Folktales and Songs](https://nimbus.ca/store/acadian-legends-folktales-and-songs.html): Island historian and folklorist Georges Arsenault has been collecting songs and stories from Acadian Prince Edward Island since his student days in the 1970s: words gathered by lamplight in the early part of the 20th century, when the local men and women would pass on what they'd learned from elders long gone. His 17 informants were mostly hard-working parents of very large families, some well-educated and some not. Included in this collection are 8 stories, 13 legends and 23 songs with lyrics and musical notation, mainly reproduced from taped interviews. Originally published as Contes, legendes et chansons de l'Île-du-Prince-Edouard, this English translation by Sally Ross includes footnotes and a bibliography, as well as photos of his informants
- [A Bountiful Harvest](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-bountiful-harvest.html): Little did organizers know when they planted the seed 15 years ago that the Literary Awards would reap such a bountiful harvest. This collection of over 35 first-prize short stories, poetry, and writing for children represents the best new writing in Prince Edward Island. Readers will recognize several of the names - people who have gone on to be published or produced - including Rai Berzins, Lesley-Anne Bourne, Judy Gaudet, Elaine Hammond, Hugh MacDonald, Brent MacLaine, Steve McOrmond, Dianne Hicks Morrow, Melissa Mullen, Libby Oughton, and Nancy Russell.
- [Landmarks:  An Anthology](https://nimbus.ca/store/landmarks-an-anthology.html): Poetry by 50 of the Atlantic region's finest poets
- [Tales From Willowshade Farm](https://nimbus.ca/store/tales-from-willowshade-farm.html): Betty Howatt has spent half a century on her family's fruit farm in Prince Edward Island, within sight and sound of the Northumberland Strait. In this collection of stories, she shares her gardening lore, her memories of days gone by, and her prodigious knowledge of the flora and fauna around her. Told with wisdom, humour, and a refreshing lack of sentimentality, these chronicles are both entertaining and informative, and give the reader a tantalizing glimpse into a fast disappearing world of peace and beauty on a small family farm.
- [Long Reach Home](https://nimbus.ca/store/long-reach-home.html): Reaching back through a family full of stories and characters, from Newfoundland on her mother's side to New Brunswick on her father's, the poems in Long Reach Home are characteristically personal, warm, and accessible- by turns humorous, by turns enraged- but always engaged with the world, distilling simple pleasures and fundamental human struggles from everyday experience.
- [Dip & Veer Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville](https://nimbus.ca/store/dip-veer.html): Frank Ledwell has previously published one volume of prose and poetry, The North Shore of Home (Acorn Press, 2002) and two collections of poetry, Crowbush and Other Poems (Ragweed, 1990) and Dip & Veer: Reflections on the Art of Alex Colville (Acorn Press, 1996). He has performed as a popular storyteller in venues across Prince Edward Island. Frank Ledwell is a Professor Emeritus of the English Department of the University of Prince Edward Island, where he taught creative writing for many years. He was the first recipient of the PEI Council of the Arts' Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts, and for many years was known as the Island's unofficial poet laureate.
- [Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove](https://nimbus.ca/store/fireflies-in-the-magnolia-grove.html): In this, John Smith's sixth book of poetry, Prince Edward Island's inaugural Poet Laureate offers up a dialogue about "being," in the intellectual context of modern times. He explores stages of being, as an individual, as one in relationship to others, and as a part of the earth and of the universe. The poet's acquaintance with physics, algebra, and geometry collides with his own philosophical questionings, using language to bridge the ephemeral and the infinite. The poems are the distilled, heady musings of a writer whose poetic voice spans millennia.
- [Last Tomato](https://nimbus.ca/store/last-tomato.html): Jane Ledwell grew up in Prince Edward Island. She won first prize for both prose and poetry in the Atlantic Writing Awards in 2001, and has been published in journals such as blueSHIFT and anthologies such as Landmarks and A Bountiful Harvest. She lives and writes in Charlottetown.
- [Her Teeth are Stones](https://nimbus.ca/store/her-teeth-are-stones.html): Each of Judy Gaudet's poems is a path to somewhere resonant, redolent of memories and anticipations both bittersweet and beautiful. She traces the paths the mind and body takes purposefully, as well as those it happens onto, by chance or consequence. The poems light on home and history, travel afar, return again. They are marked by the toughness of wholly looking and experiencing and are leavened by wry humour and true gratitude for the beauty and magic that touch the earth's days -- and our human ones, tripping over the stones of her path. Her Teeth Are Stones is Judy Gaudet's first full-length poetry book, following her chapbook Poems, you say.
- [Beautiful Veins](https://nimbus.ca/store/beautiful-veins.html): A Canadian poet's last wordsA sense of ego-urgency has seemingly sucked hard on any high octane left in my system, and what used to take me a decade and more to accomplish as a writer has suddenly fruited within a 12-month time frame.- Joe Sherman, December 2005The result is Beautiful Veins, Joe Sherman's final book of poems. Joseph Sherman, author of seven books of poetry, editor, and supporter of the arts, died on January 9, 2006, in Charlottetown. He was 60.Beautiful Veins begins with the picture of a child, of "one life with all the promise of its beautiful veins." Some of the poems catch details of domestic life and its indwelling spirit and glancing irony; they explore the cache of memory. Others evoke history and landscape, opening them up to careful consideration. Always there is a love of language and its quirks, oddities, split-levels, riches. Out of the intricate and elliptical syntax, moments of joy are discovered, named against the threat of time and illness.
- [And My Name Is](https://nimbus.ca/store/and-my-name-is.html): In this, Margie Carmichael's first collection of short stories, ordinary women have extraordinary skills, gifts and strengths; they are women who live next door or in the distance, shadowed by fear or absence of recognition. Age, race, and culture connect in the timeless fabric of the quilt, with craft, patience, and faith connecting the women through the threads of their diversity.Anna tells of life after residential school; Irini reflects on her life in war-torn Afghanistan. In Tansie, two adults survive childhood abandonment. Freelance cosmetician to the dead Flora Hill offers insight into the lighter side of love, marriage, and death.Featuring illustrations by Dale McNevin, the book is a collaboration that began with an original painting and companion poem first published in the Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women's Health 2000 Calendar.
- [Hangman's Beach](https://nimbus.ca/store/hangmans-beach.html): A skilful blend of romance and historical fact woven about Halifax, Nova Scotia, while the Napoleonic Wars were shaking the world. A few miles away on Melville Island, a French prisoner daily faces the agonizing question: What would be his fate if the British discovered that he had shot and killed Lord Nelson at Trafalgar?
- [Black Girl, Black Girl (pb)](https://nimbus.ca/store/black-girl-black-girl-pb.html): A vibrantly illustrated picture book celebrating Black Girl power from the author and illustrator of Black Boy, Black Boy.
- [Foggy Cat](https://nimbus.ca/store/foggy-cat.html): Robert Lyon’s illustrative watercolors combine beautifully with Glenda Thornton’s rhythmic language. Together author and illustrator bring Foggy Cat’s daily and seasonal life to the page. Enjoy the meanderings of Foggy Cat through the neighbourhood, the house and seasons.
- [Lola Flies Alone](https://nimbus.ca/store/lola-flies-alone.html): Awarding-winning author Bill Richardson and illustrator Bill Pechet team up again with Lola Flies Alone, a delightful story about a young airline passenger who has even more imagination than she has style – and she has plenty of that.
- [Poems and Lyrics by a Super-Centenarian I Needed the Quiet](https://nimbus.ca/store/poems-and-lyrics-by-a-super-centenarian.html): Garvie Samson's 4th edition of poems penned in French and English by a Cape Breton teaching nun, who lived throughout 3 centuries (1891–2004).
- [Tick-borne Diseases in Dogs A Canadian Perspective](https://nimbus.ca/store/tick-borne-diseases-in-dogs.html): Presenting the latest research on canine Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis, Tick-borne Disease in Dogs is an invaluable reference for veterinarians and dog owners. As geographic ranges of ticks and their associated vector-borne pathogens rapidly expand in Central, Eastern and Atlantic Canada, it is imperative to understand the complex relationships surrounding the incidence of disease in dogs to inform management and prevention.
- [A Wholesome Horror Poor Houses in Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-wholesome-horror.html): Brenda Thompson's poignant treatise on the treatment of the poor in Nova Scotia and the evolution of private and government-subsidized poor houses. None of these 32 buildings remain. This is a very important book that makes us pause and ask serious questions.
- [Angle](https://nimbus.ca/store/angle.html): It was supposed to be a simple recovery operation. All Harder Security had to do was liberate a ransomed plane and fly it from Angola to anywhere else. Maybe the mistake was his insistence on being part of the operation. If he wasn't there, Phil wouldn't have known there was a crate of uncut diamonds on the plane. He wouldn?t be in a position to decide to crash-land the plane at their base in Ethiopia to keep from declaring them. And the government wouldn't be forced to ask them to pack up their stuff and go. The crate of diamonds could have been the infusion he needed to grow the company. Now it seems to be the thing that will take them all down. But not without a fight.
- [Bay of Fundy's Hopewell Rocks](https://nimbus.ca/store/bay-of-fundys-hopewell-rocks.html): Every year, thousands of visitors from around the world descend the staircase at Hopewell Rocks to walk on the ocean floor. Bay of Fundy's Hopewell Rocks offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes tour of this striking and fascinating place. The book is full of intriguing tidbits on the history and natural history of the Hopewell Rocks Park at all times of the year. Snair's descriptions of the tidal action and geology of the area are easy to understand and the self-guided tour portion will help readers make the most of their trip to the Rocks. His images of one of the most photographed places in New Brunswick are both stunning and original, so the book will become a treasured souvenir of this natural wonder of the world. This spring, the author was exploring the beach when he discovered that the Elephant Rock formation pictured on the New Brunswick medicare card had partially collapsed. Historical photos of this formation can be seen on pg 8 (from the 1900s, showing a previous rock fall) pg 13 (1935) pg 61, pg 91 (both before the current collapse.)
- [Simple Beauty The Art of Texture, Form & Colour](https://nimbus.ca/store/simple-beauty.html): Focusing his intuitive photographic lens on beauty in the commonplace, George Fischer brings to light a vivid world beyond technology, traffic, and tension. A place to pause with inspirational gems and moments of splendour. A realm where deeply sensitive images of life spark amazement and awaken joy.
- [Maritime Melange](https://nimbus.ca/store/maritime-melange.html): Maritime Melange was inspired by New Brunswick?s coastlines and the International Sculpture Symposium that was hosted by Sculpture Saint John. The award-winning poem is illustrated by the photography of Shannon Williams as it appears in print for the first time. Previously, it was set to music and performed by the New Brunswick Symphony Orchestra at the 2016 Sculpture Symposium in Saint John, NB. A map showing the locations of the sculptures is included.
- [Camas & Sage A Story of Bison Life on the Prairie](https://nimbus.ca/store/camas-sage.html): In Camas and Sage: A Story of Bison Life on the Prairie, kids are invited to explore and discover the northern plains in a truly unique way: through the eyes and ears of a bison calf.
- [Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West](https://nimbus.ca/store/edible-and-medicinal-plants-of-the-west.html): Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West is a full-colour photographic guide to the identification, edibility, and medicinal uses of over 250 plant species, growing from Alaska to southern California, east across the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Plains to the Great Lakes.
- [Sweet Dreams, Wild Animals ! A Story of Sleep](https://nimbus.ca/store/sweet-dreams-wild-animals.html): Fourteen animals, including the cuddly koala, the hairy anteater, and the wise owl, are featured in this lyrical bedtime story about the unusual ways that animals sleep. Natural history notes explain how each animal sleeps, from the magnificent frigatebird, which naps while flying hundreds of feet above the sea, to the walrus, which sleeps with its tusks anchored in floating ice.
- [Awesome Osprey: Fishing Birds of the World](https://nimbus.ca/store/awesome-osprey-fishing-birds-of-the-world.html): In this scientific yet light-hearted book, readers will become acquainted with ospreys and their life cycle, from courtship, nesting, and raising young to their yearly migrations. Lovely illustrations bring these birds and their aquatic world to life.
- [Evidence from the Earth Forensic Geology and Criminal Investigation](https://nimbus.ca/store/evidence-from-the-earth.html): Filled with information on how forensic geology is conducted and verbally illustrated with colorful details on real criminal cases, Evidence from the Earth entertains the reader while revealing the secrets of the discipline. From cases of purloined palm trees to tales of kidnapping and murder, author Ray Murray leads readers through some of the most fascinating investigations involving soil and rock evidence.
- [Ice Age Mammals of North America A Guide to the Big, the Hairy, and the Bizarre](https://nimbus.ca/store/ice-age-mammals-of-north-america.html): Colourfully illustrated descriptions of strange and marvelous beasts form the heart of Ice Age Mammals of North America. You'll learn about the geologic events that led to the ice ages, along with possible causes for the mass extinctions of so many species. Fun sidebars explore such topics as the enormous size of some Ice Age animals and how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our knowledge of them. You'll even discover sites where you can view remains of these fascinating creatures today.
- [Fiddleheads to Fir Trees : Leaves in all Seasons](https://nimbus.ca/store/fiddleheads-to-fir-trees-leaves-in-all-seasons.html): Children will be delighted by the fourteen diverse North American plants depicted in Fiddleheads to Fir Trees, from weeping willow and cedar to cattail and poison ivy. The plants are organized by season, starting with the tender fiddleheads of a fern in early spring and ending with the snow-dusted needles of the balsam fir.
- [You Can Be a Nature Detective](https://nimbus.ca/store/you-can-be-a-nature-detective.html): This wonderful book explains how children and adults alike can have fun using nature’s clues to figure out such conundrums as which bird built what nest, what butterfly or moth a caterpillar will turn into, and which animal made what tracks.
- [Nature's Yucky ! Gross Stuff that Helps Nature Work Gross Stuff that Helps Nature Work](https://nimbus.ca/store/natures-yucky-gross-stuff-that-helps-nature-work.html): Nature's Yucky uses kids' natural fascination with the stinky, the gross, and the icky to help them learn more about wild animals and why critters behave as they do.
- [Organic Gardening in Cold Climates](https://nimbus.ca/store/organic-gardening-in-cold-climates.html): If you live in the north country, you don't have to settle for anemic tomatoes on your grocer's shelves. Organic Gardening in Cold Climates can teach you how to reap a vegetable bounty despite a short growing season.
- [Weird Rocks](https://nimbus.ca/store/weird-rocks.html): Michele Corriel introduces readers to sixteen unusual rocks and explains the science behind what each one does and how it does it. Youngsters will discover what makes one kind of rock smell like a rotten egg, what rock acts like a magnet, and what rock contains hidden treasure.
- [Panama](https://nimbus.ca/store/panama.html): Lounge on a deserted beach or dive for treasure. Enjoy fine Panamanian coffee in a plantation and a jungle lunch with an Indian tribe. Follow the sounds of nearly 1,000 bird species. Make friends with monkeys, toucans, and iguanas. George Fischer’s images have captured Panama’s magical mix of nature, culture, history, and a thoroughly modern infrastructure. Best known for the Panama Canal, the country is also recognized for its other wonders: five UNESCO sites, distinct Indian cultures, more than 1,500 islands, and countless historical monuments.
- [The Beothuk Way Living With Nature](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-beothuk-way.html): A story about the Beothuk way of life in Newfoundland before the coming of settlement by "White" people in early 1700s Notre Dame Bay. Told through the eyes of a young Beothuk boy, it tells of his people, hunting, ceremonies,trapping, cooking, shelters, weapons, tools, canoes and of their nomadic ways.
- [Unforgettable Tuscany and Florence](https://nimbus.ca/store/unforgettable-tuscany-and-florence.html): Step into central Italy’s region of Tuscany and its capital city of Florence with George Fischer –one of Canada’s most celebrated and prolific landscape photographers. Through his artistry, George has captured life and an area steeped in history and culture. He immortalizes Tuscany’s stunning landscapes, rich artistic legacy and delightful people, finding beauty and inspiration around every corner. He takes you to places where you can absorb hundreds of years of history and culture –or simply bask in the vibrant colours and varying moods. Whether your tastes run to elegant or rustic, classic or modern, you’ll savour the journey.
- [All Afire! Ore Miners of Newfoundland and Labrador](https://nimbus.ca/store/all-afire.html): The book’s title – ‘All Afire!’ was the cry shouted when miners were ready to light their fuses for a blast, warning other workers to seek shelter. This is a story about the life of a miner, focusing on Buchans, with comparisons to other Newfoundland and Labrador mining communities. It explains how a miner goes about the various mining jobs, from mucking ore, to drilling, to being a shift-boss, and the many other jobs in between. It also discusses the hazards and dangers associated with mining – the falls of ground, the dust, the gas, moving machinery, dynamite, etc.
- [The Newfoundland Beothuk Termination of a Tribe](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-newfoundland-beothuk.html): This is an account of the final 100 years of Beothuks in Newfoundland during the years of increasing settlement of Notre Dame Bay, their last place of refuge from the Europeans’ advancement. It chronicles the conflict between the two races that led to the eventual end of the Beothuks–through the killing of their people, diseases, and denial of food.
- [Place Between the Tides](https://nimbus.ca/store/place-between-the-tides.html): Based upon childhood memory and his naturalist's journals, A Place between the Tides is the story of Harry Thurston's return to the beloved environment of his boyhood when he moves to the Old Marsh on the banks of the Tidnish River in Nova Scotia. The book describes the seasons in the life of the marsh as filtered through two decades of Thurston's living there.Blending acute analysis and a poet's lyricism, Thurston explores and examines one of the most productive and biologically diverse habitats on Earth. This is a story of the salt marsh, but it is also the story of a personal odyssey, a homecoming for Thurston as a naturalist, culminating in the re-discovery of the bounty of nature where land meets sea.
- [Come Walk With Me](https://nimbus.ca/store/come-walk-with-me.html): This book is a descriptive and informative account the author's backpacking experiences, complemented by nearly 300 coloured photographs.Walk with the author around Newfoundland visiting outport settlement; photographing caribou in wilderness areas; and hiking the 909 kilometers accross the province.Experience, also his adventures in England as ge wanders the designated trails and and pathways all the way from the Scottish border, sotuyh to the English Channel.His trips to aboriginal areas of Nprthern Ontario and Manitoba, too, will give you viewings of some amazing scenery.A quick flip through the book will show you what to expect and enjoy. Happy reading!
- [By The Sweat of My Brow The Life of a Newfoundland Logger](https://nimbus.ca/store/by-the-sweat-of-my-brow.html): This is the story of a young outport Newfoundlander who went into the lumberwoods at an early age to harvest trees to feed the paper mill at Grand Falls. It tells of his experiences at various phases of wood's work: cutting trees, transporting them to the waterways, driving them to the mill, cooking meals, building dams, teaming horses, driving tractors, trucks, and other wood's machinery.It tells of lumbermen's living and working conditions-the hard-ships of working in all weathers, enduring heat, rain, snow, frost and flies. The camaraderie of camp life, the food served, the bunkhouse and beds they had to sleep on, the lice, the smells, and the changes brought about by the I.W.A strike.It chronicles the history of the log harvest of the Paper Company's Millertown Division, from the start-up in the first decade of the 1900's to the present.
- [Land of Contrast Jordan](https://nimbus.ca/store/land-of-contrast-jordan.html): The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a land of mesmerizing beauty and contrast. All around, modern and thriving communities surround remnants of civilizations long since relegated to the history books. Discover the most unforgettable images of the ancient Nabataean city of Petra, craved from the rocks over two thousand years ago, to the new temples of tourism such as those found at the Dead Sea and Aqaba. Follow the famous King's Highway to the four corners of this diverse country, rich in history and culture.
- [Guthan Priseil](https://nimbus.ca/store/guthan-priseil.html): The songs and stories recorded here are the voices of past and present Cape Breton. They have been recorded so that the artistic expression of Cape Breton Gaelic singers can be made available to all who are interested in this authentic Gaelic tradition. English translations are included for all songs.
- [Failure of Global Capitalism](https://nimbus.ca/store/failure-of-global-capitalism.html): What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal—from Colombia. There's more. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs as a result of neoliberal globalization—the economic hegemony that allows multinational corporations in the global North—primarily North America and Europe—to exploit the natural resources and cheap labour of the global South—Latin America, Africa and Asia. But the commonalities between Cape Breton and Colombia do not end with coal, there are numerous connections directly related to the capitalist system: militant labour struggles, repression, economic insecurity, population displacement, social inequality and environmental devastation. Activists and scholars Gibbs and Leech use the examples of Cape Breton and Colombia to illustrate the harsh realities suffered by people throughout the global North and the global South under neoliberal globalization, particularly with regard to socio-economic and environmental issues. Ultimately, they expose the failure of industrial capitalism, and look toward more sustainable and egalitarian alternatives.
- [Cape Breton Wonders](https://nimbus.ca/store/cape-breton-wonders.html): Did you ever wonder why... your mother re-washed the wash?Did you ever wonder why... the lighthouse lights, or why the miners risked their lives?
- [One God, One Aim, One Destiny](https://nimbus.ca/store/one-god-one-aim-one-destiny.html): The story of African settlement in Cape Breton was barely documented and on the verge of being lost. In 2006, the African Nova Scotian community in Glace Bay decided to restore a derelict meeting hall of the Universal Negro Improvement Association from the early decades of the 20th century. As part of that project, the community created a museum to recognize and celebrate the history of the black community in Cape Breton.
- [Endgame 1758](https://nimbus.ca/store/endgame-1758.html): The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. The French stronghold on Cape Breton Island, strategically situated near the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was from soon after its founding a major possession in the quest for empire. The dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home, are woven together in A. J. B. Johnston’s gripping biography of the colony’s final decade, presented from both French and British perspectives. Endgame 1758 is a tale of two empires in collision on the shores of mid-eighteenth-century Atlantic Canada, where rival European visions of predominance clashed headlong with each other and with the region’s Aboriginal peoples. The magnitude of the struggle and of its uncertain outcome colored the lives of Louisbourg’s inhabitants and the nearly thirty thousand combatants arrayed against it. The entire history comes to life in a tale of what turned out to be the first major British victory in the Seven Years’ War. How and why the French colony ended the way it did, not just in June and July 1758, but over the decade that preceded the siege, is a little-known and compelling story.
- [Honour Roll](https://nimbus.ca/store/honour-roll.html): The Nova Scotia Highland Brigade sailed on the SS Olympic, from Halifax on October 12, 1916, and played a significant role in the victories of World War I, including the now-infamous Vimy Ridge.In time for the 90th anniversary of the battle for Vimy, historian James MacDonald has catalogued information about members of the Highland Brigade (85th, 185th, 193rd, 219th Battalions) killed or mortally wounded in action.The Honour Roll collates, for the first time in a single publication, the name, date of birth, family origin, vocation, enlistment details, date and where they were killed in action and final resting place and of each member. Fifteen battle maps showing troop movements are included, along with a description of Commonwealth war graves where the soldiers are buried.
- [A Better Life A Portrait of Highland Women in Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-better-life.html): MacIsaac interviewed nearly 100 descendants of Highland Scots women and provides this heart-and-soul treatment of the lives of Scots immigrants from women's perspective. She includes an extensive look at women in teaching, nursing and religious congregations. This is an exploration of the traditions and experiences in the lives of Highland Scottish women - in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and in the eastern counties of Nova Scotia where so many of them settled (Pictou, Antigonish, Inverness and Victoria counties primarily). In A Better Life, oral accounts obtained from descendants, enriched by written sources - precious archival collections and rare books - offer insight into the influences central to the cultural, religious, working, caring and devotional lives of Highland women: the dreams and realities of a better life if Nova Scotia.
- [Reflections of Care](https://nimbus.ca/store/reflections-of-care.html): Down the hall, across the street, around the corner an around the world, the education, experience and care of Cape Breton’s nurses are testimony to that capacity–in hospitals, clinics, neighbourhoods and on foreign soil. The need to capture their experiences has resulted in these reflections spanning 100 years–from the opening of the first nursing school on the Island in 1905. By car, on foot, on horseback, by boat, snowmobile, small aircraft and helicopter, Cape Breton’s nurses have distinguished themselves as caregivers, observers, listeners and advocates. These are just some their stories.
- [Cape Breton Fiddle](https://nimbus.ca/store/cape-breton-fiddle.html): In the Cape Breton Fiddle, Glenn Graham, an accomplished Cape Breton fiddler, explores the rootes of the Cape Breton fiddling tradition, an art firmly rooted in Scottish Gaelic cultural forms, through an evolution that has made Cape Breton an icon of creativity recognized throughout the world.
- [Community Economic Development](https://nimbus.ca/store/community-economic-development.html): Communities have long been ahead of governments in responding to changes in the economy, forging ahead with innovative grassroots projects that now make up a substantial portion of economic development initiatives. Having made major gains in practice and having built local capacities through innovation, Community Economic Development now stands at a crossroads. In Building for Social Change, Eric Shragge, Michael Toye and colleagues from across the country offer a timely critical examination of CED practices and debates. This book is designed for CED practitioners, for others working in community-based organizations and those being trained. There are a growing number of post-secondary programs in English Canada that educate students in CED and related fields such as regional development, yet there are not many publications that provide analytical perspectives and debate. The goal of this book is to describe and analyze CED practice, primarily in Canada, through a wide range of subjects—the evolution of its definitions, economic dimensions and the key elements that form its context. Building for Social Change situates CED in wide political, economic and social contexts: rich examples of the scope and practices, and some of the limits—in Aboriginal communities, as a tool to support women, psychiatric survivor enterprises, housing and worker ownerships—are explored to help spur further critical discussion and debate.
- [As A'Bhraighe](https://nimbus.ca/store/as-abhraighe.html): It has been said that the greatest Gaelic poets were from Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands. Those who emigrated to Nova Scotia in the 18th and 19th centuries were the living memory of clan history and tradition. Allan the Ridge MacDonald stands out as one poet who inherited and maintained an extraordinary wealth of vocabulary and a superior knowledge of clan and legendary history. In this first compilation and translation of the known Gaelic songs of Allan the Ridge in print, Effie Rankin gives all readers an insight into the life of the poet and the traditions that made him a highly regarded seanchaidh.
- [Loon Rock](https://nimbus.ca/store/loon-rock.html): The story of a loon and a young Mi'kmaq boy written in English and Mi'kmaq.
- [Skippers Save the Stone](https://nimbus.ca/store/skippers-save-the-stone.html): Skippers Save the Stone is the second adventure of the Skipper dogs. When they travel to Scotland, the Skippers learn that the legendary Stone of Scone has been stolen by a clan of squirrels! The only way they can save the stone is to win a boat race, but the crafty Chief McNut has a trick up his sleeve. Can the Skippers bring back the Stone of Destiny?
- [Butterflies of the Rocky Mountain Press - Folding Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/butterflies-of-the-rocky-mountain-press-folding-guide.html)
- [Cape Breton Captain Reminiscences from 50 Years Afloat and Ashore (2nd ed)](https://nimbus.ca/store/cape-breton-captain.html): A Classic Returns! Capt. David A.
- [Have Guitar, Will Travel](https://nimbus.ca/store/have-guitar-will-travel.html): Town Canadian kid who leaped into a legendary life of popular music — from Punk bands like Problem Child to six-nights-a-week bar gigs with the Rubels and on to his outrageously successful worldwide business creating tribute shows that brought his musical heroes to new life.
- [Native Orchids of Nova Scotia A Field Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/native-orchids-of-nova-scotia-a-field-guide.html): Written “primarily for the amateur flora enthusiast and field naturalist who would like to identify their ‘find’ easily and with the least amount of detective work,” Native Orchids of Nova Scotia is a beautiful book created out of Carl Munden’s devotion to finding and displaying the orchids of his home province.
- [The Story of the Hooked Rugs of Cheticamp and Their Artisans](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-story-of-the-hooked-rugs-of-cheticamp.html)
- [The Birth and the Babyhood of the Telephone A Talk to Telephone Pioneers by The Other Man on the Line](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-birth-and-the-babyhood-of-the-telephone.html): While Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Thomas A. Watson was the craftsman who gave the telephone life. Model after model, night and day, together they battled disappointment, and were spurred on by hints of success. Then in 1875, Watson's hands created the first telephone that actually carried the human voice. Yet the world barely remembers Thomas Watson beyond the first sentence transmitted over the telephone: "Mr. Watson—come here—I want you." In this classic book, restored and expanded, The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone delivers both a detailed record of the development of the first telephone as it also reveals the very human story of the relationship between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson. We see the younger Watson grow up through the guidance of the better educated and more sophisticated A. G. Bell, as Watson receives books, and lessons in elocution and even table manners. This moving first-person account keeps alive the story of a relationship between two brilliant, impassioned men who changed the world.
- [Father Greg - A Life The Cabbage Patch Priest](https://nimbus.ca/store/father-greg-a-life.html): Cape Breton's renowned social activist and priest comes alive in this warm, personal biography. Crafted from Greg MacLeod's diaries and letters, plus Doucet's years as his traveling companion, Father Greg displays the incredible range and vigour of MacLeod's ideas and their down-to-earth application. Through his daring range of proposals, Fr. Greg relentlessly advocated for the public good. Includes a terrific batch of photographs.
- [Lifeline The Story of the Atlantic Ferries and Coastal Boats](https://nimbus.ca/store/lifeline-the-story-of-the-atlantic-ferries-and-coastal-boats.html): Lifeline is an all-new edition of Harry Bruce's classic telling of the roots of today's Marine Atlantic—a history of the courage and determination that maintain the water-links of Atlantic Canada. From Newfoundland to Cape Breton, along the coast of Labrador—from Nova Scotia to Maine and New Brunswick, and across to PEI—through wind and ice, Harry Bruce brings to life a bold, brave, sometimes hilarious and often tragic history. With 40 historic photographs.
- [Watchman Against the World](https://nimbus.ca/store/watchman-against-the-world.html): The story of Reverend Norman McLeod and his people.
- [The Cape Breton Summertime Revue](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-cape-breton-summertime-revue.html): Through Ron Caplan's lively and revealing conversations, Mac MacDonald, Bette MacDonald [Mary Morrison!], Maynard Morrison [Cecel!], Leon Dubinsky, Gerald Taylor and Stephen MacDonald share the history and day-to-day work that created Cape Breton's beloved stage performances of unforgettable song and outrageous comedy. The Cape Breton Summertime Revue takes you to the heart of ten years of a Cape Breton Classic. Warren Gordon's terrific photographs are worth the price of the book.
- [Silver Dart The Story of J.A.D. McCurdy, Canada's First Pilot and the First Airplane](https://nimbus.ca/store/silver-dart.html): A WARM, ENTHUSIASTIC AND ENTERTAINING biography of the fearless pioneer pilot who flew Canada into the Aviation Era when his Silver Dart lifted off lake ice in Baddeck, February 23, 1909. The story of the Aerial Experiment Association — four young men around Alexander Graham Bell — that developed and flew the flimsy planes that became the legendary Silver Dart. A story of companionship, invention and courage, as Canadian aviation was born in Cape Breton Island.
- [Cape Breton's Christmas A Treasury of Stories and Memories](https://nimbus.ca/store/cape-bretons-christmas.html): FROM THE HEART OF CAPE BRETON, Christmas radiates through stories by Beatrice MacNeil, Hugh MacLennan, Tessie Gillis, Paul MacDougall, Marie Battiste, Wanda Robson, Rita Joe, Ellison Robertson, and many more. From the Christmas tree in the coal mines to a community roasting turkeys at Bernie’s Bakery; from Christmas wrecked to Christmas saved, and Christmas far from home. Cape Breton’s Christmas is a family keeper — for anyone who loves wit, celebration and the generosity of Maritimes life.
- [Cape Breton Highlands National Park](https://nimbus.ca/store/cape-breton-highlands-national-park-new-edition.html): 44 EXCELLENT HIKES! NEW TRAILS! Adventures in hiking, skiing, kayaking-quirks of wildlife-affectionate appreciation of our National Park's natural beauty-all make for entertaining and informative reading from a legendary outdoorsman, who has rewalked and updated all 44 trails. A good storyteller and retired Park warden, he weaves his adventures into facts about flora and fauna, geology and weather-and where along the road to see the evidence. Much more than a guide-for both hikers and armchair travellers!
- [Celtic Colours](https://nimbus.ca/store/celtic-colours-10-nights-without-sleep.html): The first book about celtic colours, 10 Nights Without Sleep is an insider’s years of adventure with the Cape Breton’s festival that has won the world’s praise. Both a history and an intense personal memoir, the reader rides on Dave Mahalik’s shoulder as he discovers the joy of driving some of the finest Celtic musicians around Cape Breton through full-blown autumn colours. One huge musical party, year after year, both onstage and at the nightly Festival Club where the music that stretchses to dawn and beyond — into days that end thrilled, exhausted and with breakfas before bedt. And Dave really takes you along.
- [The Wedding Reels](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-wedding-reels.html): Not for the faint of heart, Joyce Rankin’s new book returns to the traditional roots she mined for At My Mother`s Door. Now in The Wedding Reels she has gone more to the heart of the moments of grief and doubt that we so often carry alone, and for which we rarely have the words. Eventually, love does abide, and her loyalty to place shines through even the darkest moments life can offer. This is the intimate poetry of the storyteller — frank, clear, unforgettable.“Joyce Rankin`s The Wedding Reels is a collection of poetry whose subjects are as local as a square dance, whose themes are as universal as life itself.” — Frank Macdonald, author of A Forest for Calum.Poet George Elliott Clarke called Joyce Rankin`s best-selling first book “a hymn of survival and settlement.”
- [I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything](https://nimbus.ca/store/im-alive.-i-believe-in-everything.html): “Controlled, fluid, wry and passionate.” —Halifax Daily NewsA generous serving of new and selected poems. Lesley Choyce was declared “a national treasure” by the Ottawa Citizen and “Nova Scotia’s answer to the Renaissance Man” by CBC’s Peter Gzowski. Quill and Quire found Lesley Choyce’s writing “life enhancing, life celebrating.” For a taste of this lasting collection, you can watch Lesley read the title poem “I’m Alive. I Believe in Everything,” which is available on youtube.
- [Summer Preserves](https://nimbus.ca/store/summer-preserves.html): Smart, sassy, and sexy, Summer Preserves is a solid debut collection from poet, teacher, and activist Diane Reid.In Summer Preserves, Diane Reid serves up a generous collection filled with guts and good taste. A genuine keeper.“Bursting at the seams with ideas…powered by energetic engagement.. There is, at the core, a control and serious attention to craft.” —Matt Robinson, whose poetry collections include A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking, No Cage Contains a Stare that Well, and Against the Hard Angle.
- [Stud Horse Boy](https://nimbus.ca/store/stud-horse-boy.html): From the truck's horn and the stallion's whinny, The Stud Horse Boy is called from school for adventures breeding horses that made farm life and woods work possible in Eastern Nova Scotia. The boy is torn between boiling anger and admiration for his one-eyed, alcoholic father. Will he become his father? How do you act amidst the eroticism and smutty jokes? How do you find the courage to live? A wonderful storyteller, Darryll Taylor remembers with great good humour, shockingly realistic scenes, and passionate respect. The Stud Horse Boy is today's story-a teenager coming of age in difficult and changing times.
- [Special Link - Early Childhood Inclusion Quality Scale](https://nimbus.ca/store/special-link---early-childhood-inclusion-quality-scale.html): This workbook is a tool for assessing inclusion quality in early childhood centres and for helping centre move toward higher quality inclusion. The Scale provides a picture of sustainable and evolving inclusion quality—an emerging issue as more children with special needs attend communitybased centres and as inclusion pioneers leave their centres and a new generation of directors and early childhood educators take on the inclusion challenges.
- [Marguerite Gallant A Legendary Acadian - Une Acadienne Legendaire](https://nimbus.ca/store/marguerite-gallant-a-legendary-acadian---une-acadienne-legendaire.html): A Friend to all, this unique Acadian comes to life in a delightful new book. Marguerite Gallant is remembered as awoman brave enough to go her own way, to dress as she wished, and to live life to the fullest. Having grown up inpoverty, she struck out in the world, serving as a companion to families in the United States.
- [Talking Cape Breton Music - Expanded Edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/talking-cape-breton-music---expanded-edition.html): Conversations with People who Love to Make Music
- [Woman From Away](https://nimbus.ca/store/woman-from-away.html): Born in 1910 Montana, Tessie Gillis in the 1950s came with her husband Joe to Rear Glencoe in Inverness County to live the hard,satisfying life of rural Cape Breton. Illness finally gave her the opportunity to write, and her friend and editor Evelyn Garbary helped her bloom into one of Cape Breton's finest writers.
- [Talk Back](https://nimbus.ca/store/talk-back.html): It’s been 10 long years since TALKBACK was shuffled off the airwaves, although it was the most popular and highest earning radio show in Cape Breton’s history. For thirteen years, Dave Wilson hosted TALKBACK. This book is his chance to help us all remember, and to sign off on his own terms.
- [Archie, le rat de mine-un heros](https://nimbus.ca/store/archie-le-rat-de-mine-un-heros.html): C’est l’histoire de l’amitié qui existe entre u mineur, Milton, et un rat de mine, Archie –et de la façon dont Archie est devenu un héros.
- [Down North](https://nimbus.ca/store/down-north.html): A terrific and moving read! These voices confirm the tenderness, good humor and rich story telling of Cape Breton Island. Down North stands as a solid tested play–whether on stage or among friends. And then, it encourages you to “Make this play your own!”–a unique and compelling invitation.
- [George Orwell's Friend](https://nimbus.ca/store/george-orwells-friend.html): Born in British Columbia, Paul Potts (1911-1990) lived most of his life based in London's Soho district, a friend and confidant of many ultimately famous writers. His circle included Dylan Thomas and T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Smart and Sean O'Casey--and of course George Orwell, a constant friend. George Orwell's Friend includes autobiography and poetry, an intimate portrait of George Orwell, and the classic anguished memoir of love and vulnerability?elements that rarely find words, and even more rarely find the words of a man. Along with Potts' intimate essay about George Orwell, 'Don Quixote on a Bicycle,' editor Ronald Caplan reclaims the thoughtful work of a passionate, unusual Canadian.
- [Blast](https://nimbus.ca/store/blast.html): A monument to courage and achievement, BLAST! tells the stories of all eighteen major disasters in Cape Breton's coal mining history.
- [The Neighbours are Watching](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-neighbours-are-watching.html): Tony MacKenzie is a beloved historian, teacher and storyteller. He has written three bestselling books, The Irish in Cape Breton, The Harvest Train, and Scottish Lights. The Neighbours are Watching is Tony's first foray into what might be called "fiction"- but readers will recognize the stories as undoubtedly "true."
- [Inclusion Voices](https://nimbus.ca/store/inclusion-voices.html): This rare book lets child care directors across Canada speak to us directly about the vision of full inclusion of children with special needs, the challenges that their vision has faced, and some of the strategies and techniques each has used to survive. The portrait is not all victory, and the future is not assured. Irwin is able to compare recent conversations with visits she made to those same child care centres ten years earlier. The result is evidence-based storytelling and an accessible book that will be of particular value to practitioners, directors, government decision makers, parents and people in related fields.
- [Molly Poems](https://nimbus.ca/store/molly-poems.html): The Molly Poems and Highland Elegies contains rare poems written in tribute to the paintings of Molly Lamb Bobak, Canada s first woman war artist. Each poem, while inspired by Bobak s work, takes its own unique direction. And the Highland Elegies section offers powerful new poems that evoke more of the Maritimes world of Donovan s successful first collection, CAPE BRETON QUARRY.
- [Acadian Tales from Cape Breton](https://nimbus.ca/store/acadian-tales-from-cape-breton.html): An esteemed Canadian folklorist, Father Anselme Chiasson's award-winning books include songs, tales and history of the Acadians of Cape Breton and the Magdalen Islands.
- [Acadian Lives in Cape Breton Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/acadian-lives.html): The Cape Breton Acadian comes alive in this new collection of conversations with remarkable people in an extraordinary place-Acadians of Cape Breton Island. In their own words, this book is a marvelous introduction to their humour, passion, work life and heritage. From fishing life to the cooperative movement, from daily life to sorcery and celebrations-their words and photographs open a door to an intimate portrait of this unique, little-known world. Acadian Lives is a tribute to the tenacity, pride, ingenuity and wit of one of Cape Breton Island's undeniable treasures. In English, with some French tales and songs.
- [Tighten the Traces](https://nimbus.ca/store/tighten-the-traces.html): Celebrating over 500 performances worldwide, Breton Books is proud to offer Robbie O’Neill’s extraordinary play in book form, along with photographs and memories of the lead character, the beloved Leo Kennedy of Canso, Nova Scotia. A tribute to terrific storytelling, Tighten the Traces is first of all a good, enchanting read. Here is the voice of Leo Kennedy, whose outrageous humour and fierce persistence overcame cerebral palsy and a suspicious world, to win him a living as a door-to-door salesman in eastern Nova Scotia. You’ll split a gut laughing, with tears in your eyes. Performed from Guysborough schools to the London stage, in Scotland, Australia, the World Exposition in Vancouver and as a CBC Television Special, Tighten the Traces has earned high praise and an ACTRA Best Acting Award for its writer/actor, Robbie O’Neill.
- [Scottish Lights](https://nimbus.ca/store/scottish-lights.html): A wonderful collection of essays by the best-selling author of The Harvest Train and The Irish in Cape Breton. A popular public speaker, A. A. (Tony) MacKenzie brings that same brisk, informed voice to Scottish Lights, casting new light on the Celtic heritage of Cape Breton and Eastern Nova Scotia. He takes us to pioneer settlements and to the heart of Gaelic tradition, to the battles and passions of heroes and bards and scoundrels, both the well-known and those nearly forgotten.
- [Chéticamp  (French)](https://nimbus.ca/store/cheticamp-french.html): Long out of print, Chéticamp is an award-winning treasure chest of the history and folklore of an extraordinary people and place the Acadians of Cape Breton Island. For this newly designed and expanded edition of the prize-winning classic in its original French, Anselme Chiasson has written an additional chapter bringing the history up to date. Written with clarity and love, and hailed as a rare local history with wide appeal, Chéticamp is a passionate, informative and entertaining guide to this little-known corner of the Maritimes.
- [The Midnight Murder](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-midnight-murder.html): In his short, vigorous life, McKinnon was the courageous editor of three Cape Breton newspapers, and a successful novelist. He fearlessly found a voice in the Boston literary world. Then he became a Methodist minister and tried to burn his "evil" novels. He died at 33-after a life as romantic and passionate as any of his characters.
- [Cape Breton Christ](https://nimbus.ca/store/cape-breton-christ.html): An extraordinary, brave and provocative story told in the form of poetry that reads like a brisk, short novel. Denise Aucoin’s Cape Breton Christ is rare, risky, lighthearted and down-to-earth writing that challenges and encourages us all.
- [Pattie Pitter She Hates Litter](https://nimbus.ca/store/pattie-pitter-she-hates-litter.html): Pattie Pitter HATES LITTER. She picks up everyone’s candy wrappers and pop cans. But no one wants to help. So, Pattie quits. Soon the school is filled with garbage and the schoolyard is buried. NOW everyone is ready to help!
- [Hidden Heritage](https://nimbus.ca/store/hidden-heritage.html): From 1629 to the 1821 settlement of Rev. Norman McLeod, St. Ann has a rich and diverse history. Captured here with zest and detail.
- [Listen to the Wind](https://nimbus.ca/store/listen-to-the-wind.html): A rare and fascinating story of a life with schizophrenia. With the power of a novel, and laced with her small, strong poems, this book is a pleasure as well as art.
- [Wild Honey](https://nimbus.ca/store/wild-honey.html): Stark and sensual, funny and frightening by turns, these are poems you can read and read again, for enjoyment and for insight.
- [John R and Son](https://nimbus.ca/store/john-r-and-son.html): No one has ever written about Cape Breton quite like this! A rich daring short novel, plus 5 stories. A troubling, brutal, and compassionate book that is a riveting classic.
- [Father Jimmy](https://nimbus.ca/store/father-jimmy.html): Jim Lotz is a respected community delopment writer and animator; Michael R.
- [SpecialLink Book](https://nimbus.ca/store/speciallink-book.html): The Mainstream is nothing more than life in the real world. SpeciaLink is devoted to seeing every child wit special needs a full participant in the mainstream. Evidence supports the value of full mainstream childcare for all children, regardless of the challenges. This means that from now on, the work of childcare includes Advocacy –promoting what we already know to be right. The SpecaiLink Book is the story of the road to the principles of full mainstream childcare, and of the SpeciaLink Symposium which made those principles the national agenda for mainstream advocates. “The Mainstream is the right stream” is the battle cry. Achieving full mainstream childcare for every child is the goal. The Book Also Includes a Canadian Directory of Mainstream Childcare Advocates, Further Readings, information about joining SpeciaLink, and other forms for the SpecaiLink Newsletter and videos.
- [Echoes from Labor's Wars](https://nimbus.ca/store/echoes-from-labors-wars.html): Rooted in Cape Breton's industrial wars these are songs of rebellion, indignation, hatred of oppression, full of humour, courage and love of honest work are a powerful compelling testament to courage, peace and community. A collection of Dawn Fraser's poetry and writing. Includes his war poetry and biography.
- [Duncan Back to Back](https://nimbus.ca/store/duncan-back-to-back.html): Storybook & Cassette
- [Castaway on Cape Breton](https://nimbus.ca/store/castaway-on-cape-breton.html): Here are Cape Breton's two greatest shipwreck narratives! Here is northern Cape Breton in Winter. Includes narratives plus terrific essays.
- [Cape Breton Quarry](https://nimbus.ca/store/cape-breton-quarry.html): Born in Ingonish, Cape Breton, Stewart is the author of the popular comic novel, 'Maritime Union'. He teaches at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, and is the founding editor of The Nashwaak Review.
- [Cape Breton Captain](https://nimbus.ca/store/cape-breton-captain.html): This is the true rough-and-tumble story of the life of David McLeod, a robust autobiography of saltwater and guts and passionate romance. Well-told story by the man himself.
- [Archie Neil](https://nimbus.ca/store/archie-neil.html): Born in 1943 in Plattsburg, New York, Mary Anne Ducharme came to Cape Breton in 1979, with her husband Richard and their children, Richard and Kathryn. For the past twelve years she has edited Participaper, produced through the Inverness County Department of Recreation. Mary Anne has a Master's Degree in English, and has been a schoolteacher and a playwright and director. With her husband, she raises acres of strawberries in Whycocomagh
- [Stories From the Woman From Away](https://nimbus.ca/store/stories-from-the-woman-from-away.html): A novel of a woman's rural life, and of the people whose weaknesses and wit enrich her Cape Breton community.
- [Sterling Silver](https://nimbus.ca/store/sterling-silver.html): The personal essay has so much potential as a literary form that it's gratifying to see it being skilfully and engagingly employed in this book. Silver Donald Cameron has plenty on his mind, and he knows how to hold our attention. Cameron easily entices us into his essay "Rocky Mountain High" with this for openers:"Downhill skiing is a certifiably silly sport, I whimper to myself as the chair-lift bears me inexorably over the treetops and gullies, like a slab of beef going around the overhead conveyors in an abattoir. ".
- [The Seven-Headed Beast and Other Acadian Tales from Cape Breton Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-seven-headed-beast.html): This is the first book of Acadian tales now told in English, and establishes these stories as a part of Cape Breton heritage.
- [Moonlight Skater 9 Cape Breton Stories and The Dream](https://nimbus.ca/store/moonlight-skater.html): A mischievous blend of Scottish and Acadian, these stories blossom, or explode softly, in your life.
- [God & Me](https://nimbus.ca/store/god-me.html): In God & Me Sheila Green of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, offers a series of sort, unpretentious poems meant to share the experience of questions, answers an mysteries in discovering relationship with one another, and with God. The ease and caring of this little book make it a rare find for wide range of people. Alison R. Grapes has contributed drawings that, rather than illustrate, try to maintain the calm, urgent joy.
- [Amadou et le 15 aout](https://nimbus.ca/store/amadou-et-le-15-aout.html): Amadou is a newcomer to Acadie. Every Saturday, he likes going to the farmer's market with his mom.
- [Un bisou coquelicot](https://nimbus.ca/store/un-bisou-coquelicot.html): Aly spends Remembrance Day with her great-grandfather. The latter is all dressed up, beret on his head and medals lined up on his veteran's chest.
- [Adélaïde au couvent De Québec à Lamèque](https://nimbus.ca/store/adelaide-au-couvent-de-quebec-a-lameque.html): After having tried three governesses, Adelaïde's father, a notary in Québec, can't take it anymore.
- [Les pirates d'outre-tombe](https://nimbus.ca/store/les-pirates-doutre-tombe.html): In the summer of 1787, Alexie embarks once again on a ship to Acadia from England.
- [C pour cirque](https://nimbus.ca/store/c-pour-cirque.html)
- [La colère de l'autre](https://nimbus.ca/store/la-colere-de-lautre.html): Ève n'a jamais ouvert la bouche pour protester. Quand on n'a jamais parlé, par où commencer ?
- [Cléo matelot](https://nimbus.ca/store/cleo-matelot.html): Cléo lives by the water with her parents. Her dream: sailing around the world.
- [Le retour du Capitaine Baboune](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-retour-du-capitaine-baboune.html): Oh no! Captain Baboune is at it again! This time, at the helm of an infernal machine, capturing the winds and deregulating the climate.
- [Adieu, Jacoby!](https://nimbus.ca/store/adieu-jacoby.html): Beloved dog Jacoby, who's helped numerous children deal with their anxiety and has helped them with their reading skills, is very sick. Seeing him in such pain, his owner Madame Ève decides to take him to the vet to put him own. As she learns to live without her dear companion, Madame Ève is comforted by the soothing memories of him. The children Jacoby helped miss him and decide to throw him a goodbye party. Slowly but surely, without ignoring the pain, or the sorrow, life goes on.
- [La promesse du bout du monde](https://nimbus.ca/store/la-promesse-du-bout-du-monde.html): "He gets halfway up, screams and throws a stick towards the cougar, which hits it in the eye. The sound of his scream surprises the boy himself. He is full of a singular rage, of a refusal to die here, all alone. It's the scream of a man who takes charge of his destiny. And the animal can smell it."
- [Ouaf? Ouaf? Cot! Cot!](https://nimbus.ca/store/ouaf-ouaf-cot-cot.html): A little moment in the life of Henriette, Crème Brulée, Caro and Claude.
- [Le chien d'or de Québec Une aventure des Trois Mousquetaires](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-chien-dor-de-quebec.html): Alexis Nadeau, director of the exhibits at the Civilisations museum in Montreal, has been receiving threats signed: Québec Golden Dog. The three musketeers Gabriel, Ania and Mamadou immediately start to investigate. Gabriel even spots a real golden dog walking around the streets of Quebec! Would it be the same legendary golden dog that stands on the Porte St-Jean at the entrance of the old Quebec. Does the bizarre professor, Bazil Bizaroff, have anything to do with it? And how do you protect yourself against a ferocious dog whose fur is lined with flames?
- [Cours, Ben, cours!](https://nimbus.ca/store/cours,-ben,-cours!.html): Take part in the adventure of Ben, a father without legs and an albino crow... Careful what choices you make, the characters? survival depend on them!
- [Le corps de l'ombre Recueil de poesie et slam par MC June](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-corps-de-l): A collection of slam poems that juggles existential questionings with kindness and humour.
- [Jardin de mots Une histoire de Lire et faire lire](https://nimbus.ca/store/jardin-de-mots.html): On one side of the ocean, Madame Pauline. On the other, a garderner of words. In the middle: books.
- [(M)other](https://nimbus.ca/store/mother.html): No, my son doesn't have a father! From the delivery room to the classroom, a woman whose motherhood is questioned explains: her son doesn't have a father, but he's got two moms. She is the other mother. A (m)other, but there was only room for one on the birth certificate. In the minds of some adults and kids, however, a father figure must be found. Adapted from a 2018 CBC Poetry Prize shortlisted poem, this book tells, with tenderness and accuracy, the difficulties that homoparental families face in being accepted for who they are: loving families.
- [Luna n'aime pas](https://nimbus.ca/store/luna-naime-pas.html): Unlike his brother Zim, Luna is a red-haired, hot-tempered cat. While his feline furry friend scurries and climbs around the house, Luna grrrr's and growls. With their piercing eyes, pudgy bellies, and pillows on their feet, even the best of us can't resist to cats! But if they make us laugh, cats aren't always in a good mood... Will Luna's human and brother cheer him up?
- [Un petit bonheur tout rond](https://nimbus.ca/store/un-petit-bonheur-tout-rond.html): Love is growing, and baby too! Inside mommy's tummy, baby wiggles legs, fists and toes. Mom and Dad count the stars, baby jumps in the belly. Patiently, Mom feels the kicks and Dad dreams and draws. Weeks go by, the belly grows high, and the parents don't know what else to count to keep on waiting. A poetic escape into the adventure of being born.
- [Un géant dans la tête](https://nimbus.ca/store/un-geant-dans-la-tete.html): Matis is 16 year old, and he's a haemophiliac. Two years ago, he lost his mom in a car accident and his father lost his joy. But Matis is resilient, and he'll prove that he's got courage for the two of them.
- [Cher père noël, où est mon banjo?](https://nimbus.ca/store/cher-pere-noel,-ou-est-mon-banjo?.html): The celebrated holiday song from multi-talented and multiple-award-winning Halifax-based roots musician David Myles is now available as a bright and fun children's picture book, and with a French translation by none other than the great Marie-Jo Thério. Young David writes frantic letters to Santa every year, requesting a banjo, but to no avail: "How does he miss / the one thing on my list / in the letter that I sent to him?" Follow the ups and downs of the holiday season with David, his furry friends, and his family, as he pines for his most-wished-for holiday gift. Featuring illustrations from the animation studio that created the song's well-loved music video, a special holiday message from David Myles, and original sheet music for those who wish to play along, Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo is sure to inspire many a holiday singalong.
- [La cabane](https://nimbus.ca/store/la-cabane.html): Alphonse built a splendid fishing hut and now he's wait for a catch... But nothing's coming, except spring, and now his beautiful hut is floating away with him inside. Along the melting ice, the unlucky fisherman, who's got a big heart, will give away pieces of his hut, bits by bits, to those less fortunate than he. Alphonse will still come out of this a champion fisherman!
- [Alerte à Richibouctou](https://nimbus.ca/store/alerte-a-richibouctou.html): It's the Second World War and John and his uncle Fred are going smelt fishing when they see a military plane crash, and a parachute fly down... In the middle of the night, as a storm is raging, they get captured by captain Otto Von Muller, who orders them to lead him to Richibouctou's lighthouse. But his radio message to a German submarine will be intercepted by a Canadian corvette...
- [Samuel et la tuque de Noel](https://nimbus.ca/store/samuel-et-la-tuque-de-noel.html): Samuel is a scaredy-cat, scared of cats. He doesn't get close to them. But one winter day, he sees a kitten outside and decides to take it home... Later, Samuel is busy making snow angels when three snowflakes offer him to become one of Santa's elves... But Samuel is just a normal boy, how could he ever be a brave and serviceable elf and deserve the famous Christmas touque?
- [Un Gamin Acadien L'odyssée de Roméo Leblanc vers Rideau Hall](https://nimbus.ca/store/un-gamin-acadien.html): Né sur une ferme dans le village de l'Anse-des-Cormier, au Nouveau-Brunswick, le jeune Roméo LeBlanc ne se doutait pas que, grâce à l'amour de sa famille et à l'aide inattendue de ses soeurs, il aurait un jour la chance de faire des études secondaires et universitaires, de devenir enseignant d'histoire puis journaliste, et de gravir les échelons politiques jusqu'au plus haut sommet! Malgré tout, Roméo LeBlanc conservera toute sa vie une grande modestie et un grand sens de l'humour. Découvrez l'odyssée d'un gamin acadien jusqu'à Rideau Hall, la résidence officielle du gouverneur général à Ottawa.
- [Comptines et cuisine](https://nimbus.ca/store/comptines-et-cuisine.html): A cheerful parade of creatures and animals creating amusing, original and easy-to-remember nursery rhymes in their trail. Plus, dishes dreamed up by the author and based on these bizarre creatures with easy, mostly no-cook recipes. Children can prepare and taste their dishes without turning the kitchen upside down. Simple ingredients and festive, mainly healthy results. Children and parents may even want to create their own delicious bestiary!
- [À dos d'amour](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-dos-damour.html): A daddy carries his child on his back. The child's eyes look in amazement and discover nature's wonders : the conversation between Birch and Cattail, the wiggling eel, the great heron chasing a field mouse... A day in the life of a father and his child. A day out in nature, by a river. All in all, a day filled with love !
- [Congé pour maman](https://nimbus.ca/store/conge-pour-maman.html): Sophie is jumping with joy. She's bringing her mom to the beach for a well-deserved break. Of course, everything needs to be prepared: games, parasols, sunscreen, driving there. Then, at the beach, small problems arise that gets in the way of relaxation: gusts of wind and moods, stinging sand and jelly fish, and bathroom calls. But Sophie persists. After all, mom deserves a break.
- [Grandes roues et petits pois](https://nimbus.ca/store/grandes-roues-et-petits-pois.html): Émilie looks around her. Nobody close by to help her out. She's unsure. She dreams of becoming a champion... Will today be the day she sets out on her bike to conquer her big wheels? But she is so small, the rocks so big, and she's a little bit afraid... Mom, who's not far in the garden tending to her peas, isn't aware of Émilie's hesitations. Come on! Take a deep breath and... let's go!
- [Le Revenant de la Baie Sainte-Marie](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-revenant-de-la-baie-sainte-marie.html): On the shores of Baie Sainte-Marie in Nova Scotia, an evil wizard has returned to haunt a mystified Acadian community. The three musketeers, Gabriel, Ania, and Mamadou and their faithful dog Dali leave New Brunswick to head for their eighth suspenseful adventure. Aided by mamie Josette, professor Jarnigoine and a slightly ridiculous Indiana Jones clone--can their little team vanquish the malicious spirit before the troubles get out of hand?
- [En Attendant L'Autobus Melanie Legere](https://nimbus.ca/store/en-attendant-lautobus.html): Every morning Claude and his dad wait for the bus at the roadside. Rain snow or shine, they entertain each other with jokes and stories while watching the little bus get bigger as it nears. But it seems like little Claude is getting bigger too, and pretty soon he's not so eager to be seen there waiting with his daddy.
- [le monstre du Lac Baker](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-monstre-du-lac-baker.html): In this first adventure, Ania, Gabriel, Mamadou and Dali the dog set up a private eye agency, with the help of Gabriel's adventurous grandmother. Solving a lost cat case is a breeze, but confronting a sea monster on the shore of an uncle's cottage proves to be quite daunting. However, with the help of a lunatic French inventor and his high-tech gadgets, the three friends succeed. Their agency is on its way!
- [Les mathémagiciens](https://nimbus.ca/store/les-mathemagiciens.html): Vacations have just begun, and already these four friends are bored. Professor Mathou steps in and with him they will discover the Golden Ratio, and a few exciting "magical" tricks with numbers. But best of all, they will be taken for a ride on the longest Moebius strip in North America. Numbers can sometimes be daunting, but nothing is more magical than solving problems using your brain.
- [The North](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-north.html): With consummate skill and an ever-powerful camera, Sherman Hines has devoted many years to creating a stunning pictorial chart of Canada, from East to West. Now in this new collection of more than 140 colour photographs on the North, he has opened another visual frontier and explored a lesser known dimension of the vast and varied expanse that is Canada.
- [Louisbourg Phoenix Fortress](https://nimbus.ca/store/louisbourg-phoenix-fortress.html): A wonderful photographic look at the fortress accompanied by text that illuminates its history.
- [Black Battalion](https://nimbus.ca/store/black-battalion.html): Black military heritage in Canada is still generally unknown and unwritten. Most Canadians have no idea that Blacks served, fought, and died on European battlefields, all in the name of freedom. The story of the overt racist treatment of Black volunteers is a shameful chapter in Canadian history. It does, however, represent an important part of the Black legacy and the Black experience. It is a story worth reporting and worth sharing.
- [Six Crucial Decades](https://nimbus.ca/store/six-crucial-decades.html): An insightful account of Maritime history. By isolating and examining specific events that occurred during six decades, the author shows how the course of history in this region was altered and examines the social and economic consequences that followed.
- [Sugar Bush Connection](https://nimbus.ca/store/sugar-bush-connection.html): Part of the popular Connection Cookbook series, this is a wonderful look at maple sugar, a unique tradition and cooking favourite. Sugar Bush Connection includes traditional recipes and hints for collecting the syrup.
- [Land Mammals of Rockies & Pacific Northwest - Folding Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/land-mammals-of-rockies-pacific-northwest-folding-guide.html): This FoldingGuide covers 56 mammals, both large and small, found the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest. It includes bats, moles, rabbits, as well as the large signature mammals of the regions such as elk, bears, foxes, and mountain lions. Its range includes our Canadian Rockies and British Columbia.
- [Doodled In Canada Educational Colouring Book](https://nimbus.ca/store/doodled-in-canada.html): Canadian or friend of Canada, young or old, Doodled in Canada is for everyone with a love of this northern land and a creative soul that needs tending.
- [Doodle by Number for Holiday Lovers A Festive Guide to Calming the Chaos](https://nimbus.ca/store/doodle-by-number-for-holiday-lovers.html): Are you looking for a way to unscramble your busy brain, to rest your weary worries, and to let your inner artist out into the light this holiday season?
- [Doodle by number for Botanical Lovers A Blooming Guide to Calming the Chaos](https://nimbus.ca/store/doodle-by-number-for-botanical-lovers.html): Are you looking for a way to unscramble your busy brain, to rest your weary worries, and to let your inner artist out into the light?
- [An Introduction to Island Studies](https://nimbus.ca/store/an-introduction-to-island-studies.html): An Introduction to Island Studies examines the key issues concerning islands today: tourism, economic change and development, geopolitics, climate change, epidemiology, and migration. This introductory textbook will help students and instructors develop a more comprehensive understanding and appreciation of island issues and the lessons they provide for our global society.
- [Finding Fortune Documenting Life and Imagining the Life of Rose Fortune (1774-1864)](https://nimbus.ca/store/finding-fortune.html): A daughter of runaway slaves, a Black Loyalist, the first Black police officer, a business woman and a friend of T.C. Haliburton; as a follow-up to her best-selling A Wholesome Horror, Brenda Thompson tells Rose Fortune's story for the first time.
- [Prime Suspects: Canada's Prime Ministers in Caricature](https://nimbus.ca/store/prime-suspects-canadas-prime-ministers-in-caricature.html): Halifax-based artist and editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon presents his recent suite of caricature-portraits of Canada's prime ministers past and present. Included are examples of works-on-paper and paintings created by MacKinnon between 1993 and 2017 that together depict all 23 prime ministers, from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau. Through MacKinnon's signature wit and brand of satire, these works make visible the politics and events that have helped shape our country's history and the society in which we live today.
- [Mammals of Prince Edward Island and Adjacent Marine Waters](https://nimbus.ca/store/mammals-of-prince-edward-island-and-adjacent-marine-waters.html): This long overdue book provides a comprehensive guide to the Island's terrestrial and marine mammals. Rooted in historical accounts and local research, this book illuminates the lives of PEI mammals large and small. From the Little Brown Bat to the Long-finned Pilot Whale, this book highlights each species in illustrated detail and outlines the continued need for conservation efforts in this province.
- [Return of the Wild Goose](https://nimbus.ca/store/return-of-the-wild-goose.html): Return of the Wild Goose explores the life of writer and activist Katherine Hughes. Set against the intimate relief of a PEI landscape, these poems are inspired by what is known—and unknown—about her contradictory life and character as Catholic teacher, journalist, public servant, and Irish nationalist. This (auto) biographical dialogue between Jane Ledwell and Katherine Hughes offers the reader a fierce remembrance of a PEI radical.
- [The Philosopher](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-philosopher.html): Rooted in the absurdist tradition, this collection of one-act plays by philosophy professor Malcolm Murray focuses on existential themes. Provocative, perceptive, and rife with questions about the motives and morality of our everyday conduct, his characters range from a philosopher in chains brought up from the basement to entertain guests to a psychologist who assists a traumatized patient to become more self-aware, only to result in greater angst.
- [What-cha Doing](https://nimbus.ca/store/what-cha-doing.html)
- [Peggy of the Cove: Ransomed Book 3](https://nimbus.ca/store/peggy-of-the-cove-ransomed-book-3.html): Author, artist, and storyteller Ivan Fraser brings to life the charming character, Peggy of the Cove, who some claim the famous fishing village of Peggy's Cove was named after. Ivan's love of the ocean, this rugged coastline and quaint village inspired him to take you on a heartwarming adventure that will make you fall in love with Peggy, the Cove and the people of Nova Scotia.
- [From Palette to Palate Culinary Artworks from the Digby Pines Kitchen](https://nimbus.ca/store/from-palette-to-palate.html): Chef Dale Nichols and artist Lynda Shalagan have collaborated to create a mouth-watering and eye-opening masterpiece — the finest dishes the venerable Pines has to offer. Yes, there are scallops but so much more — for the vegetarian, the holistic and the environmentally responsible.
- [Crossing Troubled Waters Abortion In Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Prince Edward Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/crossing-troubled-waters.html): Accessing abortion services is challenging in many countries around the world; women living on islands face additional challenges caused by geographic isolation. This collection of scholarly papers discusses two islands--Ireland (north and south) and Prince Edward Island, Canada--and considers for each why and how abortion was historically restricted, the impact of those restrictions, the ongoing efforts to improve access, and recent activist successes.
- [Our Maud The Life, Art and Legacy of Maud Lewis](https://nimbus.ca/store/our-maud.html): Our Maud: The Life, Art and Legacy of Maud Lewis tells the story of Maud's life, and traces her impact on Nova Scotia, her fame, the saving of her painted house, and the Nova Scotia folk art renaissance sparked by her example. The book looks at how Maud Lewis has become a role model for children with juvenile arthritis, her posthumous role in the creation of Atlantic Canada's largest art museum, and how her story has become known around the world, culminating in the hit feature film Maudie starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke.
- [From Black Horses to White Steeds Building Community Resilience](https://nimbus.ca/store/from-black-horses-to-white-steeds.html): This book discusses how small communities can survive and flourish. Edited by Laurie Brinklow and Ryan Gibson, it celebrates and critiques the dynamics of innovation, governance, and culture in place. Case studies from both sides of the North Atlantic illustrate episodes of "turning around": the evolution, transformation, and visionary strategy that breathe new life into the term "think global, act local." The book's chapters focus on the strength of local initiatives, the impacts of collective power, and re-envisioning local assets. They explore how various "black horses"--including minorities, small towns, peripheries, Aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice, or political leverage--can rise to the occasion and chart livable futures.
- [Iceland Reflections on the Ring Road](https://nimbus.ca/store/iceland-2.html): In a new compact edition, vast landscapes, extraordinary natural sculptures of rock and ice, cascading waterfalls, wildlife, and a wonderful culture are revealed through three photographers. Travel the Ring Road and circumnavigate the country with award-winning photographer George Fischer and Sean Fischer. Discover geothermal vistas, ice caves, glaciers and verdant valleys with Jon Gauti Jonsson, Mountain Guide and photographer. Images from different viewpoints bring this remarkable region to life.
- [New London: The Lost Dream](https://nimbus.ca/store/new-london-the-lost-dream.html): Sometimes, fact is better than fiction. In 1773 a group of Quaker tradespeople and their families from London, England settled on Prince Edward Island's north shore. Rather than farming or fishing, their dream was to create a "new"-- a bustling, commercial outpost--on what they considered to be a doorstep to the new world. New London survived and occasionally thrived for twenty years. This is its remarkable story.
- [Henrietta's Nightlight](https://nimbus.ca/store/henriettas-nightlight.html): Henrietta is staying overnight at her grandparents? cottage for the first time. She would love to see the great blue heron that visits in the morning, but there?s no electricity or running water at the cottage, and the night noises are scary. After a grownup day exploring nature with her grandparents, will she be able to make it through the night?
- [Allons à Tantramar](https://nimbus.ca/store/allons-a-tantramar.html): In Allons à Tantramar loveable Camelia Airheart is looking for "leg bling," just like the kind her Aunt Tilly has. This picture book is a prequel to Follow the Goose Butt, Camelia Airheart! and tells the story of how Camelia came to acquire her very own leg band. It is bound to delight Camelia fans, both young and old.
- [Backyard Horseman](https://nimbus.ca/store/backyard-horseman.html): Completely updated for the modern horse owner, The Backyard Horseman dispels romantic myths and replaces them with something far more valuable: honest, practical advice. It covers topics such as buying, feeding, and training, as well as health, gear, shelter, pasture management, shows and events, and the tough ethical dilemmas owners face when horses grow old.
- [Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest Wildflowers & Flowering Shrubs from British Columbia to Northern Calif](https://nimbus.ca/store/coastal-wildflowers-of-the-pacific-northwest.html): Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest introduces seaside visitors and residents to 164 common wildflowers and flowering shrubs of the rugged Pacific shore from southern British Columbia to Mendocino, California.
- [Iceland Reflections on the Ring Road](https://nimbus.ca/store/iceland-1.html): Vast landscapes, extraordinary natural sculptures of rock and ice, cascading waterfalls, wildlife and a wonderful culture are revealed from unique vantage points through the lenses of three photographers. Travel the Ring Road (the main road) and circumnavigate the country with award-winning photographer George Fischer, and Sean Fischer. Discover geothermal vistas, ice caves, glaciers and verdant valleys with Jón Gauti Jónsson, Mountain Guide and photographer. Images from these different viewpoints bring this remarkable region to life.
- [New Brunswick Phrase Book](https://nimbus.ca/store/new-brunswick-phrase-book.html): New Brunswick has its fair share of distinctive dialects and colourful language. These New Brunswickisms are perplexing, hilarious and downright fascinating. This handy book has captured the essence of the province, the words and phrases that are so often heard by not always understood or explained. Included are over 1,000 sayings, phrases, descriptions and curious names that are listed in alphabetical order and defined in plain English.
- [The Thousand Islands](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-thousand-islands-2.html): Imagine more than a Thousand Islands dotting the waters along approximately 80 km (50 miles) of the Saint Lawrence River. George Fischer, world-renowned photographer, has captured stunning landscapes and brilliant impressions of this distinct region: a playground of tourists and cottagers; a waterway for massive Lakers and boat tours; and a recreation area for paddlers, swimmers and water skiers. Drift through the pages and share George’s perspective. Find your inspiration.
- [A Taste of Islands 60 Recipes and Stories from our World of Islands](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-taste-of-islands.html): A culinary journey around the world.Food is the social jelly of our lives. We make new friends and consolidate existing ones around meals; we use food to mark events in our lives; we share in our joys and sorrows by breaking bread together.There’s a connection between certain food and where it comes from.Can there be a North American thanksgiving without turkey and pumpkin pie? Or a Dragon Boat Festival in China without zhong-zi? Mexico without tapas? India without curry?This collection of signature dishes and their fascinating stories is perfect for anyone interested in food, and island life. 60 full colour recipes.
- [Amalamkwa'Tekemkewey: Mi'kmaw Colouring Book](https://nimbus.ca/store/amalamkwatekemkewey-mikmaw-colouring-book.html): This is more than just a colouring book. It is designed to help teach kids the Mi’kmaw language. Each page has the English and Mi’kmaw words for the objects present.
- [Logging in New Brunswick, Lumber, Mills & River Drives](https://nimbus.ca/store/logging-in-new-brunswick-lumber-mills-river-drives.html): Lumber was and is New Brunswick's largest inustry and throughout the 19th century the province largely remained a timber colony dependent on its vast forests for most of its revenue. And for 150 years, New Brunswikcers entered the wilderness each fall, lived in primitive lumber camps while cutting, skidding, yarding, and hauling logs to the riverbanks and waited for spring break-up. This Is the story of a great industry, of lumberjacks, the teamsters, scalers, raftsmen, shantyboys, swampers, and rossers. From the wangan, tote road, twitching horse, sacking, due bills, and the corporation drive, the reader is taken inside the lumber world of yesterday. Over 140 historical photographs with extensive captions reveal forgotten logging practices, unique details of river drives, and how the early sawmills were built and organized.
- [Railways Of New Brunswick](https://nimbus.ca/store/railways-of-new-brunswick.html): Dan Soucoup is the author of numerous books on New Brunswick and the Maritimes including Know New Brunswick and The New Brunswick Phrase Book. He grew up in a railway family in New Brunswick.
- [Nova Scotia Lullaby](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-lullaby.html): Perri Craig lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island with her two children, Abby and Aidan, and husband Glen. Perri spent time away from the Island, living in Ontario for seven years before returning home to raise her family. She has had a life long love of creative design and illustration . After graduating from the University of Prince Edward Island she pursued her creative education in the Graphic Design program at Holland College in Charlottetown.
- [Le Gout de Charlevoix](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-gout-de-charlevoix.html): The Charlevoix region of Quebec, now one of UNESCO’s World Biosphere Reserves, has been enchanting visitors for more than 200 years. Located just east of Quebec City, Charlevoix offers breathtaking scenery with mountains and a majestic river, and it is proudly perpetuates unique artistic and gastronomic traditions. For the first time, the chefs of the region’s renowned restaurants share with devotees of fine cuisine the secrets of a most authentic regional gastronomy. These top chefs have composed mouth-watering dishes enhanced by their passion for the exquisite quality and extraordinary variety of the ingredients produced in the Charlevoix region.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
- [Know New Brunswick](https://nimbus.ca/store/know-new-brunswick.html): Active in bookselling and publishing for many years, Dan Soucoup is the author of numerous books including Historic New Brunswick, McCully's New Brunswick, and The New Brunswick Phrase Book."Dan Soucoup's articles are well documented, interesting, articulate, unbiased, and are really going back in the history of our province." Edmond Bourgeois, Grand Digue, New Brunswick
- [Peggy of the Cove:  Secrets](https://nimbus.ca/store/peggy-of-the-cove-secrets.html): The Legend Continues, second in the Peggy of the Cove series begins with conflicts between the bully of the cover and Peggy. Throughout the narrative, Peggy becomes friends with Sarah, a Mi'kmaq Native, and through their friendship and surroundings Peggy has flashes of her past. The people, places and objects she sees are beginning to awaken hopes of discovering her identity. When a stranger arrives in town and starts asking strange questions, Peggy discovers that the truth may not be so easy to find. Defying her fears, Peggy struggles to solve the mystery that may lead to her family inheritance.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
- [Where the Water Meets the Land](https://nimbus.ca/store/where-the-water-meets-the-land.html): In 1976, the Waterfront Development Corporation Limited was created, with responsibilities for the redevelopment of the Halifax, Dartmouth and-later-Bedford waterfronts to restore the flavour and vigour of an earlier time. In Where the Water Meets the Land, author and historian John Boileau recounts the story of Halifax Harbour and its waterfront from prehistory to the modern day, detailing the rise and decline of the historic area, and its rejuvenation during the last 30 years under the guidance of the Waterfront Development Corporation Limited.
- [Nova Scotia Phrase Book](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-phrase-book.html): Dan Soucoup is the author of the best-seller Maritime Firsts, Edwardian Halifax, and a number of other publications.
- [Mission](https://nimbus.ca/store/mission.html): This is the true story of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, an adventurous young doctor from England, who in 1892 set sail across the Atlantic Ocean to bring medical relief to the remote fishing communities on the rugged shores of northern Newfoundland and Labrador. He immediately fell in love with the land and its people but was horrified to discover the cruel conditions that they endured. In an effort to help he joined with the local people to build traveling hospital ships, local clinics, schools and orphanages.
- [Following the Vision](https://nimbus.ca/store/following-the-vision.html): Following the Vision features sixty full-page colour images from six very talented Nova Scotia artists-Tom Forrestall, Joy Laking, Alex Livingstone, Heather MacLeod, Dawn MacNutt, and Robert Pope. These artists follow their own particular vision wherever it leads, probing all manner of experience, often calling upon imagination and intuition to bring freshness and insight to their work. Following the Vision is a compelling read and the images are a delight to examine and ponder.
- [The Old Place](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-old-place.html): The Old Place Describes the plants and animals that live about the author's property, and encourages readers to become familiar with the large variety of living things that live around their communities.It discusses the wonderful ways in which plants and animals are adapted to life in their particular habitats,and emphasizes the importance of protecting those habitats.
- [The Mastodon Mystery](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-mastodon-mystery.html): A visit to the museum sparks James' interest in an important local discovery of mastodon bones, but he is even more intrigued by the strange behaviour of 2 men seen in the neighbourhood
- [Dispensing Aid](https://nimbus.ca/store/dispensing-aid.html): The floors were deep with plaster and glass, shelving was toppled, and heavy wooden counters broken. Amidst this disarray pharmacists gave first aid to the injured who came to the drug stores seeking care almost immediately following one of the worst disasters in Canadian history, the Halifax Explosion. Dispensing Aid tells the stories of druggists in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, the care they provided, their narrow escapes and the unexpected roles they played. The common medications of a hundred years ago are identified and their usage described. Photographs of corner drug store promotions, century old prescriptions and medication bottles add to this book's unique perspective of an unforgettable time in Halifax's history.
- [Halifax Explosion Mystery](https://nimbus.ca/store/halifax-explosion-mystery.html): It's 1934 and junior detectives Dan Veinotte and Becky Wentzell travel to Halifax to find an heirloom lost during the Halifax Explosion. Dan is caught with stolen property and taken to the County Jail. To clear his name he must first help a jail mate prove her innocence. The plan is foiled and Dan is left to die in the tunnels beneath the Citadel. Follow the clues to reveal the identity of a reluctant villain.
- [Mystery Marauders](https://nimbus.ca/store/mystery-marauders.html): It's 1933 and junior detective Dan Veinotte faces his toughest case yet--the mystery of Oak ISland. Skeletons, a cryptic message, a Spanish coin, and an old family ring lead to a ghostly encounter. Clairvoyant friend Becky Wentzell fears for Dan's life. Follow the clues and solve a 120-year-old mystery.
- [Halifax in Your Pocket](https://nimbus.ca/store/halifax-in-your-pocket.html): A photographic tour of Halifax's most popular and historic sights, this little book is ideal for pocket or purse. Acts as a first step in exploring Halifax's colourful past, as well as the vibrant present day city.
- [Hockey, Kids & Positive Coaching](https://nimbus.ca/store/hockey-kids-positive-coaching.html): An inspiring tale about a young boy whose love for the game of hockey is affected by the pressures placed on him by the adults closest to him. It demonstrates the value of love and how a child's growth and development are enhanced when guided by people who are more concerned about feelings of self-worth than numbers on a scoreboard.
- [A Stone on Their Cairn](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-stone-on-their-cairn.html): Set in the Cape Breton highlands, this Celtic saga traces the lives of ten Scottish families from the turn of the 20th century to the outbreak of the Great War as they forge a community on the shores of Lock Dubh, while proudly resisting all attempts to assimilate the ?Gaelic Speakers?. Features Gaelic dialogue (with English translations), a fold-out map, glossary of Gaelic terms and the genealogy of the Loch Dubh families.
- [Louis R. Comeau Portrait of a Remarkable Acadian](https://nimbus.ca/store/louis-r.-comeau.html): Once described as talkative and forthright - a hard man to dislike - Louis R. Comeau has always, above all, been an advocate for the Acadian community.
- [Discover Canada](https://nimbus.ca/store/discover-canada.html): The author, a gifted photographer, experienced in the last two years all of the adventures detailed in this book - travelling from coast to coast. Her goal is to show the possibilities and inspire. She receives 50,000 views per month on her website HikeBikeTravel.com. You can also try to keep up with her on Facebook or join her 10,000 Twitter followers for dynamic posts and photos @hikebiketravel.
- [Wreck Hunter 2](https://nimbus.ca/store/wreck-hunter.html): Spend some time in the company of an adventurer. Experience the thrills, excitement and challenges associated with searching for shipwrecks and sunken treasure. The adventure continues into future unchartered areas of shipwreck exploration.
- [Moonlight Marauders](https://nimbus.ca/store/moonlight-marauders.html): Junior detective Dan Veinotte and his best friend, Becky Wentzelle, are on a wild treasure hunt to find the missing gold nuggets. This is the second book in the Marauder Mystery Series, after bestselling Midnight Marauders.
- [Are You Looking for Me?](https://nimbus.ca/store/are-you-looking-for-me.html): Finding the animal hiding in plain sight in each professional photograph of the natural world will both challenge and fascinate children. The author has created a fun puzzle book for young children that will also delight the adults in their lives. Charming, informative and interactive. Includes a glossary and colour-coded animal classification.
- [Pamela Pollock's Perilous Adventure](https://nimbus.ca/store/pamela-pollocks-perilous-adventure.html): Pamela Pollock is a small fish that lives in Nova Scotia. She gets caught in a current and swept away to a place she has never been, where the water is warm, and the fish don’t look familiar, and aren’t friendly. She wants desperately to go home but doesn’t know how until she sees a boat that looks familiar. The Bluenose. Pamela is certain if she stays close to the Bluenose she will find her way home.
- [Cable Captain](https://nimbus.ca/store/cable-captain.html): This is the remarkable story of Captain Melville Henry Bloomer and the cable ships he commanded. The Lord Kelvin participated in the repair of cables damaged by the great seaquake of 1929 and the five year expedition to develop an undersea plough to bury cables in the ocean bed. That project is considered one of the greatest marine accomplishments of all times. The Minia was one of the ships that rescued Titanic survivors. Complemented by nearly 150 photos and drawings.
- [Vittorio's Journey](https://nimbus.ca/store/vittorios-journey.html): Vittorio Rappini was born in Bologna in 1921. At the start of World War II, he survives the sinking of his submarine in the Mediterranean Sea and, for six years, suffers the degradation, drudgery and hardships of life in Allied prisoner of war camps. Finally able to return home, Vittorio confronts the aftermath of war in Italy, which sets him on the road to emigration to Canada. Vittorio’s Journey fits into the broader historical memory of all those who fought, suffered or perished on both sides during this tragic period of modern history.
- [Canadian Maple Syrup](https://nimbus.ca/store/canadian-maple-syrup.html): Based on the real-life story of the Allaway family of Tantallon, Nova Scotia. Brian and Simmone Allaway started their backyard project with children Cara and Brian William in the 1980s, and as the popularity of their maple syrup grew, so did their small family business. Acadian Maple Products Ltd. has since developed into a large processing and retail facility with a world- wide distribution network. It employs twenty people and is still fully owned and operated by the Allaway family.
- [Jigs and Reels A cruise in Maritime waters](https://nimbus.ca/store/jigs-and-reels.html): Silas and his cousin Rose are on an adventure in search of whales and mermaids as they go with their grandparents on a cruise around Nova Scotia. The sea voyage begins in Shediac, New Brunswick, continues to Prince Edward Island, explores the Cape Breton coastline, before sailing along the Nova Scotia shores to the Bay of Fundy. Along the way encountering an abundance of marine life above and below the water.
- [Emily & the Captain: A Woody Point Story](https://nimbus.ca/store/emily-the-captain-a-woody-point-story.html): Santana, an evil sea imp, has sealed Capt. Woody McKenzie in the Woody Point lighthouse (Bonne Bay, NF). But Captain Woody isn’t just in the lighthouse, he’s part of it! Glow-ria, the northern light becomes the Captain’s guardian angel. She tells the Captain the secret to breaking the spell but he cannot reveal it to anyone. Emily must discover the secret for herself, in her own heart. The years pass and there seems to be no way to save the Captain. Then the Wood Point lighthouse is due to be torn down. Something has to be done now!
- [Emily & the Captain: A Winter Adventure](https://nimbus.ca/store/emily-the-captain-a-winter-adventure.html): The story continues from the bestselling Emily & the Captain: A Woody Point Story. On a winter visit to Woody Point, Newfoundland, from her home in Virginia, Emily discovers a little lost fox, Rhett. Amazingly, Rhett is also from Virginia. But why has he fled Virginia and how has he gotten all the way to Newfoundland? Emily and her animal friends find food and shelter for Rhett and they all enjoy the fun of the deep snows of a Newfoundland winter in the Mystical Forest. But Rhett is homesick and longs to return to Virginia. Glow-ria, the northern light, finds a way to get Rhett home, if that’s what he really wants. It seems Emily and the animals must part with their new-found friend forever.
- [Gallery Cookbook](https://nimbus.ca/store/gallery-cookbook.html): A collection of recipes and photos of Newfoundland and Labrador that has been submitted by the readers of Downhome magazine.
- [Captain Bob Bartlett and the Karluk Adventure](https://nimbus.ca/store/captain-bob-bartlett-and-the-karluk-adventure.html): It was 1913 and the ship Karluk left British Columbia on a scientific expedition to Canada's Artic. At her wheel was Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, the "Master Mariner of the North" from Brigus, Newfoundland. The Karluk became trapped in the early winter ice and was carried across the Artic Ocean, where it was crushed and sank. The crew and passengers set up camp on the ice and months later, when daylight returned to the Artic, they walked to an island. From there, the brave Captain Bartlett left the survivors while he and a young Inuk walked a treacherous 700 miles down the coast of Siberia to get help. This is one of the greatest stories of heroism and survival ever told.
- [Downhome Reflections](https://nimbus.ca/store/downhome-reflections.html): Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So behold—Downhome’s first published collection of photographs submitted by our magazine readers. Every page of Downhome Reflections is a celebration of our place in the world.
- [Downhome Memories](https://nimbus.ca/store/downhome-memories.html): It's life as you remember it. Downhome Memories brings together stories, poems and images guaranteed to strike a sentimental chord with every reader. Through the words of regular people—your siblings, your parents and your grandparents-histories are shared and the years that separate past and present slip away. The writing is honest and from the heart, born of a longing to recapture the simpler, finer things in life. There are elements in this collection to make you laugh, make you cry, make you proud and, most of all, make you remember.
- [Downhomer Almanac Cookbook 2](https://nimbus.ca/store/downhomer-alamanac-cookbook.html): This book is a follow-up to the first Downhomer Household Almanac & Cookbook, which became a Canadian Best Seller in less than eight months. Contents Recipes – Five hundred and eighty new recipes of all kinds from all over the world, contributed by readers of Downhomer magazine, and laid out in ten easy-to-find categories. Tonic For The Soul – All new stories, writings, poems, information, jokes and real life’s funny experiences. This section will make you laugh and make you cry. Additions to Almanac & Cookbook 2 Grassroots Healing – Eighteen pages on the use of natural products for a healthier body and mind. Astro Guide – A general horoscope by Madam Doziac. Kids’ Recipes – Twenty pages of simple recipes that younger children can do themselves, as well as some interesting and educational reading for the younger set. VIP Pages – A guestbook with a place to record birthdates and anniversaries of the Very Important People in your life, along with historical events and a though to live by for each day of the year.
- [Little Book of Outports](https://nimbus.ca/store/little-book-of-outports.html): Ben Hansen has been photographing the province of Newfoundland and Labrador for over 40 years. This book represents his latest collection of work.
- [Drawing Opinions MacKinnon,DeAdder & More: Cartoons and the stories that inspire them](https://nimbus.ca/store/drawing-opinions.html): The Chronicle Herald and its predecessor newspapers have been telling Nova Scotians’ stories since 1824. In words, pictures and cartoons, we’ve told the stories and we’ve reflected the sentiment that flowed from the triumphs, conflicts, celebrations and tragedies that are part of life’s inevitability. This book, in words, pictures and cartoons, captures some of the rich moments of the last year or so. Political triumphs and embarrassments. Sports, both good and not so good. Official responses that seemed inadequate in the wake of enormous tragedies. And good lives lost.
- [Blue Nose Marathon 10 Year Celebration Book](https://nimbus.ca/store/blue-nose-marathon-10-year-celebration-book.html): A city that is perched on hills and juts into the ocean like the bow of a majestic ocean liner is a city worthy of a great marathon. A marathon is a celebration of athleticism, people and communities. It is a celebration of life. A marathon provides gifts that last far longer than the time it takes a runner to complete the course; it fuels the mind and improves the body. It feeds the soul.
- [Titanic A Century of Remembrance](https://nimbus.ca/store/titanic-a-century-of-remembrance.html): On April 10, 1912, Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, bound for New York on its maiden voyage. The disaster that followed will be forever etched in history and seared on the psyche of Nova Scotians. One hundred years ago, when Titanic met its fate, we delivered the news as a breathless world waited. One hundred years later, as the world again turned its gaze toward Nova Scotia, The Chronicle Herald delivered an enduring tribute to an unthinkable tragedy. In words, pictures and graphics, we present a lasting collection of a century of news.
- [Unstoppable: Halifax Brings Its First Memorial Cup To Moose Country](https://nimbus.ca/store/unstoppable-halifax-brings-its-first-memorial-cup-to-moose-country.html): The 2012/13 Halifax Mooseheads season will go down in Nova Scotia history as one of province’s greatest sporting accomplishments. To commentate this occasion, The Chronicle Herald has published a 92-page book that spans the 19-year history of Atlantic Canada’s first QMJHL team. A keepsake for all hockey fans, Unstoppable is filled with amazing stories and photos of past players and memories along with an in-depth look into the making of this season’s championship team.
- [Visioning a Mi'kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy](https://nimbus.ca/store/visioning-a-mikmaw-humanities-indigenizing-the-academy.html): Since the Renaissance, liberal education has as its core tradition a Eurocentric multidisciplinary humanism—the study of literature, art, philosophy and history—grounded in ancient Greek and Latin texts. In what may be termed cognitive imperialism, the academy has largely ignored Aboriginal perspectives of humanity. In this volume, Mi’kmaw and non-Mi’kmaw scholars, teachers and educators posit an interdisciplinary approach to explicate and animate a Mi’kmaw Humanities. Drawing on the metaphor of a basket as a multilayered metaphor for engaging postsecondary institutions, these essays reveal historical, educational, legal, philosophical, visual and economic frameworks to develop a knowledge protocol that can direct, transform and enrich conventional Humanities within the complex dynamics of territory, energy, stewardship, alterity and consciousness.
- [Indigenous Business in Canada: Principles and Practices](https://nimbus.ca/store/indigenous-business-in-canada-principles-and-practices.html): Indigenous Business in Canada addresses contemporary concerns and issues in the doing of Indigenous business in Canada, reveals some of the challenges and diverse approaches to business in Aboriginal contexts from coast to coast to coast, and demonstrates the direct impact that history and policy, past and present, have on business and business education.
- [Old Trout Funnies: The Comic Origins of the Cape Breton Liberation Army](https://nimbus.ca/store/old-trout-funnies-the-comic-origins-of-the-cape-breton-liberation-army.html): Cape Breton Island underwent a metamorphosis of sorts during the late 1970s and 1980s. Long marginalized by geography, economics and predominant mainland political culture, a countercultural sea change brought the island’s deeply rooted creative side to centre stage. One such platform was Old Trout Funnies, a homegrown series of satirical comic books created by artist Paul MacKinnon. Emerging from MacKinnon’s Cape Breton comic book heroes, the Cape Breton Liberation Army led a cultural revolution that swept the nation, winning acclaim on every front.
- [Crossings: A Thomas Pichon Novel](https://nimbus.ca/store/crossings-a-thomas-pichon-novel.html): Thomas Pichon seems forever at a crossroads, often choosing the path of least resistance, or at least the one most tempting. In this, the third Thomas Pichon novel, his life remains more complicated than he wishes. He encounters highwaymen on a country road, succumbs to a tempting tryst in the spa town of Bath, squanders a new love back in London and begins to long for the higher social station he once enjoyed. Returning to Paris, his working life initially stalls, but a new lover offers help. He is given the best position he has ever had, one that requires him to go overseas. The crossing is a voyage neither he nor anyone else aboard will forget.
- [Oak Island Mystery: Solved!](https://nimbus.ca/store/oak-island-mystery:-solved!.html): For more than two centuries, adventurers, thrill seekers and treasure hunters have tried to unlock the secret of Oak Island, investing millions of dollars, and costing at least six lives. And the obsession continues: a television series in the winter of 2014 and seasonal walking tours that include locations highlighted by the series. Theories and intrigue abound – a clandestine treasure trove? The resting place of some holy relic? A cache of priceless documents? The promise of treasure is a powerful compulsion – Oak Island story is embroiled with politics and treachery from its humble beginnings – and many have risked and lost entire fortunes, and in some cases their very lives, chasing these theories. The bald truth is that nobody actually knew, and every imaginable theory from the fantastic to the ridiculous was concocted to explain that unknown. To get at the real treasure of Oak Island it is necessary to dig deeply, but through the facts, not the legends, and Joy Steele’s thorough investigation reveals a remarkable and credible truth vastly different than legend would have it.
- [The Maze](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-maze.html): Like the streets of his 18th-century Paris home, Thomas Pichon’s life is full of twists and turns. Despite winning his wife’s forgiveness for an extramarital affair, Thomas and his lover, Hélène, are caught a second time, and decide that it’s time for new beginnings – in London. As a writer, Thomas tries to make literary sense of the chaos of the life and language of a city teeming with excitement and danger. Hélène finds her own way out of the maze.
- [Fonn, The Campbells of Greepe Music and a Sense of Place in a Gaelic Family Song Tradition](https://nimbus.ca/store/fonn-the-campbells-of-greepe.html): In this book the rich musical and cultural heritage of Gaelic Scotland is revealed through the memories of one family. The story of the Campbells of Greepe has become synonymous with the way in which the cultural legacy of a community can be safeguarded, while a new generation of performers is nurtured at the same time. With a foreword by Dr John Macinnis, Fonn tells the story of the Campbells and the island community which is their hinterland, and shares over 100 songs from the family tradition, with an accompanying CD drawn from the archives of the School of Scottish Studies, the BBC and family itself.
- [The Blue Room Poems](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-blue-room.html): To get a sense of the significance of Carlo Spinazzola’s work, it is important to see it in the context of the full breath of the artistic undertakings he applied himself to. To see him as just a poet, or musician, or a painter, is to miss the spirit that ran through all his work. He was all these things at once –his artistic output flowed naturally, taking a number of forms, always in the same spirit.His life and his work spoke the same honest message, and this honesty gave all of his endeavours a depth, commitment and truthfulness that is unmistakable. Carlo and his blues lived together, and together they created for us a powerful legacy of words, music, art and memory.Whether his inner torments instigated his creativity or were the necessary payment exacted for his gifts is a moot point, for in the end Carlo succumbed to his demons. In 2003 the blues carried him away at the age of thirty-three.By turns funny, crude and, above all, moving, The Blue Room is the work of a true artist. The poems gathered from notebooks written throughout Spinazzola’s lifetime and the artwork gathered from friends are the expressions of a young artist of our generation.
- [Bearing the People Away the Portable Highland Clearances Companion](https://nimbus.ca/store/bearing-the-people-away.html): Part reference guide, part handbook, part travel guide and part resource in one portable volume, Bearing the People Away uses an encyclopedia format geared toward the general reader. The entries vary in length from brief sentences to several paragraphs. They include major Clearance sites, major and minor figures associated with the Clearances, Clearance-related sites outwith Scotland (significant parts of the Scottish Diaspora as Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand), places and historical events with Clearance and or Highland connections, and recordings, websites and relevant museums and organizations identified with the Highland Clearances.
- [Talk About Sex](https://nimbus.ca/store/talk-about-sex.html): Yeats once wrote that “only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood–sex and the dead.” While Talk About Sex foregoes any discussion of death, it explores sex from myriad angles from a wide array of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, political science, women’s studies, literature and social work. Included are discussions ranging from sexual classification –about sexual orientation, gender and sexual desires –to the ways in which sex, love and relationships are connected. Talk About Sex also ponders the extent to which technology has had an impact on sex and considers whether this impact is positive or negative and asks questions about various aspects of sexual activities. Can commercial sex ever be non-exploitative? What does transsexualism tell us about gender identity and authenticity?
- [A Possible Madness](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-possible-madness.html): Like many smallish and inelegant towns that dot the coastlines and crossroads of this country, Shean's postwar, post-industrial economy is in desperate disrepair, and the lengths that some civic leaders will go to in order to do "what's best" for a town like Shean sometimes requires a leap of faith that has unintended consequences. When a global corporation plans a daring scheme to exploit the remaining coal from an improbable source - and thus to secure Shean's economic future - politicians try to marginalize the few voices of dissent. Some voices, however, are not easily silenced.
- [Thomas: A Secret Life](https://nimbus.ca/store/thomas-a-secret-life.html): Set in early-18th-century France, Thomas: A Secret Life is the imagined life of Thomas Pichon. We first meet Thomas as a twelve-year old in the small town of Vire, Normandy. Precociously sensuous by nature, Thomas is inclined to poetry and religious/erotic imaginings. A series of adolescent adventures provide striking background to his character. Rejecting parental insistence that he become a priest, Thomas steals away to Paris in the middle of the night. There, nearly broke, Thomas works as a lowly office clerk, joins the ranks of aspiring French writers and makes extra money serving as a part-time spy for the police of Paris. But his careers advance too slowly for his liking, and he finds himself taking regular comfort and release in prostitutes' stalls. A rendezvous with a high-class courtesan brings a new possibility and Thomas plots a future in which he can have his cake and eat it too. Writer, lover, spy: Life is nowhere near as good or as easy as Thomas Pichon imagined it would be.
- [Our Grandmothers' Words Traditional Stories For Nurturing](https://nimbus.ca/store/our-grandmothers-words.html): Traditional child-raising practices recognize that you begin to raise a child from the moment you know you are pregnant. Through traditional stories, Grandmothers’ understandings guide and nurture parents and children as they grow together.
- [Strangers in the Land The Ukrainian Presence in Cape Breton](https://nimbus.ca/store/strangers-in-the-land.html): First published in 1986, Strangers in the Land is a carefully researched telling of stories of Cape Breton's Ukrainians, written by a son of the community, John Huk. Working tirelessly in archives, he spent countless hours combing through municipal and steel company records, collecting press clippings and other relevant papers as well as memorabilia, interviewing community members about their family histories, and working with his family to put together a story of a century of Ukrainian life in Cape Breton. Huk produced a book that stands as a valuable historical document and, in the process, also amassed a wealth of artifacts and documentation now forming the Huk fonds at the archives of the Beaton Institute at Cape Breton University-providing an invaluable source of data for a new generation of researchers. It is the only history of Ukrainian experiences in Cape Breton published to date; all the more impressive is that Huk gathered the information and published the book almost entirely on his own as a self-taught community ethnographer and historian. His work has also inspired more recent research focusing on Canadians of Ukrainian descent, especially their music, dance and the Holy Ghost Ukrainian Parish in Sydney, Nova Scotia. This congregation celebrates the 100th anniversary in 2012. Now with a new introduction by Marcia Ostashewski , PhD, and new appendices, Strangers in the Land is a celebration of the traditions and cultural gifts of Ukrainians in Cape Breton and their contribution to Canadian history.
- [Social Economy : Communities, Economics and Solidarity in Atlantic Canada](https://nimbus.ca/store/social-economy-communities-economics-and-solidarity-in-atlantic-canada.html): THIS BOOK CONTRIBUTES to the growing literature on the social economy from the particular perspectives of Atlantic Canadians who have been part of the Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network. It illustrates the importance of the sector to the region's social, economic and public life while exploring its potential for positive change. Prefiguring an economy based on principles of human values and principles of solidarity, the social economy offers a space for people to exercise democracy in realms thought to be "economic" and thus exempt from such priorities. The social economy has the aim of development in a double sense-development of the individual and local or community development. What is at stake is no less than democratizing the economy, creating a space for dialogue and debate, building partnerships, networks and capacity for innovation, sustainability, democracy and justice-in other words, developing the potentials for a social economy. Considerable innovation and significant contributions to quality of life thrive within the social economy in the Atlantic region. Organizations vary tremendously, not least in terms of how successful they are in meeting the immediate and longer term objectives to which they and their supporters aspire. This volume marks one step in furthering such understanding.
- [Around the Year with the Malagawatch Mice](https://nimbus.ca/store/around-the-year-with-the-malagawatch-mice.html): Follow the antics of Cape Breton’s favourite Celtic creatures –the Malagawatch Mice –as they observe and celebrate the customs and traditions of their Highland heritage. Featuring Caroline Stelling’s wonderful watercolour illustrations, Around the Year includes explanations of numerous holidays, observances and pastimes
- [From the Hearth](https://nimbus.ca/store/from-the-hearth.html): Recipes from the World of 18th-century LouisbourgThe recipes presented here are those that the authors believe were once served in the house and inns of historic Louisbourg. Modern interpretations?giving specific quantities and cooking times?have been provided for all but a few preparations.Though research has not turned up any individual recipes used in 18th-century Louisbourg, historians and archaeologists do know most of the foods they ate. They also know the regions in France from whence many of the inhabitants of Louisbourg (or their parents) originally came.
- [Beartan Briste](https://nimbus.ca/store/beartan-briste.html): Born in Dublin, Ireland, Rody Gorman is Writer-in-Residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye. He has worked as writing fellow at the University College Cork and the University of Manitoba and is editor of the annual Irish and Scottish Gaelic poetry anthology An Guth. He has published a wide range of poetry collections and his selected poems in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Chernilo, were published by Coiscéim in 2006. Beartan Briste is the latest collection from this prolific Gaelic poet. His highly original English “intertongueings” are wonderfully entertaining in their own right – providing insight not only to the nature of his poetry, but the nature of Gaelic interpretation.
- [Selby](https://nimbus.ca/store/selby.html): In this story, biologist Downer takes a different approach from his two previous books (Selina: An Atlantic Salmon and Schnider’s World: A Harp Seal Story). Selby’s habitat and life cycle, are explored in perspective with the lobster fisherman who wants to catch him. Readers learn about the Atlantic lobster and about the people who struggle to make a living by harvesting them. The story follows Selby’s life in Ragged Harbour, foraging for food avoiding predators, including Jake the lobster fisher, who really wants to catch Selby. A fierce storm destroys a lot of Jake’s fishing gear and brings about a change in the way he regards the sea and its many creatures –including Selby the Lobster.
- [Schnider's World](https://nimbus.ca/store/schniders-world.html): Our Story Follows the life cycle of Schnider, a harp seal, from his birth on the ice floes off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. Through Schnider’s eyes young readers learn about his weaning and maturing, the melting of the field of drift ice where he was born, his explorations, adventures and close calls in the search for food along the Newfoundland coast and, eventually, to the feeding grounds of Lancaster Sound and back again. Schnider is joined by two other books about marine life: Selby the Lobster and Selina: An Atlantic Salmon, also by Don Downer and Gisele LeBlanc-Turner.
- [Selina](https://nimbus.ca/store/selina.html): This book follows one fish as she develops from a tiny pink egg into a full-grown salmon. Selina explores the place she was born so it is imprinted in her brain so she can return to the same river tributary to lay her eggs. She has a narrow escape from becoming food for other, larger fish, birds, eels and even humans. Don Downer is chair of the Aquatic Centre for Research and Education, is involved with the Fish Friends school program, sponsored by the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and does contract work relating to salmon for Fisheries and Oceans.
- [Cultures of Militarization](https://nimbus.ca/store/cultures-of-militarization.html): Special Edition of TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
- [Women, War & Hypocrites](https://nimbus.ca/store/women-war-hypocrites.html): Robert Campbell's Reading the Qur'an in English is an introductory guide to help readers experience the Qur'an on its own terms. Following his guidance, in conjunction with reading an English language version of the Qur'an, can reveal a great deal about the nature of Islam and about how the Qur'an compares with other Abrahamic scriptures. People who are unwilling or unable to delve into the text of the Qur'an on their own will always be at risk of having their opinions shaped by others. In this new book, Dr. Campbell expands the journey through his analysis of the thematic structure of the fourth surah (The Women), a large and complex surah containing some of the most controversial verses and ideas in the Qur'an. The key issues addressed are women (on marriage, lewdness, wife beating and hijab), war (on killing, battle, jihad and terrorism) and hypocrites (on believers, the People of the Book, idolatry, intoxication and the crucifixion of Jesus). Given that Islam traces its prophetic heritage from Noah through to Abraham, Moses, Jesus and finally Muhammad, much of the content of the Qur'an will be familiar to those with even a passing exposure to the scriptures of the Jews and Christians.
- [Language of this Land Mi'kma'ki](https://nimbus.ca/store/language-of-this-land-mikmaki.html): The ancient landscapes of Eastern North America are reflected in the language and cultural expressions of its Indigenous peoples, the Mi’kmaq. The rhythms, sounds and patterns of their language are inextricably bound with the seasonal cycles of the animals, plants, winds, skies, waterways and trade routes. The Language of this Land, Mi’kma’ki is an exploration of Mi’kmaw world view as expressed in language, legends, song and dance. Using imagery as codes, these include not only place names and geologic history, but act as maps of the landscape. Sable and Francis illustrate the fluid nature of reality inherent in its expression – its embodiment in networks of relationships with the landscape integral to the cultural psyche and spirituality of the Mi’kmaq. Language has sustained the Mi’kmaq to the present day, a product of a lineage of Elders who spoke it, who danced the dances and walked this land,Mi’kma’ki, carrying its traditions forward despite centuries of cultural disruption, discrimination and degradation.
- [Rannsachadh Na Gaidhlig 5](https://nimbus.ca/store/rannsachadh-na-gaidhlig-5.html): Proceedings from the fifth Rannsachadh na Gaidhlig conference, held in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in July 2008.
- [TR's Adventure at Angus the Wheeler's](https://nimbus.ca/store/trs-adventure-at-angus-the-wheelers.html): On a warm summer day, ten-year-old T.R. decides to share a secret with his bored brothers, the Terrible Twins and Sunny James. Elves and Fairies live in the garden of their neighbor. But all is not well in this secret garden; Guks have abducted a Princess and are holding her hostage at a farmhouse known as Angus the Wheeler’s. T.R., the Terrible Twins and Sunny James team up with the Fairies and set out to free the Princess. What follows is an epic battle between the Fairies and the Guks and T.R. has to use his own gentle magic against a darker magic to free the Princess and protect the Fairies. Filled with wonder and strong characters—and, best of all, a happy ending—T.R.’s Adventureis supported by colourful and fanciful illustrations making it suitable for young readers and younger audiences.
- [Basement Suite](https://nimbus.ca/store/basement-suite.html): Eddy and Liz participate in a relationship study for extra cash and learn that they don’t share the same opinions about fidelity, sex, career or truth. In fact, they don’t understand each other. Eddy tries. Liz tires. Basement Suite is a sexy, cheeky look at another side of love.
- [Reading the Qur'an in English](https://nimbus.ca/store/reading-the-quran-in-english.html): The unique beauty and richness of Islam's sacred book calls out for it to be read and enjoyed by all. To be open to following the structural logic of the Qur'an, Western expectations about the use of narrative, description and dialogue should be set aside. Robert Campbell provides this introductory guide to help readers experience the Qur'an on its own terms. Following his guidance, in conjunction with reading an English language version of the Qur'an, can reveal a great deal about the nature of Islam and about how the Qur'an compares with other Abrahamic scriptures.
- [Halifax ABC (BB)](https://nimbus.ca/store/halifax-abc-bb.html): Celebrated Halifax artist Yolanda Poplawska has created twenty-six distinctly Haligonian scenes to accompany the letters of the alphabet, from A for anchor to Z for zonked! Children will be enchanted by Poplawska's colourful and contemporary illustrations, which depict locales such as the gazebo at the Public Gardens, the lighthouse at McNabs' Island, buskers juggling on the watefront, rowing on Lake Banook, and many, many more. Words chosen are common nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This hardy board book edition extends the audience to toddlers and presechoolers.
- [Simon and Catapult Man's Perilous Playground Adventure](https://nimbus.ca/store/simon-and-catapult-mans-perilous-playground-adventure.html): Well-known children's writer Norene Smiley's delightful prose and award-winning illustrator Brenda Jones's vibrant illustrations combine to bring the wonder of imaginative play to life. The quirky pictorial elements and interplay between real life and fantasy will make Simon and Catapult Man a winner with children, while teachers and librarians will appreciate the playground safety theme and related activity.
- [White Cave Escape](https://nimbus.ca/store/white-cave-escape.html): A summer hike in the New Brunswick woods turns into a nightmare when Shawn and his friends find themselvestrapped by a raging forest fire. Now their only chance for survival may be the legendary White Caves...but can they find them in time?Join Shawn, Petra, Craig, Tony, and Hobart the dog—the heroes of Chocolate River Rescue—in their newest wilderness adventure!
- [Prince Edward Island: An Illustrated History](https://nimbus.ca/store/prince-edward-island-an-illustrated-history.html): In Prince Edward Island: An Illustrated History, Douglas Baldwin takes the reader on a journey through the incidents and events that have shaped the province and its inhabitants throughout their development, from the first Aboriginal presence over 11,000 years ago, to the arrival of European settlers in the early eighteenth century, to the Charlottetown Conference of 1864, to the opening of the Confederation Bridge in 1997. Along the way, he peppers the narrative with stories of the many people and places that have played a role in making PEI both a tightly knit rural community and an immensely popular tourist destination. Illustrated throughout with over one hundred historical photos and illustrations, Prince Edward Island: An Illustrated History is a must-read for anyone who has fallen in love with Canada's smallest province.
- [Shipwrecks and Seafaring Tales of Prince Edward Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/shipwrecks-and-seafaring-tales-of-prince-edward-island.html): In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier's arrival, Prince Edward Island's history has been tied to the sea. From the first explorers to immigrants, traders, sailors, and fishermen, thousands of seafaring people and their ships have come and gone--many lost to the relentless ocean. Their stories, though, survive in legends and folklore, in archives and family histories. From PEI author Julie V. Watson comes the telling of these legends in this new edition of Shipwrecks and Seafaring Tales of Prince Edward Island. Now with a new cover.
- [Sensational Seafood](https://nimbus.ca/store/sensational-seafood.html): Formerly the Fine Catch Seafood Cookbook, this new package brings the book up to date with a whole new look. Beginning with a comprehensive section on how to buy, prepare, and store fish, molluscs, and all kinds of crustaceans, this cookbook provides the how-to for the inexperienced chef, while keeping a good mix of delicious recipes for the more daring expert. With easy-to-follow instructions, suggested serving sizes, and a little bit of seafood history, this cookbook collection provides all the essentials. Recipe highlights include Crab Stuffed Mushrooms, Smoked Salmon Cheesecake, Grilled Monkfish, Saffron Seafood Cream and Hot Cheese and Crab Dip. To top it off, Watson adds a separate section for yummy toppings, sauces, and marinades to add the most flavour to your fresh Atlantic seafood. Sensational Seafood is a must-have for any seafood lover.
- [Annapolis Valley Tastes Recipes from the Valley's Best Restaurants](https://nimbus.ca/store/annapolis-valley-tastes.html): The Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia is famed for its spectacular seacoast, lush farmland, and fertile soil, which nourish an abundance of produce, livestock, and seafood. It is no wonder, then, that the Valley is home to a profusion of skilled chefs who take their inspiration from the region's bountiful harvest. Annapolis Valley Tastes celebrates the landscapes and natural flavours that have made the Valley famous by combining breathtaking full-colour photos of the region with tantalizing recipes from local restaurants such as Tempest, Cocoa Pesto, and Blomidon Inn. Showcasing a diverse array of dishes that embrace local ingredients and tastes, such as pumpkin chili, farm chicken with Nova Scotia Riesling and chanterelles, and peach blueberry crumble pie, Annapolis Valley Tastes is an invitation to bring the brilliant sights, smells, and flavours of the Valley home to your kitchen.
- [Nova Scotia History With A Twist](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-history-with-a-twist.html): Bruce Nunn's popular History with a Twist now has a fresh new look as Nova Scotia History with a Twist. It still includes the same educational yet entertaining stories. You'll meet the man who lived inside Halifax's Old Town Clock, the man who started the Klondike gold rush, courageous sea captains, makers of illegal tartan, the saviour of Seal Island, the ghost of the first Christmas tree, and many more.
- [Pumpkin People](https://nimbus.ca/store/pumpkin-people.html): Every Autumn strange figures start appearing around the town of Kentville, Nova Scotia, sauntering down the sidewalk, sitting in a tree, cavorting on a lawn-who are these peculiar people? Why, they're the Pumpkin People! Constructed from cornstalks, straw, and, of course, pumpkins, these folkloric figures are put together every year to celebrate the harvest in the Annapolis Valley in a most creative way. Pumpkin People tells the tale of Kentville's famous pumpkin people. Sandra Lightburn's simple verse reveals the secret world of the half-funny, half-spooky figures; Ron Lightburn's stunning illustrations bring that secret world to life. And a special section in the back teaches pumpkin fans young and old how to build their own pumpkin person!
- [Acadian Star](https://nimbus.ca/store/acadian-star.html): The Acadian Star competition is the biggest thing to ever happen in Meg Gallant's small Cape Breton town. Meg dreams of performing onstage with her best friend Nève. If they're lucky, they might even make it to the finals in Halifax. But Meg's weird old aunt, Tante Perle, has been acting stranger and stranger—and just before the finale of the competition, she whisks Meg away from everything she knows. Meg suddenly finds herself trapped in the time of the tragic Acadian Deportation—and she has to choose between escaping to her own time and saving a girl who looks remarkably like Neve. Why is she trapped in the eighteenth century? Will she be able to save this stranger, so quickly becoming a friend? And where does Tante Perle fit in with all this? This remarkable book for middle readers introduces us to contemporary Acadian characters, and also offers a young girl's perspective on the Acadian Deportation. Hélène Boudreau is an Acadian writer and artist. A native of Isle Madame, Nova Scotia, she writes fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults from her home in Markham, Ontario. This is her first novel.
- [Ava Comes Home](https://nimbus.ca/store/ava-comes-home.html): From the author of Relative Happiness and Shoot Me comes a riveting story about one terrible secret-a secret kept in shame, buried deep for self-preservation, and exposed in a moment that changes forever the lives of everyone involved. Ava Harris is a famous actress living the life of the rich and fabulous in L.A. when a family crisis calls her home. It's been ten years since she's set foot in Glace Bay, Cape Breton- back when she was plain old Libby MacKinnon. Why she ran away, no one knows. Returning home, she must face her family, her friends, and her first love, Seamus O'Reilly, whose heart broke the day she left. Ava is a good little actress, determined that no one will know what happened. She will keep the truth buried at all costs-even if she has to run again. But secrets have a way of surfacing, especially in a small town, and love has a way of blasting through the toughest barriers. While Ava can never go home again, perhaps Libby finally can.
- [A Maritime Christmas](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-maritime-christmas.html): The Magic of Christmas is always felt strongly in the Maritimes. This collection of yuletide stories is a mixture of true seasonal remembrances and fictional imaginings of the holiday season. Contributions are from over 20 Maritime writers, and touch on all the things that make Christmas so special: traditions, reunions with family and friends, the humour, and sometimes, the hardships. Some of the collection's contributions are familiar, many are heartwarming, but every story shares the same spirit of the season. This yuletide collection includes many well-known writers such as Harry Thurston, Steve Vernon, David Goss, Chris Mills, Heidi Jardine Stoddart, David Divine, and more.
- [Too Many to Mourn](https://nimbus.ca/store/too-many-to-mourn.html): At nine o'clock on the morning of December 6, 1917, the close-knit family of James Jackson and Elizabeth (Halloran) Jackson-five sons, four daughters, their spouses, forty-eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren were happily engaged in their everday lives in Richmond, Halifax's North End. The women had sent their children off to school; their husbands had gone off to work at Richmond's dockyard, railyard or sugar refinery. Another day of activity and promise had begun. Within five minutes, forty-six members of the Jackson family were dead, and nineteen were badly injured. Within five minutes their homes, schools, and places of work were completely demolished. Within five minutes the hopes and dreams of a family and community were destroyed forever. Too Many To Mourn tells the tragic story of the Halifax Explosion through the lives and deaths of the Jackson family. It is a meticulous reconstruction of the personal events of their lives in the face of this disaster, and an affecting account of a community's endeavours to abide an unfathomable loss. Now this winner of the Dartmouth Book Award in 1999 has been updated with a new cover.
- [Theodore Too and the Mystery Guest](https://nimbus.ca/store/theodore-too-and-the-mystery-guest.html): The third story in the popular Theodore Too series finds Theodore Too and Lucy Tug with a mystery to solve. The tugboats, always ready for adventure, hear that Halifax Harbour will soon have a famous visitor-who could it be? With the help of their friends-Dartmouth Ferry, George Lighthouse, Fisherman Murphy and Guy Seagull-they set out to find and welcome the mystery guest. When they meet the beautiful Bluenose II, they make a brand new friend and learn just why everyone loves her.
- [Wicked Woods](https://nimbus.ca/store/wicked-woods.html): A new collection of ghost stories from every corner of New Brunswick. Pull up a seat and listen closely-storyteller Steve Vernon has another collection of classic, bone-chilling tales to tell. Steve takes readers from one end of New Brunswick to the other, unearthing dark tales of strange happenings along the way-from the headless ghost that haunts those who pass through Johnville's covered bridge, to the spirit of a murdered man that guards long-buried treasure at Wolf Point. Drawing on both documented stories and legends passed on by word-of-mouth, Steve sets one spooky scene after another with a storyteller's attention to every creepy detail, and just a touch of wry humour. It's as though you're sitting beside him at the campfire, getting goosebumps as each story unfolds.
- [Kiss the Joy as it Flies](https://nimbus.ca/store/kiss-the-joy-as-it-flies-3.html): With all the wisdom, humour, and joy we've come to expect from Sheree Fitch, Kiss the Joy As It Flies marks the well-loved author's move from children's literature to adult fiction. Set in the fictional Maritime town of Odell, with a cast of exasperating but lovable characters, Kiss the Joy As It Flies promises to be a remarkable debut and a reader's favourite.Panic-stricken by the news that she needs exploratory surgery, forty-eight-year-old Mercy Beth Fanjoy drafts a monumental "to do" list and sets about putting her messy life in order. Among other things (hide the vibrator!), she's determined to finally uncover the identity of her secret admirer; reconnect with a lost friend and rival Teen Gaudet; and, most importantly, get her hands on the note her father left her before committing suicide all those years ago.But tidying up the edges of her life means the past comes rushing back to haunt her and the present keeps throwing up more to do's. Between fits of weeping and laughter, ranting and bliss, Mercy must contemplate the meaning of life in the face of her own death. In a week filled with the riot of an entire life, nothing turns out the way she'd expected.
- [Kisses Kisses Baby-O!](https://nimbus.ca/store/kisses-kisses-baby-o.html): Kisses Kisses Baby-O! is a story for newborns told from the point of view of a parent or caregiver, but with high interaction with baby's world and tuned to events in baby's day. Beloved Canadian children's author Sheree Fitch delivers what she's famous for: fun, intelligent, participatory text that is a joy to read. Using rhythm and onomatopoeia, Sheree's bubbly text begins with baby waking, and follows through eating, bathing, playing, and finally sleeping. Repetition, rhythm and active verbs create a lively story that can be read again and again. Heart-warming illustrations by HildaRose combine realism and a whimsical, artistic style, while paying close attention to the needs of newborn readers, including such elements as: stimulating visuals, patterns, baby faces, cultural diversity and interaction with others. And babies will drool over the small, easy to hold format!
- [Gracie, The Public Gardens Duck pb](https://nimbus.ca/store/gracie-the-public-gardens-duck-pb.html): Gracie has a nice, comfortable life in the Halifax Public Gardens. Her days are full of swimming in lakes and fountains, napping in bushes, and gobbling up the delicious treats that the visitors to the park bring especially for her. Muffins, popcorn, and peanut butter sandwiches. Yum! Gracie loves the attention and the company she gets from people but she especially loves all the food. One day, however, Gracie's favourite people stop giving her food. What's happening? Why won't anyone share their lunch? Aren't they worried that she'll starve? Despite her best efforts, Gracie's turned away by all her food sources, and to fill up she has to turn to-well, duck food. And despite herself, she starts to enjoy it. Gracie, the Public Gardens Duck is a funny and sweet story, reminiscent of classic children's literature, but with a modern heroine-one hungry duck in search of dinner!
- [Birds of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/birds-of-nova-scotia.html): Birds of Nova Scotia has been a highly cherished publication since it first came into print in 1961. To preserve the originality of the earlier editions, this posthumous revision by the Nova Scotia Bird Society and the Nova Scotia Museum has been a long and careful labour. New information on sightings of rare birds and changes of status bring the text in line with current data, without modifying the special qualities of Robie Tuft's personal style. Colour illustrations by two distinguished nature artists, Roger Tory Peterson, author of Field Guide to the Birds (Houghton Mifflin) and John Crosby and line drawings by Jjohn Henry Dick will ensure accurate identification of species. This book has a place beside the binoculars, near every winter feeding station, in the summer cottage, aboard ship and also in school libraries and classrooms.
- [Tommy's New Block Skates PB](https://nimbus.ca/store/tommys-new-block-skates-pb.html): In a small town in Nova Scotia, Tommy is dreaming about skating on Half-mile Pond. He will skate fast, make circles and fancy figures on the ice, maybe even play hockey…as soon as he has his very own skates. Join Tommy in discovering how old-fashioned block skates are made. Will Tommy's new block skates be ready by winter?
- [Steam Lion PB](https://nimbus.ca/store/steam-lion-pb.html): This is the story of a man born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who became one of the most powerful forces in international trade in the nineteenth century. Samuel Cunard's list of interests reads like a history of the Maritimes-shipbuilding in chatham, coal mining in Cape Breton, forestry in PEI, and warehouses in Halifax. But his business acumen and vision extended far beyond Eastern Canada: His innovative steamship Britannia was the first reliable, timely link between the Old World and the New, and the transatlantic transportation of mail, goods, and passengers was revolutionized. The continued success of the Cunard Line is a testament to Samuel Cunard's brilliance as both a mariner and a businessman. The first full-length biography of one of the most fascinating figures in mercantile history, Steam Lion is an important and engaging record of a man, his business, and his times.
- [It Happened in New Brunswick](https://nimbus.ca/store/it-happened-in-new-brunswick.html): It Happened in New Brunswick features more than fifty stories about New Brunswick heroes and oddballs, funny happenings and tragic moments, by the province's favourite storyteller, David Goss. The stories span New Brunswick's history and geography, bringing to light unknown characters and events, from the record-breaking bowlers of Saint John to the McAdam pharmacist who invented his own miracle flu medicine, and from Alex Haley's surprise sojourn in Dalhousie to Campobello Island's remarkable hermit. The book is divided into six thematic sections, including one of Acadian stories told in English, plus a section of amusing clippings and tidbits collected from old New Brunswick newspapers and archives.
- [Canadian by Choice](https://nimbus.ca/store/canadian-by-choice.html): Through the eyes of two recent immigrants we see a strange new world: rural Canada in the 1950s. We follow Gerard and Jane from their arrival on the docks of halifax through months of islolation, bewilderment and terror.Without money and speaking no English, the couple faced many heart-breaking problems, ranging fromunscrupulous emploers to relenting weather. At one point, their only friends were a horse and a Belgian priest.This is a book you can't put down. you read on with rising emotions, feeling and caring for the people involved,and eager to learn what further happens to them.
- [Spuds! Dulse! Fiddleheads!](https://nimbus.ca/store/spuds-dulse-fiddleheads.html): Where’s it found? Is it in season? How is it prepared? Discover the secrets of the many traditional, local ingredients that create that special Maritime flavour. We have a bounty of food around us, but in order to enjoy it, we have to know what our farmers, fisherman and foragers have known for so long—where to find local food in season, and how it’s best prepared. Judith Comfort leads us from U-picks and farmers’ markets, through backwoods and waters, to the church supper and home again—all in search of a true Maritime feast. Included here are 47 kitchens tested recipes and many secrets on the right way to prepare and serve a harvest of the fruits, vegetables, seafood, game, and other traditional flavours of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
- [Prince Henry Sinclair](https://nimbus.ca/store/prince-henry-sinclair.html): It is one of the anomalies of human history that despite our passion for knowledge, we are still in doubt as to who actually “discovered” the North American continent. According to author/historian Fredrick J. Pohl, the glory should go to none other than Prince Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, who set off on a voyage of discovery for “a very great country” and dropped anchor in Guysborough Harbour, Nova Scotia, on June 2, 1398 almost a century before Columbus’s and Cabot’s Historic voyages.
- [Halifax Warden of the North](https://nimbus.ca/store/halifax-warden-of-the-north.html): In this new, redesigned, highly readable trade paperback format, Nimbus presents Thomas Raddall's fascinating historical portrait of Halifax. The story begins with the city's first inhabitants, the Mi'kmaq, and follows Halifax through time, from the earliest settlers to prohibition and the wartime boom to life in the later half of the twentieth century. It focuses on the city's historic military role and the effects of its strategic position, chronicling colourful characters, heroes and scoundrels, and the adventure and intrigue of their exploits. One of Canada's most popular novelists, Thomas H. Raddall won the Governor General's Award three times. He is the author of sixteen books, including His Majesty's Yankees and The Nymph and the Lamp.
- [Theodore Too and the Shipwreck School](https://nimbus.ca/store/theodore-too-and-the-shipwreck-school.html): It's a beautiful day in Halifax Harbour, and Theodore Too and Lucy Tug decide to visit the Shipwreck School. But when the tugboats reach the ship, there's no sign of the fish. Where are they? Could they be in trouble? Theodore Too and Lucy Tug work together to save the day. Hooray for Theodore Too and Lucy Tug, and hooray for new friends!
- [Fish out of Water](https://nimbus.ca/store/fish-out-of-water.html): John Payzant was born in Halifax in 1944. He graduated from Queen's University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Commerce and quickly moved to Toronto to become an investment dealer and trainee bond trader. For the next twenty-nine years, he worked for various investments dealers, banks, and trust companies on Bay Street. After several years of summer vacations in the area, he moved from Toronto to Lunenburg in May 2004. He is a director of the Lunenburg Heritage Society and a member of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron.
- [St. John's](https://nimbus.ca/store/st.-johns.html): In Ben Hansen's St. John's the professional, award-winning photographer turns his lens on the largest city in Newfoundland. From the colouful bows of local fishing boats to Battery Park and Memorial University, Ben Hansen's photographs convey the blending of old and new. Through his lens, the viewer will observe a city of great beauty, important historical significance and bustling activity.
- [East Coast Rug-Hooking Designs](https://nimbus.ca/store/east-coast-rug-hooking-designs.html): Rug-hooking began long ago as a practical solution to the drafty floors in North American settlers' houses. From those humble beginnings, the craft has evolved into a highly respected art form, and many who have seen the vibrant rugs created by Atlantic Canadians are inspired to take up the hook themselves. In East Coast Rug-Hooking Designs, master rug-hooker Deanne Fitzpatrick explores and explains the art she loves. Photographs of her colourful hooked rugs are accompanied by her frank and touching stories of life in Atlantic Canada-the life that inspires so many of her designs. From hooking and gathering fabric, to choosing colours, designing, and binding, the entire process is clearly explained. Over thirty playful and dynamic patterns are included-some suitable for beginners, and some that will challenge even experienced hookers. Whatever your level of expertise, this book will surely have you hooked! Rug-hooking artist Deanne Fitzpatrick is renowned worldwide for her stunning rugs and patterns. Her work is in permanent exhibits at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, among others, and she has made frequent radio and television appearances, including on CBC's Land and Sea. She lives in Amherst, Nova Scotia.
- [Nymph and the Lamp](https://nimbus.ca/store/nymph-and-the-lamp.html): A Nova Scotia classic, The Nymph and the Lamp is the story of Isabel Jardin, a strong and sensitive woman, and the men in her life—the stoic Matthew Carney, a living legend, the passionate Gregory Skane, and the innocent but infatuated Jim Sargent. Set in the 1920s, the story unfolds against the wild desolation of Marina, a wind-swept island off the coast of Nova Scotia, as the characters come to terms with their personal contradictions and the demands of isolated island life.
- [Theodore Too and the Too-Long Nap](https://nimbus.ca/store/theodore-too-and-the-too-long-nap.html): TOOT TOOT! It’s Theodore Too’s birthday, and all his friends are gathering for a party. There’s Macdonald Bridge, George Lighthouse, and Guy Seagull. Cruise Ship Gerta sailed all the way from Germany for the birthday celebrations. Then she went right to sleep. Now she’s taking a too-long nap! Theodore Too and friends have to wake her up—or she’ll miss the party! With his cheery red hat and big smile, beloved tugboat Theodore Too has captured the hearts of thousands of visitors to the Halifax waterfront. Now Theodore Too can come with you!
- [From the Coast to Far Inland](https://nimbus.ca/store/from-the-coast-to-far-inland.html): From the landing of the Vikings these stories trace the dramatic evolution of the relationship between aboriginals and non-aboriginals in Labrador; they trace the progress of Labrador from the British conquest to the flowering of the Labrador identity and the rise of the New Labrador Party in the late 20th century. In between are treks through various parts and times of Labrador . Among the writings: Pierre Berton tracks through iron ore country; Peter Newman paints Lord Strathcona and the Hudson's Bay Company warts and all; Elliott Merrick, Tony Paddon, the Labrador doctor, and Elizabeth Goudie describe the joys and hardships of life in the central Labrador plateau; Norman Duncan and Michael Crummey bring to life the humour and pathos of those who clung so tenaciously to a barren and bountiful coast; and Richard Gwyn, an adopted son of the province, sketches the rise of the New Labrador Party, a political force bursting with resentment against the neglect and indifference of a distant capital during the last days of Joey Smallwood.
- [Taste PEI](https://nimbus.ca/store/taste-pei.html): Wayne Barrett and Anne MacKay are a professional photographic team that have published numerous books including True Colors A Writer's Garden, and the award winning Spirit of Place. They live in St. Catherines, Prince Edward Island.
- [Sidney Crosby:  A Hockey Story](https://nimbus.ca/store/sidney-crosby-a-hockey-story.html): Paul Arseneault has played and coached hockey, baseball and soccer. A huge fan of the game of hockey, Arsneault has been following Sidney Crosby's career since he began to make national headlines in the early 1990s.
- [Canada Quiz](https://nimbus.ca/store/canada-quiz.html): Who was Canada's first prime minister? Who created the ookpik? Whose real name was Gladys Mary Smith? You'll find the answers to 500 questions like these in this entertaining collection of trivia about Canada. These books are gems for teachers, students, parents, researchers, tourists or anyone looking for a little information and entertainment. Easy and hard questions are intermixed, to appeal to all ages and knowledge levels. Here's a chance to keep educating yourself and others about this great country.
- [Keji](https://nimbus.ca/store/keji.html): This guide to Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site contains the information needed by visitors planning to camp, hike, swim, paddle a canoe, picnic, fish, ski, snowshoe, do research, watch birds, take photographs, or commune with nature. The guide covers services available in the park, from daily programs offered by interpreters to rentals of canoes, kayaks and bicycles. It provides information on trails and portages, with directions and distances, and describes the front and backcountry sites that can be reserved by campers. It explains how to go about reserving a site and how to get the most out of a camping experience. The guide also describes the natural world of Kejimkujik, a wilderness park encompassing some of the finest unspoiled beauty in south western Nova Scotia. Readers will find sections on the plants, birds, and animals that make Kejimkujik special. Included are descriptions of the cultural history of the park, plus information about the Mi'kmaw people, whose ancestors were the area's early inhabitants. There is a section on the Seaside Adjunct, the coastal portion of Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site, located on the South Shore. As well, the guide contains charts and maps that will help visitors plan their stay.
- [When Canada Joined Cape Breton](https://nimbus.ca/store/when-canada-joined-cape-breton.html): The Canso Causeway bridges the Strait of Canso, joining the Island of Cape Breton and mainland Nova Scotia. August 2005 marks the 50th anniversary of the official opening of the causeway, a structure that has profoundly affected the lives of people in the region. The controversy surrounding the building of the link, and the subsequent social changes are included here in personal stories by people who lived during the time it was done. When Canada Joined Cape Breton sometimes laughs at the many obstacles that existed to getting to the mainland before the causeway was built, and sometimes reflects sadly on the sense of loss that was felt by people whose existence was under threat of assimilation. Personal recollections offer an intimate look at what the building of the causeway meant and are interspersed with explanations of the historical facts and construction details or the actual causeway itself. For those interested in Nova Scotia history, or intrigued to see the influence of such a structure has on people's lives, When Canada Joined Cape Breton will provide a compelling and thoughtful read.
- [Les iles perles du golfe](https://nimbus.ca/store/les-iles-perles-du-golfe.html): A glittering archipelago nestled in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, swept by sun and sea, the Magdalen Islands are a photographer's paradise. Acclaimed photographer George Fischer returns again to the inspiring land and seascapes of the picturesque islands, showcasing their unique beauty for all to enjoy. Stunning vistas, brilliantly hued houses, charming storefronts, and always-present expanses of sky and ocean are depicted in this lavish, full-colour visual journey. Be inspired by the vivid flavours and colours captured in this new collection of photographs, and discover for yourself the treasure of the Magdalen Islands.
- [Halifax: Sights of the City](https://nimbus.ca/store/halifax-sights-of-the-city.html): The attractions and charms of Halifax Regional Municipality are vividly depicted in this full-colour, photographic book. The book highlights greater Halifax's scenery, historic sites, varied lifestyles, and well-known monuments. All photographs are accompanied by informative captions that place the sights and splendours of the capital region within a historical and cultural context. This delightful combination of beautiful photographs and fascinating historical and local details provides a wonderful keepsake for visitors and local residents alike.
- [Birding Sites of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/birding-sites-of-nova-scotia.html): Nova Scotia is a birder's paradise- the trick is knowing where to go to catch sight of the dainty piping plover, stately blue heron, or cheeky blue jay. This problem is solved within the pages of this invaluable guidebook, which divides Nova Scotia by county, pinpointing the best birding sites, how to reach them, and on-site orientation. Complete with maps and chockfull of useful information such as special birds to see, species of note, and key details for each site (i.e. amenities, points of interest, and habitats), this guidebook is sure to delight the bird fancier in your life, or be a welcome addition to your own feathered pursuits!
- [An Inuk Boy Becomes a Hunter](https://nimbus.ca/store/an-inuk-boy-becomes-a-hunter.html): For hundreds of years, Inuit of northern Labrador employed their ingenuity, courage, and deep sense of community to meet the challenges of living in a harsh environment. In the process, they developed a rich culture of customs and traditions that strengthened their family and community life as well their relationship with the natural world. But with the encroachment of the modern world and the depletion of wildlife and fish stocks, the Inuit way of life has changed dramatically. In the authentic voice of a storyteller, John Igloliorte describes the Inuit way of life and the changes that are breaking down their time-honoured traditions. He shares with us the wondrous experiences of an Inuk boy's life- from his earliest childhood memories, to when, at thirteen, he became a hunter.
- [Pirates of the North Atlantic](https://nimbus.ca/store/pirates-of-the-north-atlantic.html): Along miles of rugged coastline, in secret bays and hidden inlets, and even in the busiest ports lurk stories of the infamous pirates who visited the North Atlantic in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Peter Easton, and Black Bart all came here in search of plunder, supplies, and sanctuary. From Newfoundland to Boston, from Cape Breton to the Bay of Fundy, the North Atlantic was once teeming with highwaymen of the sea.
- [Guides of the North Woods](https://nimbus.ca/store/guides-of-the-north-woods.html): Hunting, fishing and woodsmanship are inscribed in North American culture. Once the survival skills of the Mi'kmaq people, they became recreational pastimes for British officers arriving in Nova Scotia in the nineteenth century. The native people became wilderness guides for these 'sports', passing on their guiding skills to others. In this book, using their own words, Mike Parker resurrects how native and white men shared the call of the wilderness, traveling miles on foot or by canoe, hunting moose and deer or fishing trout and salmon. The hair-raising incidents of danger, the funny anecdotes, the skills necessary to succeed, and the personality of these men are collected here with respect and admiration.
- [The Stories that Haunt Us](https://nimbus.ca/store/stories-that-haunt-us.html): This latest collection by Maritime Mysteries' former TV host and actor Bill Jessome includes forty of the best stories collected from around the Maritimes. Using his journalist's skills, Jessome weaves incredible stories that charm readers and chill our nerves. Maritime Canada has an extensive storytelling tradition and a large part of that storytelling lexicon consists of stories of the supernatural. Many of these stories are told over the generations and Jessome has acquired these chilling accounts by listening to Maritimers at the kitchen table, around the flickering campfire, and when the moon is full.
- [Nova Scotia Moments](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-moments.html): Clary Croft has gathered intriguing historical moments of Nova Scotian history into a readable and informative look at the province. These inspiring vignettes bring together many of the historical events, accomplishments, and unusual details that make up the more interesting aspects of Nova Scotia's long history. Over four hundred profiles of inventors, radicals, and rogues make this collection the absolutely best volume of popular and fascinating facts and events covering over five hundred years in the region's history. From Captain Kidd to Prohibition; from the origin of the Nova Scotian Tartan to the first automobile and the origins of our famous lobster suppers, Clary Croft writes with enthusiasm and genuine affection about his native province.
- [Historic LaHave River Valley](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-lahave-river-valley.html): Sheila Chambers, Joan Dawson and Edith Wolter are historians and writers with a special interest in the LaHave area of Nova Scotia.
- [Paddling the Tobeatic](https://nimbus.ca/store/paddling-the-tobeatic.html): The rivers of southwestern Nova Scotia flow in and around what is known locally as the Tobeatic which refers to the Maritimes Provinces' largest expanse of wilderness, all of which lies in southwestern Nova Scotia. Whether you are interested in involved, week-long wilderness excursions or in fair-weather day-trips, you'll derive much satisfaction from exploring the rivers of southwestern Nova Scotia. Blending wit with rugged pragmatism and interspersing fasc inating tidbits of local and natural history, paddler and back-country explorer Andrew Smith has created the definitive guide to canoe routes of the Tobeatic. Packed with a wealth of information, including route maps and diagrams of rapids and other difficult river sections, this invaluable guide speaks to both the seasoned canoeist and the casual outdoor enthusiast. Like the best guidebooks, Paddling the Tobeatic inspires its readers to get out and experience Nova Scotia's natural treasures first-hand.
- [Louisbourg: 18th Century Town](https://nimbus.ca/store/louisbourg-18th-century-town.html): Louisbourg: An 18th-Century Town is an in-depth look at what was once a well-known settlement in the New World. As a seaport, Louisbourg possessed one of the busiest harbours in North America. As a fortress, it generated hope in French hearts and fear in British ones. As a community, it was home to thousands of men, women, and children: fishermen and soldiers, merchants and artisans, servants and seamstresses. Voltaire called the colony “the key” to French possessions in North America. Benjamin Franklin described it as a “tough nut to crack.” In the end, British prime minister William Pitt insisted that it be destroyed. Pitt got his wish, yet 200 years later, 18th-century Louisbourg rose again, this time as one of the world’s great outdoor museums. This well-crafted book, written by historians of the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site and teachers of the Cape Breton District School Board, is an entertaining and informative portrait of this 18th-century town. Its well-illustrated pages provide young readers with material on everything from astronomy and gardening to fashions and siege warfare. It offers a rare opportunity to savour what life was really like in a French military town on Cape Breton Island two centuries ago.
- [Grand-Pré: Coeur de L'Acadie](https://nimbus.ca/store/grand-pre-coeur-de-lacadie.html): Grand-Pré est un toponyme très évocateur, non seulement au Canada, mais partout dans le monde. Les événements qui se déroulent dans ce village acadien vers la fin de l'été et durant l'automne 1755 occupent une place importante dans l'histoire de l'Amérique du Nord.
- [A Song for Acadia](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-song-for-acadia.html): When his aging father falls ill, Timothy Parsons of Boston is sent to live with his Acadian relatives in Nova Scotia. The language is new and the farm work hard, but the kind ways of the merry-hearted Acadians put him at ease, and soon Timothy is singing songs in French and building aboiteau alongside his cousins. But trouble is on the horizon: the French and the English are at war, and Acadia is caught in the middle. When the governor signs the deportation orders, Timothy must decide whether to stay with his Acadian family and face an uncertain future, or return to the safety and comfort of his life in Boston.
- [Historic Wolfville](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-wolfville.html): The stately university town of Wolfville has a rich architectural elegance and a spectacular natural presence amid the Annapolis Valley's rolling farmlands and the regal shores of the Minas Basin. Originally known as Mud Creek, Wolfville was once settled by Acadians and the dykes they built in the 1600s are still visible near the town's historic waterfront. Resettled by New England Planters in the 1760s, the small community grew into a regional farming and educational centre during the late 1800s. Home to Acadia University, the town flourished during the early 20th century. The historic images in this book are selected from a wide range of institutional and personal collections. They reveal Wolfville and the surrounding countryside from Grand Pré to Port Williams in stunning detail and with a fond affection. The historic photos date from the time of the earliest photography - late 1800s - to the 1940s when Wolfville's streetscape changed drastically, in keeping with the move to modernize the Valley. While the university now dominates the town, these historic photos reveal that agriculture was once central to Wolfville's existence. Many of the photos were taken from the collections at Randall House Museum and the Nova Scotia Public Archives, but other photos were selected from private collections throughout Kings County.
- [Historic Sydney](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-sydney.html): Dominion Steel and Coal Company. The Dominion Steel and Coal Company steel plant built at Whitney Pier brought in many of the people who make up the region's rich cultural diversity Today, Sydney is Nova Scotia's third largest city and is a major industrial centre. Cape Breton native Rannie Gillis has selected from a wide range of historical photographs to provide glimpses of the city's rich heritage. Industrial scenes, streetscapes, urban life, the historic waterfront, and domestic work all combine to offer a fascinating portrait of historic Sydney.
- [Historic Kentville](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-kentville.html): The largest community in the Annapolis Valley is also one of the most historic. At the end of the 18th century, Kentville became Shire Town of Kings County and, being at the junction of seven roads, grew into an important commercial centre, serving agricultural villages throughout the Annapolis Valley. The community began to thrive when the Windsor to Annapolis railway (later known as DAR) established its headquarters in 1868 and began shipping Annapolis Valley apples overseas. As the shire town of Kings County, the modern town of Kentville grew into a bustling railroad centre. The town has also been host to the traditional industries such as coal, timber, dairies, food processors and fruit retailers. Manufacturing industries began to bloom after the surge of the industrial revolution of the late 19th century. Kentville also became known for the production of the first automobile in Nova Scotia. Kentville native Louis Comeau has selected from his own personal collection of hometown images to show Kentville from the early years of the birth of photography to World War II. Comeau annotates this fascinating collection of Valley photographs with absorbing and entertaining details that explain people and places and provide a charming historic portrait of an important Valley town.
- [Passion for Survival](https://nimbus.ca/store/passion-for-survival.html): Marie Anne and Louis Payzant had high hopes for a new future as they left a comfortable life on the island of Jersey and sailed with their children across the Atlantic to a new settlement on the shores of Nova Scotia in June 1753. Both had already fled religious persecution in their native France. In this fascinating and true account of Louis & Marie Anne Payzant, author Linda Layton has pieced together the couple's heartbreaking sense of loss, their struggles and deaths set against the backdrop of one of the most chaotic times in the history of Europe and North America. The author is the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Marie Anne and Louis. She has spent years researching and traveling in a quest for facts about her ancestors The book will appeal to enthusiasts of early Canadian history of Nova Scotia, Quebec and Acadia as well as readers who love a great adventure story as it focuses on one woman caught in the religious struggle between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, and the colonial struggle between our two founding cultures.
- [Magical Christmas Light of Old Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/magical-christmas-light-of-old-nova-scotia.html): Nova Scotia native Bruce Nunn is a popular storyteller on CBC Radio and Television and the author of a number of best-selling books including History With a Twist, More History With a Twist, 59 Stories, The Magical Christmas Light of Old Nova Scotia, and Buddy the Bluenose Reindeer. Yolanda Poplawska is an illustrator and graphic designer living in Halifax.
- [Evangeline, Illustrated (English) A Tale of Acadie](https://nimbus.ca/store/evangeline-illustrated-english.html): The famous poem with a historical introduction and numerous color and black and white illustrations. First published in 1847, Evangeline is a classic of romantic literature that tells the epic story of a young Acadian couple who are separated during the tragic Acadian expulsion of 1755.
- [The Memory Stone](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-memory-stone.html): Laura is having her first sleepover at Aunt Pat's and everything is different—no night-light, no breakfast cereal, no television, and no toys. Even the garden is full of "yucky" bugs. This sleepover is no fun, and Laura wants to go home! Then Laura and her aunt spend the day at the beach, and Laura is surprised to discover memories hidden behind simple things—like stones on the beach.
- [Tangled in the Bay](https://nimbus.ca/store/tangled-in-the-bay.html): Based on a true experience, this is the story of a right whale, Clio, and her newborn calf, Pasha, who arrive during the short northern summer, in the rich, cold waters of the Bay of Fundy to feed and replace stores of fat. With fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales in existence, mother and baby whale are being tracked by a research team studying their habitat and inter-relationships. While monitoring whales on a routine fly-over, a researcher notices one whale tangled in some fishing gear. Baby Pasha is trapped in nets! Quickly, an international team of researchers and conservationists comes together to try and disentangle the animal and save its life. This wonderful story is beautifully illustrated by Jeffrey C. Domm who has illustrated a number of best-selling books.
- [Discover Nova Scotia Sportfishing](https://nimbus.ca/store/discover-nova-scotia-sportfishing.html): In this inspirational and informative book, Don MacLean guides anglers to where they will find the best of Nova Scotia's sportfishing opportunities in any season of the year. The book will appeal to both residents and tourists as it outlines the sportfish species that are found in the province, how to fish them and where to find them through the seasons. There are tales of Nova Scotia's glorious fishing past, including celebrated 'fly tyers' and guides, tales of the rich and famous who have also fished our waters and tips on tackle and technique for fishing in lake, river, and sea. And as a fisheries biologist, MacLean also provides detailed information on the ecology and life history of the major fish species of the province.
- [Seashores of the Maritimes](https://nimbus.ca/store/seashores-of-the-maritimes.html): This book is designed to help the reader identify the many common plants & animals of the Atlantic coastline. Over 400 species are included with tips and notes about finding & identifying the creatures.
- [One Potato Two Potato](https://nimbus.ca/store/one-potato-two-potato.html): The definitive book about potatoes, from growing them to eating them and everything in between. A cookbook and more with special emphasis on Prince Edward Island's unique role in Canada's potato industry.
- [Lena and the Whale](https://nimbus.ca/store/lena-and-the-whale.html): Lena has a 6th sense for knowing when animals are in trouble. That's how she found Hawkster, a young crow with a broken wing, and others. Her 6th sense puts her in the right place when a baby humpback whale swims too close to shore.
- [Historic Cumberland County South](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-cumberland-county-south.html): Southern Cumberland County, with Chignecto Bay on one side and Minas Basin on the other, has been identified by its geography: great cliffs, eroded Appalachian mountains, lush inland valleys, and the sea. Over a century ago, the area was a veritable "land of plenty" busy with the activity of settlement and work. Extensive coal fields fed a successful coal mining industry, while the fertile valleys sustained farms and lumber mills, and the Parrsborough Shore supported a busy shipbuilding industry. Historic Cumberland County South revisits the various communities that have grown out of theis rich past tapping into an equally rich photographic heritage. Cumberland County comes alive through stories of its communities and the events, activities, and industries that shaped their development. Although many of the industries have gone into decline, the spectacular beauty of the region and its rich fossil deposits continue to make it "a land of promise."
- [Tall Tales & Curious Happenings](https://nimbus.ca/store/tall-tales-curious-happenings.html): A wonderfully entertaining collection of the best tales of the strange and weird occurrences that have been happening in New Brunswick for years.
- [Celebrate!](https://nimbus.ca/store/celebrate.html): Celebrate: The History and Folklore of Holidays in Nova Scotia offers just the inspiration we need to keep is celebrating day after day, month after month. Although most of the holidays described in this book are relevant to Canadians in general, and most originated elsewhere, they have become overlaid with local customs and traditions that give them new forms and flavours. This entertaining and lively account of festivals, holidays and celebrations is a treasure-chest of lore that includes unusual facts, vignetter, and off-beat customs from the old-time celebrations and folk traditions of Nova Scotians. It is a link between our past and present sensibilities, proving once again out indebtedness to our forebears and our ingenuity for adaptation.
- [Three Hills Home](https://nimbus.ca/store/three-hills-home.html): Eulalie's life seems laid out ahead of her, as does Corporal Cully Robin's, but an alternate plot is about to change their lives irrevocably. With the looming war between France and England, the Governor of Nova Scotia removes the Acadian people from the land they've lived on for generations and disperses them throughout the colonies to the south. Suddenly, even the simplest expectations are thrown into doubt as they struggle to survive, love and find their way home in the face of obstacles they could never have imagined.
- [Invisible Shadows](https://nimbus.ca/store/invisible-shadows.html): Invisible Shadows is Verna Thomas' account of coming to consciousness about race in the wake of changes in education, civil rights, and black self-awareness that swept across the continent in the second half of the twentieth century and against the wider backdrop of slavery. Part autobiography, part history, part race theory, the work's hybrid form reflects the range of influences brought to bear on it-intersecting histories, cultures, and communities, framed by the events of one woman's life. The power of Invisible Shadows lies in the sincerity -and the good humour with which Thomas approaches the difficult task of truth-telling.
- [Heroic Rescues at Sea](https://nimbus.ca/store/heroic-rescues-at-sea.html): The sea can be a treacherous place. Fortunately for those who face disaster at sea there is a highly trained group of people who make it their life's work to race to the rescue. These are the marine search and rescue workers of the Canadian Coast Guard. They do what most of us would not even contemplate; brave the elements in their rescue vessels, often acting as paramedics, midwives and firefighters on the water. They go out in unimaginable conditions and search long, harrowing hours for missing ships and sailors. These are their stories.
- [The Cat From Kosovo](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-cat-from-kosovo.html): When the conflict between Serbs & Albanians becomes intense, a young couple from Kosovo decide to leave their home. Their young cat does too, and this story of triumph and generosity touches the heart.
- [More Maritime Mysteries](https://nimbus.ca/store/more-maritime-mysteries.html): This second book of the spooky, scary and the unexplained by popular Maritime writer Bill Jessome uncovers more strange appearances, occurences and ghostly antics from the Maritimes. These chilling tales and hair-raising spine-tinglers are sure to grip your imagination.
- [Ahmed et le nid de sable](https://nimbus.ca/store/ahmed-et-le-nid-de-sable.html): Lorsqu'il vivait au Kawait, Ahmed gardait de jolis oiseaux dans une cage installee au jardin. Aujourd'hui, il vit a Dartmouth, en Nouvelle-Ecosse, dans un appartment au les animaux ne sont pas admis. Un jour, Ahmed rencontre Alice et Martine, deux gardiens des pluviers siffleurs, qui viennent parler de ces petits oiseaux a son ecole. Ahmed decide alors d'aider ces oiseaux. Tous les samedis, Ahmed, Alice et Matrin rendent visite a in couple de plouviers siffleurs qui ont construit leur nid sur la plage. Ahmed apprend a connaitre ces oiseaux et tour les dangers qui les guettent. Il les aide a affronter les difficluties jusqu'a leur depart vers le sud a la fin de l'ete. Les illustrations hautes en couleur animent cette histories educative sur une espece d'oiseaux en danger de disparition au Canada.
- [Historic Queens County](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-queens-county.html): The region around Liverpool and Queens County itself is one of the most historic areas of Nova Scotia. Its wide harbours, fisheries, abundant timber and waterways attracted the attention of the early European fishermen and fur traders as well as the American settlers from New England who, in 1759 settled Liverpool. By 1766, the enterprising residents had constructed three water-powered sawmills and established trade links back to New England, as well as to Halifax, the West Indies and Europe. A few infamous Privateers fitted out in Liverpool were the Wolverine, Shannon, and the most successful of all, and best known, the Liverpool Packet. The author compiled this collection from a large number of old photographs from the 1880s until World War Two and provides a vivid portrait of Queens County's past. An unrivalled visual history of Liverpool.
- [Historic Amherst](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-amherst.html): It is hard to ignore the past in a town like Amherst in northern Nova Scotia. The setting fir the Leon Trotsky’s internment in one of Canada’s largest World War One prisoner-of-war camps and for Henry George Ketchum’s unusual plans to build a ship railway, Amherst has witnessed the rise-and sometimes fall- of personal fortunes and revolutionary dreams. Once the battleground for the historic struggle between the English and the French, it has been called home by notable figures of all kinds, including four fathers of Confederation and renowned artist Alex Colville. Historic Amherst looks at the fascinating evolution of the small community of “Morse’s Corner” into “Busy Amherst,” an Industrial centre for the production of steel, iron and automobiles at its peak in the early 1900s. Supported by priceless photographs that testify to Amherst’s early prosperity as well as to its social, sporting, recreational and agrarian past, this illustrated history promises to inform and delight as it traces the significant moment in this once-bustling bordertown.
- [Fredericton](https://nimbus.ca/store/fredericton-1.html): This stunning new look at Fredericton, the city of stately elms, features photographs of the capital city of New Brunswick in all its moods and intimate charm.
- [Talk About the Valley](https://nimbus.ca/store/talk-about-the-valley.html): Talk about the Valley is the second book of charming essays by Norman Creighton, whose name is a household word in the Annapolis Vally of Nova Scotia. Norman lived on Avon Street in Hansport, where his keen insight into Valley life, his wry sense of humour, and his obvious love of the natural world provided ample material for his weekly CBC radio broadcasts during the 1960s and 70s. This engaging collection-selected from some 600 talks aired on CBC's "A.M. Chronicle", "Maritime Magazine" and "Radio Noon"-are the places in the Valley, the people who have lived there, and their way of life. It is beautifully illustrated by Normkan's older brother Alan, himself a poet, writer and accomplished artist.
- [Sable Island Shipwrecks](https://nimbus.ca/store/sable-island-shipwrecks.html): Over 300 ships have gone down on Sable Island. The first known wreck was in 1583. This best selling book tells the stories of disaster, danger, rescue and survival.
- [Le Québec Maritime](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-quebec-maritime.html): George Fischer is the author of numerous books including Destination Fundy Trail, The Adventurer's Guide to the Magdalen Islands, and Along the St. John River
- [Great Nova Scotia Cookbook](https://nimbus.ca/store/great-nova-scotia-cookbook.html): The definitive cookbook of Nova Scotia combining traditional foods with trends in today's cooking, and the best techniques. This is a must have cookbook for all who value good cooking.
- [Gabriella's Kitchen](https://nimbus.ca/store/gabriellas-kitchen.html): When Gabriella first saw the Greek island of Corfu, "it was simply paradise"—except that there were no good restaurants. So she and her sociable Greek husband rented a charming old Venetian villa and opened their own. Here, Gabriella developed her own special recipes and catering to the rich and famous who increasingly found their way to her door (Julian Huxley, Paul McCartney, and Albert Finney, to name a few). In this bright, practical, and unusual cookbook, Gabriella shares her original recipe. Sprinkled throughout the book are engaging stories of people and events that coloured and enriched her life.
- [Remembering Honey](https://nimbus.ca/store/remembering-honey.html): When pets die, families grieve as if those pets were human. This story explores that grief and helps families cope with the loss.
- [Fortune & La Tour](https://nimbus.ca/store/fortune-la-tour.html): Reprinted for a new audience, this is the gripping story of Acadia torn by civil strife in its infancy, the people involved and the reasons for the struggle.
- [Greater/Grand Moncton](https://nimbus.ca/store/greater/grand-moncton.html): Greater/Grand Moncton is a delightful and important new visual record of one of Canada's greatest little cities. Moncton native Jacques Boudreau has captured this dynamic city with spectacular flair and memorable detail.
- [Discover Prince Edward Island Adventure and Lighthouse Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/discover-prince-edward-island-adventure-and-lighthouse-guide.html): Dave Stephens and Susan Randles are travel writers and educators living in Nova Scotia.
- [Destination Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/destination-nova-scotia.html): As Nova Scotia enters the next millennium it is more culturally rich and diverse than could ever have been imagined. It is now the destination for thousands of visitors from around the world who look to its diverse geography and cultural groupings to enrich their travel experience. Destination Nova Scotia details the history and culture of the province and showcases its scenic landscapes.
- [D'une rive à l'autre](https://nimbus.ca/store/dune-rive-r-lautre.html): Le profil gracieux du pont de la Confederation mystifie le voyageur. Concu pour durer 100 ans, le plus long pont au monde au-dessus d'une mer glacee est un defi d'ingenierie qui a ete releve par les meilleurs esprits techniquees de l'heure et qui a pousse la technologie canadienne aux primiers rangs du genie civil en eaux glaciales. Entre-temps, le pont de la Confederation, qui s'etire en un "S" allonge au-dessus des eaux blues de detroit de Northumberland, est certes une raison de plus our attirer les voyageurs cenus de loins pour "venir houer dans mon ile."
- [Butterbox Survivors](https://nimbus.ca/store/butterbox-survivors.html): Since the 1992 publication of Butterbox Babies, the Ideal Maternity Home in Chester, Nova Scotia, has become synonymous with illegal adoptions and suspicious baby deaths.
- [Roland's Flora of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/rolands-flora-of-nova-scotia.html): Roland’s Flora of Nova Scotia is the most comprehensive book ever published on the province’s plants. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in what grows where in Nova Scotia.With easy-to-read descriptions, foolproof keys and complete, illustrated glossary, readers can quickly find the information they need. Each plant description outlines the features most helpful in identifying that plant, and includes interesting facts about it’s folklore, herbal applications, toxicity, and edibility. The many distribution maps and illustrations also support accurate and simple plant identification. Volume one of two.
- [Discover Nova Scotia Guide to Wildlife Viewing Sites](https://nimbus.ca/store/discover-nova-scotia-guide-to-wildlife-viewing-sites.html): A full colour guide to viewing wildlife in Nova Scotia, organized by travel routes with information about habitat and safety for viewers and animals.
- [Louisbourg: Reflet d'un Époque](https://nimbus.ca/store/louisbourg-reflet-dun-epoque.html): Un merveilleux photographique regarde la forteresse le texte accompagné de qui illumine l'histoire de la forteresse.
- [Somebody's Daughter](https://nimbus.ca/store/somebodys-daughter.html): First released in 1996, Somebody's Daughter takes us inside the lives of real players in Canada's prostitution game. This book is about what we don't know about prostitution and perhaps what we don't want to know; what goes on inside that violent underworld know as The Game, and who the girls in the tight skirts really are. Author and reporter Phonse Jessome traces the short careers of several young girls actively recruited by pimps and describes the anti-pimping efforts of law enforcers who work to get teenage girls out the The Games and off the streets.
- [Prince Edward Island True Colours](https://nimbus.ca/store/prince-edward-island-true-colours.html): Wayne Barrett and Anne MacKay are a professional photographic team that have published numerous books including True Colors A Writer's Garden, and the award winning Spirit of Place. They live in St. Catherines, Prince Edward Island.
- [Walk Historic Halifax](https://nimbus.ca/store/walk-historic-halifax.html): Use this convenient guide book to find all the interesting historic buildings and facts about the historic old port city.
- [Adventurer's Guide to the Magdalen Islands](https://nimbus.ca/store/adventurers-guide-to-the-magdalen-islands.html): Offering a wide range of hiking, cycling, and climbing routes for every experience level, this is the companion guide to the beautiful Magdalen Islands.
- [Eastern Coyote](https://nimbus.ca/store/eastern-coyote.html): Biologist Gerry Parker has studied this versatile and successful coyote and tracked the animal's origins and population patterns. A fascinating animal, and a comprehensive book.
- [Nature & Hiking Guide To Cape Breton's Cabot Trail](https://nimbus.ca/store/nature-hiking-guide-to-cape-bretons-cabot-trail.html): Complete with easy-to-use maps, plant lists, glossary, and index, and illustrated with line drawings and woodcuts, A Nature and Hiking Guide to Cape Breton's Cabot Trail is your complete guide to this natural treasure trove.
- [Northern Nurse](https://nimbus.ca/store/northern-nurse.html): Set in the late 1920s, this is the true story of an Australian-born nurse who comes to Labrador to work.
- [Spring Wildflowers](https://nimbus.ca/store/spring-wildflowers.html): Spring Wildflower is a handy field guide that will help you identify most flowers that bloom in the spring. It is well organized, easy to follow and features fine pen and ink drawings of almost 250 flowering plants.
- [Peggy's Cove](https://nimbus.ca/store/peggys-cove.html): A truly unique place, here is Peggy's Cove in all its glory: sea, surf, lighthouse, birds, and fishing boats.
- [Lure of the Labrador Wild](https://nimbus.ca/store/lure-of-the-labrador-wild.html): The improbable collaboration between an ambitious young writer, Leonidas Hubbard, and a forty-year-old New York attorney, Dillon Wallace. They set off in the spring of 1903 with George Elson, an Aboriginal guide with no first-hand knowledge of their destination—the incompletely mapped Lake Michikamau region of interior Labrador. Beset by delays, the men paddle past their intended route, the Naskaupi River, and head up the dreadful Susan River instead. When in early September they finally glimpse the vast waters of Michikamau from atop an unknown mountain, the cold winds have already begun. With almost no food left the three begin a desperate struggle against starvation and the quickening pace of a cruel winter, heading homeward in a race for their lives.
- [The Effective Citizen How to Make Politicians Work for You](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-effective-citizen.html): Effective citizens--engaged, knowledgeable, and persistent, and united in common cause--are the most powerful force that ever was, or ever will be. I hope this book will help citizens to be more effective. In his uniquely straightforward and accessible style, Political insider Graham Steele pulls back the curtain on our political system and gives readers a look inside. A lawyer, analyst, former Nova Scotia cabinet minister, and author of the Globe & Mail bestselling memoir What I Learned About Politics, Steele answers the burning questions of Canadians: Who really runs the parties? What does a backbencher do? How does a citizen effectively navigate the system, and achieve change through a politician? What is "truthiness?" A primer for anyone who wants to become a politician or influence one, The Effective Citizen explains how politicians think and what factors influence that thinking; how to interpret the "non-answer" in political speech; and acknowledges that in politics, "bland is safe." Ideal for political neophytes and junkees all the same, Steele's newest book will have the whole country talking.
- [Mersey River Lodge A Window on History and Nature](https://nimbus.ca/store/mersey-river-lodge.html): The area defined by Nova Scotia's Mersey River has been home to many: the Mi'kmaq, the English, the French, the Black Loyalists, even pirates and rum-runners. A location renowned for its natural splendour, in 1930 the Mersey River became home to anouther important resident: the Mersey Folk Lodge. Originally intended as a respite for friends and family, and potential business partners, of Liverpool's Bowater Mersey Paper Mill, the Mersey River Lodge has since become a tranquil retreat for both personal and professional excursions. Written by Halifax historian Blair Beed, with breathtaking photographs by David Burns and Farhad Vladi, this beautiful keepsake celebrates the history of the Mersey River area, its industry, its people, and the lasting cultural legacy of the Mersey River Lodge.
- [Big Book of Lexicon Vol 4, 5, 6](https://nimbus.ca/store/big-book-of-lexicon-vol-4,-5,-6.html): Theresa Williams's lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, lexicon puzzles engage and entertain fans of all ages. This edition brings back volumes 4, 5, and 6 and presents them as one large book for hours of fun!
- [The Snow Knows](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-snow-knows.html): The snow knows where the rabbit goes. It knows the hush­shush of the owl's wing. In this deceptively simple children's picture book, a pair of award­winning storytellers share the joys of winter. A lyrical prose poem, The Snow Knows introduces readers of all ages to animals both domestic (a tabby cat by the wood stove) and wild (a slinking lynx; a choir of coyotes), celebrating wilderness and outdoor play. With whimsical hide­and­seek illustrations, readers will love following footprints and catching a glimpse of an owl's wing or pheasant's feathers, suggesting what appears on the following page. A beautiful book, destined to be a perennial winter favourite, and read aloud by a crackling fire.
- [Cure for Wereduck Book 2 of the Wereduck Series](https://nimbus.ca/store/cure-for-wereduck.html): Kate is an odd duck-literally. When the full moon arrives, the rest of her family turns into wolves, but she is a happy wereduck. Relatively happy, that is. Her family has been uprooted from the wilds of New Brunswick to a placid farming community in Ontario, thanks to a fellow werewolf, Marcus, selling them out to sleazy tabloid journalist Dirk Bragg. When Kate discovers her great-­great­grandmother's recipe "A Cure for Werewolf," she can't help but wonder—is it really possible? Could she one day resist the call of the moon? Could she be free from the constant threat of exposure? When Marcus's abandoned werewolf son, John, books a desperate train journey back to New Brunswick at the full moon, the ancient recipe and its arcane ingredients are put to the test. Will Dirk Bragg finally corner Kate and John in their were­forms and expose them to the world, or will Cure for Werewolf keep them safe? A rare sequel that is as full of action and revelations as its predecessor, A Cure for Wereduck is imaginative, exciting, and peppered with Hackmatack Award ­nominated David Atkinson's delightful humour.
- [Better Off Dead Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Canadian Armed Forces](https://nimbus.ca/store/better-off-dead.html): Fred Doucette always wanted to be a soldier. In the 1960s he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Cyprus in the 1970s and '80s and Bosnia in the 1990s. When he returned home to New Brunswick in 1999 after his last overseas tour, he was diagnosed with severe chronic post-traumatic stress disorder. Eventually released from the army, Fred found a position with the Operational Stress Injury Social Support (OSISS) program, where he supported serving soldiers and veterans for ten years. Better Off Dead chronicles Fred's efforts in helping to rehabilitate and support soldiers and veterans suffering from what the military terms "operational stress injuries." We meet Ted, saved from a suicide attempt by a timely phone call; Bob, at wit's end and reluctantly seeking help to overcome severe PTSD; Roger, caught in a cycle of violence and drug and alcohol abuse; and Jane, diagnosed with PTSD after having been sexually assaulted while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan. These accounts are raw, desperate, and often angry, but as Doucette shows, there is hope and real progress for those able to obtain proper diagnosis and treatment. Includes a colour insert with 15 photos.
- [Be a Pond Detective](https://nimbus.ca/store/be-a-pond-detective.html): Do dragonflies bite? What is the difference between a frog and a toad? Are leeches dangerous? Naturalist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers these questions and more in this illustrated guide to solving the many nature mysteries of freshwater ponds.
- [Nova Scotia Geological Highway Map](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-geological-highway-map.html): Nova Scotia has a wide variety of rocks, fossils, minerals, and landforms packed into a small area. This map relates the location of geological units, collecting sites, landforms and their connection to the underlying rock units, and outcrop locations to the highway system. The Geological Highway Map of Nova Scotia is an invitation to explore and discover the natural history of the province and by analogy to explore other areas of Canada and the world.
- [Lexicon 17](https://nimbus.ca/store/lexicon-17.html): Theresa Williams's lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published by the Halifax Chronicle-Herald in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, the lexicon engages and entertains fans of all ages. Puzzle buffs will delight in this opportunity to try 52 all-new puzzles.
- [Baby Steps (3 Book Set)](https://nimbus.ca/store/baby-steps-3-book-set.html): “Baby Steps” is a series of three board books: Baby Play, Baby Look, and Baby Talk. These are perfect “starter books” for baby’s first year and are offered here in one package. Based on developmental research, the books encourage playful interaction between parent and child. The series features bright, bold images that will grab baby's attention, bouncy text that parents will love to read aloud, and great information on how parents can connect with their baby.
- [Amazing Grace](https://nimbus.ca/store/amazing-grace.html): Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest? Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she's lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d'Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher Parsons, a giant teddy bear who's not even her husband. But Grace's blissful life is rudely interrupted when her estranged son calls from New York City, worried about his teenaged daughter. Before she knows it, Grace finds herself the temporary guardian of her self-absorbed, city-slicker granddaughter, Melissa. Trapped between a past she's been struggling to resolve and a present that keeps her on her toes, Grace decides to finally tell her story. Either the truth will absolve her, or cost her everything. Crackling with Lesley Crewe's celebrated wit and humour, Amazing Grace is a heartfelt tale of enduring love and forgiveness, and the deep roots of family.
- [The Little Book of New Brunswick](https://nimbus.ca/store/little-book-of-new-brunswick.html): In The Little Book of New Brunswick, Brian Atkinson has beautifully captured the breathtaking panoramas, rustic covered bridges, and white-caped rivers that dominate the landscapes of the province. Travel across the countryside to visit Acadian festivals, misty lakes, and vibrant coastlines. The Little Book of New Brunswick contains 75 colour photographs that give readers a glimpse into the culture, people, and wide open spaces of the “Picture Province.”
- [A Sea Glass Journey Ebb and Flow](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-sea-glass-journey.html): Sea glass, beach glass, sand glass, mermaids' tears, emeralds from the deep...known by many names and coveted by beachcombers, these ocean treasures are much more than they seem. In A Sea Glass Journey, sea glass jeweller and collector Teri Hall, of PEI's Fire & Water Creations, tells the incredible story of these jewels of the sea. Accented with stunning photographs of sea glass and its sources, this beautiful book illustrates the transformative process these gems undergo in the belly of the ocean. You'll also find simple projects for getting creative with sea glass at home, tips for hunting for and evaluating sea glass, a collector's handbook of shapes and colours, and inspirational anecdotes from Teri and her fellow collectors. There's no need to wait for low tide to begin your sea glass journey.
- [If I Were a Zombie](https://nimbus.ca/store/if-i-were-a-zombie.html): If I were a zombie I'd package my drool put it in a mason jars sell it at school. In this hilarious picture book written by Hackmatack Award-nominated author Kate Inglis and brilliantly illustrated by Eric Orchard, two best friends imagine ordinary life as classic monsters and mythical creatures. What would Evan the Zombie do for the school talent show? Who would Poppy the Muddy Wood Fairy have over for dinner? From an alien with three hundred eyeballs to giants and goblin queens, this book of tickle trunk fun will delight kids of all ages.
- [The Little Book of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/little-book-of-nova-scotia.html): The magic of Peggy’s Cove at night, the rugged shorelines and clifftops, the magical expanse of the Cape Breton Highlands mid-winter—all represent the beauty that is Nova Scotia. Journey through this incredible landscape with award-winning photojournalist Len Wagg. These remarkable photos not only capture the immense beauty of Nova Scotia’s natural landscape but also capture the spirit of the people who live in it everyday. Features approximately 85 photos with captions and a foreword from popular Nova Scotia writer Silver Donald Cameron. Now in a smaller format and with 10 new photographs.
- [The Thundermaker](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-thundermaker.html): Mi'kmaw artist Alan Syliboy's The Thundermaker is based on Alan's spectacular mixed-media exhibit of the same name. In the book, Big Thunder teaches his son, Little Thunder, about the important responsibility he has making thunder for his people. Little Thunder learns about his Mi'kmaw identity through his father's teachings and his mother's traditional stories. Syliboy's spectacular, vibrant artwork brings the story of Little Thunder to vivid life.
- [Abigail's Wish](https://nimbus.ca/store/abigails-wish.html): Spring. Beautiful blossoms. Chirping peepers. Trees swaying in their new greenery. Pussy willows glistening in furry white coats. Rain and warmth. New births and new beginnings... Ten-year-old Abigail Price is excited about spring in her new home in Birchtown. Spring means lots of things, like flower buds and fresh leaves and her Aunt Dinah's new baby. She's hoping it also means she'll get a new dress to wear for the celebration, but new clothing, like many things, is hard to come by. The first children's picture book set in historic Birchtown, Nova Scotia, Abigail's Wish is a window into the life of a Black Loyalist family in the early years of the historic colony. Through the eyes of young Abigail, this stunning collaboration between poet and novelist Gloria Ann Wesley and award­winning illustrator Richard Rudnicki will teach readers about Black Loyalist life, and the value of friendship and patience.
- [Maclean (2nd edition)](https://nimbus.ca/store/maclean-2nd-edition.html): Twenty-five years after the Great War, John Maclean is still struggling to carve out a meaningful existence in his small New Brunswick hometown. One late summer day he embarks on a seemingly prosaic search for a little money, a little booze, and a birthday gift for his mother. But he’s haunted by memories—of war, of his cruel father, of opportunities wasted and lost—and each moment is shadowed by his bleak history. Shell-shocked and alcoholic, Maclean is divided between a lonely present and a violent past. With clean and evocative prose, author Allan Donaldson exquisitely depicts a shattered war veteran’s search for peace. New edition.
- [Touch of Gold](https://nimbus.ca/store/touch-of-gold.html): When thirteen-year-old Jamie Francis's parents divorced, she and her mother moved from Halifax to the small town of River Bend, Nova Scotia. Jamie doesn't have any friends and isn't sure how she'll ever make any, when she comes across a neglected-looking horse in a field: a golden palomino she names Peach. After befriending Peach's widowed owner, Jamie learns that her newfound friend is being sold to notorious horse-trainer, Valerie Scott, at nearby Tamarack Stables. Jamie offers to pitch in, mucking out stalls and doing chores around the barn, and becomes enchanted with the world of competitive horseback riding. She even makes a few friends, including Val's cute red-headed son, Nick, and Naomi, a popular girl from school. But she still isn't sure if she fits in. If only she could ride Peach herself... Will horseback-riding be the key to Jamie's happiness, or will it gallop off into the sunset without her?
- [Who's a Scaredy Cat ? (revised edition) A Story of the Halifax Explosion](https://nimbus.ca/store/whos-a-scaredy-cat-revised-edition.html): This is the story of two families in Dartmouth at the time of the Halifax Explosion, December 1917. Flossie Wright is a prankster, taking pleasure in practical jokes. Isobel Morton, whose father is listed as missing in the war, dislikes Flossie’s jokes, and is ridiculed by the other girl. Although Isobel knows she is a not a “scaredycat,” Flossie's jibes still hurt. Can Isobel prove her bravery and win Flossie's friendship in the terrible days that follow the Halifax explosion? Who's a Scaredy-Cat? is an enjoyable, historically detailed novel now back in print. Includes black and white illustrations by Marijke Simons.
- [Pumpkin People](https://nimbus.ca/store/pumpkin-people-3.html): Now in a new smaller format, Pumpkin People tells the magical secrets of Kentville’s famous residents. Sandra Lightburn’s verse reveals the nighttime revelry of the half-funny, half-spooky figures; Ron Lightburn’s colourful illustrations bring their wild celebrations to life.
- [A History of Disaster (2nd edition) The Worst Storms, Accidents, and Conflagrations in Atlantic Canada](https://nimbus.ca/store/history-of-disaster-2nd-edition.html): A History of Disaster chronicles 43 of Atlantic Canada's most deadly disasters, many well-remembered and none ever forgotten. Included are not only the region's iconic disasters like the Halifax Explosion and the Springhill mine collapses, but also lesser-known events, such as the 1977 Saint John jail fire. Photos and illustrations of the aftermath reveal the heartbreak and bravery that accompanied these life-altering catastrophes. Now in a new size.
- [Big Book of Lexicon Vol 1, 2, 3](https://nimbus.ca/store/big-book-of-lexicon-vol-1,-2,-3.html): Theresa Williams's lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, lexicon puzzles engage and entertain fans of all ages. This edition brings back volumes 1, 2, and 3 and presents them as one large book for hours of fun!
- [Mary Morrison's Cape Breton Christmas](https://nimbus.ca/store/mary-morrisons-cape-breton-christmas.html): The Halifax Chronicle-Herald calls award-winning comedian Bette MacDonald “a superlative actress, a polished ad libber…making the audience howl with delight by a lift of her eyebrows, a shift of elbow or a single word.” For years, Bette has delighted audiences with her irreverent and lovable Cape Breton character Mary Morrison. Now Mary is here to entertain readers with her stories and memories of the Christmas season. Mary Morrison’s Cape Breton Christmas is a treasury of all things holiday, including Mary’s advice for coping with family, gift-giving dos and don’ts, and her favourite seasonal recipes. A hilarious and colourful collection of Cape Breton Christmas humour brought to life with over 25 photographs.
- [What I Learned About Politics Inside the Rise-and Collapse-of Nova Scotia's NDP Government](https://nimbus.ca/store/what-i-learned-about-politics.html): On October 8, 2013, Nova Scotia's NDP government went down to a devastating election defeat. Premier Darrell Dexter lost his own seat, and the party held the dubious distinction of being the first one-term majority government in over 100 years. In this new memoir, former NDP finance minister and MLA Graham Steele tries to make sense of the election result and shares what he's learned from a fifteen-year career in provincial politics. In his trademark candid style, Steele pulls no punches in assessing what's right—and what’s often wrong—with our current political system. Includes an insert of colour photographs and a foreword from CBC Information Morning host Don Connolly.
- [Chloe Sparrow a novel](https://nimbus.ca/store/chloe-sparrow.html): Chloe Sparrow is a twenty-five-year-old TV producer with a hit show on her hands. The Single Guy is a popular new reality series, where dozens of women are trying to woo bachelor veterinarian Austin Hawke. As the filming gets underway, though, accident-prone Chloe finds herself in one predicament after another: a wayward puck hits her in the face during a hockey game, she sprains her ankle at a dude ranch, and she falls out of a boat at high speed. But Chloe has bigger problems. The stress of her home life with her nutty but loveable Gramps and Aunt Ollie is getting to her, her job is consuming her, and painful memories from her past threaten to overwhelm her. To top it off, her co-worker Amanda is pressuring her to find a boyfriend. It doesn't take long before Chloe realizes that not having all her wishes come true might not be such a bad idea.
- [Father's Message in a Bottle](https://nimbus.ca/store/fathers-message-in-a-bottle.html): The responsibility of a father is to be active and present with his children and partner, constantly finding ways to connect and reconnect so his kids know that he loves them and will be there for them, no matter what. Father's Message in a Bottle is an inspirational collection of over 60 letters from fathers around the world to the people they love.
- [Animal Signatures (2nd edition)](https://nimbus.ca/store/animal-signatures-2nd-edition.html): Animal Signatures is a handy field guide that teaches one how to recognize and interpret animal signs — the tracks, droppings and nibbled twigs that animals leave behind.
- [Le Quai 21](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-quai-21.html): For years, Pier 21 in Halifax served as the front door to Canada, the entryway through which more than a million immigrants passed. The radical transition they experienced produced a rich group of stories, presented here in French for the first time. Le Quai 21: La porte d’entrée qui a changé le Canada captures the hope and trepidation of these strangers in a new land. Le Quai 21 is a moving account of the human drama that unfolded at this historic site. Includes over fifty images of staff, volunteers, soldiers, children, war brides, refugees, and immigrants who were a part of the Pier 21 story. New French edition.
- [In the Company of Animals Stories of Extraordinary Encounters](https://nimbus.ca/store/in-the-company-of-animals.html): Animals fascinate us humans, and we relate to them in a variety of ways. Whether we view them as companions, as workmates, as symbols, as totems, or as food, animals matter to us, and we want to tell their stories. In this collection, 38 writers from across Canada tell thought-provoking stories of extraordinary encounters with animals. From tributes to a favourite cat or dog to tales of a chance encounter with a moose or a cougar, the writers cover a wide range of encounters with a wide variety of animals—from rats and salamanders to wolves and bears. These writers are people who pay attention to animals, their natures and personalities and what they can teach us, and they ask us to pay attention too. In the Company of Animals features contributions from well-known Canadian authors including David Weale, Linda Olson, David Adams Richards, Richard Wagamese, and Farley Mowat, as well as many new and promising voices.
- [Wildflowers of the Maritimes A Guide to Identifying 150 of the Region's Wild Plants](https://nimbus.ca/store/wildflowers-of-the-maritimes.html): Identification is the first major step towards a greater appreciation and understanding of our natural environment. Wildflowers of the Maritimes was written to meet the needs of hikers, students, amateur naturalists, resource professionals, or anyone looking for an affordable, compact, easy-to-follow guide to take with them into the field. Discover the wide array of wildflowers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island with detailed photographs, drawings, and profile descriptions that include information on a plant's origins, leaves, flowers, fruits, frequency, habitat, and range. Naturalist Edmund Redfield profiles 150 species of wildflowers from 53 plant families in an organized and easily accessible way. Includes over 350 colour photographs and black and white illustrations.
- [Girl on the Run](https://nimbus.ca/store/girl-on-the-run.html): When seventeen-year-old track and field star Jesse Collins's dreams of a full scholarship are shattered after the sudden death of her dad, she leaves home to work as a summer camp counsellor to escape the nosy stares in small town...and her own secret guilt. After a mix-up at registration, she's put in charge of a boys' cabin, and the head counsellor, Kirk, predicts she won't last the first two weeks. In the midst of fending off four twelve-year-old boys who are hell-bent on mortifying her and a growing attraction to Kirk, Jesse finds the inspiration to run again from an unlikely source. After all, a good pair of legs can take a girl far, but it's facing the truth that makes all the difference.
- [Duffy Stardom to Senate to Scandal](https://nimbus.ca/store/duffy-1.html): Mike Duffy made his name as a political reporter, and in the process became one of Prince Edward Island’s most famous exports. He cast himself as the ultimate insider, Parliament Hill’s man in the know. It made him a household name and one of the Canada’s best-paid journalists. But Duffy wanted to get even closer and lobbied his way into the Canadian Senate, with dire results. Veteran journalist Dan Leger tells the story of Duffy’s rise to the top in Canadian media, his entanglement with the Harper Conservatives, and the scandal that made him one of the most controversial figures in contemporary politics. Includes a foreword by CBC’s Peter Mansbridge and an eight-page colour photo insert.
- [Joy of Ginger 2nd edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/joy-of-ginger-2nd-edition.html): Slice, smash, chop, grate, and juice it: the addition of fresh ginger to any recipe is guaranteed to send your taste buds into overdrive. Long used in its powered form in Maritime kitchens, fresh ginger –for centuries valued as a preservative and digestive aid –transforms the ordinary into the exotic. And in these health-conscious times, it adds few calories and little fat but packs a powerful zing that will keep you coming back for more. The Joy of Ginger, with over 150 tantalizing recipes, will have you using the gnarly rhizome in sauces and preserves, stir-frys and salads, and combining it with tofu, lentil, and noodles. Make mouth-watering appetizers like Smoked Salmon Ginger Butter Canapés, healthy and flavourful Ginger and Sweet Potato Soup, and a Real Ginger Beer. The added zip of ginger will have you once again relishing gingerbread, that classic comfort food, while your dinner guests will beg for Ginger Cheesecake, Truffled Ginger, Ginger Ice Cream and Apple, Ginger and Mint Sorbet. With this cookbook and a “hand” of ginger, the taste bud-tingling possibilities are endless!
- [Seashore Life of Eastern Canada A Guide to Identifying Intertidal Marine Species](https://nimbus.ca/store/seashore-life-of-eastern-canada.html): A field guide to over 80 of the most common species—including shells, crabs, seaweed, anemones, sea stars, and urchins—found in the Eastern Canadian intertidal zone. Seashore Life of Eastern Canada provides plenty of information for beachcombers to use as they explore the ocean shore. Each writeup includes an introduction that defines the intertidal zone where the species can be found and provides information about its habitat and appearance. Easy-to-use symbols and detailed colour photographs make identification a breeze.
- [Sinking Deeper Or, My Questionable(Possibly Heroic) Decision to Invent a Sea Monster](https://nimbus.ca/store/sinking-deeper-2.html): The tiny fishing community of Deeper Harbour is in serious trouble, and so is fourteen-year-old Roland MacTavish. His parents are separated, and his mother has just told him that she's moving to Ottawa and taking him with her. She doesn't think Deeper Harbour, with its closing school and dismal economic future, has anything to offer her and Roland anymore. But Roland disagrees. He loves his father, his weird friend Dulsie, and most of all, his wild, hilarious, unpredictable grandfather, Angus. So with the help of his friends, he does what any rational teenager would do: he invents a sea monster. News of the monster spreads, until real live tourists start to turn off the new highway and visit Deeper Harbour, giving everyone hope that the town may actually be resuscitated. But before he can celebrate his successes, Roland faces a sadness that goes far beyond separated parents and new cities, and finally discovers that change, however frightening, is not the most painful thing in the world.
- [New Brunswick: An Illustrated History](https://nimbus.ca/store/new-brunswick-an-illustrated-history.html): Originally the land of the Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, and Passamaquoddy, New Brunswick has a colourful and significant history. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the province was settled by marsh workers and farmers from northwestern France and thousands of Loyalist refugees from a newly independent United States. After a golden age of lumbering, shipbuilding, and overseas trade in the nineteenth century, its economy declined and adjustment to the new continental economy was slow and trying. In the 1960s, premier Louis Robichaud’s Equal Opportunity program granted French-speaking Acadians, long second-class citizens in the province, cultural recognition. Today, New Brunswick remains the only officially bilingual province in Canada. A lively narrative drawn entirely from published sources, New Brunswick: An Illustrated History is for general readers interested in the development of the province. Over one hundred historical photographs document this changing province, from its beginnings to present day.
- [Quai 21: Écoutez mon histoire](https://nimbus.ca/store/quai-21-ecoutez-mon-histoire.html): Découvrez des moments parmi les plus marquants de l’histoire du Canada en apprenant à connaître les enfants et les familles débarqués au Quai 21 de Halifax. Venus de pays lointains tels l’Estonie, l’Italie et l’Ukraine (pour n’en nommer que quelques-uns), ces immigrants ont tous franchi les « ports de la liberté » pour faire du Canada leur nouvelle patrie. Jamie, un « enfant invité » originaire d’Ecosse et Mariette, une petite orpheline juive, ont tous deux été envoyés au Canada à un jeune âge afin d’échapper à la même guerre. La famille de Heili, in jeune Estonienne, a fui le régime communiste russe en prenant la mer à bord du Walnut. La famille de Luigi est venue d’Italie chercher du travail au Canada après la guerre et la famille de Maryke est arrivée de Hollande à la rechercher de terres à cultiver. Aujourd’hui connu sous le nom de Mussée canadien de l’immigration, le Quai 21 a accueilli plus d’un million de nouveaux Canadiens, de 1928 à 1971. Beaucoup d’entre eux craignaient ce que leur réservait leur pays d’adoption. Cependant, toutes ces familles, même si elles étaient de cultures et d’origines différentes, ont cru à promesse d’un vie meilleure et plus sûre que leur offrait le Canada. En débarquant au pays, les immigrants échappaient au passé, emportant dans leur cœur de précieux souvenirs de leur lieu d’origine. Le Quai 21 représentait le premier pas vers une nouvelle vie.
- [The Strangers' Gallery](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-strangers-gallery.html): St. John's archivist Michael Lowe's life is turned on its head when a Dutch acquaintance, Anton Aalders, arrives on his doorstep in 1995. Anton is searching for a father he never met, ostensibly a Newfoundland soldier who was part of the Allied forces that liberated the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War. Anton's visit stretches from a few days to a few months, reluctant as he is to go in search of his father, and keen to learn as much as he can about Newfoundland, its history, and its people. Rabble-rouser and ardent Newfoundland patriot Brendan "Miles" Harnett, Michael's friend and sometime bugbear, is obsessed with his own search for the lost "fatherland" of Newfoundland, which relinquished its political independence in 1934. Miles is only too eager to teach Anton—and Michael—the shameful, forgotten history (as he sees it) of the lost country of Newfoundland. The Strangers' Gallery is a finely crafted, at times humorous, novel about the painful search for identity—both political and personal.
- [Music is for Everyone](https://nimbus.ca/store/music-is-for-everyone-2.html): Music is for Everyone is sure to get you excited about making music! Singer-songwriter Jill Barber takes her young readers through many different kinds of music—hip hop, jazz, classical, folk—and instruments in an energetic, rhyming tour. Sydney Smith’s gleeful illustrations capture all the joy that comes from making music—in all its forms!
- [Here Babies, There Babies](https://nimbus.ca/store/here-babies-there-babies.html): This delightful board book for babies follows baby on a typical day: Babies at the park, at the store, and at the library. Babies having their naps. Babies being busy! Vivid, colourful artwork complements the bold, rhythmic text. For babies up to age 2.
- [Keeping Things Whole](https://nimbus.ca/store/keeping-things-whole.html): It’s 1998 and Antony Williams is about to meet his match. A native of Windsor, Ontario, Antony is the child of a demanding single mother and an absconding Vietnam War resister who got too used to leaving home, country, and family. With a keen eye on the hybrid Windsor-Detroit landscape, backhanded affection for his hometown, and a growing understanding of his own family’s place in its bootleg history, Antony makes his living as a house painter by day before catapulting loads of Canadian weed across the river to Detroit by night. Then he meets Kate Chan, a beautiful, street-smart law student, who calls his bluff and picks apart his personal mythology. Ultimately she presents him with his own hard choice and forces him to realize he’s been smuggling much more than he knows. Keeping Things Whole recounts the arc of their relationship and is cut with Antony’s entertaining manifestoes on marijuana, legality, art, theatre, sex, money, and lineage. With this, his second novel, Darryl Whetter gives us a maddeningly cocky but introspective hero, and his frank, nuanced portrait of a border city and its underground history.
- [Woodchips and Beans (new edition) Life in the Early Lumber Woods of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/woodchips-and-beans-new-edition-life-in-the-early-lumber-woods-of-nova-scotia.html): Lumbering in Nova Scotia has a long and storied history, dating back nearly for centuries. A rich resource and lose to world markets, lumbering has played an important role in the development of the province, employing thousands of men and woman over the years.This oral history, covering a 30-year period from the 1920s to the 1940s, captures the personal experiences of those choppers, scalers, swayers, yarders, mill hands and cooks who were part of this rugged experience.
- [I'm Movin' On The Life and Legacy of Hank Snow](https://nimbus.ca/store/im-movin-on.html): Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. In I'm Movin' On, journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow's hardscrabble life, from his destitute childhood in Queens County to international fame. Leaving no stone unturned in his richly detailed profile of The Singing Ranger, Oickle exposes the highs and lows of Snow's career, and his journey ("Everywhere, man") from small East Coast radio stations to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Includes a foreword from Hank's son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, a timeline, discography, and 75 photographs.
- [Évangéline Récits pour jeunes lecteurs](https://nimbus.ca/store/evangeline-recits-pour-jeunes-lecteurs.html): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem, Evangeline, tells the story of two young people deported from beautiful Acadie just before they are to be married—and their search for each other that lasts the rest of their lives. First published in 1847, the poem has been important to Acadian identity ever since.In Évangéline: Récits pour jeunes lecteurs, the tragic story of Evangeline and Gabriel’s Deportation is recounted to a new generation. In simple prose true to Longfellow’s poem, Hélène Boudreau describes the utopian village of Grand-Pré where Evangeline grows up, the traumatizing Deportation, and Evangeline’s relentless search across America for her true love. Patsy MacKinnon’s stunning illustrations bring the story to life in full colour.Évangéline: Récits pour jeunes lecteurs is a vital, French-language interpretation for children of Longfellow’s classic.
- [The Long Wait](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-long-wait.html): Deidre did not have a sleek and velvet coat. She did not have a lean and graceful body. She did not walk like a queen with her head in the air. But to the Wilsons, Deidre was a very special cat. Whenever they came home, she was always there, waiting on the braided mat in the front hall. Then, one year a terrible thing happened.
- [Louisbourg](https://nimbus.ca/store/louisbourg.html): Now a national historic site, the fortified military settlement of Louisbourg was once a colonial jewel desired by both the French and English monarchies, traded with yet feared by the Anglo-Americans, and highly regarded by the Mi’kmaq. Home to Canada’s first lighthouse, Louisbourg became the capital of Île-Royale (Cape Breton Island) in 1720, and was an economically viable fishery, military stronghold, and strategic naval base for centuries. In the newest addition to the Stories of our Past series, Louisbourg: Past, Present, and Future, historian A. J. B. Johnston explores the complex past of the Nova Scotian landmark in an accessible and animated format. Featuring over 50 images, including maps, archaeological excavations, and artistic renderings, Louisbourg illustrates a significant period in Nova Scotia history.
- [It's Not Just a Game My Journey From the Streets to Professional Basketball](https://nimbus.ca/store/its-not-just-a-game.html): "Where I am today all started from the bottom. I want to tell the story of my journey from there to here."Refusing to become a victim of his circumstances, Eric Crookshank went from a child counting his father's drug money to a university graduate with a degree in business administration; from a benched teenager with dreams of conquering the basketball court to the captain of the National Basketball League of Canada's Halifax Rainmen.Eric Crookshank has become a role model to a new generation of basketball players, both on and off the court. In this powerful story, Crookshank invites us to experience the highs and lows of his life so far as he overcomes adversity and grows into a leader.
- [Lasso the Wind Aurelia's Verses and other Poems](https://nimbus.ca/store/lasso-the-wind.html): George Elliot Clarke started writing poems for his daughter the day she was born.Tooke, a three-time winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration, aprroached Clarke (Regarding their collaboration).For this 24-page hardcover book, she has created bold and graphic collaged images, ranging from a grim image of imprisoned families to a whimsical vision of a dragon at a picnic to endearing pictures of Aurealia as a baby.This book is aimed at kids aged seven to fourteen and the birthday poems end at age nine because they "have a particular sequential feel" says Clarke, a Windsor born, prize winningpoet laureate of Toronto and teaches Canadian literature at the University of Toronto
- [Weeds of the Woods (new edition)](https://nimbus.ca/store/weeds-of-the-woods-new-edition.html): This handy guide to wild trees and shrubs of eastern North America will assist readers in identifying individual species by leaf, bark, flower, and fruit. It includes insightful information on each plant's habitat, its importance in the larger ecosystem, and its ornamental and medicinal uses. The book uses colour photographs of the individual plants to help identify the various wild trees and shrubs. Blouin gives both the scientific names for the individual plants and their popular variations in English, French, Mi'kmaq, and Maliseet.
- [Waterfalls (new edition) Nova Scotia's Masterpieces](https://nimbus.ca/store/waterfalls-new-edition.html): Waterfalls: Nova Scotia’s Masterpieces presents striking photographs from forty-two of the province’s most spectacular and inspirational falls. Driving directions and detailed descriptions of the access points and surrounding trails allow any nature lover to successfully appreciate these masterful gifts of wildness.
- [Halifax Harbour 123 (BB)](https://nimbus.ca/store/halifax-harbour-123-bb.html): Halifax’s busy and beautiful harbour is on display in this new counting book from bestselling illustrator Yolanda Poplawska. Young readers can search out one lighthouse, two bridges, three ferries—all the way up to ten! With tugboats, container ships, starfish, and dolphins on display in Yolanda’s bright and whimsical paintings, readers of all ages will be happy to pore over Halifax Harbour 123 again and again.
- [Lis-moi un livre ! Un guide mensuel de lecture avec votre bebe pendant sa premiere annee](https://nimbus.ca/store/lis-moi-un-livre-un-guide-mensuel-de-lecture-avec-votre-bebe-pendant-sa-premiere-annee.html): Lis-moi un livre! Un guide mensuel de lecture avec votre bébé pendant sa première année.
- [Twenty-First Century Irvings (Revised)](https://nimbus.ca/store/twenty-first-century-irvings-revised.html): Three generations after the Irving family arrived in Canada from Scotland, the name K. C. Irving hit the Forbes top billionaires list, making K. C. one of the richest men in the world and the most powerful businessperson in Canada. But there is much more to the Irving story than the fascinating and brilliant K. C. and his immediate legacy. Twenty-first Century Irvings takes a careful look at both the family foundations upon which this empire was built and the dozen or more individuals who, in the twenty-first century, constitute the future of this important business family. A business story, a family story, and a Maritime story, Twenty-first Century Irvings is a book for anyone interested in or affected by the legendary Irvings of New Brunswick. This new edition includes an afterword from the author about recent developments in the Irving family business.
- [The First Violin The life and loss of the Titanic's violinist John Law Hume](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-first-violin.html): In Halifax's Fairview Cemetery lies the body of John Law Hume, first violinist of RMS Titanic. As the ship sank that tragic night in April 1912, legend has it that the band played on right to the very end. The First Violin tells the story of the construction and sinking of the great ocean liner on her maiden voyage and also recounts the fascinating life and loss of the ship's violinist John Law Hume. Written by Hume's great-niece, Yvonne Hume, the book traces the first violinist's early years in Dumfries, Scotland, the events that led him to play on board the Titanic, and the doomed voyage across the Atlantic. The book also recounts the chaotic aftermath, with the recovery of bodies and the eventually identification in the Halifax graveyard of body No. 193: John Law Hume. This illustrated edition includes over 100 photos, diagrams, and letters documenting the tragic story, and includes a short foreword by Millvina Dean, Titanic's last survivor.
- [Baby Look](https://nimbus.ca/store/baby-look.html): Baby Look is an accordion-style book that can be unfolded to entertain your baby during tummy time. Babies love to look at baby faces and this book is dual-sided, featuring beautiful photos of babies on each side. Younger babies will love the close-up baby faces on one side, while older babies will enjoy the words and actions on the back of the book. This is the perfect board book for new parents, baby programs, and baby shower gifts. Baby Look is the second book in the "Baby Steps" series. Each book in this series focusses on a key developmental stage in baby's first year. More information for parents on tummy time is available through the web link provided on the book's back cover.
- [Kin](https://nimbus.ca/store/kin.html): Traditions, created, and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wild beauty of Cape Breton Island. And above all, kin, in all its convoluted forms. In Kin, bestselling author Lesley Crewe traces the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations of families. Beginning with Annie Macdonald, an effervescent seven-year-old living in Glace Bay in the 1930s, and ending with Annie's great-niece Hilary, an idealistic twenty-year-old in Round Island in 2000, the story is complex and riveting. The cast of characters is vast and varied-some with the island's deliciously cutting wit, some dour and uptight, some frail, some resilient, and all inextricably bound by their shared histories. Brimming with humour and poignancy, Kin is a celebration of the heartbreaking, maddening joy that is family.
- [Historic Saint John Streets](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-saint-john-streets.html): Neither the Crow’s Nest tavern nor the boundary between Saint John East and West exist today, but Crow’s Nest Lane and City Line still do. In this pioneering excavation of the largest city in New Brunswick, authors David Goss (Only in New Brunswick) and Harold E. Wright (East Saint John) illuminate many of the stories inspired by and responsible for the curious collection of street names in Saint John, New Brunswick, past and present. Culled from interviews with current and former residents, archival and original research, and a dash of local lore, Historic Saint John Streets is both a historians’ reference and readers’ miscellany. Featuring an ambitious sampling of over 100 roads and archival images, representative streetscapes run the gamut from secret shortcuts, to back roads, to main throughways, and offer a valuable new perspective of the historically rich Maritime city.
- [Chowders and Soups](https://nimbus.ca/store/chowders-and-soups.html): Soups can comfort you when you're sick, tickle your taste buds at the start of a meal, and envelop you with warmth on a winter's day. Soup can be simple and rustic, or elegant and complex. And each culture's cuisine has a soup that is instantly identifiable. In the Maritimes, that soup is chowder. Chowders and Soups is a collection of over 50 recipes accompanied by appetizing colour photos. The book includes recipes for classic seafood chowder, but also lobster, shrimp, crab, and clam versions. Fabulous soup recipes like roast garlic and potato, cream of asparagus and fiddlehead, and even strawberry and cracked black pepper are sure to delight those looking to prepare something unique. Includes an appendix of common soup stocks and an ingredient index.
- [Gus the Tortoise Takes a Walk](https://nimbus.ca/store/gus-the-tortoise-takes-a-walk.html): It’s a busy day at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax. Gus the Tortoise is getting his new home, and while the curator is away, Elliot is in charge of moving all the boxes in and out of the museum to set up Gus’s home. But Elliot makes a big mistake, and the box with Gus in it gets left outside long enough for Gus to wander away! He strolls up and down Spring Garden Road, taking in all the exciting Halifax sights, while Elliot frantically searches for him. Finally Gus ends up in a quiet, shady corner of the Public Gardens, just right for a tortoise. Elliot goes to the Public Gardens to make a wish in a fountain that he will find Gus—and it comes true! He brings him back to his comfortable new home in the museum and Gus settles in for a long sleep after his big adventure. Based on true events, when Gus really did “run” away from the museum!
- [Driftwood Dragons](https://nimbus.ca/store/driftwood-dragons.html): There are all kinds of fish, but there's only one you.
- [Historic New Glasgow, Stellarton, Westville and Trenton An Illustrated History of New Glasgow and area](https://nimbus.ca/store/historic-new-glasgow-stellarton-westville-and-trenton.html): Well known for its mining and manufacturing activities, New Glasgow, Stellarton, Westville, and Trenton, share a fascinating history. First settled by the Mi’kmaq and Acadians, and later by a large influx of Scots, the area became an important hub supported by coal and steel industries that attracted people from all walks of life. Author Monica Graham outlines the towns’ coal and steel industries, their businesses and institutions, and their best-known people and landmarks. With over 180 historical black and white images from the 1870s to 1940s, Historic New Glasgow, Stellarton, Westville, and Trenton is an excellent addition to the Images of Our Past series.
- [Halifax and Titanic](https://nimbus.ca/store/halifax-and-titanic.html): The story of Titanic’s tragic sinking on April 15, 1912, has been told countless times in films and books, inscribing it into popular culture as perhaps the best-known disaster of all-time. When Titanic went down off the coast of Newfoundland, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was the base from which recovery operations were mounted. Eventually, 337 bodies were recovered, the majority of them by ships dispatched from Halifax. Of this total, 128 were buried at sea and 209 were delivered to Halifax—150 of those buried in three Halifax cemeteries. They remain there to this day, the largest number of Titanic graves in the world, cared for in perpetuity by the city and visited by thousands of people each year. On the one-hundredth anniversary of Titanic’s sinking, author John Boileau examines the relationship between the city and the unprecedented tragedy. This illustrated history includes over 100 historical photographs of the people and places involved in Halifax’s sombre recovery effort.
- [Taste of Nova Scotia Cookbook](https://nimbus.ca/store/taste-of-nova-scotia-cookbook.html): A bestseller that blends the rich tradition of "down-home" cooking with modern and innovative ideas for delicious eating. The best crowd-pleasing recipes from popular inns, restaurants, and home kitchens all around Nova Scotia are collected in this unique cookbook. Blending the rich tradition of "down home" cooking with modern and innovative ideas, The Taste of Nova Scotia Cookbook provides mouth-watering recipes for every inclination. The recipes make use of ingredients for which Nova Scotia is known--from seafood and lamb to apples, blueberries, pumpkins, and maple syrup. Drawing on the many heritages that make up; the province, from Scottish, Acadian, and Mi'kmaq to Italian, Irish, and German, this cookbook truly reveals the taste of Nova Scotia. Taste of Nova Scotia is a province-wide restaurant program whose members are committed to serving their customers the very best of Nova Scotia's fine harvests of both the land and sea.
- [Taste of the Maritimes](https://nimbus.ca/store/taste-of-the-maritimes.html): Contemporary Maritime cuisine reflects both a rich history of seasonal home-cooking with fresh, local ingredients as well as modern flavour influences from around the world. A Taste of the Maritimes is a collection of vibrant new recipes that showcase the best on offer from our fields, orchards, and waters throughout the year. Author Elisabeth Bailey illuminates the joys of local, seasonal eating, presenting each recipe in a casual yet cordial style, with photographs that capture the essence of local flavour. Broken into five chapters--spring, early and late summer, fall, and winter--the book's easy-to-follow recipes are interspersed with profiles of local farmers and suppliers including Fox Hill Cheese, Ironworks Distillery, and Speerville Flour Mill. With recipes such as Fiddleheads and Bacon in spring, Balsamic Honey Fruit Salad and Inside-Out Dragn Burgers in summer, Heritage Bean Chili in fall, and Slow-Roasted Turkey in Juniper Brine for the holidays, A Taste of the Maritimes celebrates the seasons in delectable style.
- [Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada](https://nimbus.ca/store/eco-innovators-sustainability-in-atlantic-canada.html): Eco-Innovators profiles some of the region's most innovative and forward-thinking leaders in sustainability. These entrepreneurs and educators, activists and agitators, farmers and fishers have all made measurable contributions both in their respective fields of interest and in motivating others to make change. In the book, we meet Kim Thompson, a strawbale builder and consultant, who has recently brought her building experience to a renovation of an older house in downtown Halifax. Then there's Edwin Theriault, who bought a bale of clothing back in 1971 and launched Frenchy's, a chain of seventy-six used-clothing stores that has become an East Coast institution. Edwin doesn't consider himself an environmentalist at all, but over the years his business has kept countless tonnes of material out of landfills. Also profiled are Speerville Flour Mill and Olivier Soaps in New Brunswick, Sean Gallagher of Local Source in Halifax, David and Edith Ling of Fair Acre Farm on PEI, and Jim Meaney of Cansolair solar heat air exchangers in Newfoundland, among many others. With ten chapters on matters like reducing consumption, greening the home, sustainable eating, dressing, transportation, and vacationing, the book is an important look into the lives of Atlantic Canadians committed to creating viable green options in our region.
- [You Could Believe in Nothing](https://nimbus.ca/store/you-could-believe-in-nothing.html): Jamie Fitzpatrick's debut novel tells of a muddled adulthood in St. John's, Newfoundland. Derek is forty-one years old. His girlfriend has just left him for a job in Ottawa, his father, a DJ at the local classic rock station, is about to go to court, and his rec hockey team is up in arms about a TV reporter's attempts to glorify their weekly games. When Derek's half-brother, Curtis, comes home, the visit stirs up nagging questions about their parents' early days, and Derek examines again what it means to make commitments that may or may not bring real happiness. Fitzpatrick captures the subtleties of casual conversation and the often understated wit that emerges between old friends. Having grown up after the decline of whatever might have been the real Newfoundland, Derek and his teammates are generally at a loss to defend the urban, mostly wayward lives the occupy. Set into a wet spring in St. John's, its rinks, streets, and landmarks, and the sunken map of old haunts and years gone by, You Could Believe in Nothing is a study in familiarity and self-definition, underlining how little we sometimes know about ourselves and the people we know best.
- [Ava Comes Home](https://nimbus.ca/store/ava-comes-home.html): From the author of Relative Happiness and Shoot Me comes a riveting story about one terrible secret—a secret kept in shame, buried deep for self-preservation, and exposed in a moment that changes forever the lives of everyone involved. Ava Harris is a famous actress living the life of the rich and fabulous in L.A. when a family crisis calls her home. It's been ten years since she's set foot in Glace Bay, Cape Breton—back when she was plain old Libby MacKinnon. Why she ran away, no one knows. Returning home, she must face her family, her friends, and her first love, Seamus O'Reilly, whose heart broke the day she left. Ava is a good little actress, determined that no one will know what happened. She will keep the truth buried at all costs—even if she has to run again. But secrets have a way of surfacing, especially in a small town, and love has a way of blasting through the toughest barriers. While Ava can never go home again, perhaps Libby finally can.
- [Lifetime of Rug Hooking](https://nimbus.ca/store/lifetime-of-rug-hooking.html): Canada's East Coast has a unique craft heritage that has seen generations hooking rugs during the long winter evenings. Hooked mats and rugs were originally intented as functional pieces--a place to wipe dirty feet at the back door, or a cover for drafty floors. But at some point aesthetics crept into this process, and those simple mats have evolved into the wonderful folk art rugs we see today. Nova Scotia's Doris Eaton has been hooking rugs for nearly 50 years and is one of the region's most well-known rug-hookers. A Lifetime of Rug-Hooking features over 80 of Doris's colourful and lively rugs and the inspiration and materials behind her art. Doris also shares some of her tried and true techniques, including her famous "Eaton Edge" for finishing a rug. With a foreword from fellow Nova Scotia rug-hooker and artist Deanne Fitzpatrick, A Lifetime of Rug-Hooking is a marvellous visual tour of the work of an influential East Coast folk artist.
- [Share and Care](https://nimbus.ca/store/share-and-care.html): Share and Care: The Story of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children is a microcosm of black Nova Scotia history. Founded nearly one hundred years ago to address the needs of neglected and unwanted children in the black community, the home has become a monument to the self-reliance and solidarity that has long defined black culture in Nova Scotia. With meticulous care, author Charles R. Saunders recreates the day-to-day life of the home and acquaints us with its devotees, the people who founded it, nurtured it, and found refuge in it. Behind the accounts, one senses the spirit of the struggles and challenges faced by the home’s supporters, determined people whose inner strength proved equal to the task of sharing and caring for each other. The text is generously illustrated with photographs and enriched by poetry—written especially for the book—of George Elliott Clarke.
- [le Goût des Îles 2 (pb)](https://nimbus.ca/store/le-gout-des-iles-2-pb.html): Du port de peche de Grande-Entrée aux rives du site historique de la Grave, les Îles de la Madeleine forment à la fois une destination touristique de grand charme et un archipel ou chefs et producteurs locaux se recontrent pour faire la fête aux saveurs.Dans ce deuxieme du Gout des Îles, les auteurs mettent l'accent sur le savoir-faire des artisans de la table des iles qui vous proposent ici une selection de leurs meilleurs recettes. Une vingtaine de chefs, aubergistes, producteurs et transformateurs des produits de la mer at de la terre ont genereusement participé a la preperation de cet ouvrage de reference en matiere de cuisine regionale. Le fruit de cette collaboration est illustré par une trame visuelle composée d'images inedites des photographes Pascal Arseneau et George Fischer.Un air de bord de mer, une cuisine authentique ou tradition culinaire et innovation se marient...une invitation a vous laisser seduire par le gout des îles!
- [Theodore Too & Excuse-Me Monster](https://nimbus.ca/store/theodore-too-excuse-me-monster.html): What's that splash in Halifax Harbour?Maybe it's not a monster after all, but a new friend for Guy Seagull, Theodore Too, and Lucy Tugin a splashy disguise!
- [Bud The Spud (BB)](https://nimbus.ca/store/bud-the-spud-bb.html): Here is Stompin' Tom Connors's famous and irresistible song about potatoes, in a sturdy board book edition perfect for young readers. Travel with Bud as he steers his rig down the highway with a load of "the best doggone potatoes that's ever been growed." A Canadian classic by a legendary folk hero.
- [Lighthouses and Lights of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/lighthouses-and-lights-of-nova-scotia.html): The move by the federal government in 1968 to auomate and de-staff Nova Scotia's lighthouses--those icons of the province's seafaring tradition--sent shockwaves through the community of lighthouse conservationists. Concerned that lighthouses would disappear form the landscape forever, author Rip Irwin, a retired naval cheif petty officer, undertook to visit and photograph each of the structures still in existence. This book is the result of 17 years of exhaustive research on the evolution of each light. In addition to photographs and detailed information on each of the province's lightstations, Lighthouses and Lights of Nova Scotia contains stories and anecdotes about specific lights and lighthouse keepers. It also contains an alphabetical listing of all 164 lighthouses and lights, and is cross-referenced with the Coast Guard numbering system. Lighthouses and Lights of Nova Scotia is the complete guide to the province's most recognized nautical icons.
- [Boldt Castle](https://nimbus.ca/store/boldt-castle.html): When prominent New York City hotelier George Boldt demonstrated his love for his wife, Louise, by building a magnificent chateau in the beautiful Thousand Islands, no expense was too great and no idea too grand. But when Louise died suddenly, George immediately brought construction to a halt. Broken-hearted, he never set foot on the island again, and the lonely castle was abandoned to time and the elements for over 70 years. In Boldt Castle: The Story of an Unfinished Dream, Anthony Mollica Jr. shares the fascinating details behind the crumbling castle that captured his imagination as a child, and describes the ambitious restoration project that has brought new life to the Boldts' island estate. George Fischer's stunning photographs capture the magnificence of Boldt Castle today, an enduring symbol of devotion that attracts thousands of visitors each year
- [Buildings of Old Lunenburg](https://nimbus.ca/store/buildings-of-old-lunenburg.html): With houses in close proximity to one another and narrow streets running parallel to the harbour, Lunenburg is one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century British colonial town planning. But the architecture itself has a flair and uniqueness that belie its early beginnings. Here, low-profile Cape Cods suggest a New England influence; stately Georgian-style homes share streetscapes with pointed dormers, the hallmark of Gothic revival, as well as with the ubiquitous and functional Lunenburg Bump, which serves as a storm porch and provides an elevated view of the harbour; fanciful turnof-thecentury homes--distinguished by large bay windows, elaborate mouldings, expansive verandahs, and corner turrets--overlook each other on hilly streets, while brightly coloured waterfront buildings speak of a long association with seafaring traditions. Indeed, it is Lunenburg's proximity to the sea--and the prosperity generated by shipbuilding and the fishery--that have shaped the character of its fine residences, public and commercial buildings, and have allowed the development of a unique regional architectural style that has made the town a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this collaboration, photographer Terry James and conservation planner Bill Plaskett present a visual and interpretive documentary on this extraordinary town that both records its essential architectural forms and captures the historic sweep of its measured and adaptive development.
- [The Town That Died](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-town-that-died.html): The Town That Died is a moving and detailed account of the greatest human-made explosion before Hiroshima, the terrible disaster known as the Halifax Explosion. It is the first documentary account, told from the personal experiences of survivors, to accurately chronicle the tragic events that led to the ill-fated collision between the Imo and the munitions-laden Mont Blanc in the harbour narrows and the dreadful consequences. Michael J. Bird's passion for truth, supported by his engaging literary style, makes The Town That Died a classic in the annals of human courage and suffering.
- [Favourite Recipes from Old New Brunswick Kitchens](https://nimbus.ca/store/favourite-recipes-from-old-new-brunswick-kitchens.html): Favourite Recipes from Old New Brunswick Kitchens features the province's traditional cuisine in a format accessible for the home cook of today. Included here are classic chowders and soups, delightful fish and chicken dishes, and tasty breads and desserts. A special section even features traditional Acadian dishes--including rapee pie and chicken fricot--and recipes popular among the province's many lumber camps. Stuart Trueman's often startling instructions for old cures and medications make this book a much-loved resource for both foodies and history lovers.
- [Lifetime of Rug-Hooking](https://nimbus.ca/store/lifetime-of-rug-hooking-2.html): Canada's East Coast has a unique craft heritage that has seen generations hooking rugs during the long winter evenings. Hooked mats and rugs were originally intended as functional pieces--a place to wipe dirty feet at the back door, or a cover for drafty floors. But at some point aesthetics crept into this process, and those simple mats have evolved int the wonderful folk art rugs we see today. Nova Scotia's Doris Eaton has been hooking rugs for nearly fifty years and is one of the region's most well-known rug-hookers. A Lifetime of Rug-Hooking features over eighty of Doris's colourful and lively rugs and the inspiration and materials behind her art. Doris also shares some of her tried and true techniques, including her famous "Eaton Edge" for finishing a rug. With a foreword from fellow Nova Scotia rug-hooker and artist Deanne Fitzpatrick, A Lifetime of Rug-Hooking is a marvellous visual tour of the work of an influential East Coast folk artist.
- [Kiss the Joy As It Flies](https://nimbus.ca/store/kiss-the-joy-as-it-flies.html): Shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour. A new smaller format of Fitch's critically acclaimed adult novel. Panic-stricken by the news that she needs exploratory surgery, forty-eight-year-old Mercy Beth Fanjoy drafts a monumental to-do list and sets about putting her messy life in order. But tidying up the edge of her life means the past comes rushing back to haunt her and the present keeps throwing up more to-dos. Between fits of weeping and laughter, ranting and bliss, Mercy must contemplate the meaning of life in the face of her own death. In a week filled with the riot of an entire life, nothing turns out the way she expected.
- [Rattled](https://nimbus.ca/store/rattled.html): It's just all so unfair. My ditzy sister is trying to get her claws into my future husband, plus, I'm pretty sure I'm living across the street from a murderer, and of course no one believes me. Could my life get any suckier? I didn't know it yet, but apparently it could. Fifteen-year-old Lydia, resigned to a boring summer in Halifax, is thrilled when Megan and her totally hot brother, Sam, move in across the street. But their rude and hostile mother, Mrs. Swicker, is strangely protective, and does everything she can to stop Lydia and her older sister, Jilly, from getting anywhere near her kids. One day Lydia accidentally stumbles across something very puzzling in the Swickers' basement. Determined to find some answers, Lydia enlists the help of Jilly. But the further they investigate, the more bizarre the discoveries. Lydia's suspicions about Mrs. Swicker are mounting, but she has no idea what a twisted, dangerous secret she has uncovered until it's too late.
- [Crosswords from Atlantic Canada Volume 2](https://nimbus.ca/store/crosswords-from-atlantic-canada-volume-2.html): These puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for all ages as they amuse and (occasionally) stump readers. With clues specific to the region, Crosswords from Atlantic Canada Volume II will challenge your knowledge of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, not to mention current events and popular culture. This second volume includes new topics not covered in the first and all-new clues.
- [Animal Talk Remarkable Connections between Animals and the People Who Love Them](https://nimbus.ca/store/animal-talk.html): A police dog helps take down criminals and searches for lost children. A cat defies odds and distance to be reunited with its family. A lion cub blissfully shares a kitchen with a family and a few pugs. These true stories and more are collected in this inspiring book by Joyce Grant-Smith. These tales show us the breadth and width of an animal's ability to communicate with each other, and us with them. Primarily rooted in the Maritimes, each story shows a very different example of how a pet can influence events around them, including an eye-opening account of the growing field of Annimal Communications--people who learn to interpret and respect what these critters are trying to tell us, and who help other people communicate as well. There are 18 stories in total, and each is written in a heartwarming style reminiscent of the Chicken Soup for the Soup series, and will be a pleasant and uplfting read for all ages.
- [Witchcraft](https://nimbus.ca/store/witchcraft.html): Witchcraft. The subject evokes curiosity, fascination, and sometimes, abhorrence. In the Maritimes, a region with a rich tradition of storytelling, accounts of witchcraft are abundant. In Witchcraft, folklorist Clary Croft explores the many examples of witchcraft identified in the Maritimes and explains their cultural origins—Scottish, Mi'kmaq, Acadian, German, among others. He finds example of spells, charms, and superstitions involving everything from animal horns and blood to salt and milk. Croft also traces witchcraft's more official history from the Maritimes' first witch trial in 1684—the trial of Jean Campagna—followed by others throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. A thoroughly researched history of an often-misunderstood practice, Witchcraft is a rich source of Maritime folklore.
- [Atlantic Canadian Christmas Reader](https://nimbus.ca/store/atlantic-canadian-christmas-reader.html): An Atlantic Canadian Christmas Reader brings together twenty-nine wonderful stories that illustrate some of the region's unique and time-honoured holiday traditions,from fictional accounts of contemporary family gatherings and feasts to nineteenth-century tales of Christmas at sea. Others describe more modest celebrations, from times when food and money were scarce, and during war years when the only bounty to be found was in the true spirit of the season. With work by well-known regional storytellers like Helen Creighton, Evelyn Richardson, David Weale, Clary Croft, and Bruce Nunn, and an introduction by Cape Breton novelist Lesley Crewe, An Atlantic Canadian Christmas Readeris the perfect way to add a little Christmas cheer to your bookshelf.
- [Sidney Crosby, 3rd edition The Story of a Champion](https://nimbus.ca/store/sidney-crosby-3rd-edition.html): Sidney Crosby: The Story of a Champion follows the young phenom through his early years in minor hockey, his dominating run through the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, his record-breaking play with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and his spectacular contributions to Team Canada at international competitions.
- [Eagle of the Sea](https://nimbus.ca/store/eagle-of-the-sea.html): Powerful and fast, bald eagles are some of the most majestic birds in the world. They can spot their prey from two kilometres away, build a larger nest than any other North American bird, and dive at speeds up to 160 kilometres an hour! And in eastern Canada, bald eagles are thriving. Learn about these amazing birds—their habitat, hunting skills, nesting habits, and more—in Eagle of the Sea. With vibrant, detailed illustrations and accessible text, Eagle of the Sea is both educational and awe-inspiring.
- [Quilts of Prince Edward Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/quilts-of-prince-edward-island.html): Thoroughly researched and beautifully presented, this book documents the story of quilt making on Prince Edward Island. In September 1991, Sherrie Davidson began the Heirloom Quilt Survey on PEI. Her goal was to document and preserve the rich island history of quilt making from its beginning in the 1700s to 1970. After almost twenty years, this book, Quilts of Prince Edward Island, is the result In her quest, Davidson visited over one hundred island homes, each containing memories, often very personal, of family life on PEI through the years. Quilts of Prince Edward Island offers examples of every aspect of island quiltmaking and also documents the story of island quilt making over the past three centuries.
- [Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor](https://nimbus.ca/store/memoirs-of-a-cape-breton-doctor.html): Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan had no idea of the life that awaited him when he began his medical practice in Baddeck, Cape Breton, in 1928. At that time it was more common for doctors to travel to their patients. As a result, navigating the rural landscape was often more difficult for these doctors than providing diagnoses. In Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor, MacMillan relates over forty years of his memories and experiences as a travelling physician with warmth, wit, and a genuine love for the life he lived. He shares stories about his patients, his family, the beloved horses that carried him from home to home, the Maritimes' fickle weather, and the people that helped him through it. The stories span over a century, and highlight MacMillan's own experiences as well as the recollections of the people he cared for until his retirement from medical practice. Entertaining and heartwarming, Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor is a classic of the genre.
- [Grow Organic A Simple Guide to Nova Scotia Vegetable Gardening](https://nimbus.ca/store/grow-organic.html): Grow Organic deals with specifically Nova Scotian issues, giving advice about our growing season, which types of vegetables grow best here, and where to get local organic seeds. The book also contains a chapter of inspirational profiles of specific gardeners and farmers from around the province. The book is written in a friendly, straightforward manner, and is intended as a simple and accessible guide for people with a specific interest in organic vegetable gardening. It includes many illustrative photographs and recipes.
- [Prince Edward Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/prince-edward-island.html): In Prince Edward Island, Wayne Bartett and Anne MacKay take us on a spectacular photographic journey across Canada's smallest province. See the Island during all four seasons, atop the sand dunes at Greenwich, along the scenic Confederation Trail, past the winding coasts and rolling farmland, and onto the Island's famous sand beaches. Over 75 full-colour photographs reveal the rich colours of a distinctive landscape and the warmth of a proud people. Wayne and Anne have spent much of their lives capturing images of PEI, and this collection of photographs reflect their love of the island's natural beauty.
- [Les Îles de la Madeleine: Inoubliables](https://nimbus.ca/store/les-iles-de-la-madeleine-inoubliables.html): Formant un archipel lumineux ancré dans le Golfe du Saint-Laurent et baignant tout autant dans le soleil que dans la mer, les Îles de la Madeleine sont un veritable paradis pour les amants de la photo. Le réputé photographe George Fischer porte un regard nouveau sur ces paysages de bord de mer et nous montre la beauté sans pareille de cette destination: des vues à couper le soufflé, des maisonnettes aux couleurs vives, de charmantes façades et ce couple omniprésent que forment le ciel et la mer des Îles. Laissez-vous séduire par les saveurs et les couleurs présentées dans ce nouveau recueil d'images produites par l'un des photographes canadiens le plus renommés.
- [Unforgettable Atlantic Canada](https://nimbus.ca/store/unforgettable-atlantic-canada.html): A photographic guide to the 100 must-see destinations and events in Atlantic Canada. Organized by province for easy reference, Unforgettable Atlantic Canada is more than a travel guide. George Fischer's magnificent images showcase Atlantic Canada's vibrancy and beauty and Harvey Sawler's text provides a context and background for the one hundred destinations included here. Whether you're "from away" or live in the region, Unforgettable Atlantic Canada is an indispensible resource and a stunning portrait of a unique part of the world.
- [Sails of Fundy](https://nimbus.ca/store/sails-of-fundy.html): A native of Kentville, Nova Scotia, Stanley T. Spicer is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick, Acadia University and Springfield College. He was New Brunswick's first provincial Director of Physical Eduacation and Recreation from 1947 to 1966 before joining the federal Fitness and Amateur Sport Branch in Ottawa where he served until 1979. He was the first person from the Atlantic Provinces to receive the Honour Award of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Spicer is the author of numerous articles for Canadian and American publications and five previous books, including The Saga of the Mary Celeste.
- [Weska'qelmut Apje'juanu](https://nimbus.ca/store/weskaqelmut-apjejuanu.html): Weska'qelmut Apje'juanu is the Mi'kmaq language translation of Kisses Kisses Baby-O! Kisses Kisses Baby-O! is a story for newborns told from the point of view of a parent or caregiver, but with high interaction with baby's world and tuned to events in baby's day. Beloved Canadian children's author Sheree Fitch delivers what she's famous for: fun, intelligent, participatory text that is a joy to read. Using rhythm and onomatopoeia, Sheree's bubbly text begins with baby waking, and follows through eating, bathing, playing, and finally sleeping. Repetition, rhythm and active verbs create a lively story that can be read again and again. Heart-warming illustrations by HildaRose combine realism and a whimsical, artistic style, while paying close attention to the needs of newborn readers, including such elements as: stimulating visuals, patterns, baby faces, cultural diversity and interaction with others. And babies will drool over the small, easy to hold format! Translated from English by Bernie Francis.
- [Last Canadian Beer pb](https://nimbus.ca/store/last-canadian-beer-pb.html): Featuring important insights from the company's current executives and employees, Last Canadian Beer: The Moosehead Story is not only a fascinating company history, but also a candid look at how a small New Brunswick business remains competitive in a difficult global marketplace. While other Canadian beer brands long ago sold out to American and European interests, Moosehead has remained fiercely independent. Last Canadian Beer is the remarkable story of a time-honoured business, a complex family, and a beloved beer. Now available in softcover.
- [Hit & Mrs.](https://nimbus.ca/store/hit-mrs.html): Linda, Bette, Gemma, and Augusta are four lifelong friends who live in Montreal. This year they're all going to turn fifty, so they decide to take a trip to New York together (courtesy of Linda's philandering husband's Visa Platinum). But at the LaGuardia airport washroom, Bette accidentally switches bags with a young mother who's actually smuggling diamonds for the mob, and things start going terribly wrong. When they kill an aggressive cab driver with pepper spray, the four friends know this is not going to be the trip of shopping and Broadway shows they'd expected. A series of miscommunications and mishaps entangles the friends even further into the criminal underworld of New York. But out of all the bad luck (Linda's husband is staying at the same hotel as the friends, with his new girlfriend) and bad people (mobsters, drug addicts, and Linda's husband) emerge four fifty-year-old avengers of truth and justice. In the style of Crewe's Shoot Me, Hit and Mrs. is a wildly entertaining comedic romp.
- [Hero](https://nimbus.ca/store/hero.html): In a St. John's hospital in 1945, Elsa Evans keeps a furtive vigil over the deathbed of Abram Kean, the renowned sealing captain. Remembering her first husband and her two brothers killed in the trenches thirty years before, and another young friend, Noah, frozen on the ice during the sealing disaster of 1914, Elsa contemplates a hideous revenge. The shock of her own bitterness forces her to retrace part of her life which is interwoven with those of her former employers, Simon and Sarah Jenson. On the morning of July 1916, officer Lt. Simon Jenson, severely shell-shocked and demoralized after a year and a half in the trenches, fails in leadership, hanging behind his men as they march through into no-man's-land. When a figure emerges from the drifting smoke, he thrusts the blade of his bayonet forward not into the enemy but into the body of Charles Baxter, a comrade and the brother of his fiancée, Sarah. Surviving against the odds, and with his battlefield actions misinterpreted, Simon is feted as a hero. But when Simon returns from the war, Sarah finds him emotionally fragile and prone to violent rages- not even their young daughter Lucy can cheer him. Worse, their lives are soon overtaken by the shadow of blackmail, and Sarah and Elsa, Lucy's governess, are forced to reconsider everything they once believed about loyalty, valour, and responsibility.
- [Simon et el catapulte la périlleux aventure au parc](https://nimbus.ca/store/simon-et-el-catapulte-la-perilleux-aventure-au-parc.html): Simon et son audacieux compagnon, El Catapulte, sont pr'ts pour une avant-midi d'aventure extraplanétaire au parc. Ils ont pour mission de faire le tour de la galaxie en explorant tous les périls du terrain de jeux. La découverte d'un monde lointain est une t‚che dangereuse- particulièrement quand El Catapulte est de la partie! Heureusement, Simon est toujours là pour veiller à sa sécurité. Mais quand Simon et El Catapulte se retrouvent dans une situation si désespérée que m'me Simon ne peut les sauver, qui sera assez brave pour venir à leur secours?
- [À la découverte des Îles de la Madeleine](https://nimbus.ca/store/r-la-decouverte-des-iles-de-la-madeleine.html): French language version of the popular book Discovering the Magdalen Islands. Situated in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the striking natural beauty and predominantly francophone culture of Quebec's famous twelve-island archipelago is an explorer''s delight. Amid landscapes ranging from dlecate white sand dune to rugged red cliffs, all enveloped by salt air and marine breezes, one finds adventure, amusement, and amiable hospitality.
- [Two More Solitudes](https://nimbus.ca/store/two-more-solitudes.html): Sheldon Currie plumbs new depths in this novel inspired byHugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes. Ian MacDonald is searchingfor himself, for a career, for home, and for redemption. YetIan, a man with a talent for baseball, seems to find himselfin “the suicide squeeze” all too often as he runs from onewoman to another. Set in Nova Scotia and Quebec, Currie’snovel follows Ian’s quest through his encounters with a torchsingingnun, an old flame, and a woman who seeks more thanfriendship.As Ian struggles to find his place, for a time literally notknowing who he is, Currie guides readers through a journeyfull of eccentric but fully human characters, all trying tolive in worlds that do not always accommodate their dreamsand desires. Two More Solitudes resonates with the burdensof memory, disappointment, uncertainty, death – and mostparticularly with the pleasures and pains of life itself. At timesfunny and poignant, Two More Solitudes is also a rich andsubtle exploration of how Ian and those around him find theirway – in the world, with themselves, and with others.
- [Into the Deep Unknown](https://nimbus.ca/store/into-the-deep-unknown.html): Unspoiled woods and waters, abundant game and legendary guides were the cornerstones upon which early tourism was built in Nova Scotia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many entertaining and informative accounts were written by visiting sportsmen of that era; the most widely read and enduring is The Tent Dwellers, penned in 1908 by Albert Bigelow Paine in which the American humorist light-heartedly recounted a camping and fishing expedition through what today constitutes the “Toby” and “Keji.” A more recent work of wide popular appeal was published in 1990 by Mike Parker, whospent four years conducting extensive, groundbreaking research interviewing the last of the old-time woodsmenwhose reminiscences and tales formed the basis for Guides of the North Woods, a compilation of oral and writtenhistory documenting Nova Scotia’s guiding tradition.Into The Deep Unknown is both a stand-alone book and a companion to The Tent Dwellers and Guides of theNorth Woods. It continues Mike Parker’s ongoing quest to preserve our historical past and heritage. A richlyillustrated sporting journal, it interweaves the first-person account of a 1910 canoe “pilgrimage” through the Landof the Tent Dwellers with more than 424 vintage photographs and text.
- [The Gold of the Yukon Dawson City and the Klondike After the Gold Rush](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-gold-of-the-yukon.html): The Gold of the Yukon tells the story of the decline of Dawson City and the state of gold mining in the early 1960s; and The Moral Equivalent of War (The Working Centre) examines ways in which human energy is being directed to peaceful pursuits in development, highlighting the role of social and community entrepreneurs.
- [Shadowboxing The Rise and Fall of George Dixon](https://nimbus.ca/store/shadowboxing.html): George Dixon was the finest boxer of his generation and arguably among the finest boxers ever. His accomplishments in the ring were extraordinary: the first black boxing champion, the first Canadian boxing champion, the first boxing champion of multiple weight classes, and the first boxing champion to lose regain his title. He defended his title more than any other champion - then or since - and he reportedly fought in an unprecedented 800 bouts. Making these achievements more astonishing was the context within which these achievements were earned: George Dixon publically fought and beat hundreds of white boxers in an age when black men were routinely lynched for simply being black.Boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer once said of Dixon, “For his ounces and inches, there never was a lad his equal. Even in the light of the achievements of John L. Sullivan [the first heavyweight champion in boxing, the critics of his days referred to 'Little Chocolate' [George Dixon as the greatest fighter of all time. I doubt there ever was a pugilist who was as popular during his entire career.”Simply put, said Fleischer, “He had everything.”Sam Austin, the larger-than-life sports editor at America's first tabloid newspaper, the Police Gazette, described George Dixon as “The Fighter Without a Flaw.” Said Austin, “The fact cannot be disputed that the greatest fistic fighter, big or little, that the world has ever known is George Dixon.”Still, despite his extraordinary accomplishments, effusive adulation, and spectacular riches, George Dixon died a beggar, in the alcoholic ward of New York's Bellevue Hospital - homeless, forgotten, and alone. And yet, ironically, while George Dixon was being forgotten, his story was becoming a familiar archetype - the tale of a young black man who uses his fists and wits to fight his way against unrelenting challenges to become Champion of the World. He becomes famous, rich, and loved by all. But then he overreaches. He lives the life of the “sport” - he gambles, carouses, and drinks - until he stays in the ring one fight too many.And he loses it all.But George Dixon's story is singularly different. George Dixon followed no one. And for this reason, his story - his triumphs and tragedies as well as his rise and fall - transcends cliché.So who was George Dixon? And what motivated this genuinely modest man, born in Africville, Nova Scotia, to achieve what no other black man had achieved before him? What strength of character earned him, against all odds, true greatness? And what failure of character, in the end, took that greatness away? Before Mohammad Ali and Joe Louis, before Sugar Ray Robinson and Jack Johnson, before Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, before all the great black boxing champions of every age and every weight class, there was George Dixon.He was the first.He was the greatest.And this is his story.
- [Destination White Point](https://nimbus.ca/store/destination-white-point.html): White Point Beach Lodge has been in operation since 1928, persevering through early bankruptcy, the Great Depression, World War II, and a sometimes unforgiving climate in the hospitality industry. The resort is situated on Nova Scotia's South Shore, where authors Zane Grey and Albert Bigelow Paine once travelled to write about the charms of the undisturbed wilderness.The evolution of tourism in southwest Nova Scotia owes much of its early progress to well-connected foreign anglers and hunters, who used their own pipelines to broadcast this Canadian destination as a bountiful game reserve and a gem for tourists to discover. This book depicts the contribution of some of these foreigners, notably Philip Hooper Moore, the creator of White Point. His conception was a vacation haven where discerning sportsmen could hunt and fish while their families enjoyed the state-of-the-art amenities at the resort. The Lodge remained a seasonal destination for several decades until the 1980s heralded a shift to year-round operations. A convention centre and more accommodations were added, all designed to blend with the original rustic log buildings.Destination White Point draws on the oral history of former and current staff and guests, some whose experiences date back to the 1930s, to paint authentic pictures of work and play at White Point. The descendants of a number of guests have perpetuated the White Point vacation tradition, travelling from New England as well as Upper and Lower Canada on an annual basis. Multi-generational connections are commonplace at White Point with a half-dozen or more family members employed at the resort across several decades.For the last thirty years or so, stories of ghostly sightings and manifestations have been circulating around the property. One of the supernatural visitors is believed to be Ivy Elliot, who co-managed White Point with her husband Howard for over forty years. These events recently attracted a group of paranormal investigators, who paid a visit to White Point. Since the 1980s, colourful rabbits have delighted children and adults alike. Today, the lodge remains a popular destination for both Canadians and foreigners and a vital link to our storied past.
- [Ghost Islands of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/ghost-islands-of-nova-scotia.html): There is an aura that cloaks islands in mystique and stirs the imagination. Nova Scotia would be an island if not for a narrow isthmus linking Canada's second smallest province to New Brunswick. The ocean waters surrounding Nova Scotia have proportionally more islands than anywhere else in the Atlantic. In fact, there are more than 3,800 islands that lie “scattered like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle” along nearly 5,000 miles of coastline. For Ghost Islands of Nova Scotia, Mike Parker has selected a treasure trove of 330 images and maps to produce a series of pictorial vignettes accompanied by a wealth of descriptive text. Legendary islands such as Sable, Seal, St. Paul, and Scatarie come to life, as do a score of others including Sambro, McNabs, Georges, Lawlor, Devils, Melville, Little Hope, McNutts, Oak, Isle Haute, Bon Portage, Liscomb, the Tuskets, the Canso Islands, and LaHave Islands.Featured are tales of abandoned settlements and homesteads, lighthouses and keepers, storms and shipwrecks, contagious diseases and mass burials. There are stories of lost cemeteries and ghostly apparitions, pirates and buried treasure, smugglers, spies and murderers, forts, prisons and secret passageways, even picnics, carnivals and merry-go-rounds. Ghost Islands of Nova Scotia is a virtual encyclopedia of our coastal past - a look back at a rugged, adventurous, dangerous, often lonely and sometimes tragic way of life.
- [Legends and Monsters of Atlantic Canada](https://nimbus.ca/store/legends-and-monsters-of-atlantic-canada.html): Atlantic Canada is home to a unique blend of multicultural folktales, legends and mysteries. Perhaps nowhere else is the richness of belief in the supernatural, long a staple of our founding peoples, such an important part of our history and culture.Long-time ghost hunter and author Darryll Walsh documents the many stories and legends from around the Atlantic region. He provides startling new information about Oak Island, site of one of the longest running treasure hunts in history, where many believe a fortune in stolen booty buried by pirates still exists. Walsh delves into the magical world of fairies and recounts the tales of a terrifying assortment of creatures that forestry workers have encountered in our woods. He charts the course of phantom ships that travel along our coasts and inland seas, doomed to sail on forever.Discover how our own version of Bigfoot once terrorized Viking settlers in Newfoundland, and may still be shocking unwary hikers to this day. There are tales of the Devil himself, who has travelled this region luring men into mortal games of cards where the stakes are unreasonably high. Moreover, there are stories about demons, banshees, hairy bipeds, goblins, devil hounds, splinter cats, gumberoo, shagamaw, glawackus, loup-garu, werewolves, sea serpents, will-o-the-wisp, and jack-o-lanterns.Legends and Monsters of Atlantic Canada is an exciting assortment of historical and contemporary legends with creatures that will chill the bones of even the most jaded reader. Parapsychologist Darryll Walsh has brought together for the first time a wide range of Atlantic Canada's mysterious beings, creatures of the night, historical mysteries, and urban legends, many not seen before in print.
- [Cold Clear Morning (revised edition) New Revised Edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/cold-clear-morning-(revised-edition).html): 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. 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. Cold Clear Morning 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.
- [Angels and the Afterlife](https://nimbus.ca/store/angels-and-the-afterlife.html): Laverne Stewart spent eleven years with CTV in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick before making the leap to print media in 1999.
- [Otto Strasser in Paradise](https://nimbus.ca/store/otto-strasser-in-paradise.html): H. Millard Wright was born and grew up in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. He had a successful business career, becoming a vice-president and board member of L.E. Shaw Ltd. And president of Clayton Developments. He is a past president of the Halifax Board of Trade, a past director of the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, past director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and past director of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. He formed his own company, Colonial Scientific Ltd., in 1971 and retired in 1992. He has published eight books.
- [The Social Worker](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-social-worker.html): Michael Ungar, PhD, is a prize-winning fiction writer and among the most influential social work authors and speakers on parenting issues in North America. His nine nonfiction books include The We Generation and Too Safe For Their Own Good. His work has been the subject of cover stories in magazines and he is a regular contributor to radio and television. His blog can be read on Psychology Today's website. In 2010 he was the recipient of the Canadian Association of Social Workers Distinguished Service Award for Nova Scotia. The Social Worker is his first novel.Currently, he is a Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University in Halifax where he directs the Resilience Research Centre. His website is www.michaelungar.com.
- [Diligent River Daughter](https://nimbus.ca/store/diligent-river-daughter.html): Bruce Graham is a Nova Scotia writer and former broadcaster, who for many years was the face of the evening TV news in Maritime homes. Bruce and his wife Helen live in their hometown of Parrsboro. Diligent River Daughter is his fifth book. The Ship's Company Theatre adapted two of his previous novels – The Parrsboro Boxing Club and Ivor Johnson's Neighbours, both published by Pottersfield – for the stage.
- [Women Who Care](https://nimbus.ca/store/women-who-care.html): Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and physician. She has expertise in determinants of health, women's health, disability studies and Indigenous self-determination in health, with a strong commitment to action-based qualitative research, feminism and social justice. Her three wonderful children, her friends and family haven't let her quit medicine yet. Lori Hanson, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan with interests in community activism, gender and development, health equity, sexual and reproductive health, health promotion, and transformative education. In her spare time, she raises her two sets of twins and works with a great group of community and university women involved in the Saskatoon Women's Community Coalition. Patricia Thille, BSc (PT), MA, is a former physical therapist and health services researcher. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Calgary and balances her academic work with community outreach as a healthy sexuality educator with Venus Envy.
- [Ghosts of Nova Scotia 10th Anniversary Edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/ghosts-of-nova-scotia-10th-anniversary-edition.html): Proclaimed "Canada's ghost hunter" by the Ottawa Citizen, parapsychologist Darryll Walsh is a lecturer in parapsychology at the Nova Scotia Community College. He is also the host of the popular television series Shadow Hunter on the Space Channel. Incorrigibly curious since childhood, he has spent most of his life in pursuit of the mysterious and unknown and is the author of Ghost Waters: Canada's Haunted Seas and Shores, also published by Pottersfield Press.
- [Long Ago and Far Away](https://nimbus.ca/store/long-ago-and-far-away.html): Wayne Curtis was born and raised in the rural Miramichi community of Keenan. A high school dropout, he has worked at many jobs in the woods and in factories, including six years with General Motors. He has also been a storekeeper and a river guide. Returning to school during his adult years, he took night courses to get his high school diploma, followed by three years of university, eventually earning an honorary doctorate from St. Thomas University. Wayne has written for The Globe and Mail and The National Post and is the author of three novels, four books of short stories and a screenplay for the CBC. Long Ago and Far Away is his thirteenth book.
- [Radio Talk](https://nimbus.ca/store/radio-talk.html): Rick Howe has been a reporter, a newscaster, a news director, a commentator and a talk show host. For several years he also wrote a column for the Halifax Daily News, and he has made numerous appearances on CTV and CBC television as a political analyst. With family roots in New Brunswick, Howe has worked in radio in Campbellton, Newcastle, Saint John and over thirty years in Halifax. Currently living in Fall River, Nova Scotia, Howe is married to former ATV/ ASN television journalist Yvonne Colbert.
- [Wrecked and Ruined](https://nimbus.ca/store/wrecked-and-ruined.html): Robert C. Parsons was born in Grand Bank, one of the great Newfoundland seaports for sailing schooners in the salt fish, hook and line era. He attended an all-grade school in his community and later graduated from Memorial University with a master's degree in Language. Wrecked and Ruined is Robert's twenty-third book. He frequently contributes sea stories to magazines, journals and newspapers and has appeared on the TV series Disasters of the Century.
- [Buried in the Woods](https://nimbus.ca/store/buried-in-the-woods.html): Born and raised in Bear River, Nova Scotia, Mike Parker has been called Nova Scotia's Storyteller, a reference to the diversity of themes covered in his many books of popular history. The best-selling author has been researching and writing about his native province for more than twenty years. This is his thirteenth book. Mike is affiliated with the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University as a research associate. He is a graduate of Acadia University and a long-time resident of Dartmouth.
- [Death Ship of Halifax Harbour](https://nimbus.ca/store/death-ship-of-halifax-harbour.html): "On an uncomfortably muggy morning in early autumn, I found myself standing at the far end of a wide, battered wharf in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, looking for a man in knee-high, white rubber boots answering to the name of Captain Red Beard..I'd come in search of a death ship, or at least the historical whispers of a death ship -- an elegant old steamer that limped into Halifax harbour during the early hours of April 9, 1866, with more than a thousand Irish and German emigrants squeezed into its cramped, creaking holds. And I'd come in search of what travelled with them and, in fact, inside many of them: Asiatic cholera. And, finally, I'd come in search of the intertwining tales of those lives inexorably changed by history's worst cholera epidemic, which killed tens of thousands from Mecca to Manhattan to McNab's Island in the mouth of Halifax harbour." So begins another strange and surprising adventure of writer Steven Laffoley as he explores historic McNab's Island in search of Halifax during its time of cholera. As he investigates the rich history of the island and searches for clues to the many dark, cholera-ship tales, Steven confronts the nature of fear and the fear of nature, including fetid marshes, abandoned buildings, a berry-mad bear, a love-starved beaver, a gaggle of naked maidens, and two drunken revolutionaries just looking for some fun. Death Ship of Halifax Harbour is a fascinating and engaging tale of fate, fear and hope.
- [Nova Scotia Visions of the Future](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-visions-of-the-future.html): In the summer of 2008, Pottersfield editor Lesley Choyce sent a letter to a select and varied list of Nova Scotians to contribute to a book about this province’s future. He invited some of the best minds (and hearts) around the province to present their vision of this possible province of the future. Contributors would write about the environment, technology, immigration, social aspects, urban life, rural life, energy, politics, government, family, economics, forests, the ocean and much more. The bolder the vision, the better. Stories, personal opinions and controversial ideas were encouraged. Which future? Anything beyond ten years and up to a thousand. The results of that request were varied, ambitious and surprising. This most insightful book may set in motion some serious action that can help Nova Scotia live up to its full future potential. The writing is personal, provocative, reflective, proactive, and thoroughly captivating by over forty contributors from many divers fields of expertise.
- [From the Other Side of the Fence](https://nimbus.ca/store/from-the-other-side-of-the-fence.html): "It is only with the heart that one can see truly, for what is essential is invisible to the eye." So writes Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince. Stories can help health professionals and students see with their hearts. Seeing with their hearts allows them to see through the time-efficiency imperatives forged by the funding clawbacks that resulted in the extreme shortages of health providers in Canada. Stories of healthcare can help the public to understand the full human dimension of both patients and health professionals, fostering their better understanding of what patients and health professionals feel and face. The stories in this collection were encouraged through an invitation to the staff and students of the London Health Sciences Centre, requesting they consider writing a story they carry in their hearts. Fences represent the confines within which patients and health professionals find themselves. Although the stories, plays and poems in this collection are written by the nurses, physicians, physiotherapists, social workers, communication personnel, occupational therapists and trainees in one centre, they are representative of the stories in all Canadian hospitals, and of all Canadian healthcare providers. This important volume portrays the desire in the hearts of Canadian healthcare providers to give compassionate care to those who need it. It also brings into focus the limitations on both sides of the "fence" for the medical professionals and their patients. The stories in this book resonate with wisdom and honesty and will help validate your concerns with health care and confirm your resolve to push for the need for compassionate care.
- [A Mother's Road to Kandahar](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-mothers-road-to-kandahar.html): As a mother and grandmother, Andria Hill-Lehr writes about her eldest son's decision to join Cadets, then Reserves, and then to be deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. From the time she learned of his decision, throughout his deployment and after his return home, whether speaking publicly or privately, Hill-Lehr has emphasised that unconditional love and support for her son is not synonymous with support for the political agenda behind Canada's presence in Afghanistan -- an idea that is gaining momentum through an organization that Hill-Lehr co-chairs, called Military Communities Speak Out. The author explains what inspired her to become a peace activist. She reflects on the influence of her mother, a writer who recalled with painful accuracy how she endured the London Blitz, and her father, who was a World War Two veteran and an inspector with Metropolitan Toronto Police. Both raised her to challenge authority -- which presented some challenges of its own. Her son's path inspired Hill-Lehr to scrutinize Canada's military culture and the influence of the American armed forces. She writes of her own experience with the military while the spouse of an Armed Forces officer. With clarity and insight, she examines the practices used by Canada's Armed Forces to cultivate children as young as twelve to become future recruitment prospects or loyal supporters of the military through schools, co-op education programs, military displays, advertising and marketing, and video games. From Cadets to Reserves to Regular Forces, the Canadian government engages in endeavours that are, at times, questionable. The author hopes those who read this book will think critically about the proclaimed virtue of military programs for youth, and that Canadians will challenge the government of Canada's policies, particularly how they determine the deployment of Canadian troops abroad.
- [Pardon My Frenchy's](https://nimbus.ca/store/pardon-my-frenchys.html): Pardon My Frenchy’s is a definitive relationship manual for all those who haunt Frenchy’s, Value Village, The Sally Ann and the hundreds of used clothing stores at the Maritimes. Unlike a how-to book, Pardon My Frenchy’s is what-to-do compendium of ideas, quizzes, games and stories all aimed at keeping the Frenchy’s fires burning, the used clothing passion alive and the superbargain excitement as high as it was during that first root in the bins. The book is like a dose of good old-fashioned relationship counseling, helping Frenchy’s fans rekindle the romance with their favourite stores. It addresses some of these burning questions. Do you still feel that tingle of anticipation as your eyes sweep the bins? Does a superbargain find still make your heart beat faster? And, the ultimate relationship question: do you find yourself casting a roving eye on Wal-Mart or The Bay? Readers of Pardon My Frenchy’s can rely on a wealth of ideas such as Six Bring-Back-the-Thrill Techniques, Ten Surefire Ways to Pull Out all the Stops, Four Ideas to Put You in the Frenchy’s Mood, Three Ways to Add Zest to the Experience, Four Tips for Initiation Virgin Frenchy’s Shoppers, plus the Ultimate Definitive State-of-the-Art Frenchy’s Self Quiz. There’s even a Frenchy’s song lyrics that are perfect for a shopping crawl with the gang.
- [Hunting Halifax](https://nimbus.ca/store/hunting-halifax.html): “I was walking into an air-conditioned Halifax tavern on a hot summer afternoon in search of a dark mystery. I was on the trail of a cold-case murder—a murder case 150 years cold. Clearly, I needed a beer.” So beings the strange and surprising adventure of Hunting Halifax, the true tale of writer Steven Edwin Laffoley as he investigates the mean streets and narrow alleys of historic Halifax, Nova Scotia, in search of clues to a murder, a mystery and a black hole in history. In the early hours of September 8, 1853, in the shadow of Citadel Hill, a sailor with a crushed skull lies slumped against the staircase of a notorious tavern on Barrack Street. The death is said to be an accident—a fall from a window—until two tavern prostitutes tell Nova Scotia’s famous son, Joseph Howe, that it was murder. Prepared to do what it takes to find justice for the murdered sailor, the author sleeps in old graveyards, drinks in rough taverns, concerses in trendy coffee shops, pokes about staid Province House, ponders Victorian Age philosophy, and somehow just manages to avoid arrest. Humorous and engaging, Hunting Halifax is an entertaining tale of history, mystery and murder.
- [Finishing School](https://nimbus.ca/store/finishing-school.html): Forty-nine-year-old divorced hair stylist Eileen Novak has recently enrolled in a community college class to complete her high school education, and her first English assignment is to keep a journal. Initially apprehensive about this exercise, Eileen soon discovers she enjoys writing and the opportunity to really let herself go. Set in St. John's, Newfoundland, in the 1980s and resonating with a vivid sense of place, Finishing School chronicles Eileen's sometimes traumatic, sometimes funny but fully engaged life during the school months. "Always ready to try anything
- [Driving Minnie's Piano](https://nimbus.ca/store/driving-minnies-piano.html): Novelist Lesley Choyce weaves together his real-life adventures living by the sea at Lawrencetown Beach on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. He writes of his love for the rugged coast and tells tales of the ordinary and the extraordinary. His story includes accounts of what it's like surfing in the Canadian North Atlantic through all four seasons including the frigid depths of winter. Also threading its way through this narrative is the story of Minnie's piano. There is music here in word and spirit along with the lessons learned from the old and the young. Driving Minnie's Piano is an eloquent personal memoir about the precious and fateful moments that change our lives. It is an exploration of what makes us tick and prompts us to be both heroes and fools in the daily enterprise of living.
- [Shipwrecks of New Brunswick](https://nimbus.ca/store/shipwrecks-of-new-brunswick.html): In the past 20 years, Robert Parsons has become one of Atlantic Canada's most popular and prolific writers, specializing in the stories of shipwreck, rescue and survival. He devotes much of his time to researching, writing and promoting the sea-going history of Canada's eastern provinces, their ships and the people who sailed them. His books include Ocean of Storms, Sea of Disaster, In Peril on the Sea and The Edge of Yesterday: Sea Disasters of Nova Scotia.
- [Fighting for Change](https://nimbus.ca/store/fighting-for-change.html): This book is about Black social workers breaking barriers and fighting for change, not only for themselves as professionals, but also for their clients and communities. These workers tell their own unique stories in this volume, from gaining entry to social work education to their experiences in social work. They also write about the strategies that made a difference in their lives and the lives of the people they work with. The first section tells the story of Black Social Workers' entry into the profession and chronicles the poignant story of the life, and eventual death, of the Association of Black Social Workers in Montreal from where it spread to Halifax. In the second section, seasoned Black social workers, each trailblazers in their own right, tell their narratives of studying social work and beginning practice in Halifax in the late 1970s to early 1990s. The third section spotlights current students who relate stories of their reasons for entering the social work profession and the barriers they face as they pursue their future career goals. The fourth section focuses on Africentric perspectives and puts forward some findings from exploratory research in this area. The final section explores experiences in a social work program which uses the media to expose students to cultures different from their own as well as some of the students' experiences in interrogating the media itself.
- [Lessons Learned Upside the Head](https://nimbus.ca/store/lessons-learned-upside-the-head.html): Lessons Learned Upside the Head is a book with the potential to help you make positive changes in your life and the lives you touch each day -- if you are willing to listen to your heart and are open to change. Carol Ann draws on her life's experiences laced with examples of how the simplest tasks in life can bring you the most happiness and success. Having learned to communicate, celebrate, lighten up, share, care and dare to go it alone, Carol Ann will guide you as you revisit your own personal skills. What works for this Valley girl from rural Nova Scotia might also work for you. The author writes compellingly about her work and in personal life as she takes you through lessons learned from her small town upbringing in Wilmot, Nova Scotia to the boardrooms of Bell Canada during her heady executive days. Less than two years following her own experience with cancer, Carol Ann walked away from what she executive career and boldly walked through the doorways that cancer blew wide open. In telling her story from the heart, Carol Ann serves up the opportunity for the reader to take a fresh look at one's own life. Carol Ann refocused her energies on what is really important: family, friends and finding a way to contribute while leading a more meaningful life. Here story includes: -Leaving home at the tender age of eighteen armed with a high school diploma and a single goal -- to find that "big job" and make her mark in what seemed to be a man's world; -Life as a single parent after marriage, motherhood and divorce all in her early twenties; -Climbing (and sometimes stumbling on) that slippery corporate ladder; -Battling breast cancer while watching it take her mother's life at the same time; -Learning to become a new and better person as the result of sickness and hardship.
- [Best Journey in the World](https://nimbus.ca/store/best-journey-in-the-world.html): This sweeping narrative tells the story of Operation Hazen, part of Canada's contribution to the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58. Author Jim Lotz found himself in an expedition to carry out scientific research and explore the icecaps of Northern Ellesmere Island, the most northerly island in the world. He served as a glacial-meteorologist on this project and another American venture along the coast of the island. Most tales of the far, far north focus on hardship and suffering. Lotz writes of the rewards of going to the extreme, and examines why people join polar expeditions. Humorous and lyrical, the book describes this remote and beautiful part of Canada. But he also underscores the harsh realities of global warming. The book brings into focus the many successful and unsuccessful polar organizations that came before and examine the role of leadership and how humans behave in isolation. Overall, it is the most amazing tale of a witty, humble man living in extraordinary conditions and how it reshaped the way he lived his life and saw the world. Lotz writes, "In out increasingly grim, stressed-out world, a trip tp the polar regions is a journey into the heart of lightness, those pure pristine parts of nature where you plumb the depths of your own being as your spirit soars in the clear blue air."
- [Nova Scotia:  A Traveller's Companion](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-a-travellers-companion.html): A varied and provacative array of writing about this province by residents and visitors through the centuries.
- [Just Wait...There's More Surviving Cancer](https://nimbus.ca/store/just-wait...theres-more-surviving-cancer.html): Here is a true story of one woman's experience with surviving the life-altering effects of cancer. Linda Yates is an ordained United Church minister. During her final year in seminary, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy and several rounds of chemotherapy. She graduated from university but was unable to be ordained until 1999. After being given a clean bill of health, she became an active minister in rural Nova Scotia. Two years later, Linda was told that the cancer had spread to her bones and was incurable. Her research revealed a life expectancy of two years. Reeling from the diagnosis, Linda became aware of other women who had received similar terminal diagnoses. She gathered the women together where they supported one another, prayed for each other and, eventually, buried one another. Two years from the point of diagnosis of advanced cancer, Linda was told that a mistake had been made and she did not, in fact, have cancer. A year later, as minister, she buried the last member of that wonderful group of women sojourners. Feeling that something amazing and rare had occurred within that group, Linda began to think about writing about her experience. Her concern about how the Canadian health care system functions (or doesn't), the particularities of being a woman with cancer and the special position of having been given up for dead and then resurrected again all combined to inspire her to record her experience. Just Wait...There's More is a sometimes humourous, sometimes deadly serious look at the bizarre and often crazy life of living in the land of cancer. Linda Yates is a slightly irreverent United Church minister. Prior to going into ministry, she managed the Dalhousie Infectious Disease Research Laboratory. Today, she lives and works as a minister in rural Nova Scotia, focussing on women's issues, family violence, and youth.
- [A Hard Chance](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-hard-chance.html): Tom and Melissa Gallant sat in their car at an intersection outside Lunenburg one early summer evening in 1992. After a decade of romance and adventure, they were at a crossroads in their lives. Melissa wanted to settle down and start a business. Tom wanted to sail their schooner around the world. They had decided to go their separate ways. As they entered the intersection, one notorious for brutal accidents, their car was hit by a bus. When Tom woke up in the Fisherman's Memorial Hospital and asked about Melissa, all anyone could say was, "It doesn't look good." She was in intensive care in Halifax. She was in a coma, being kept alive by machines. This is the story of what happened in the months that followed. It is also the story of a love affair full of high seas adventure and romance, of life lived far from the conventions of polite society. It is the tale of two lives shattered in an instant, forever changed by an unmerciful twist of fate. Melissa's brain had suffered a catastrophic trauma. When she woke from the coma, she would not know who she was, or who Tom was. She would be unable to talk, walk or feed herself. Theirs was a love facing the greatest of challenges. This is a book about redemption conferred by accepting the hardest things in life with an open heart. Tom Gallant is a playwright, musician, scriptwriter and journalist. Tom's poetry and prose has been included in magazines and anthologies. Tom has logged fifty thousand miles of deep water sailing in his Nova Scotian schooner. For a decade he has been a caregiver to his injured wife.
- [Clean Sweep](https://nimbus.ca/store/clean-sweep.html): Who knows more about what's been swept under the carpet than the cleaning lady? Forty-something Bonnie Marsden didn't intend to become a professional charwoman, or an amateur detective. But after she gets swindled out of her job as loans officer at The Friendly Village Credit Union in Membertou County, Nova Scotia, she has to find some way to help pay the bills. Once she starts tidying other people's houses, she starts stumbling across things that tweak her overabundant curiosity and sense of right and wrong - things like a five-year-old child lost in the woods, and a retired couple killed in a botched home invasion. Bonnie's husband, Big Ben Marsden, is skeptical about poking into the corners of other people's lives. He lost his steady job two years ago and keeps up his half of the mortgage payments by cobbling together odd jobs, some of them so odd he hasn't mentioned them to his wife. They have three children living away, and a very late surprise package still living at home. Invariably, Ben and the children get drawn into Bonnie's attempts to suss out what's going on under the surface. The surface of the community they live in, like any part of rural Canada, may look bucolic from the highway, but people with several acres between themselves and their nearest neighbours can get up to some strange behaviour without anybody noticing. It's a place where well-off hobby farmers live just around the corner from people who don't grow vegetable gardens for a hobby but because they have to, and who make it through their hardscrabble days with humour and grace. Corporal Kowalchuck, the new detachment commander of the local RCMP, is a prairie boy not privy to secrets lurking in the community Bonnie's lived in all her life. But maybe Corporal Kowalchuck has some secrets of his own.
- [Pottersfield Nation](https://nimbus.ca/store/pottersfield-nation.html): A stunning collection of some of Canada's finest writers who just happen to call Atlantic Canada their home. The book celebrates Pottersfield Press wriers in our 25th year. The array of talent includes non-fiction by Farley Mowat, Harry Thurston, H R Percy, Joan Baxter, Archibald MacMechan, Thomas Raddall, Judith Fingard, Charles Saunders, George Elliott Clarkes, Pete Sarsfield, Gregory Cook, Billy Bidge, Dean Jobb, The Frenchy's Ladies, Bob Chaulk, Mike Ungar and others.
- [Acadia](https://nimbus.ca/store/acadia.html): " a rollicking read about the escapades of those larger-than-life characters who dominated the early days of European thirst for dominance in the New World..." Atlantic Books Today Acadia is based on the true story of the blood feud that founded the French colony and the two very different married couples at the centre of it.
- [The Sea Among the Rocks](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-sea-among-the-rocks.html): A rich & textured story of fishermen, farmers, housewives, island dwellers, lighthouse keepers, miners and more who live in our Atlantic region.
- [Far Enough Island](https://nimbus.ca/store/far-enough-island.html): Sarah's family has had a streak of bad luck. Her father is a fisherman and the fish have disappeared. Her mother is worried all the time. It seems that nothing is going right for her family. Sarah's best friend is her dog, Jeremiah, who came into her life in the night in the middle of a horrendous storm. Sarah is concerned about her unhappy mother and her father -- who doesn't always make the right decisions. Here is a story about a young girl's belief in herself, a family's struggle to survive and the desire to hold onto hope even when all hope seems to be gone.
- [The Other Author Arthur](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-other-author-arthur.html): With Sheree Fitch's wonderful and unusual sense of humour, and her alluring way with words, here's another chapter book for young readers about a mix-up that could happen anywhere.
- [Black and Bluenose The Contemporary History of a Community](https://nimbus.ca/store/black-and-bluenose.html): Black and Bluenose documents the recent history of Canada's oldest and largest indigenous black community. Saunders writes with passion and insight about issues that are close to his heart and an understanding of the historical forces that shape the headlines of today.
- [Famous at Last](https://nimbus.ca/store/famous-at-last.html): Another chapter book for the younger set.Lavishly illustrated, a story about being and getting famous. A journey of discovery for everyone.
- [Cassandra's Driftwood](https://nimbus.ca/store/cassandras-driftwood.html): Set in a beautiful Nova Scotia village, this is the story of a girl and the things she fears. A perfect beginning chapter book for children aged 8-10. Written by the Ann Connor Brimer Award winner, Budge Wilson.
- [Remembering Summer](https://nimbus.ca/store/remembering-summer.html): A novel of love and hate, peace and war. The setting is Newfoundland in the late 1960s. It is a time of great upheaval in mind and spirit. A challenging and powerful novel.
- [The Trouble With Everything](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-trouble-with-everything.html): This audiobook offers 27 studio readings of poems accompanied by original music.
- [The Trouble With Everything](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-trouble-with-everything.html)
- [Dust of the Sun](https://nimbus.ca/store/dust-of-the-sun.html): Dust of the Sun, taking its name from a translated line of poetry found among the many works herein, documents the extraordinary linocuts of artist Edith Pahlke.
- [piyyut](https://nimbus.ca/store/piyyut.html): piyyut is a long-form poem that assembles stories and fables from the Jewish Diaspora, attempting to unsettle refugee migration stories while exhuming poetic, prophetic voices in post-holocaust Europe.
- [The Stars from Me to You](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-stars-from-me-to-you.html): In a coma after being hit by a truck while riding his bike, thirteen-year-old Rion is stuck in Limbo &38212; a vast and empty solar system of planets and stars somewhere between Heaven and the not so good Heaven.
- [Twenty-One Ways to Die in Saskatchewan](https://nimbus.ca/store/twenty-one-ways-to-die-in-saskatchewan.html): In this poignant collection of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, Nova Scotian author R.E.
- [Freshwater Fishes of the Northeast - Folding Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/freshwater-fishes-of-the-northeast-folding-guide.html)
- [Baby Smiles/Weskewikwa'sit mijua'ji'j](https://nimbus.ca/store/baby-smiles-weskewikwasit-mijuajij.html): A bilingual Mi'kmaw-English board book promoting dental health in baby's first year.
- [Nova Scotia Tartan Notebook- Pocket](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-tartan-notebook-pocket.html): Our notebooks are made with cloth woven in mills in the United Kingdom.
- [Nkij'inen Teluet / Our Grandmother's Words](https://nimbus.ca/store/nkijinen-teluet-our-grandmothers-words.html): Through traditional stories, Grandmothers' understandings guide and nurture parents and children as they grow together. Dual-language: English and Mi'kmaq.
- [The Remembering](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-remembering.html): The highly anticipated debut work of adult fiction from award-winning author of crossover novel Catching the Light, following three generations of Newfoundland women.
- [Serge, the Snail Without a Shell](https://nimbus.ca/store/serge-the-snail-without-a-shell.html): The whimsical debut picture book by two celebrated novelists about a slug, desperate to fit in at all costs, and the adventure he embarks upon to learn that maybe being yourself is best of all!
- [Canada Wild](https://nimbus.ca/store/canada-wild.html): Canada Wild, Animals Found Nowhere Else on Earth is a full-colour illustrated guide to Canada's endemic species for young readers, from the award-winning author of Snooze-O-Rama: The Strange Ways that Animals Sleep.
- [Lexicon 20 Puzzles to Challenge & Entertain](https://nimbus.ca/store/lexicon-20-puzzles-to-challenge-entertain.html): 20th volume of popular puzzles for all ages!
- [Kisses Kisses, Baby-O! Trilingual Edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/kisses-kisses-baby-o-trilingual-edition.html): Kisses Kisses Baby-O! is a story for newborns told from the point of view of a parent or caregiver, but with high interaction with baby's world and tuned to events in baby's day. Beloved Canadian children's author Sheree Fitch delivers fun, intelligent, participatory text that is a joy to read. Using rhythm and onomatopoeia, Sheree's bubbly text begins with baby waking, and follows through eating, bathing, playing, and finally sleeping. Repetition, rhythm and active verbs create a lively story that can be read again and again. Heart-warming illustrations by HildaRose combine realism and a whimsical, artistic style, while paying close attention to the needs of newborn readers, including such elements as: stimulating visuals, patterns, baby faces, cultural diversity and interaction with others. This brand new trilingual edition features English, French, and Mi'kmaw text, and thick paper stock for durability.
- [Coastal Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/coastal-nova-scotia.html): UK native Adam Cornick's sweeping wide-angle images of coast Nova Scotia showcase not just his love of the ocean, but his excitement about the beauty in every pounding wave, every polished granite boulder, every expanse of sandy beach, every ragged cliff.
- [The Big Book of Lexicon: Volumes 13,14,15 Puzzles to Challenge & Entertain](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-big-book-of-lexicon-volumes-131415.html): Theresa Williams's lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, lexicon puzzles engage and entertain fans of all ages. This edition brings back volumes 13, 14, and 15, and presents them as one large book for hours of fun!
- [One Who Has Been Here Before](https://nimbus.ca/store/one-who-has-been-here-before.html): I move around the side of the house. There is a thick mass of shrubs on the north-east side. Juniper, and caragana gone wild. Without thinking, I pluck a flower and put it into my mouth, savouring the delicate yellowness of its flavour. Now when did I learn to do that? Who first put a caragana blossom on my tongue? Emma G. Weaver easily loses herself in history. She's much more comfortable imagining the lives of the dead than getting involved with the living. She pushes down nagging questions about her own history, but when her Master's research leads her from her safe and comfortable life in Edmonton, Alberta, back to the south shore of Nova Scotia, those questions can't help but bubble to the surface. And Emma soon finds that the lives of the dead are inextricably linked to the lives of the living, that secrets don't stay hidden forever—and that everything changes when they come to light. Inspired by the true story of the notorious Goler clan of Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, this work of contemporary Atlantic gothic fiction troubles the boundaries between myth and truth, villains and victims.
- [Westray (French Edition)](https://nimbus.ca/store/westray-french-edition.html): L'explosion de méthane éventre la mine Westray, en Nouvelle-Écosse. Vingt-six mineurs y sont pris au piège. Les résidents de Plymouth retiennent leur souffle tandis que les sauveteurs partent à la recherche de survivants, bravant des conditions extrêmement dangereuses pendant des jours. Vernon Theriault, un mineur de Westray décoré pour sa bravoure, s'était joint aux équipes de sauvetage. Malheureusement, nul des vingt-six mineurs n'avait survécu à l'explosion, et seuls quinze de leurs corps auront pu être retrouvés. Westray, synonyme de la négligence des employeurs et de l'indifférence des gouvernements, est cependant devenu le cri de ralliement des syndicalistes et des familles des disparus. La tragédie a donné naissance au projet de loi Westray, une loi fédérale visant à protéger la sécurité des travailleurs, qui a fait l'objet de plusieurs campagnes de lobbying sous la bannière Plus jamais de Westray. Dans ce livre, Theriault décrit son expérience dans la mine du comté de Pictou, ses combats personnels à la suite du désastre et la façon dont il a donné un sens nouveau à sa vie en participant à la campagne de lobbying de longue haleine du Syndicat des Métallos, qui a mené à l'adoption de la Loi Westray en 2004.
- [The Sweetness in the Lime](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-sweetness-in-the-lime.html): A bittersweet story following fiftysomething Eli Cooper that takes readers from Havana, to Halifax, to Miami, and back again, The Sweetness in the Lime is a charming, clever novel that peels back the rind to discover there really is sweetness in the lime of life.
- [The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-naughty-little-book-of-gaelic.html): There are many good and useful books that provide a wide range of Scottish Gaelic vocabulary to express many aspects of daily life – except, for the most part, the topics covered in this book. Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where “sinful” behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during the 19th century – and most of the people engaged in recording and commenting upon Highland life and tradition were puritanical ministers and priests who left out the racy bits. So, while there are many useful books that provide a wide range of Scottish Gaelic vocabulary to express many aspects of daily life – for the most part, they leave out the naughty bits.
- [Wolverine and Little Thunder](https://nimbus.ca/store/wolverine-and-little-thunder.html): From the bestselling creator of The Thundermaker comes another adventure featuring Little Thunder and Wolverine—a trickster, who is strong and fierce and loyal. The two are best of friends, even though Wolverine can sometimes get them into trouble. Their favourite pastime is eel fishing, whether it's cutting through winter ice with a stone axe or catching eels in traditional stone weirs in the summer. But that all changes one night, when they encounter the giant river eel—the eel that is too big to catch. The eel that hunts people! At once a universal story of friendship and problem-solving, Wolverine and Little Thunder is a contemporary invocation of traditional Mi'kmaw knowledge, reinforcing the importance of the relationship between the Mi'kmaq and eel, a dependable year-round food source traditionally offered to Glooscap, the Creator, for a successful hunt.
- [Uncle Farley's False Teeth](https://nimbus.ca/store/uncle-farleys-false-teeth.html): Every afternoon, Uncle Farley takes a three-hour nap. And every afternoon, he pops his false teeth out of his mouth and into a glass of water. One day, Morgan decides she'll steal them to show her friends. But while they're on the wharf oohing and ahhing, Morgan accidentally drops Uncle Farley's teeth into the ocean! She thinks they're gone forever until she sees a fabulous fish...with a fabulous set of teeth in its mouth. Morgan and her friends pool their resources to get the teeth back—Ian's dad is a fisherman, Zakia's mom is a dentist, Markee's dad is a police officer—but the fabulous fish just won't spit them out. Will Morgan be able wrangle Uncle Farley's false teeth back before he wakes up? Originally published in 1998, this new edition features updated text and illustrations from the artist behind Canadian classics like The Paperbag Princess and Thomas's Snowsuit.
- [Where to Cycle in Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/where-to-cycle-in-nova-scotia.html): Finally, the guidebook cycling enthusiasts have been waiting for. Where to Cycle in Nova Scotia brings together the collective knowledge of Nova Scotia's cycling community, compiled and curated by experienced cycling guide Adam Barnett, to bring you the best cycling routes in the province, from the majestic Cape Breton Highlands to the dynamic coastlines of the Eastern, North, South, and French Shores, to the vibrant Annapolis Valley, the scenic Truro area, and lively urban Halifax. Each route features easy-to-navigate turn-by-turn directions, as well as distance and duration of ride, and fun activities—like museums, hikes, beaches, and wineries—to explore along the way. This compact, highly readable guidebook will find a happy home in the bike bags and backpacks of anyone who has ever dreamed of cycling in this beautiful province.
- [Lexicon 19 Puzzles to Challenge & Entertain](https://nimbus.ca/store/lexicon-19.html): Theresa Williams's lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published by the Halifax Chronicle-Herald in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, the lexicon engages and entertains fans of all ages. Puzzle buffs will delight in this opportunity to try 52 all-new puzzles.
- [Sid the Kid and the Dryer](https://nimbus.ca/store/sid-the-kid-and-the-dryer.html): A fresh and fun take on the younger years of hockey superstar Sidney Crosby, through an unlikely character: the dryer in the basement. Author Lesley Choice imagines the early life of W. P. (Whirpool) the dryer, now a popular attraction at the NS Sport Hall of Fame, as W.P. is hit with stray pucks while Sidney works on his shot in the basement. Vibrant artwork from illustrator Brenda Jones completes this imaginative tale.
- [Refugees & Forced Migration: The Canadian Perspective An A-Z Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/refugees-amp-forced-migration-the-canadian-perspective.html): Although refugees have been pushed into the spotlight over the past few years, particularly as a result of the Syrian crisis, they are never far from public consciousness or policy debates. Based on years of close community and academic involvement in local, national, and international refugee affairs, Drs. Catherine Baillie Abidi and Shiva Nourpanah have created an accessible A-to-Z reference book focused on raising awareness on refugee and forced migration issues in Canada, with a specific focus on Atlantic Canada. Defining key concepts, from "asylum seeker" to "Generation Z," this accessible guide is situated within a critical framework, acknowledging Canada's complex immigration history. This one-of-a-kind guide will be an extremely useful tool for refugee aid and settlement practitioners and advocacy groups, as well as for all Canadians eager to better understand the realities of refugees and forced migrants. Includes over 40 photographs by local refugee and settlement artists.
- [Making a Life Twenty-five Years of Hooking Rugs](https://nimbus.ca/store/making-a-life.html): Celebrated textile artist Deanne Fitzpatrick learned early that traditional rug-hooking is so much more than just making mats for old houses. This intricate art form has given her the chance to speak without words. It has built her a supportive community, a successful business, and an international reputation. But most of all, hooking rugs has allowed Deanne to live a life she loves. Reflecting on her twenty-five-year career, Deanne shares lessons gleaned both at the frame and away from her studio. Whether it's dealing with an artistic block, or balancing running a business and raising a family, Deanne has navigated it all with frank humour and grace. Containing over 75 full-colour photos of projects past and present, Making a Life is an ode to the joys of leading a creative life.
- [The Big Book of Lexicon : Volumes 10, 11, 12](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-big-book-of-lexicon-:-volumes-10,-11,-12.html): Theresa Williams's lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, lexicon puzzles engage and entertain fans of all ages. This edition brings back volumes 10, 11, and 12, and presents them as one large book for hours of fun!
- [Time for Bed](https://nimbus.ca/store/time-for-bed.html): The newest book in the popular Baby Steps series, Time for Bed is a fun and simple step-by-step bedtime story for babies and toddlers. From bathtime to storytime, this book guides families through a healthy nightly routine with simple, read-aloud text and joyful photos. Time for Bed is sure to help parents get baby's bedtime routine off to a great start.
- [Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo](https://nimbus.ca/store/santa-never-brings-me-a-banjo.html): The celebrated holiday song from multi-talented and multiple-award-winning Halifax-based roots musician David Myles is now available as a bright and fun children's picture book. Young David writes frantic letters to Santa every year, requesting a banjo, but to no avail: "How does he miss / the one thing on my list / in the letter that I sent to him?" Follow the ups and downs of the holiday season with David, his furry friends, and his family, as he pines for his most-wished-for holiday gift. Featuring illustrations from the animation studio that created the song's well-loved music video, a special holiday message from David Myles, and original sheet music for those who wish to play along, Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo is sure to inspire many a holiday singalong.
- [50 Best Books for Babies](https://nimbus.ca/store/50-best-books-for-babies.html): 50 Best Books for Babies is a fabulous list of the very best books for babies as selected by experts in the field of early literacy. Book suggestions are divided by age and stage of development so parents can find the perfect book for their baby. This booklet is the perfect size to slip into a pure or diaper bag to take to the library or bookstore. 50 Best Books for Babies is a wonderful resource for early literacy programs. Bulk-buy rates available on request.
- [Music is for Everyone](https://nimbus.ca/store/music-is-for-everyone.html): Music is for Everyone is sure to get you excited about making music! Singer-songwriter Jill Barber takes her young readers through many different kinds of music--hip hop, jazz, classical, folk--and instruments in an energetic, rhyming tour. Sydney Smith's gleeful illustrations capture all the joy that comes from making music--in all its forms!
- [Lexicon 18](https://nimbus.ca/store/lexicon-18.html): Enjoy 52 all-new puzzles from Theresa William's in the latest addition to the lexicon puzzle collection.
- [Se Debrouiller Par Ses Propres Moyens: Le developpement economique dans les Maritimes](https://nimbus.ca/store/se-debrouiller-par-ses-propres-moyens.html): En 2006, l'auteur primé Donald Savoie a écrit un livre novateur sur le développement économique dans les Maritimes, Visiting Grandchildren, en prévoyant que ce serait son dernier ouvrage consacré au domaine. Une décennie plus tard, il revient sur cette question en faisant paraître Se débrouiller par ses propres moyens. Préoccupé par l'avenir économique de la région, il a cherché à explorer et à expliquer les raisons de la faiblesse de son développement économique. Le résultat visé consiste à provoquer le débat qui s'impose sur l'avenir des Provinces maritimes. S'inspirant de sa participation passée aux efforts de développement régional (conseiller principal en politiques auprès de l'ancien ministre du MEER; participation à la création de l'APECA) et de ses ouvrages précédents, M. Savoie jette un nouvel éclairage sur un vieux problème et pose les questions difficiles: pourquoi la région des Maritimes ne s'est-elle pas aussi bien développée que les autres régions canadiennes et que peut-on faire pour corriger la situation?
- [EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street](https://nimbus.ca/store/everybodys-different-on-everybody-street.html): If ever you go travelling On EveryBody Street You'll see EveryBody's Different Than EveryOne you meet Sheree Fitch's playful words lead you into this beautiful children's book and invite you to celebrate our gifts, our weaknesses, our differences, and our sameness. Fitch displays her wit and mastery of words in quick, rollicking rhymes that are complemented by Emma Fitzgerald's lively illustrations. EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street was originally produced in 2001 as a fundraiser to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Festival of Trees in support of the Nova Scotia Hospital and to raise awareness for mental illness and addiction.
- [My First Book of Canadian Birds](https://nimbus.ca/store/my-first-book-of-canadian-birds.html): Help your child identify birds like the Canada goose, American robin, and yellow warbler in their natural habitats with colourful and whimsical collage-style illustrations from breakout East Coast artist Angela Doak (Atlantic Animal ABC). Simple, gentle text gives readers a peek into the habitats of Canadian birds and introduces child and parent to fun facts about everything from bird sounds to egg sizes! My First Book of Canadian Birds is the perfect way to introduce young readers to birds from across the country.
- [In the Wake](https://nimbus.ca/store/in-the-wake.html): Set on the shores of modern-day Nova Scotia, two women are stagnated by grief and their own flawed versions of the past. Can the truth set them free? When Emily and her family move back to Nova Scotia from Calgary, it is a return to the coastal landscape that already haunts her—and the waters where her father died. She meets her neighbour Linda, a gruff but loving widow and Linda's grown son, Tom, who struggles to stay on an even keel. As they settle in, Emily and her husband, Daniel, learn more about the short but turbulent history of the house they've just bought. With Daniel away for work, Emily becomes caught up in the lives of her neighbours, relying on Linda's friendship and growing closer to Tom, despite his unsettling knack for appearing when she least expects him. As the tension in each family builds, both Emily and Linda must confront long-unanswered questions. With its nuanced depictions of marriage, parenting, grief and mental illness, and humorous, understated dialogue, Davison's debut is at once suspenseful and subtle.
- [Maud Lewis 1,2,3](https://nimbus.ca/store/maud-lewis-123.html): Maud Lewis 1-2-3 is a wonderful first counting book and introduction to the joy-filled art of Nova Scotia's most famous folk painter, Maud Lewis. Even the youngest babies will be drawn to the bright colours and bold forms in Lewis's whimsical paintings. Babies and toddlers will have fun searching the vibrant images to count the kittens, oxen, birds, and flowers on each page.
- [After Many Years](https://nimbus.ca/store/after-many-years-twenty-one-long-lost-stories-by-lm-montgomery.html): Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and stories. This collection brings together rare pieces originally published between 1900 and 1939 that haven't been in print since their initial periodicals. Collins and Woster have carefully curated a mixture of newly discovered stories that showcase all the charm you expect from Montgomery. With scholarly prefaces and notes for each piece, the book offers readers a rare glimpse into how Montgomery's writing developed over the years.
- [Bébé Regarde](https://nimbus.ca/store/bebe-regarde.html): An accordion-style book that can be unfolded to entertain your baby during tummy time. Babies love to look at baby faces and this book is dual-sided, featuring beautiful photos of babies on each side. Younger babies will love the close-up baby faces on one side, while older babies will enjoy the words and actions on the back of the book. The second in the popular Baby Steps series, each of which focuses on a key developmental stage in baby's first year, Bébé Regarde is the perfect board book for new parents, baby programs, and baby shower gifts.
- [An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia Twentieth-anniversary edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/an-illustrated-history-of-nova-scotia.html): In vivid, accessible prose, award-winning author Harry Bruce documents, in text and image, Nova Scotia's complex and fascinating history. With updates and a new chapter from author Dan Soucoup, An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia is back in print for a whole new generation.
- [The Nova Scotia Colouring Book](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-nova-scotia-colouring-book.html): Colour Nova Scotia as you've always imagined. From the celebrated illustrator of A Halifax ABC, A Halifax 123, and the Theodore Tugboat series comes a fun-filled colouring book depicting Canada's Ocean Playground. From coastal villages dotted with dories and fish huts to the sprawling Annapolis Valley to the Cape Breton highlands, The Nova Scotia Colouring Book covers the province's must-see locations and is a creative souvenir for all ages.
- [Canada - 150 Panoramas](https://nimbus.ca/store/canada-150-panoramas.html): From frosty Mount Logan in the Yukon to the salty shores of Newfoundland, George Fischer's stunning landscape photography celebrates the diverse appeal of every province and territory in Canada. With a chapter devoted to each region, Fischer captures the rugged natural beauty, vibrant city life, and abundant flora and fauna of this wide country. Short, narrative introductions accompany the stunning spreads and include brief historical anecdotes, interesting facts, provincial/territorial flowers, mottos, and capitals, and the date each province/territory joined Confederation. The perfect way to celebrate Canada's 150th, Canada: 150 Panoramas is an essential collection for any photography lover, whether they call Canada home, or wish they did.
- [Sailing in Circles, Goin' Somewhere Not Your Typical Boat Story](https://nimbus.ca/store/sailing-in-circles-goin-somewhere.html): Not all dreams have happy endings. Sailing in Circles, Goin' Somewhere is the funny, bittersweet memoir of a Prince Edward Island man who, over seven years, builds a classic 1930s wooden sailboat and, in 2004, attempts to circumnavigate eastern North America. The author leaves a small fishing port on the Island and tracks along the rugged coast, up the St. Lawrence River, and through the Great Lakes. Alone, he encounters heavy fog, near-collisions with freighters, mechanical breakdowns, enormous seas, several brushes with disaster, and even a hostile reception at one French-speaking port. He meets odd and curious people. It all comes to an inglorious and mundane end when the author and his boat, the Arja D., are stuck in, of all places, Peoria, Illinois. Was it worth it? Maybe. Written by Finley Martin, a respected Island fiction writer, this finely crafted and humorous book will appeal to adventurers, sailors, and lovers of a good yarn.
- [100 Things You Don't Know About Atlantic Canada (for Kids)](https://nimbus.ca/store/100-things-you-dont-know-about-atlantic-canada-for-kids.html): Did you know that you can walk on the ocean floor at the Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick? Or that there was once a UFO sighting in PEI? Or that someone found a real Maud Lewis painting in a thrift shop? Journalist Sal Sawler, author of the bestselling 100 Things You Don't Know About Nova Scotia, has collected the most interesting, surprising, and bizarre facts that you never knew about Atlantic Canada, just for kids. 100 Things You Don't Know About Atlantic Canada (for Kids) includes fun photos and helpful explanations that go with all the wacky and weird trivia that is sure to entertain and educate. As an added bonus, each 'thing' is paired with an interactive sidebar suggesting fun family activities, and places to visit. New and updated edition is available here !
- [Deux Pays Le Canada à l'ère du Grand Déséquilibre démographique](https://nimbus.ca/store/deux-pays.html): Ce que l'auteur Richard Saillant appelle le Grand Déséquilibre démographique canadien-- « le rythme très inégal auquel vieillit la population des diverses régions du Canada » -- est, selon l'expert des politiques publiques Donald J. Savoie, « l'un des défis les plus exigeants du pays pendant les deux prochaines décennies ». L'ouvrage Deux pays, dont l'orientation générale est profondément ancrée dans la démographie, développe la thèse de Saillant selon laquelle « les forces jumelées de la gravité économique et démographique » causeront de graves difficultés dans l'Est du Canada et l'ensemble du pays si nous n'agissons pas dès maintenant. Nous devons d'abord faire face à la dure réalité : « on observe entre les provinces les mieux et les moins bien nanties un contraste marqué qui est appelé à s'accentuer ». Résultat? Deux Canadas distincts, l'un âgé et peu nanti, l'autre jeune et dynamique. Sans un important changement de cap, affirme Saillant, le Canada sera un pays déchiré. Deux pays est un incontournable pour ceux qui cherchent une analyse stratégique et basée sur des données probantes de l'avenir incertain du Canada, ainsi que des recommandations visant à remédier aux répercussions du Grand déséquilibre démographique sur toute la population canadienne.
- [The Big Book of Lexicon:Volumes 7,8,9 Puzzles to Challenge & Entertain](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-big-book-of-lexicon:volumes-7,8,9.html): Theresa Williams's lexicon puzzles have been hugely popular since they were first published in 1988. Half-crossword, half-word search, lexicon puzzles engage and entertain fans of all ages. This edition brings back volumes 7, 8, and 9 and presents them as one large book for hours of fun!
- [The Black Battalion 1916-1920](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-black-battalion-1916-1920.html): Black military heritage in Canada is still generally unknown and unwritten. Most Canadians have no idea that Blacks served, fought, and died on European battlefields, all in the name of freedom. The story of the overt racist treatment of Black volunteers is a shameful chapter in Canadian history. It does, however, represent an important part of the Black legacy and the Black experience. It is a story worth reporting and worth sharing. In this thirtieth-anniversary edition of Ruck's celebrated history of Nova Scotia's No. 2 Construction Battalion, known as the Black Battalion, the original text and over 60 photographs and documents is presented for a whole new generation of readers, along with a new foreword and photographs from journalist Lindsay Ruck, Calvin W. Ruck's proud granddaughter.
- [Mary, Mary](https://nimbus.ca/store/mary-mary.html): In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier. Her well-­off aunt, the only other normal person in the family, wants to help her more, but Mary's mother is too prickly and proud. So Mary goes to work, comes home, takes care of her family, and wonders if there'll ever be more to life. When a young couple moves into the apartment upstairs, it sparks a series of changes that leads to major family revelations, and Mary discovers that sometimes doing the wrong thing is the exact right thing to do. Tender, authentic, and crackling with Lesley's irrepressible humour, Mary, Mary is a book for anyone who's ever had a family—good, bad, or a messy mix of both.
- [Bryant Freeman All Things Fishing](https://nimbus.ca/store/bryant-freeman.html): Bryant Freeman was born by a river, and the sound of roaring water was both magical and constant. For the rest of his life, Freeman, an icon in the New Brunswick fly-fishing community, would be drawn to the outdoors, and, invariably, rivers. Freeman has been honoured for his many contributions to fly tying and the conservation of Atlantic salmon and his specialty fly shop, Eskape Anglers in Riverview, New Brunswick, has been a destination for decades, a gathering place for tyers and anglers. Fondly known as Bryant the Banana Finger Man, Freeman is also a born storyteller, and in this book, readers are treated to some of his tales. They even get instructions on how to tie a Carter's Bug. Author and fisherman Doug Underhill follows Freeman from his childhood on the banks of Nova Scotia's Medway River to today, revealing fascinating insights into the man and the fine art of fly tying.
- [The Land Beyond the Wall An Immigration Story](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-land-beyond-the-wall.html): Emma lives on the grey, cold, lonely side of a wall, where people speak in whispers and no flowers grow. On the other side, there is happiness and colour, but she can never go there. When Emma's parents disappear, she is sent to live with her Aunt Lily, who, "just like the land withered from lack of sunshine, was broken by the life she led." One day, Aunt Lily discovers Emma drawing and dashes her niece's dream of becoming an artist. That is, until one day, when a strange boat captain, and an even stranger boat, arrive, and she leaves her world behind forever. Following Emma's arrival in a strange land (Halifax's Pier 21), her placement in a group home, and the discovery of her voice through art, The Land Beyond the Wall is a beautifully rendered allegory that uses magic realism to confront the harsh realities of immigration, and the universal struggle of finding one's voice, and one's place in the world.
- [Whispers of Mermaids and Wonderful Things](https://nimbus.ca/store/whispers-of-mermaids-and-wonderful-things.html): From celebrated children's poet and author Sheree Fitch and early childhood educator and researcher Anne Hunt comes this illustrated compendium of Atlantic Canadian poetry and verse for young readers. Spanning centuries of work, from Milton Acorn to Kathleen Winter, and a broad thematic scope--from soft lullabies to silly, jiggly lyrics, poignant meditations on nature, loss, and love--over 100 poems from the region's best are sure to delight educators, parents, and young readers everywhere. With brilliant spot illustrations from acclaimed New Brunswick artist Lloyd Fitzgerald, Whispers of Mermaids and Wonderful Things is a feast for all senses.
- [Fire in the Belly](https://nimbus.ca/store/fire-in-the-belly-2.html): A paperback edition of the award-winning biography by of Purdy Crawford, who went from Toronto's Bay Street as an outsider, the son of a coal miner from tiny Five Islands, Nova Scotia, to one of Canada's top lawyers and best-known business mentors.
- [Last Lullaby](https://nimbus.ca/store/last-lullaby.html): Set in the fictional town of Paddy's Arm, Newfoundland, Alice Walsh's debut mystery novel is at once harrowing and homey, equal parts police procedural and diner gossip. When Claire and Bram's only child dies suddenly, it at first appears to be a case of crib death. But when the real cause of death indicates homicide and Claire is arrested as the number-one suspect, her friend, lawyer Lauren LaVallee, promises she'll do everything she can to prove Claire's innocence. As Lauren combs Paddy's Arm for suspects, amid department politics and small-town talk, leads abound. Why are professors Frances and Annabelle being so secretive about their adopted daughter? What's behind a troubled student's sudden disappearance? And who is the mysterious platinum blonde observed at the scene of the crime? Meanwhile, Lauren's own secret—a case that almost cost her her career back in Montreal—and the sudden return of an ex-lover who wants back in her life, threaten to overwhelm the investigation altogether.
- [A Distorted Revolution How Eric's Trip Changed Music, Moncton, and Me](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-distorted-revolution.html): In this narrative history and memoir, journalist, musician, and Monctonian Jason Murray follows the rise of the band that put the Maritimes on the map. Eric's Trip was a band defined as much by its DIY ethos as its low-fi, discordant music. The four-piece formed in an early-'90s Moncton basement and in a few short years, went from recording themselves on a four-track and selling cassettes at local record stores to signing on Seattle's Sub Pop records, opening for Sonic Youth, and touring internationally. Twenty years after the band's breakup (1996), A Distorted Revolution is the ultimate nostalgia trip. Through personal recollections, interviews with band members and others integral to the early 90s scene, this highly anticipated book offers a rare glimpse inside the band's formation, success, and ultimate unravelling. Includes over 20 images.
- [Baby Look - Arabic edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/baby-look-arabic-edition.html)
- [House of Bears](https://nimbus.ca/store/house-of-bears.html): When Luba Kassim reluctantly returns home to Northern Ontario, the strained relationship with her traditional Ukrainian mother only heightens her feelings of alienation and isolation. A family crisis reunites her extended family and reignites old rivalries and the pain of long-held family secrets. Slowly, Luba begins piecing together her family's unspoken past, starting in the 1930s in Ukraine, followed by emigration to England and settlement in Canada. In the process, she uncovers some startling truths about her own identity, and learns that she and her mother have much more in common than she thinks.
- [Bubba Begonia You've Done it Again!](https://nimbus.ca/store/bubba-begonia-youve-done-it-again.html): Gerry O'Brien writes humourous chapter books, picture books, and lyrics for 7-12-year-olds. His lyrics have been sung by Corduroy Bear, Franklin The Turtle, and The Care Bears, and his stories, poems and plays have won numerous writing awards. He lives in Argyle Shore, Prince Edward Island. This is his third Bubba Begonia book.Illustrator Brenda Jones is a native of Prince Edward Island, and is a commercial designer and film animator who now lives in Montreal. She has illustrated a dozen books, including Bubba Begonia, You'll be Sorry!, Bubba Begonia and the Mudmen of the Koola Boola, My Mother is Weird, Bud the Spud and Buddy the Blue-Nosed Reindeer.
- [Bubba Begonia and the Mudmen of the Koola Boola](https://nimbus.ca/store/bubba-begonia-and-the-mudmen-of-the-koola-boola.html): Bubba Begonia's back! This time he and his two pals, Harold Haymow and Rad Chad Disco, learn the hard way that if you're going to mess with the colourful and unpredictable Moonbaby Orbit, then you'd better be prepared to pay the price.After playing a wildly successful practical joke on Moonbaby and her sidekick, Margo Marvelous, the boys find themselves out in the middle of nowhere, drenched in stinky perfume and watching helplessly as Moonbaby and Margo run off with their clothes. The boys' journey back to civilization is a zany adventure that ends when the boys, dressed in mud and rhubarb leaves, enlist the help of Hippo, The Black-Nosed Rottenweiler to invade Camp What-A-Girl to find their missing clothes.
- [Bounce and Beans and Burn](https://nimbus.ca/store/bounce-and-beans-and-burn.html): After breakfast Sam is so excited that he's bouncing off the walls. His mother tells him to go out to the garden to play. At lunch he's so full of beans that all he can get up to is mischief. His grandmother tells him to go out to the garden to play. After supper he has so much energy to burn that he can't sit still. His father tells him to go out to the garden to play. Little do they know that when Sam does, he turns into a ferocious Samurai, goes on an adventure with Jack and the Beanstalk, and meets a fire-breathing dragon. Bounce & Beans & Burn follows Sam through an ordinary day of extraordinary adventure.
- [Acadian Christmas Traditions](https://nimbus.ca/store/acadian-christmas-traditions.html): Based on written sources and interviews with Acadians throughout the Maritimes, Acadian Christmas Traditions offers a fascinating look at the evolution of Christmas. This very readable book shows how customs, both spiritual and secular, take hold in families, in villages, and in a culture as a whole. Georges Arsenault, the well-known historian and folklorist, examines all the aspects of the feast of Christmas, from midnight mass to holiday foods. As he chronicles the cultural changes that have taken place over the centuries, he proves that Acadian Christmas today is the result of a wonderful blending of old, new, and borrowed traditions.
- [Along Lot Seven Shore](https://nimbus.ca/store/along-lot-seven-shore.html): Often, folksongs are left to stand alone, with no record as to the events, visions and principles that inspired them. Rarely do we get a glimpse of the poet's view of the community and people he or she writes about. However, Donnie Doyle, in wanting to give something back to his community, has done just that. Along Lot Seven Shore is a fascinating combination of memoir, anecdote, narrative song and poetry, created by someone who has experienced that which he has written. In so doing, he shares glimpses of a way of life that makes and defines "community"; this particular community happens to be along Lot Seven Shore of Prince Edward Island (named so when the Island was divided into 67 lots and given in a Land Lottery to the English King's patrons in 1767), but it could be anywhere in rural Canada.
- [Everything That Shines](https://nimbus.ca/store/everything-that-shines.html): This is a magical tale about a girl, Maddie, and her horse, Shekinah, and the bonds of family and friendship. It's also about growing up and having those you love grow old and leave you, and about the magical light that shines in everything when you love something very, very much- even after they're gone.
- [Three Tall Trees](https://nimbus.ca/store/three-tall-trees.html): Narrated by Enigma the Crow, this charming picture book for children aged four to seven, is a delightful rhyming fable that tells the story of three tall trees. Living in close proximity in the woods, the ancient trees "bump and collide constantly." Jacob claims that his roots are the deepest. Paul brags that his branches are wider, while Elijah Ali insists that his sap is the purest of all. There is "war in the forest" until Enigma observes a basic truth: the trees aren't three trees at all. They're part of the very same tree. With its gentle humour and heartfelt message about the connectedness of all living things, Three Tall Trees is certain to captivate young readers.
- [A Long Way From the Road](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-long-way-from-the-road.html): A collection of 77 anecdotes, this book is humorous and sardonic, insightful and witty, with the warmth and charm for which Atlantic Canada has become famous. Subjects that come under the microscope include politics, religion, sex, human foibles, and insularity that can come from living on a small island.
- [North Shore of Home](https://nimbus.ca/store/north-shore-of-home.html): Since it was first published in 1986, Frank Ledwell's The North Shore of Home has had an enduring place in Island literature. In warm-hearted prose and poetry, in a voice keenly tuned to the music of Prince Edward Island English, Ledwell explores the Island's North Shore, and especially the richly historied community of St. Peter's Bay. Taken together, his poems and stories create a portrait of a community surviving through the Depression and the Second World War - a community at the Island's edge and at the very cusp of the dramatic changes that would affect all small Prince Edward Island communities in the postwar years.
- [Island Sketchbook](https://nimbus.ca/store/island-sketchbook.html): With characteristic warmth, generosity, and humour, Frank Ledwell seamlessly weaves personal memoir and communal folk wisdom into 60 prose sketches of Island characters, anecdotes, and traditions. The stories are based on real people or incidents; others are fictionalized, evoking the true, remembered landscape of Ledwell's childhood at St. Peter's Bay on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, his experience as a student, teacher, and professor at St. Dunstan's University, and his later life as a professor, husband, and parent in rural Queen's County. The sketches also evoke the author's love of people and place and mark his point of view as that of an inveterate Islander.
- [Betrayer](https://nimbus.ca/store/betrayer.html): Inspired by the last murder in Prince Edward Island for which capital punishment was exacted- and the theory that a third man was involved in the crime- The Betrayer conjures the fictional life of this "third man" in an intimate psychological profile of a man who, quite literally, gets away with murder. With a deft hand, Hennessey takes us down the darker streets of mid-20th-century Charlottetown, capturing the city's gritty west end with the brushstrokes of someone who has lived it. He also takes us down into the darkest recesses of the human spirit, into the mind and soul of a murderer.
- [Jean Pierre Roma](https://nimbus.ca/store/jean-pierre-roma.html): During the four years poet Jill MacLean lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched Jean Pierre Roma's settlement at Trois Rivières. Her first collection, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. She now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia.
- [Who Departed This Life](https://nimbus.ca/store/who-departed-this-life.html): George Wright has had a long history of interest in the Burying Ground, with at least nine direct ancestors buried there (great-great-great- and great-great-grandparents). The launch of the book coincides with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the City of Charlottetown.
- [Kindred Spirits](https://nimbus.ca/store/kindred-spirits.html): Who is your kindred spirit? Who kindles the fire in your soul? Driven by curiosity about her own intense friendships and soul-to-soul connections, Dianne Hicks Morrow devoted the last 10 years to asking Atlantic Canadians these questions. In Kindred Spirits, people as diverse as composer Norman Campbell, lyricist Elaine Campbell, country doctor Jim Bowen, author Sheree Fitch, photographer Freeman Patterson, comedian dentist Marina Sexton, theatre director Duncan McIntosh, minister Elizabeth Stevenson, university president Wade MacLauchlan, and actor Deb Allen reveal their passionate connections to the people, places, and animals that inspire their deepest trust, their most intimate contact, and their unconditional love.
- [Enchanted House](https://nimbus.ca/store/enchanted-house.html): Charlottetown poet Beth E. Janzen's work has appeared in journals such as The Malahat Review and Grain. Her chapbook Night Vanishes was published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks in 2004. The Enchanted House is her first full collection of poems.
- [Bubba Begonia, You'll Be Sorry](https://nimbus.ca/store/bubba-begonia-youll-be-sorry.html): Bubba Begonia is a young boy who desperately wants to make a good impression on the first day at his new school. But Bubba is nervous. Very nervous. And when he gets nervous his finger just seems to naturally head to his nose. "Bubba! Don't be messin' with your nose," admonishes his mother. "Your finger'll get stuck and then you'll be sorry!"But Deerwatson Elementary isn't your ordinary school. And Bubba's classmates aren't your ordinary students. In meeting the zaniest bunch of kids ever assembled, Bubba makes a memorable first impression when his mother's words of warning come true.In his first chapter book (ages 8 and up), Gerry O'Brien creates an hilarious story of a young boy who overcomes an embarrassing personal habit with the help of his equally embarrassing little sister.
- [Bridging Islands](https://nimbus.ca/store/bridging-islands.html): An island is a piece of land surrounded by water. But: what happens when bridges, causeways, tunnels- "fixed links"- irrevocably connect islands to mainlands? Is insularity, and its way of life, threatened? Or is it saved by virtue of a stronger integration with the world at large?Bridging Islands is a critical, interdisciplinary scoreboard of the pros and cons of bridging islands to mainlands. Internationally recognized scholars review the assorted socio-cultural, economic and political impacts of fixed links on small island communities. Included are chapters on Prince Edward Island's Confederation Bridge (celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2007), Cape Breton's Canso Causeway, islands in Quebec and Newfoundland, the Florida Keys, Ireland, France, Scotland, Sweden, and Singapore.
- [Taste of Water](https://nimbus.ca/store/taste-of-water.html): The taste of water is something we all know but need to be reminded of once in a while: how it tastes of shared memory, and of what it means to be human, and of the earth.Prince Edward Island's second Poet Laureate, Frank Ledwell, invites us to enter his words and world, seeking to share a sense of our common humanity and our interdependent fates, and to recognize communal experience in the particularities of personal experience.The traditional role of the Poet Laureate is to mark occasions, and Ledwell's poems masterfully make quotidian Island events and lives into special occasions that sing with the "spirit of the spoken word taking hold."
- [True Meaning of Crumbfest](https://nimbus.ca/store/true-meaning-of-crumbfest.html): "Winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature; over 17,000 copies in print; animated Christmas special on TELETOON, with the spin-off series Eckhart, The True Meaning of Crumbfest is the story of a curious little mouse named Ekhart, who sets off to discover the truth about that most abundant time of year called 'Crumbfest,' when bounteous crumbs miraculously appear in the old Prince Edward Island farmhouse in which he lives. Much anthologized — particularly by CBC Radio's 'Fireside Al'— this a heartwarming tale of the magic that happens when the 'Outside' and the 'Inside' come together."
- [When You Read to Me](https://nimbus.ca/store/when-you-read-to-me.html): A multilingual book written in English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Simplified Chinese, and Arabic, it shows the many ways babies engage with books at different ages and stages. Evocative photos of babies and bouncy read-aloud text will appeal to baby and parent alike.
- [Atlantic Ghosts Tales from the Haunted Coast](https://nimbus.ca/store/atlantic-ghosts-tales-from-the-haunted-coast.html): Keepsake collection of supernatural folkore from Atlantic Canada, accompanied by original pen-and-ink illustrations.
- [A Few White Lies](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-few-white-lies.html): Lorne Elliott is at his satirical best in his new novel A Few White Lies.
- [Threshold](https://nimbus.ca/store/threshold.html): Contemporary short story collection exploring privilege, perspective, and contradiction from the celebrated author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are and A Bird on Every Tree.
- [The Life of Boston King](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-life-of-boston-king.html): In the summer of 1783, at the end of the American Revolution, several thousand Black men, women and children left New York City with the British Army, bound by ship for Nova Scotia. Now uniformly called "Black Loyalists", regardless of their status at leaving New York, theirs is a rich and fascinating history. One of the most well-documented of these Black Loyalists was a man named Boston King, born a slave to Richard Waring, a rice-planter in South Carolina. King experienced a religious revelation while in Nova Scotia, and became a Methodist preacher; he went to Sierra Leone in 1792 to spread the Gospel; and from there was invited to England to study at a Methodist school. While there, he wrote the story of his life and conversion. This was published in the Methodist Magazine of the times. Thus survived one of only three autobiographies of a Black Loyalist, full of details of the Loyalist settlement of Nova Scotia. It is reprinted here as "Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher," edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Carmelita Robertson. An introduction by Ruth Holmes Whitehead presents new research findings about King's life, and her Afterword examines particularly his life as a slave on the Waring Plantation, near Charleston, SC. Whitehead and Robertson revisited the ruins of two Waring plantations, where King would have worked as a child and young man, and photographed the dirt road, still running through one plantation, down which he would have ridden away to freedom.
- [Marilla Before Anne](https://nimbus.ca/store/marilla-before-anne.html): Marilla Cuthbert was fifty-two years old when the plucky red-headed Anne Shirley came to live with her and her brother, Matthew, at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island. A seemingly cold and dour spinster, her heart eventually softens to the loveable orphan girl. But for over a century readers have wondered, who was Marilla before Anne? In Louise Michalos's remarkable debut novel, readers are introduced to a spirited eighteen-year-old Marilla Cuthbert—a girl not unlike Anne herself—who is desperately in love, and whose whole life is spread before her. But when a moment of defiance brings life-changing consequences, a new Marilla begins to take shape, one who would learn to bear tragedy like a birthright, and loss as an inevitability, and who would hold steadfast to the secrets that could shatter the lives of everyone around her. Weaving its way from Marilla's early life in Avonlea to her coming-of-age in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and back, Marilla Before Anne is the story readers of Anne of Green Gables have longed for. Told with a refreshingly original East Coast voice, this exquisite, heartbreaking work of historical fiction takes readers on a journey back in time, to the Green Gables where Marilla Cuthbert lived, loved, and learned, long before Anne.
- [Chocolate River Rescue](https://nimbus.ca/store/chocolate-river-rescue.html): "Get off of there, Craig!" shouted Shawn. "I can't! I'm slipping!" wailed Craig. Shawn leaped back onto the ice. He took a breath and jumped over the widening crack, grabbing his little brother by the coat as he flew through the air. Both boys fell heavily to the ice on the other side. The boys stared in horror as the crack widened to reveal an eddy of churning, foaming brown water. Tony, Craig, and Shawn are trapped on an ice floe on the Petitcodiac River in the dead of winter, and the rapid current is pulling them toward the ocean. Twelve-year-old Petra arrives and the boys think they're saved, but their dangerous journey is only just beginning. The boys and Petra face peril at every twist and turn of the river in Chocolate River Rescue, an exhilarating adventure based on true events. They also learn that a river of chocolate is far better served warm, over ice cream, than cold on an ice floe! arn that a river of chocolate is far better served warm, over ice cream, than cold on an ice floe!
- [Bluenose Cookbook](https://nimbus.ca/store/bluenose-cookbook.html): The Bluenose Cookbook includes famous Yarmouth recipes with a strong emphasis on seafood. Most are traditional recipes from the southernmost part of Nova Scotia. Originally published in 1965, this 4th edition has been reprinted many times.
- [Pirates of the North Atlantic (New Ed)](https://nimbus.ca/store/pirates-of-the-north-atlantic-new-ed.html): Along miles of rugged coastline, in secret bays and hidden inlets, and even in the busiest ports lurk stories of the infamous pirates who visited the North Atlantic in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
- [If I Had an Old House on the East Coast](https://nimbus.ca/store/if-i-had-an-old-house-on-the-east-coast.html): If I had an old house on the East Coast I would fall in love at first sight. It would grab me by the heart, and not let go. With introspection and deep appreciation for the East Coast, this inspirational gift book shares a dream, in words and images, of falling in love with an old house and breathing new life into it. Exploring, with lyrical prose, everything from an old house's foundation to its layers of antique wallpaper to its decades-old gardens bursting with wildflowers, this book is a love letter to a vanishing way of life. Fully illustrated with gentle watercolours from celebrated local artist Kat Frick Miller, If I Had an Old House on the East Coast also includes practical tips for the old-home-owner, from how to clear your home of ghosts to instructions for making rosehip jelly and maple syrup.
- [Baby's Lullaby](https://nimbus.ca/store/babys-lullaby.html): Baby's Lullaby is a fabulous baby board book for bedtime. Renowned musician Jill Barber provides soft, soothing words to calm baby before sleep. HildaRose's colourful illustrations depict different parent-child pairs getting ready for sleep: from otters, to fish, geese, squirrels, raccoons, and of course, baby! The stimulating visuals and patterns, recognizable baby and animal faces, and close-ups on parent-child interaction will keep baby engaged. The text's use of rhythm, repetition, and simple language means baby and parents will enjoy reading Baby's Lullaby again and again. This sturdy board book is suited for babies age 0-2 years old.
- [Trees of Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/trees-of-nova-scotia.html): An informative guide to 45 native and exotic species of trees and shrubs that inhabit Nova Scotia.
- [The North Atlantic Right Whale Past, Present, and Future](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-north-atlantic-right-whale.html): The North Atlantic right whale, also called the "urban" whale for its proximity to industrialized regions of North America's east coast, is one of the largest whales in the world. Averaging 14 metres, and weighing about 40,000 kilograms, it is known for its graceful tail, callosities, lack of dorsal fins, and strong bond with its young. But historically, it was known as the "right" whale to kill, and has been commercially hunted for its abundant blubber and oil since the tenth century. Considered nearly extinct by the 1950s, the population slowly began to recover due to conservation efforts in the late twentieth-century. But commercial fishing-related deaths in recent years, including the loss of at least seventeen right whales (2% of the population) in the summer of 2017, put the species at a level of critical endangerment. The next few decades will determine whether it survives. Offering background on the whale's history, unique biology and behaviour, information on what is killing them and how readers can help, The North Atlantic Right Whale is an important, accessible book that will spark action and increased awareness of the plight of this majestic creature.
- [Danger Revealed](https://nimbus.ca/store/danger-revealed.html): Can Rayen escape her ruthless Chicago crime boss? Escape with the riveting rollercoaster ride of "Danger Revealed." This suspenseful novel will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat until the very end and wanting more!
- [St. Paul Island The Story of Lighthouses, Shipwrecks, and Lives on "The Graveyard  of the Gulf"](https://nimbus.ca/store/st-paul-island.html): History of life-saving and lighthouse keeping on a noted hazard to shipping—a rock with over 300 known shipwrecks on its shores.
- [The Sniger and the Floose](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-sniger-and-the-floose.html): On a very Random Island in the North Atlantic Sea, some very Randomanimals are hiding in the trees… So begins Ashley Fayth’s delightful nonsense poem in which readers meet a range of “wild and wondrous” beasts—like the sniger, the floose, the squiffin, and the butterflabbit. With its playful rhymes and rollicking rhythm, this book is a perfect read-aloud. Yet even in its silliest moments, The Sniger and the Floose is a gentle reminder to respect and preserve the beauty of the natural world around us, and a joyous celebration of imagination.
- [Voyage dans le temps lieux d'importance geologique au Nouveau-Brunswick et a l'Ile-du-Prince-Edouard](https://nimbus.ca/store/voyage-dans-le-temps.html)
- [Lullaby for New Brunswick](https://nimbus.ca/store/lullaby-for-new-brunswick.html): Sing your way around the province with this charming lullaby. Vibrant imaged and evocative language combine to celebrate the beauty and diversity of New Brunswick's landscape.
- [Atlantic Schooners](https://nimbus.ca/store/atlantic-schooners.html): Noted marine artist and historic illustrator L.B. Jenson has produced a number of publications that feature the history and heritage of Nova Scotia's ocean-going traditions including his most ambitious work, Bluenose 11, Sage of the Great Fishing Schooners.
- [Forty-Five Wooden Boats](https://nimbus.ca/store/forty-five-wooden-boats.html): Deciding what boat to build is one of those wonderful mind pursuits, and study plans catalogs are a great way to get that thought process in gear because you have a nice variety of boats to compare/contrast. The designs range from three different skin-on-frame boats, to glue-lap-ply dinghies and daysailers, to a 20' trimaran, and some go-slow canal boats. There are several power boats, including simple skiffs and more rugged powercraft, and weekender type sailboats go up to 24 feet. What sets these design catalogs apart from other such publications is the honest commentary, and the lines provided so you can understand the hull shapes of a three-dimensional boat from a flat piece of paper. Basic particulars are included, as well as building skills needed. And, all of the plans shown are available for purchase from WoodenBoat. This is the fourth in the very successful series of boat design catalogs published by WoodenBoat. The three prior sutdy plans catalogues have approximately 100,000 copies in print. None of the designs in Forty-Five Wooden Boats are shown in the prior books, and the emphasis is on boats you can build.
- [New England Masts and The King's Broad Arrow](https://nimbus.ca/store/new-england-masts-and-the-kings-broad-arrow.html): Author/illustrator Sam Manning has brought to life a period in history which makes this book valuable, but not simply because you will understand how the shipbuilding industry worked from the 1600s - 1800s. Manning shows what governments were doing, why, and how it directly parallels the twentieth- and twenty-first century policies of nations to spend blood and treasure to ensure they can control the supply of natural resources for their national security. With 1600s Europe unable to supply the big tall masts needed for their navies, Great Britain established a policy of marking trees in New England which were specifically the Crown's, to be cut, processed, and shipped back to England. Without proper masts, the navy could not carry sails to propel their ships--much like the need for oil today.
- [Go Build Your Own Boat !](https://nimbus.ca/store/go-build-your-own-boat-.html): This book is packed with how-to and know-how, as well as photos and drawings. Originally published in 1987, the book still has a place near and dear to many followers of the late Dynamite Payson, who still inspires folks to just get to the process of building a boat they can actually use.
- [Instant Boats](https://nimbus.ca/store/instant-boats.html): How to build simple, well-designed plywood boats without a complicated building jig, featuring complete scaled-down plans for five easily-built boats designed by Phil Bolger. From a small punt to a 31' daysailer with a schooner rig. The step-by-step example being a 12' double-ended sailing skiff.
- [Build the Instant Catboats](https://nimbus.ca/store/build-the-instant-catboats.html): Featuring one of Phil Bolger's clean, simple designs. Dynamite clearly explains the building process that will result in your own 12' gaff-rigged catboat using the stitch-and-glue plywood method.
- [Classic Classes](https://nimbus.ca/store/classic-classes.html): Packed with more than 150 designs, the focus is on the well-know and still active class boats, yet covers over 125 years of boating. Handsomely designed, color thoughout, the book is divided into three sections: Dinghy/Keelboats, Olympic Classes, and Yachts, and the sections are colorbar coded for ease of reference. Entries include profile drawing, photographs, basic specifications, background, plans availability, class contact, and more. Plus there's a sail insignia guide, and an index.Designs covered include the Optimist pram, Beetle Cat, Moth, Wayfarer and more small boats, to the Nordic Folkboat, Dragons, 12-meters, IODs, J-class and more. Designers include Uffa Fox, Olin Stephens, William Fife III, Knud Reimers, Starling Burgess, and many many more. This book is a handy resource, and includes all 44 Olympic class boats, just in time for the Summer 2012 Olympics held in London.Author Venessa Bird, is a freelance writer, and former Classic Boat magazine production editor, where she began this series. She sails a 1933 Scottish lugger out of Chichester Harbor, in the south of England.
- [How to Build the Footy Model Presto](https://nimbus.ca/store/how-to-build-the-footy-model-presto.html): A “Footy” is a internationally recognized model boat sailing class, taking its name from the 12” long box the hull must fit into to comply with the rules.The book is packed with step-by-step building photos, suppliers of materials including radio control units, a reduced sized complete set of building plans (yes, you could scale-up) a lengthy intro to the evolution of the PRESTO design, as well some Flavio sketches for ideas of other boats.Built from solid balsa, PRESTO complies with the Footy model rules by fitting into the 12” x 6” box... on the diagonal, to give her just a bit more length. Flavio is very competitive. And, you'll find his wave-length / hull-drag test info quite interesting. But the thing that will absolutely grab you is the boat itself--quite handsome, and packed with personality.About the author: Flavio Faloci resides in Genoa, Italy, where he makes his living as a naval architect at the head office of the Registro Italiano Navale, the Italian equivalent of the American Bureau of Ships. He is also team captain and chief designer of the Trieste Waterbike Team, current holder of the Guiness record for longest distance covered in 24 hours. He is also the Italian registrar for the Footy model class, as well as a skilled cook of cakes, ice creams, and cookies.
- [Sailing for Everyone](https://nimbus.ca/store/sailing-for-everyone.html): Boatbuilder, sailor, and teacher Simon Watts divides his time between San Francisco, and the family summer home on Middle Island, near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
- [Windjammers Downeast](https://nimbus.ca/store/windjammers-downeast.html): The images in this book are termed photographic impressions–paintings created from photos and software, using a stylus as the paintbrush, producing a unique form of artwork.
- [Yellow Boatie](https://nimbus.ca/store/yellow-boatie.html): Helen Sylvester was born in Maine and has lived in the same house overlooking Blue Hill Bay for nearly seventy years. Chris Gray, also born in Maine, studied at the Maine College of Art and makes custom furniture and cabinets.
- [Herreshoff](https://nimbus.ca/store/herreshoff.html): Franco Pace is a yachting photographer of international repute, known for his stunning action shots and superb composition. His work regularly appears in the major international yachting magazines, and he has several other books to his credit, including William Fife: Master of the Classic Yacht and Sparkman & Stephens: Classic Modern Yachts. Franco Pace lives in Trieste, Italy.
- [Moonsailors](https://nimbus.ca/store/moonsailors.html): Buckley Smith, a self-taught artist, was born in Los Angeles in 1947. Drawing, be it pen and ink, graphite or charcoal, is Buckley's original medium, and remains his strongest today. Boats have remained his foremost subject matter. Buckley makes his home in Maine, North Carolina, Florida, and Italy.
- [Small Yachts](https://nimbus.ca/store/small-yachts.html): Charles P. Kunhardt, born on Staten Island, New York, was editor of Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s. Small Yachts was his monumental work, which influenced yachting for years to come.
- [The Watery Realm](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-watery-realm.html): Here is an enjoyable read and an ideal gift for your water-oriented friends. It's a series of essays about the ways in which bodies of water--lakes, rivers, and seas--inspire and ignite curiosity for those who venture onto, into, or near them. The Watery Realm will no doubt initiate a most pleasurable response in the reader. Boat fanatics, beach bums, sailors, naturalists, linguists, surfers, and especially readers of maritime lore and literature will all be reminded of the many possibilities of the world of sea and shore, tall ship and kayak, lake and stream, shell and shark.
- [Marisol Skiff](https://nimbus.ca/store/marisol-skiff.html): Glifford Jackson grew up with boats in his native New Zealand and developed an early interest in the design. In 1939 he set off by sea at the age of 17, to study naval architecture at Glasgow University in Scotland.
- [A Storm Without Rain](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-storm-without-rain.html): Jan Lee Adkins was born on the Ohio River in West Virginia. He was raised in Wheeling when it was still an industrial center and smog blocked out the sky until Midday. Jan attended public school in St. Clairsville, Ohio, a small town in the coalfields where boys of substance were absent on the first day of rabbit season.
- [Solstice, A Mystery of the Season](https://nimbus.ca/store/solstice-a-mystery-of-the-season.html): Jan Lee Adkins was born on the Ohio River in West Virginia and raised in Wheeling. He attended public school in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Jan has lived in Ohio, the Washington, DC, megalopolis, and in Marin County, California, but his real home is the area around Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts, between New Bedford and Wareham. This is where his children were born and he learned to sail.
- [Workboats](https://nimbus.ca/store/workboats.html): A tale of the sea without varnish and polished brass. The characters in this miniature narrative are the rough and purpose-built workboats that live with the weather and the hard realities of the water. A boatyard owner's concern for a lost fisherman reverberates through the working community of watermen, giving us an insider's glimpse of the vessels and seafolk that work the sea for a living. This is a read-aloud book with a wealth of "I see" details that will call for as much parent-child sharing as reading.
- [Moving Heavy Things](https://nimbus.ca/store/moving-heavy-things.html): The almost forgotten craft of shifting large weights with brains instead of engines. Beginning with practical rules for moving like "Get the Ming vase out of the Room. All the way out," and "What goes up comes down heavier." This is a fascinating description of applied physics in the real world. If you move engine blocks, concrete mooring sinkers, or nothing heavier than this book from table to lap, you'll enjoy the encouraging narrative and the precise drawings. Not everyone moves coffins with marbles or sheet steel with baseballs, but you might very well find an idea to help you move Uncle Harry's monstrous bathtub out of the basement, or a reluctant oak stump out of the yard.
- [Focused on the Coast](https://nimbus.ca/store/focused-on-the-coast.html): A professional photographer for over twenty years, Neal Parent started his career as a photojournalist for a small mid-coast Maine newspaper. Although his primary subjects has been the coast of Maine - its water, landscapes, boats and people; in recent years, his work has expanded to include Flordia, Wyoming and Montana. Shooting exclusively in the 35mm format enables him to photograph with spontaneity. Using natural light, he works without filters and does all his own printing. Hand processing of each photograph in trays ensures complete control of each image. Neal has been sharing his gifts of photography and laughter with others by conducting workshops throughout Maine for many years. He has taught week-long courses at WoodenBoat School in Brooklin, Maine and on the ketch Angelique out of Camden, Maine, as well as at his studio and darkroom in Belfast, Maine.
- [A Kid's Book on Boatbuilding](https://nimbus.ca/store/a-kids-book-on-boatbuilding.html): As a kid, Will Ansel would spend hours rowing the creeks around Annapolis, Maryland. From his boat he could look down on the wrecks of Chesapeake skipjacks, and watch the turtles sun themselves on deckbeams and the tops of centerboard trunks. He found other types of Chesapeake boats there too, including the old "log" boats. Years later, Will built scaled-down skipjacks, wrote about them, and eventually went to work at Mystic Seaport as a ships' carpenter and boatbuilder. Will now lives in Georgetown, Maine, in an old house built at the water's edge, with a small shop and dock. The inventory of boats and kayaks is currently seven. Besides keeping up, using, and adding to these, he does some writing and painting, and work around a cabin in the woods.
- [How to Build Glued Lapstrake Wooden Boats](https://nimbus.ca/store/how-to-build-glued-lapstrake-wooden-boats.html): As a child, John Brooks loved to build models and sail with his grandfather. When most teenagers were at the prom, John was changing jibs in the Indian Ocean, halfway through a 35,000-mile, two-year cruise. He began building boats in commercial yards at 19, while studying boat design and building his own boats. John worked for many years honing his craftsmanship on fine yachts, small boats, custom furniture, and a harpsichord. He has been a instructor at the WoodenBoat School in Maine since the mid-1990s, teaching glued-lapstrake boatbuilding, fine interior joinery, and carving. Ruth Ann Hill grew up on the coast of Maine. A writer, boatbuilding assistant, naturalist, and graphic artist, Ruth is the author of Discovering Old Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park: An Unconventional Guide and a contributing editor for Maine Boats & Harbors magazine. John and Ruth started their business, Brooks Boats, in 1991. They design and build glued-lapstrake boats in West Brooklin, Maine-and get out to enjoy their handiwork in its proper element whenever they can.
- [Building Catherine](https://nimbus.ca/store/building-catherine.html): Richard Kolin has been building boats for 25 years. He has designed and built skiffs for both plywood and plank construction.
- [Clinker Plywood Boatbuilding Manual](https://nimbus.ca/store/clinker-plywood-boatbuilding-manual.html): After a successful career in centreboard racing dinghies, Ian Oughtred became one of the leading lights of the British wooden boat revival, designing, building and sailing many remarkable craft. These boats have gained a world-wide reputation for their elegance of line, sound construction and execellent sailing performance. His perfectionist approach may be unbusinesslike, but provides highly refined designs and detailed plans. In this he hopes to encourage a return to a deep appreciation of traditional values of craftsmanship, believing this is the vital part of the true education, and thus helps to nourish the human spirit in an impoverished age.
- [Designer & Client](https://nimbus.ca/store/designer-client.html): Boats of your dreams. Eight of them. Watch them evolve from concept sketches to final drawings. Experience the give and take between designer and eight different boat-savvy clients. Would you have added just a bit more shear? Increased the headroom? It’s time for some serious daydreaming.
- [Building Heidi](https://nimbus.ca/store/building-heidi.html): Richard Kolin has been building boats for 25 years. He has designed and built skiffs for both plywood and plank construction.
- [Planking & Fastening](https://nimbus.ca/store/planking-fastening.html): Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
- [Frame, Stem & Keel Repair](https://nimbus.ca/store/frame-stem-keel-repair.html): Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Day's, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
- [Painting and Varnishing](https://nimbus.ca/store/painting-and-varnishing.html): Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
- [Shipcarver's Handbook](https://nimbus.ca/store/shipcarvers-handbook.html): Jay S. Hanna was a professional carver and modelmaker for more than 40 years. His models will be found on display in such institutions as the Mariner's Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Maine Maritime Museum, and in many private collections. His carvings adorn many yachts and cruise schooners, as well as stores and homes.
- [How to Build the Catspaw Dinghy A Boat for Oar and Sail](https://nimbus.ca/store/how-to-build-the-catspaw-dinghy.html): The Catspaw Dinghy is Joel White’s 12’8” version of the famed Herreshoff Dinghy Columbia. Catspaw is a carvel planked with 1/2” cedar over steam-bent oak frames, and copper rivet fastened.
- [How to Build A Wooden Boat](https://nimbus.ca/store/how-to-build-a-wooden-boat.html): David C. "Bud" McIntosh was a designer, builder, and sailor of large and small wooden cruising boats for more than 50 years, and wrote about it for over 10 of those years. He made his home on New Hampshire's Piscataqua River, where he was teacher and friend to both amateur and professional boatbuilders.
- [How to Build the Shellback Dinghy](https://nimbus.ca/store/how-to-build-the-shellback-dinghy.html): Easy to build from the separately supplied plans or a kit of pre-cut pieces, the Shellback is a dinghy of traditional design and modern glued-plywood construction.
- [Sibley's Trees of Rocky Mountain Region-Folding Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/sibleys-trees-of-rocky-mountain-region-folding-guide.html): FoldingGuide™ offers instant access to just what the curious beginner needs to know. 46 of the most common indigenous and cultivated tree species are covered, including descriptions, size, range, and illustrations of bark, leaves, blossoms, and fruits and berries, all taken from the author’s award-winning The Sibley Guide to Trees. The Rocky Mountain Region includes Alberta and Saskatchewan.
- [Sea Turtle of the Pacific - Folding Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/sea-turtle-of-the-pacific-folding-guide.html): This FoldingGuide covers all five species of Sea Turtles that inhabit the Pacific Ocean. Includes detailed illustrations and maps explaining the life cycle, nesting behaviour, egg development, etc. of each species.
- [Sharks & Rays of the Pacific Coast -Folding Guide](https://nimbus.ca/store/sharks-rays-of-the-pacific-coast-folding-guide.html): This FoldingGuide™ includes 35 species of sharks and 25 species of electric rays, stingrays, skates and sawfishes found along the Pacific coast from Oregon up through British Columbia. Includes both near and offshore species. Includes detailed illustrations, descriptions, typical length and weight.
- [Titanic Reference Map 2nd Edition](https://nimbus.ca/store/titanic-reference-map-2nd-edition.html): Map of Titanic Wreck.
- [Nova Scotia Fishing Map](https://nimbus.ca/store/nova-scotia-fishing-map.html): Areas for fishing in Nova Scotia.
- [Nutaui's Cap](https://nimbus.ca/store/nutaui): Nanass is eager to join her father and the other members of her Innu community protesting NATO low-level flying. But when her father is arrested, Nanass has little to comfort her, except her father's ball cap and the promise of the land itself that the Innu people will one day triumph.
- [Jack and the Manger A Christmas Jack Tale](https://nimbus.ca/store/jack-and-the-manger.html): The Christmas story told with a folktale twist. This reverently irreverent story gives a whole new take on the birth of Jesus.
- [Jack, the King of Ashes](https://nimbus.ca/store/jack,-the-king-of-ashes.html): Jack, the King of Ashes is another riotously funny Jack tale from Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji; it is as moving as it is hilarious.This time Jack, the "King of Ashes," spends all his time hove off in the coal box, until one day he shakes off his ashes and sets out on an adventure that includes sneaky robbers, a "famous missing princess with reward attached," an always-surprising canine sidekick, a royal wedding, a lovelorn rooster-puppet, a conniving ship?s captain, corpses, curses, kisses, a coat and a whole lot more!Steeped in Newfoundland folk tradition, Jack, the King of Ashes shows Jones at the top of his form.
- [Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves](https://nimbus.ca/store/jack-and-mary-in-the-land-of-thieves.html): When her husband Jack is duped by an underhanded sea captain, Mary disguises herself as a man, ships aboard a vessel, and sets out to save Jack and restore their fortunes. An award-winning tale of love, treachery, perseverance, and cherry cake.
- [Half the Lies You Tell Are Not True](https://nimbus.ca/store/half-the-lies-you-tell-are-not-true.html): The world of Dave Paddon's recitations is quirky, riotously funny, and utterly unique; a place of tall tales and plain foolishness, where fog is so thick you can use it for cannonballs, and a polar bear hijacks a bingo tournament.
- [The Ferryland Visitor](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-ferryland-visitor.html): When she moves into an abandoned lighthouse-keeper's house with her family, Esther is excited by her new surroundings. One day the former constable comes to welcome her family to their new home. But just who is this mysterious man?
- [Mi'kmaq](https://nimbus.ca/store/mikmaq.html): Another in the series of books detailing the culture of the many people who make up the population of the Maritimes. A history of origins, settlement and contribution to Maritime life.
- [Italians](https://nimbus.ca/store/italians.html): Professor Mohamed H. Abucar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia and has taught at a number of universities in Canada.
- [Been There, Ate That A Candy-Coated Childhood](https://nimbus.ca/store/been-there-ate-that-a-candy-coated-childhood.html): Jules Torti, a self-appointed junk food historian, shares sugary secrets and tasting notes from the kitchens of her youth.
- [Daystart Songflight A Morning Journal](https://nimbus.ca/store/daystart-songflight.html)
- [UnFiltered An Irreverent History of Beer in Nova Scotia](https://nimbus.ca/store/unfiltered.html): "My reason for being in the tavern was important. I wanted to better understand the history of beer in Nova Scotia.
- [Winter Road](https://nimbus.ca/store/winter-road.html): Winter Road is the latest collection of short stories by one of Canada?s most gifted and accomplished storytellers. An award-winning master craftsman of short fiction, Wayne Curtis takes us on a journey from early schooldays to old age, all in a singular rural New Brunswick setting of times gone by. Here are illuminating stories of love, heartbreak, daydreams, and expectations – fulfilled and unfulfilled. Curtis charts the lives of small-town boys and girls, men and women who struggle with the challenges and limitations of poverty, isolation, and a kind of discrimination rarely documented in fiction. Each work is marked by the insight of a veteran author whose life has been dedicated to the creation of a singular fictional world unique to the Maritimes but universal in its echoes of the unending longing of the human spirit. It is a world where dreams are born and die and sometimes live on despite the odds.
- [End of the Line The Dominion Atlantic Railway - A Trip Back in Time](https://nimbus.ca/store/end-of-the-line.html): There was a time when railways criss-crossed Nova Scotia, carrying passengers and delivering mail, moving freight and produce, hauling timber, coal, gypsum, and iron ore. But those days have passed thanks in large measure to the advent of the automobile, improved highways, long-haul trucking, and the vagaries of market demands and resource extraction. The number of railways operating today in the province can be tallied on one hand, with fingers left over. Vestiges of Nova Scotia's railway heritage are disappearing. Tracks are now Rails to Trails; trestle bridges have deteriorated to decrepitude; and train stations, once the arterial pulse for so many communities, have, for the most part, disappeared. Most poignant, perhaps, is the silencing of that magical, haunting train whistle. Mike Parker's latest book End of the Line follows a similar track as three of his earlier best-selling books about ghost towns and deserted island settlements. Presented in Mike's popular storytelling style, and drawing upon more than 430 images, many of them in colour, End of the Line opens another window to the past, taking the reader for a nostalgic trip back in time on the abandoned Dominion Atlantic Railway along the once-famous Land of Evangeline route from Yarmouth to Halifax through the heart of the Annapolis Valley. Twenty-five years have passed since the demise of the Dominion Atlantic Railway (1894-1994), which closed just one month and five days short of its one hundredth birthday. There have been many railways but none more storied than the D.A.R., considered to be "one of the more important pages out of Nova Scotia history."
- [Halifax A Literary Portrait](https://nimbus.ca/store/halifax-a-literary-portrait.html): Halifax: A Literary Portrait is a lively anthology of thirty-one selected writings about this colourful Nova Scotian port city dating from the early eighteenth century to the present. Included are works by such varied writers as Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Joseph Howe, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, L.M. Montgomery, Hugh MacLennan, Thomas Raddall, Will R. Bird, Irving Layton, Earle Birney, bill bissett and Spider Robinson. Halifax is captured in its many moods, and the selections, while not always complimentary, are sure to entertain and illuminate.
- [The Halifax Poor House Fire A Victorian Tragedy](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-halifax-poor-house-fire.html): Just before midnight, on November 6, 1882, the Halifax Poor House, an outsized Dickensian building situated in the south end of the city, caught fire and burned to the ground.
- [Oceans of Rum](https://nimbus.ca/store/oceans-of-rum.html): Prohibition, legislated in the U.S. in 1921, was intended to ban the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquor. However, it soon became obvious that successfully policing the entire coastline of the Pacific, Atlantic, and the Great Lakes was impossible. In eastern Canada the door was suddenly wide open for fishermen willing to make the remarkable switch to smuggling. Even with the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, rum-running remained a profitable venture in Atlantic Canada up until World War II. Excitement, camaraderie, drama on the high seas, love affairs, big payoffs, and fast cars – these were the returns for a life of smuggling in Atlantic Canada during Prohibition for those who dared. And David Mossman’s uncle Teddy, Captain Winfred “Spinny” Spindler, certainly dared. Like so many others, the former deep-sea fisherman seized the opportunity to turn use his sea-going skills for rum-running between the years 1923 to 1938. Adventuresome and resilient, charismatic and resourceful, Captain Spindler matured and endured through necessity, hard work and tragedy, toward the end persevering like proverbial Job through his allotted ninety-three years. In Oceans of Rum, Mossman once again draws on family, community and Canadian history, this time to bring the story of rum-running in Atlantic Canada to vivid, pulsing life through his uncle’s actual experiences. Mossman’s book is a three-cornered chronicle involving Spindlers, Ritceys and Romkeys – all South Shore families. It is an account tinged with tragedy and intrigue and shows how seemingly ordinary folk can find themselves thrust into the most extraordinary activities.
- [All Hands Lost Sinking of the Nova Scotia Gypsum Freighter Novadoc](https://nimbus.ca/store/all-hands-lost.html): All Hands Lost chronicles the tragic last voyage of the gypsum freighter SS Novadoc as she sailed from the Annapolis Basin into a raging nor’east storm in the Bay of Fundy in March 1947. Loaded with four thousand tons of Nova Scotia gypsum, she foundered off Portland, Maine, taking all twenty-four crew members, thirteen of them Nova Scotians, to their deaths. The story is told through the eyes and memories of those who lost family members on the Novadoc -- the brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren and friends of the young Nova Scotia men, many of them war veterans, and two women who perished in the tragedy. The book tells of the seafaring life of Novadoc’s captain, Allan J. Vallis, OBE, an experienced merchant mariner and war veteran who unwittingly took the vessel into a hurricane-force storm. Henshaw takes a critical look at the formal inquiry into the sinking and the report that deemed the loss “an act of God.” He questions the seaworthiness of an aging vessel that sailed into that fateful storm with makeshift repairs. He also questions discrepancies in compensation paid to the families of the twenty-four crew members who died with the ship. The book examines the history of Paterson Shipping, the Ontario company that owned Novadoc, and Senator Norman Paterson, the wealthy Winnipeg grain merchant who founded the company in 1926. All Hands Lost is a moving and factual account of a 1940s tragedy at sea, as well as a tribute to the memory of the men and women who perished on the ill-fated Novadoc.
- [Still Fighting for Change: Black Social Workers in Canada](https://nimbus.ca/store/still-fighting-for-change-black-social-workers-in-canada.html): In their own words, the twenty authors create a conversation with the reader about the Black social workers in Canada who have struggled to bring change not for themselves, but for their communities. This volume contains stories of social workers breaking barriers as they fight for changes to improve the system and enhance the lives of those they serve. There are also stories by members of the Association of Black Social Workers speaking frankly about the struggles they have encountered to become who they are.
- [Sharing the Journey](https://nimbus.ca/store/sharing-the-journey.html): Sharing the Journey tells of the author’s life and adventures from the far reaches of Canada to Lesotho in Southern Africa and from Slovakia to Alaska. Always an independent and mindful thinker, prepared to take the road that best suited his skills and beliefs, Jim shares what he has learned during his years working at 25 different jobs from farmer to university professor.
- [Sleigh Tracks in New Snow Maritime Christmas Stories](https://nimbus.ca/store/sleigh-tracks-in-new-snow.html): “The morning was damp and we were feeling Christmas in the air, seeing and smelling it in the trees, as our feet crunched across new snow to where a wire fence stood between our fields and the railway tracks. It was there we saw a fir tree standing, more beautiful than any I can remember. Its limbs were full, well shaped and scented, and it stood proud and tall as though waiting for us.” Sleigh Tracks in New Snow is a collection of Christmas stories set mostly in rural New Brunswick – principally the Miramichi Region – in a bygone day and age. The stories range from the early 1950s to the 21st century, as Curtis recounts the sweet old Christmases of his boyhood and more modern incarnations of the holiday. In this entertaining book, Curtis honours the deeply held traditions and rituals that made celebrating Christmas such a special time for his family and community. During the author’s childhood, Christmas meant sleigh rides with horses and jingling harness bells, fresh cut forest Christmas trees and intense blizzards that blocked all roads for days. Winter in a rural community required hardiness, generosity, and sacrifice, qualities that were intensified during the Christmas season. Curtis tells how a grandmother sacrificed to ensure a happy celebration for her family, about the arrival of his sister while he and his father searched the woods for a beautiful fir tree to be trimmed in their farmhouse parlour, and the efforts of a prodigal son to get home for Christmas after years of absence. The holiday season also included the magic of skating on a frozen river with a bonfire of burning cattails, the excitement of the school concert, and the solemnity of a church service. These stories reflect an innocent time when truth, heart and honesty were always central to the celebration of Christmas. Wayne Curtis was born in Keenan, New Brunswick, in 1943. He was educated in the local schoolhouse and at St Thomas University. He has won the Richards, the Woodcock and the CBC Drama awards and written for The National Post and The Globe and Mail. In 2005 Wayne received an honorary degree from St Thomas University. He divides his time between his cabin on the Miramichi and Fredericton. This is his sixteenth book.
- [Going Over A Nova Scotian Soldier in World War I](https://nimbus.ca/store/going-over.html): Going Over is the biography of Titus Mossman, a veteran of the “Great War” who served with the 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders) on the Western Front. This book blends social, political and historical issues of those turbulent times with the story of one young Canadian turned soldier, caught at the sharp edge of history.
- [Our Sable Island Home](https://nimbus.ca/store/our-sable-island-home.html): Our Sable Island Home is a personal story that does not shy away from the perils of life in an isolated locale, interwoven with maritime history that centres around the iconic island. The story will take you on a journey more than sixty years back into the past, to a time when Sable Island was referred to as “the Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
- [Sixty Second Story When Lives are on the Line](https://nimbus.ca/store/sixty-second-story.html): The Sixty Second Story is a gripping and emotional tribute to Canada’s first responders – the professionals and volunteers who repeatedly risk their lives in the face of danger and death. The book pays homage to a father, to the fallen, and to those who respond when the alarm sounds. It also frankly discusses the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and critical incident stress (CIS) on both first responders and their families. Discussions with veteran firefighters and a former Halifax police officer take the reader back to incidents dating from the 1950s like they happened yesterday. The police officer’s suicide attempt led him to a second career helping first responders living with PTSD and CIS.
- [Maurice the Moose](https://nimbus.ca/store/maurice-the-moose.html): Maurice the Moose is lonely. So lonely, in fact, that when one day, he is attracted to the call of what he thinks is another moose. He runs far and wide to respond to the call only to find that instead of another friendly moose, it is the call of a moose hunter that has attracted him. Luckily, another moose has answered the call and scares away the hunter. And, most importantly, the Maurice makes a new friend. Maurice the Moose is about making friends in unlikely circumstances as well as the strong bond that is formed when thrown together. Lorne Elliott has performed from Newfoundland to New York City, from Los Angeles to Australia and points in between. Lorne started performing in 1974 as a folk musician in East Coast Canada. At the same time he kept writing fiction as well as songs, monologues and one-liners. The outcome of such a training is a very special show of comedy and music, totally original, entertaining, foolish and uplifting. Along with his unique performance style it is the timelessness of his material, joined with keen observations on today's trends that make Lorne Elliott's work so special. He is the author of Beach Reading and a novella The Fixer Upper. This is his first picture book.
- [Killings at Little Rose](https://nimbus.ca/store/killings-at-little-rose.html): In a coastal village where what's been buried doesn't stay buried, what's lost at sea doesn't stay lost. Sleuth Anne Brown finds herself in an eastern PEI fishing community, working undercover for the new owner of a seafood-processing plant plagued by vandalism, loss, and ill luck. The community around Little Rose Harbour has been shocked by the discovery of old, secret remains of a baby, and all their entangled secrets are coming to the surface. On the cusp of a clandestine love affair and herself keeping secrets, Anne must sort through gossip, rumours, and lies—and dodge the menace of violence—to uncover the canker at the core of Little Rose. But will she learn in time to prevent the mystery from becoming motive for murder?
- [The Bygone Days Folklore, Traditions & Toenails](https://nimbus.ca/store/the-bygone-days.html): Reginald—better known as "Dutch"—Thompson is a multi-faceted storyteller with unforgettable voices—those of Roy from Murray Harbour North, Adelaide from Bunbury, Gus from Chepstow, and countless others—to tell the stories of the Bygone days in Prince Edward Island [sometimes NS, too]. Stories that, without Dutch's talent and care, might be