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Righting the Wrongs: Gus Wedderburn's Quest for Social Justice in Nova Scotia<br />
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<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/authors/rileym.html" target="_blank">Marie Riley</a><br />
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Nonfiction: Biography, Nova Scotia, Black History<br />
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96 pages<br />
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ISBN 978-1-897426-28-9<br />
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This is the story of H.A.J. (Gus) Wedderburn. During his 50 years in Nova Scotia, Gus brought his determination and energy to any situation where an injustice needed to be addressed. Growing up in Jamaica, he learned the tenets of respect, fairness and social responsibility from his dynamic family who taught him that giving one's time in the service of others was what life was all about. After studies at McGill University and Mount Allison University, he came to Nova Scotia in 1957 where he took a position as principal at Partridge River School in East Preston, one of the province's oldest Black communities. Here he set out to impress upon students and their families how important education was for them and started a tutoring program that enabled many students to graduate from high school, a first for the community. Years later, former students remember how he encouraged them, recognized their potential and boosted their self-confidence. His was an attitude often not held by teachers towards minority students in those days.<br />
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Gus moved on to teach at Bloomfield and Ardmore schools in Halifax, and in 1970, at the age of 41, he changed careers. Three years later he graduated from Dalhousie University's Law School, and practised law until his retirement. Described as "a lawyer with the soul of a social worker," he often worked pro bono and remained a mentor to many young people. A driving force for many years in the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, he was a founder of the Black Educators Association, the Black United Front, the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, and the Black Cultural Centre. He was a vocal crusader for the rights of the disadvantaged at a time when discrimination in education, employment and housing was the status quo.<br />
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When he died in 2007, Gus could have taken comfort in the diversity of races, religions and political persuasions represented at his funeral—people who came to pay their respects to a gentle, genial man who made a profound impact on his adopted home.<br />
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Marie Riley was born and brought up in Nova Scotia. After graduating from Mount Saint Vincent and Carleton Universities she worked as a journalist for the Calgary Herald and for the Canadian Press news agency in Ottawa. In 1970 she went to West Africa with CUSO where she taught at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and the University of Ghana. Following graduate work at Simon Fraser University, she taught in the public relations program at the Mount until her retirement in 2008.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-45907276576657903742011-11-07T06:23:00.000-04:002011-11-07T06:23:01.362-04:00The Mi'kmaq Anthology, Volume Two In Celebration of the Life of Rita Joe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Mi'kmaq Anthology, Volume Two<br />
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<i>In Celebration of the Life of Rita Joe</i><br />
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Edited by Theresa Meuse, Lesley Choyce and Julia Swan<br />
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Autobiography, Poetry, Traditional Stories, Essays<br />
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224 pages<br />
6" x 9" trade paperback<br />
ISBN 978-1-897426-29-6<br />
(Available in October 2011)<br />
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It has been 14 years since the landmark publication of the first volume of <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/mikmaqanthology.html" target="_blank">The Mi'kmaq Anthology</a>, a project initiated by <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/authors/joer.html" target="_blank">Rita Joe</a>. Mi'kmaq culture continues to thrive in Atlantic Canada and this new volume brings together many new as well as familiar writers from the Mi'kmaq community. Included are essays on culture, history, and spirituality, as well as autobiography, traditional stories and poetry in this unique volume.<br />
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Contributors include Daniel N. Paul, Patricia Doyle-Bedwell, Lindsay Marshall, Catherine Martin, Mary Louise Martin, Robert Bernard, Laura Johnson, Clayton Paul, Denise Larocque, Shalan Joudrey, Peter C. Julien, Marie Battiste, Sunset Rose Morris, Theresa Meuse, Jean Augustine-McIsaac, Alice Azure, John Sylliboy, Denise Larocque, Eva Apukjij, David Marshall, and Charles Doucette. Also included are poems from Rita Joe.<br />
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The collection is informative, varied and spirited. It includes a variety of powerful voices on many subjects and is intended to be a celebration of the life of poet, Rita Joe, who encouraged many people from her extended community to write and bring forward their poetry and stories. Rita Joe was born in Whycocomagh in 1932 and received the Order of Canada for her writing and contribution to Canadian culture. Before her death in 2007, she published several important books of poetry and inspired many younger Mi'kmaq authors.<br />
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Theresa Meuse is the former chief of Bear River First Nation and has worked in various jobs with Mi'kmaq organizations. She is an educator and advisor and author of a children's book titled The Sharing Circle. Lesley Choyce is the publisher of Pottersfield Press, an English instructor in Dalhousie University's Transition Year Program and the author of a number of books. Julia Swan is an editor with Pottersfield Press and teaches at Dalhousie University.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-52593219369433926202011-11-03T06:08:00.000-04:002011-11-03T06:08:00.907-04:00Cold Clear Morning New Revised Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Cold Clear Morning<br />
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<a href="http://www.lesleychoyce.com/" target="_blank">Lesley Choyce</a><br />
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A Novel<br />
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<i>"I just love this book. The scenes are evocative and meld into the action seamlessly, never seeming to interrupt or delay its movement, yet are so richly detailed. I give special praise to the deeper and much more difficult challenge of creating a believable fictional musician." </i>—Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist of Rush.<br />
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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. It is then that Taylor realizes he has to go back home to Nickerson Harbour, to confront Laura’s parents, to reunite with his father and confront the truth of his own dysfunctional family.<br />
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Back in Nova Scotia, Taylor learns that his mother, who had abandoned him as a child to move to Ontario and remarry, 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 a feminist professor from Philadelphia who has run away from a miserable marriage to start anew in Canada with her troubled twelve-year-old son.<br />
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Cold Clear Morning is a novel about dreams realized and dreams shattered. It is about love and loss, hurting and healing, grief and forgiving. Taylor Colby speaks his story of love and loss and 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 go back to. In his odyssey from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and back home to Nova Scotia, he attempts to find real meaning to his life of adventure and despair.<br />
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"Cold Clear Morning is an evocative read. Watching Taylor Colby, his mother, and his father work through their memories and their pain, toiling towards peace, evokes powerful emotions. And then there is the sea—it speaks through the pages and mesmerizes the soul." —Kimberley Blevins, Regina Leader-Post<br />
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Lesley Choyce is also the author of over fifty books, including, for Pottersfield Press: the poetry collection <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/coastlineofforgetting.html" target="_blank">The Coastline of Forgetting</a>, children's books<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/farenoughisland.html" target="_blank"> Far Enough Island</a> and <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/famousatlast.html" target="_blank">Famous At Last</a>, and non-fiction books <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/drivingminniespiano.html" target="_blank">Driving Minnie's Piano: Memoirs of a Surfing Life in Nova Scotia</a>, <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/nsshapedbythesea.html" target="_blank">Nova Scotia: Shaped By The Sea</a>, and <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/peggyscove.html" target="_blank">Peggy's Cove: The Amazing History of a Coastal Village</a>. He has also edited for Pottersfield Press: <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/arkofice.html" target="_blank">Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefictions</a>, <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/mikmaqanthology.html" target="_blank">The Mi'kmaq Anthology</a>, <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/mikmaqanthtwo.html" target="_blank">The Mi'kmaq Anthology, Volume Two (with Rita Joe)</a>, <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/nsvisionsfuture.html" target="_blank">Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future</a>, <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/nstraveller.html" target="_blank">Nova Scotia: A Traveller's Companion</a>, and <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/pottersfieldnation.html" target="_blank">Pottersfield Nation: East of Canada</a>.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-57089036616874661062011-10-31T18:05:00.001-04:002011-10-31T18:48:14.863-04:00The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea<br />
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<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/authors/laffoleys.html" target="_blank">Steven Laffoley</a><br />
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Nonfiction: Nova Scotia, History, Crime, Ships<br />
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192 pages<br />
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Madness arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, silent and wet, at the bottom of a ship's dory, in the rough folds of a thick, grey canvas—a shapeless, nameless dream, radiating shadows and darkness.<br />
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Investigating murder is grim business. This is particularly true if the murder happened more than a hundred years ago in the cramped cabin of an old schooner later torpedoed and sunk. Think about it. Everybody involved in the case is dead. And the important clues to the mystery are buried somewhere beneath ocean sand.<br />
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Still, on a cold afternoon in late February, I found myself standing at the edge of an old Halifax wharf investigating another cold-case murder mystery. The case was just too damned good.<br />
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In the summer of 1896, an old schooner sailed from Boston to Argentina with twelve people on board. A few days into the journey, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were all murdered—with an axe. And no one on board saw it happen.<br />
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The surviving crew members were a rogues' gallery of gruff, seafaring brutes, each offering the weary, cold-case investigator multiple names, wild accusations, and fast-changing testimony. Also on board was a passenger, a young student from Harvard University. Perfect.<br />
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Like I said, I had to take the case. It was just too damned good.<br />
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And so begins another cold-case murder investigation by writer Steven Laffoley, as he travels the tough streets of Halifax to the courtrooms of Boston in search of a killer. Along the way, he explores the world of 1896 and discovers that nothing in this case is what it first seems. In turns fascinating, frightening, and funny, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is an intriguing true tale of murder, mystery, and madness.<br />
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Steven Laffoley has been a writer, teacher, and dues-paying member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is the author of <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/mrbush.html" target="_blank">Mr. Bush</a>, <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/mrbush.html" target="_blank">Angus and Me</a>, the award-nominated <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/huntinghalifax.html" target="_blank">Hunting Halifax</a>, and <a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/deathship.html" target="_blank">Death Ship of Halifax Harbour</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-19397423497996352542011-06-27T09:04:00.001-04:002011-06-27T09:04:14.557-04:00The Social Worker by Michael Ungar, PhD<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Still the delinquent at heart, Joey sets out to get revenge on the system that he believes failed him and his family. Joey's plan for revenge may have worked, except buried in old agency files he learns that his family has many secrets yet untold and that the lives of social workers are more complicated than they seem to the children in their care.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">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 non-fiction books include The We Generation and Too Safe for Their Own Good. The Social Worker is his first novel. 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.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Michael Ungar is also the author of Playing at Being Bad: The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens.</span></span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-51131967903720931932011-06-27T08:43:00.000-04:002011-06-27T08:43:37.577-04:00The Mi'kmaq Anthology Edited by Rita Joe and Lesley Choyce<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Mi'kmaq Anthology</h1>
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Autobiography, Poetry, Traditional stories, Essays<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">This is the most comprehensive single volume of Mi'kmaq writing available. Included are essays on history, culture, spirituality as well as autobiography, traditional stories and poetry in this spirited and varied collection.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">First published in 1997, the book is a valuable landmark of an ancient culture that speaks directly to those intrigued by Aboriginal history and culture. The writers in this volume express both pain and joy, outrage and celebration. There is wisdom here to be shared as the contributors document Mi'kmaq life both ancient and modern. Sacred ceremonies and beliefs are explored and personal histories revealed. Included also, however, are writers documenting some of the harshest realities of Nova Scotia history, including Cornwallis's scalping proclamation of 1749 and the travesties of the residential schools of the twentieth century.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Contributors include Don Julien, Lindsay Marshall, Murdena Marshall, Mary Louise Martin, Elsie Charles Basque, Shirley Kiju Kawi, Noel Knockwood, Helen Sylliboy, Marie Battiste, Theresa Meuse, Isabelle Knockwood, Katherine Sorbey, Daniel N. Paul, Harold Gloade and Rita Joe.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Rita Joe states in the introduction, "When it comes to Mi'kmaq history, there are many unanswered questions for all of us. Poets pose some of those questions. Mi'kmaq historians attempt to reveal truths that have long been hidden. Many writers in this volume tell us stories from their own lives to reveal experience, tradition, knowledge and spiritual understanding. Ancient stories handed down provide insight into a way of looking at the world that differs greatly from the messages we receive on TV, in the newspapers and from our political leaders."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Rita Joe was born in Whycocomagh in 1932 and received the Order of Canada for her writing and contribution to Canadian culture. Before her death in 2007, she published several important books of poetry and inspired many younger Mi'kmaq authors.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Lesley Choyce is the publisher of Pottersfield Press, teaches English in Dalhousie University's Transition Year Program and is the author of a number of books.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The image of my people is uppermost in my mind, the beauty told, one thought inspiring another. Nenwite'ten ke'luk weji tu'ap. (Remember I found the good.) Jika'winen we'jitutqsip kutoy ninen. (Look at us and you too will find the good.) Being a stranger in your own land is a sad story. The turnaround may be the schools. Let us have our say or none at all. Iknmulek na! (We give! Let us.)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Hurt and angry over her father's decision to desert her, Charlene takes her unstable Aunt Matilda and leaves for Boston, where she lies about her age to get a job in a newspaper. She falls in love with a youthful crime reporter and befriends an old Irish sea dog who takes her into the midst of a kidnapping and murder.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Otto Strasser along with other top Nazis such as his brother, Gregor Strasser, Goebbels, Goering, Hess and a few others, laid plans to take over Europe and then the world. But Otto eventually disagreed with Adolph Hitler on various issues in the National Socialist Party and was ejected from its ranks and formed the Black Front, a breakaway Nazi movement. Gregor Strasser was murdered by Hitler, who feared his influence in the Nazi Party. And Otto, who could well have been the leader of the German government but for some dramatic twists of fate, ran through Europe with Hitler's hitmen hot on his heels. So how did he end up living in bucolic, rural Nova Scotia for 13 years, from 1942 to 1955?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Strasser continued to criticize Hitler from outside Germany. Britain whisked him out of harm's way and sent him to Canada where he remained from 1941 to 1955, literally a prisoner. The Canadian government prohibited him from publishing articles; his mail was censored and the RCMP kept him under surveillance. By the time he was allowed to return to Germany, he was largely forgotten. He died in 1974, a dispirited and disheartened man.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Much has been written about Otto Strasser, but little about his years in Bridgetown, Clarence and Paradise, Nova Scotia. It is this period of his life that this narrative explores.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">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.</span></div>
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<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/authors/stewartl.html" style="color: #990000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Laverne Stewart</a></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Nonfiction: Angels, The Maritimes, Spirituality<br />$19.95<br />176 pages<br />6" x 9" Trade Paperback<br />ISBN 978-1-897426-24-1<br />(Available in April 2011)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">The inspiration for this book began on June 12, 2009. Laverne Stewart was at a women's retreat. At 5 a.m. she was alone in her room thinking about her frustration over various works of fiction which she hadn't been able to complete. She suddenly heard a voice say, "You have not been called to write fiction. You have been called to write the truth." She knew that there was no one else with her. It was then she realized she was supposed to write a book about angels and the afterlife.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">As a journalist, with over 24 years of experience, she decided to do some research. Did she really hear what she thought she'd heard? She contacted two intuitive mediums who told her they had seen this book being written six months before she'd contacted them. Stewart didn't know anything about angels or the afterlife. The mediums told her not to worry about it because the angels had everything under control. They did. In the nine months that followed she was overwhelmed by the number of people who came to her to share their stories.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">"I have met and interviewed dozens of people who have shared their angelic encounters as well as their experiences with the spirits of the deceased. I have interviewed spiritual mediums and people, like me, who don't claim to have any intuitive abilities but who have had encounters with the other side and with angels. I have spoken to people who received healing and encouragement from angelic encounters, those who say the spirits of their deceased children come to them as well as the adult children of elderly parents who said they heard, saw and felt angels in the minutes before their parents crossed over to the other side."</span></div>
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<h1 style="color: #101033; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Under the Electric Sky: The Legacy of the Bill Lynch Shows</h1><h2 style="color: #101033; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/authors/walshc.html" style="color: #990000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Christopher A. Walsh</a></h2>Nonfiction: The Maritimes, Carnivals, Entertainment<br />
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"<i>Bill Lynch and his carnival boys and girls will be back again. No need to introduce him, for his aggregation of tents, rides, and booths is known from one end of the Maritime provinces to the other.</i>" - The Halifax Mail, August 25, 1934.<br />
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Under the Electric Sky takes readers on a thrilling ride through the strange and fabled history of the Bill Lynch Shows, from its modest beginnings on McNab's Island in Halifax Harbour to the successful, tumultuous years criss-crossing the countryside to its current incarnation struggling along dark Maritime highways today.<br />
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This is one of the most curious stories of this region's past, one never completely understood and, until now, never told in its entirety. The Bill Lynch Shows would breeze into small Maritime towns after dark, packed with enough electricity and magic to illuminate the imaginations of anyone who stepped foot on the midway for the brief while it played their town. For many, its return after a long winter made summer official. The shows became entrenched in the collective psyche, at once the centre of earthly thrills and some of the greatest acts of charity ever witnessed in the region. Clarence "Soggy" Reid continued the enterprise in the same manner, until the death of a man on the carnival lot in Port Hawkesbury threatened to destroy the dream forever.<br />
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Walsh chronicles the true story of the Maritime carnival with unflinching detail, weaving flashes of the carnival's captivating past with a first-hand account of life on the carnival lot today. This is the definitive tale of the owners and hustlers who shaped the course of the business, attractions like the Turtle Woman and the Man with Two Faces who headlined the sideshow tents over the years, and the family of carnies who, for different reasons, called "the Show" home. At the core of the rough-and-tumble carnival world is a heart-rending story of sometimes misunderstood outsiders and their desperate estrangement from, and deep commitment to, the people of the Maritimes.<br />
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<i>Christopher A. Walsh is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Calgary, Alberta. His work has appeared in the Edmonton Journal and the Halifax Chronicle-Herald and on CBC Radio in Nova Scotia. A native of Halifax, he has covered major political stories across the country and spent a few feverish weeks running with the Maritime carnival in towns throughout the region. This is his first book.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-90778155749283155322010-09-25T05:45:00.000-04:002010-09-23T07:56:34.559-04:00Radio Talk: Four Decades Covering the News in Atlantic Canada<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUCpoIcL2XELn2pijgibCiVM5ga7J1Gy77zOF-KownGjxqGCgm8xD8d3nHtO1zQOZHXNagaobO1pVqUn-fELV8S6LCW5Crd76NA28pbNuZi0e80fPKv2oZFfRV_mu0CYtor2n4jlzSX5O2/s1600/9781897426197.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUCpoIcL2XELn2pijgibCiVM5ga7J1Gy77zOF-KownGjxqGCgm8xD8d3nHtO1zQOZHXNagaobO1pVqUn-fELV8S6LCW5Crd76NA28pbNuZi0e80fPKv2oZFfRV_mu0CYtor2n4jlzSX5O2/s320/9781897426197.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br />
<h1 style="color: #101033; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Radio Talk: Four Decades Covering the News in Atlantic Canada</h1><h2 style="color: #101033; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/authors/hower.html" style="color: #990000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rick Howe</a></h2><br />
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As a reporter and a commentator, Howe has had unfettered access to the newsmakers. He has been up close and personal with the famous, such as Princess Diana on board the royal yacht Britannia, and the infamous, like John Edward Kenny, a man convicted in the deaths of twenty-one men. The author also provides an insider's view of those who report the news, how they cope with the pressures of the job and how decisions are made on what stories are covered. Journalists take their jobs quite seriously, but mistakes and bloopers are also part of life on live radio. In this tell-all book, Howe reveals some of the more hilarious moments in Atlantic radio history.<br />
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Over the past four decades, the media has undergone some significant changes, some of it for the better, some of it not. Howe pulls no punches in telling readers where things have been done right and where they have gone wrong. Many of the subjects and personalities in this book are very familiar to Atlantic Canadians. Radio Talk looks behind the headlines at details that will shock and surprise readers. It will provoke discussion and generate controversy. Above all, it will certainly entertain.<br />
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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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-66701244082041782542010-09-23T00:01:00.008-04:002010-09-23T00:01:02.657-04:00Women Who Care: Women's Stories of Health Care and Caring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWBD8Cs8AA-5b0R0YsCM8OY5IKRTj1mkIM9b5egBW6FGFxfZsc2-kpB5kgyIHPcdUkM5yDRTsUzgN0iJ0zUqJ5vDLh7MZkUZb9ctL81c9vCOKz1CcAsYX9cDTt9WOFqGfcd0hpykvRbZM/s1600/9781897426227.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWBD8Cs8AA-5b0R0YsCM8OY5IKRTj1mkIM9b5egBW6FGFxfZsc2-kpB5kgyIHPcdUkM5yDRTsUzgN0iJ0zUqJ5vDLh7MZkUZb9ctL81c9vCOKz1CcAsYX9cDTt9WOFqGfcd0hpykvRbZM/s320/9781897426227.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br />
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In her third year of medical training - discouraged by how little focus there was on caring - a young woman was faced with a decision: she could throw her hands up and quit or she could risk speaking up and work toward change. She decided to send out a call asking women to share their experiences of health care and caring. Her e-mail inbox immediately overflowed with stories from women across Canada. Together, this amazing group of women wrote Women Who Care.<br />
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Most women have stories to tell about their experiences of health care. They care for themselves through personal health and illness; they seek care from others; they become caregivers to their children, partners, aging parents and extended families. Some work as health care professionals - physicians, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, social workers, psychologists. Others work in community centres and shelters, or as health administrators, health policy-makers, women's health researchers, and as feminist leaders and activists in women's health.<br />
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Women Who Care is a collection of women’s stories about caring. Through prose and poetry, this book captures the personal and professional values and expectations of women caregivers at each stage in their lives and careers. It examines women's experiences as the providers and recipients of health care.<br />
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<i>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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Patricia Thille, Sc(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.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-47280191407896330382010-09-21T00:01:00.001-04:002010-09-21T00:01:01.433-04:00Long Ago and Far Away: A Miramichi Family Memoir<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_9lrSs3qRQImgRIWivrd2pkruKAac3GgBGEHWPuaVBtg8QdsP4noRkJ4ESPWSaU47h4JqqEy3YXVIH9Bdx29sM7V44vKqi-5Yjb14tx3wsQi-ZIeA5BSChznlylBM-vePj-qd7QQAtDW/s1600/9781897426203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_9lrSs3qRQImgRIWivrd2pkruKAac3GgBGEHWPuaVBtg8QdsP4noRkJ4ESPWSaU47h4JqqEy3YXVIH9Bdx29sM7V44vKqi-5Yjb14tx3wsQi-ZIeA5BSChznlylBM-vePj-qd7QQAtDW/s320/9781897426203.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br />
<h1 style="color: #101033; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Long Ago and Far Away: A Miramichi Family Memoir</h1><h2 style="color: #101033; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/authors/curtisw.html" style="color: #990000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wayne Curtis</a></h2>Nonfiction: Autobiography, New Brunswick, The Miramichi<br />
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A memoir set in the Miramichi, Long Ago and Far Away reflects how a family lived and prospered through the late 1880s, when Wayne Curtis's grandfather was a young man. The story follows the lives of Wayne and his father, chronicling Wayne's youth and adult years in rural New Brunswick. He brings back to life an extraordinary time and place and reflects upon the changes that have all but erased those days gone by. But the book is also a reminder of what it was like growing up in the backwoods of New Brunswick with all its joys and hardships.<br />
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The memoir tells the story of the rough and rowdy Miramichi of the past when the hunting and killing of wild animals was the norm and people struggled to survive off the land. Not natural hunters, both Wayne and his father wrestled with the idea of killing anything, but had to hunt to feed the family. In the old days of the Miramichi, guns were everywhere. But as Wayne matured into manhood, he grew away from hunting and would not kill anything bigger than a mosquito.<br />
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Long Ago and Far Away is a poetic yet honest look at growing up in very difficult times. It charts the growing pains involved in fighting the peer pressure from fellow countrymen who carried on with the old way of life. The story is a vivid and touching family history written by a skilled literary master willing to share the story of how he was shaped by the land, the community and the family that raised him.<br />
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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 Mailand 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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-50968938449909684352010-09-20T00:01:00.003-04:002010-09-20T00:01:00.949-04:00The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraHQCp_jp2DRqOjHh-S5vYRfM24L7auIwjz6fHIJbn7qfKVGrPMFrytaT0pdsGyxs-BtgJ0GmkQng2Dji-a_PP0XyvgcBLubdqSjTV91OgyR-SgFS6OvLVafn0qSeFqcRaxiM7txH_7Lw/s1600/9781897426180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiraHQCp_jp2DRqOjHh-S5vYRfM24L7auIwjz6fHIJbn7qfKVGrPMFrytaT0pdsGyxs-BtgJ0GmkQng2Dji-a_PP0XyvgcBLubdqSjTV91OgyR-SgFS6OvLVafn0qSeFqcRaxiM7txH_7Lw/s320/9781897426180.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br />
<h1 style="color: #101033; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery</h1><h2 style="color: #101033; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/authors/tattriej.html" style="color: #990000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jon Tattrie</a></h2>Nonfiction: Biography, Nova Scotia, History, Black Culture<br />
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Eddie Carvery was born in Africville, Nova Scotia, when the African-Nova Scotian seaside village was midway through its third century. As a teenager, he watched his world torn down as his friends and family were compelled to leave. After Africville was bulldozed in the 1960s under the guise of "urban renewal," Eddie Carvery returned to the site of his former hometown and pitched a tent in protest.<br />
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After forays into careers as a community organizer, sheet-metal worker and fisherman, Eddie returned to the ruins of Africville in 1970 to start his protest for the reclamation of his people's land and history. Forty years, three families, seven heart attacks and numerous attempts on his life later, he remains living on the land where he was born. He's been shot at, had his residence set on fire and been run off his land countless times. His struggles with his demons of addiction and violence have cost him his families and his entire adult life. He's tried to leave, but always he returned to Africville.<br />
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Sometimes accompanied by his brother, Victor, and sometimes by his friend and bodyguard, a dog called Spike, Eddie has lived as a virtual hermit in a small trailer across from the results of the urban renewal: a dog park called Seaview. All traces of his childhood community are gone, except for him - the last resident of Africville. There, through the solitude and frozen winters, he's walked the long walk to healing, rooted in the land of his ancestors. Dismissed as a squatter, he stayed in Africville. Searching through the ruins of his community and his battered mind, he's rebuilt himself and come to the conclusion that he's failed at everything, except one thing: Africville. In this riveting account, Jon Tattrie captures the story of Eddie Carvery and his struggle for survival and, ultimately, justice.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-13221892128367069682010-09-19T12:35:00.000-04:002010-09-19T12:35:37.281-04:00Ghosts of Nova Scotia: Tenth Anniversary Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span id="goog_1849685664"></span><span id="goog_1849685668"></span><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-8D2Z8RrU0k4qTBAlK0GKx-Miy72DZmJ1DhtO9sm1hrOhg92JUf0cXxK8EZfLPOUwPnt7Y8XDXt5JzPHbyR6FDL92j_7zJZRFNlv4ta6cz_TuIKHkYHwFIFaKuTgcVHnLQpBwVUeQovND/s320/9781897426210.jpg" width="214" /><span id="goog_1849685669"></span><span id="goog_1849685665"></span></div><br />
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Explore Nova Scotia's colourful legacy of spooks and spectres in this definitive collection of traditional and contemporary tales from Canada's Ocean Playground. For this tenth anniversary edition, Ghosts of Nova Scotia has been comprehensively updated and expanded to include stories of ghosts, banshees, phantom ships, fairies, forerunners, buried treasure, cursed places and much more. Parapsychologist Darryll Walsh has gathered more than 275 haunting stories from every corner of the province and dares you to read them during a stormy night.<br />
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From the original Mi'kmaq to the later European colonizations, Nova Scotia has been a melting pot of rich cultural folklore and mysterious events. The extraordinary tales from the past have been handed down from generation to generation with new stories being added over the years, making this province one of the most haunted places on earth.<br />
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Discover the phantom admiral who prowls the shores of Bedford Basin; search for hidden gold along the South Shore, if you can avoid the headless ghosts which protect it; explore Nova Scotia's own triangle of terror; prowl the Cape Breton Highlands for Sasquatch, and listen to the horrifying screams echoing through Dagger Woods. Almost every community has its share of terrifying tales and many of them you will find here for the first time. You'll learn of Captain Walter Tygart's unfortunate encounters with Fort Lawrence Ridge's resident witch, Nelly Edwards, in the 1780s and why a headless ghost haunts Minudie. The story of the feu follets, or jack o'lantern, from St. Joseph du Moine, Inverness County, includes advice on how to get rid of this fiery ball of light, while the tale from Malignant Cove reveals how this Antigonish County locale got its name. Whether it's a frightening story of a Grey Lady or the vengeful Gaelic bochdan, these eerie stories present a unique profile of Nova Scotia that will add to our rich history of folklore and mythology.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-40283936493931201862010-06-24T11:44:00.002-04:002010-06-24T11:44:52.959-04:00A print flyer Pottersfield Press is sponsoring<a href="http://twitpic.com/1zk1ei" title="A local print flyer Pottersfield Press is sponsoring on Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/1zk1ei.png" width="150" height="150" alt="A local print flyer Pottersfield Press is sponsoring on Twitpic"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-19037082918085915972010-06-19T18:14:00.000-04:002010-06-19T18:14:00.464-04:00Dancing on the shore: a celebration of life at Annapolis Basin (NEW EDITION)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZoXITR0H-Fnf_EDepAAf1-nnNpKZJoNQdk52yaDRmmSJf6k63487d4uSSEk51_6kztpfKhIKIHLQrfXVMREOyQkxGI3yOklbW5RHM7pIQoUKiBFRg01OAcf-KzL82aEEzsT0DkxFDC9HU/s1600/9781897426166.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZoXITR0H-Fnf_EDepAAf1-nnNpKZJoNQdk52yaDRmmSJf6k63487d4uSSEk51_6kztpfKhIKIHLQrfXVMREOyQkxGI3yOklbW5RHM7pIQoUKiBFRg01OAcf-KzL82aEEzsT0DkxFDC9HU/s320/9781897426166.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Harold Horwood<br />
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with a foreword by Farley Mowat<br />
and an introduction by Lesley Choyce<br />
Nonfiction: Nova Scotia, Nature, Autobiography<br />
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<i><b>Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Award for Nonfiction.</b></i><br />
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"The tides sweep over the clam flats in a great flood twice daily. The migrants sweep through the sky in great flocks twice a year. These vast rhythms, so visible in such a small place, seem very like the heartbeat and the breathing of a living planet..."<br />
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Harold Horwood moved his family to the Annapolis Basin for "the beauty of the land, the fruitfulness of the soil, the gentleness of the climate, the variety of plant and animal life, the closeness of great forests and clear waters, the presence of the sea without its storms." He soon realized that they "had come to live in one of the truly magical places on earth."<br />
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Dancing on the Shore is a detailed look at nature in Nova Scotia but also a story of one man's intimate relationship to that world. It is deep and broad, weaving science and philosophy with a passionate yearning to preserve life on this planet. Considered by many to be his greatest work, this new edition of the classic book will keep alive Harold's ideas and his spirit and inspire new generations of readers.<br />
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Harold writes, "Here, in mid-July, when the air is scented with wild roses, and meadowsweet blooms in the ditches, when the light falls dim and cool through two months' growth of young vines, you could well believe that man and world grew up together, perfectly suited and matched." With a voice of poetic power and intellectual insight, the author takes the reader on a meditative yet mentally stimulating journey that can change the way you look at yourself and the world.<br />
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"Great ideas, great visions, great musical themes," the author states, "all have this inexpressible spiritual quality that places them beyond analysis, beyond the reach of the critics, beyond any explanation that we can offer."<br />
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"I believe that this book Harold Horwood has written has built a bridge that will endure. I invite you to cross it." - Farley Mowat from the Foreword<br />
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Harold Horwood was born in Newfoundland in 1923 and died in Nova Scotia in 2006. He lived an extraordinary life as a union organizer, member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly, newspaper editor, co-founder of The Writers' Union of Canada, novelist, poet and nature writer. He published more than twenty books and was a powerful influence on many Canadian writers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-61710760175922034382010-06-19T18:09:00.001-04:002010-06-19T18:09:47.390-04:00Island year: finding Nova Scotia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjddU4ZG6iBu_-ZgJtbNMiPJZFDgoZT8__Y2ouFAtjjW29GU3cQfZkaYqY8PL70zHQ937CDHta3HA6lWyH2YPE2Kry9L7lT8cYWOszASvkX5IG_3ZwJnOXzygPgdcjZ5173LiLlDEfrILt/s1600/9781897426135.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjddU4ZG6iBu_-ZgJtbNMiPJZFDgoZT8__Y2ouFAtjjW29GU3cQfZkaYqY8PL70zHQ937CDHta3HA6lWyH2YPE2Kry9L7lT8cYWOszASvkX5IG_3ZwJnOXzygPgdcjZ5173LiLlDEfrILt/s320/9781897426135.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Greg Brown<br />
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Nonfiction: Autobiography, Nova Scotia, Nature<br />
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192 pages<br />
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ISBN: 978-1-897426-13-5<br />
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As they neared retirement, Greg Brown and his wife Anne gave up their life in the U.S. to settle on a windswept Nova Scotia island inhabited by wild sheep and deer, where harbour seals sing in the fog and an old lighthouse still keeps watch over the North Atlantic. Island Year: Finding Nova Scotia tells the story of the surprises, challenges and discoveries of their first year alone on an island as they restored an old fisherman's house, explored the island, and began to learn how to live a Nova Scotia way of life.<br />
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This is a story for anyone who dreams of exchanging a fastpaced, high-tech life for something slower and just maybe more meaningful. This is a story about the night sky and the dawn chorus, lobsters and wild raspberries, a famous pirate, the kindness of others, and getting in touch with yourself again. Funny and inspiring, this book redefines what a rich life can mean.<br />
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Greg Brown was born and raised in California before moving to Rhode Island. After two years in West Berlin, Germany, he settled in Washington, DC and became an ordained United Methodist Minister. After his twenty-year career in pastoral ministry, he moved into the field of counselling. Later, he began a coaching practice with clergy and small business executives, and developed an interest in the restoration of historic houses. This interest, together with his love of the sea and his Nova Scotian roots (his grandfather was born and raised in Pugwash), prompted a life-changing departure from the United States to McNutt’s Island in southwestern Nova Scotia where he lives with his wife.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-53446117039331487532010-06-19T18:07:00.000-04:002010-06-19T18:07:26.099-04:00Wrecked and ruined: true sea disasters from the eastern edge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzL6Yp7Uhayzdcl4pdYP90Dw6kiJzyPVetQF7vyX4sEvki_LLzSwEtH91vKaoEhZSwfWsZRTwy6zyKmcdIs5bPc3X_95rzZKkErN61H-IKAHL8Er6j5zzUwKWjNJBFNt4ymeFdByjBH-e/s1600/9781897426159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzL6Yp7Uhayzdcl4pdYP90Dw6kiJzyPVetQF7vyX4sEvki_LLzSwEtH91vKaoEhZSwfWsZRTwy6zyKmcdIs5bPc3X_95rzZKkErN61H-IKAHL8Er6j5zzUwKWjNJBFNt4ymeFdByjBH-e/s320/9781897426159.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Robert C. Parsons<br />
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Nonfiction: Atlantic Canada, History, The Sea, Shipwrecks<br />
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192 pages<br />
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Fishermen and mariners exist in a self-contained fragile world dominated by the whims of ruthless natural forces. The sea can be a harsh dictator that determines if a ship and the men aboard survive or die. As a result, disasters abound and the sea offers up mysteries aplenty. In November 1886, for example, the New Brunswick ship Blanco was sailing mid-Atlantic when its crew saw a man adrift on a crude catamaran. The captain put his ship about, drew near and prepared to take the nearly exhausted man aboard. There seemed to be no reason why he wouldn't want to be picked up. But the castaway was reluctant to climb aboard. Why? The author explores this and many other curious tales of the sea.<br />
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What really happened to the rum-runner John Dwight? In September 1923 the vessel was supposedly intentionally scuttled, but then bodies of its crew along with whiskey and ale barrels washed ashore. The bodies were strangely slashed and mutilated. And what about several other renowned smugglers who came to mysterious ends during the Prohibition era?<br />
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When the passenger-mail steamer Limari went up on the rocks, all hands - including Scott Hayes, the son of an American president - had to be rescued. Not long after that the rescue ship Montaro itself slowly sank in the storm. Aboard the vessel was a menagerie of wild animals. Many, including halfcrazed lions and tigers, broke from their deck cages. The fate of all aboard Montaro seemed worse than death by drowning.<br />
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And then there are the mysterious messages in bottles from sailors, many belonging to Canada's eastern seaboard, who disappeared with their ships. These are just a few of the many curious and strange stories recounted in this intriguing book. Wrecked and Ruined contains 57 stories of mischief, murder, mayhem, mystery, disappearance, destruction, as well as survival, struggle, rescue and reward.<br />
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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.<br />
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Also by the author: Shipwrecks of New Brunswick, Ocean of Storms, Sea of Disaster, In Peril on the Sea and The Edge of Yesterday: Sea Disasters of Nova Scotia.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-82245725710549502092010-06-19T18:04:00.000-04:002010-06-19T18:04:50.325-04:00Buried in the woods: sawmill ghost towns of Nova Scotia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRcb0t4bu8OU_eqVcgOw2c2IcJBtKyRwWy7lGjgbiUt8wzrPenGXILNO8Lymk0E-vWeH7lt9GDJLGWmAgtaVcADf8PyEptMdDXMHfDVQnEliyuRwpiHPzmj1QHAn8KTezMZ-hq2hXI7GSG/s1600/9781897426142.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRcb0t4bu8OU_eqVcgOw2c2IcJBtKyRwWy7lGjgbiUt8wzrPenGXILNO8Lymk0E-vWeH7lt9GDJLGWmAgtaVcADf8PyEptMdDXMHfDVQnEliyuRwpiHPzmj1QHAn8KTezMZ-hq2hXI7GSG/s320/9781897426142.jpg" width="214" /></a>Mike Parker</div><div><br />
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</div><div>Buried in the Woods: Sawmill Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia resurrects the story of abandoned settlements hacked from the primal forest by timber barons. Nova Scotia's ghost towns are not the stereotypical version portrayed in the Old West with tumbleweeds blowing down deserted streets lined with derelict, weathered buildings and creaking doors swinging in the breeze. True to the book's title, most of Nova Scotia's deserted lumber towns are literally buried in the woods and forgotten, but Shulie Eatonville, Minudie, Lake Jolly, Electric City, Crossburn-Hastings, Roxbury, Mount Hanley, Conquerall, Irish Town, Canal Camp, Coote Cove, Markland, Raymond-Ville, River Denys Mountain, and Skye Mountain live again in the pages of this book.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Pictures are windows to the past. Mike Parker has painstakingly scoured archival and private photographic collections in his quest to breathe life into many of these lost communities. The result is a mosaic of 208 images, supported by Mike's trademark relaxed writing style, that is sure to entertain a diverse audience from adventurous sleuths looking for on-site discoveries to armchair heritage buffs and historians in search of an informative read.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Lumbering and shipbuilding in Nova Scotia date back more than four hundred years to when North America's first shipyard was established in 1606 at Port Royal. At the time of Canada's confederation in 1867, Nova Scotia was the wealthiest of the four provinces that initially made up the fledgling nation, its prosperity based largely on possessing one of the world's most extensive sea-going merchant fleets. Wood was king in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with thousands of Nova Scotians employed in lumber camps, sawmills, shipyards and factories that manufactured wooden products. In just one year during the 1870s, more than 1,000 Nova Scotia sawmills turned out enough lumber to build 3,000 vessels. Those halcyon days faded long ago into oblivion as have many resource-based communities that disappeared with the demise of tall trees and wooden ships.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>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 13 books of popular history. The best-selling author has been researching and writing about his native province for more than twenty years. Mike is affiliated with the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University as a research associate.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Also by the author: Gold Rush Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-9196599280276414902010-01-14T15:57:00.002-04:002010-01-14T16:00:51.218-04:00If I Knew Then What I Know Now: The Clarity that Comes With Cancer and Age<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbtDc9VWG3Cs5shUT5UMdg1epT4-FQqe9QJdo5U5RImaV4g7Sc5h7UjePJQBcwAM5eNK9NLsCjoKKVUueDTdXomacTltURhT6Ulbxg2BS4Pd0oPZ2FFiMrJvGpUZtZAJ939FE8igRKnHz7/s1600-h/9781897426128.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbtDc9VWG3Cs5shUT5UMdg1epT4-FQqe9QJdo5U5RImaV4g7Sc5h7UjePJQBcwAM5eNK9NLsCjoKKVUueDTdXomacTltURhT6Ulbxg2BS4Pd0oPZ2FFiMrJvGpUZtZAJ939FE8igRKnHz7/s320/9781897426128.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426687320936585074" /></a><br /><br />If I Knew Then What I Know Now: The Clarity that Comes With Cancer and Age<br /><br />Carol Ann Cole<br /><br />Nonfiction: Autobiography, Cancer, Medicine<br />$19.95<br />192 pages<br />6" x 9" paperback<br />ISBN: 978-1-897426-12-8<br /><br />Order this book: <br />[<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/order.html">from Pottersfield Press</a>] [<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Knew-Then-What-Know-Now/dp/1897426127/">from Amazon</a>] [<a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/If-Knew-Then-What-Know-Carol-Ann-Cole/9781897426128-item.html">from Chapters</a>]<br /><br />Carol Ann Cole writes of her incredible journey, the path she has walked from ages 16 to 60. She writes of the clarity that comes with age and, in her case, a recurrence of breast cancer 16 years after her initial diagnosis. In 1992, Carol Ann and her mother both battled cancer at the same time. In 2008, Carol Ann continued to learn from her mother as she faced this killer disease without her mother by her side.<br /><br />In intimate and sometimes heartbreaking detail, Carol Ann provides insight into a woman's emotions and fears following a routine mammogram and ultimately a clean bill of health. Not taking herself too seriously, she shares the lighter side of her breast cancer recurrence and finds a way to lift your heart as you read her story. You will never view a mammography machine or an operating room the same way again.<br /><br />The author speaks of her Comfort Heart Initiative fundraiser that is alive and well many years after being launched in 1998. There are more than 228,000 Comfort Hearts in the hands of people in Canada and around the world, and some of their stories are collected here. Carol Ann also includes stories from others who have opened their hearts to share their challenges of retirement, cancer and mental illness. The author writes of her own battle with depression and how she reached out for help.<br /><br />If I Knew Then What I Know Now includes Carol Ann's passion for family, honesty, helping others, the bond of friendship, battling and beating cancer one more time and much more. If you are looking for that special book that will give you hope and courage, this is the book for you.<br /><br /><br />Carol Ann Cole is an author (<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/books/lessonslearned.html">Lessons Learned Upside the Head: From Boardroom to Bedroom - Career to Cancer and Beyond</a>), a professional speaker and the founder of the Comfort Heart Initiative. She is a member of the Order of Canada and has received numerous additional awards including the Golden Jubilee Medal, the elite Maclean's Honour Roll and the Terry Fox Citation of Honour, to name a few. Carol Ann's website is www.carolanncole.com.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-23804524539939088092010-01-14T15:00:00.004-04:002010-01-14T16:01:58.523-04:00Age of Heroes: A Boy, a Prince and the 1797 Wreck of La Tribune<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCQtQ0UF1KOdaR0G4yf7F28Km0JkwCj5rddGB7aTftwq9cNuwOqr3bwnsXQxr5yZlGruySfL0aJOam-c25iXIykdt2HeTqVJpYLLBl45CE5X9O3VKDRJEUKCQ4gaYQOsRsBQ0QnQquydg/s1600-h/9781897426111.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCQtQ0UF1KOdaR0G4yf7F28Km0JkwCj5rddGB7aTftwq9cNuwOqr3bwnsXQxr5yZlGruySfL0aJOam-c25iXIykdt2HeTqVJpYLLBl45CE5X9O3VKDRJEUKCQ4gaYQOsRsBQ0QnQquydg/s320/9781897426111.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426672584065529762" /></a><br /><br />Age of Heroes: A Boy, a Prince and the 1797 Wreck of La Tribune<br /><br />John Dickie<br /><br />Nonfiction: Nova Scotia History, Sailing Ships, War<br />$19.95<br />192 pages<br />6" x 9" paperback<br />ISBN: 978-1-897426-11-1<br /><br />Order this book: <br />[<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/order.html">from Pottersfield Press</a>] [<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Age-Heroes-Prince-Wreck-Tribune/dp/1897426119/">from Amazon</a>] [<a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Age-Heroes-Boy-Prince-Wreck-John-Dickie/9781897426111-item.html">from Chapters</a>]<br /><br />Age of Heroes documents one of Nova Scotia's greatest sea tales. It comes from the golden age of fighting sail, the so-called "age of heroes," which has long drawn audiences to books like Master and Commander and the Horatio Hornblower genre of nautical fiction.<br /><br />France's La Tribune frigate fell to Britain's HMS Unicorn after a moonlit sea battle fought off Ireland's coast. The humbled warship was added to the Royal Navy lists when admirals like John Jervis and Horatio Nelson were defending England's shores from invasion and her sea lanes from attack by revolutionary France. Tribune was ushered into British service during the turmoil of the Spithead and Nore mutinies, her crew a collection of young English, Irish and Scots eager to fight for King and Country, as well as for their own glory.<br /><br />Unfortunately, HMS Tribune was mistakenly run aground by her sailing master while entering Halifax harbour on November 23, 1797. During the attempt to escape from her rocky prison, Tribune was caught in a horrendous storm and ultimately sank at night with the loss of more than 240 souls. Only a 13-year-old orphan fisher boy from nearby Herring Cove dared to row his tiny skiff into the jaws of the tempest to save British sailors stranded on the wreck. Impressed by his selfless act, Prince Edward, the future father of Queen Victoria who was residing in Halifax at the time, rewarded the young boy for his brave deed. In this true tale of valour, the legend of the hero fisher boy lives on more than two centuries after his part in one of Canada's most compelling sea stories.<br /><br /><br />John Dickie holds MSc and MBA degrees in geology and international business development. Exploration work led him from the mountains of the Yukon and Alaska, through the deserts of Mexico and jungles of Vanuatu, to offshore Nova Scotia. A senior management role continues to take him to such places as Venezuela, Brazil, Spain, France, Scotland, Mexico, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, though his love for the North Atlantic and his passion for underwater exploration keeps him in his native Nova Scotia. John resides in Halifax with his two young children.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-72879406290098733612010-01-14T14:58:00.002-04:002010-01-14T15:00:25.415-04:00Skipper: The Sea Yarns of Captain Matthew Mitchell<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahMm6nRDv0flfLMbJ7lc_XlcBXhdpW0t6-azv920_oFPbwTPg-5iq7Y_cM7QkBSnv5NRcAYltsWp3xkA5gGZT0Z_CR60ViImfVNf588jfIsViYWlA-z6C7nVnVs_xtLjqIik18yDkqT3O/s1600-h/9781897426104.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahMm6nRDv0flfLMbJ7lc_XlcBXhdpW0t6-azv920_oFPbwTPg-5iq7Y_cM7QkBSnv5NRcAYltsWp3xkA5gGZT0Z_CR60ViImfVNf588jfIsViYWlA-z6C7nVnVs_xtLjqIik18yDkqT3O/s320/9781897426104.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426672084296473650" /></a><br /><br />Skipper: The Sea Yarns of Captain Matthew Mitchell<br /><br />Frances Jewel Dickson<br /><br />Nonfiction: The Sea, Oral History<br />$15.95<br />112 pages<br />6" x 9" paperback<br />ISBN: 978-1-897426-10-4<br /><br />Order this book: <br />[<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/order.html">from Pottersfield Press</a>] [<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Skipper-Yarns-Captain-Matthew-Mitchell/dp/1897426100/">from Amazon</a>] [<a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Skipper-Sea-Yarns-Captain-Matthew-Frances-Jewel-Dickson/9781897426104-item.html">from Chapters</a>]<br /><br />Skipper Matthew Mitchell was born on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland in 1917. Now a lively 92-year-old, he looks back on his lifelong relationship with the sea, from wooden dories to steel trawlers, to shore captain at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The author has gathered his many stories into this exuberant volume.<br /><br />Captain Mitchell's keen memory spares no details of his exceptional life and his recollections vibrate with his colourful native Newfoundland vernacular. We follow him from a boy of 12 watching his native village of Port au Bras devastated by the earthquake and tidal waves of 1929 to learning the secrets of salt fishing and preserving from his father and uncles. Later he is recruited on numerous schooners beginning at the age of 14, eventually taking command of fishing trawlers based in historic Lunenburg. He began his life at sea fishing in two-man dories, braving the rigours of the North Atlantic. Nova Scotia-based schooners took him to Lunenburg during the Great Depression, where he lived in boarding houses until he married and started a family in his adopted town. He fished through World War II, facing new dangers with submarines lurking off the East Coast. He would take command of his first fishing trawler when the captain of the Cape North retired.<br /><br />When the sea agreed to let him go after 45 years, he was hired as shore captain at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, where he would remain for another 30 years. As shore skipper he entertained thousands of visitors from all over the world with stories of the bygone days of sailing fishing vessels, when he and thousands of other fishermen risked their lives repeatedly to earn a modest living. Captain Matthew Mitchell's captivating memoirs stand as a monument to the era of wooden ships and iron men.<br /><br /><br />Frances Jewel Dickson, a native of Quebec, has lived on Nova Scotia's South Shore since 1987. She has held management positions in human resources administration, written personnel policy for the Speaker of the House of Commons and led audit teams in evaluating the performance of government departments across Canada. Her first book, The DEW Line Years: Voices from the Coldest Cold War, was published in 2007 by Pottersfield Press.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-51277403062232861092010-01-14T14:56:00.003-04:002010-01-14T14:58:06.529-04:00Death Ship of Halifax Harbour<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxVfgYYufi47MTazpMR_ZRYXehrVrm2GBQ4XyByoO2GMMfx41zrytqb_Ez2K_sE1ALzjMUYrRH6kfguPLG7njJUbeAkojGvQgOSMGpkxrAU-gtqYSpe42pck9Bx55_0O5pB69QL1lSqWl/s1600-h/9781897426098.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxVfgYYufi47MTazpMR_ZRYXehrVrm2GBQ4XyByoO2GMMfx41zrytqb_Ez2K_sE1ALzjMUYrRH6kfguPLG7njJUbeAkojGvQgOSMGpkxrAU-gtqYSpe42pck9Bx55_0O5pB69QL1lSqWl/s320/9781897426098.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426671350873383650" /></a><br /><br />Death Ship of Halifax Harbour<br /><br />Steven Edwin Laffoley<br /><br />Nonfiction: Nova Scotia History, Medicine $19.95<br />192 pages<br />6" x 9" paperback<br />ISBN: 978-1-897426-09-8.<br /><br />Order this book: <br />[<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/order.html">from Pottersfield Press</a>] [<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Death-Halifax-Harbour-Steven-Laffoley/dp/1897426097/">from Amazon</a>] [<a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Death-Ship-Of-Halifax-Harbour-Steven-Edwin-Laffoley/9781897426098-item.html">from Chapters</a>]<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />"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."<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />Steven Laffoley has been a curriculum writer, a university professor, a school principal, and a dues-paying member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. A freelance writer, columnist and broadcaster, he is the author of Mr. Bush, Angus and Me and the award-nominated Hunting Halifax: In Search of History, Mystery and Murder, in which he investigates a 150-year-old murder. He lives with his wife and daughter in Halifax, Nova Scotia.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5011302125382557596.post-31600911684588848802010-01-14T14:52:00.001-04:002010-01-14T14:55:25.372-04:00Canadian Angels By Your Side<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipUyJzzpPTEz6efHE9QUTPGsOxAJ-MMr_uoJjMk46SySceZEp_EZkIKA6gcdt_lsBpH-eftv3z_VwVubbtRcOb0voLl1g6LkXWZbqVoErokcQXz676k_4FH1eM40ESeSfPzOaxSXHhiJys/s1600-h/9781897426081.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipUyJzzpPTEz6efHE9QUTPGsOxAJ-MMr_uoJjMk46SySceZEp_EZkIKA6gcdt_lsBpH-eftv3z_VwVubbtRcOb0voLl1g6LkXWZbqVoErokcQXz676k_4FH1eM40ESeSfPzOaxSXHhiJys/s320/9781897426081.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426670466250680690" /></a><br /><br />Canadian Angels By Your Side<br /><br />Karen Forrest<br /><br />Nonfiction: Angels, Spirituality<br />$15.95<br />112 pages<br />ISBN: 978-1-897426-08-1<br />6" x 9" Paperback<br /><br />Order this book: <br />[<a href="http://pottersfieldpress.com/order.html">from Pottersfield Press</a>] [<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-Angels-Your-Karen-Forrest/dp/1897426089/">from Amazon</a>] [<a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Canadian-Angels-By-Your-Side-Karen-Forrest/9781897426081-item.html">from Chapters</a>]<br /><br />Do you believe in angels? Canadian Angels By Your Side is a collection of heartwarming angel stories from people across Canada. These are personal stories about events ranging from everyday encounters to profound moments of healing. These Canadian angel encounters will make you laugh, make you cry, but above all inspire you. Did you ever wonder how to personally make contact with your angels? Following each story is relevant, angelic information to assist you in connecting with your angels.<br /><br />Read about loving angel messages, heartfelt prayers and meaningful angel tips. Learn how you can summon angels in your daily life and how to ask for and recognize their divine guidance. The book is written in a conversational, down-to-earth way by Karen Forrest, author and internationally recognized Angel Therapy Practitioner. Through her practice, Karen progressed from just simply believing in angels to experiencing angels in her daily life. Learn how to invoke Archangel Raphael, how angels visually appear to you and how to send angels to other people. Read comforting messages from your angels reassuring you your deceased loved ones are at peace. Learn how to free yourself of your fearful thoughts and enjoy safe travel.<br /><br />Focusing on inspiration and faith, Canadian Angels By Your Side encourages you to make contact with the angelic/divine realms to lovingly guide and heal you in all aspects of your life. Transcending various religious and spiritual beliefs, the book focuses on personal connections to angels and God. Read the stories, follow the offered insights and begin leading a life of peace, love and purpose.<br /><br /><br />Karen Forrest, BN, CD, Angel Therapy Practitioner (certified by Doreen Virtue), is the author of Angels of the Maritimes By Your Side. She is a motivational speaker and radio co-host and has received extensive spiritual training. A retired mental health nursing officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, Karen works from a diverse background. With a vision of assisting people to personally connect with their angels and God in honouring their life purpose, Karen offers private angel/medium readings and workshops through her practice, Words of Wisdom Counselling. She counsels and heals with a heart of compassion. Karen's website is <a href="http://www.karenforrest.com">www.karenforrest.com</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0