After the war / Andy Wainwright. Oakville, ON. : Mosaic Press/Valley Editions, 1981. 65 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8595 A295 A258
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Save the world for me / Maxine Tynes. Porter's Lake : Pottersfield, 1991. 78 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8589 Y64 S263
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The ultimate contact / by Kathy Tyler. Fredericton, N.B. : Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978. 71 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8589 Y52
Poems.
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Julie's secret / Cora Taylor. Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books, 1991. 117 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8589 A883 J83 1991
Extrasensory perception — Juvenile fiction.
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The Sentimentalists : A Novel / by Johanna Skibsrud. Kentville : Gaspereau Press, 2009. 216 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8587 K46 S45 2009
Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud's narrator maps her father's past. Napoleon Haskell lives with Henry in the town of Casablanca, Ontario, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town. Henry is the father of Napoleon's friend Owen, who died fighting in Vietnam. When her life comes apart, Napoleon's daughter retreats to Casablanca and is soon immersed in the complicated family stories that lurk below the surface of everyday life. With its quiet mullings and lines from Bogart, The Sentimentalists captures a daughter's wrestling with a heady family mythology.
Families — Fiction
Fathers and daughters — Fiction
Veterans — Family relationships — Fiction
First novel
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This is Cape Breton : verses / by Alice Seward. 1st ed. New York : Vantage Press, 1984. 112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8587 E94 T448
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Poetry.
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Look to the harbour / by Will Pringle. New York : Carlton Press, 1988. 240 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8581 R581 L863
A hearthstone book.
Educators — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography
Farmers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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Molière's Tartuffe : what happens at the No Nancy Summit / adapted by Richard Ouzounian. Toronto : Ms Fit Press, 1987. viii, 71 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8579 U96 M64 1987
Molière, 1622-1673. Tartuffe
Molière, 1622-1673. Tartuffe.
Canada — Politics and government — 1984- — Drama
Canada — Politique et gouvernement — 1984-1993 — Théâtre
Canada — Politics and government — 1980- — Drama.
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I might not tell everybody this / Alden Nowlan. Toronto : Clarke, Irwin, 1982. 95 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8577 O97 I11
Poems.
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No Great Mischief / Alistair MacLeod. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1999. 283 pages ; 24 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8575 L459 N6 1999
Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family's mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in "the land of trees," where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.
Scots — Nova Scotia — Fiction
Young men — Fiction
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Fiction
Nova Scotia — Fiction
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Cleaning the bones / Joseph McLeod. Erin, ON. : Don Mills, ON. : Press Porcepic ; distributed by Musson Book Co., 1977. 62 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8575 C628
Poems.
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Remember the time : true stories old and new / by Michael MacKenzie. Christmas Island : Mackenzie Books, 1981. 135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8575 A157 R386
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Memories recalled : true stories, old and new, from the Atlantic Provinces / by Michael MacKenzie. Christmas Island : MacKenzie Books, 1992. iv, 202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8575 A157 M533
Short stories, Canadian (English) — Atlantic Provinces
Atlantic Provinces — History.
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No safe harbour : the Halifax explosion diary of Charlotte Blackburn / by Julie Lawson. Markham, ON. : Scholastic Canada,2006. 249 pages :ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8573 A94 N935 2006
NSARM copy signed by author.
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917 — Juvenile fiction.
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Alexander Graham Bell : Baddeck's gentle genius / a portrait by James B. Lamb. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1990. 48 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8573 A491 A374
Inventors — United States — Biography — Juvenile literature
Aeronautics — United States — Experiments — Juvenile literature
Inventors
Aeronautics — History.
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Song of Eskasoni : more poems of Rita Joe / Rita Joe. Charlottetown, PEI : Ragweed Press, 1988. 88 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8569 O3 S66
Mi'kmaq — Poetry
Canadian poetry
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Inu and Indians we're called / Rita Joe. Charlottetown, PEI : Ragweed Press, 1992. 70 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8569 O28 L79
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Poems of Rita Joe / Rita Joe. Halifax : Abanaki Press, 1978. 26 pages ; 19 x 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8569 O28
Text in Mi'kmaq and English in parallel columns.
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Song of Rita Joe : autobiography of a Mi'kmag poet / Rita Joe ; with the assistance of Lynn Henry. Charlottetown, PEI : Ragweed Press, 1996. 191 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, music, ports. ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8569 O265 Z53 1996
Poets, Canadian — 20th century — Biography
Indian women — Canada — Biography
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The promised land : stories of Cape Breton / Tessie Gillis ; tribute and introduction by James O. Taylor. West Bay : Medicine Label Press, 1992. xiii, 125 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8563 I29 P965
Canadian literature — 20th century
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Fiction.
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The trees and fields went the other way / Evelyn Eaton. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8559 E14 Z5
Includes index.
Novelists, Canadian (English) — 20th century — Biography
Eaton, Evelyn Sybil Mary, 1902-
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Le chemin des Huit-Maisons : roman historique / Jeanne Ducluzeau. Moncton, N.-B. : Editions d'Acadie, 1987. 359 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8557 U16 C517
Poitou (France) — History — Fiction.
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My grandfather's Cape Breton Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980. 213 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8557 O93
Authors, Canadian — 20th century — Biography
Authors, Canadian (English) — 20th century — Biography — Youth
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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Snowdreams : a play for high school students / by Peter Cumming. 1st ed. Mar., 1982. Toronto : Playwrights Canada, 1982, 1981. 86, v pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8555 U48
Children's plays, Canadian
Multiculturalism — Canada — Juvenile drama
Racism — Canada — Juvenile drama.
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Saltwater spirituals and deeper blues / George Elliott Clarke. Porters Lake : Pottersfield Press, 1983. 96 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8555 L37 S34 C598
Poems.
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