Nimbus: 150 books
by Elizabeth Goudie
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Originally published in 1973 and now a Nimbus Classic, Woman of Labrador is Elizabeth Goudie’s enduring and candid story of her pioneering life as a trapper’s wife in the early 1900s. She was left alone much of the year to rear eight children while her husband worked the traplines, providing furs...
by Harvey Sawler
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
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...
The Last Canadian Knight
The Unintended Business Adventures of Sir Graham Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
From a small-town law office in Nova Scotia to the pressure-cooker boardrooms of London, England, where he was Margaret Thatcher's "privatization ace," lawyer and businessman Sir Graham Day has earned an international reputation as a tough-minded but charming negotiator.
After a rocky...
Mona Parsons
From Privilege to Prison, From Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Even as a young girl growing up in Nova Scotia, Mona Louise Parsons stood out for her elegance and theatrical flair. But the life of this Wolfville native has always overshadowed her stage roles. From a Nova Scotian childhood, she became a 1920s New York chorus girl, a Depression-era nurse,...
by Lesley Crewe
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
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 Lesley Crewe's sixth novel, we trace the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations...
by Dave Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
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. But she doesn’t want to be a werewolf. She’s always felt more like a duck.
On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Kate stands...
Be Prepared!
The Frankie MacDonald Guide to Life, the Weather, and Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Ever wonder where clouds come from? Or how meteorologists predict the weather? This brand new book, starring Nova Scotia’s favourite weather reporter, Frankie MacDonald, and written by author Sarah Sawler, shares stories from Frankie’s early years, along with facts about all things sunny, rainy,...
by Peggy Kochanoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Why is that tree lumpy? How do insects stay alive in the winter? What are tides, anyway?
In Be a Wilderness Detective, biologist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers these and many more questions. With simple language and beautifully accurate paintings, Kochanoff walks young readers through many...
Simon Spatz
From Holocaust to Halifax, A Story of Survival and Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
His was a life worth living, a story worth telling.
So Jim Spatz describes the story of his father, Simon Spatz, in the introduction to this fascinating biography of the high-profile Jewish Nova Scotian businessman (1913–2007). In Simon Spatz, former journalism professor Michael Cobdon tells...
by Tyler Hayden
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Mother’s Message in a Bottle is an inspirational collection of over 40 letters from mothers around the world to the people they love. The aim of the book is to provide direction, wisdom, and connection between mothers and their children that will outlast their physical lives. Contributors to this...
Duffy
Stardom to Senate to Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
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 bestpaid 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...
Fire in the Belly
How Purdy Crawford rescued Canada, and changed the way we do business
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Purdy Crawford’s name is synonymous with Canadian business and law. But even after education at Mount Allison and Harvard, Purdy arrived on Toronto’s Bay Street as an outsider, the son of a coal miner from tiny Five Islands, Nova Scotia. So how did young Purdy ascend so quickly and so far to become...
Shattered City:
The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
In December 1917, Halifax was alive with excitement. The streets were filled with troops, and the city, far removed from the bitter fighting in Europe, was reaping all the advantages of war. On the morning of December 6, however, the wartime bloodshed came to Halifax with a vengeance when a French...
by Sarah Sawler
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Did you know that the Halifax–Dartmouth ferry was once operated by a team of nine horses? Or that Babe Ruth used to visit Yarmouth regularly for hunting and fishing vacations? Enter journalist Sarah Sawler: your guide to discovering 100 fascinating things you don’t know about Nova Scotia—from...