Nimbus: 150 books
by Vernon Oickle
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. In I’m Movin’ On, journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow’s hardscrabble life, from his destitute childhood in Queens County to international fame. Leaving...
From Old Hollywood to New Brunswick
Memories of a Wonderful Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Imagine receiving a mysterious invitation from Charlie Chaplin, doing jigsaw puzzles with Marilyn Monroe, having a heart-to-heart with Jack Kennedy, or being kissed by Greta Garbo. All of these and more are the sensational memories of UK-born, honorary Maritimer Charles Foster. After an unlikely childhood,...
Aftershock
The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
On December 6, 1917, harbour pilot Francis Mackey was guiding Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, into Bedford Basin to join a convoy across the Atlantic when it was rammed by Belgian Relief vessel Imo. The resulting massive explosion destroyed Halifax’s north end and left at least two thousand...
The Effective Citizen
How to Make Politicians Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Effective citizens--engaged, knowledgeable, and persistent, and united in common cause--are the most powerful force that ever was, or ever will be. I hope this book will help citizens to be more effective.
In his uniquely straightforward and accessible style, Political insider Graham Steele...
by Fred Doucette
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Fred Doucette always wanted to be a soldier. In the 1960s he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Cyprus in the 1970s and ’80s and Bosnia in the 1990s. When he returned home to New Brunswick in 1999 after his last overseas tour, he was diagnosed with severe chronic post-traumatic stress...
by William S. Crooker
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
William Crooker, a graduate of Dalhousie University, was a Land Surveyor and Professional Engineer. He is the author of a number of books including Oak Island Gold, The Oak Island Quest, Tracking Treasure, and Pirates of the North Atlantic.
What I Learned About Politics
Inside the Rise-and Collapse-of Nova Scotia's NDP Government
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
On October 8, 2013, Nova Scotia’s NDP government went down to a devastating election defeat. Premier Darrell Dexter lost his own seat, and the party held the dubious distinction of being the first one-term majority government in over 100 years.
In this new memoir, former NDP finance minister...
by Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Black Loyalists is an attempt to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to bring back into our awareness the context for some very brave and enterprising men...
Maritime Murder
Deadly Crimes from the Buried Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In his uniquely homespun style, sinister storyteller Steve Vernon digs up the dirt on Maritime murders from 1770 to 1929--along with a few bodies along the way. Unearthing historically buried, and occasionally unsolved, violent crimes from across Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia,...
After Many Years
Twenty-one "Long Lost" Stories by L. M. Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and stories.
This collection brings together rare pieces originally published between 1900 and 1939 that haven't...
by Brian Douglas Tennyson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
When the First World War ended in 1918, its profound impact did not. The war continued to haunt a nation. Nova Scotia at War, 1915-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role that was, at the time, the most traumatic collective experience in the history of Canadians. As Tennyson explores in nine...
Hope for Wildlife
True Stories of Animal Resuce
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
One day, a couple who had run over a skunk with their car brought it to the Dartmouth Veterinary Hospital. When the veterinarians couldn't look after it, Hope Swinimer decided to take the helpless animal into her care, and that was the start of it all. Now, through her rehabilitation centre called...
Helen Creighton
Canada's First Lady of Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Helen Creighton was born at the turn of the nineteenth century and until her death in 1989, she made a remarkable contribution towards retrieving the stories, songs, and legends that have shaped the culture and the people of the Maritimes. Written by her protégé and fellow folklorist, Clary Croft,...
Inside the Game
The Stories Behind Nova Scotia's Sports Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
“Many of Nova Scotia's best sports stories have never entirely been told, at least not to the extent they deserve.” In Inside the Game, sports columnist Chris Cochrane goes beyond the headlines to tell the real stories behind ten of the province's most memorable sporting events and achievements:...