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Carnival Curves
In this joyful and thought-provoking YA novel about self-acceptance, friendship, and the power of cultural tradition, two teens experience their first Toronto Caribbean Carnival in their last summer of high…
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Love on Planet A
A compelling coming-of-age novel about disability, activism, and first love. Lydia has had a passion for climate issues for as long as she can remember. After a fall at school,…
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Seven Days in Halifax
Halifax today lives with the results of bad decisions made decades ago. A container port accessible only through narrow downtown streets. A park, bridge and port on the spot where…
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Targeting Libya
For over four decades, Canada has played a pivotal yet little-known role in Libya’s history. In Targeting Libya, investigative journalist Owen Schalk examines how Canadian business and government actors influenced…
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Ace and the Misfits vs. the Soccer Knights
When Ace, a recently arrived Ugandan immigrant, joins up with “the Misfits” — other kids at school who share the challenges of life in a new country — to play…
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Canadian Architectural Styles
Featuring over 1,000 photographs, this guide identifies more than 40 important architectural styles in Canada, ranging from the nineteenth-century Georgian, Gothic Revival and Italianate buildings to twentieth- and twenty-first-century Art…
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Baking Queen of the County Fair
For almost sixty years, Evelyn Strong has been the undisputed queen of the bake-off at the Hants County Exhibition—Nova Scotia’s largest and North America’s longest-running agricultural fair. A decorated champion…
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Broadside
On a bitter winter night during the Second World War, a British freighter smashed into a Halifax Harbour pilot boat, sending nine men to their deaths. Drawing on interviews and…
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Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Africville
The community of Africville was founded in the late 1800s when African Nova Scotians built homes on the Bedford Basin on the northern edge of Halifax. Africville grew to include…
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Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the internment of Italian-Canadians during the Second World War. This title makes use of photos and…
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Explosion Newsie
On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in the busy wartime harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The resulting explosion was the biggest man-made blast prior to the development of nuclear…
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Bluenose Adventure
Here’s a true-to-life adventure story. Arty is a 10-year-old boy who gets the chance of a lifetime — he’s hired to go on the maiden voyage of the famous schooner…
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