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  • The Last Hockey Game Chronicle of a North Country Life
    Author:

    McDougall, Bruce

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    Shortlisted, Toronto Book AwardsOn May 2, 1967, Montreal and Toronto faced each other in a battle for hockey supremacy.

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  • Strange Heaven
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    Coady, Lynn

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    Endicott, Marina

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    Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall AwardShortlisted, Governor General's Award f

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  • Frank The Life and Politics of Frank McKenna
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    Lee, Philip

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    Goose Lane Editions has released a biography that reveals the private world of one of Canada’s most fascinating politicians.

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  • Eyehill
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    Cooper, Kelly

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    A remarkable debut collection, Kelly Cooper's Eyehill provides a multi-hued portrait of a small prairie town.

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  • Dance the Rocks Ashore
    Author:

    Choyce, Lesley

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    Lesley Choyce writes rings around most Canadian authors. Even so, the most recent of his five books of stories came out in 1988, and most are out of print.

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  • Where the Nights Are Twice as Long Love Letters of Canadian Poets
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    Eso, David

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    Lynes, Jeanette

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    Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary poems from more than 120 Canadian poets, includin

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  • Tales from Under the Rim The Marketing of Tim Hortons
    Author:

    Buist, Ron

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    Want to know the secrets behind Canada's most popular coffee-and-donuts chain?

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  • A Boy's Life of Napoleon
    Author:

    Nowlan, Alden

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    Alden Nowlan's "A Boy's Life of Napoleon" is a brilliant piece of short fiction adapted from Nowlan's first novel, The Wanton Troopers, written in 1960 but published posthu

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  • If I Could Turn and Meet Myself The Life of Alden Nowlan
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    Toner, Patrick

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    At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canada and in the US as well.

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  • Great Maritime Inventions, 1833-1950
    Author:

    Theriault, Mario

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    Great Maritime Inventions 1833-1950 is a delightful look at how innovative Maritime ideas changed the world.

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  • Elle
    Author:

    Glover, Douglas

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    Mathews, Lawrence

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    Winner, Governor General's Award for FictionShortlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' PrizeA 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with

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  • With All Her Might The Life of Gertrude Harding, Militant Suffragette
    Author:

    Wilson, Gretchen

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    Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm.

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  • The Americans Are Coming
    Author:

    Curtis, Herb

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    An invasion?

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  • Woodlands Canoeing Pleasure Paddling on Woodland Waterways
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    Sparkman, Richard

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    A recreational canoeman in his native Texas, Rick Sparkman thought he knew all about the sport when he moved to Nova Scotia in 1981.

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  • The Right Fight Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma
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    Poitras, Jacques

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    In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalist’s account of how Bernard Lord rose to the top in provincial politics and why his pa

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