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Gripping in its intensity, excruciating in its detail, John Mellor's account of the 1942 Canadian raid on the well-fortified beach town of Dieppe, France, is written with the fairness of a goo

With these 61 readable essays, Cape Breton's Tom Urbaniak brings a courageous, critical and constructive eye to problems of our time.

GODMOTHER OF CAPE BRETON FICTION, and an essential figure in contemporary storytelling, Tessie Gillis has inspired Nova Scotia writers including Lynn Coady, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alistair MacLeod, a

It was supposed to be a simple recovery operation. All Harder Security had to do was liberate a ransomed plane and fly it from Angola to anywhere else.

A murder, a missing body, and a sensational trial that gripped Nova Scotia. Will Sandeson seemed like a model son.

The story begins with Nell, the "spinster on the hill" near St. Peter's, Cape Breton.

Just below the Antigonish-Guysborough County line, there is an overgrown spot, nearly impossible to find without a guide, where the cursed MacDonald farm once stood.

It's 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets.

Abandoned on the steps of a Belgian convent as a baby, thirteen-year-old Grace has grown up among the nuns.

It's 1773 and twelve-year-old Dougal Cameron and his whole family are set to sail away from their Scotland home forever.

Dylan is twelve years old and embarking on his first ocean kayaking trip with his parents.

This was the line between here and there. No landwash, no vague intertidal zone, no undecided.

Inspired by the terrible breakups around her, sixteen-year-old Lizzie, strapped for cash and itching to go on the school's band trip to NYC, teams up with her best friend, Willa, to create a g

Vintage Margaret Atwood meets Patricia Highsmith in this slyly seductive debut set on an eerily beautiful farm teeming with secrets. The drought has discontented the bees.

Not all dreams have happy endings.