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Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife.

All songs have skin, / all skin has holes. On High, Neil Surkan's debut collection of poetry, searches for spirits in myriad places.

Twenty-nine-year-old Natasha Bell went for an evening jog, just like any other night - except now no one knows where she is.

When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for 'listeners' to work on an unconventional project, he anticipates that his team of eavesdroppers w

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.