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Karlina Richter must get past her feelings of animosity toward a hired shepherd if she is ever going to find out the secrets her father is keeping, while Dovie Cates risks her budding relationship

Set in the 1885 Amana colony of Homestead, Iowa, this tale finds 22-year-old Gretchen Kohler trying to tend her father's general store while watching over her young brother and senile Oma.

Johanna has lived her entire life in Amana and she longs to explore the outside world. Meanwhile, rebellious Berta struggles to adjust to life in their close knit community.

With the Great War fueling anti-German hysteria, agents of President Wilson's Council of National Defense threaten to disfigure Jutta Schmidt, torch her family's bakery, and butcher her p

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.

Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way.

A dazzling story told in verse of sixteen-year-old Declan Lynch and the girl whose centuries-old voice rings in his head.

For Sylvie, Ragged Island - and the whales who swam around it - is the only world she has ever known.

Winner of the 2003 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2004 White Pine Award Martin Emerson’s family, friends, and even his therapist have trouble figuring him out.

Short-listed for the 2005 CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award Sixteen-year-old Simon has always been considered odd.

Taylor Colby grew up in the tiny Nova Scotia fishing village of Nickerson Harbour, but his guitar-playing skill led him to become a much sought-after studio musician in Los Angeles.

Novelist Lesley Choyce weaves together his real-life adventures living by the sea at Lawrencetown Beach on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.

The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind and the wonder of the North Atlantic.

Here is the complete history of the famous cove and the unique village that hosts thousands of visitors each year.

“Alistair MacLeod was the most deeply satisfied person I ever met,” writes Alexander MacLeod of his father, “and every day I miss his quiet presence in my life, his unhurried walk, his slow breathi