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Shoulder the Sky
The Dundurn Group, 2002 $12.99 (sc)
ISBN 1-55002-415-9
Sixteen-year-old Martin Emerson surprises his friends and family when he
shows no reaction to the death of his mother. Instead, he creates a wildly
popular website as a forum to share his intellectual musings with the
world. Shoulder the Sky is a rarity among young adult fiction, in
that it challenges the reader with philosophical thought and complex
observations through the voices of its narrator, Martin.
Shoulder the Sky deals with contemporary topics relevant to today's youth. The book is written in an engaging and enthralling style, with fully developed, dynamic characters and a plot that will keep the reader turning the pages far into the night.
Lesley Choyce is one of Canada's most
prolific writers. A resident of East Lawrencetown, he has published more
that fifty books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and won several awards
for his work. An avid surfer, Lesley is also the host of a television
program Off the Page with Lesley Choyce and the managing editor of
Pottersfield Press.
The Sea Among the Rocks: Travels in Atlantic
CanadaPottersfield Press, 2002 $18.95 (sc)
ISBN 1-895900-54-9
The Sea Among the Rocks is a powerful book about important people and their communities. Award-winning author Harry Thurston takes the reader to Anticosti Island, Advocate Harbour, Cut Throat Island, Petit Forte, and other intriguing destinations. Thurston writers passionately about the region's bounty, the environmental destruction and the attempts to protect what's left of our natural heritage. He shows how these concerns for the environment are inseparable from the spheres of community and culture.
The Sea Among the Rocks is a book about the spirit of Atlantic Canada and a way of life that has been under attack for decades.
Born in Yarmouth, Harry Thurston has
been a full-time poet and freelance writers for the last 25 years. A
long-time contributing editor to Equinox and Harrowsmith,
his articles have won several national awards. He is also the author of
nine non-fiction books and the winner of several literary awards. He lives
on the Tidnish River in Cumberland County with his wife, daughter, dog,
and cats.
Michael Ungar
Playing at Being Bad: The Hidden Resilience of
Troubled TeensPottersfield Press, 2002 $19.95
ISBN 1-895900-54-2
Playing at Being Bad is for anyone trying to understand the challenges of kids today. Unlike many other books about troubled kids that reflect the "wisdom" of adults, this one explores the "truth" of adolescence. Ungar builds on recent explorations of adolescence and modern trends in psychology found in works like Mary Piper's Reviving Ophelia, Judith Rich's The Nurture Assumption, and William Pollack's Real Boys. He examines some of the emerging trends in psychology and recent innovations in work with our most "unhealthy" young people.
For over 15 years, Michael Ungar has worked as a social worker, marriage and family therapist, researcher, academic and administrator of programs for high-risk youth in both community and custody settings. He is an Associate Professor at the Maritime School of Social Work and continues to work extensively with both staff and professional therapists, parents and community groups, conducting workshops at home and overseas on the treatment of our most vulnerable youth.
Never Content: How Mavericks and Outsiders Made a Surprise Winner of Maritime Life Key Porter Books, 2002 $29.95(hc) ISBN 1-55263-496-5
The Maritime Life Assurance Company has for eighty years presented a calm and dignified face to its policyholders while waging a battle for recognition and market share in the boardrooms of the nation. As an industry outsider, and the only player to call Halifax home, Maritime Life has, from the very beginning, used its Atlantic roots to its advantage. The locale fostered original thinking and a new way of doing business. From unique products to unheard of selling strategies, the mavericks at Maritime Life repeatedly shook the financial services industry as they expanded westward - much to the surprise of their competitors. Never Content is the captivating tale of a corporate underdog originally conceived as a homegrown alternative to the players in central Canada who dominated the business.
Harry Bruce has won four Atlantic journalism Awards and two National Magazine Awards for his writing. His newspaper columns and stories were published in every major newspaper in Canada. His published works include ten books on a variety of subjects. Harry now lives in Moncton, New Brunswick.
Three Cuts of Courage Hard Shell Word Factory, 2002 $19.95(sc),
ISBN 0-7599-03211-2
After Nell Fraser breaks her rogue of a brother from a Scottish prison, she leads him to a settlers' ship bound for the New World. There among the hardships and triumphs, she builds a life for herself, and even falls in love with a wealthy Englishman. Then tragedy strikes. Nell's hot-headed brother has joined with rebel spies and is on the run again - headed for a British trap. Nell races across the wilderness to warn him and smacks headlong into heartbreak. Clayton, the man she loves, commands the detachment sent to hunt down her brother.
Lynn Turner is an author and award-winning screenwriter who also lectures on fiction writing. In her spare time she paints and raises laying hens. Lynn lives with her husband, son, and cat in a century-old house in rural Nova Scotia.
Deborah Stiles
Movement Catalogued BrickHouse Books, 2002 $20(sc), ISBN
0-932616-70-4
Recently published in the New Poet Series of BrickHouse Books, Movement
Catalogued is comprised of three sections. Thirteen short poems make
up each 'suite'; the poems chart, in imagery and provocative language, a
geographic, political, and textual pilgrimage from 'West' to 'East' and
back again. The poems in this collection were inspired by the author's
travels in Eastern and Central Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin
Wall.
Deborah Stiles was born in West Virginia. She came to Canada in 1994 to
complete her Ph.D. research on the 19th century New Brunswick poet and
radical Martin Butler. She has lived in the Canadian Maritimes ever since.
Deborah teaches history, literature and writing in the Humanities
Department of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.
Joyce Rankin
At My Mother's Door Sea-Cape Publishing, 2002 $18.95, ISBN 0-9692208-8-X
Professor and editor Afra Kavanagh wrote about Rankin's collection of poems: " The past is 'the phantom homeland' that Joyce Rankin writes about in these prose poems. In moving language she describes her forbearers, parents and grandparents, who when their language (Gaelic, bagpipes, obsequiousness) was amputated, invented new ones. Rankin pays a tender tribute to her mother and to all those women who kept the home lights, love and laughter on."
Joyce Rankin was born and raised in Judique, Cape Breton, where she heard many songs and stories. She went away to see the world and then came back to Judique, where she now lives with her family. She has read her work at ceilidhs and literary gatherings in Cape Breton and Scotland. At My Mother's Door is her first book.
Regina Coupar
The Art of Soul: An Artist's Guide to SpiritualityNovalis, 2002 $27.95, ISBN 2-89507-299-X
What does art have to do with spirituality? In The Art of Soul, artist Regina Coupar takes readers on a journey of discovery to a place where the two merge into one. Through a series of ten art lessons, Coupar explores such themes as light, colour, perspective, and balance, then relates these to aspects of spiritual development. Would-be artists will love the accessible, hand-on art lessons; readers who may never pick up a brush or visit a gallery will benefit from Coupar's rich insights and thoughtful reflections.
A
Nova Scotian of Acadian descent, Regina Coupar is an experienced artist,
teacher and poet. In her work, Regina explores the meaning of creativity
and spirituality. Regina lives with her husband in Chester
Basin.
Lady Lite's Little Secret Harlequin Historical, January 2003 $6.25, ISBN 0-373-29239-2
Fecility Lyte was in a quandary. How would she tell her cherished paramour she was expecting his child? Despite his straitened circumstances, Hawthorn Greenwood would surely make a responsible, honorable offer of marriage - one which Felicity could never accept. The wealthy widow had sworn never again to put her fortune and her freedom into the hand of a man. Thorn Greenwood had expected to share only an idyllic season with Lady Lyte, but instead he had found hiss soul's partner. Then Felicity had abruptly ended their liason. Did she think him a fortune hunter? A rank falsehood, that, for the only wealth he sought was the bounty of her ladyship's love.
Lady Lyte's Little Secret is Deborah Hale's ninth full novel for Harlequin Historical. A Golden Heart winner and RITA finalist, Deborah lives in Lower Sackville with her husband and four children who love taking her book covers to school for show and tell.
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