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Eastword, January-February 2008imPRESSed!: The newest titles by WFNS members
Medical doctor and historian Ian Cameron reveals the ghosts of Halifax’s medical history, including tragic events, unimaginable hardships, public health successes and failures, remarkable bravery and unforgivable incompetence. Born and raised in Truro, Ian Arthur Cameron received a BA in History from Mount Allison University, MD from Dalhousie University, and CCFP and FCFP from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He has been a Professor of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax since 1979. Ian has also been the president of the Dalhousie Society for the History of Medicine since 1984. With numerous presentations and publications on medical history and medical humanities to his credit, Dr. Cameron’s major area of interest is quarantine, and this book is a culmination of that interest and research.
Samuel déborde d'énergie. Se mettre en rang, rester assis, lever la main? Ce n'est pas pour lui! Il est trop pressé, trop excité, alors il se fait souvent gronder. Mais Samuel n'est pas seulement une petite tornade. Samuel est aussi le meilleur ami de Jérémy. Une série qui met en valeur les particularités de chaque enfant, sans taire ses faiblesses, ni oublier ses forces. Un album pour favoriser l'estime de soi des petites tornades. Mère de trios filles, Katia Canciani adore les voyages, le chocolate et les livres passionnants. Née au Québec pendant une grosse tempête de neige, Katia a aussi habité au Manitoba et en Ontario. Depuis 2005, elle est installée en Nouvelle-Écosse. Bachelière en communications, Katia a déjà été pilote professionnelle…mais c’est au maniement des mots qu’elle se consacre maintenant.
Set in Debert amid the chaos of World War II, this story follows ten characters as their lives are intertwined during desperate times. The colourful characters are twisted and pushed to the limit as the choices they make change their lives forever. The book opens with the story of a hermit, Willard Finley, who lives on Debert Mountain. Some say he’s not to be trusted and most try to look the other way. When secrets are withheld, the silence becomes too much to bear and the pressure creates ripples in the fabric of the characters’ lives. Bonna Mae Chapman was raised in Debert, Nova Scotia. One of eight children, she’s the first of a long line of storytellers to put her own twist of stories on paper.
Set in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley in 1760, Starting Over is the story of Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, who escapes and hides in the woods during the unfortunate upheaval of 1755. When the Planters arrive and begin to settle on their grants, Joe obtains employment with a family on Canard Street. Anna, the eldest of the six girls and two boys in this family, works alongside Joe and they begin to think of each other as more than a sister and brother in spite of the apparent hopelessness of their situation. This Acadian – Planter relationship soon tests the limits of tolerance in a conservative farming community. The project that led to this novel was at first aimed at explaining local family history to his grandchildren. Glen Ells is one of the seventh generation of the Ells family that is farming in Kings county, NS. His ancestor, Joshua ells, came from Connecticut and settled on Canard Street in 1760. Glenn is living and farming on part of the original family woodlot in Sheffield Mills; he and his wife, Leta, live in the house built in 1832 by Joseph Edward Ells. Their four children and thirteen grandchildren all live in Nova Scotia.
Kisses Kisses Baby-O! is a story for newborns told from the point of view of a parent or caregiver, but with high interaction with baby’s world and tuned to events in baby’s day. Beloved Canadian children’s author Sheree Fitch delivers what she’s famous for: fun, intelligent, participatory text. Using rhythm and onomatopoeia, Sheree’s bubbly text begins with baby waking, and follows through eating, bathing, playing, and finally sleeping. Sheree Fitch was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She is an award-winning poet, lecturer and storyteller. Her first book, Toes in My Nose, was published in 1987 and is still a bestselling Canadian children's book. Sheree is the Honourary Spokesperson for the IWK Read to Me program in Nova Scotia and Honorary Patron for Literacy New Brunswick. She currently resides in Washington, DC and River John, Nova Scotia. HildaRose is an artist and graphic designer. She has illustrated over a dozen children’s books and designed over 150 publications using a mix of both traditional and digital approaches.
Do you know which Canadian province is the only officially bilingual
one? Or what type of seaweed is actually sold and eaten as a snack food?
The answers to these questions, along with many other facts, traditions,
and much history, can be found in F is for Fiddlehead: A New Brunswick
Alphabet. Born in New Jersey, Susan received her professional training from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia and the New School in New York. She moved to Canada in 1980, and has made Halifax her home. Susan received the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration, as well as the Mayor's Award, for Brave Jack and the Unicorn (2005).
The Gargoyle’s Left Ear presents a unique blend of vignettes, reminiscence, and poetry. This memoir is part of the Black Moss Press Settlements series on the roots and craft of Canadian writers. It offers memories of McMaster’s life in the Capital, writing and publishing poetry; performing with First Draft, SugarBeat, and Geode; editing publications like Branching Out and Dangerous Graces: Women’s Poetry on Stage; and organizing art and action projects like Convergence: Poems for Peace. Susan McMaster's dozen poetry books and recordings have been shortlisted for such awards as the Jane Jordan Poetry Prize, the CAA Poetry Prizes, the Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the CBC literary awards. She has presented her music and poetry across Canada and her work has appeared in many periodicals and anthologies.
Maggie has been saving her delivery-job money for weeks to buy her best friend, Jo, a chocolate bar for her birthday. It's 1947, and while the war is over and ration tickets are gone, food prices are going up. Then it is announced that the price of chocolate is going up too! Maggie and her friends leap into action and wage a strike against the price hike. But what can a bunch of kids do? More than you’d think! Based on real events, Maggie and the Chocolate War is filled with photographs and newspaper documents covering an amazing historical moment that united children from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast. Michelle Mulder is passionate about books, bicycles, children, and chocolate. This is her third book for children. She has lived in Halifax, Montreal, and Vancouver. She and her husband currently live in Victoria, BC.
After breakfast Sam is so excited that he's bouncing off the walls. His mother tells him to go out to the garden to play. At lunch he's so full of beans that all he can get up to is mischief. His grandmother tells him to go out to the garden to play. After supper he has so much energy to burn that he can't sit still. His father tells him to go out to the garden to play. Little do they know that when Sam goes to the garden, he turns into a ferocious Samurai, goes on an adventure with Jack and the Beanstalk, and meets a fire-breathing dragon. Shannon Murray's first book was written for her own son who has ADHD. The story won last year's Lucy Maud Montgomery PEI Children's Literature Award in the Prince Edward Island Literary Awards. Shannon is professor of English at UPEI. A graduate of NSCAD, Doretta Groenendyk delights in the colours, lines, and stories around her. Doretta is also illustrated Fiddles and Spoons. She paints, illustrates, writes, and teaches art with her husband and three children in Canning.
Free Wind Home carries the reader full circle through a childhood rooted in a sleepy Newfoundland outport with nineteenth century traditions, existing in a twentieth century world of war and uncertain politics. It is a visceral tale full of the tangible wonders of discovery and play, the fulfilling simplicity of nature, and the sometimes frightening shifts and changes of life. Gary Saunders was born in northeast Newfoundland and received a B.Sc. in forestry from the University of New Brunswick and a bachelor of fine arts from Mount Allison University in 1965. His published works include Rattles and Steadies, Alder Music, and Wildlife of Atlantic Canada and New England. He has also written the Atlantic Provinces Book Review. Gary lives and works in Truro.
Major Jack (Bummo) Bottomly is a busy man. As second-in-command at DNDI Canadian Air Force Intelligence he must coddle his feeble-minded colonel, his wanking corporal, and his geekish new computer hacker. Intelligence gathering? Because of budget cuts, DNDI has to make do with second-hand copies of Time and PR handouts from the CIA. Jack learns that the KGB wants to steal a clapped-out Canadian Forces aircraft. Jack would happily sell them one for the Soviet aeronautical museum, but then he learns CIA is involved. With the help of bibulous Bluey Jones of the RAAF, Jack takes low cunning and mayhem to Vancouver, London, Switzerland and Amsterdam to uncover (and profit from) the conspiracy. Ray Smith was born in Mabou, Cape Breton, and has lived in several Nova Scotia towns and cities. After graduating from Dalhousie University, he left for Toronto and eventually moved to Montreal, where he currently resides. His first book, Cape Breton is the Thought Control Centre of Canada (Anansi, 1969) was a collection of experimental short stories.
Margery Mutters, a school teacher, sets off to explore the three levels of a bizarre island that she has inherited. Driven by the staring eyes, she is soon on a journey that takes her from the peculiar to the creepy and downright terrifying. Nothing makes sense and nothing is familiar. There is no turning back. Margery becomes involved with a Council of Owls and is woven into their ancient prophecy; however, even the slightest change in history could affect the owls’ destiny for another thousand years. Born in North Vancouver, Susan Whalen moved to NS in 1970. Susan and her granddaughter, Victoria Oliver, were inspired to write Rooke’s Island, the Prophecy of the Staring Eyes after receiving a gift of more than one hundred owl sculptures. It was as if they opened Pandora’s Box and the staring eyes of the owl figurines came to life. |
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Quarantine,
What is Old is New: Halifax and the Lawlor's Island Quarantine Station
1866-1938
One
Last Chance
Starting
Over
F
is for Fiddlehead
The
Gargoyle’s Left Ear: Writing in Ottawa 
The
Flush of Victory: Jack Bottomly Among the Virgins
Rooke’s
Island: The Prophecy of the Staring Eyes