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To Love a Grandmother    by Catherine A. MacKenzie
Price: $1.99 USD. 17880 words. Published on March 21, 2011. .

All women will enjoy this book - especially mothers and grandmothers - and anyone who has a grandmother or wants to be a grandmother. The 100 poems in this book are about mothering and grandmothers, about babies and children. Some of the poems are long, some short; some are happy, some sad; some are rhyming, some free-verse. Anyone who treasures a grandmother will appreciate this book.
Driving Minnie's Piano: Memoirs of a Surfing Life in Nova Scotia    by Lesley Choyce
Price: $9.95 USD. 63270 words. Published by Pottersfield Press  on March 21, 2011. .

Novelist Lesley Choyce weaves together his real-life adventures living by the sea at Lawrencetown Beach on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. He writes of his love for the rugged coast and tells tales of the ordinary and the extraordinary. His story involves accounts of what it's like surfing in the Canadian North Atlantic through all four seasons, including the frigid depths of winter.
The Flaw in the Fabric, book 1 of A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls    by Jim Lindsey
Price: $5.95 USD. 116390 words. Published by SeaStorm Press  on April 7, 2011. .

A literary, historical adventure set along the Granite Coast of Nova Scotia where the boundaries of space and time are developing stress cracks. Through one such crack, brought on by a hurricane in the ghost-infested province of Nova Scotia, two brothers reincarnate after spending two hundred years as lost souls in the neither-here-nor-there land of the In Between. Hero Raymond slips back in time.
Treason: The Violation of Trust    by Janet Hudgins
Price: $9.50 USD. 86410 words. Published on May 9, 2011. .

"Treason" is about first settlers in colonial North America. They were Puritans in the 17th Century, Quakers in the 18th Century, in the Loyalist Diaspora to Shelburne, Nova Scotia after the American Revolution, and Canadian soldiers in the trenches of World War I. It is about their life and times, of the politic individuals who held sway, and the cause and effect of their use and abuse of power.
Peggy’s Cove: The Amazing History of a Coastal Village    by Lesley Choyce
Price: $9.95 USD. 24630 words. Published by Pottersfield Press  on June 15, 2011. .

Here is the complete history of the famous cove and the unique village that hosts thousands of visitors each year. The story begins with the formation of the rocks along these shores and the impact of the glaciers. The Mi'kmaq were the first to live here in the summers, harvesting the riches of the sea.
Angel's Blessing    by Carol Marlene Smith
Price: $2.99 USD. 57300 words. Published on June 18, 2011. .

It's been one year since Angel Walker divorced her intolerable husband, James, and one year since Jake Jordon lost his wife, Rosaline in a car accident. Now Angel returns to Nova Scotia to help her aunt run a Bed and Breakfast. But when Angel finally believes in Jake, she discovers she could be wrong, and Jake might be an even lower person than her ex.
Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History    by Lesley Choyce
Price: $14.95 USD. 120290 words. Published by Pottersfield Press  on June 26, 2011. .

The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and people shaped by waves and tides, the winds and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks, and the record books of human glory and human error.
From the Shores of Morar to the Estrella    by William Norin
Price: Free! 85100 words. Published on August 8, 2011. .

This is the tale of Scotchmen who came from the Highlands to theNew World
Big Town: A Novel of Africville    by Stephens Gerard Malone
Price: $0.99 USD. 50900 words. Published on September 20, 2011. .

Told through the eyes of children in 1963, Big Town explores a the life of a black community struggling with poverty and illiteracy. “Africville” was considered to be a modern-day ghetto. But it was a home to almost 400 people for over 150 years. To this day, its demise haunts Canada as a notorious cases of government sanctioned racial discrimination. This is its story, told from the inside.
Simple Green: Confessions of a Former Earthchild    by Deborah J. Lightfoot
Price: Free! 3510 words. Published by Seven Rivers Publishing  on October 1, 2011. .

"Simple Green," by a semi-lapsed environmentalist, is a rumination on keepsakes and mementos and how best to Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle them after somebody dies and leaves all their stuff behind -- a life's residue, inevitably destined for the landfill, unless a sentimental collector intervenes. A personal essay/memoir by Deborah J. Lightfoot, author of the "Waterspell" fantasy trilogy.