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Atlantic Canada Has Lost a Literary Giant in Silver Donald Cameron

by Chris Benjamin

His accomplishments were many and diverse. Every one of them was driven by the love of two things: a good story, and people. He wanted to make a better world for everyone.

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Reading of Alison DeLory’s Making It Home

by Chris Benjamin

It puts things into perspective. Could a single line say any more about humanity than that?

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Listicle: Gaelic Books for Gaelic Month

by Sam Fraser

Celebrate Gaelic Month in Nova Scotia with Atlantic Gaelic-themed books

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Atlantic Books Today – Spring 2019 – Available Now!

by Chris Benjamin

Atlantic Books Today – Spring 2019 – Editor’s Message

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Saturday Spotlight: Hot New Fiction Perfect for Gift-Giving

by Chantelle Rideout

This weekend, our Book Lovers’ Holiday Gift Guide Saturday Spotlight is on 12 hot new fiction books perfect for gift-giving!

# 88 Winter 2018, Editions, Reviews, Young Readers Reviews November 28, 2018 November 27, 2018

Angus MacAskill’s Desire to be Appreciated Inside

by Lisa Doucet

Lisa Doucet reviews Tom Ryan’s A Giant Man From a Small Town

# 88 Winter 2018, Editions, Features, Fiction, Food, History, Nonfiction November 21, 2018 November 22, 2018

A Literary Tour: The Winter 2018-19 Issue of Atlantic Books Today

by Chris Benjamin

Our latest issue takes you on a literary tour of the East Coast with 10 new books to keep you warm this winter, and a deep dive into our favourite, culturally specific, comfort foods

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Excerpt: Some People’s Children by @BridgetCanning @BreakwaterBooks As Imogene Tubbs grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug dealer—a man both feared and ridiculed https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/excerpt-some-peoples-children/ @abtmagazine

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The @BusStopTheatre has almost reached the last stop of it's fundraiser.

Executive Director Sébastien Labelle joins us at 2:15 to tell us how they're finishing up their funding drive, and how you can help http://player.news957.com #Halifax

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The launch of NS author Alex Pugsley’s new novel Aubrey McKee, published by Biblioasis, is live now!

Aubrey McKee is a novel of connected short stories about a boy coming of age in Halifax in the 70s and 80s. ...

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Conundrum Press - Canada is offering an annual $1000 bursary to a Black or Indigenous person living in Canada, for the creation and production of a mini-comic. ...

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Sample an excerpt from Bridget Canning's new novel, Some People's Children (Breakwater Books). "Her hands move without thought, top on, legs in jeans, underwear and bra shoved in pockets. She stands. Her body sways. Get out, get out...." ...

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As Imogene Tubbs grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father is Cecil Jesso, the local drug dealer—a man both feared and ridiculed

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"These Jewish men, and hundreds more like them, had more in common than a universal fear of Hitler. As German jack boots goose-stepped across Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland, and as France teetered on the verge of surrender, expatriates of German, Austrian and Czechoslovakian origin who resided in the United Kingdom were widely perceived as potential Nazi spies, saboteurs or Fifth Columnists ready to set the stage for a German invasion.... Sub-titled Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945, this Goose Lane Editions/New Brunswick Military Heritage Project publication was chosen winner of this year’s Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing."

From John Cunningham's review of Andrew Theobald's Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers ( Goose Lane Editions) ...

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Perhaps the greatest takeaway from Theobald’s book is the reminder that the seeds or fascism were being sewn in Canada in the years leading up to the Second World War

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It's sample Monday! On AtlanticBooks.ca, you can sample as well as borrow and buy! Download a sneak peak of Lesley Crewe’s Are You Kidding Me?! here: atlanticbooks.ca/products/are-you-kidding-me?_pos=1&_sid=1c36f1515&_ss=r #ReadAtlantic Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press Lesley Crewe ...

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