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Defendants weren’t allowed to testify since courts routinely assumed they would lie. Denise Flint reviews Daring, Devious and Deadly from @PottersPress https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/denise-flint-reviews-a-fun-and-quirky-history-of-true-crime-and-justice-in-nova-scotia/ via @abtmagazine

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What did Newfoundlanders drink 400 years ago? Where did folks used to go for a taste of the drink? How did Prohibition go down on the Eastest Coast? Our reader knows, thanks to @BreakwaterBooks' Bottoms Up by SHeilah Roberts Lukins. Check it out: https://atlanticbooks.ca/collections/the-gift-of-historical-stories/products/bottoms-up-a-history-of-alcohol-in-newfoundland-and-labrador

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Defendants weren’t allowed to testify since courts routinely assumed they would lie. Denise Flint reviews Dean Jobb's latest true crime history, Daring, Devious and Deadly from Pottersfield Press ...

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Lindsday Ruck speaks with Sylvia Parris-Drummond of the Delmore "Buddy" Daye Learning Institute about writing while parenting, the importance of community for Black authors, having a writer grandfather (Calvin Ruck) as a mentor, and says "don't let the books get dusty," giving love to African Heritage Month but urging everyone to keep those important conversations going all year round. ...

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"Learning about our histories is long overdue / Much like a refracted pebble in a pond / the perspective has always been slightly askew." October's Poem of the Month is "Living Treaties" by Rebecca Thomas - read and subscribe here: mailchi.mp/c63bf03e78c2/atlantic-books-poem-of-the-month-september-5300845?e=[UNIQID]
I Place You Into the Fire (Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press) will be released Oct. 31.

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What did Newfoundlanders drink 400 years ago? Where did folks used to go for a taste of the drink? How did Prohibition go down on the Eastest Coast? Our reader knows, thanks to Breakwater Books Ltd.'s Bottoms Up, by Sheilah Roberts Lukins. Check it out: atlanticbooks.ca/collections/the-gift-of-historical-stories/products/bottoms-up-a-history-of-alco... ...

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"Set against the backdrop of ... the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the COV-19 pandemic, I’d like to chat with you about some recent books I’ve read." A letter for George Floyd, by Evelyn White. Fernwood Publishing Goose Lane Editions Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press Pottersfield Press ISER Books SSP Publications ...

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