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#70 Fall 2012, Features December 29, 2014 July 2, 2015

Spinning Yarns with multiple wheels

by Michelle Brunet

Master storyteller Steve Vernon shares his scariest stories yet

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The Art of Being Lewis: In Conversation with Daniel Goodwin

December 3 @ 8:00 pm AST
Attic Owl – Open Mic!

December 5 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm AST
Online Poetry Reading & Launch with Roderick MacDonald

December 5 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm AST
The Hush Sisters Signing

December 6 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm AST
Ern Dick book(s) launch

December 6 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm AST

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Want to know what books are selling faster than the latest iphone in Atlantic Canada? Check our monthly bestseller lists. ...

November 2020: Top 5 Local Sellers from Chapters-Coles-Indigo in each Atlantic Province | Atlantic Books Today

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Check out which local Atlantic books were flying off the shelves in November.

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In this excerpt from Charlotte Musial’s collection of heart-warming, witty, sometimes mystical tales, A Touch of Elegance, she begins the tale of Mary Lizzie, who did a shocking thing that seemed out of character with the nature of her marriage. Surely she had her reasons: ...

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’Oh, Mary Lizzie never worked. She just stayed home.’

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Our Managing Editor, Chris Benjamin, who is also a fiction author, sat for a Zoom with author/poet David Huebert. They talked about their new books: Benjamin's short story collection, Boy With A Problem (Pottersfield Press) and Huebert's poetry collection, Humanimus (Palimpsest Press), writing good dialogue, ecological passion and angst, the future of humanity, writing creatively about big ideas, and how parents of young children can't close the door when they pee. ...

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A Like Vision: The Group of Seven & Tom Thomson

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Available in bookstores and online now.

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"Reading has also been demonstrated to improve a child’s sense of empathy and compassion, their ability to walk in the proverbial other person’s shoes. Surely that requires a high order of intelligence.

Here are 11 books that will build brain matter in the young and young at heart."

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books to build young brains and hearts

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