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Excerpts, Fiction, Web exclusives June 26, 2020 June 26, 2020

Excerpt: Miss Nackawic Meets Midlife

by Colleen Landry

This middle-aged writer’s hilarious and delusional observations about raising boys, surviving(ish) menopause and searching for meaning in mid-life will make you laugh out loud.

Columns, First Person, Web exclusives May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020

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?

Columns, Editorial, Web exclusives May 16, 2019 May 17, 2019

Hatching Crow

by Karalee Clerk

Amy Spurway’s debut novel, Crow, published this spring to rave reviews.

Fiction, Reviews May 7, 2019 June 17, 2019

Review: Every Little Piece of Me

by B. H. Lake

Paradise Lost: The Narcissism and Loneliness of the Selfie Generation in Every Little Piece of Me

# 88 Winter 2018, Editions, Features, Fiction, Young Readers December 12, 2018 December 13, 2018

The World Needs Modern Indigenous Stories

by Jon Tattrie

Contemporary Stories Are Honouring Indigenous Cultures

# 87 Fall 2018, Editions, Fiction, Reviews November 19, 2018 November 19, 2018

Maureen St. Clair’s Solace in Bosom Friendship

by Evelyn C. White

Evelyn White reviews Maureen St. Clair’s debut novel, Big Island, Small

# 87 Fall 2018, Author to Author, Columns November 1, 2018 November 1, 2018

AUTHOR TO AUTHOR: Sarah Mian Interviews Lesley Crewe About Her Latest Novel, Beholden

by Sarah Mian

“No one would care about me, or my opinions, if it weren’t for my books, so I might as well enjoy it. It’s not like I’m a Kardashian.”

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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...." ...

Excerpt: Some People's Children | Atlantic Books Today

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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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