Sylvia Hamilton

Know what these 6 little beauties all have in common? You can get 'em all from our holiday collection #GiftAtlanticbooks https://atlanticbooks.ca

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They are all books that can be read as daydream fantasy, or used as guides to make those fantasies real. And because they’re all Atlantic Canadian, you don’t have to break any COVID bubbles to get it done. https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/5-books-to-escape-with/ @Boulder_Books @FormacBooks @goose_lane

If you missed it, you can watch @PhilMoscovitch's talk on fermentation below! If you'd like to learn more, pick up a copy of his book 'Adventures in Bubbles and Brine', available at local bookstores and online! https://twitter.com/PhilMoscovitch/status/1322241352407592964

Every season brings a fresh crop of new Atlantic Canadian books. But unlike, say, potatoes, we can tell them apart. Each brings us a world, spun by its creator or creators, by authors, editors, illustrators, designers and publishers. https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/36-books-to-warm-your-winter/ via @abtmagazine

"If you spend a bit of time exploring the rocks here, along with great scenery you'll find dramatic stories of the geologic past."
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5 Books to Escape With | Atlantic Books Today

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They are all books that can be read as daydream fantasy, or used as guides to make those fantasies real. And because they’re all Atlantic Canadian, you don’t have to break any COVID bubbles to get it done. Goose Lane Editions Boulder Books Formac Publishing ...

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Daydream fantasy or guides to make it all real

Excerpt from Ruth Holmes Whitehead’s Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 | Atlantic Books Today

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"John Barry’s opinion, as well as my own, is that the most important thing any government at any level can do in a situation like the Great Influenza epidemic is to tell people the absolute truth about what’s going on, what the dangers are, and what measures they will have to take." Submitted to Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press, January 2020, by Ruth Holmes Whitehead, now inside the completed book, "Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920". In this excerpt, the author looks specifically at strategies for containing the disease, the dangers of lifting quarantine (“re-opening” in today’s parlance) too early, and the difficulties of properly documenting and quantifying what was happening—challenges that are remarkably pertinent 100 years later in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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100 years later, frustrations are similar

Atlantic Books Today posted a video to playlist #ReadAtlantic VOICES.

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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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This season, give the gift of Atlantic books

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Get your holiday shopping underway early this year! We're excited to share a sneak peak preview of our Holiday Gift Guide to our followers!

200 Atlantic Canadian books await to be gifted into the hands and hearts of the bookworms on your shopping holiday list. #ReadAtlantic

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Start your shopping early with a preview of our holiday collection The best gifts are made at home. That may be truer this holiday season than ever before. In a year that has kept so many of us close to home, doing our part by staying apart, the most memorable gifts are the ones imagined, planned, a...

36 Books to Warm Your Winter | Atlantic Books Today

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To help you choose, our staff sort through stacks of books and book catalogues, and tell you about some of the ones that have us really excited. Breakwater Books Ltd. Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press The Acorn Press Flanker Press Ltd. Formac Publishing Goose Lane Editions Pottersfield Press McGill-Queen's University Press Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers Guernica Editions MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. ...

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