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-- Africaville.2019., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: BLK Fic Col Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This debut novel is the richly woven story of a town settled by former slaves on the outskirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, known as Africville, and of the Sebolt family, who moves there in the 1930s. Teenager Kath Ella Sebolt wants desperately to escape the town that she equates with deprivation and lack of opportunity. Months after her boyfriend is killed during a clash between young people in the village and Halifax constables, she moves with her infant son to Montreal. After attending college as a single mother, and ultimately marrying a white man, she discovers that as much as she tries, severing ties to her former village is not easy. Kath Ella's son Etienne puts even more distance between himself and the village, first moving across the border to Vermont, and then farther south to Alabama, where he passes for white. Etienne's son Warner finds his standing in his all-white community compromised by the sudden revelation that he has black grandparents. As the story comes full circle, Warner travels to Africville to get to know his black relatives. They, however, are suspicious of his motivations. The family saga unfolds against the backdrop of Africville, based on a real place that has become a symbol not only of Black Canadian identity, but also of how the human spirit remains resilient in the face of adversity, tragedy and change.
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2023., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: NEW IND Fic Pet Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962.
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2007., Between the Lines ; South End Press Call No: BLK 305.896 B627b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The global history of black people cannot be told without addressing powerful geographical shifts: massive forced migration, land dispossession, and legal as well as informal structures of segregation. From the Middle Passage to the "Whites Only" signposts of North American apartheid, the black disaporic experience is rooted firmly in the politics of place. Literature ahs long explored cultural differences in the experience of blackness in different quarters of the diaspora. But what are the real differences between being a maroon in the hills of Jamaica, a fugitive slave in Chatham, Ontario, and a runaway in the swamps of Florida? How does location impact repression and resistance, both on the ground and in the terrain of political imagination? Enter Black Geographies. In this path-breaking collection, twelve authors interrogate the intersections between space and race. For instance, some scholars, activists, and communities have sought to protect, restore, and reimagine black historical sites. Yet each of these locations has in common acts of racial hatred and state terrorism that have erased black geographies, leaving few historical structures standing. This begs the question: Can preserving and restoring such sites promote social justice and spur community redevelopment?Black geographies-invisible and visible, past and present-pose revealing questions about the politics, and possibilities, of place. (From book cover.)
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By Duffy, P. S2013., Adult, Penguin Call No: Fic Duf Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Nova Scotian pacifist, assured a job as a cartographer in London, joins the war effort in 1916 in search of his beloved missing brother-in-law, leaving his son to fend for himself in their grieving fishing village.
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c2011., Adolescent, Fernwood Call No: BLK Fic Wes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The American Revolutionary War is being waged, and the fate of slaves in the colonies is on the line. Sarah Redmond, a slave on a South Carolina plantation, watches with a heavy heart as her father steals away in the dead of the night to join the British army, enticed by promises of freedom, land and provisions for his whole family. But before her father can return, the war draws to a close and the Loyalist slaves are all freed -- including Sarah and her grandmother, Lydia. Uncertain of their future, Sarah and Lydia join the thousands who are rounded up and sent to New York to prepare for their journey to a new home somewhere in the British colonies. After months of waiting, the Redmonds are assigned to a ship bound for the first all-black community in North America: Birchtown, Nova Scotia. With their Certificates of Freedom in hand, Lydia and Sarah wait anxiously, hoping beyond hope that their new life will bring acceptance and happiness. But once they reach Birchtown they find that their new home is barren, cold and isolated -- and in a world slow to forget old fears and hate, their Certificates offer them freedom in name only. Chasing Freedom is the story of a young woman struggling to discover who she is and what she can become in a world that offers her few opportunities. Can Sarah and her family find the strength and determination to persevere against all odds?" --From the publisher.
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c2011., Adolescent, Fernwood Publishing Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "The American Revolutionary War is being waged, and the fate of slaves in the colonies is on the line. Sarah Redmond, a slave on a South Carolina plantation, watches with a heavy heart as her father steals away in the dead of the night to join the British army, enticed by promises of freedom, land and provisions for his whole family. But before her father can return, the war draws to a close and the Loyalist slaves are all freed -- including Sarah and her grandmother, Lydia. Uncertain of their future, Sarah and Lydia join the thousands who are rounded up and sent to New York to prepare for their journey to a new home somewhere in the British colonies. After months of waiting, the Redmonds are assigned to a ship bound for the first all-black community in North America: Birchtown, Nova Scotia. With their Certificates of Freedom in hand, Lydia and Sarah wait anxiously, hoping beyond hope that their new life will bring acceptance and happiness. But once they reach Birchtown they find that their new home is barren, cold and isolated -- and in a world slow to forget old fears and hate, their Certificates offer them freedom in name only. Chasing Freedom is the story of a young woman struggling to discover who she is and what she can become in a world that offers her few opportunities. Can Sarah and her family find the strength and determination to persevere against all odds?" --From the publisher.
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2015., Adult, ECW Press Call No: MYS Fic Kro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it's not just how much he's drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in church, apparently by a symbol of his faith, and an unidentified woman's body had been found. He's barely holding it together. When a deranged teenager, a possible witness, crosses his path, he is propelled into a sleazy, violent world of underage prostitution, sexual abuse, and human trafficking as he pursues a merciless killer. A stylish and riveting exploration of both the consequences of depravity and the sometimes-extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.
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2023., Guernica Editions Call No: NEW QWF Bio W873b Edition: 1st ed.. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Miroland Volume: 44Summary Note: On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. There were no survivors. By Friday, Sept 4th, thousands of dismembered body parts had come through Dr. John Butt's makeshift morgue in Hangar B at the Shearwater military base. The Chief Medical Examiner faced the most challenging and grisly task of his career. Five years prior to the plane crash, John had lost his prestigious job as Alberta's Chief Medical Examiner. After 14 years of marriage, John began to think of himself as gay, but remained closeted professionally. Then, after serving a handful of years as Nova Scotia's Chief Medical Examiner, the devastating crash in Nova Scotia cracked his carefully constructed façade. Fifteen Thousand Pieces explores one man's journey to accept his true nature and find his place in the world. Chapters alternate between the fast-paced story of the crash, and the history of the man in the making. It is both fast-paced and introspective; gruesome and touching. Ultimately, it is the story of how death teaches us to live.
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By Moore, Linda2016., Adult, Nimbus/Vagrant Press Call No: MYS Fic Moo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Rosalind mystery Volume: 2Summary Note: "Linda Moore<U+2019>s long-awaited sequel to Foul Deeds is another highly engaging mix of art and environmental justice. Finally working a real job as a researcher for the Public Prosecution Service, Roz is on her first paid vacation. She has rented a cottage on Nova Scotia<U+2019>s beautiful Minas Basin with plans to explore ideas for her next theatre production. Accompanied by her cat and a stack of Beckett plays, she has no sooner settled in than she spots what looks like a woman's body tangled in the roots of a floating tree. Before the local RCMP can send a boat out, the body is retrieved by helicopter, and Roz watches it disappear over North Mountain. It<U+2019>s time to call in her old sleuthing partner, McBride. When McBride completely disappears, Roz and her longtime theatre friend Sophie roam the backroads and small towns of the Annapolis Valley in search of clues, narrowing in on the out-of-the-way quarry no one seems to want them to visit, the tanker trunks that nearly run them off the road, and a young journalist who seems to have come too close to the truth."--Nimbus Publishing.
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-- George and Rue.c2005., Adult, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd. Call No: BLK Fic Cla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2006., General, Dundurn Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Inspector Green Volume: 5Summary Note: "The fifth book in the Inspector Green series finds Green eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing after doing administrative work in the office. He gets his chance when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. The investigation leads Green to Nova Scotia, where he learns the woman was the witness to her fiance's killing in a bar fight 10 years earlier. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, one of his female detectives is brutally beaten and may die. Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit, but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race."--Publisher.
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c2013., Adult, HarperCollins Canada Call No: Fic Sla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In The Land of Birdfishes is an unexpected and intricate debut novel by Nova Scotian writer Rebecca Silver Slayter. Although the story begins with two sisters who are blindfolded by their father after their mother's suicide, it quickly transitions to decades later. Aileen, who is partially blind, travels to Dawson City, Yukon, where her fully blind sister, Mara, is supposedly living. Instead she finds Jason, Mara,s angry son, with many stories to share.
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c2013., General, Invisible Publishing Summary Note: "A novel about family, identity, illness, love and loss. Lyrical, personal prose draw readers into the world of Adriana Song. We feel our way through "Low" with her as she navigates lopsided friendships, failed romances - as she tries to to weather the storm that is her life."--Publisher.
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2017., ECW Press Ltd. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Sunday§s father is dying of cancer. They§ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn§t good enough. Devastated doesn§t fix anything. Sunday has a plan. She§s started recording everything her father says. His boring stories. His stupid jokes. Everything. She§s recording every single I love you· right alongside every Could we turn the heat up in here?· It§s all important. Because Sunday is writing a computer virus. A computer virus that will live secretly on the hard drives of millions of people all over the world. A computer virus that will think her father§s thoughts and say her father§s words. She has thousands of lines of code to write. Cryptography to understand. Exploits to test. She doesn§t have time to be sad. Her father is going to live forever.
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2015., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Pal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good city clothes and drives an elegant car, and everything she owns is in a small trunk in the back seat. In the local church she finds a fine old piano, a Molnar, and she knows just how fine it is, for her family had manufactured these pianos before the Great War. Then her mother's death and war forces her to abandon her former life. The story moves back and forth in time as Helene, settling into a simple life, playing the piano for church choir, recalls the extraordinary events that brought her to this place. They include the early loss of her soldier husband and the reappearance of an old suitor who rescues her and her daughter, when she is most desperate; the journeys that very few women of her time could even imagine, into the forests of Indochina in search of ancient treasures and finally, and fatefully, to the Canadian north. When the town policeman confronts her, past and present suddenly converge and she must face an episode that she had thought had been left behind forever."--From publisher.
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2014., Adult, Penguin/Random House Canada Call No: Fic MacI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A powerful exploration of justice and vengeance, and the peril that ensues when passion replaces reason, in a small town shaken by a tragic death. Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary, Tony Breau has limped back to the village where he grew up to lick his wounds, only to find that Dwayne Strickland, a young con he'd had dealings with in prison is back there too - and once again in trouble. Strickland has just been arrested following the suspicious death of a teenage girl, the granddaughter of Caddy Stewart, Tony's first love. Tony is soon caught in a fierce emotional struggle between the outcast Strickland and the still alluring Caddy. And then another figure from Tony's past, the forceful Neil Archie MacDonald - just retired in murky circumstances from the Boston police force - stokes the community's anger and suspicion and an irresistible demand for punishment. As Tony struggles to resist the vortex of vigilante action, 'Punishment' builds into a total page-turner that blindsides you with twists and betrayals."--Publisher.
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2014., General, McClelland & Stewart Call No: SC Fic MacL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the internationally celebrated author of 'No Great Mischief' comes a moving short story of three generations of men from a single family whose lives are forever altered by the long shadow of war. In the early morning hours of November 11, David MacDonald, a veteran of the Second World War, stands outside his Cape Breton home, preparing to attend what will likely be his last Remembrance Day parade. As he waits for the arrival of his son and grandson, he remembers his decision to go to war in desperation to support his young family. He remembers the horrors of life at the frontlines in Ortona, Italy, and then what happened in Holland when the Canadians arrived as liberators. He remembers how the war devastated his own family, but gave him other reasons to live. As the story unfolds, other generations enter the scene. What emerges is an elegant, life-affirming meditation on the bond between fathers and sons, "how the present always comes out of the past," and how even in the midst of tragedy and misfortune there exists the possibility for salvation. His first new short story in over a decade, Remembrance is a powerful reminder of why Alistair MacLeod is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time."--Publisher.
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c2011., General, Inanna Publications and Education Call No: QWF Fic Ros Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inanna poetry & fiction series.Summary Note: Over the years Trish and Ray have forged a stable family life, despite a rocky beginning almost twenty years earlier - living with their friends on a communal farm that ended badly. Now they are all coming to terms with life in their forties, but Trish has become angry and insecure. She suddenly finds herself faced with an ailing marriage, a teenaged daughter who would prefer to live with her alcoholic grandmother than at home, and an annoying half-sister, Olive, whom Trish has been taught to believe is no blood relation. This cheery take-charge half-sister, now living in Trish''s childhood summer home, seems bent on destroying the last shreds of Trish''s sense of self. When a freak April snow storm hits Thunder Hill and the power goes out, Trish finds herself in a compromising situation with her hermit/hippie friend, Bear James, who also happens to be her husband''s closest friend. Later, when forced to seek refuge at her half-sister''s home, Trish feels she''s living a nightmare, one which drives her to face her past. Will the future hold anything for Trish other than that of becoming "a bitter old woman" and "immature freak," accusations her daughter Gayl has flung at her recently?.
