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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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2011., Vagrant Press Call No: BLK Fic Mal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Early Okander lives with his father in a shack, a white family on the outskirts of the Halifax community of Africville. It is the early 1960s, and Early and his young friends, Toby and Chub, start to hear whispers that the city wants to move the residents of Africville out of their homes. As the three try to sort out what relocation might mean for the community, they also struggle to come to terms with their own problems: Early's abuse at the hands of his father, Toby's illness, Chub's family breakdown.
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2011., Talonbooks Call No: BLK 812.54 B789c Edition: 1st revised printing. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1965, Africville, the largest and oldest black community in Canada was bulldozed into memory. What was lost to the politicians of Halifax was an inconvenience, an eyesore. But what was lost to the people whose roots ran deep through the once-vibrant community was an entire way of life. The hamlet's roots went back to the 1830s, when it began to be settled by the descendants of the Black Loyalists, the Black Pioneers, and others who fled the horrors of slavery in America for the relative freedom of Canada. Africville flourished for generations as a tight-knit agricultural settlement, and its people had every right to expect the public service available to all other citizens of the Halifax peninsula. Homeowners in Africville paid city taxes, but after years of being unfairly and ruthlessly denied even the most basic of modern conveniences, including electricity, running water, and a proper sewage system, which were readily available to all of the rest of the citizens of Halifax, the decision by city officials to locate the municipal dump a stones's throw from Africville created a rat-infested, slum-like environment for the already beleaguered neighbourhood. Condemned as unsanitary, its residents were told to sell their homes if they could, before finally being evicted without compensation as the bulldozers moved in. The final injustice was that part of Africville was demolished to make way for an off-leash dog park; the rest of the land was used to build the approaches to the A. Murray MacKay Bridge. In Consecrated Ground, Nova Scotian playwright George Boyd retells the struggle of a community's residents to save their homes and their dignity. With tremendous wit and gravity, Boyd takes us back to Africville on the verge of extinction, making us a gift of characters believable in their vulnerabilities, their courage, and their outrage.
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2005., General, HarperCollins Call No: 971.6 M135c Edition: First Canadian Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2016., Adult, Vagrant Press Call No: Fic Jes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The body of Pastor Sandy Gardner, a TV preacher with a global following, turns up near a Halifax container pier. The mysterious case lands with Cam Neville, a city cop with a dead wife, PTSD, and a haunting past. Can Neville, a former biker and war hero, solve the killing and find himself? In search of the truth, Neville and his partner, a Mi'kmaw Mountie named Blair Christmas, enter a perilous world of strippers, kiddie porn, and corruption that threatens to destroy them. Meanwhile, Neville is torn between loyalties to his two brothers, one still with the Satan's Stallion bike club founded by their father, and another, a priest who wants to save everyone, including Cam. In Disposable Souls, author Phonse Jessome has created a complex and compelling protagonist and placed him in a gritty underbelly of bikers, cops, and killers, masterfully blurring the lines between good and bad, sinners and saints."--From 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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2003., J. Wiley and Sons Canada Call No: 917.16 M438f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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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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1990., General Paperbacks Call No: 813.54 W886h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Canadian fiction studies Volume: no. 2
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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.
![Low [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76054.JPG "Low [eBook]")
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c2013., Adult, Formac Publishing Co. Ltd. Call No: Fic MacN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Portrait of Julia is a fascinating account of a young woman in the midst of a world in transformation. In 1920, Julia Robertson is a beautiful young war widow, aware of the radical new ideas challenging the settled thinking of post-Victorian Canada. New ways of thinking -- about the human unconscious through Freud and Jung, about sexuality, about women as well as about religion -- infused modern painting, music, and literature. Julia struggles with her conscience over the man she most trusts while being passionately infatuated with another, an Englishman, who leads her into the orbit of the young and charming Prince of Wales. Leaving behind the stuffy world of Halifax, she goes to London and Paris and then the South of France where she rekindles her close friendship with one of the great Canadian painters of the period, J.W. Morrice. She becomes part of Morrice's inner social circle of artists and admirers, among them Henri Matisse. Julia's progressive ideas are put to the test when has to resolve a dilemma.
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c2006, c1991., National Film Board of Canada Call No: BLK DVD 971.622 R38n1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Africville, a small black settlement, lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families who lived there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. Now, more than twenty years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers, speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation."--Container.
![Remember Africville [DVD] (1991) Directed by Shelagh Mackenzie](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Remember Africville [DVD] (1991) Directed by Shelagh Mackenzie")
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c2010., General, Formac Pub. Call No: BLK 971.6 S75a Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2021., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: NEW BLK Bio C598w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke's early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished lineage on his paternal side - great-grandson to William Andrew White, the first Black officer (non-commissioned) in the British army - George felt called to live up to the family name. In contrast, his mother's relatives were warm, down-to-earth country folk. Such contradictions underlay much of his life and upbringing - Black and White, country and city, outstanding and ordinary, high and low. With vulnerability and humour, George shows us how these dualities shaped him as a poet and thinker. At the book's heart is George's turbulent relationship with his father, an autodidact who valued art, music and books but worked an unfulfilling railway job. Bill could be loving and patient, but he also acted out destructive frustrations, assaulting George's mother and sometimes George and his brothers, too. Where Beauty Survived is the story of a complicated family, of the emotional stress that white racism exerts on Black households, of the unique cultural geography of Africadia, of a child who became a poet, and of long-kept secrets.
