From the towns and cities of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I. -- and the often unforgiving waters beyond them -- come these unique tales of frightening folkore and accounts of phenomena that can not be explained.

Ghost Stories of the Maritimes: Volume I

Religion & Spirituality

Oickle, Vernon

Occult & Paranormal

Ghost House Books

Canada's Haunted Coast: True Ghost Stories of the Maritimes

History

Americas

Born in tiny Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Hank Snow enjoyed a musical career that spanned five decades and sales of more than 80 million albums. In I'm Movin' On, journalist Vernon Oickle chronicles Snow's hardscrabble life, from his destitute childhood in Queens County to international fame. Leaving no stone unturned in his richly detailed profile of The Singing Ranger, Oickle exposes the highs and lows of Snow's career, and his journey ("Everywhere, man") from small East Coast radio stations to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Includes a foreword from Hank's son, Jimmie Rodgers Snow, a timeline, discography, and 75 photographs.

I'm Movin' On: The Life and Legacy of Hank Snow

Humor & Entertainment

Nimbus Publishing

IT WILL KEEP YOU GUESSING Five Crows Silver is a riveting, taut crime drama that will keep you guessing to the last page. When young girls go missing throughout Nova Scotia, Liverpool RCMP Corporal Cliff Graham and special investigator Sergeant Greg Paris come to realize they are playing a game of cat and mouse. The question is who is the cat, and who is the mouse?

Five Crows Silver

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.

Nova Scotia is blessed with a rich language. It is literally littered with words and expressions that vary from county to county, and town to town. From a dog's breakfast, to blowin' a gale, bed lunch, giv'er, fill yer boots, dough funkers, back-ass-wards and right some good, Nova Scotia Slang will introduce you to a whole new language.
You know you speak Nova Scotian when... - You've just made a hodgepodge. - You caught your toe on the carpet and went arse over kettle. - You know you've got a right nice car. - Your mother is a bag of nerves after that near miss on the highway this morning. - You invite your friends to come on over to the beach on Saturday night for a feed of lobster. - You describe that really bad smell in your basement as being fowsty. - Your kid is acting like a fart in a mitten. - Someone calls you a hard-looking ticket and you know exactly what they're talking about. - You are experiencing a severe case of the flying axe handles this morning. - You ask your visitors, "Jeet yet?"

The Bluenosers' Book of Slang: How To Talk Nova Scotian

Humor

Humans love lists. As humourist writer H. Allen Smith once wrote, "The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists." That infatuation with lists continues here. From Nova Scotia's great collector comes a masterful collection of lists that will start family arguments, provoke a wry smile, or just generally entertain on a cold winter night or in the dog days of summer. In The Nova Scotia Book of Lists find out:*Joe Canada's Top10 qualities that define a "real" Nova Scotian.* Natalie MacMaster's wish list of the Top 10 Nova Scotians she would like to perform for.*Jimmy Rankin's 10 favourite songs ever performed by a Nova Scotian.*JC Douglas' list to Top 10 bands or performers to ever come out of Nova Scotia.*Dan Soucoup's list of Nova Scotia's 10 best books.*Darryll Walsh's Top 10 haunted places in Nova Scotia.*Len Wagg's 10 best places in Nova Scotia to photograph.*Joan Dawson's 10 most memorable back roads she's ever travelled in Nova Scotia.*Michael de Adder's list of the top Nova Scotians that a political cartoonist likes to draw.*Michael Haynes' list of Nova Scotia's best trails.*Pete Luckett's 10 top choices of Nova Scotian products he likes to see on a menu when he dies out.*Gerry Doucet's top 10 fishing holes in Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia Book of Lists

Drawn from the images on the "We Love Nova Scotia" community Facebook group, these photos prove being in the right place at the right time does matter. From Meat Cove to Cape Forchu and down every back road and into every cove along the coast, We Love Nova Scotia is a collection of stunning photography from photographers from around the province. This is no ordinary photography book. It is a book about Nova Scotia by people who love Nova Scotia. Curated by author Vernon Oickle.

We Love Nova Scotia: A People's Portrait

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Are you still afraid of things that go bump in the night? Do you still think someone is watching you even though no one is there? Do doors and windows still open and close on their own? Do you still see people in your home even though you know you are alone? If you answer yes to even one of these questions, then More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia will make you feel not alone. Picking up where 2015's Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia left off, veteran ghost story teller Vernon Oickle brings to life more of Nova Scotia's intriguing tales of the paranormal, many of which have never been shared before.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A hilarious second compendium of Canadian trivia perfect for bathroom reading. Do you know Canada's oldest general store is in Nova Scotia? Or that the last British soldier killed in the First World War was born here? Or that the first UFO sighting in North America was recorded on October 12, 1796 in what today is New Minas? Did you know the world's smallest operating drawbridge is located in Yarmouth County? Or that Minard's Liniment was created here in the 1860s to relieve muscle pain and stiffness, back pain and arthritis pain? From the creation of grape nut ice cream to the birthplace of Freemasonry in Canada, to the oldest farmers' market in the country, the largest wooden church in North America and the world's largest apple, The Second Movement is the book that should be in every self-respecting Nova Scotian's outhouse.

The Second Movement: Nova Scotia Outstanding Outhouse Reader #2

Forerunners: Harbingers of Death in Nova Scotia

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