America Reel

Peter Sanger

Pottersfield Pr

American Reel

Literature & Fiction

Sanger, Peter

Poetry

He felt like a living exile, he said. The way the original Governor Patterson must have felt, recalled to England in disgrace so many years ago. He felt it in the mornings as he knotted his tie in front of the mirror; in the evenings as he ate alone. He too was a banished Governor, old in his deceit of years but inside still praying for goodness sake like a little boy. His proudest boast had always been that he had never hurt anybody, but he knew it was no longer true. His atonement lay in the dead pools of contemplation that each long day afforded, in every voice that greeted him as "Governor," in every face that just as quickly took its leave.

The Governor of Prince Edward Island

Bowers, Rick

She urged the horse on with a jerk at the reins. Judy went on a few steps and stopped again. The object stretched right across her path. It was close and clear now, and Greta gasped. Her very heart seemed to stop beating. For there, like a ghost risen out of the ice, lay a ship. A ship, of all things! A big schooner with three tall masts, all crusted with snow. What was it doing here? Slowly her mind filled with awful suspicion. She tried to put it aside, but it came back. At last she faced the truth. The little mare had been lost all this time. Instead of crossing the ice, they had been wandering down the river, towards the open sea.

Courage in the Storm

Children's Books

Raddall, Thomas H.

A Nova Scotian favourite, this book explores six mysteries that have puzzled historians for decades. Included are: HMS Blonde and Mary Celeste mystery; Murder and fraud, lost gold and more.

Footsteps on Old Floors

1989 saw the release of the blockbuster Universal Studios move, Field of Dreams, based on W. P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe. Here is a unique new book of poetry written by Kinsella and his wife, Ann Knight, that reverberates with the same sense of vitality, warmth and magic. Some of these are love poems, some wild flights of the imagination. These are poems to be shared. Included are Ann's "Roadsongs" about the cross-continent author tour for Shoeless Joe and Bill's own whimsical version of "Casey at the Bat." Ann Knight is a non-fiction writer and poet, author of two previous books. W. P. Kinsella is the author of 15 books of fiction and winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Bill and Ann met in a writing class at the University of Iowa in 1976 and were married in 1978. They live in White Rock, B.C. where they write fulltime.

Rainbow Warehouse

KINSELLA, W.P.

Knight, Ann

Maxine Tynes is a poet who has lived all her life in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her heritage goes back to the time of Black Loyalists in that province and Maxine has drawn heavily on that rich cultural past. Her writing is intense, personal, evocative and accessible in nature which earned her the titles of Milton Acorn People's Poet of Canada for 1988. When her first book, Borrowed Beauty, was published by Pottersfield Press in 1987, it received rave reviews and sold out in a few months. Now in its third printing, Borrowed Beauty has provne to be a bestselling Canadian title, reaching far beyond the usual audience for poetry. Woman Talking Woman is a new and varied collection of poetry and fiction by this vibrant voice from Atlantic Canada. "Maxine Tynes is a woman/teacher/poet whose life is shaped by the pride and passion of her own strongly held beliefs and an absolute commitment to her personal politics." Sharon Fraser, Atlantic Insight

Woman Talking Woman

Tynes, Maxine

Atlantic Outposts

Travel

Thurston, Harry

Canada

"Your experience will teach you more than books will." B.D. Stevens, builder of over thirty churches, and man with a simple philosophy for living, would be amused that a boo is being published about his life. Peter Brock has compiled a unique oral history of BD's life. In his own words, and those of his family and friends, this is a parable of a builder--a man who used to say, "You'll never have anything unless you give it away." --who gave when asked and whenever he saw a need. By a very direct and straight-talking styl,e he was able to inspire in others religious attitudes, with out self-righteousness and without preaching.

Man Who Built Churches

Brock, Peter

Biographies & Memoirs

Halifax: A Literary Portrait is a lively anthology of thirty-one selected writings about this colourful Nova Scotian port city dating from the early eighteenth century to the present. Included are works by such varied writers as Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Joseph Howe, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, L.M. Montgomery, Hugh MacLennan, Thomas Raddall, Will R. Bird, Irving Layton, Earle Birney, bill bissett and Spider Robinson. Halifax is captured in its many moods, and the selections, while not always complimentary, are sure to entertain and illuminate.

Halifax: A Literary Portrait

Bell, John

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