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  • Witness: Winter 2017

    The Modern Writer as Witness, #30.3

    Series Book 30.3 - The Modern Writer as Witness
    Ending a tumultuous year in the world at large, the Winter issue of Witness is filled with stark dilemmas. Jennifer Doe chronicles a lifetime of #MeToo incidents triggered by the election of Donald Trump in the essay “Any Woman Can Write This.” In Alex Madison’s short story “Penguin Classic,” a rivalry between teenage girls takes a dark turn at a lake house. And Adam Greenburg's poetry series ... Read more

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  • Reparations

    Ray and Ward grew up best friends—one black, one white—in Halifax’s Africville district. Now they face each other again, this time in a courtroom as lawyer and judge in an explosive trial revolving around the three-decades-old expropriation and demolition of Africville. The trial will force both men to confront the demons of their pasts and reveal secrets they’ve kept hidden, even from themselves. ... Read more

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  • Running Wild Novella Anthology: Volume 8

    Book II

    Series Book 8 - Running Wild Novella Anthology
    The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report"The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report" is a day-by-day account of an ill-fated patient who is hospitalized for a mysterious illness. He finds himself in the care of a team of top-notch doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists. Even so, the patient's condition continues to deteriorate, forcing this modern medical establishment to ... Read more

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  • Marlborough Woods Mystery

    On the night of December 1, 1943, Frank Johnson, a Commander in the Royal Navy, returned to his Halifax base after an urgent train trip to New York where he'd visit his wife. She was in hospital there in a coma after what had been described as a tragic car accident. Arriving at his Marlborough Woods home around midnight, Johnson spent the night burning documents in his fireplace. After that… well, ... Read more

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  • Single Mama Dating Drama

    Single Mama dating! It doesn't get anymore complicated than that. How can you find love when you have a career and kids? Where can you find that love connection? Is he on-line, in church, standing in front of the grapefruit in the grocery store? In these hilarious and heart-warming stories, you'll find single moms finding love in the most interesting of places, all while steering clear of the ... Read more

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  • Flight 111

    The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash

    “Swissair 1-1-1 is declaring Pan Pan Pan. We have smoke in the cockpit.” Seventeen minutes after the co-pilot’s distress call, Swissair Flight 111—a New York-to-Geneva-bound jet—crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people on board. Flight 111 tells the dramatic story of that September 2, 1998 tragedy and explores its far-reaching human consequences. Kimber ... Read more

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  • The Phelan Feud

    The Bitter Struggle for Control of the Family Firm

    This book, by award-winning writer Stephen Kimber, takes readers behind the scenes of an epic family feud inside one of Canada's wealthiest families. The Phelans owned Cara Operations and its many popular restaurant chains, including Harvey's and Swiss Chalet. Trouble began when family patriarch Paul James Phelan refused to yield control to the next generation. What followed pitted brother against ... Read more

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  • The Sweetness in the Lime

    "Part love story, part mystery, this engrossing tale of Cuban-Canadian connections . . . gets to the heart of what can happen when we cross borders." —Karen Dubinsky, author of Cuba Beyond the BeachEli Cooper is a resolutely single, fifty-something newspaper copy editor. He spends his nights obsessing over reporters' unnecessary "thats" and his days caring for a demented father he knows should be ... Read more

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  • Flight 111

    A Year in the Life of a Tragedy

    "Swissair 1-1-1 is declaring Pan Pan Pan. We have smoke in the cockpit." Seventeen minutes after the co-pilot's distress call, the Geneva-bound jet crashed into the Atlantic off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia just over an hour after leaving New York on September 2, 1998, killing all 229 people on board. Acclaimed journalist Stephen Kimber tells the moving story of the crash and its far-reaching human ... Read more

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  • The Inspired Hybrid Classroom

    The Inspired Hybrid Classroom is a comprehensive resource exploring hybrid learning's potential. This book, written by experts from both academia and industry, starts by discussing the design of hybrid learning experiences and different types of hybrid courses. It then dives into the role of hybrid education in promoting equity and the importance of learner-centric design. The book also addresses ... Read more

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  • Sailors, Slackers, and Blind Pigs

    Halifax at War

    The untold story of how war transformed the city of Halifax.Stephen Kimber recreates life in Halifax during the Second World War, a city transformed by the influx of military and civilian personnel serving the war effort. Poorly governed and corrupt, the city erupted at the end of the war in Europe in the infamous V-E Day riots of May 1945.Halifax was the only Canadian city directly caught up in ... Read more

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  • The Prodigy's Cousin

    The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent

    We all know the autistic genius stereotypes. The absentminded professor with untied shoelaces. The geeky Silicon Valley programmer who writes bulletproof code but can’t get a date. But there is another set of (tiny) geniuses whom you would never add to those ranks—child prodigies. We mostly know them as the chatty and charming tykes who liven up daytime TV with violin solos and engaging banter. ... Read more

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