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Archie the Pit Rat Hero

FOR EARLY READERS and those lucky enough to read with them, this new book displays beautiful paintings of a Cape Breton coal mine and the miners and rats that interact in that underground world.

 

24 pages . $12.95
Breton Books
1-895415-97-7
The Cabot Trail
"Stories and 150 photographs in stark black and white fromover 25 years of Cape Breton’s Magazine."
144 pages . $19.95
Breton Books
978-1-895415-99-5
Causeway
NOW IN PAPERBACK! An evocative memoir of this journalist’s Cape Breton childhood.
400 pages . $21.95
Harper Collins
0002557207
Views From The Steel Plant
INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS keep alive our story of steelmaking.
224 pages . $18.95
Breton Books
1-895415-69-1
 
Cape Breton`s Lillian Crewe Walsh

A lasting treasury of ballads and poems by the author of Cape Breton classics and ballads that have joined the world song tradition. Includes "A Conversation about Lillian Crewe Walsh."

 

80 pages . $12.95
Breton Books
978-1-895415-83-4
Talking Cape Breton Music
Ronald Caplan`s rare interviews with Cape Breton musicians deliver memories and rich insight into Cape Breton music that has won the world.
224 pages . $18.95
Breton Books
1-895415-67-5
George Orwell`s Friend
GEORGE ORWELL`S FRIEND is a generous introduction to Paul Potts—one of Canada`s least-known significant writers.
96 pages . $14.95
Breton Books
1-895415-03-9
Buddy MacMaster The Judique Fiddler
A thorough and laudatory biography of this master fiddler.
190 pages . $18.95
Pottersfield Press
1-895900-90-5
 
Big White Knuckles

“STARTLING, FUNNY, INVENTIVE imagery, but what is most impressive is the subtlety and emotional depth of characterization.”—Leo McKay Jr., author of Twenty-six.

 

264 pages . $17.95
Vagrant Press
1-55109-630-7
Nancy`s Wedding Feast
ILLUSTRATED BY PETER RANKIN, here are 14 of Jim St. Clair’s tastiest historical narratives—with 200 recipes that complete the tales, expertly researched by Chef Yvonne LeVert.
224 pages . $23.95
CBU Press
1-897009-22-4
A Better Life (Highland Women)
ORAL ACCOUNTS of descendants, and written sources—archives and rare books—explore the traditions and experiences of women in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and in eastern Nova Scotia where so many of them settled.
204 pages . $22.95
CBU Press
1-897009-17-8
North of Smokey
THE HARDSCRABBLE WORLD of an isolated coastal community in Depression-era Cape Breton is brought to life by a gifted storyteller.
400 pages . $24.95
CBU Press
978-1-897009-23-9
 
Where White Horses Gallop

A HAUNTING TALE OF FRIENDSHIP and of the traumatic Second World War, where emotional bullets riddle the spirit long after the guns have grown silent.

 

336 pages . $32.95
Key Porter Books
1552639150
Lauchlin of the Bad Heart
A PROMISING WELTERWEIGHT at 22, Lauchlin is in his 50s, entrapped in the sanctuary and family roots of his island home.
360 pages . $34.95
Harper Collins
1554680638
Percy Willmot A Cape Bretoner at War
THE GREAT WAR (1914-1918) saw 619,636 Canadians enlist—among them Cape Bretoner Percy Willmot.
300 pages . $23.95
CBU Press
978-1-897009-21-5
Seven Miles Deep
IMAGES CAPTURED in the once-thriving coal mines of Cape Breton bring glowing detail to the faces of miners in their work environment, deep under the ocean.
200 pages . $29.95
CBU Press
978-1-897009-25-3