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  • Mass Murder, Police Mayhem

    Dean Beeby

    A layperson’s guide to the report that explains how the senseless tragedy in Portapique happened, and how we can prevent such violence in the future.

    $24.95, Paperback

  • Dead in Halifax: Stories of Adventure, Scandal, Heartbreak and Heroism

    Craig Ferguson

    Stories from the lives of the notable and the notorious who ended up in Halifax’s five historic downtown cemeteries

    $24.95, Paperback

  • The Halifax Public Gardens

    Robert Pace, Robert Salah, Peter L. Twohig

    A fully illustrated account of the creation and maintenance of Canada’s finest Victorian public gardens, and the story of how severe hurricane destruction led to a beautiful and sensitive restoration.

    $34.95, Paperback

  • J.L. Ilsley: A Political Biography

    Barry Cahill

    This biography of J. L. Ilsley offers a new vantage point on Mackenzie King’s Liberal government during the Second World War and a portrait of a fiscal conservative who opened the floodgates of spending while clamping down on profiteering and the rich.

    $27.95, Paperback

  • Oak Island Illustrated

    John Bell

    A full-colour illustrated book bringing together every major theory about who buried treasure on Nova Scotia’s famed Oak Island, explaining how they could have done it and why they selected this remote location — heavily illustrated with artwork, photographs, maps and artifacts.

    $29.95, Paperback

  • Hand Drawn Halifax

    Emma FitzGerald
    Immensely appealing colourful drawings and a quirky but affectionate view of the neighbourhoods of Halifax
    $24.95, Hardcover

  • Rebuilding Halifax

    Barry Cahill

    A scholarly history of the Halifax Relief Commission after the Halifax Explosion of 1917.

    $16.95, Digital (PDF)

  • Adventures in Bubbles and Brine

    Philip Moscovitch
    Moscovitch demystifies the process of fermentation as he takes us on a fascinating, and often humorous, culinary adventure across Nova Scotia.
    $27.95, Paperback

  • Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience

    Stephen Davidson, Peter Zwicker
    This book describes the experiences of Black Loyalists who took up the British offer of freedom in exchange for their support in the American Revolution. Some fleeing from slavery, the Black Loyalists encountered hardships, racism, and neglect at the hands of the British authorities.
    $16.95, Paperback

  • Oak Island and its Lost Treasure

    Graham Harris, Les MacPhie
    Two experienced mining engineers familiar with the history of mining technologies reveal the time period and the design logic of the flood tunnels which have prevented looting of the treasure buried on Nova Scotia's Oak Island.
    $24.95, Paperback

  • Bluenose

    Devyn Kaizer, Peter Zwicker
    The extensively illustrated story of Nova Scotia's iconic Bluenose
    $19.95, Paperback

  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Jennifer Groundwater
    The world of communications was forever changed by his invention of the telephone, but that's not all Alexander Graham Bell put his mind to
    $16.95, Paperback

  • Halifax Explosion

    Joyce Glasner
    An extensively illustrated short account of the moments before and after the largest man-made explosion to date, all in the bustling harbour city of Halifax
    $16.95, Paperback

  • 400 Years in 365 Days

    Leo J. Deveau

    A fun, trivia-filled book featuring over a thousand entries from the communities and peoples of Nova Scotia.

    $34.95, Hardcover

  • Shipwrecks Off the East Coast

    Carmel Vivier
    In this book, Carmel Vivier tells the stories of nine ill-fated vessels who navigated the treacherous waters of the Atlantic.
    $16.95, Paperback

  • I'm Not What I Seem

    Charlie Rhindress

    The biography of a woman who was so much more than she seemed

    $29.95, Hardcover

  • Lighthouses of Nova Scotia

    Allan Billard

    The fascinating history of the lighthouses of Nova Scotia and its seafaring past come alive in this illustrated, highly engaging account

    $24.95, Paperback

  • Halifax: A Visual Legacy

    William D. Naftel
    A journey through Halifax's photographic past -- a chance to remember and rediscover
    $39.95, Paperback

  • Mabou Pioneers Volume 1

    A.D. MacDonald

    This book is a genealogical record of some of the pioneer families who settled in the Mabou and District area of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

    $39.95, Hardcover

  • A Lucky Life

    Richard B. Goldbloom
    A memoir of one of Canada's most influential pediatricians, a compelling personality whose interests and activities have extended far beyond medicine into community development, theatre and symphonic music.
    $16.95, Digital (PDF)
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