The Little Book Of Nova Scotia

Journey through Nova Scotia's magical landscapes with award-winning photojournalist Len Wagg--from historic Shelburne to iconic Peggys Cove to Cape Breton's majestic highlands and beyond. These remarkable photos capture not only the grandeur of Nova Scotia's natural landscapes but the unwavering spirit of the people who live there.

Updated edition of the bestselling travel-sized photography book featuring 30+ new photos Journey through Nova Scotia?s magical landscapes with award-winning photojournalist Len Wagg--from historic Shelburne to iconic Peggys Cove to Cape Breton?s majestic highlands and beyond. These remarkable photos capture not only the grandeur of Nova Scotia?s natural landscapes but the unwavering spirit of the people who live there. Features 85 photos with captions.

"The author's pedagogical intention is wrapped in a lively family story. As the engagingly curious young heroine, Grace Severn, learns of the particular history, geography, and botany of the colony, she and her reader alike gain an awareness of and sympathy for its diverse population, including Mi'kmaq peoples, Acadian settlers, and African-American slaves and Loyalists, and the role in the settlement of Nova Scotia."--Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman, Picturing Canada, p. 21

The magic of Peggy’s Cove at night, the rugged shorelines and clifftops, the magical expanse of the Cape Breton Highlands mid-winter—all represent the beauty that is Nova Scotia. Journey through this incredible landscape with award-winning photojournalist Len Wagg. These remarkable photos not only capture the immense beauty of Nova Scotia’s natural landscape but also capture the spirit of the people who live in it everyday.Features approximately 85 photos with captions and a foreword from popular Nova Scotia writer Silver Donald Cameron. Now in a smaller format and with 10 new photographs.

From the bestselling author of We're All in This Together comes a novel about family, friendship, fame, and the cost of living in the public eye -- because when everyone suddenly knows your name, it's easy to forget who you really are. "The first time they met, Mags saved Ava's life. The second time they met, Ava saved Mags's." Ava Hart is the most reluctant cast member of a reality TV show based on her big city family's (mostly staged) efforts to run a B&B in small-town Nova Scotia. Every family has its problems, but Ava has grown up seeing her family's every up and down broadcast on national television, after the show becomes an unexpected success for reasons that will take a heavy toll on the Harts. Mags Kovach is the charismatic lead singer of a struggling Halifax rock band hoping to be the Next Big Thing. For years she's managed to contain her demons and navigate the uglier aspects of being a woman in the music world, but after a devastating loss, she turns her anger on the only person she can: herself. As their private tragedies continue to set social media and tabloid headlines on fire, their every move subjected to an endless stream of public commentary, it will be their unexpected friendship that will save them. They will push back against the roles they've been forced to play, and take back control of something they thought they'd lost forever -- the right to their own stories.

Many people believe that racism and discrimination against those of African descent was primarily an American experience. However, this book dispels that myth by recounting Leonard Albert Paris’s first eighteen years (1948–1966), growing up as a Black youth in rural Nova Scotia, Canada, a province that was at the time, home to about 36 percent of Canada’s Black population. Structural racism, community isolation, and generational poverty affected every aspect of his life, creating challenges and misery for him, his family, and the entire Black community—an experience that continues to affect him emotionally many decades later. While not as extreme as it was during the author’s formative years, racism and its effects continue into the present. Leonard wrote Jim Crow Also Lived Here in part to create awareness of this problem and also to inspire change.

Penelope MacLaughlin marries a miller and gradually discovers he is not as she imagined. His increasing absences leaves Penelope to run the mill herself, providing her with a living but also destroying the people she loves most. A series of betrayals leaves her with nothing but the mill and her determination to save her grandchildren from their disturbed father. Linda Little's novels include "Scotch River," which won the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

Produced in joint with the Dapartmant of lands and Forests. The history of Nova Scotia.