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Eighteen talented rural Nova Scotia writers take you to unexpected places and bring you back with your eyes wide and your senses tingling.The inner workings of the community knitting group...what may happen if you explore that abandoned house on the edge of town...the unusual weight of a cello case...when the new waitress at the diner causes time to slow down...humble objects--a shirt, a broom, a painting at an exhibition, the marker on a cat's grave--that change lives...

Paradise d'Entremont, intrepid private detective of Mavillette Beach and Hawaii, meets new challenges at home at at work in book four of this much-loved series by best-selling author Carol Ann Cole.What is the truth behind the story the coroner brings her? What's up with the local police sergeant's behaviour? How will two battered boxers react when they meet Paradise and the rest of the family...including a relative they have never met?And Hope...how can she face challenges that would daunt a grown person, much less a teen.AND...will Paradise and Thomas find a way forward for their life together?The answers wait for you right inside this book.

Pirate treasure, splintered families, the impacts of climate change, a determined boy, and a compelling immigrant blend together in this adventure for younger teens and middle-grade readers.

Eight short plays with strong parts for older women. Read them for your own pleasure, or choose one to perform for the world (make sure you get the rights!).

Four short plays drawing on Shakespeare''s works and our modern-day use of them.In ''Twenty-Minute Tragedy'', minor cast members take over a production of Timon of Athens and lead it in a new direction.''Sprite Fight'' takes place backstage at a production of A Midsummer Night''s Dream, in the aftermath of a confrontation among the sprites.In ''A Shakespearean Fragment'', a shady fixer is trying to negotiate the sale of a fragment of something that was once precious to The Bard.''Loosely Titus'' presents Titus Andronicus as a game show, with ''33 onstage deaths, three hands cut off, and a really interesting cooking lesson.''The plays work together to make a fascinating evening of theatre, or can be performed separately in programs with other plays.

Dark deeds at the Spa Springs Hotel in Nova Scotia in the 1880s echo down the decades, bringing out the worst and the best in people high and low.Mr. Leeson allows he wanted "to have blurred the line be-tween fact and fiction", and he''s done so wonderfully. There are characters to care for living vivid lives in a wholly believable historic Annapolis Valley. The local drama and colour are set credibly against a broader and changing world. I thoroughly enjoyed this time between the lines.Don Connolly, former host, CBC Information MorningAnyone who thinks Nova Scotia history is boring should read The Secret of the Spring. Sometimes touching, some-times violent, this family saga demonstrates the full spectrum of human nature. Garry Leeson brings a colourful past to life.Wendy Elliott, Valley Journal Advertiser columnistThe Secret of the Spring reveals the extraordinary secrets hidden in ordinary lives-fragile, then lost and forgotten in a generational blink of an eye.  Blurring fact and fiction and capturing the quirks and cadence of a vanishing rural Nova Scotia, Garry Leeson has spun an intricate tale which rings clearly and resonates long after the book''s been finished. Mike Bienstock, Rural Delivery

With self-deprecating humour and keen observational insights, Ben Robicheau tells the tale of life on Brier Island, Nova Scotia, in the middle of the twentieth century. He roams with us from the comic-book section of his father''s store, to the destruction of an outhouse, from the tiny village movie theatre to where kids went and what they did when their parents told them to go outside and play." You''ll find here a cavalcade of childhood scrapes and near-disasters, foolish fun, and serious moments when lives are in peril.Ben also writes loving portraits of the Island postmistress, telephone operator, lighthouse keeper, and some cherished eccentrics. Family photos from across the decades help us peer into this time when the people of Brier Island, two ferry rides away from anywhere, made a living and a community.

Gurrey and Grime are detectives prowling the gritty streets of Digby Neck and the Islands, pursuing purloined possessions and bringing evil-doers to account. Some of their hilarious stories first appeared in the local newspaper, Passages. Their full epic unfolds in these pages for the first time.

A widow putting her life back together. A crew of workmen helping her father realize a dream project. Six of the crew were nothing special. But there was a seventh...She wanted a private affair. He wanted more. Yet their separate pasts hung over the present, gently reminding them that life and love were precious. - Stella Maclean, Finding Mr. ValentineLoving Number Seven is the perfect read for lovers of spicy contemporary romance. The air between Penny and Reuben is crackling from the moment they meet...and Reuben is an intoxicating mix of hot guy and a caregiver in a tidy package - always a plus for me! - Michelle Helliwell, Nothing MagicalRhoda Hill has given us a sweet, sexy story that the reader won't soon forget. Perfect reading before bed as long as you're not planning on sleeping. - Lari Smythe, Perpetual Motion

Who was the woman they called "The Swimming Champion of the World"? Was she part of the famous Beckwith family of swimmers from England? Or was she a barefoot girl who ran away from a little Nova Scotian town to find her fortune?