Atlantic Canadian Book Reviews

Alward, Donna Jones – When the Word Fell Silent

Alward, Lisa – Cocktail

Autism: The Gift That Needs To Be Opened

Armstrong, Sally – The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor

Armstrong, Tammy – Pearly Everlasting

Arsenault, Colin Sweets – Short Mercy

Babcock, Becca – One Who Has Been Here before

Babcock, Becca – Some There are Fearless

Bala, Sharon – The Boat People

Banks, Deborah – While Crossing the Field, Hunger Moon

Barbeau, Melissa – The Luminous Sea

Bascaramurty, Dakshana – This is Not the End of Me

Bauman, Martin – Hell of a Ride

Beaton, Kate – Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Belliveau, Renee – The Sound of Fire

Benjamin, Chris – Drive-By Saviours

Benjamin, Chris – Boy With A Problem

Benjamin, Chris – Chasing Paradise

Benjamin, Chris – The Art of Forgiveness

Bertin, Kris – Bad Things Happen

Bertin, Kris – Use Your Imagination! 

Best, Laura – Good Mothers Don’t

Bhat, Shashi – The Most Precious Substance on Earth

Bhat, Shashi – Death By A Thousand Cuts

Brennan, Binnie – Harbour View

Brennan, Binnie – A Certain Grace

Brideau, Lisa – Adrift

Browne, Violet – This Is the House That Luke Built

Bruneau, Carol – These Good Hands, Glass Voices

Bruneau, Carol – A Bird on Every Tree

Bruneau, Carol – A Circle on the Surface

Bruneau, Carol – Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Bruneau, Carol – Depth Rapture

Bruneau, Carol – Threshold

Bryan, Ali – Roost

Bryan, Ali – The Figgs

Bryan, Ai – Coq, The Hill, The Crow Valley Karaoke Competition

Buckler, Ernest – The Mountain and the Valley

Burnet, Jaime – Crocuses Hatch From Snow

Bursey, Jeff – Unidentified man at left of photo

Bush, Catherine – Blaze Island

Byggdin, K.R. – Wonder World

Cameron, Katie – Might This Be A Greenhouse?

Canning, Bridget – The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes

Canning, Bridget – Some People’s Children

Canning, Bridget – No One Knows About Us

Carr, Charlene – Hold My Girl

Carr, Charlene – We Rip the World Apart

Case, James – Ananias

Choyce, Lesley – The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil

Clark Joan – The Birthday Lunch

Clarke, George Elliott – George and Rue, Portia White

Clarke, George Elliott – Where Beauty Survived

Coady, Lynn – Watching You Without Me 

Coles, Megan Gail – Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome

Coles, Megan Gail – Small Game Hunting At the Local Coward Gun Club

Colford, Ian – A Dark House and Other Stories

Colford, Ian – Perfect World

Comeau, Joey – Malagash

Conlin, Christy Ann – Heave, The Memento

Conlin, Christy Ann – Watermark

Cooper, Catherine – Lasko

Cotter, Charis – Footsteps in Bay de Verde

Crewe, Lesley – Relative Happiness, Are you Kidding Me?!

Crewe, Lesley – The Spoon Stealer

Crewe, Lesley – Nosy Parker

Crewe, Lesley – Recipe for a Good Life

Crewe, Lesley – Death and Other Inconveniences

Critch, Mark – Son of a Critch

Crocker, Eva – Barrelling Forward

Crocker, Eva – All I Ask

Crummey, Michael – Sweetland, River Thieves, Galore, The Wreckage, Little Dogs

Crummey, Michael – The Innocents

Crummey, Michael – The Adversary

Cull, Kerri – Rock Paper Sex

Curran, Oisín – Blood Fable

Currie, Sheldon – The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum

Curwin, Julie – The Appendage Formerly Known as Your Left Arm

Davison, Nicola – In the Wake

Davison, Nicola – Decoding Dot Grey

Day, Dian – The Madrigal (James’ review)

Dian Day – The Madrigal (My review)

de Mariaffi, Elizabeth – The Devil You Know

Domet, Stephanie – Fallsy Downsies, Homing

Doucet, Jane – The Pregnant Pause, Fishnets & Fantasies

Doucet, Jane – Lost & Found in Lunenburg

Doyle, Alan – All Together Now

Doyle, Alan – Where I Belong

Doyle, Alan – A Newfoundlander in Canada

Doyle, Terry – Dig

Doyle, Terry – The Wards

Edson, Jerrod – The Boulevard

Edson, Jerrod – The Dirty Milkman, The Moon is Real

Ekwuyasi, Francesca – Butter Honey Pig Bread

Elliott, Marilyn Davidson – The Blind Mechanic

Emery, Anne – Counted Among the Dead

Endicott, Marina – The Difference

Evans, Kate – The Inward Journey

Feehan, M.V. – In the Shadow of Crows

Fegan, Heather – Gutsy

Fenton, Andre – Annaka

Fitch, Sheree – You Won’t Always Be This Sad

Fitzpatrick, Jamie – The End of Music

Follett, Beth – Instructor

French, Bobbi – The Good Women of Safe Harbour

Frost, Karolyn Smardz – Steal Away Home

Gallant, Joanne – A Womb In the Shape of A Heart

Gillespie, Cheryl – I Feel Your Stare

Gish, Elliott – Grey Dog

Glenn Norris, Laurie –Found Drowned

Graham, Genevieve – Tides of Honour, Promises to Keep

Graham, Genevieve – Come From Away, The Forgotten Home Child, Letters Across the Sea

Grant, Jessica – Come, Thou Tortoise

Grant-Smith, Joyce – Oatcakes and Courage

Greeley, Meghan – Jawbone

Greer, Darren – Just Beneath My Skin

Greer, Darren – Advocate

Greer, Darren – Outcast

Gregor, James – Going Dutch

Hallett, Michelle Butler – This Marlowe

Hallett, Michelle Butler – Constant Nobody

Hamilton, Sylvia D. – And I Alone Escaped to Tell You

Harvey-Clark, Chris – In Search of the Great Canadian Shark

Hebert, Michelle – Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

Hellard, Tyler – Searching for Terry Punchout

Helwig, David – The Stand-In

Helwig, David – Killing McGee

Hemming, Deborah – Throw Down Your Shadows

Hemming, Deborah – Goddess

Herring, Nicholas – Some Hellish

Hickey, Gemma – Almost Feral

Hill, Andria – Mona Parsons

Hlongwane, Gugu – Electric Fences

Hogan, Holly – Message in a Bottle

Huebert, David – Peninsula Sinking

Huebert, David – Six Six Two Fifty

Huebert, David – Chemical Valley

Huebert, David – Oil People

Hynes, Joel Thomas – We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Day 

Ilse, Jessica – The Majestic Sisters

Ingram, Katie – Breaking Disaster

Jewell, Sara – Field Notes: A City Girl’s Search For Heart and Home in Rural Nova Scotia

Joe, Rita – Song of Eskasoni, I Lost My Talk

Joe, Rita – Song of Rita Joe

Johnston, Wayne – Baltimore’s Mansion, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Custodian of Paradise

Jones, Amy – We’re All In This Together

Jones, Amy – Every Little Piece of Me 

Jones, Andy – Barefoot Helen and the Giants

joudry, shalan – Elapultiek, Generations Re-merging, Waking Ground

Kawaja, Shelly – The Raw Light of Morning

Kean, Willow – Eyes In Front When Running

Kimber, Stephen – The Sweetness in the Lime

Komar, Debra – The Ballad of Jacob Peck

Laffoley, Steven – The Blue Tattoo

Laffoley, Steven – A Halifax Christmas Carol, Halifax Nocturne

Laffoley, Steven – Unfiltered: An Irreverent History of Beer in Nova Scotia, Dulse to Donairs: An Irreverent History of Food in Nova Scotia

Langille, Carole Glasser – Doing Time

LeBlanc, Susan – The Nowhere Places

LeBlanc, Tyler – Acadian Driftwood

Leeson, Garry – The Dome Chronicles

Levangie, Richard – Secrets of the Hotel Maisonneuve

Loney, Bretton – The Last Hockey Player

Loney, Bretton – Joe Howe’s Ghost

Lucas, Chad – Thanks A Lot, Universe

MacDonald, Ann-Marie – Adult Onset, Fall On Your Knees, As the Crow Flies

MacDonald, Frank – A Forest for Calum

MacLennan-Dunphy, Brenda – The Silence of the Vessel

MacLeod, Alexander – Animal Person

MacLeod, Alistair – Remembrance, No Great Mischief

MacLeod, Alistair – The Boat, In the Fall, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, The Vastness of the Dark, The Golden Gift of Grey, To Every Thing There Is a Season, Second Spring, Winter Dog

MacNeil, Beatrice – The Geranium Window

Major, Kevin – Found Far and Wide

Malone, Stephens Gerard – The History of Rain

Mayoff, Steven – The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief

McDougall, Carol – Wake the Stone man

McEwen, Jim – Fearnoch

McKay, Ami – The Birth House, The Virgin Cure

McKay Jr., Leo – Twenty-Six, Roll Up the Rim

McKay Jr., Leo – What Comes Echoing Back

McLennan, Hugh – Barometer Rising

McMillan, Amber – The Running Trees

Mercer, Rick – Talking to Canadians

Mercer, Rick – The Road Years

Mian, Sarah – When the Saints

Mitchell, Shandi – The Waiting Hours

Monaghan, Damhnait – New Girl in Little Cove

Montgomery, Lucy Maud – The Blythes are Quoted, Anne of Green Gables, The Blue Castle, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, Emily’s Quest, After Many Years, Jane of Lantern Hill, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard

Moody-Corbett, Rod – Hides

Moore, Lisa – Caught, February, Flannery

Moore, Lisa – Something for Everyone

Moore, Lisa – This Is How We Love

Morgan-Cole, Trudy J. – Most Anything You Please

Morgan-Cole, Trudy J. – A Roll of the Bones, Such Miracles and Mischiefs

Morris, Aren A. – We Happy Few

Morrissey, Donna – The Fortunate Brother

Morrow, Jennie – Bird Shadows

Mullinger, James – Brit Happens

Murray, Morgan – Dirty Birds

Murtagh, Sue – We’re Not Rich

Myers, B.R. – The Third Wife of Faraday House

Narbonne, Andre – Lucien & Olivia

Nason, Riel – The Town That Drowned, All the Things We Leave Behind

Nicholson, Carolyn J. – The Last Witch on Skye

O’Connell, Anne Louise – Deep Freeze

Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Cheluchi – The Son of the House

Osmond, Rosalie – Broken Symmetry

Page, Elliot – Pageboy

Palka, Kurt – The Piano Maker

Parker, Fawn – What We Both Know

Parker-Brown, Angela – Writing With My Eyes

Pelley, Chad – Away From Everywhere, Every Little Thing, Four-Letter Words

Pellissier-Lush, Julie – Epekwitk: Mi’kmaq Poetry from Prince Edward Island

Peters, Amanda – The Berry Pickers

Peters, Amanda – Waiting for the Long Night Moon

Phinney, Sandra – Waking Up in My Own Backyard

Ping, William – Hollow Bamboo

Porter, C.S. – Beneath Her Skin

Porter, Michelle – A Grandmother Begins the Story

Powell, Kerry Lee – Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush

Powley, Jen – Just Jen

Powning, Beth – A Measure of Light, The Sea Captain’s Wife

Powning, Beth – The Sister’s Tale

Poynter, Adele – Dancing In a Jar

Preston, Rachael – The Wind Seller

Pugsley, Alex – Aubrey McKee

Pugsley, Alex – Shimmer

Raddall, Thomas H. – The Nymph and the Lamp, Hangman’s Beach

Raddall, Thomas H. – At the Tide’s Turn, The Wings of Night 

Rene, Colleen – Nothing In Truth Can Harm Us

Rennehan, Mandy – The Blue Collar CEO

Richards, David Adams – The Bay of Love and Sorrows

Robart-Johnson, Sharon – Africa’s Children

Robart-Johnson, Sharon – Jude and Diana

Robart-Johnson, Sharon – Two Sams

Robinson, Olivia – The Blue Moth Motel

Ryan, Tom – The Treasure Hunters Club

Sanford, Janet Coulter – Memories on the Bounty

Shaw, RC – Louisbourg or Bust

Simmins, Marjorie – In Search of Puffins

Simpson, Anne – Speechless

Sinnott, Susan – Catching the Light

Sinnott, Susan – The Remembering

Skibsrud, Johanna – Tiger, Tiger

Slayter, Rebecca Silver – In the Land of Birdfishes

Slayter, Rebecca Silver – The Second History

Smith, Emily Taylor – Around the Province in 88 Days

Smith, Emily Taylor – No Thanks, I Want To Walk

Smith-Nochasak, Anne M. – A Canoer of Shorelines

Smith-Nochasak, Anne M. – The Ice Widow, River Faces North

Spurway, Amy – Crow

Stapleton, Bernardine Ann Teraz – Love, Life

Strong, Julie – The Tudor Prophecy

Sutherland, Rose – A Sweet Sting of Salt

Swan, Jake – Grantrepreneurs

Taber, Nancy – A Sea of Spectres

Tacon, Claire – In the Field

Tattrie, Jon – Black Snow

Tattrie, Jon – Peace by Chocolate

Taylor, Alison – Aftershock

Taylor, Susie – Even Weirder Than Before

Taylor, Susie – Vigil

Taylor, Wanda – The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children 

Thomas, Rebecca – I’m Finding My Talk, I Place You Into the Fire

Thompson, Lee D. – Apastoral: a mistopia

Thompson, Shelley – Roar

Tucker, Shirley Jean Roll – The Amazing Foot Race of 1921

Twist, Arielle – Disintegrate/Dissociate

Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada, edited by Lynn Coady

Vowles, Martha – Senior Management

Vryenhoek, Leslie – Ledger of the Open Hand

Vryenhoek, Leslie – We All Will Be Received

Walbourne-Gough, Douglas – Crow Gulch

Walker, Debra – Welcome Home

Wall, Aimee – We, Jane

Wamboldt, Michelle – Birth Road

Warner, Patrick – One hit Wonders

Warner, Patrick – My Camino

Watson, Allison – Transplanted

Watt, Alison – Dazzle Patterns

Wesley, Gloria Ann – If This Is Freedom

White, Susan – The Way I Feel

Wicks, Heidi – Melt

Wilkshire, Claire – The Love Olympics

Wilson, Budge – Before Green Gables, After Swissair

Wilson, Martha – Nosy White Woman

Winter, Kathleen – Annabel

Winter, Michael – Minister Without Portfolio

Winters, Michelle – I Am a Truck

Winters, Michelle – Hair for Men

Wunker, Erin – Notes From a Feminist Killjoy

Young, Adam and Jennifer – The Little Red Shed

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