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   ART /REFERENCE
 
  • East Coast Rug Hooking Designs 
  • Lexicon Vol's 123; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8  
  • Atlantic Canadian Crosswords

 

$19.95 pb               $7.95 pb     

FICTION

       
            $16.95 

  • No Small Tempest by Evelyn Richardson
  • Desired Haven by Evelyn Richardson
PEOPLE

 
               $19.95

  • We Keep a Light
  • Butterbox Babies  by Bette Cahill
  • Butterbox Survivors  by Robert Hartlen 
FOOD   .    HEALTH
Recipe Books: 
  • Blueberries
  • Pumpkins & Squash
  • Apples
  • Cranberries
  • Lobsters
  • Maple Syrup 
  • Fabulous Fishcakes
  • Chowders, Bisques and Soups
  • Traditional Holiday Fare
  • The Great Nova Scotia Cook Book

 


    $19.95 each
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
Wild Nova Scotia 
Bob Bancroft & Len Wagg 

Over the last year and a half, Wagg spent close to a hundred days in the province’s wilderness, logging over fifteen thousand kilometres and taking beautiful, telling portraits of the province’s most secret and lovely places.Wild Nova Scotia showcases the special places, protected or not, allowing people to bring home some of the amazing natural beauty of this province.

ISBN 9781551096131
$29.95 - HARDCOVER



  • Richard Zurawski's Book of Maritime Weather 
  • Formac Pocketguide to Nature
  • Formac Pocketguide to Whale Watching
  • Formac Pocketguide to Fossils
  • Canada's Atlantic Seashore
  • Paddling the Tobeatic
  • The Tent Dwellers Anniversary Edition  by Albert Bigelow Paine (1908) 

 


$9.95 each 
BIRDING   .   PLACES
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  • Birds of a Feather : Tales of a Wild Bird Haven 
  • Gibson's Guide to Bird Watching & Conservation


                 $19.95

AT SEA / NAUTICAL 
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  • Bluenose: The Ocean Knows Her Name 
 

             $21.95
HISTORY, MYSTERY & FOLKLORE
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  • December 1917 : Re-Visiting the Halifax Explosion
  • Haunted Harbours : Ghost Stories from Old Nova Scotia
  • 59 Stories
  • History With a Twist
  • More History With a Twist
  • Bold Privateers
  • The Oak Island Affair 
  • Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure
  • The Cove Runners - A Prohibition Story 
  • Maritime Mysteries
  • More Maritime Mysteries
   
         $14.95                         $21.95
YOUNG READERS
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  • Theodore Too and the Shipwreck School
  • Theodore Too and the Too Long Nap
  • Dreams - A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom & Wishes 
  • Atlantic Puffin
  • One Wish
  • Where I Live
  • Anne of Green Gables (8 Volume Set) 
  • Skunks for Breakfast
  • Buddy the Bluenose Reindeer and the Boston Tree Adventure
   
         $8.95                          $8.95

Pictured here are members of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, Hank Falk, Everett Cromwell, Deborah Hill, Elizabeth Cromwell, Richard Gallion and Barb Falk accepting books from The Whirligig's
Sponsor-a-Book project.  Up to the end of May '07 over 80 titles, totaling $2,500, have been donated to the Society for their reference library.  Appreciation is expressed to our customers who have supported this project. 

Betty & Bill 
The Whirligig Book Shop 


POPULAR LOCAL INTERESTS

The Town of Shelburne Nova Scotia                                          
1907 The Year of Incorporation...people, places, events...
 
by Eleanor Robertson Smith

On Wednesday, July 22, 1783, Governor Parr changed the name of the newly formed settlement of Port Roseway to
Shelburne. From that day forth it was known as the Town of Shelburne. Although some historians refer to an earlier mayor, it was not until April 4, 1907 that the Town of Shelburne was incorporated. This publication provides information on events that occurred in the year of incorporation in the Town of Shelburne. 


$15.00 - PAPERBACK 

 


Tale of Two Rivers 
Sable River Stories and Tom Tigney Tales
by Friends of Sable River 

This publication provides the reader with valuable information and stories covering the first settlers to businesses that operated in the area and everything in between. Includes stories about life in the 1930s, life in the woods logging, shipbuilding, working for the area’s carding mill, music in the community, schools, rural homes, the history of the swinging bridge, road building, businesses in the community and much more. Accompanied by a CD filled with photographs. 

$20.00 - SPIRAL-BOUND 

 


Nova Scotia Atlas 

This sixth edition of the Nova Scotia Atlas provides in-depth coverage of the entire province unavailable anywhere else. The maps include numbered and colour-coded highways with exit numbers, hiking trails and national parks. There are details such as power lines, ferry routes, hospitals and communication towers. Airports, helipads and landing strips are mapped. Also included are all provincial parks (campgrounds, picnic sites, boat launches), with a text description of each. The maps clearly show physical features, including rivers, lakes, hills, islands, marshes and beaches.


$29.95 - SPIRAL-BOUND


Historic Shelburne
Sarah Acker & Lewis Jackson

Perhaps the most picturesque town in Nova Scotia, and certainly one of the oldest, this is a peek back to the late 19th century and forward to the mid 20th.Drawing from a rich source of images and collective knowledge from town elders, historians and researchers, Historic Shelburne chronicles the many lives the community has lived since the first Loyalists arrived.  Impressive heritage and wonderful old photos will make this a keepsake.


$21.95- PAPERBACK


King's Bounty : A History of Early Shelburne, Nova Scotia
 Marion Robertson

A history of early Shelburne, Nova Scotia. This detailed history shows the reader the Loyalist life in Shelburne in May of 1783. Their early differences, the structure of their society, their religion and commerce are closely examined along with the reasons for the decline of the settlement. 


$16.95 -  PAPERBACK
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Trafficking in Sheep : From Off-Broadway, New York to Blue Island, Nova Scotia
Ann Barclay Priest 

A working actress and divorced mother of two young boys takes off for the summer to the coast of Nova Scotia. She falls in love with the place; buys a house; ultimately buys an island because it is the view from her house and because she wants to save it from development. With the help of none other than the real-life assistant to the legendary vet James Herriot, she finds herself the owner of a flock of quasi-wild sheep on Blue Island, Nova Scotia.


$26.00 - HARDCOVER


Lighthouse Legacies
Chris Mills

Imagine living your life perched on a tiny island, without electricity, exposed to the fury of the sea, and always at the service of the mariner. This is how lightkeepers and their families spent their lives, even up until the 1960s. Lighthouse Legacies lets us share in the memories of those who kept the lights. Each chapter deals with an element of lighthouse life and is complemented by photos from lighthouse family collections, the Coast Guard and Mills’ own collection.


$24.95 - PAPERBACK


Nova Scotia Birds
Jeffrey C. Domm

This book introduces 200 of the top species found all around the province, at the seashore, in the Cape Breton Highlands, the city parks and around the thousands of pristine lakes in the province. Whether observing spectacular hawks or eagles in the wild or seabirds over the ocean, listening for warblers in the forest, or the first spring birds at the feeder, this guide is designed to allow for quick and easy identification. Original full-colour illustrations by Jeffrey Domm. Text and graphic keys give helpful tips for observing. The birding hotspot section (with an accompanying map) shows 46 locations across the province where good birdwatching is assured.


$24.95 - PAPERBACK


A Camera on the Banks: Frederick William Wallace and the Fishermen of Nova Scotia
M. Brook Taylor

Between 1911 and 1917, Frederick William Wallace made seven voyages to the Grand Banks off Nova Scotia on wooden fishing schooners. Taking along a simple box camera, the young Montreal journalist photographed the sailing ships, the men, and their heroic work, recording a century-old way of life at the moment of its passing. A Camera on the Banks tells this story in more than a hundred of Wallace’s beautiful and thrilling photographs. On his voyages, Wallace was no tourist; he laboured alongside the fishermen, and they took his picture just as he took theirs. This respect for his subjects continued throughout his career.


$24.95 - PAPERBACK


Towns of Nova Scotia 
Richard Rogers 

Towns of Nova Scotia examines each of the province’s towns and ranks them on the basis of various ‘livability’ criteria. See how each town ranks, and what makes Nova Scotia’s towns some of the most charming, progressive and interesting towns in the country — proving Nova Scotia is a very attractive province. The towns are ranked and appear in order of their scores in 14 diverse categories. Some of these include number of children; climate for gardening; university attainment; family income; affordable housing; employment rate and multicultural population. 

$24.95  PAPERBACK                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                

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