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About The Whirligig...
For fifteen years, the The Whirligig Book Shop,
has been one of the mainstays of Shelburne life and has become one of the
most popular bookstores in Atlantic Canada.
The shop is also a main social centre in Shelburne,
operating as ticket box office for the Osprey Arts Centre and many other
artistic events around this community - bringing buzz and excitement to
their daily activities.
The Whirligig is in the
center of the Historic District of Shelburne. A good gathering place, much
conversation, discussion and debate take place. Many
acquaintances have been made and renewed, particularly with summer residents
and visitors, who arrive either by automobile or by boat.
The hundreds of entries in the “Guest Book”
over the years are proof that this little shop is a place that matters in
people’s lives. Owners Bernie Brown and David Hill welcome
you to come and visit the next time you visit Shelburne!
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David and Bernie at the Book Shop
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WHAT'S NEW...
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Island Year: Finding Nova Scotia
Greg Brown
As
they neared retirement, Greg Brown and his wife Anne gave up their life
in the U.S. to settle on a windswept Nova Scotia island inhabited by
wild sheep and deer, where harbour seals sing in the fog and an old
lighthouse still keeps watch over the North Atlantic. Island Year:
Finding Nova Scotia tells the story of the surprises, challenges and
discoveries of their first year alone on an island as they restored an
old fisherman’s house, explored the island, and began to learn how to
live a Nova Scotia way of life. This is a story for anyone who dreams of
exchanging a fast-paced, high-tech life for something slower and just
maybe more meaningful. This is a story about the night sky and the dawn
chorus, lobsters and wild raspberries, a famous pirate, the kindness of
others, and getting in touch with yourself again. Funny and inspiring,
this book redefines what a rich life can mean. (from publisher's
website)
$19.95 TRADE PAPERBACK
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Loyalists and
Layabouts
Stephen Kimber
"This extraordinary and yet
little-told episode from our nation's past is brought to
exciting life by award-winning journalist Stephen Kimber. Combining
painstaking research and a novelistic flair for narrative, he charts
Shelburne's "rapid rise and faster fall" through the
intertwined experiences of an eclectic collection of it's earlier
settlers, from aristocrats to freed slaves, colonial officials to
local entrepreneurs." (from book jacket)
$22.95 TRADE PAPERBACK
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The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill
"This remarkable novel transports
the reader from an African village to a plantation in the southern
United States, from a soured refuge in Nova Scotia to the coast of
Sierra Leone, in a back-to-Africa odyssey of 1,200 former
slaves. The Book of Negroes introduces one of the
strongest female characters in recent fiction, a woman who cuts a
swath through a world hostile to her colour and her sex."
(from book jacket)
Lawrence Hill is the author of several
novels and works of non-fiction, including Black Berry,
Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada; Any Known Blood; and
Some Great Thing. Lawrence Hill lives in Burlington,
Ontario.
$24.95 TRADE PAPERBACK
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From Land and Sea: Nova
Scotia's Contemporary Landscape Artists
Dee Appleby
From Land and Sea presents over 65 of
the province’s contemporary landscape artists and their works. Each
profiled artist appears with a short bio and artist’s statement, along with
examples of his or her art. The artists covered in this book represent a wide
range of styles prevalent in Nova Scotia landscape art today. (from
publisher's website)
$29.95 HARDCOVER
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Shattered City : The Halifax Explosion & the Road
to Recovery
Janet F. Kitz
"In December 1917 Halifax was alive with excitement.
The streets were filled with troops, and the city, far removed from the
bitter fighting in Europe, was reaping all the advantages of war. On the
morning of December 6, however, the bloodshed came to Halifax with a
vengeance when a French munitions ship and a Belgian relief vessel collided
in the harbour.
Jane Kitz's book is the most comprehensive one ever written on the explosion.
It encompasses dozens of previously unpublished stories, photographs and
documents, along with some thought-provoking coverage of the inquiry into the
disaster." ( from back cover)
$19.95 TRADE PAPERBACK
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The Children of Africville
Christine Welldon "The
children of Africville, Nova Scotia, lived in a special community where
everyone knew their neighbours, and all helped and cared for each other. It
was the perfect place for children to play and grow up. The Children of
Africville is the remarkable story of these children during the community's
final years, before it was torn down and its families were relocated. Full of
photographs and stories from Africville people, this book is an important
celebration of Nova Scotia black history, its vibrant community, and the
children who lived there." (from back cover)
$14.95 PAPERBACK
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Black Snow : A Story of Love and Destruction
Jon Tattrie
"Black Snow is a love story set during
the Halifax Explosion. The 1917 disaster was the largest man-made blast the
world had ever known, and it cut Halifax off from the rest of the world for
the darkest thirty-six hours in its history. Rich in fact and shocking
images, the story sets a blistering pace following one man's search through a
ruined city for the love of his life as he confronts the wreckage of his
past." (from back cover)
$19.95 TRADE PAPERBACK
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