Moose House Publications
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The View From Here: South Shore Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFor over thirty years, Vernon Oickle penned a weekly column for newspapers serving his home town of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. His essays became anticipated weekly visitors to homes all along the South S
- Author: Oickle, Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1998149870
- Language: English
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The Non-Therapist: How to help as if you were a pro
$30.99 Read more- Are you an ordinary person whom other people come to because they know you will listen?
- Are you a pro in your own field, you were trained ages ago, or your main gig is not counseling, yet you find your
- Author: Tompkins, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: November 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1998149684
- Language: English
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The Great Lunenburglary
$14.99 Add to cartIn 1922 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, two friends with dreams of breaking the mould of Maritime music find themselves entangled in the most daring heist in Nova Scotian history. This rollicking farce com
- Author: Pottie, Bryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1998149730
- Language: English
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Nine Crows for a Kiss
$19.99 Add to cartIt starts with a blizzard and an abandoned car. The police cannot find the driver. As revellers gather for Cliff and Julie Graham’s annual New Year’s Eve party, each guest brings their own crises and
- Series: Crows #9
- Author: Oickle, Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1998149811
- Language: English
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Footprints in the Snow
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1896, in Digby, Nova Scotia, someone brutally murdered Annie Kempton, a young woman. Suspicion quickly focussed on Peter Wheeler, who claimed to have been the first to find the body. Local opinion,
- Author: Duke, Laura Churchill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: September 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1998149501
- Language: English
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Eight Crows for a Wish
$20.99 Add to cartA man washes up on a shore he does not recognize. He does not know who he is and, worse, when he is. But it becomes clear that a force has brought him here for a purpose. He has a role in a conflict g
- Series: Crows #8
- Author: Oickle, Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: April 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1998149374
- Language: English
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Outsider
$19.99 Add to cartJeremy Akerman’s no-holds-barred memoir, running from his childhood in Wales to archaeological digs in Cape Breton, into and out of the political arena, and through his career as an actor, offers a lo
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1990187315
- Language: English
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We Have a Child for You: Fostering in rural Nova Scotia
$13.99 Add to cartThey talked it over, took the training course, equipped the spare bedrooms, and thought they were all ready to be foster parents. The reality, in its joys and challenges, was far beyond what Kathleen
- Author: Foster-Alfred, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1990187781
- Language: English
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Enslavers of the Maritimes
$16.99 Add to cartA painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many
- Author: Thompson, Brenda J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1998149269
- Language: English
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What Have You Done for Me Lately?: a politician explains
$10.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Jeremy Akerman, then the leader of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia and a member of the legislature, painted a word picture of the politician’s life. From getting elected to staying el
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1990187293
- Language: English
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Rooted in Deception
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1905 an energetic man with grand plans arrives in Nova Scotia. He has a wonderful way with words, and entrancing stories.
But it turns out there is more than one story to him, and not all his plans
- Author: Duke, Laura Churchill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: November 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1990187471
- Language: English
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The Premier’s Daughter
$15.99 Add to cartTom Aldridge, a rising politician in Nova Scotia, is used to juggling many tasks and bringing order out of chaos. He is as adept at steering government policy as he is at directing plays. But an unexp
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1990187765
- Language: English
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The Affair at Lime Hill
$15.99 Add to cartCalled home to Cape Breton by a family crisis, a Toronto policewoman finds herself drawn back into familiar complexities of local relationships, the possibility of romance, and a mystery or two. The s
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1990187749
- Language: English
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In Search of Dr. Dee
$16.99 Add to cartA movie actor gets a chance at a remarkable part, that of the 16th-century Doctor Dee, philosopher, alchemist, speaker to angels, and intimate of Queen Elizabeth I. He sets out in search of a connecti
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1990187943
- Language: English
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Black Around the Eyes
$13.99 Add to cartDiamond Donnie Ross is at the centre of this remarkable story of a coal-mining community in Cape Breton in the 1920s. Black Around the Eyes evokes the men and women, the joys and grief, the stark beau
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1990187366
- Language: English
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Explosion
$12.99 Add to cartIn December, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia suffered the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb when two ships, one loaded to the gunwales with munitions, collided in Halifax Harbour. Jeremy
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1998149161
- Language: English
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The Wish Doctor
$19.99 Add to cartWhat if wishes you made turned out wrong, and you didn’t even know it? What if one of those bad wishes is about to ruin your life? Well then, you better make an appointment with the Wish Doctor.
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- Author: Shupe, Mark E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1998149234
- Language: English
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The Light of Day
$19.99 Add to cart“The phone call from Art was the cut; the ticket, the scab; and the train ride, the healing.”
Maggie struggles to find herself, and her place in her family, in 1950s Cape Breton. She has to travel a lo… [more below]
- Author: Christie-Maceachern, Trena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 199018782X
- Language: English
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Seven Crows a Secret Yet To Be Told
$19.99 Add to cartThe seventh book in Vernon Oickle’s acclaimed Crows series!
When the crows flock to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, murder and mayhem follow. It is has been this way for 200 years, and the Goodwin family has a
- Series: Crows #7
- Author: Oickle, Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 199814920X
- Language: English
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Nodding’s People
$14.99 Add to cartIt all starts with an accident on an icy road in northern Nova Scotia. Then things get sort of strange. At turns comic, romantic, and wild, Nodding’s People takes you into a complexity of fascinating
- Author: Weeks, James O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1990187714
- Language: English
