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Jun 10, 2024 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Marjorie Simmins
From Atlantic Books Today 99, spring 2024Vernon Oickle is one of those writers who have a nose for bestselling books.
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May 29, 2024 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Marie-Claude Hebert
By Marie-Claude HebertI had worked with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery for years when The Frame-Up by Wendy McLeod MacKnight was released. I read it and was charmed by the story of a boy discovering that the paintings are alive in the iconic New Brunswick gallery. The gallery had created a guided tour based on the book’s characters: the subjects of the paintings themselves, which I also got to translate.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Shannon Webb-Campbell |Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille
Review of Elder Calvin White’s One Man’s Journey from ABT #98 fall 2023By Shannon Webb-CampbellReading Elder Calvin White’s One Man’s Journey: The Mi’kmaw Revival in Ktaqmkuk is a homecoming. White’s journey begins in Epwikek/Flat Bay, which is a Mi’kmaq community on the coast of southwestern Newfoundland, where he first learned how to hunt, fish, and gather. White shares stories of his mentors, and the Mi’kmaq families he grew up with on the land.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Chris Benjamin
From Atlantic Books Today #97 spring 2023There are two similar scenes in Leo McKay Jr’s novel, What Comes Echoing Back — one in a school and one in a hospital — that echo one another without redundancy. They are my favourite scenes in the book, and serve multiple purposes of fundamental importance to the reading experience.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Molly Rookwood
As Matthew R. Anderson suggests in the subtitle of Prophets of Love: The Unlikely Kinship of Leonard Cohen and the Apostle Paul, the idea of a kinship between Leonard Cohen, raunchy Jewish poet, and the apostle Paul, follower of Jesus, seemed unlikely to me indeed. I began reading the book as an expert on neither man but knowing — as a Jewish woman in Canada in 2023 — significantly more about one than the other, and I was intrigued to see what Anderson would argue in this slim, colourful book.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Erica Butler
In 1960, when the U.S. Navy sent Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on the world’s first extreme deep dive — nearly 11 kilometres underwater into the Marianas Trench — they chose their precise dive location by spending days patrolling the area, dropping sticks of dynamite into the ocean, and measuring the number of seconds each blast took to echo back from the deep.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Ryan Van Horne
Non-fiction By Ryan Van Horne Publish date: November 20, 2023 Author Janice Middleton offers up new suspects for 2011 killing in New BrunswickIn her book Who Killed Richard Oland? A real-life murder mystery, author Janice Middleton starts with a vivid “reconstruction” of the murder. Spoiler alert: Dennis Oland, Richard’s son who was acquitted in July 2019 of second-degree murder in a second trial, is not the perpetrator in this scenario. Far from it.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Abena Green
Nova Scotia’s Francene Cosman reflects back on her first careerFrom Atlantic Books Today, spring 2023, issue 97. Concerned that she might run out of time to record an important era in her life and in the nursing profession, Francene Cosman “put [herself] back into discipline mode” and penned Nurse! Penned it. Literally. “I don’t write creatively on a computer. I write it all longhand and then I dictate it back by reading it.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Andre Fenton |André A. Fenton
The ABCs of North Preston is a heartfelt book written by the students of Nelson Whynder Elementary School, and published by the Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute. This is a captivating exploration of history told through the lens of youth who choose to celebrate their home, which happens to be Canada’s oldest Black community. North Preston has hundreds of years of history.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Sydney Walsh
When four-year-old Ruthie’s Mi’kmaw family goes to Maine for their annual blueberry picking job, she mysteriously disappears. Despite weeks of desperate searching, her family is forced to return home to Nova Scotia, leaving behind their cherished memories of Ruthie. This story follows her six-year-old brother Joe, who deeply struggles with this loss, and the guilt of being the last person to see her.
