2012 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist
Created by 49thShelf on March 24, 2012
Day With You In Paradise, A
This beautiful picture book depicts a family's fun-filled day at a Prince Edward Island beach. Racing past dunes, building sand castles, and singing songs by a bonfire at night, the family revels in the peaceful beauty of an Island beach. Lennie Gallant's lyrical description of a PEI summer day is matched perfectly with Patsy MacKinnon's sun-soaked …
The Lightning Field
Set against the backdrop of Cold War Toronto, The Lightning Field follows the lives of Peter and Lucy Jacobs from their post-war courtship through marriage and child-rearing in the suburbs. Though spanning four decades, the book pivots on the events of a single day: October 4, 1957. On this day, the Russians launch Sputnik into orbit, the Avro Arro …
The Town That Drowned
Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to the assembled crowd solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful day was her entire town — buildi …
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Winner of the Lane Anderson Award for Best Science Writing, the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Award for Non-Fiction, and the Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction.
An authoritative and fascinating exploration of the natural history of the east coast of North America.
The North Atlantic coast of North America — commonly known as the Atlantic Coast — …
Double Talk
Double Talk tells the story of Violet Budd and Brian (Baby) Power, two characters fleeingfrom their past. Brian is ambling after an immigrant’s dream, and Violet is desperate to ditchher middle class origins for something more earthy and bohemian. Their contrary social andgeographical flight paths intersect in St. John’s, Newfoundland in the ea …
Imaginary Line
Once, a single francophone settlement shared both sides of the Saint John River, until a political trade-off between countries split it down the middle. From that inauspicious start, the Maine-New Brunswick border, the first boundary to be drawn between the two nations, has served as a microcosm for Canada-U.S. relations. For centuries, friends, lo …
