2014 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlists
The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased to announce the full shortlist for the ten different book prizes comprising the 2014 Atlantic Book Awards. The twenty-seven books up for awards represent the wide range of literary works being produced in Atlantic Canada—from cutting edge fiction to deeply researched books on Atlantic Canadian history, illustrated children’s picture books to novels written for teens and young adults. The full shortlist is printed below and is available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca.
Nix Minus One
Ni'n na L'nu The Mi'kmaq of Prince Edward Island
Black Loyalists
Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities
Merry Hell
The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
The August Gales
The Tragic Loss of Fishing Schooners in the North Atlantic 1926 and 1927
Blood on a Saint
A Mystery
Lasso the Wind
Aurelia's Verses and other Poems
Tailings of Warren Peace
Ghost Boy of MacKenzie House
Lionel F. Stevenson Fifty Years of Photographs
Fifty Years of Photographs (1962-2012)
The Power of Harmony
A Novel
Bluenose Adventure
Jeremiah Bancroft at Fort Beauséjour and Grand-Pré
The Ballad of Jacob Peck
Fallsy Downsies
Turn Us Again
Riptides
New Island Fiction
The Stowaways
Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Special edition)
Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick
A defining conflict for Canada's political culture
Waldenstein
Singily Skipping Along
- Scapegoat
the extraordinary legal proceedings following the 1917 Halifax Explosion