Searching for gripping tales from days past, contemporary takes on our world, insightful comment on local and global issues, evocative prose and poetry? Look no further. Nova Scotia has produced some incredibly talented writers and most of their work is available at South Shore Public Libraries branches. Here are some titles to put on your next reading list.

A Sense of Place

• The Birth House by Ami MacKay
• Glass Voices by Carol Bruneau
• Heave by Christy Ann Conlin
• Lauchlin of the Bad Heart by D.R. MacDonald
• Mean Boy by Lynn Coady
• No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
• Sea of Tranquility by Lesley Choyce
• Twenty-Six by Leo McKay
• Where White Horses Gallop by Beatrice MacNeil

Contemporary

• Barrington Street Blues by Anne Emery
• Evidence by Ian Colford
• Falling by Anne Simpson
• The Good Neighbour by William Kowalski
• The Murder of Medicine Bear by Susan Haley
• Scotch River by Linda Little
• Shoot Me by Lesley Crewe

Works That Stand the Test of Time

• Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
• The Channel Shore by Charles Bruce
• His Majesty’s Yankees by Thomas Raddall
• The Mountain and the Valley by Ernest Buckler
• Rockbound by Frank Parker Day
• Sam Slick by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• We Keep a Light by Evelyn Richardson
• Will Ye Let the Mummers In? by Alden Nowlan
• Bluenose Ghosts by Helen Creighton

Ideas to Consider

• The DEW Line Years: Voices from the Coldest Cold War by Frances Jewel Dickson
• Dangerous World: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival by Marc de Villiers
• Dust From Our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa by Joan Baxter
• The Living Beach by Silver Donald Cameron
• Loyalists and Layabouts: the Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792 by Stephen Kimber
• Medicine Walk: Reconnecting to Mother Earth by Laurie Lacey
• A Place Between the Tides: a Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh by Harry Thurston
• Rags to Riches: The Quilt as Art by Laurie Swim

Poets

• Combustion by Lori Neilsen Glenn
• The Door of My Heart by Maxine Tynes
• Execution: Poems by George Elliott Clarke
• Late in a Slow Time by Carole Glasser Langille
• The New Blue Distance by Jeanette Lynes
• Simple Master by Alice Burdick
• Six Mats and One Year by Alison Smith
• Undone by Sue Goyette

For Young (and Young at Heart) Readers

• Alexander’s Sky Blue Eggs by Marjorie Speed
• How to Outplay a Bully by Nancy Wilcox Richards
• Lightning and Blackberries by Joanne Jefferson
• The Little Toy Shop by Frances Wolfe
• Out of Bounds by Sylvia Gunnery
• Patricia’s Secret by Budge Wilson
• Pirate’s Passage by William Gilkerson
• Pit Pony by Joyce Barkhouse