Ron Caplan – lisa·čÂíĐă Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa·čÂíĐă Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:32:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Local Hero /store/local-hero.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=local-hero Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:43 +0000 /store/local-hero.html/local-hero This superb collection introduces Carmel Mikol and Hector MacNeil and Sue McKay Miller within a solid blend of noted writers including Carol Bruneau, Clive Doucet and Maureen Hull. From country life to city, on Cape Breton Island and away, here are Tim Vassallo and Leacock Award winner Bill Conall, Teresa O’Brien, Ellison Robertson and the comic genius of Julie Curwin and Larry Gibbons. Victor Sakalauskas and Dave Doucette portray children in harrowing, breathtaking circumstances, and the realism of D.C. Troicuk, Joyce Rankin, Ruth Schneider, David Muise, and Jigs Gardner deliver exquisite stories from life. Poignant, comic, powerful and heart-wrenching, Local Hero is marvelous evidence of Cape Breton’s place inlasting Canadian literature.

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]]> 55176 Cape Breton’s Christmas, Book 2 /store/cape-bretons-christmas-book-2.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cape-bretons-christmas-book-2 Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:37 +0000 /store/cape-bretons-christmas-book-two.html/cape-bretons-christmas-book-two On the heels of the best-selling Book One, Cape Breton’s Christmas — Book Two is a rich collection of stories and memories from nearly fifty Cape Bretoners, including Clive Doucet, Jess Bond and Sheldon Currie. From a Christmas tree in the coal mine to Christmas on the battlefield, from joyous memories to reminders that break the heart, celebrations in Cape Breton and far from home — Cape Breton’s Christmas—Book Two is a gift of the season’s renewal and the island’s generosity and strength.

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]]> 55172 Cape Bretoners in the First World War /store/cape-bretoners-in-the-first-world-war.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cape-bretoners-in-the-first-world-war Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:34 +0000 /store/cape-bretoners-in-the-first-world-war.html/cape-bretoners-in-the-first-world-war IN THEIR OWN WORDS, rare conversations with survivors of World War One are the heart of these stories, letters, and vivid news accounts of Cape Breton’s participation. From enlistment and training to trench warfare, an intimate account from soldiers and nurses who dared to serve. Much more than Cape Breton, it speaks for Canada’s Great War soldiers — their patriotism and desire for adventure, victories and tragedies, and their scars — beautifully shared in this remarkable compilation.

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]]> 55170 Cape Breton Book of the Night (Expanded Edition) /store/cape-breton-book-of-the-night-expanded-edition.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cape-breton-book-of-the-night-expanded-edition Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:25 +0000 /store/cape-breton-book-of-the-night-expanded-edition.html/cape-breton-book-of-the-night-expanded-edition THE EXPANDED EDITION from over 25 years of Cape Breton's Magazine. This book offers a tough, caring presentation of extraordinary experience.

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]]> 53434 God’s Country /store/gods-country.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gods-country Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:22 +0000 /store/gods-country.html/gods-country Cape Breton Island continues to earn its place at the table of Canadian literature. God’s Country offers an essential collection of classic stories that helped build that award-winning reputation, as well as several rare and harder-to-find stories that maintain the growing respect while pointing toward future literary achievements. This is a lasting book that works for both bedside reading and the high school and university classroom. In God’s Country you’ll find stories by Alistair MacLeod, Joan Clark, Lynn Coady, D.R. MacDonald, Silver Donald Cameron, D.C. Troicuk, Sheldon Currie and many more — gathered under one rich and attractive roof. And these classic writers are only some of the authors this new volume has to share.

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]]> 55160 Magnificent Obsessions /store/magnificent-obsessions.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnificent-obsessions Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:07:49 +0000 /store/magnificent-obsessions-2 14 provocative chapters by writers who go a little further out, a little deeper, and bring back treasures for the rest of us. Each chapter stands on its own and each on is part of the portrait of Cape Breton Island. Magnificent Obsessions is essential and utterly enjoyable bedside reader.

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]]> 83489 Cape Breton’s Lillian Crewe Walsh /store/cape-bretons-lillian-crewe-walsh.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cape-bretons-lillian-crewe-walsh Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:07:23 +0000 /store/cape-bretons-lillian-crewe-walsh.html/cape-bretons-lillian-crewe-walsh Ghost of Bras d’Or, Kelly’s Mountain, The Wreck of the John Harvey or The Brave Belleoram Boy, The Lady of the Loom, Susan Emma Pynn, Cape Breton’s Winter Port, and 42 more.

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]]> 53417 Views from the Steel Plant /store/views-from-the-steel-plant.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=views-from-the-steel-plant Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:07:17 +0000 /store/views-from-the-steel-plant.html/views-from-the-steel-plant Jimmy Hines is just one of the many voices that tell stories of Cape Breton's 100-year adventure in Steel. Told with passion and conviction, Views from the Steel Plant is a proud, vigorous collection of memories of steel plant life. Along with historic photographs, here are stories of racism, bigotry and brotherhood-women who did the dirtiest work, keeping the plant alive while the men were at war-the fight for union and the community protest to save the embattled plant. Steelworkers talk about the skill and courage, about hard work in a hot, threatening and very productive twentieth century industry.

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]]> 54239 As True As I’m Sittin Here /store/as-true-as-im-sittin-here.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=as-true-as-im-sittin-here Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:06:47 +0000 /store/as-true-as-im-sittin-here.html/as-true-as-im-sittin-here The wit and good humour—ghost tales-comebacks and outrageous happenings—over 200 Cape Breton stories by 34 storytellers, collected by Archie Neil Chilsholm.

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]]> 53396 Cape Breton’s Christmas /store/cape-bretons-christmas.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cape-bretons-christmas Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:37:10 +0000 /store/cape-bretons-christmas.html/cape-bretons-christmas FROM THE HEART OF CAPE BRETON, Christmas radiates through stories by Beatrice MacNeil, Hugh MacLennan, Tessie Gillis, Paul MacDougall, Marie Battiste, Wanda Robson, Rita Joe, Ellison Robertson, and many more. From the Christmas tree in the coal mines to a community roasting turkeys at Bernie’s Bakery; from Christmas wrecked to Christmas saved, and Christmas far from home. Cape Breton’s Christmas is a family keeper  — for anyone who loves wit, celebration and the generosity of Maritimes life.

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