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J. Clinton Morrison has a new book available May 31, BOOZE: A Social Account of Prohibition on Prince Edward Island, 1878–1948 (Crescent Isle Publishers).

BOOZE is a 440 page softcover book with foreword, 3 maps, 53 illustrations, 36 sidebars, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index, and a full color glossy cover. Cover design is by P. John Burden.

As author or general editor,

May 2013
101 Things To Do in Points East Coastal Drive

Island East Tourism Group

Visitors spending time in eastern PEI often ask tourism operators and locals for recommendations about their favourite things to see and do in the area. The most common of those suggestions have been compiled in a new book published by the Island East Tourism Group. The book launched at Indigo in Charlottetown on April 1, 2013. You can purchase a copy of 101 Things

May 2013
I Used to Think I’d Make a Good Boy

Carol Little

Author and poet Carol Little shares her difficult childhood and teen years in the latest Fierce Short published by Fierce Ink Press. In her creative non-fiction piece I Used to Think I’d Make a Good Boy, Little talks about the challenges of growing up in a small town when you don’t fit a particular gender mould.

Taunting, bullying and efforts to make her conform plagued Little as she

May 2013
A Gathering of TWiGs

TWiG (The Writers in Group)

Charlottetown’s oldest writer’s group, TWiG (The Writers in Group), is launching its fourth anthology. A Gathering of TWiGs highlights the creative writing of its members, as one would expect. However, this anthology is different from its earlier publications in that it also offers artwork by P. Susan Buchanan and Shirley Limbert, and photography by Paul Vreeland. The book wil

May 2013
It’s an Island Thing: Quips and Witticisms

It’s an Island Thing: Quips and Witticisms

David Weale

Tangle Lane Publishing has announced the publication of a volume of Island sayings by Island author David Weale. The book is called It’s an Island Thing: Quips and Witticisms, and contains a collection of one-liners by Islanders about their home province—some complimentary, some critical, but almost all laced with wit. It is a companion volume to two previous books by the same author called Tee

March 2013
Angora Napkin: Harvest of Revenge

Troy Little

Troy Little’s latest release in the Angora Napkin series, Angora Napkin: Harvest of Revenge, has been recently published by IDW Publishing.

A quiet gig in a desolate Hells Angels bar unexpectedly turns violent. Mallory has been abducted! One by one the girls of Angora Napkin fall prey to the sinister machinations orchestrated by the psychotic uber-nerd known only as Mr. Otaku. What diabolical

March 2013
A Song For Josh

Susan Rodgers

Susan Rodgers, a 2011 Atlantic Writing Awards Finalist, has recently released an online novel called A Song For Josh. Book One of the Drifters series, it’s a contemporary love story set against the backdrop of the heady entertainment world.

Discovered while busking on the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Jessie Wheeler—once a teen runaway from Prince Edward Island—is now a popular singe

March 2013
Beach Mysteries

Anne Hotchkis

Anne Hotchkis has released a new book, Beach Mysteries, published by Author House.

Beach Mysteries is an interactive, interdisciplinary workbook of activities meant to be used as a fun-filled guidebook for the whole family or for students aged nine and up. The joys and mysteries of the intertidal creatures and seaweed are woven into poems inspired by the author’s childhood memories. I

March 2013
Recognizing…Reflecting…Responding…

George Doughart

PEI Women’s Institute is commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Institute on PEI. Monthly celebrations have been set and the next centennial event will be the book launching of WI’s historical recount of the past 100 years on PEI as portrayed through the eyes of author George Doughart.

Doughart recounts the one hundred year history through text and a pictorial journey of WI

February 2013
Restoring our World Soul

Colleen MacDougall

Restoring our World Soul, by Colleen MacDougall, has been recently published by Friesen Press.

Of the book MacDougall says, “I discuss, in depth, four profound movements we can join in now as a global people to make the real and radical change we say we know needs to happen.

“I had inklings of this book before traveling to Africa. But it was one day sitting outside a hut in Zimbabwe t

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