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In 1977, Jeremy Akerman, then the leader of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia and a member of the legislature, painted a word picture of the politician's life. From getting elected to staying elected, from working the in the legislature to helping constituents to trying to find time for family and home life, Akerman spun a funny and heartbreaking tale what it is like to serve in elected office. What Have You Done for Me Lately? has been out of print for far too long, and Moose House is delighted to make it available to a new generation of readers. In a new foreword to this edition, the author brings us up to date on what has changed over the past 46 years...and what has not.

Diamond Donnie Ross is at the centre of this remarkable story of a coal-mining community in Cape Breton in the 1920s. Black Around the Eyes evokes the men and women, the joys and grief, the stark beauty and harsh struggles of that time and place.This moving, searing novel, at times hilarious and at others heart-rending, has been out of print for far too long. Moose House is proud to make it available again, in a revised edition which corrects some errors in the original and includes a new foreword by the author.Jeremy Akerman's memoir, Outsider, includes a revealing passage about the writing of Black Around the Eyes. It is also available from Moose House Publications.

Called home to Cape Breton by a family crisis, a Toronto policewoman finds herself drawn back into familiar complexities of local relationships, the possibility of romance, and a mystery or two. The story unfolds against the rich canvas of the people, land, and sea that make Cape Breton unique.

A movie actor gets a chance at a remarkable part, that of the 16th-century Doctor Dee, philosopher, alchemist, speaker to angels, and intimate of Queen Elizabeth I. He sets out in search of a connection to the good doctor. In his own time, the real Doctor Dee is on a different, and darker journey.

In December, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia suffered the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb when two ships, one loaded to the gunwales with munitions, collided in Halifax Harbour. Jeremy Akerman's novel sets the scene through the eyes of admirals and lovers, harbour pilots and telegraphers, those who fought to avert the disaster and those who had no idea what was about to happen to them.

In the fourth Marc LeBlanc mystery, Marc agrees to look into a case that the police have put down to accidental death. His investigation is interrupted by a trip to Wales and Scotland, the results of which help him in the case in an unexpected way. He begins to suspect that more than one death may be involved.