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Nova Scotia produces a remarkable amount of writing and art for its size. A look at the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, independent bookstores worth knowing across the province, and how to help fund the illustrations for FoxIsland Press's own Eco Series.

A reading is not a lecture. It is closer to a conversation that happens to have a book open on the table. A look at what a Stephen Franks reading is like, a recent stop in Sydney, and how to bring one to your own book club, library, or community group.

There is a particular phone call that changes things. A look at four novels about coming home to care for an aging parent, and where The Pull, FoxIsland Press's closing novel in the Rise Again series, belongs among them.

Every small East Coast town has the same story running underneath it: someone leaves for work. Four novels about leaving, and a look at The Push, FoxIsland Press's own novel of Cape Breton out-migration.

There is a particular kind of searching that happens after a loss, not for advice exactly, but for company. A look at five well-known novels about grief, and where FoxIsland Press's own The Conversation belongs on that shelf.