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mnemonic is a book of precisely worded and carefully phrased poems that carry the reader on a journey through the soundscapes of the author's home terrain-rural New Brunswick. Jane Tims, botanist, land use planner, and environmental conservationist, employs her keen observation and well-honed writing skills to portray the sounds that populate meadow and forest, emerge along lakes and rivers, and typically occur in domestic terrains. Birdsong commands primary attention and flows like a canopy across each section of this book. Jane shares her drawings of birds, which add the image of form to the aura of music. An orchestra of other surrounding sounds prompt the author's poetic rendering, revealing a world chock-full of interesting information for those alert to its resonance. mnemonic offers a doorway in which to first stand, and then engage a journey from poem to poem into the author's immersive experience of the great world's soundscapes and birdsong.

"Gnome is alive! He has sent us a sign!"With this exclamation, Anglebert, King of the Johnville Faeries, sets the stage at the end of Book One for the continuing adventure of The Faery Chronicles: Book Two: Rescuing Gnome is a fast paced account of how a team of Johnville Faeries and the Woman from the Big House on The Farm take off for the Isle of Lewis where they meet up with two Leprechauns sent to assist them in their quest. The Standing Stones of Callanish speak and transformations occur. The Destructive Forces lurk and then strike.Ann Brennan has crafted Book Two of The Faery Chronicles in a way that takes the reader into the heart of the human failure that has befallen the Earth. The realm of ancient myth and the role of the Druid intersect. The realm of Faery dares a specific immersion in the Human world. The fulfillment of the promise that a lost unity can be regained is on the horizon.With her usual attunement to the unfolding story, the author has made Rescuing Gnome the dramatic middle step in The Faery Chronicles Trilogy.

When you take the Howland Ridge Road northeast out of Millville, New Brunswick and come to the place where the snowplough turns around, a narrow track plunges on into the deep woods of the Keswick River watershed. Howland Ridge commands a grand view of sparkling lakes, small rivers, forested valleys, and low mountains.This is the setting for Chris in Canada. This is where Noel Polchis, an Indigenous hunter, introduces Chris, newly arrived from England, to a way of life on the land beyond the farm. Chris has come with his family to settle on the last farm on Howland Ridge Road, but it is the attraction of adventures with Noel in the great woods of centralNew Brunswick that catches his imagination.George Frederick Clarke published Chris in Canada in 1925.It remained in print for over twenty-five years. The success of this book turned Clarke's writing in a new direction. He went on to create a series of well-received books about New Brunswick and became one of the province's best-loved authors. Chris in the Wilderness, a sequel to Chris in Canada, will bepublished in 2022.

Bright with Invisible History gathers a selection of poetry, short stories, journal entries, book reviews, and other prose by a remarkable man. William Bauer's writings are full of affection for the puzzling and often humorous behaviour of human beings. He catches both the strangeness and the pathos of our lives. Memorable voices and characters, along with lyrical reflections and autobiographical musings, flow from Bauer's imagination. His language ranges from the playfulness and rich diction of 18th-century British prose-writers (his teaching specialty) to the vernacular spark of 20th-century Maritime and New England speech. He had a special skill for using humour to explore life's questions and quandaries. Suspicious of high seriousness, Bauer wrote some of the zestiest poetry and fiction of his time. With the publication of Bright with Invisible History we now have the full range of William Bauer's storytelling, inventiveness, and original mind brought together in the pages of one book.

In this new book for children The Old Storyteller comes hiking down the Wolastoq Valley on his annual tour through New Brunswick. Sometimes his stories are about the past, but sometimes they seem to be about the future. His new story is about a boy named Peter who loves to make animal carvings and has the good fortune to become the apprentice of a Master Woodcarver. When Peter grows up to also become a Master Woodcarver, he has an extraordinary experience with a bear who comes calling with a request. Find out what happens to Peter in The Woodcarver and the Bears. Now available and beautifully illustrated with full colour linocut prints by artist John Cooper.

The Faery Chronicles Book One: Anglebert Crosses the Great Water is a fast-paced adventure novel about an Irish Faery who, on impulse, but with a sense of destiny, travels with a Human visitor to her Farm and Forest home in New Brunswick. Much to Anglebert's surprise, he has been expected. He discovers the Elders have chosen him to help bring about a new union of the Faery and Human worlds meant to protect and restore the Earth. But Destructive Forces are dead-set against this union and are on the move to prevent it. Therein begins a tale of cooperation, unlikely heroism, and a fierce battle, with the restoration of Earth's healing energy hanging in the balance.

Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland's "narrative poem seeks to align literary studies, ecology, and paleontology to explore relationships between facts and artefacts, between faithfully narrating the past and thoughtfully influencing the future." The setting is the Joggins Fossil Cliffs: a paleontological treasure on the Bay of Fundy in Atlantic Canada. The author deftly weaves the elements of "witness, wisdom, and warning" into her poetry to create a conduit that gives voice to the Earth and its history - sounding deep alarm at the consequences of ignoring the ever-increasing and dire cries of our planet.

The unusual thing about in the shelter of the covered bridge is the unity of focus the poet-artist-biologist has achieved with this book. While each element of the book has its own narrative stance, the poems, the drawings, and the natural history notes come together in a way that has an appealing and satisfying unity for ear, eye, and mind.Jane is not a poet who puts all her aesthetic eggs in one basket. She moves easily between modes of expression. She is a connoisseur of land and life, an emissary for the intertwining stories of natural history and human culture.Readers attracted by the poems and drawings pick up a good deal of natural and cultural history as well. Readers attracted to the natural and cultural history have their knowledge graced with the sounds of wind and water, and with the images of plants and animals that live "in the shelter of the covered bridge."With her poetic, artistic, and research skills steering the ship, Jane is now sailing out once again into the geographic by-ways and cultural history of the province. She has a similar book project under way on the environments and cultural settings of one-room schoolhouses.I have no doubt she will offer up another voyage for ear, eye, and mind, and that we will again be culturally enriched by her inspiration and good efforts.