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Every book tells a story, and every small business does too. This season, we’ve paired some of our favourite reads from ...
12/01/2025

Every book tells a story, and every small business does too.

This season, we’ve paired some of our favourite reads from our Holiday Gift Guide with local products made by the hands and hearts of Atlantic creators. Together, they make gifts that feel like home!

Each pairing supports an author, a maker, and an Atlantic story – a chain of creativity that begins right here on the East Coast.

Shop local. Gift stories. Wrap up a little wonder this winter!

Read the full Books From Home for the Holidays gift guide online at atlanticbooks.ca or pick up a copy at your local bookstore!

The Atlantic Books’ Holiday Gift Guide has officially landed – and it’s on shelves from St. John’s to Charlottetown to H...
11/28/2025

The Atlantic Books’ Holiday Gift Guide has officially landed – and it’s on shelves from St. John’s to Charlottetown to Halifax.

This season, step into a local shop that keeps our stories close to home. From cookbooks to kids’ tales, every title in the guide is a piece of Atlantic life worth gifting.

Find your copy at these amazing bookstores across the East Coast.

This year’s winter gift guide, Books From Home for the Holidays, is filled with books that bring the outdoors a little c...
11/26/2025

This year’s winter gift guide, Books From Home for the Holidays, is filled with books that bring the outdoors a little closer. Perfect for hikers, birders, foragers, and anyone who feels most at home under an open sky.

From field guides to photography collections and stories rooted in land and ecology, here is a selection of five Atlantic reads that celebrate the wild beauty of our region.

Discover more Atlantic reads in the full Books From Home for the Holidays gift guide, available now in bookstores and online at atlanticbooks.ca

11/24/2025

In ABT 102, we got a first taste of Baking Queen of the County Fair, a warm, nostalgic new cookbook that celebrates community, creativity, and the comfort of homemade baking.

Today’s lets take a peek inside the pages: buttery pastries, blue-ribbon cakes, and county-fair classics that have been passed down, shared, and perfected over generations.

If you love Atlantic food storytelling, the kind rooted in place, memory, and heart, this cookbook is one you’ll want on your counter all year long.

Find Baking Queen of the County Fair and more fall releases in ABT 102, available in a bookstore near you and online at atlanticbooks.ca.

From cinnamon rolls to community cook-offs, Atlantic kitchens are full of stories worth sharing. Explore three delicious...
11/24/2025

From cinnamon rolls to community cook-offs, Atlantic kitchens are full of stories worth sharing.

Explore three delicious new cookbooks – and the traditions behind them – in the Fall issue of Atlantic Books Today.

Find the newest issue of ABT in a bookstore near you, or read it online at atlanticbooks.ca

11/19/2025

Looking for the perfect gift for the history lover on your list?

This year’s winter gift guide, “Books From Home for the Holidays” is packed with stories that uncover the people, places, and moments that shaped Atlantic Canada, from wartime memories to forgotten trailblazers.

Give a gift that tells a story and support Atlantic authors and publishers while you’re at it!

Explore the full Holiday Gift Guide available at a bookstore near your, or online at atlanticbooks.ca!

This year’s winter gift guide, “Books From Home for the Holidays” is full of stories that bring our past to life. From t...
11/19/2025

This year’s winter gift guide, “Books From Home for the Holidays” is full of stories that bring our past to life. From the battlefields of WWI to the quiet courage of women who changed Nova Scotia’s future, there’s something for everything!

These five remarkable books uncover the layers of Atlantic history, through photographs, memoirs, and untold stories that continue to shape who we are.

Featured in the Holiday Gift Guide:
A Sense of Things Beyond — life and remembrance after WWI
Through My Looking Glass — fifty years of Nova Scotia in photographs
The Saltbox Olive — uncovering family secrets and wartime truth
The Acadians of Prince Edward Island — everyday life captured in rare photos
Disruptive Women — the forgotten Nova Scotian activists who changed history

Find these and more Atlantic titles in the 2025 Holiday Gift Guide, available now at local bookstores and online at atlanticbooks.ca

Give the gift of story. Support Atlantic authors!

2025 has been a remarkable year for Indigenous literature across the Atlantic provinces. Mi’kmaw and Wəlastəkwew authors...
11/17/2025

2025 has been a remarkable year for Indigenous literature across the Atlantic provinces. Mi’kmaw and Wəlastəkwew authors are sharing powerful new works, from fiction to poetry to children’s books, that deepen our connection with wskitqumu (the Earth) and each other.

This season’s Atlantic Books Today issue celebrates stories that honour language, land, and legacy, including:
🔸 Sem’s Map by Rebecca Thomas
🔸 The Friendship Centre by Theresa Meuse
🔸 Five Seasons of Charlie Francis by Danica Roache
🔸 Bad Indians Book Club by Patty Krawec
🔸 Tethered Spirits by Corinne Hoebers
🔸 Bijijk edited by Andrea Bear Nicholas
🔸 Poussiéreuse by Jessica Gagnon

Each book offers a vital voice and a unique perspective – stories that reclaim, remember, and imagine new ways of being in relation with land and community.

Read the full feature “Flourishing Indigenous voices sprouting from the land” in the newest issue of Atlantic Books Today. Available in bookstores near you, or online at atlanticbooks.ca

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11/14/2025

From cozy kitchens to coastal adventures, heartfelt memoirs to joyful picture books — here is a selection of 10 Atlantic reads from our winter gift guide “Books from Home for the Holidays,” perfect for everyone on your list.

These stories celebrate the people, places, and creativity of Atlantic Canada — and they’re ready to be wrapped, gifted, and shared.

The full Holiday Gift Guide is out now — explore more local books and gift ideas at atlanticbooks.ca

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