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The Art of Forgiveness
2$20.99The Art of Forgiveness is a collection of 8 linked short stories about 3 boys growing up in the suburban outskirts of Halifax. By turns quirky and hard-edged, they are never despondent, and will leave readers with hope that people—young men in this case—can grow and become better.
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Chasing Paradise – A Hitchhiker’s Search for Home in a World at War with Itself
2$19.95This travel memoir is based on detailed journals Benjamin kept while hitchhiking and Greyhounding his way across Canada and the USA in 2001–before and after 9/11 happened–winding up in the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
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INSIDE – thoughts from a pandemic
0$20.00INSIDE is an anthology of writing collected during the Covid-19 pandemic on the theme of isolation, from writers on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, and beyond. It includes Chris Benjamin’s story “Filling Up My View” a.k.a. “Solitary Spider,” the story of a young woman locked into solitary confinement at the local women’s prison, where a giant spider helps her access the outside world she longs for. The collection also includes work from Carol Bruneau, George Elliott Clarke, Jan L. Coates, Christy Ann Conlin, Terry Fallis, and more.
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Boy With a Problem
1$21.95Boy With A Problem is a collection of 12 short stories about lovable outsiders struggling with the pain of disconnection and isolation.
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My Nova Scotia Home – Nova Scotia’s best writers riff on the place they call home
1$20.00In this no-holds barred look at the province, writers captivate and capture the true essence of Nova Scotia. From these personal accounts of life here, the writers reveal the great joys and small pleasures but also the schisms, foibles, and missed opportunities of a life made in Nova Scotia. By revealing themselves, they make the province larger, more welcoming, more interesting, and certainly more colourful. This book is proof positive that life really is a search for home.
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Nova Scotia Love Stories
1$21.95In Nova Scotia Love Stories, some of the province’s most beloved authors explore through fact and fiction the myriad ways in which a love story exists. The collection includes Chris Benjamin’s “Operation Niblet,” story about Gerry, who embarks on a daring and stupid animal rescue mission to prove his love for his roommate Zoëy, a vegan eco-feminist. The collection also features stories by Silver Donald Cameron, Marjorie Simmins, Budge Wilson, Bruce Graham, Maureen Hull, Jon Tattrie, Lindsay Ruck, Jim Lotz, Steven Laffoley, Sheldon Currie, Harold Horwood, Carol Bruneau, Michael Ungar, William Kowalski and Don Aker.
Pottersfield Press / Nimbus Publishing publishers’ page
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Fierce Shorts Bundle Vol. 5 – Chris Benjamin Cuisvé
1$5.00Chris Benjamin signed up for a volunteer work exchange program looking for an adventure. It wasn’t until he arrived in St. Lucia and began spending time with his counterpart’s family — in particular Uncle Dingo — that Chris woke up to the divisions of wealth and poverty, and experiences of love and loss that can unite us in spite of everything. Cuisvé is a short memoir of a formative three months Chris spent working in the Caribbean rainforest. A portion of proceeds support human rights for Nicaraguan street children.
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Becoming Fierce: Teen Stories IRL
0$16.99New and established Canadian authors share experiences from their teen years that have stuck with them. Some of the stories are dark and heartbreaking while others are lighthearted and grin-worthy. Regardless, they all have something in common: while things may seem like an epic fail now, they do get better.
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Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School
8$25.95Indian School Road is the story of the controversial and tragic history of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first time.
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Everything Is So Political – A Collection of Short Fiction by Canadian Writers
3$19.95A collection of twenty short stories, including Chris Benjamin’s “The Water Bottle Thief,” showing you can be political without being preachy. Lee Henderson wrote: “Brimming with wild imagination and stunning variety, this is one of those beautiful literary anthologies that comes along once a generation, that we’ll look back upon as the beginning of a whole new vision of Canadian fiction.”
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EarLit Shorts 4
0$14.95An audio anthology of short fiction performed by professional actors. Literature never sounded better. Chris’ contribution, “Delia and Phil,” is performed brilliantly by Charlie Tomlinson.
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Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada
1$22.95Eco-Innovators profiles some of Atlantic Canada’s most innovative and forward-thinking sustainability entrepreneurs, educators, activists, agitators, farmers and fishers. Halifax filmmaker Kevin Moynihan teamed up with Chris to make several short documentaries based on the book
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Drive-by Saviours
7$19.95Chris Benjamin masterfully, magically weaves together the seemingly disconnected worlds of Mark, a failed social-worker-turned-unhappy-grant-writer coming to the end of an even unhappier relationship, and Bumi, an Indonesian illegal immigrant on the run from his past and the obsessive-compulsive disorder that dogs his present. — Stephen Kimber, Author of Reparations
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The Speculative Elements #2 – Airborne
0$17.31Fourteen stories and three poems that breathe unexpected possibilities into the atmosphere that surrounds and fills us. Take flight with these tales and explore what is always elusive: microscopic particles, airwaves, wind, space, sound, and spirit. Chris Benjamin’s “Gifts From the North” features a young woman burdened by her ability to traverse the mindwaves of cruel men.
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Nova Scotia Visions of the Future
0$19.95Forty of Nova Scotia’s best minds (and hearts) explore environment, technology, immigration, urban life, rural life, energy, politics, government, family, economics, and more. The writing is personal, provocative, reflective, and thoroughly captivating. In “The Futurology of Fatherhood,” Chris reflects on the opportunity and responsibility – his, society’s and the planet’s – of becoming a father.