AWESOME IN AUGUST!

Heat wave! Did the proverbial H freeze over? Because the heat from there seems to have moved to the East Coast. We're unused to sweating out here, unless we're doing it while reading a particularly tense scene in a book. Speaking of books, check below for our Fall season preview! We've got a great lineup of fiction to keep you entertained through to the holidays, and a few that are going to make great gift ideas as well. Also, read about Breakwater books in the news and see some snaps from our Summer Book Bash. All below, so read on!

In this issue:

  • News (our authors making and breaking waves) 
  • Upcoming Events (join Breakwater to celebrate books)
  • Fall 2023 Preview (see what's about to appear on shelves near you)
  • Followfest (follow Breakwater's communications channels and never miss a thing)

AWESOME IN AUGUST!

Heat wave! Did the proverbial H freeze over? Because the heat from there seems to have moved to the East Coast. We're unused to sweating out here, unless we're doing it while reading a particularly tense scene in a book. Speaking of books, check below for our Fall season preview! We've got a great lineup of fiction to keep you entertained through to the holidays, and a few that are going to make great gift ideas as well. Also, read about Breakwater books in the news and see some snaps from our Summer Book Bash. All below, so read on!

In this issue:

  • News (our authors making and breaking waves) 
  • Upcoming Events (join Breakwater to celebrate books)
  • Fall 2023 Preview (see what's about to appear on shelves near you)
  • Followfest (follow Breakwater's communications channels and never miss a thing)

WHAT'S IN THE NEWS?

             

 

SUMMER BOOK BASH WITH MOCKTAILS AND FALAFELS? 

A wonderful gathering in the sunny windows of the St. John's Farmer's Market, featuring books from our current list! Music by Valmy, catering by The Jewish Deli and Jonathan Richler, as well as treats by Mrs. Goodies, and a bespoke mocktail recipe by Newfoundland Distillery chief (and author of The Newfoundland Cocktail Book) Peter Wilkins (a NL version of he classic Tom Collins cocktail that we called "The Cecil Collins".) Look at all those faces! 

(Captions in order from top left to bottom right: Mischief in High Places author Ted Rowe and partner Maureen, The Gull Workshop author Larry Mathews signs a book, Eyes in Front When Running author Willow Kean with adoring fan, Let It All Fall author Mike Heffernan with family, Impressions of Newfoundland author and fine art photographer Ting Ting Chen samples food from The Jewish Deli, the crowd listens to Willow Kean read, fresh off the Folk Festival Valmy entertains, Mrs. Goodies cupcakes were a hit, simultaneous ASL interpretation by Triangular Communications, Breakwater Books editor Nicole Haldoupis and sales and marketing coordinator Holly Nadeau staff the sales table. 
 
   
   
   
   
   

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mark your calendars: the summer is gonna rock at Breakwater. 

FALL BOOKS


Soft Serve
Allison Graves
(Coming in September)

Allison Graves’ edgy debut collection of short fiction scrutinizes unconventional and confused attachments between people and the reasons they last. The extraordinary becomes the ordinary as people navigate the weird, the quirky, and the sad aspects of everyday life.

Through encounters in retail and fast food chains, on highways and dating apps, the characters in this collection wander through the non-places of our modern lives. The stories connect readers to the spaces that ultimately make them feel lost—zones for reconsideration. Delving into the confusion and boredom of everyday life, Graves’ fiction documents the emotional experiences and disillusionment of middle-class millennials seeking a meaningful life in both the isolating and the ordinary.  


Sulieway: The Sequel to My Indian
Mi'sel Joe and Sheila O'Neill 
(Coming in September)

Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian continues the story of Mi’kmaq guide Sylvester Joe, whose traditional name is Suliewey, as he seeks out the last remaining Beothuk community.

In My Indian, Sylvester was hired by William Cormack in 1822 to guide him across Newfoundland in search of Beothuk encampments. In fact, he followed the advice of his Elders and guided Cormack away from the Beothuk. In this sequel, having parted ways with Cormack at St. George’s Bay, Sylvester decides to go out on his own, in search of the winter camp of the last of the remaining Beothuk. 

Written as fiction, by two Mi’kmaq authors, Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian supports Mi’kmaq oral history of friendly relationships with the Beothuk. The novel reclaims the settler narrative that the Beothuk and the Mi’kmaq of Newfoundland were enemies and represents an existing kinship between the Mi’kmaq and the Beothuk.

Rich in oral history, the descriptions of traditional ceremonies and sacred medicines, the use of Mi’kmaw language, and the teachings of two-spirit place readers on the land and embed them in the strong relationships described throughout the book.


A Company of Rogues
Trudy J. Morgan `Cole
(Coming in October)

This dramatic conclusion to a trilogy foregrounds the experiences of women settlers in North America as they grapple with notions of homeland, colonization, and sense of belonging.

A Company of Rogues completes the Cupids trilogy, moving the action back to the New Found Land seven years after John Guy’s colonists first settled Cupids Cove. After their wanderings across the ocean, Ned and Nancy are united—but will the shores of New Found Land provide a permanent home? Kathryn and Nicholas Guy join the effort to found a second colony at Bristol’s Hope, but their work is threatened by a shadowy enemy who holds a dangerous power over Kathryn. And a newcomer to the colony, the Wampanoag traveller Tisquantum, settles among the English colonists, challenging their beliefs about the New World they have come to settle and the people who call it home.


Five for Forteau
Kevin Major
(Coming in October)

The fifth book in the Sebastian Synard mystery series takes our intrepid tour guide/private detective on a jaunt across Newfoundland and into Labrador, in pursuit of those towers of intrigue—lighthouses!

The final stop on Synard’s lighthouse tour is the one at L’Anse Amour, Labrador, the highest in all Atlantic Canada. It’s a long climb into the lantern room, and a long fall from its catwalk to the ground below. Dead is photographer Amanda Thomson. Who is the scoundrel that nudged her past the railing? The RCMP in Forteau are pointing to one of the tour groups, but Sebastian and his partner Mae have other ideas. They retrace the excursions of Amanda and her vagabond boyfriend back to a section of northern Newfoundland called the French Shore. Could the recent bizarre vandalism at its historic sites hold a clue? What is it about the French Shore that leads them back to murder at L’Anse Amour?  


Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador
Michael Collins, ed. 
(Coming in November) 

A rich and informative guide to the common—and uncommon—beauty of the province.

The most comprehensive guide of its kind on the market today, the Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador features more than 900 photographs and illustrations: from flora and fauna to icebergs and weather, no stone is left unturned in this perfect introduction to the province’s life and landscape.

Compiled and edited by Memorial University biologist Michael Collins, with contributions from over twenty renowned experts, the guide is accessible, durable, perfectly sized, and indexed for ease of use in the field. You’re ready. Now explore.  

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