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No One Knows About Us
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No One Knows About Us
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Award-winning author Bridget Canning returns with an incisive and unsettling collection that considers what it means to be good—or to be a villain—in our relationships with others. No One Knows...
The Crane
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The Crane
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The Crane follows the difficult choices of what a person does when he cannot go on being lied to, and how stricken people find a way to carry on. It’s 1968...
The Weather Diviner
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The Weather Diviner
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Set in a tragic, transformative year in an extraordinary place with larger-than-life characters, The Weather Diviner is a story of self-discovery—not just for one young woman, but for Newfoundland itself.It’s...
False Bodies
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False Bodies
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A genre-bending noir, and perhaps the squiddiest novel ever written, False Bodies creates a horror/thriller blend of the renowned Newfoundland culture seen in shows like Come From Away with the...
Hides
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Hides
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Hides is a novel of family and politics that distinguishes itself through its careful intermingling of seriousness and comedy, and its surreal but eerily plausible setting.As wildfires rage across the...
Vigil
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Vigil
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The interconnected stories of Vigil are packed with uncomfortable characters caught in situations of complex morality, with each piece both a chapter in the overall story and also a stand-alone...
A Seal of Salvage
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A Seal of Salvage
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Steeped in Newfoundland’s unique folklore and superstitions, A Seal of Salvage is a coming-of-age novel about unrequited love between adolescent boys that slips between history and mythology.Set in 1950s rural...
Five for Forteau
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Five for Forteau
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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!...
A Company of Rogues
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A Company of Rogues
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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...
Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian
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Suliewey: The Sequel to My Indian continues the story of Mi’kmaw guide Sylvester Joe, whose traditional name is Suliewey, as he seeks out the last remaining Beothuk community.In My Indian,...
Soft Serve
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Soft Serve
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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,...
Eyes in Front When Running
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Eyes in Front When Running
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This is a book about the collision of fear and longing, how the thing you fear the most is often the one thing you need to set you straight.Eyes in...
The Gull Workshop
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The Gull Workshop
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The Gull Workshop is a collection of stories that features a unique combination of thematic seriousness and comic style. The characters in The Gull Workshop are often in search of something—call it authenticity,...
If We Caught Fire
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If We Caught Fire
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If We Caught Fire brings two families together for a wedding in St. John’s, an event that sets off a summer of fireworks in the lives of the people around...
Four for Fogo Island
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Four for Fogo Island
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Murder in a quilt shop on scenic Fogo Island leads sardonic private eye Sebastian Synard from his quest for some R&R to a different kind of excursion altogether. Four for...
The Raw Light of Morning
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The Raw Light of Morning
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The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about women and children finding humour and love in the aftermath of domestic violence. Fourteen-year-old Laurel Long does something unimaginable....
Hard Ticket
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Hard Ticket
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hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by critically acclaimed...
Fearnoch
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Fearnoch
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Steinbeck meets Miriam Toews in this insightful and illuminating debut about the decline of rural Canada and the meaning of community. Welcome to Fearnoch, an undistinguished Ottawa Valley farming...
The Wards
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The Wards
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The Wards are a working-class Newfoundland family on the cusp of upheaval. The children are becoming adults, the adults are growing old, and the new dog was probably stolen. When a sudden...
The Yankee Privateer
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The Yankee Privateer
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A story of adventure, betrayal, and resilience in Newfoundland set against the backdrop of the historical events of the American War of Independence. Loyalty and betrayal meet in Newfoundland during...
The Blue Moth Motel
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The Blue Moth Motel
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A haunting and evocative exploration of the meaning of family and home. Ingrid and Norah have an unconventional upbringing—growing up in a motel, raised by their mother and her female...
The Love Olympics
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The Love Olympics
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Warm, funny, and stylistically savvy, these stories follow an interlocking set of characters and the people they love. Characters weave their way in and out of The Love Olympics, a...
Three for Trinity
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Three for Trinity
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When Sebastian goes undercover in the theatre to find a killer, things get… dramatic. In Three for Trinity, the third book in the Sebastian Synard Mystery series, offbeat humour meets...
Such Miracles and Mischiefs
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Such Miracles and Mischiefs
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Colonists come face to face with Indigenous Americans, enslaved Africans, and pirates as they struggle to build a life in North America. Such Miracles and Mischiefs, the second book in...
Last Hummingbird West of Chile
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An audacious tale of murder, privilege, and servitude - of both humans and nature. A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird West of Chile spins a tale of adventure...
My Indian
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My Indian
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In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his...
Us, Now
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Us, Now
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Us, Now roves from Indonesia to the Middle East, Taiwan, Mexico, China, Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan, and points in between, converging in Newfoundland. These stories by racialized Newfoundlanders are...
Instructor
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Instructor
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When Ydessa Bloom’s husband dies in a Cessna crash in a mid-Ontario lake, she rents a cottage at that lake, without really comprehending why, and stays for three months. There...
Two for the Tablelands
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Two for the Tablelands
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Sebastian Synard is back. It’s the off-season, and the Newfoundland tour guide introduced in One for the Rock has crossed the island with his spirited teenage son for a weekend...
The Hush Sisters
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The Hush Sisters
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Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a peculiar manor in downtown St. John’s. With both parents now dead, the siblings...
Melt
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Melt
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Jess is a sensitive creature of habit. Cait is her passionate and impulsive best friend. And in Melt, Heidi Wicks follows the lives of these characters from their teenage years...
Some People's Children
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Some People's Children
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Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her...
We All Will Be Received
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We All Will Be Received
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In 1977, a young woman swipes a duffel bag of drug money and flees her bad-news boyfriend, hitching a ride with a long-haul trucker who points out satellites and enthuses...
Send More Tourists...the Last Ones Were Delicious
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With birth, death, contemplation, and close calls, Send More Tourists… the Last Ones Were Delicious explores how we respond to the weight of social expectations. From the hidden pressures of...
Even Weirder Than Before
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Even Weirder Than Before
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Daisy’s job is to be as unobtrusive as possible. But when her father suddenly leaves and her mother breaks down, Daisy’s old life disappears, and she is set free in...
Land Beyond the Sea
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Land Beyond the Sea
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In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136...
The Luminous Sea
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The Luminous Sea
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A team of researchers from a nearby university have set up a research station in a fictional outport in Newfoundland, studying the strange emergence of phosphorescent tides. And Vivienne, a...
One For the Rock
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One For the Rock
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Sebastian Synard doesn’t want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of tourists along the cliffs of St. John’s harbour, one of them ends...
Most Anything You Please
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Most Anything You Please
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For decades, the Holloways have operated a convenience store in the working-class neighborhood of Rabbittown in St. John’s, and every customer has a story. In a vibrant, contemporary family saga,...
Too Unspeakable for Words
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Too Unspeakable for Words
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Nancy comes of age in a British colonial school in 1950s St. John's; Georgina discovers women's liberation in a humorous evocation of the 1960s; Jamie returns to the resettled outport...
Skeet Love
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Skeet Love
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Think the world can’t get any crazier? Think again. Set in near-future Toronto, Skeet Love tells the story of Shane, a conspiracy theorist and aspiring rapper; Nina, his girlfriend; and...
The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
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Wanda Jaynes is about to lose her job amidst a mountain of bills, and she suspects her musician boyfriend might be romantically interested in his friend, Trish. But Wanda’s life...
Two-Man Tent
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Two-Man Tent
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In Two-Man Tent, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Robert Chafe, offers his long-awaited collection of short fiction. The individual stories are thematically linked by an interwoven, recurring tale of...
Weaving Water
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Weaving Water
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Weaving Water is a novel about otters, healing the human heart, and finding hope for an imperilled Earth.Ecologist Beth Meyer has lost hope for the future of the Earth. Still...
The Last Half of the Year
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The Last Half of the Year
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Jason Dade, quixotic hero of this 1970s coming-of-age novel, is on a quest. He must decipher cryptic signs on his journey to meet an elusive figure known only as The...
Four-Letter Words
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Four-Letter Words
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Chad Pelley’s Four-Letter Words, his collection of award-winning short stories, presents us with characters haunted by one four-letter word or another: love, hate, lust, or loss. A father drives across...
Found Far and Wide
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Found Far and Wide
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A novel of remarkable historical breadth, Found Far and Wide follows Sam Kennedy through the tragedy of the Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914, the horrors of The First World...
Racket
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Racket
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In Racket, editor and acclaimed fiction writer Lisa Moore introduces us to ten of the most exciting new writers currently at work in Newfoundland. Featuring a diverse range of previously...
The World, the Lizard and Me
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The World, the Lizard and Me
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Claude Tremblay works as a political analyst at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. But when the Congolese warlord Kabanga, accused of crimes against humanity, is released from trial...
Wild Pieces
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Wild Pieces
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One has lost a child and paints her house blue, another has found a not-so-handy man she can’t get rid of; one perches in a tree and observes the neighbourhood,...
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Short Fiction
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Following an unprecedented explosion of literary talent in Newfoundland over the past twenty years, The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Short Fiction assembles the very best work by the island’s...
Ledger of the Open Hand
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Ledger of the Open Hand
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Ledger of the Open Hand looks at the intimate power of money and emotional debt through the eyes of a woman trying to grab hold of her own life. Beholden...
Mystery of the SS Southern Cross, The
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The date is March 31, 1914. Flushed with the success of a great hunt, the SS Southern Cross is heading back to St. John's, loaded to the gunwales with seal...
Keeper of Tides
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Keeper of Tides
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At age ninety-two, Ivadoile Spears is in the grip of early dementia. Alone except for a cat named Rose and an old cedar box filled with photographs, Ivadoile is stubbornly...
How Loveta Got Her Baby
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How Loveta Got Her Baby
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Two young men and a girl go scavenging for fossils—but find something entirely different instead. A girl inherits a baby from the estate of her older sister. An apparently aimless...
Where White Horses Gallop
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Where White Horses Gallop
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In 1941, three young men enlist in the legendary Cape Breton Highlanders and sail off to war, leaving their families to wait and wonder at home in Beinn Barra, Nova...
Last Witness
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Last Witness
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A mysterious letter has reached retired FBI agent Frank Malloy. A letter bearing a name from a lifetime ago, from a woman who claims she saw what really happened on...
Strays
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Strays
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Strays, Ed Kavanagh's first work of fiction since the award-winning novel The Confessions of Nipper Mooney, features ten memorable stories that explore the lives of those who somehow find themselves...
Provider's Son
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Provider's Son
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Levi Conley has spent his life making a hard living off the water. Fishing defines who he is. But after being betrayed by his business partners, who are also his...
Maxine
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Maxine
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Imagine a new life. Maxine Carter suddenly finds herself searching for a fresh start—a way around her own gnawing fear of an untimely death and a wasted life. What she...
The Mean Time
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The Mean Time
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The Mean Time is a work of literary fiction set in Corner Brook about how people allow their pasts to shape and define them – in holding on to dread,...
Shah of Shea Heights, The
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Shah of Shea Heights, The
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The Shah of Shea Heights is the tall tale of a criminal family as told by Billy Tucker, a colourful character with an equally colourful past. His "mother of all...
The Islands of Dr. Thomas
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The Islands of Dr. Thomas
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In 1913 Dr. Louis Thomas and his family settle on the French islands of St. Pierre and Michelon. Enchanted by how this French land navigates the harsh climate of the...
Wrecked Upon This Shore
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Wrecked Upon This Shore
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Wrecked Upon This Shore deals with life’s most significant tests: loving and dying, broken relationships, the drive to heal and the impulse to be whole. At the novel’s centre is...
The Beothuk Expedition
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The Beothuk Expedition
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Based on Cartwright’s ill-fated expedition in search of the Beothuk. Jonah Squibb and his Royal Navy companions are tasked with making the first peaceful contact with the Beothuk in more...
That Forgetful Shore
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That Forgetful Shore
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Triffie and Kit are closer than sisters. But for two girls growing up in a tiny Newfoundland outport at the dawn of the twentieth century, having the same dreams and...
Mercy of St. Jude
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Mercy of St. Jude
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At times irreverent and darkly humorous, Mercy of St. Jude is a story of profound loss, and the unforeseen effects that secrets can have on those we love. When Mercedes...
Moonlight Sketches
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Moonlight Sketches
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Welcome to Darwin, Newfoundland, a small town with big secrets. On the surface, nothing ever changes and everyone is content. But the truth is as restless, cold, and mutable as...
Newfoundland Stories: The Loss of the Waterwitch and Other Tales
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The fourteen stories in this publication comprise a spectrum of characters and events that have helped forge an image of an island, its people, and its culture that is unique...
Where Old Ghosts Meet
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Where Old Ghosts Meet
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Matthew Molloy, bright and educated, longs to leave behind his miserable existence on a small farm in Ireland. He yields to pressure and sets aside his dream until one day,...
This Ramshackle Tabernacle
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This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken...
The Artificial Newfoundlander
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The Artificial Newfoundlander is a witty, playful, tale of contemporary St. John’s. Hugh Norman, a middle-aged English prof researching an eccentric novelist priest, is faced with the unexpected arrivals of...
The Winterhouse
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The Winterhouse
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"My father has married me to a mad old man." These words, written on a slip of paper inside a fading brocade collar, are a clue to the unlikely marriage...
Lovesongs of Emmanuel Taggart
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Things no longer look the same for 45-year-old Emmanuel (“M”) Taggart. Thinking he has a bad case of the flu, M leaves the office to embark on a road of...
Hard Ol' Spot
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Hard Ol' Spot
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Following in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde, St. John's author Mike Heffernan has created an anthology of uniquely east-coast fiction: twisted, macabre, eery and compelling. The...
Tantramar
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Tantramar
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"This is the story of my mother's death, my father's lighthouse, my slutty sister and the dog I betrayed." A heart-felt, at times funny, coming-of-age story set in Nova Scotia...
The Seary Line
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The Seary Line
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Nearing death, an old man laments his poor choice of a wife, and has orchestrated a situation where he will see his childhood love one last time. From these circumstances...
Silence of Stone
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Silence of Stone
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Based on historical records, Silence of Stone recounts the story of Marguerite de Roberval, a young French noblewoman. During a colonising expedition to New France in 1542, she falls in...
The Silent Time
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The Silent Time
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A redemptive tale of ruined lives righted again through love, grace, and good fortune, The Silent Time contains memorable characters, compelling narrative and passages of lyrical beauty.
Happiness of Fish
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Happiness of Fish
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On a snowy winter night, Gerry Adamson hides from his family in a laid-up sailboat. Pushing sixty, holed-up with a laptop, he’s trying to make a novel out of thirty-odd...
This Much Is True
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This Much Is True
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Is it okay to tell a lie? Lisa Simms thinks so. Lisa leaves her small town and moves to the big city to find work and her letters home tell...
Return of the Native
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Return of the Native
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Kissing the big-city life goodbye, Udo Nomi retu s to Newfoundland from Toronto for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a hero for his people to help free The Republic. In...
Seventh Day
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Seventh Day
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In this fast-paced novel about a man who returns to university following the death of his wife, David Edwards is drawn into a criminal web of drugs, sexual slavery, and...
In Search of Cadiz
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In Search of Cadiz
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A realistic adventure tale of a boy who comes of age, shipwrecked and alone, struggling with survival and a past that haunts him.
Newfoundland Adventures
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Newfoundland Adventures
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This book brings together a collection of outstanding stories that will inform and entertain the reader from start to finish. Many adventure stories from across Newfoundland and Labrador are included...
The Berlin Assignment
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The Berlin Assignment
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This story of discovery, romance, and intrigue is set in Berlin shortly after the fall of the Wall. Anthony Hanbury, a Canadian diplomat pursuing a desultory career, is assigned as...
Ghosts & Oddities
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Ghosts & Oddities
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Ghosts, Heroes and Oddities is a collection of the stories that have inspired, entertained and haunted countless generations of Newfoundlanders. The anthology captures the spirit of The Rock and its...
Half Moon
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Half Moon
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A hauntingly beautiful saga set in Paris, New York, and Atlantic Canada,Half Moon explores themes of passion, betrayal, art, and redemption in the story of an elusively beautiful woman and...
Jackytar
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Jackytar
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Jackytar, based on award-winning research conducted by Douglas Gosse, is the novel of self-development and social critique. Told through the eyes of Alexandre Murphy, Jackytar delves into twisting family secrets,...
Thaw
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Thaw
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The repercussions of Hazel Boone’s lifelong weakness for temptation percolates down through generations wounding everyone in her path, including her son, the painter David Boone and his young apprentice, Tilley...
Sleeper
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Sleeper
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When a prominent Toronto lawyer is murdered on a foggy night in Bannerman Park, the entire city of St. John's is shaken. The crime is quickly pinned on Tom Fitzgerald,...
Unraveling Arva
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Unraveling Arva
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After her eccentric mother's death, young Arva House moves to a close-knit outport with hopes of escaping the past that plagues her. But tangled rumors follow, and she soon becomes...
Undertow
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Undertow
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May 1947 in St. John’s, a woman is brutally murdered in her bath. In the same neighbourhood, in 1943, a young American soldier was also murdered, a crime that was...
Donovan's Station
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Donovan's Station
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Set in rural and urban Newfoundland, this novel is alive with its landscape and language. In Keziah Donovan, award-winning writer Robin McGrath has created an unforgettable story-teller with a voice...
The Confessions of Nipper Mooney
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The Confessions of Nipper Mooney, full of vivid character portraits and written with a playwright's ear for dialogue, is a compelling story that charts an original course through the beauties...
The Topography of Love
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The Topography of Love
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The heart and spirit of an indomitable people travel far in time and space … The unexpected luxury of a day spent at the home of a Hollywood star leads...
Forty Testoons
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Forty Testoons
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Forty Testoons is his third novel. This is a novel of political intrigue, spies and treason in medieval Newfoundland. The year is 1504 and father Ralph Fletcher, a young priest,...
Waiting for Time
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Waiting for Time
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A twentieth-century descendant of the Lavinia of Random Passage, Lav rediscovers the power of her heritage and a courage she didn't know she possessed. Waiting for Time, the sequel to...
Random Passage
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Random Passage
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Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing....
House of Hate
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House of Hate
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The destructive hatred a family can turn upon itself is the theme of this powerful work, which has, in the words of Margaret Laurence, become "a classic of its kind."...
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