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The Blue Moth Motel
$21.95
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...
The Quest for a 'National' Nationalism
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In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada....
This is How It is
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This is How It is
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Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way...
The Ice Shack
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The Ice Shack
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The most beautiful ice-fishing shack on the whole coast belongs to Alphonse. But he can’t seem to catch a thing—not even a sock, or an old pair of underwear! How...
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...
The Little Red Shed
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The Little Red Shed
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Once upon a fine morning, a little shed awakens to discover she isn’t quite the same as she used to be. Uncertain and feeling as if she no longer fits...
The Moon King
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The Moon King
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***BEST BOOKS FOR KIDS AND TEENS 2020, PICTURE BOOKS*** When the magical Moon King tips over the night, it spills across the land and sea, and he seeks the help...
The Invisibles
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The Invisibles
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During the tumultuous and often violent election riots of 1861, members of the Royal Newfoundland Companies opened fire on a crowd of rioters, killing three and wounding several others. In...
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...
transVersing
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transVersing
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Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland’s most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. Gathering the work...
Treason's Edge
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Treason's Edge
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Being a teenager is hard enough. It’s even more difficult when you have supernatural powers you barely understand. Now that Alec and his terrifying abilities are under the control of...
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...
The Secret of Bowring Park
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The Secret of Bowring Park
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Every child who has ever visited the Peter Pan statue in Bowring Park, St. John's, swears it is magic. They know that the mice, squirrels, rabbits, and fairies are never...
The Overcast's Guide to Beers of Newfoundland
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Newfoundland has a long history of local brewing and in recent years has enjoyed a resurgence of that tradition, drawing locals and travelers alike to the distinctive tastes now available...
The End of Music
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The End of Music
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In The End of Music, Jamie Fitzpatrick’s two mesmerizing, interwoven narratives circle the lives of Joyce, a modern young woman navigating the fraught social mores of a small town in...
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...
The Newfoundland and Labrador Seafood Cookbook
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More than a collection of recipes, The Newfoundland and Labrador Seafood Cookbook is a compendium of fish and shellfish found in North Atlantic waters. Complete with illustrations, it includes physical...
Terra Magna: Labrador
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Terra Magna: Labrador
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It took JC Roy years of painstaking dedication and travel to paint a scene from every town on the island of Newfoundland. And after seeing that grand vision made available...
Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge
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From boat-building to berries, from knitting socks to mending nets, Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge vividly presents the rich, place-based knowings and doings of more than one hundred knowledge-holders...
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...
The Geranium Window
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The Geranium Window
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In the fictional village of Rocky Point, Cape Breton, just after WWII, the Briar family keeps a secret. Locked in his room, Joseph Briar, a child with visible and non-visible...
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...
The Inward Journey
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The Inward Journey
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Sylvia Bolfe sits in her nursing home, criticizes the food and the staff—all but her trusted confidant and registered nurse, Eleanor—and with humour and feistiness recounts her turbulent life. From...
The Money Shot
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The Money Shot
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Sebastian Hunter is a rake and womanizer. He’s also a star reporter for the CBC. He has the money shot of a luxurious house falling over a cliff, and the...
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...
Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume II
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Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories Volume II: Amazing and Strange is a substantial collection of tales from times long gone. Included are yarns of Newfoundland's people and places, ranging...
Twenty-Four Teddy Bears
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Twenty-Four Teddy Bears
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Twenty-four Teddy Bears: A Christmas Journey chronicles twenty-four of Santa's most memorable visits over the past thirty-eight years. These have taken him from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to Senior's...
The Newfoundland and Labrador Colouring Book
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Cuffs and vamps and mummers—Oh my! The Newfoundland and Labrador Colouring Book has puffins and moose and icebergs by the boat load. Get your crayons out and have a time...
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays: Volume Three
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The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays: Volume 3 gathers an impressive range of work by some of the province’s most renowned authors. The third and final volume in the...
The Long Run
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The Long Run
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On the morning of July 1, 1916, at Beaumont-Hamel, the men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment climbed out of their trenches and advanced into no man’s land. Eric Mackenzie Robertson...
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...
This is the Cat
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This is the Cat
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This is the Cat is a deeply darkly humorous tale as shared by one Bridie Savage. Bridie is struggling to recover from a toothache of the heart "...always a Bridie,...
Still No Word
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Still No Word
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EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust OUT IN PRINT Literary Award Winner! Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within...
When the Great Red Dawn Is Shining
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On their march towards the Somme, and Beaumont Hamel, the young men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment raised their voices to sing “When the Great Red Dawn is Shining,” a...
The Man with the White Beard
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The Man with the White Beard
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In this sequel to the national bestseller The Man in the Red Suit, we continue our journey with readers as we explore the true meaning of Christmas. Santa invites us...
Time of Treason
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Time of Treason
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Picking up where Edge of Time left off, Time of Treason continues the story of Riley and Alec, otherwise normal teens whose special genetic traits grant them powers they are...
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, Volume Two
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The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, Volume 2, presents an exciting range of work by both established and emerging playwrights. In her eclectic choices, editor Denyse Lynde offers an...
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...
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...
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, vol 1
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THIS COLLECTION OF plays from Newfoundland playwrights, both established and emerging, is the first in a series of three anthologies. The collection proposes to include the following selection of popular...
Walk With My Shadow
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Walk With My Shadow
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Meet George Gregoire, an Innu man who was born in the Labrador bush in the middle of the last century, yet mustered enough education to write his memoirs. In the...
The Mean Time
$5.00
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,...
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...
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...
The Widows of Paradise Bay
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The Widows of Paradise Bay
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Prissy Montgomery goes to great lengths to avoid having sex with her husband, Howie. So when he confesses to having an affair, and requests a divorce, she shouldn’t be all...
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 Dot Com Leprechaun
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The Dot Com Leprechaun
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When Lucy discovers a leprechaun has been ensorcelled into the Internet by a disgruntled witch, it is up to her to help him return to his home in the old...
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
$19.95
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...
Where Genesis Begins
$39.95
Where Genesis Begins
$39.95
Where Genesis Begins is a collaboration of two of Newfoundland’s foremost artists: Tom Dawe, a profoundly visual poet, and Gerald Squires, a profoundly poetic painter. The book contains thirty-seven poems...
The Beothuk
$12.95
The Beothuk
$12.95
A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of...
Tantramar
$16.00
Tantramar
$16.00
"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...
The Last Will and Testament
$14.95
The Last Will and Testament
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The Last Will and Testament of Jon Martinez de Larrume explores Labrador South and the people who were drawn to its resources and wild beauty from the 1500s to the...
This Much Is True
$19.95
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...
The Cyclic Variations
$16.95
The Cyclic Variations
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The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets.
The March Hare Anthology
$27.95
The March Hare Anthology
$27.95
The March Hare Anthology commemorates twenty years of one of Canada¹s most successful literary festivals. Blending local and inte ational writers from Canada, Ireland and the world with the cream...
The Miners of Wabana
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The Miners of Wabana
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For seventy-one years, iron ore was mined at Wabana, Bell Island: half the output was used in Canada; the other half was shipped around the world. When the mine shut...
The Berlin Assignment
$24.95
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...
Voyage to Discovery
$49.95
Voyage to Discovery
$49.95
Designed for Grade 8 students, Voyage to Discovery explores the development and growth of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1800 to present, analyzing and exposing those key elements and individuals that...
Voyage de Decouvertes
$49.95
Voyage de Decouvertes
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Designed for Grade 8 students, Voyage to Discovery explores the development and growth of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1800 to present, analyzing and exposing those key elements and individuals that...
Thaw
$19.95
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...
What if your mom made raisin buns?
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What if your mom made raisin buns? is the story of a little boy who gets a bit too involved in his mom's raisin bun baking.
Untold Stories
$16.95
Untold Stories
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This book has ten chapters of compelling reading, with topics dealing with the province's curiosities, war time secrets, the characters of olde St. John's, stories of underground vaults and tunnels...
Thomas Doucet
$9.95
Thomas Doucet
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It's 1696, and Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville is marching across the Avalon Peninsula, attacking English settlements. Young Thomas Doucet of Plaisance listens in awe to the stories of daring and...
The Winter of Remarkable Oranges
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This localised interpretation of the Book of Job is rich with history, colour, and beauty. the lyrical poems are balanced with some of the finest drawings to ever come out...
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...
The Moon Shone Bright
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The Moon Shone Bright
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The play by inte ationally acclaimed writer, Des Walsh, brings together the turmoil of Newfoundland joining Confederation and its effects up to the present day. Des Walsh was bo in...
The Sinking of The Titanic
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The Sinking of The Titanic
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Few human events have stirred the imagination, inspired myths and movies and had such a hold upon the weste world as the sinking of the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic....
The Teenage Years... Mapped
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The Teenage Years... Mapped
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The Teenage Years...Mapped is a collection of poetry by Joshua Jamieson, a talented young poet who is sure to contribute to the future of Newfoundland Literature. In his poetry, the...
Viking Ship for Brendan, A
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A little boy who wants a Viking ship of his very own has a unique adventure out of time and receives a special gift from the great Viking, Leif the...
Viking Discovery of America
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Viking Discovery of America
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Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands...
Travelling with Wildflowers
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Traveling with Wildflowers features exquisite watercolours of the wildflowers Hammond encountered along the way, interspersed with lush landscapes in watercolour and photographs. Maps marking the locations of provincial, national and...
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...
Turnip Top Pony
$8.95
Turnip Top Pony
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Newfoundland Ponies are little work horses used in Newfoundland outports during the fall and winter. In the summer they are given a break and permitted to roam free.
Thirty for Sixty
$14.95
Thirty for Sixty
$14.95
The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on...
Where the Wind Blows
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Where the Wind Blows
$29.95
With generations of knowledge compiled in its pages, the sailor will find this marine weather guide to be an individual reference tool for years to come. Simplified climatology illustrates the...
Voyages
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Voyages
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Voyages is an exceptional book that celebrates the diversity and splendor of the twenty-seven rivers nominated to the Canadian Heritage Rivers system. Lynn Noel has assembled an impressive collection of...
That Fine Summer
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That Fine Summer
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That fine summer is about Mahala, who can do anything a boy can and most things better, even if she is scared of bulls and has troubles with multiplication! That...
West Moon
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West Moon
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West Moon is set in Newfoundland during the time of resettlement in the mid-1960s. Though the play explores some serious social, political, moral, and theological themes, it does so with...
There Are No Polar Bears Here!
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Children's more fantastic stories are usually explained away by well-meaning adults. Cathy Simpson has taken this common childhood frustration, and woven it into a lively tale -- set in rural...
Tracing One Warm Line
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Tracing One Warm Line
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Tracing One Warm Line traces the poetry of Canadians through time, from the aboriginal voices through to high school and university students. It reflects rural and urban Canada, as well...
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...
Twentieth Century Newfoundland
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Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations brings together ten papers by eight well-known historians of Newfoundland and Labrador. The papers address a wide variety of subject matter and open many avenues for...
The Ice Hunters
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The Ice Hunters
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The demand for oil to light and lubricate the industrial world changed the face of much of the planet. Newfoundland was part of this widespread transformation as migratory cod fishermen...
Timely Departures
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Timely Departures
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The Newfoundland Poetry Series was begun in 1993 as Breakwater's twentieth anniversary project to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Selection is based on...
The Two Traditions
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The Two Traditions
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Newfoundland is well known for the strong traditions and folklore of its English-speaking inhabitants. Until recently, however, few outside this province realized that there is also a small but vigorous...
Talking to Ghosts
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Talking to Ghosts
$5.00
Talking to Ghosts is Philip Gardner's fourth volume of poetry, and his second to be published in Newfoundland, where he has taught for nearly thirty years. The poems it includes...
The Beothuk of Newfoundland
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The Beothuk of Newfoundland
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A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information conce ing every aspect of Beothuk life-housing, clothing, hunting methods, arts...
The Atlantic Edge
$34.95
The Atlantic Edge
$34.95
Newfoundland is on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, on the edge of our country, Canada, and the North American continent. Its position on the edge has affected all aspects...
The Time of Icicles
$5.00
The Time of Icicles
$5.00
A collection of lyric pieces, The Time of Icicles is anchored in the author's experience of Newfoundland, but these poems are of a continent, a century. An underlying preoccupation of...
Stages
$11.95
Stages
$11.95
Developed by a team of teachers working in conjunction with the publisher and the Department of Education, this junior high series presents a selection of Newfoundland prose, poetry, dramatic excerpts...
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
$9.95
Attracted by Labrador's unexplored vastness, two American adventurers embark on an ill-planned attempt to traverse Labrador by canoe. Having ingnored the advice of the local guide, the leader of the...
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