Against the background of the English-Acadian conflict, we follow the adventures of two young people - Paul, and Acadian boy, and his devoted friend, Swift Arrow, and Indian who once...

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,...

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...

A delightful illustrated book of advice for kids preparing to leave grade school. Filled with perspectives on choice, failure, self-worth, dreams, and priorities, and told in a simply inspiring way,...

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...

As Barnaby drifts into sleep, he has dreams filled with madcap Mummers: the Turkish Knight, the bold-but-not-so-bright Sir George, his faithful wood horse Fred and, of course, the wild traveling...

Sick Joke is one quirky travelogue. Glenn Deir spent two years happily stumbling through the conundrums of Japanese culture. Then he got tonsil cancer and less happily stumbled through the...

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...

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...

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...

This realistic story of life in rural Newfoundland after the 1992 moratorium on northern cod stocks is written to appeal to newly independent readers.

Each carefully selected story takes us through the author's adventures in the outdoors. The stories are filled with true-life antidotes of sport fishing and hunting experiences that encompass a large...

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...

This text is intended to help students develop an understanding of the scientific, social, and economic issues related to the use of natural resources. Each module provides a comprehensive examination...

Richard Greene's poetry examines a wide range of sujects: politics, spirituality, marriage, fatherhood, landscapes, the environment, Newfoundland culture, war, mortality, and the afterlife. His poetry has been widely admired for...

The Royal St. John’s Regatta is North America’s oldest continuous sporting event, and is set to publically celebrate its 200th anniversary. In this fascinating and entertaining history, Jack Fitzgerald tells...

Rebecca's Ducks tells the story of a little girl named Rebecca who moves from Toronto to Conception Bay North. She loves ducks and hopes to find a duck pond near...

Ray Guy: The Final Columns, 2003-2013 is a collection of the columns Ray Guy wrote for The Northeast Avalon Times, a community newspaper based in Portugal Cove. Guy previously achieved...

Eleven-year-old Greenlander Inga Sigurdsdottir wakens on a cold and rocky coast after her Norse ship wrecks en route to “Vinland.” Her one comfort and companion is an injured raven she...

Laura Lou promises her Mom and Dad that if only sheshe can have a puppy, he will have perfect manners.Oops. Puppy has other ideas - like snacking on thehouseplants and...

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...

Laura Connor’s summer suddenly switches from boring to magical flying mayhem when her favourite Pegasus model horse, Flash, comes to life during a violent thunderstorm. Follow their adventures as fantasy...

Gran’s back. And this time she is going for Gold! In her second book, Pirate Gran’s got wind of the Olympics—and in her latest adventure with old shipmate Fingers O’Malley,...

Pirating isn’t the life for everyone, but Gran says it's a career more girls should think about. Meet Gran – who's been a pirate since she was a young girl!...

Produced in partnership with Egale Canada Human Rights Trust, Out Proud: Stories of Pride, Courage, and Social Justice is the second in a series of essay anthologies designed to give...

Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and...

The first St. John's taxi stand started up in the early-20th Century and greatly expanded prior to the Second World War. There are now almost four hundred taxis operating within...

Insightful and thought-provoking journal entries, from the 1950s to 2007, on the creative process, art, life, and province of renowned Canadian artist Christopher Pratt. Ordinary Things is laced with astute...

A selection of orations from Memorial’s convocations. Including a foreword by Rex Murphy and an Introduction by Shane O’Dea. Orations about Jean Chrétien, John Crosbie, Elizabeth Penashue, Christopher Pratt, Mary...

Sam, the colourful sculpin, is different. And on one warm summer day, he swims through an underwater community teeming with lively fish of all shapes and sizes. But Sam doesn’t...

Of Love and Drowning is a commentary on the pre-cariousness of human existence, using a variety of real and imaginary voices to explore childhood, love, despair, aging, death and the...

A stunning personal account of Janet Merlo's twenty years of service in the RCMP, with an introduction by Linden MacIntyre. In 2012, Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP...

Following an awkward sexual encounter under a wharf in outport Newfoundland, sixteen-year-old Rowena Savoury travels to St. John’s for a secret abortion. But in the early 1970s, the procedure is...

In Newfoundland's Era of Corruption: Responsible Government 1855-1933 Jack Fitzgerald delves deep into the political records of the Responsible Government era in Newfoundland to reveal the widespread corruption and incompetence...

Since its first printing in 1979, there have been twenty-eight printings of this popular cookbook; a total of well over 70,000 in print. Although small in size, it contains the...

This work represents trailblazing artists, dedicated activists, innovative entrepreneurs – people who made their mark through their work or their calling. It includes long-loved eccentrics and exceptional young adults who...

Celebrated photographer Dennis Minty returns with another vivid collection of images that capture the spirit of his island home. With his knowledge of place and photographic vision, Minty reveals the...

For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, reprinting...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 'THE VERY BEST!' POETRY AWARD** In Narrow Cradle, Wade Kearley explores the midlife encounter with mortality and the ways we strive to resist, deny, cheat,...

"Where in this racket can Nanny be? When you get invited to a kitchen party at your grandmother’s house, there may be certain things you don’t expect to find: like...

Learn to count from one to ten in true Newfoundland Style. Join the author on a journey through a small out port community and search for familiar Newfoundland sights to...

Muinji’j has been waiting all his life to make this trip with his grandfather-a trip to the city to sell rich otter, beaver and muskrat pelts and bring back supplies...

I always knew I’d be the perfect mother. So far, I’ve perfected the fetal position. When Vicki Murphy brought her new baby home from the hospital, she expected to be...

Miss Wondergem's Bakery, coming quite soon! In fact, it will open tomorrow at noon!There's a brand new bakery in town, and no one could be happier about it than Verna,...

Mind Your Eyes is Marian Frances White's second book of poetry. Through herdirect yet subtle voice that is carved from the elemental longing of life inNewfoundland, White takes us on...

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...

Memoirs of a Fly Fisher recounts the experiences of a man who has been fly fishing and guiding in Newfoundland and Labrador for four decades, since he bought his first...

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...

A fjord on the west coast of Newfoundland, Bonne Bay finds itself surrounded by the lands of Gros Morne National Park – a Unesco World Heritage Site. Drawing on years...

During the past 33 years, St. John's businessman Bruce Templeton has devoted the month of December to visiting children and assisting Santa Claus. In his memoir of three decades he...

In the spring of 1945, fifteen-year-old Evelyn McCallum finds herself competing with her best friend, Peter Tilley, and Stan Dawe, the handsome golden boy of her school, for the scholarship...

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...

For centuries, Signal Hill has dominated both the skyline of St. John's, Newfoundland, and the hearts and minds of its residents. The Lookout traces the hill's remarkable history as a...

African-American serviceman Lanier Phillips was just eighteen years old when he was rescued from a sinking warship off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942 – a turn of events that...

In Lend me Your Ears: More Humorous Stories from Roaring Cove, the likable Schoolmaster continues to tell stories that comment on the goings on in Roaring Cove. The result is...

This collection of jokes and humour stories from Newfoundland will make even the most cynical joker smile with delight. It's perfect for anyone with Newfoundland roots, the young and old...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This book is designed for senior high school students. An experienced teaching team whose editorial skills created stimulating and challenging activities for classroom use in this anthology.

Third in the Language Arts series, three handsome, full-colour volumes, is designed mainly for the high school curriculum but is eminently appropriate for the general reader. Practically every genre of...

Second in the Language Arts series, three handsome, full-colour volumes, is designed mainly for the high school curriculum but is eminently appropriate for the general reader. Practically every genre of...

First in the Language Arts series, three handsome, full-colour volumes, is designed mainly for the high school curriculum but is eminently appropriate for the general reader. Practically every genre of...

First in the Language Arts series, three handsome, full-colour volumes, is designed mainly for the high school curriculum but is eminently appropriate for the general reader. Practically every genre of...

First in the Language Arts series, three handsome, full-colour volumes, is designed mainly for the high school curriculum but is eminently appropriate for the general reader. Practically every genre of...

Still havin’ a Time. Based on the indie-film sensation that elevated a mini-bike loving, weed smoking, beer drinking underdog to the status of heroic icon, How to Be Deadly: The...

More than anything else, Sebastian wants to see the whales. One night he hides away on whaling ship headed for the New World.

After his wildly successful photographic tour of the island in Newfoundland: An Island Apart, Dennis Minty returns with a stunning portrait of the big land to the north, Labrador. From...

The Newfoundland armed forces suffered devastating losses during World War I. Known unto God is a memorial to the men in these forces who died during the war and who have no...

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...

Presents the issues, stories, and complexities of the Old Testament in a way that is both compelling and comprehensive.

Johnny and his family have moved from the big city to Bishop Falls. Finally, he finds the courage to ask strangers to play. His worst fears are realized though, when...

Just who discovered America's mainland? As Ian Wilson shows in John Cabot and the Matthew, it was John Cabot, and a West Country crew of just 18, who left Bristol,...

In this, her first novel, Helen Porter introduces us to Heather Novak, a young woman at odds with the world, attempting to cope with the consequences with her first, brief...

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,...

Set in rural Newfoundland and Labrador, Jack and the Hurricane follows young, willful Jack on his adventure to save his cousin's birthday party, no matter what Mother Nature has in...

Chopped Canada Champion chef Mark McCrowe has teamed up with fellow chef and photographer Sasha Okshevsky to present Island Kitchen: An Ode to Newfoundland. With a foreward by Chuck Hughes,...

Inter-Plays works and words of writers and critics (A Festschrift published in honor of Albert Reiner Glaap) are a collection of literary and critical texts. Well-known contemporary authors wrote the...

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...

In poems that risk the comingling of anger and elegy, poetry and documentation, humour and the dark spectre of poverty, Michelle Porter’s Inquiries oscillates at its edges, and amplifies the...

A realistic adventure tale of a boy who comes of age, shipwrecked and alone, struggling with survival and a past that haunts him.

Poems carefully selected from earlier books that are now out of print, from jou als, anthologies and magazines around the world form the body of an enticing, wide-ranging collection.

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...

Natalie's finished her Christmas list. It's really quite perfect with one little twist: A remote control scooter, some candy to share and, if it's no trouble, a big polar bear.

Richly imagined and evocative, I’d Write the Sea like a Parlour Game explores the diversity and resilience that inhabit life at the margins, from tuckamore trails to the streets of...

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...

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...

It's Canada Day and Freddy is dressed up as a Mountie. Up on Signal Hill in St. John's, he's all set for the Sunrise Ceremony. But Freddy's baby sister is...

Here Be Dragons is an account of the strange creatures of Newfoundland and Labrador. Featuring the unexplained and the unusual, it is an amalgamation of history, anecdotes, and folk tales,...

From Newfoundland’s role as a sanctuary for the displaced immigrants of the Irish-Catholic diaspora to a Catholic Bishop’s plea to an English monarch, and from the stories of relics and...

A trunk shipped C.O.D. from Toronto to Argentia turns out to contain a human body. A newspaper editor is ambushed and both his ears are cut off. A ship sinks...

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...

This book invites the reader, through stunning photographs and vivid words, to accompany Giant (Michel Andrew) as he journeys 400 kilometres across northeastern Nitassinan (Labrador) on snowshoes pulling a toboggan....

These are Emily's last five days in Lightning Cove, a community on the northeast coast of Newfoundland where she struggles to free herself from an oppressive husband. Her life, she...

Stephen Rowe’s geo•logics—his highly anticipated follow-up to Never More There—binds the impermanent to the permanent. With sustained inquiries into loss and reason, Rowe seeks a motivation capable of accepting pain,...

The early 1970s marked the beginning of Newfoundland’s cultural renaissance. And in 1974, amidst the music, literature, and burgeoning patriotic pride, a young, upstart Reach for the Top team from...

Gaddy’s Story is a delightful children’s story of the first weeks in the life of an Atlantic cod. Gaddy, now a tiny codfish, reflects on his humble beginnings. Nadine Osmond’s...

Full Circle brings together poetry written across decades by one of Newfoundland’s best-loved writers. Balanced on the sharpest edge of life, yet caught in the ruthless pull of aging and...

Free Wind Home carries the reader full circle through a childhood rooted in a sleepy Newfoundland outport with nineteenth century traditions, existing in a twentieth century world of war and...