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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 Rogues...

A Story of Memoirs In A Corner Boy Remembers, author Frank Kennedy remembers how times were so different when he was growing up in St. John's. Containing more than70 photographs, this book recalls...

Mechanic Jennifer Collins is a woman in a man's world, but since her father's sudden death her world has been falling apart. Now she's in a losing battle, risking everything to cling to the past...

Human movement in space and time, and a conce with the substance of reality and being are the pervasive themes in this book. The central poem, Isola Bella, develops this motif as Macdonald's personal...

A collection of oral histories from nurses practicing during the 20s and 30s in Newfoundland and Labrador.Author: Marilyn BeatonPublisher: Breakwater BooksPublication Date: Dec 15, 2011Number of...

A Painter's Poems comprises poetry that Pratt has written over the past 50 years, echoing his career as a painter. They are autobiographical - "pages from a diary." They respond to encounters with...

A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian minister and...

THE SECOND INSTALLMENT in the Gus and Isaac series, Ho Ho NO Christmas! follows the adventures of Gus the seagull and Isaac the bob-tailed cat in their attempt to save Christmas and help Santa, who...

The word allow has roots in the Latin verb laudare, to praise. These poems seek to allow the music of that which is muted in a world of bellowing. In Section I light plays on the veined ways of...

This compilation from one of Canada's most acclaimed writers spans four decades and six volumes. Often bittersweet and occasionally enigmatic, these poems represent Pittman's infinite talent...

Tramore Theatre was formed in 1999 by Agnes Walsh and Arlene Morrissey. It is a community-based arts organization dedicated to the promotion of the oral history and the cultural traditions of the...

These poems span the gamut of life from love to death; a eulogy for a people, who for the most part, are no longer with us. Their evolution in rural Newfoundland has taken hundreds of years and there...

Sitting on the stoop of the old house he'd built many years before, Achille mourns the recent death of his beloved Adela. Reminiscing about their life together, Achille comes up with the idea of...

There's just no place quite like Nanny's house. When you're little, it's a fascinating world of nooks, crannies, knick-knacks, and adventures around every corner. It's hard not to be pokey... and...

Brothers Owen and Alex Collins are brought together when mental illness claims their father and sets off a chain reaction of unrelated, heart-breaking events. Both tender and bold in its delivery,...

Throw this book in your knapsack as you begin your own hiking adventure through this magnificent province, or simply travel along with the author and his friend by reading these fascinating daily jou...

ACCLAIMED NEWFOUNDLAND AUTHOR Jill Sooley's second novel, Baggage, examines the step family. Drawing on humour and heart?break, as she did in Widows of Paradise Bay, this story unfolds from the...

A biography of Bill Bennett, a legendary bush pilot in Newfoundland and LabradorAuthor: Len RichPublisher: Breakwater BooksPublication Date: Dec 08, 2009Number of Pages: 112 pagesBinding: Paperback...

In 1617, Lord Falkland's colonists in Newfoundland were instructed to bring, among other things, 20 barrels of caske (ale), 90 bushels of malt, a malt mill, 4500 pounds of hops, 1 firkin of Aqua...

Chris LeGrow of Topsail, Newfoundland, began to compile his resume of adventure during his junior high school years when a friend provided his fateful introduction to small boat sailing. Together...

WINNER OF THE 2011 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, Lesleyanne Ryan's debut novel, Braco, takes place over the five days fol?lowing the fall of Srebrenica in 1995. The narrative follows the...

In the 1920s, Jim, Bert and Rose Evans all move from Newfoundland to Brooklyn, New York, in search of work and a better life, leaving their sister Annie back home in St. John's. By the Rivers of...

For both the Novice and the expert canoeist or kayacker this book is a must as it highlights the paddlers way through placid inland lakes, over 15,000 kilometers of the coastline and some of the most...

With the depth and feeling of a man whose subject is close to his heart, Poole chronicles the history of nineteenth century Battle Harbour using excerpts from diaries and period sources as well as...

Mary Immaculate is just twelve years old the day she goes missing. Berry-picking in the woods near her village in outport Newfoundland, Mary has an encounter with something from another world. When...

The third volume in the best-selling nursing history series. Overseas recruitment of nurses has been part of nursing in Newfoundland and Labrador since Wilfred Grenfell brought the first two nurses...

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...

The Faith of Friends series is part of Breakwater's religious education series for children in grades 4-6. This educational series introduces children to the underlying beliefs of the world's major...

An engrossing story of a bright John Hopkins graduate who fell in love with Newfoundland as a student, and who stayed to become the medical care system in north-easte Newfoundland for forty years...

Gary Saunders introduced us to Dr. Olds of Twillingate in his 1994 book of the same name. His latest book reveals the contents of a collection of witty sayings, which the supposedly humorless surgeon...