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.
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Author:Waddleton, Tracey
Summary:Genre: Short stories, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Porter, Michelle
Summary:In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet.
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Author:Morgan-Cole, Trudy
Summary: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.
Genre: Canadian fiction, Epic fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Major, Kevin
Summary:Sebastian Synard is back.
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Author:Hickey, Gemma
Summary:On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse.
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Author:Major, Kevin
Summary:When Sebastian Synard leads a group of tourists along the cliffs of St. John's harbour, one of them ends up dead. Is there a heartless murderer in Sebastian's tour group?
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Author:Marshall, Ingeborg
Summary: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 white settlers.
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Author:Guy, Ray.
Summary:Genre: Canadian nonfictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Vryenhoek, Leslie
Summary: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 about the future of space
Genre: Literary fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Canning, Bridget
Summary:Imogene Tubbs has never met her father, and raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically.
Genre: Domestic fiction, BildungsromansAvailable Formats:
Author:Collins, Gerard
Summary: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.
Genre: Gothic fiction, Psychological fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Fitzgerald, Jack
Summary:How did a Catholic bishop stop the riot of 1861? Which British monarch physically assaulted a priest in St. John’s? What ancient relics are kept at the Basilica?
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Author:Morgan, Bernice
Summary:The award-winning sequel to Random Passage. Waiting for Time, the sequel to the best-selling Random Passage, completes the epic saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random.
Genre: Historical fiction, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Summary:This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Social science, EssaysAvailable Formats:
Author:GoldenEagle, Carol Rose
Summary:Hiraeth is about women supporting and lending strength and clarity to other women so they know that moving forward is always possible-- and always necessary.
Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materialsAvailable Formats: