“Because of the scarcity of cod in Conception Bay in the early 1920s, my father decided to go to the Labrador coast and try his luck as hundreds of others were doing.
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Author:Hussey, Greta
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Author:Abbott, Linda
Summary:Day after day, thousands of people passed by an unassuming, three-storey building on the corner of New Gower and Springdale streets in St. John’s.
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Author:Rowe, Bill
Summary:“Part memoir, part history, The Worst and Best of the Premiers and Some We Never Had is Bill Rowe’s most ambitious work of non-fiction to date.
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Author:Martin, Melanie
Summary:A Royal Newfoundland Regiment Love Story In the summer of 1914, Daniel Beresford’s innocent love affair with the merchant’s daughter is discovered, forcing him to make an impossible decision to sa
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Author:Roberts, Edward
Summary:Every Newfoundlander and Labradorian knows that Joey Smallwood was “the Father of the Baby Bonus.” He told us so in his own inimitable style—many, many, many, many times.
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Author:Greenham, Cyril W.
Summary:The Yarns We Had is a collection of stories that were handed down to Cyril W. Greenham by his father, Wilbur Greenham, and grandfather, Andrew (Chum) Greenham.
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Author:Parsons, Robert C.
Summary:The story of Newfoundland and Labrador is a long and bloody one. In Murder on the Rock, Robert C.
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Author:Abbott, Linda
Summary:The banking schooner Marion set sail from St. Jacques, Newfoundland, bound for St. Pierre, the home base of Captain Pierre Maurice, on June 10, 1915. The vessel and crew were never seen again.
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Author:Wellman, Jim
Summary:“To succeed at fishing, one must be creative and constantly find ways to outsmart nature.” Newfoundland captain and fisherwoman Tracey Button adds another dimension to her thoughts on the career pa
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Author:Butler, Paul
Summary:A fascinating and unpredictable dramatic story of John Guy of Bristol.
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Author:Morgan, Carolyn
Summary:A novel of crime and passion in nineteenth-century Newfoundland Alexander Pindikowsky, a Polish artist working in Heart’s Content, is arrested in 1880 for the crime of forgery.
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Author:Young, Ida Linehan
Summary:In the late nineteenth century, after disease and circumstance have left her alone in the world, Mary Rourke believes she is predestined to spinsterhood in her small community in Newfoundland.
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Author:Bursey, Lillian
Summary:The story of one girls struggle with tuberculosis and her journey to recovery.
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Author:Andersen, Raoul R.
,Crellin, John K.
Summary:The inspirational memoir of a Mi'kmaq civil rights leader.
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Author:Payne, Stewart
Summary:Cut from the Cloth of Fogo is Stewart Payne’s memoir, tracing his humble beginnings on Fogo Island in the 1930s and his journey to becoming one of the most respected Anglican clergymen in Newfoundl
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