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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Auteur:Sullivan, J.M.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Crellin, John K.Sommaire:Although primarily associated with filling doctors’ prescriptions and selling medicines and other items for self-care, historically drugstores have also been operated as general stores, selling an intriguing range of toiletries,...
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Auteur:Major, KevinSommaire:Shannon Carew has a complicated relationship with history. Born a Newfoundler, she has spent years on the other side of the country in order to erase her past and set down new roots. But when an opportunity to work with Newfoundland and...
- Auteur:North, RebeccaSommaire:
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 moose and foxes and bears! In this exciting, playful romp through a...
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Auteur:Butler, PaulSommaire:The legend of Sheila NaGeira looms large in the early history of the New World.
And it stretches back to Ireland in the 1500s and an ancient crone, Sheila Na Gig, whose form still haunts church doorways.
NaGeira...
- Auteur:Moore, TomSommaire:
Some people age gracefully as wisdom and calm come with the grey hair. Others become crotchety, opinionated, and odd. People avoid them and laugh at them. Still others give up on life, on ambition, on dreams, and settle into a pleasant...
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Auteur:Parsons, Robert C.Sommaire:The story of Newfoundland and Labrador is a long and bloody one.
In Murder on the Rock, Robert C. Parsons describes some of the most horrific and puzzling crimes and shenanigans that have happened in this province. With...
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Auteur:Lewis, Colleen, Hicks, JenniferSommaire:Mr. Big is the shocking true story of a murder investigation in Newfoundland and Labrador that forever changed the face of the Canadian justice system.
On August 4, 2002, three-year-old twin girls Karen and Krista Hart...
- Auteur:Loeffler, TASommaire:
Writing with remarkable openness and passion, T.A. Loeffler recounts her powerful story of preparing for, and attempting to scale, the mighty summit of Mount Everest. With gripping descriptions and spectacular photos, she invites...
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Auteur:Bowdring, PaulSommaire:After a thirty-year exile in Toronto, self-described "mid-listing" Newfoundland author James Nightingale leaves behind a failed marriage to a successful classical musician, who has taken up with an avant-garde composer, and a middling,...
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Auteur:Andersen, Raoul R., Crellin, John K.Sommaire:Mi’sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief’s Journey chronicles both the life of an individual and that of his people. Mi’sel Joe is the traditional and administrative chief of Newfoundland’s Conne River Mi’kmaq Reserve. Through a series...
- Auteur:Fitzpatrick, WilhelminaSommaire:
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 Hann dies, her great-niece, Annie Byrne, returns to Newfoundland...
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Auteur:Collins, GarySommaire:An adventure story from award-winning author Gary Collins: Newfoundland’s Favourite Storyteller!
“There is a feeling that comes to one who goes unafraid into the wilderness. For the very few who experience it comes a sense of...
- Auteur:Evans, CalvinSommaire:
The fishery, the seal cull, the settlement, the culture—the history of Newfoundland and Labrador has been shaped and witnessed from the deck of sea-going vessels, and those vessels were sparred with local timbers, planked and rigged by...
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Auteur:Saunders, RexSommaire:“This is going to be a good day out in boat,” said Rex Saunders, a sixty-six-year-old sealer from St. Lunaire-Griquet, NL, before heading out to the icefields on May 4, 2009. Later that day, the cold and unforgiving waters of the...
- Auteur:Rieti, BarbaraSommaire:
Drawing from her own interviews and a wealth of material from the Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive, Barbara Rieti explores the range and depth of Newfoundland witch tradition, looking at why certain people acquired...
- Auteur:Winsor, MichaelSommaire:
Lost in Newfoundland works like the perfect photo album of the perfect trip to Newfoundland—one not limited by vacation time, and in which we see all the beauties promised to us by the advocates for Newfoundland tourism. If you wanted...
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Auteur:Collins, GarySommaire:A storytelling masterpiece, Left to Die is Gary Collins’s most ambitious and creative work to date. With new photos and new research revealed, he recalls with stunning clarity what history remembers about the SS Newfoundland...
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Auteur:Gillett, JohnSommaire:“In the harsh, bitter, cold environment we work in, seal harvesting and fishing are two of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The North Atlantic has no friends. It just makes you believe it is your friend when it offers up its beauty...
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Auteur:Ryan, ShannonSommaire:The Last of the Ice Hunters is a history of the seal hunt, an industry now in decline, but one which provided the few opportunities for employment to Newfoundlanders and Labradorians during the 1930s. Written in the words of...
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