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  • A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818

    by Shannon Ryan ...
    The waters off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic, held the world’s most abundant supply of codfish, which, when discovered, was in great demand. Unlike the fur trade—the other major early commercial activity in what is now mainland Canada—the production of codfish did not require year-round residence. It did, however, require numerous men, young and old, for the fishing season, which ran from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • John Guy of Bristol and Newfoundland

    His Life, Times and Legacy

    by Dr. Alan F. Williams ...
    This book relates to the two principal themes of the Cupids 400 Celebrations — the settlement of Cupids in 1610 and the origins of English settlement in Newfoundland and Canada. John Guy was an influential merchant and civic figure in Bristol and West of England history and an important figure in the early history of settlement in Newfoundland through his association with the London and Bristol ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bonavista

    by Bruce Whiffen ...
    "Today, Bonavista has stabilized its population with signs of growth in the past few years, its business start-up rates are the highest in the province, vacant buildings are harder and harder to come by, and new families continue to move in each year. On this current trajectory, the town of Bonavista will be around for centuries to come, a beacon for tourism, rural economic development, research, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cape Race

    Stories from the Coast that Sank the Titanic

    by Robert C. Parsons ...
    Many people on Canada’s east coast, the maritime regions, have experienced the temperament of the North Atlantic Ocean: beautiful, moody, mysterious. The cold Atlantic has a capacity, with its tremendous force and power, to take human life seemingly at will; however, it has also spared lives and allowed miraculous escapes. Since the phenomenon of the 1997 hit movie Titanic, more people than ever ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mr. Big

    The Investigation into the Deaths of Karen and Krista Hart

    by Colleen Lewis, Jennifer Hicks ...
    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 drowned in Gander Lake. They had gone there with their father. He said it was an accident, but the police were convinced Nelson Hart had killed his daughters that day. With not ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Don't Have Your Baby in the Dory!: A Biography of Nurse Myra Bennett

    A Biography of Nurse Myra Bennett

    by H. Gordon Green ...
    “It’s tempting Providence, it is!” he kept saying. “Sail this here ship on Friday the thirteenth? With all them blinkin’ mines still loose in the sea? It’s only askin’ for trouble, that’s all!” This was the warning given to Nurse Myra Grimsley in 1921 prior to her departure from England to her new assignment in Newfoundland. In May of that year, she arrived in the small fishing hamlet of Daniel’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Man on the Ice

    The Rex Saunders Story

    by Rex Saunders ...
    “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 Atlantic Ocean nearly claimed another victim after his boat capsized. He had phoned his wife mere moments before the mishap and told her to expect him home in an hour, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Growing Up Next to The Mental

    by Brian Callahan ...
    We called it the Mental and thought nothing of it. No more than eeny, meeny, miney, mo and who we were supposed to catch by the toe. Wish Mooney’s earliest memory in life is finding a corpse in the Waterford River. Jarring stuff for a four-year-old, yet far from the most shocking or bizarre he would witness growing up in west end St. John’s next door to the Waterford Hospital. Or, as it was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Where Eagles Lie Fallen: The Crash of Arrow Air Flight 1285 Gander Newfoundland

    The Crash of Arrow Air Flight 1285, Gander, Newfoundland

    by Gary Collins ...
    Where Eagles Lie Fallen is celebrated master storyteller Gary Collinss solemn tribute to the American servicemen and servicewomen who lost their lives aboard Arrow Air Flight 1285 when it crashed in Gander Newfoundland on December 12 1985. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Some Day the Sun Will Shine and Have Not Will Be No More

    by Brian Peckford ...
    “Some day the sun will shine and have not will be no more.” These are the immortal words of Brian Peckford, who served as the third premier of Newfoundland, and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1979 until his retirement in 1989. As one of Newfoundland’s most committed and combative leaders, Mr. Peckford’s clashes with the federal government—to wrest control of the province’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Thursday's Storm

    The August Gale of 1927

    by Darrell Duke ...
    When the crew of the fishing schooner Annie Healy left their home port of Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay, on Wednesday, August 17, 1927, no one could have imagined what fate held in store for them. Times were hard in Newfoundland that year. On shore, wives of the crew were often worked to exhaustion, even more so while their men were at sea. Most had lost parents, siblings, or children to tuberculosis ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Liars

    by Ida Linehan Young ...
    Newfoundland, 1895 Alice and John MacDonald, both running from pasts that were too traumatic to face, meet by chance and stay together in a fragile world that’s rife with lies and secrets. The only thing they have in common is the love for a seven-year-old child, Beatrice, whom they have raised since she was a baby. When an escaped murderer triggers a series of events that will significantly ... Read more

    $4.99 USD