'Tis a Wonderful Time to Be Alive is Winston Oldford’s personal account of growing up in Burnside, Bonavista Bay, in the 1940s and 1950s.
The tiny community underwent a baptism by fire—literally—in the early twentieth...
Newfoundland and Labrador
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Author:Oldford, WinstonSummary: - Author:Jarvis, DaleSummary:
Newfoundland and Labrador is blessed with more fairies, devils, old hags, phantoms, Jacky Lanterns, sea monsters, and other fabulous and frightening creatures than any other spot in Canada. Author and researcher Dale Jarvis, creator of...
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Author:Doyle, AlanSummary:From the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea comes a memoir about growing up in the tiny fishing village of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, and then taking to the world stage. Alan paints a vivid and raucous portrait of a curious young...
- Author:Dohaney, M.T.Summary:
One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney's husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again. Without warning, Jean was plunged into the most painful and disorienting experience of...
- Author:Winter, Michael, Moore, LisaSummary:
The A List edition of Michael Winter’s brilliant fictional memoir, This All Happened depicts one man’s descent from love to fury over a calendar year. Featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore.In this journal-a-clef, we are exposed to the...
- 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. Both men were fishermen and seagoing captains from Notre Dame Bay,...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
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. The book observes with a critical and humorous eye the landscape of Newfoundland and...
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Author:Whyatt, SabrinaSummary:From a shy small-town girl singing for family and friends at community concerts, to the bright lights of country music fame, from the wheelhouse of her very own fishing vessel hundreds of miles offshore, to the summit of Mount...
- Author:Whyatt, SabrinaSummary:
From a shy small-town girl singing for family and friends at community concerts, to the bright lights of country music fame, from the wheelhouse of her very own fishing vessel hundreds of miles offshore, to the summit of Mount...
- Author:Andrieux, J. P.Summary:
The Portuguese White Fleet, whose name derived from its vessels’ white hulls, is an important part of Newfoundland and Labrador history. Gaspar Corte-Real’s followers had been fishing off the Grand Banks for more than 400 years, but it...
- Author:Vautier, ClarenceSummary:
The fishermen who ply their trade on the Atlantic Ocean can tell thousands of tales of daring rescue and tragic loss of life. In The Trawlermen, Clarence Vautier explores the lives of some of Atlantic Canada’s best-known sea...
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Author:Bowdring, PaulSummary:St. John's archivist Michael Lowe's life is turned on its head when a Dutch acquaintance, Anton Aalders, arrives on his doorstep. Anton is searching for a father he never met, a Newfoundland soldier who was part of the Allied forces...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
Bestselling author Bill Rowe dishes up a long-awaited tell-all memoir that covers the years he spent in the political arena with Newfoundland premiers Joey Smallwood and Frank Moores.
In this federal election, Browne was...
- Author:Bennett, JeremySummary:
“Jeremy Bennett’s remarkable story is familiar to me since I too suffered from an early bout with a difficult mental/physical disorder. In my case it was stammering and I found that by practicing magic in front of a mirror and doing...
- Author:Rideout, SamanthaSummary:
Who says you can’t go home again?
Sylvia can’t imagine why anyone would ever try. She had left rural Newfoundland as a scrawny, shy girl who was too smart for her own good. When she dragged herself home for her cousin’s wedding,...
- Author:Peacock, ShaneSummary:
Dylan is twelve years old and embarking on his first ocean kayaking trip with his parents. He has spent the last year convincing them that he is ready for the challenging-and very dangerous-adventure. In fact, he has been determined to...
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Musicologists today give him credit for creating the modern canon of Newfoundland folksong. A star of regional radio and television with over a dozen record albums to his credit, Omar Blondahl was once a household name in Newfoundland....
- Author:Abbott, LindaSummary:
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. Many have speculated that the...
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
Inspired by True Events
In 1934, North America lay stripped of its riches by a great depression. When the land refused to yield its bounty and the sea grew stingy, everyone in the Western World found it harder to survive,...
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
Inspired by True Events
Long after Demasduit’s skull has been stolen from her grave, and years after Shanawdithit has died, one Beothuk and his family survive.
Bursting out of the pages of Newfoundland history appears Kop...
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