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Star in the storm
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Joan Hiatt Harlow |
In 1912, fearing for the safety of her beloved Newfoundland dog Sirius because of a new law outlawing non-sheepherding dogs in her Newfoundland village, twelve-year-old Maggie tries to save him by ke… |
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Horses of the crag
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Joan Hiatt Harlow |
In 1965 Newfoundland, thirteen-year-old Jessie's brave and impulsive nature leads her to commit a variety of daring acts, including rescuing a herd of wild ponies and kidnapping a poor orphan girl wh… |
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Annabel
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Kathleen Winter |
Born a boy and a girl but raised as a boy, Wayne or "Annabel" struggles with his identity growing up in a small Canadian town and seeks freedom by moving to the city. |
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TransAtlantic
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Colum McCann,Colum McCann |
A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through … |
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A World Elsewhere
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Wayne Johnston |
Set in the late nineteenth century, "A World Elsewhere" is an intricately woven tale of humour and emotion, of family and friendship, of ambition and destitution. At its centre is Landish Druken, son… |
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Sweetland
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Michael Crummey |
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of a remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement. They have each be… |
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The Killick
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Geoff Butler |
Spring has come and George sails with his grandfather to an abandoned fishing outport so the old man can visit his wife’s grave. On their return, they are caught in a fierce storm. They pull their bo… |
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The mummer's song
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Bud Davidge |
The words to a popular song portray the custom of costumed visits made shortly after Christmas in rural Newfoundland. |
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The Shipping News
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Annie Proulx |
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral h… |
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Alligator
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Lisa Moore,Lisa Moore |
Madeleine, the driven filmmaker whose mission is to complete a Bergmanesque magnum opus before she dies; Frank, a young man of innocence and determination whose life is a strange anthology of unpredi… |
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