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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a 'head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,' is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package - the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors abandon the island, he recalls the town's rugged history...
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Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
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When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
429 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
With Kit's Law, Donna Morrissey established herself as a gifted storyteller. Her chronicle of life in a remote Newfoundland outport was acclaimed by critics and embraced by readers worldwide. Downhill Chance is a captivating successor to Morrissey's first novel. Set in a pair of isolated fishing communities in Newfoundland during and after the Second World War, this is the story of two families joined by friendship but torn apart by fear and sorrows.
Prude...
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English
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Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime--a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This astounding novel fully deserves to be called a saga. It begins a thousand years ago in the time of the Vikings in Newfoundland. It is crammed with incidents of war and peace, with fights to the death and long nights of lovemaking, and with accounts of the rise of local clan chiefs and the silent fall of great distant empires. Out of the mists of the past it sweeps forward eight hundred years, to the lonely death of the last of the Beothuk.
The...
7) Duncan's way
Author
Publisher
DK Ink
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When his parents decide to leave their home in Newfoundland because his father can no longer work as a cod fisherman, eleven-year-old Duncan tries to find a way for them to stay.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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From Emma Hooper, critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine "Pick of the Week," comes a lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love alive.The Connor family is one of the few that is still left in their idyllic fishing village, Big Running; after the fish mysteriously disappeared, most families had no...
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
150 p. : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 keeping him hidden.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
243 p. : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just when his dreams of being part of a family and having a dog seem to be coming true, Tom wonders if trouble with neighbors on his new island home and the impending birth of a new baby will change everything. Set in Newfoundland in 1929.
13) The innocents
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An orphaned brother and sister must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost on Newfoundland's northern coastline in the late 1800s"--Provided by publisher.
15) River thieves
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
16) The English wife
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Sophie Parry's New York-bound plane is diverted to Newfoundland on September 11, 2001, Sophie decides to reconnect with her estranged Aunt Ellie, who emigrated from England as a World War II war bride in 1946.
Author
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his brother is killed, Lewis blames the alcoholic, Eli Fagan, but years after the court rules it an accident, the darkness of the past begins to reappear, leading Lewis back to Eli Fagan and his stepson, Garrett Glass.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
On Canada's Atlantic coast at the edge of the great Newfoundland fishing banks of the 1950s, Sylvanus Now is a handsome and willful fisherman. His youthful desires are simple: he wants a suit to lure a girl, t̮he fine-boned beauty Adelaide, a̮nd he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay for it. Adelaide, however, has other dreams.
She longs to escape the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community, but her need for refuge from her...
20) Porcupine
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"War-torn Afghanistan could not seem farther from Newfoundland, but it is about to change twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline), as her mother insists on calling her) forever. When her father is killed in the war, she watches helplessly as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression..."
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