Newfoundland – 琉璃社区 琉璃社区 Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Tue, 14 May 2024 12:28:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Amelia and Me /store/amelia-and-me.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:42:55 +0000 /store/amelia-and-me-2 After reading about Amelia Earhart in her friend's scrapbook, twelve-year-old Ginny Ross decides to become a pilot. But how will Ginny's dream take flight when her mother鈥攏ot to mention society in general鈥攕o fiercely believes a woman's place is in the home?

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]]> 85559 Cod Collapse /store/cod-collapse.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:39:36 +0000 /store/cod-collapse It's 1992 in Newfoundland and Labrador and the cod moratorium has put some thirty thousand fishers out of work. Journalist Jenn Thornhill Verma blends memoir and research in this gripping account of the enduring legacy of the largest mass layoff in Canadian history. Tracing the early history of the fishery to the present, Verma considers what lies ahead and what was lost along the way.

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]]> 82535 Screech! /store/screech.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:39:11 +0000 /store/screech Adapted from family stories told across Newfoundland and passed down over generations, these 10 spine-tingling tales traverse centuries and introduce readers to nooks and the Island?s nooks and crannies. This spooky collection features black-and-white illustrations as well as traditional context on each story and the art of storytelling in Newfoundland.

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]]> 84665 Traditional Newfoundland English /store/traditional-newfoundland-english.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:35:29 +0000 /store/traditional-newfoundland-english.html/traditional-newfoundland-english The rich heritage of Newfoundland English, influenced by the dialects of the English, Irish, and Scottish immigrants to the province, receives well-deserved attention in this well-crafted dictionary. author R. A. Bragg aims to elevate Newfoundland English from being thought of as mere slang or accent to a standardized language, and to preserve the heritage of North America's first English language for the future.

This dictionary offers both Newfy to English and English to Newfy translations with 1,500 fully annotated entries. The dictionary is completed by usage and pronunciation guides that present a regularized language structure, as well as three maps. As this dictionary shows, traditional Newfy talk is unique, relevant, and altogether "wunnerfo."

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]]> 56198 A Real Newfoundland Scoff /store/a-real-newfoundland-scoff.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:26:50 +0000 /store/a-real-newfoundland-scoff.html/a-real-newfoundland-scoff Inspired by her desire to stay connected to the food of her home province, culinary writer Liz Feltham goes back to her roots to bring fresh and modern twists to favourite Newfoundland meals. A Real Newfoundland Scoff provides recipes using traditional ingredients from the sea, land, air, bakeshop, and bar to create non-traditional dishes. Above all, Liz encourages readers to use this cookbook as a guide to exploring, discovering, and creating new versions of their old Newfoundland favourites.

Packed with fifty-six new recipes, thirty colour photographs, and a guide for buying Newfoundland ingredients in Atlantic Canada, this cookbook will appeal to all Newfoundland chefs, traditional and adventurous alike.

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]]> 53815 You Could Believe in Nothing /store/you-could-believe-in-nothing.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:18:42 +0000 /store/you-could-believe-in-nothing.html/you-could-believe-in-nothing Jamie Fitzpatrick's debut novel tells of a muddled adulthood in St. John's, Newfoundland. Derek is forty-one years old. His girlfriend has just left him for a job in Ottawa, his father, a DJ at the local classic rock station, is about to go to court, and his rec hockey team is up in arms about a TV reporter's attempts to glorify their weekly games. When Derek's half-brother, Curtis, comes home, the visit stirs up nagging questions about their parents' early days, and Derek examines again what it means to make commitments that may or may not bring real happiness.

Fitzpatrick captures the subtleties of casual conversation and the often understated wit that emerges between old friends. Having grown up after the decline of whatever might have been the real Newfoundland, Derek and his teammates are generally at a loss to defend the urban, mostly wayward lives the occupy. Set into a wet spring in St. John's, its rinks, streets, and landmarks, and the sunken map of old haunts and years gone by, You Could Believe in Nothing is a study in familiarity and self-definition, underlining how little we sometimes know about ourselves and the people we know best.

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]]> 53603 Hero /store/hero.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:14:45 +0000 /store/hero.html/hero In a St. John's hospital in 1945, Elsa Evans keeps a furtive vigil over the deathbed of Abram Kean, the renowned sealing captain. Remembering her first husband and her two brothers killed in the trenches thirty years before, and another young friend, Noah, frozen on the ice during the sealing disaster of 1914, Elsa contemplates a hideous revenge. The shock of her own bitterness forces her to retrace part of her life which is interwoven with those of her former employers, Simon and Sarah Jenson.

On the morning of July 1916, officer Lt. Simon Jenson, severely shell-shocked and demoralized after a year and a half in the trenches, fails in leadership, hanging behind his men as they march through into no-man's-land. When a figure emerges from the drifting smoke, he thrusts the blade of his bayonet forward not into the enemy but into the body of Charles Baxter, a comrade and the brother of his fianc茅e, Sarah. Surviving against the odds, and with his battlefield actions misinterpreted, Simon is feted as a hero. But when Simon returns from the war, Sarah finds him emotionally fragile and prone to violent rages- not even their young daughter Lucy can cheer him. Worse, their lives are soon overtaken by the shadow of blackmail, and Sarah and Elsa, Lucy's governess, are forced to reconsider everything they once believed about loyalty, valour, and responsibility.

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]]> 53565 Lost Canoe /store/lost-canoe.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:12:30 +0000 /store/lost-canoe.html/lost-canoe A contemporary account of tracking a historical explorer across Labrador.
In the mode of Leonidas Hubbard and William Cabot, Hesketh Prichard set out with a group of adventurers in the early 1900s, determined to cross Labrador. Disregarding local advice, his expedition headed up a box canyon and climbed five-hundred-metre cliffs all with a canoe in tow- a gruesome portage. The canoe was later abandoned.
The Lost Canoe is the account of the contemporary search for Prichard's lost canoe. Over three summers Larry Coady coaxed friends and strangers into searching for Prichard's
canoe, retracing Prichard's route, verifying landforms and campsites, and mapping the entire trail. Only hard-nosed hikers immune to blackflies and mosquitoes were enticed to participate. Prichard's original 1910 photographs and accounts of his journey, published in Through Trackless Labrador, are paired with Coady's own photographs and writings. The narrative that results reveals a struggle against the elements to cross the ancient landscape of northern Labrador, a subarctic mix of boreal forest and open tundra. The book will appeal to a broad audience, from historians and geographers to adventurers and hikers.

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]]> 54471 The Best of Wilfred Grenfell /store/the-best-of-wilfred-grenfell.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:10:51 +0000 /store/best-of-wilfred-grenfell.html/best-of-wilfred-grenfell True life stories of the heroic efforts of people by a man as legendary as his subject. In the fifty years since his death, Wilfred Grenfell has become a folk hero-a missionary doctor who served the northern reaches of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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]]> 54450 St. John’s /store/st.-johns.html Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:10:48 +0000 /store/st-johns.html/st-johns In Ben Hansen's St. John's the professional, award-winning photographer turns his lens on the largest city in Newfoundland. From the colouful bows of local fishing boats to Battery Park and Memorial University, Ben Hansen's photographs convey the blending of old and new. Through his lens, the viewer will observe a city of great beauty, important historical significance and bustling activity.

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