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1	Shipping News more books like this by E Annie Proulx When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey more books like this by Linda Greenlaw Linda Greenlaw was the first female sea captain in the swordfishing fleet and has skippered a boat through two terrible storms. In this book, she relives some of the most exciting and frightening trips of her life, including the five-day trip during which she encountered a 48-hour ocean storm. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Boat Who Wouldn't Float more books like this by Farley Mowat Happy Adventure was a schooner with one fatal flaw. It leaked like a sieve. So why would anyone repeatedly expose himself and his friends to the elements of the North Atlantic in a treacherous, stubborn, uncomfortable, unfloatable boat which at last count, has sunk eight times? Any explanation of this appalling narative seems outrageously ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £5.64! \| first editions
4	Meeting Place more books like this by Janette Oke, T Davis Bunn In 18th-century Canada, two women fashion a friendship that social unrest threatens to destroy. Song of Acadia book 1. A Christy Award-winner. see all copies from £4.16! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
5	The Colony of Unrequited Dreams more books like this by Wayne Johnston This novel uses the unlikely career of Newfoundland's first premier, Joey Smallwood, as its starting point to create a mystery, a love story and a tragi-comic elegy which is nothing less than the national history of an impossible country stranded on the brink of the world. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £7.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Thunder from the Sea more books like this by Joan Hiatt Harlow It's 1929 and thirteen-year-old Tom Campbell has always wanted a real family with a real house and a dog of his very own. Since he was three years old, the only home he has ever known has been the Mission orphanage. When he is sent to live and work with fisherman Enoch and his wife, Tom finally sees his dream wihin reach. And when he rescues a ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £5.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Latitudes of Melt more books like this by Joan Clark In 1912, a fisherman finds a baby in a basket floating on an ice floe off the coast of Newfoundland, and the child is adopted by the St. Croix family. As time goes by, the baby--who is named Aurora--grows up and seeks her true identity. But it isn't until her children and grandchildren become curious that the truth is established--a story that has ... see all copies from £4.16! new only from £12.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland more books like this by Jim DeFede "For the better part of a week, nearly every man, woman, and child in Gander and the surrounding smaller towns stopped what they were doing so they could help. They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness of man at a time when it was easy to doubt such humanity still ... see all copies from £6.52! new only from £7.50! \| first editions
9	Bird artist more books like this by Howard Norman A portrait of a Newfoundland town, and the tragic story of one of its young men, a bird artist, who murders the local lighthouse-keeper. The author's first novel was "The Northern Lights", a finalist for America's National Book Award and shortlisted for the "Sunday Express" Novel of the Year. see all copies from £2.19! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Star in the Storm more books like this by Joan Hiatt Harlow 1912. Twelve-year-old Maggie Wells lives in the port village of Bonnie Bay in Newfoundland, where a statute has been passed outlawing all non-sheepherding dogs. Maggie swears she'll protect her beloved Newfoundland dog, Sirius, by hiding him if she must. Sirius is named after the brightest star in the sky, which is in the constellation of "Canis ... see all copies from £5.48! new only from £5.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Random Passage more books like this by Bernice Morgan The chill Atlantic lies between Lavinia Andrews and the home she loves after a shattering incident topples her family fortunes. Shocked, she can barely comprehend that Cape Random is home from now on - this tiny Newfoundland settlement perched on rock between dense forest and the ocean. Lavinia and her family struggle side by side with the ... see all copies from £8.98! new only from £65.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Danger Tree: Memory, War and the Search for a Family's Past more books like this by David MacFarlane The Goodyear family of Newfoundland is the subject of this intimate memoir, which takes the family from World War I to the end of the 20th century. see all copies from £2.82! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Sylvanus Now more books like this by Donna Morrissey "Breathtakingly beautiful."--Alistair MacLeod 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--the fine-boned beauty Adelaide--and he knows exactly how much fish he has to catch to pay ... see all copies from £1.83! new only from £1.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914 more books like this by Cassie Brown Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out to the ice to hunt seals in the hope of a few penniew in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in the long line of tragedies that were part of their harsh way of life.For two long, freezing days and nights a party of seal ... see all copies from £5.48! first editions
15 view cover	Chasing Stanley more books like this by Deirdre Martin Professional hockey player Jason Mitchell is thrilled when he's traded to the New York Blades--the team of his dreams. There's just one problem: his pooch isn't adjusting to city life too well. Good thing he crosses paths with dog trainer Delilah Gould. And then he begins to fall for her. Original. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
16 view cover	Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale more books like this by Laurie Myers, Michael Dooling (Illustrator) In 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off to explore the vast territory west of the Mississippi River, and are joined by Lewis's dog, Seaman. From his first meeting with Lewis, to being mistaken for a bear by Indians who have never seen such a large dog, Seaman's tales are filled with adventure and are based on the explorers' journals. ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £6.13! \| first editions
17 view cover	Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure more books like this by James West Davidson, John Rugge In July 1903, Leonidas Hubbard set out to explore the uncharted interior of Labrador by canoe, accompanied by Dillon Wallace, his best friend, and George Elson, a Metis guide. Bad luck and bad judgment led the expedition into disaster and the party was forced to turn back. Hubbard died of starvation just thirty miles from camp. Two years later ... see all copies from £7.91! new only from £9.03! \| first editions
18 view cover	Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador more books like this by John Gimlette John Gimlette's journey across this awesome and often brutal western extreme of the Americas broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great-grandfather, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893, and who was witness to some of the most beautiful ice and cruellest poverty in the British Empire. Using Curwen's extraordinarily frank journal ... see all copies from £2.17! new only from £5.22! \| first editions
19 view cover	Downhill Chance more books like this by Donna Morrissey Set like Donna Morrissey's first novel in the far reaches of Newfoundland, DOWNHILL CHANCE is about two families--the Osmonds and the Gales--during World War II and the years after. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Lure of the Labrador Wild more books like this by Dillon Wallace Dillon Wallace (Jr) (1863-1939) was an American writer. His works include: The Lure of The Labrador Wild (1905), The Long Labrador Trail (1907), Ungava Bob (1907), Hunting with the Eskimos (1910), Saddle and Camp in the Rockies (1911), Packaging and Portaging (1912), The Wilderness Castaways (1913), The Gaunt Gray Wolf (1914), The Fur Trail ... see all copies from £5.96! new only from £11.12! \| first editions
21 view cover	Creation more books like this by Katherine Govier This account of an episode in the life of John James Audubon takes him to a treacherous nesting ground near Labrador in 1833. It also follows the story of Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield of the British Royal Navy, who is exploring the Canadian lakes. The encounters between the two men illuminate both their professions, and their characters as well. ... see all copies from £4.94! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island more books like this by Paul Karr You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with "Frommer's". It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go - they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £5.65!
23 view cover	The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore more books like this by Robert Finch For nearly a decade, Robert Finch traveled around the "edge of North America" -- the stunning yet seriously inhospitable island of Newfoundland. Here, he chronicles the people, geography, and wildlife of this remote and lovely place. In beautifully written essays, sketches, and stories, Finch roams from verdant valleys to the rocky cliffs of Cape ... see all copies from £6.22! new only from £6.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The shipping news more books like this by Annie Proulx First published in 1994 and now reissued as a classic edition, a novel of human life and possibility in which one man, following the dramatic death of his wife, heads for the remotest part of Newfoundland, along with his 'aunt' and two daughters, and finds himself part of an unfolding Atlantic drama. From the author of POSTCARDS. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey's Bay Hustle more books like this by Jacquie McNish see all copies from £12.30! new only from £12.54! \| first editions

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