The devastation of many of the greatest North Atlantic cod stocks, particularly those of Newfoundland & Labrador and the Grand Banks, has become an icon for the unsustainable relation between human exploitation...
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Cod – The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries
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Happiness of Fish
On a snowy winter night, Gerry Adamson hides from his family in a laid-up sailboat. Pushing sixty, holed-up with a laptop, he’s trying to make a novel out of thirty-odd years of compromises and betrayals that...
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Borderless Deceit
A virus destroys the communication network of the Canadian diplomatic service. Carson Pryce, a reclusive, moody intelligence analyst, and Rachel Dunn, a brilliant diplomat with a glowing humanitarian track record,...
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The Cyclic Variations – and more new poems
The Newfoundland Poetry Series began in 1993, to honour and preserve the literary talents of our Newfoundland and Labrador poets. Breakwater's aim is to make the series affordable to as many lovers of poetry...
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The Seventh Day
In this fast-paced novel about a man who returns to university following the death of his wife, David Edwards is drawn into a criminal web of drugs, sexual slavery, and political intrigue that threatens the very...
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Around the Red Land – Newfoundland Poetry Series
These poems span the gamut of life from love to death; a eulogy for a people, who for the most part, are no longer with us. Their evolution in rural Newfoundland has taken hundreds of years, and there is a good...
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Voices of World War II – A Collection of Oral Histories
Personal narratives in the veterans’ own words help bring history to life. “I remember being in Holland just before Christmas… The officer stood up and asked the Germans to surrender, and they shot him...
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Come By Chance – Newfoundland Poetry Series
Come-By-Chance is a collection of poems, often narrative, sometimes lyrical, always ruminative, about home, family, and place, about leaving and returning, about growing up and growing old, about leaving Newfoundland...
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Newfoundland Portfolio – A History in Portraits
This work represents trailblazing artists, dedicated activists, and innovative entrepreneurs – people who made their mark through their work or their calling. It includes long-loved eccentrics and exceptional...
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The Miners of Wabana – The Story of the Iron Ore Miners of Bell Island
For seventy-one years, iron ore was mined at Wabana, Bell Island: half the output was used in Canada; the other half was shipped around the world. When the mine shut down on June 30, 1966, it was Canada’s oldest,...
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The Berlin Assignment
This story of discovery, romance, and intrigue is set in Berlin shortly after the fall of the Wall. Anthony Hanbury, a Canadian diplomat pursuing a desultory career, is assigned as consul to Berlin. Having lived...
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Dancing in the Palm of his Hand
Dancing in the Palm of His Hand is a novel about the horrors of the European witch persecutions as revealed through Eva Rosen, a young widow accused of witchcraft, her persecutor Wilhelm Hampelmann, and her defender...
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Icy Battleground – Canada, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the Seal Hunt
Icy Battleground is the first comprehensive account of the forty-year political controversy over the seal hunt. With a foreword by the Honourable John C. Crosbie, it traces the rise of the anti-sealing protests,...
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From the Voices of Nurses – An Oral History of Newfoundland Nurses who Graduated Prior to 1950
Thirty-three nurses who graduated before 1950 were interviewed about nursing in communities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. Their nursing experiences cover a 60-year period and the stories reflect the nurses'...
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An Island In The Sky – Selected Poetry of Al Pittman
This compilation from one of Canada's most acclaimed writers spans four decades and six volumes. Often bittersweet and occasionally enigmatic, these poems represent Pittman's infinite talent. Targeted at a wide...
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