If Shakespeare's Cordelia met Andy Jones's Jack, the resulting offspring might be The Birchy Maid, a saucy, sensible, self-reliant heroine for the modern age.
When a merchant prince sails into her life, she...
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Birchy Maid, The
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Find Scruncheon and Touton 2
Find Scruncheon and Touton 2 is the much anticipated follow up to Find Scruncheon and Touton: All Around Newfoundland. Join Scruncheon the Newfoundland Dog and Touton the Labrador Retriever as they adventure...
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Jelly Bean Row
What’s red and green and a sticky, mushy mess? The legendary Jelly Bean Row no less! How did The Jelly Bean Row get its name? Here’s a slap happy tale nestled inside dozens of bright, rainbow-drenched illustrations...
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Miss Wondergem’s Dreadfully Dreadful Pie
Miss Wondergem’s Bakery, coming quite soon! In fact, it will open tomorrow at noon!There’s a brand new bakery in town, and no one could be happier about it than Verna, Myrna and Bradley McGrew. As much as...
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Find Scruncheon and Touton
Young readers will have endless fun looking for Scruncheon the Newfoundland Dog and Touton the Labrador Retriever. And there are other hidden objects in this delightful picture-book, too. For anyone who lives...
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Peter’s Christmas Eve Adventure
On Christmas Eve in a tiny Newfoundland outport, a little boy named Peter anxiously awaits the arrival of Santa Claus. But a winter storm arrives that night and Peter isn’t sure if Santa will find his way....
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Freddy’s Hockey Hero
When the Habs and the Leafs face off in an exhibition game, Freddy is beside himself with excitement. He has a secret mission to find Billy Binkle, the most famous hockey player of all time. Although Freddy’s...
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Gift of Music, A: Emile Benoit and his Fiddle
When he was a young boy, Emile Benoit dreamed of having his own fiddle. All he had was a toy with some thread for strings. But on his twelfth birthday, he got a big surprise! His father had made a fiddle out...
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Hey Freddy! It’s Canada’s Birthday
It’s Canada Day and Freddy is dressed up as a Mountie. Up on Signal Hill in St. John’s, he’s all set for the Sunrise Ceremony. But Freddy’s baby sister is cranky from getting up so early – and Freddy...
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Freddy’s Day at the Races
It’s Royal Regatta Day in St. John’s and Freddy is very excited. Dressed in his favourite pirate’s suit, he and his mom go down to Quidi Vidi Lake – along with 50,000 other fans. Suddenly Freddy...
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Puppy Story, A
Laura Lou promises her Mom and Dad that if only she she can have a puppy, he will have perfect manners. Oops. Puppy has other ideas – like snacking on the houseplants and jumping out of the tub and sliding...
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Rebecca’s Ducks
Rebecca’s Ducks tells the story of a little girl named Rebecca who moves from Toronto to Conception Bay North. She loves ducks and hopes to find a duck pond near her new home. When she finds a duck pond with...
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Sights Before Christmas, The
As Barnaby drifts into sleep, he has dreams filled with madcap Mummers: the Turkish Knight, the bold-but-not-so-bright Sir George, his faithful wood horse Fred and, of course, the wild traveling medicine man, Dr....
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Princess June and the Shadow Pirates
Princess June and the Shadow Pirates is a story that follows a young girl's desperate quest to save her kingdom from evil invaders.
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My Newfoundland and Labrador Counting Book
Learn to count from one to ten in true Newfoundland Style. Join the author on a journey through a small out port community and search for familiar Newfoundland sights to complete your counting quest.
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Thomas Doucet: Hero of Plainsance, The
It's 1696, and Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville is marching across the Avalon Peninsula, attacking English settlements. Young Thomas Doucet of Plaisance listens in awe to the stories of daring and adventure. Suddenly,...
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