Traveling with Wildflowers features exquisite watercolours of the wildflowers Hammond encountered along the way, interspersed with lush landscapes in watercolour and photographs.
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Traveling with Wildflowers – from Newfoundland to Alaska
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Forty Testoons
This is a novel of political intrigue, spies, and treason in medieval Newfoundland. The year is 1504 and father Ralph Fletcher, a young priest, is paid forty testoons to stay and minister to the winter crew while...
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The Birth and Burial Grounds – Newfoundland Poetry Series
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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All Gone Widdun
All Gone Widdun is a novel about William Cormack's quest to save the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland, his love for Shawnawdithit, a young Beothuk woman, and the tragedy of her life and the lives of her people. Based...
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Voices of the Young – A Selection of Student Poetry
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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Allowing the Light
The word allow has roots in the Latin verb laudare, to praise. These poems seek to allow the music of that which is muted in a world of bellowing. In Section I, light plays on the veined ways of vegetation, of poetry,...
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Talking to Ghosts – Newfoundland Poetry Series
Talking to Ghosts is Philip Gardner's fourth volume of poetry, and his second to be published in Newfoundland, where he has taught for nearly thirty years. Many of these poems have been published in magazines...
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Bending with the Wind – Newfoundland Poetry Series
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 Time of Icicles
A collection of lyric pieces, The Time of Icicles is anchored in the author's experience of Newfoundland. But these poems are of a continent, a century. An underlying preoccupation of the volume is with states...
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Still More Poems from a Newfoundland Village
Still More Poems from a Newfoundland Village is the third volume of verse from St. John's-based poet Mabel Avery. Celebrating the land, people and natural beauty of her home province, this collection springs...
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Rattles and Steadies
Gander is one of the best known small towns in the world, especially among western and eastern Europeans. Russians know it with familiarity. This book is not about Gander, however, despite its notoriety; rather...
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Newfoundland Journal, A
A Newfoundland Journal is a book-length poem drawn from the author's travels through the province's western edges in 2003. Janet MacFadyen is "from away," and the poem weaves disparate images of RV-packed ferries...
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Forget Me Not
A poignant tale of how The Great War touched a country, and of how a man who was certain he had lost what was most important to him, finds it again through the friendship of a child. It is a story of honour and...
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Ragtime for Beginners
The poems in Ragtime for Beginners explore questions of perspective and memory. They consider the difference between something and the image of that thing; they attempt to distinguish a pomegranate, for example,...
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Silent Time, The
In the early 1900s a young and newly wed Leona Merrigan sets out from the Newfoundland community of Three Brooks to find a better life in Knock Harbour on the island’s Cape Shore. After some happy years, tragedy...
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