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Crummey, Michael

Summary: The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crumley 2015

Crummey, Michael

Summary: The scarcely populated town of Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package--the sole stipulation being that everyone must leave. Fierce and enigmatic Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors founded the village, is the only one to refuse. As he watches his neighbors...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRU

Proulx, Annie.

Summary: Surprising transformations take place when a newspaperman's elderly aunt and two daughters decide to move back to their family home on the coast of Newfoundland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRO

Hooper, Emma

Summary: From Emma Hooper, critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine "Pick of the Week," comes a lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love alive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Norman, Howard A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1995

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McCann, Colum

Summary: Newfoundland, 1919: Aviators Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Dublin, 1845 and '46: On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause. New York, 1998: Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCC

Crummey, Michael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRU

Crummey, Michael

Summary: "In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRU

Chinn, Adrienne

Summary: When Sophie Parry's New York-bound plane is diverted to Newfoundland on September 11, 2001, Sophie decides to reconnect with her estranged Aunt Ellie, who emigrated from England as a World War II war bride in 1946.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One More Chapter 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Crummey, Michael

Summary: "A novel about an orphaned brother and sister who must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRU

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Osmond, Scott

Summary: "Newfoundland and Labrador has much more to offer than what is found in tourism guides. For explorers both local and from away who wish to step off the beaten track, this guide is for you. This province is filled with geologic wonders, mysterious histories, curious structures, and off-the-beaten-path destinations. From unexplored cave systems to the remains of Cold War-era aircraft, from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boulder Books 2021

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Walsh, Barbara (Barbara Ann)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TwoDot 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.807 WALSH, BARBARA WAL

Summary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEA

McFadden, David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McClelland & Stewart 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.8 MCF

Summary: Season Five kicks into high gear in the premiere episode. Jake's family doesn't know where he is or whether he's alive or dead. How long will the Republic hold without him? And will Jake be able to get out of the mess he's in without the help of his family and, more importantly, without getting killed? Some new friends - and some new enemies - will come to the Republic this year as the beloved...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REP

Summary: Jake Doyle is a new breed of private investigator, cracking cases in contemporary St. John's, N.L. His hometown is changing in a big way, transforming from a small seaport to a booming oil town. Along with his father/partner-in-crime-solving, Malachy Doyle, the two are ready to take on whatever mystery turns up on their doorstep.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBC Home Video 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REP

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