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Soak

 This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in … 64 View

The Cuffer Anthology, Volume VII

A Collection of Short Stories from Newfoundland and Labrador

 Now in its eighth year, the Cuffer Prize is sponsored by The Telegram and Creative Book Publishing in St. John’s. It showcases some of the best short fiction from Newfoundland and Labrador … 152 View
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The Love Olympics

 Characters weave their way in and out of The Love Olympics, a collection of short fiction set in St. John’s. The book is about various forms of love—the ways love grips us, shakes us, … 240 View
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The Quest for a "National" Nationalism

E.J. Pratt's Epic Ambition, "Race" Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity

 In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic … 64 View
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This is How it is

 Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the … 80 View

This Ramshackle Tabernacle

 This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of … 216 View

Too Unspeakable For Words

Stories

 Nancy comes of age in a British colonial school in 1950s St. John’s; Georgina discovers women’s liberation in a humorous evocation of the 1960s; Jamie returns to the resettled outport … 160 View

Transversing

 Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland’s most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. … 120 View

Two-Man-Tent

 In Two-Man Tent, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Robert Chafe, offers his long-awaited collection of short fiction. The individual stories are thematically linked by an interwoven, … 216 View
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From: An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife

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BIRD AIRCRAFT STRIKE HAZARD (B.A.S.H.) – THE OSTRICH – THE BUFFALO IS A PUZZLING CREATURE – GARGOYLE – STREET FOOD – BIRDWATCHER – THE LYREBIRD – AN … 19 $1.90 Add
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From: Inquiries

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Of the Red – North Saskatchewan River, 1980s – Mama Doesn’t Pray but She Buys Lottery Tickets: Mama’s Kitchens I – Whiteway Street, 2008 – Tessier Place, … 11 $1.10 Add
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A Geographic Inquiry Into Loss

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 Once You Leave – A Matter of Dimension – The Cult of Aeolus – Martyr – Habituation – They Will Take My Island – What’s Left Behind – My … 29 $2.90 Add
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Before the Fall

From: Full Circle

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 Circle Game – Orange Papers – The Fall of a Man – A Cure for Pessimism – Edith – Shock Treatment – Inflation – Sound Poets – Limited Liability … 21 $2.10 Add
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Bones of Paradise

From: I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game

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 Bones of Paradise – The Foragers – Battle Harbour Triptych – Summer Studies 1 – Summer Studies 2 – Sushi Bar – Irises – Black – Storm – … 12 $1.20 Add
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From: My Indian

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 The Dream 4 $0.40 Add
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Cliff Jumping

From: This Ramshackle Tabernacle

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 This reading consists of a short story about members of a Methodist community in northeastern Ontario in the 1930s. 16 $1.60 Add