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2015., Adult, Pedlar Press Call No: Fic Til Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "DUKE, Sara Tilley's second novel, is inspired by the letters and diaries of her great-grandfather, William Marmaduke Tilly, who left Newfoundland in 1905 to try to earn enough money to get his father's business out of debt. Duke works his way across the United States, up to Vancouver, along the Yukon River and finally to Alaska, where he spends eight years in the interior toiling as a logger. When Duke returns home, his father turns inexplicably cold, locking Duke and his wife and newborn child out of the house in the dead of winter and banishing him from the community. A story of family obligation, repression and passion, ill health and ill luck, DUKE builds on the real Duke Tilly's ways of expressing himself to uncover a surprisingly contemporary fictional voice with large doses of humour, beauty and keen observation."--From publisher.
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c2010., Adult, T. Allen Publishers Call No: Fic Wan Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When retiree Keith O'Reilly witnesses the murder of his neighbour - an architect and "come-from-away" named Dennis Conners - by a pizza delivery man one night during a snowstorm, a unique series of stories begins to unfold. As the narrative weaves from neighbour to neighbour, house to house, family secrets and personal struggles are quietly disclosed to the reader."--Publisher.
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c2010., Adult, Thomas Allen Publishers Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "When retiree Keith O'Reilly witnesses the murder of his neighbour - an architect and "come-from-away" named Dennis Conners - by a pizza delivery man one night during a snowstorm, a unique series of stories begins to unfold. As the narrative weaves from neighbour to neighbour, house to house, family secrets and personal struggles are quietly disclosed to the reader."--Publisher.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Fic Van Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job. Armed only with a few possessions and her list of universals, Abilene jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, aiming to learn about the boy her father once was. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos, including some old letters that mention a spy known as the Rattler. These mysterious letters send Abilene and her new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne, on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt, even though they are warned to 'Leave Well Enough Alone.' Abilene throws all caution aside when she heads down the mysterious Path to Perdition to pay a debt to the reclusive Miss Sadie, a diviner who only tells stories from the past. It seems that Manifest's history is full of colorful and shadowy characters -- and long-held secrets. The more Abilene hears, the more determined she is to learn just what role her father played in that history. And as Manifest's secrets are laid bare one by one, Abilene begins to weave her own story into the fabric of the town." --From the publisher.
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2023., Viking Call No: NEW Fic Mor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a deathbed confession uncovers secrets about his birth, twenty-year-old Roan--who has always believed himself an orphan, with no last name--sets off on a quest to discover the truth of his origins. His journey takes him across the snow-covered landscape of Newfoundland from the remote Northern Peninsula to St. John's and then onto the Newfoundland, one of the rickety and poorly equipped ships heading out to the sealing grounds for the 1914 hunt. Between his farewell to Dr. Grenfell, the man who raised, educated, and cared for Roan since his toddlerhood, and the final discovery that will alter everything for him, Roan is tossed both emotionally and physically into harrowing situations that he could never have imagined. The people Roan meets along his journey are vivid and unforgettable, from young Ila, isolated and desperate as her mother coughs her life away in a frigid cabin, to the hulking, volcanic sailor and sealer Ashur Genge, whose own heartbreaking secret may hold the key to Roan's deepest desire.
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[2015], Dundurn Press Call No: Fic Fur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the conservative 1980s, the collapse of the mining industry in Newfoundland caused devastating upheaval for thousands of Maritimers, who lost their independence, community, and homes as joblessness forced them to uproot and start anew. Jack and Angela McCarthy, after years of prosperity in the mining town where their families had lived for generations, find themselves among the "Saltwater Cowboys" - Newfoundland transplants to gold mines of Alberta. Arriving in the town of Foxville, the McCarthys find themselves resented, bullied, and taken advantage of, along with their fellow Newfoundlanders. But when Jack's best friend, Peter, is swindled out of his savings and resorts to stealing from the mine, he sets a heist in motion that throws both families into chaos. Inspired by actual events in a small mining town in 1988, this novel tells of the trauma of displacement and the.
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c2013., General, Nimbus Publishing Ltd. Call No: Fic Bow Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: St. John's archivist Michael Lowe's life is turned on its head when a Dutch acquaintance, Anton Aalders, arrives on his doorstep in 1995. Anton is searching for a father he never met, ostensibly a Newfoundland soldier who was part of the Allied forces that liberated the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War. Anton's visit stretches from a few days to a few months, reluctant as he is to go in search of his father, and keen to learn as much as he can about Newfoundland, its history, and its people. Rabble-rouser and ardent Newfoundland patriot Brendan 'Miles' Harnett, Michael's friend and sometime bugbear, is obsessed with his own search for the lost 'fatherland' of Newfoundland, which relinquished its political independence in 1934. Miles is only too eager to teach Anton - and Michael - the shameful, forgotten history (as he sees it) of the lost country of Newfoundland. The Strangers' Gallery is a finely crafted, at times humorous, novel about the painful search for identity - both political and personal.
