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Browse Books - Non-Fiction

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Sick Joke
- Cancer, Japan, and Back Again
Genre(s): Non-Fiction COMING SOON
COVER IMAGE NOT FINAL / IN PROGRESS Sick Joke is one quirky travelogue. Glenn Deir spent two years happily stumbling through the conundrums of Japanese culture. Then he got tonsil cancer and ...read more

Softcover: $19.95


Island Maid
- Voices of Outport Women
Genre(s): Non-Fiction
Sheilagh O’Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and to the communities of the south coast. The women they interviewed shared unique l ...read more

Softcover: $28.00


Out Loud
- Essays on Mental Illness, Stigma and Recovery
Genre(s): Non-Fiction Educational
Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and friends, by comm ...read more

Softcover: $19.95


Orations
- A Selection of Orations from Memorial's Convocations
Genre(s): Non-Fiction
A selection of orations from Memorial's convocations. Including a foreword by Rex Murphy and an Introduction by Shane O'Dea. Orations about Jean Chrétien, John Crosbie, Elizabeth Penashue, Christop ...read more

Softcover: $19.95


Known unto God
- In Honour of Newfoundland's Missing During the Great War
Genre(s): Non-Fiction
The Newfoundland armed forces suffered devastating losses during World War I. Known unto God is a memorial to the men in these forces who died during the war and who have no known graves. The b ...read more

Softcover: $29.95


Ordinary Things
Genre(s): Non-Fiction
Insightful and thought-provoking journal entries, from the 1950s to 2007, on the creative process, art, life, and province of renowned Canadian artist Christopher Pratt. Ordinary Things is laced with ...read more

Softcover: $18.95


A Trip to Labrador
Genre(s): Non-Fiction
A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian mi ...read more

Softcover: $15.95


The Beothuk
Genre(s): Non-Fiction
A history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers. ...read more

Softcover: $12.95


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Caroline Stellings
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