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  • From Fjord to Floathouse

    The Floathouse Series, #1

    by Myrtle Siebert ...
    Series Book 1 - The Floathouse Series
    from Fjord to Floathouse is the saga of hardy West Coast pioneers, who lived in snug floating homes and were sustained by surrounding sea and forest. Water transportation, written communication, semi-weekly shipments of staple supplies (anything they could not shoot, catch, or pick) were continuing limitations. In short time segments, complete with maps, letters, photographs and recipes, readers ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Floathouse: Gunhild’s Granddaughter

    The Floathouse Series, #2

    by Myrtle Siebert ...
    Series Book 2 - The Floathouse Series
    When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father’s boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the water-constrained world in which she has lived since birth to the freedom and independence of a land based world in which she will live the remainder of her life.A nine-year-old granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants, Myrtle’s story ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Floathouse: Lifelong Learning with Friends and Family

    The Floathouse Series, #3

    by Myrtle Siebert ...
    Series Book 3 - The Floathouse Series
    Beyond the Floathouse, Lifelong Learning with friends and family is the sequel to Gunhild's Granddaughter. In this book a very shy, ordinary girl, who grew up enveloped by an insular loving family and surrounded by a world of water, finds education is a significant key to a multi-faceted career. From teaching to entrepreneurship to home building to volunteering, her path continues with a focus on ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Fjord to Floathouse One Family’s Journey From the Farmlands of Norway to the Coast of British Columbia

    by Myrtle Siebert ...
    from FJORD TO FLOATHOUSE is the saga of hardy pioneers who worked and lived along the remote mainland coast of British Columbia in the first half of the twentieth century.Lured across the continent to BC by news of the Klondike gold rush, immigrant Andy Forberg settled and raised his family where the only transportation was by boat, communication was by mail, and supplies and groceries that could ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Gunhild's Granddaughter

    by Myrtle Siebert ...
    Narrated by Cia Penner ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 8 min

    When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father’s boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, BC, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the water-constrained world in which she has lived since birth to the freedom and independence of a land based world in which she will live the remainder of her life. A nine-year-old granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants, Myrtle’s story ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird ... Read more

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  • To Every Thing There Is a Season

    A Cape Breton Christmas Story

    by Alistair MacLeod ...
    The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six children excitedly waits for Christmas and two-year-old Kenneth, who liked Halloween a lot, asks, “Who ... Read more

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  • Hard Light

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    In Hard Light, Michael Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy weather, shot through with stoicism, grim humour, endurance, and love. This is writing that is supple and charged with intensity, language that vivifies --- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Canada, Eh

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Plunges Into
    **PGWUncle John's taking the plunge . . . into the Great White North!RaincoastHey, Canada! Uncle John salutes you!**For 25 years, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has been wildly popular in Canada, so we decided to dedicate an entire edition to our friends in the Great White North--even though much of the continental U.S. is north of Canada’s southernmost point. That misconception--and a whole lot ... Read more

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  • The Newfoundland Tongue

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    $9.99 USD

  • Not Too Long Ago: Stories of a Traditional Way of Life

    Stories of a Traditional Way of Life

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    Not Too Long Ago is back by popular demand in this newly revised and expanded edition! In this volume, today's senior citizens talk about some of the more exciting and memorable moments of their lives growing up in Newfoundland and Labrador. Read these richly detailed biographies, and meet: Charlie Bown — Bell Island Miner Arthur Clarke — Ambulance Driver Howard Elliott — Big Game Outfitter ... Read more

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  • Our Life on Lear's Room Labrador

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    “Because of the scarcity of cod in Conception Bay in the early 1920s, my father decided to go to the Labrador coast and try his luck as hundreds of others were doing. He went as a skipper with his own fishing crew. Mother used to go along to save the expense of a cook so, at an early age I was taken along with the family. By the time I was married, I had spent sixteen summers on the coast. Fifteen ... Read more

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