The title pretty well sums it up. Numerous short stories.

To quote the dust jacket "over 1,000 photographs of the Province's people, places, institutions and things ..". [9x12 format] Many lovely pictures (unfortunately many without captions and most wanting for even minimal descriptions), along with many unneeded pictures of a Who's Who of even the most minor celebrities and politicians. Generally a visual treat, but could serve as the definition of a "coffee table book".

[7x9-1/4 format] A slim volume, sponsored by a local college, using twenty-one people's stories as inspiration to why the TAGS program provides the chance to obtain seemingly unlimited retraining, mostly education based, for those displaced by the cod moratorium. Written in fairly simple language, and includes a glossary of fairly common words. Reads like feel-good propaganda.

Subtitled "Brother Luke Slattery's Presidency of St. Bonaventure's College, 1889 to 1895" and "The Diphtheria Epidemic, the Great Fire and the Bank Crash". The subtitles cover the topic and the major events that happened during the time frame. A partial biography of Slattery, primarily covering that fairly short but tumultuous period.

A novel portraying a fictional outport in pre-Confederation Newfoundland. Claims to be the story of the local merchant family "as well as many many other interesting local characters". Possibly so, but there really isn't much of a story here, mostly just various minor interactions and details of day to day life, and writing it in a thick local dialect doesn't make it any better.

A romance novel, set in St. John's, New York, England and France. Complete with betrayal, intrigues, and love lost and then refound. A young man and woman are engaged to be married, but both families have suffered finacial reverses, so they postpone the wedding while he goes off to New York alone for two years to rebuild his finances. Period events in Newfoundland are central to the story. Includes numerous pages of vintage advertisements at the front and back.

A novel for "ages 8 - 12", starring Fanny and her best friend Millie, both just beginning sixth grade in the small outport of Famish Gut. Slices of day to day life, including Fanny's desire to change the name of the community to something nice - like Fairy Glen!

The central character is an 11-year old girl who is crippled from polio and, although not an orphan, has been living at Grenfell's orphan school in the northern tip of Newfoundland for several years. Set in the early 1900s. Mostly the day to day activities and complaints of the girl and her school mates. Assuming that this is meant for young girls, it is fairly long. It is also not very interesting.

A novel centering on a few months in the life of a fifteen year old outport boy, irresponsible and lately failing in school. Now his father has gone away to find work, he can't find a summer job for himself, and he's bored and available for trouble. Presented as a series of chapters, each consisting of one or more brief segments seen through the eyes of one of the main characters - Chris, his older sister, his father, his mother, and the local clergyman.

Subtitled "A History Of The Royal Newfoundland Regiment", from inception through the First World War. A well narrated story, very readable, with photos, maps and personnel lists. "More Fighting Newfoundlanders" is the sequel covering World War II.

Novel. A mixture of the protagonist's thoughts and narration of her activities. Slim, but well written and absorbing.

Subtitled "Voices of Newfoundland and Labrador Women". A gathering and reprint of the six dozen brief stories about women originally presented over a six year period as annual editions of "A Woman's Almanac". A brief biographical sketch of each woman, almost all accompanied by a small black&white photo, is followed by an interview, most done by the author, where the subject "speaks" in print. Most of the interviews are autobiographical, but some are used as platforms to espouse personal ideologies.

A novel. From the back cover "Eileen Novak is a forty-nine-year-old divorced hair stylist completing her high school education. Set in St. John's ... in the 1980's ... She speaks frankly of the day-to-day events of her life ...". The character's thoughts and actions and interactions, highly detailed and mostly trivial at best. Well crafted, and interesting at times, but still primarily a glimpse into an often boring fictional life.

A biography of Bishop Fleming. Very readable for a work of this sort, but the author seems to write as an apologist for Fleming, rather than as a biographer or historian, dismissing any criticism or opposing views out of hand. Advocacy rather than balance or neutrality. The primary source for information seems to be Fleming's own writings, certainly self promoting, and hardly likely to provide a balanced view.

An adventure novel for the 9-13 age group. A mainland brother and sister, aged 15 and 14, travel on a stolen fishing schooner to a tiny Newfoundland outport circa 1870. Most of the men from the outport have drowned in a fishing accident, and the schooner captain is soon jailed, so the children join the local women and children to fish, to help the captain, and also to aid the remaining residents of the settlement, who will likely starve without the fish. Detailed descriptions of fishing, both trawling from an 8-dory schooner and working a cod trap from a skiff. Local Newfoundland terms are explained both in context and in a glossary. Warning for young readers - there is an underlying theme that theft is sometimes justifiable.

Subtitled "Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay 1941". The Atlantic Charter meeting in great detail, from the planning to the aftermath. Writing more than a decade after the meeting allows the author to foreshadow subsequent events, but generally well written and informative. The book has little involvement with Newfoundland, other than that the meetings took place in Placentia Bay near the new military base being built by the Americans at Argentia.

Subtitled "Recipes and Recollections from St. Leonard's, Newfoundland". About an outport in Placentia Bay, abandoned in the resettlement scheme of the 1960s. Exactly what the subtitle states. Mostly recipes.

Subtitled "A brief twisted history of Newfoundland ... sort of". Topical humor. A knowledge of the real history is helpful.

Subtitled "The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century". Written by a college professor and published by a university press. A thick book, with about half of the page space dedicated to footnotes. Interesting, but more of an academic treatise than a work for general reading. The central theme is the cod fishery. Probably better at half the words.

Subtitled "The Newfoundland Saltfish Trade 1814-1914". The international markets for Newfoundland fish. Academic, based on a doctoral thesis. Tends to be dry, and also to be overly detailed, but is also full of information. The concluding chapter is especially good. Includes a useful photo section.

Subtitled "Resources and Rural Development in North Atlantic Societies". Only one 21 page chapter has any direct bearing on Newfoundland, and that chapter, while ostensibly exploring co-existence between oil and fishing, spends most of its pages on a lightweight history of the fishery, and concludes that maybe the industries can co-exist, and maybe they can't.

Subtitled "The State and the Industrialization of the Newfoundland Fishery, 1934-1968". Argues that the problems of the fisheries in the 1990s can be better understood by reviewing the evolution of the fishery from primarily inshore using small boats to a more industrial model involving larger boats. Lots of hindsight, and not a light read, but offers no prescription for how to solve the basic problem of a lack of fish.

A "Department of Fisheries" publication. Mostly a statistical survey, with descriptions of the fish, names of locales, lots of tables, and indifferent and mostly small black&white photos of various fish and some locales. Very dry.

A novel, sequel to "The Corrigan Women" and "To Scatter Stones". Picks up again with Tess, the youngest of the three generations of Corrigan women in the first nook. She is now a successful MHA, married with a 12 year old son, and living in St. John's. The story involves child molestation and suicide, heavy topics handled with a fair degree of sensitivity, but not making for a light or happy story.

Thousands of brief facts - names, places, statistics, ..., mostly of a decidedly trivial nature. Arranged alphabetically within a series of hundreds of categories. Includes a section of advertisements.

A novel and adventure yarn set in Labrador, where the representatives of rival trading companies compete for business supremacy and the hand of a woman. Lots of danger, double-dealing, treachery and loyalty, all set in an unforgiving Labrador winter where disease and starvation are ever present. Filled with details and local color.

A novel set in a small Placentia Bay outport. It's 1948, and picking sides in the upcoming second referendum for Confederation or Responsible Government becomes the focal point for tragedy and the tearing apart of two brothers' families.

A collection of sixteen short stories, most set in Newfoundland. Excellent.

Subtitled "The Western Front 1916-1918". To quote from the title page "A Social History and Battlefield Tour". A motor tour guide of the battlefields and cemeteries where the Newfoundland Regiment served, concentrating on the five locales where the Caribou Memorials were dedicated. Contains numerous interesting photos, most of which would be far better if printed in a larger format (most are only half page) and at a better quality. [Note that this same topic was covered in "Pilgrimage: A guide to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in World War One", by W David Parsons in 1994.

Stories of Newfoundland furniture makers and photos of their products. Informative, but suffers for lack of color and at times the quality of the photos.

An unusual history of a settlement, in that in addition to the usual lists of families that lived there, this one contains some interesting history (including military) of this enclave on the rugged and isolated south side of the narrows entering St. John's harbor.

A novel set in 1505, involving a few Englishmen staying over as a "winter crew" to maintain the fishing premises during the earlier years of their presence, a priest left with them, and the local Beothuks. Written as an autobiography by the priest. Quite a bit of intrigue, especially political!

A second autobiography of the man and his work, although more a revised and updated version of his 1919 "A Labrador Doctor" than a new work. As in the original, covers his entire life to date, including growing up and other time spent outside Newfoundland. While quite a lot has been added for the 1920-1932 years, a similar amount has been deleted, since the book has not gotten appreciably longer. As was the original, generally entertaining, if often self praising.

A recounting of an unintended voyage from Newfoundland to Scotland in the winter of 1929-1930. A "you are there on the boat" style of story, with many supposedly actual conversations. Lots of moment by moment details, but suffers from very stilted and unrealistically proper language.

Subtitled "Who figured prominently in the story of Newfoundland and Labrador". I wouldn't say that these are the fourteen 'most' important men, but the brief biographies are serviceable.

Subtitled "A History of Fox Harbour from Memories of it's People". [8-1/2x11 format] A "come home year" type of history, with lots of photos. Probably mostly of interest to people with ties to the locale.

A lyrical year long nature walk in and around Beachy Cove in Conception Bay, with commentary on the myriad living things encountered throughout the cycle of the seasons, with emphasis on the title foxes. Horwood at his best!

[9-1/2x7-1/2 format] A very slim (32 pages) tale starring Francie, a young girl from the Codroy Valley, who runs away rather than board a train to St. John's for a visit to the dentist. She ends up on the train anyway, and there meets a group of Micmac women from Nova Scotia.

Subtitled "Norman Duncan's Newfoundland". A useful introduction to Duncan, an early 20th century writer, and his numerous books about Newfoundland (mostly adventure novels).

[11x8-1/2 format] Pictures of old St. John's, mostly one per page, accompanied by fairly detailed captions (unlike most picture books). The book's paper does not enhance the photos.

[8-1/2x8-1/2 format] 32 pages. Young Freddy, dressed as a pirate, and his mom go to the St. John's Regatta, where Freddy promptly takes off running with his mother chasing after him through various activities around the lake. Includes snippets of regatta history and fine color illustrations. A bit of a "Where's Waldo" type of concept. For young children.

A slim booklet (20 pages) extolling various parts of Newfoundland, especially the areas of the Exploits, the Humber, and the Codroy, as wonderfully fertile farmland, both for growing crops and grazing cattle.

Subtitled "A Childhood Memoir 1935-1948" about growing up in Clarke's Head in Gander Bay and later in St. John's. Told as a series of recollections narrated by the author, rather than with the usual invented quoted conversations. Chapters include Indoor Play, War, School, Berry-pickin', and Mishaps and Misdemeanors. Includes a photo section. A pleasure to read.

Subtitled "The Best of Ted Russell, No. 3". The third of three volumes of short stories, each volume edited by Russell's daughter. About two dozen tales, the majority previously unpublished, starring Uncle Mose, Grampa, Aunt Sophy and other inhabitants of the fictitious settlement of Pigeon Inlet. Generally enjoyable tales.

[8-1/2x11 format] A "come home year" history of Freshwater, Placentia Bay. Includes numerous photos. A more finished look than is typical of this genre. Probably mainly of interest to those with ties to the locale.

Subtitled "The American Military in Newfoundland: 1940-1990". [8-3/4x10-3/4 format] Concentrates on a review of each base and installation, plus major events. Lots of photos.

Subtitled "A Personal Touch". [8-3/4x10-3/4 format] Concentrates on the individual people aspect. Again lots of photos.

A slim memoir of growing up experiences, starting in the 50s, in Sibley's Cove, TB. Looks to be mostly of interest to the author's family and friends.

A collection of 27 poems and short stories, with most of the stories somewhat autobiographical. Some serious, some humorous, some previously published. [Note - mostly republished in 1990 in Scammell's "Collected Works".]

To quote "contains ten essays on various aspects of Newfoundland and Labrador's history and culture. The book covers the broad sweep of history ... from the Beothuks to the ... offshore oil industry". Some essays less boring than others.

Subtitled "My Years With the Grenfell Mission". The author served at the Grenfell Mission in St. Anthony from 1946 until the end of the 1970s, including years in positions of authority. A combination of stories of rescues in remote areas, various emergency surgeries (often with makeshift tools), and the changes over time at the hospital and associated facilities, as they evolved and grew into a modern, well equipped, and eventually government run facility.

Eight short stories, all based on experiences from the the author's life. The stories read as a blend of memoir, humor, and a touch of the tall tale! Note that all stories from this book were republished in "A Collection of Stories by Otto Tucker" in 1987 .

A sequel to "That Part of my Life", but now a fuller autobiography of her life in general, with emphasis on teaching and teachers, and including visits to many parts of the world. Much more about the author than about anything else.

An anthology of short stories and poems about Newfoundland by Newfoundland women writers. As could be expected with this format, a mixed bag, but overall a good read.

Subtitled "Domestic Commodity Production In Northwest Newfoundland 1850-1982". A university publication. The fishery in and around Port au Choix, Newfoundland, concentrating on the last decade or so of the aforementioned time period (including the founding of the NFFAWU fishermen's union). At times very dull (usually accompanied by charts and statistics), but at other times fairly interesting (mostly when describing things instead of attempting to analyze them).

Subtitled "Toward a Theory of Newfoundland Humour". Claims to be an attempt to 'get behind' Newfoundland's funny stories, to study how the stories relate to the people and their situations, but is really little more than bits and pieces of the author's taste in 'fun' woven into a theory of sorts.

An anti-sealing novel. Starts off fairly well (it takes half the book to get their old fishing schooner to Newfoundland), but as the anti sealing (and anti sealer) polemic takes hold the quality of the writing declines rapidly, and the story becomes both contrived and silly. The main characters are a few self-absorbed self-righteous young Brits.