[10-1/2x8-1/2 format] A 30 page story for young readers, starring Maggie, a small young dog who frequently gets into minor trouble, who meets Hero, a Newfoundland, and participates in a rescue in the harbor. Fully illustrated with color drawings.

Sequel to "Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice". A novel set in St. John's in 1945, continuing the story of Evelyn, now 15, an outport girl transplanted into St. John's, who, with the war in Europe ending, must at last face the fact that her father, reported lost in action, will not be coming home, and that life for her, and for her mother, must go on. She is still pretty self-involved and self-pitying - lots of teenage angst - but is gradually maturing. For young adults.

Subtitled "Newfoundland Traditions of Spells and Counterspells". An academic style work from a university press. Purports to document a tradition of witch lore in Newfoundland, but is based almost entirely on second hand anecdotal data. Includes a section of endnotes (instead of footnotes), and a bibliography that includes many works that appear to be have little to do with the topic. About half of the data is derived from student papers written in the 60s and on file at the Folklore Archives at Memorial University, papers that undergraduate students were required to write (and therefore hardly the most reliable of sources), and about half of the data was acquired by the author interviewing a few elderly people in outport communities in the 1990s. Little in the way of hard data, but lots in the way of hearsay, gossip and conjecture. Throw in some academic flights of vocabulary and some superficial analysis, and you have a book with little appeal.

A romance novel from the "Heart's Desire - Romances of Newfoundland" line, which, according to an advert in the book, has two more titles. Donna has left New York, fleeing her ex-husband and looking for her roots, and settles near La Manche, a deserted community on the Southern Shore south of St. John's. There she finds love with Levi, a local man, while concealing the secret of her background. Good local color and the requisite upbeat ending.

Subtitled "The politics of legitimation in a Newfoundland community". From the Introduction "This study is concerned with the ways in which two groups of leaders in ... , a Newfoundland community, compete for legitimacy". A MUN publication, and so choked with flatulent academic verbiage that reading it is like hiking through a bog. Why write one clear concise sentence when several meandering and repetitive ones can be used instead. Slim, but still stuffed with needless detail, and seemingly only applicable to events as they had already transpired in that one place. Only for those who are forced to read it!

Subtitled "The Recollections Of A Padre". Although the book claims to be the author's "recollections of his years with the 166th Newfoundland Field Artillery during World War II" (for over 5 years), it has little about the Regiment and it's men and is mostly a log of the British author's travels, adventures, and meetings, with large amounts of pompous philosophical, religious and historical thoughts added much later.

The story of Marconi and his wireless experiments. The story is more of a biography than specifically about Newfoundland, but the central events did take place in Newfoundland.

[8x8 format] A slim illustrated history of the inventor Marconi, his radio, and Signal Hill in St. John's. For a young reader.

Stories of the wrecking of numerous ships in Newfoundland waters, including numerous photos.

Subtitled "Vol 1 1822 - 1938". An expanded reprint of half of a 1986 book, recalling the wrecking of numerous ships in Newfoundland waters. Includes many photos.

Subtitled "Vol II 1839 - 1989". An expanded reprint of half of a 1986 book, recalling the wrecking of numerous ships in Newfoundland waters. Includes numerous photos.

Subtitled "July 1, 1916 - World War One". [8-1/4x11 format] Profusely illustrated by the author with crude drawings. Includes biographies of a few participants and a few interviews. More of a remembrance than a history.

Subtitled "Stories of Great Carbonnear Ships and the Men Who Sailed Them". A slim volume, with numerous small black&white photos of various of the ships. Reads pretty much as if culled from newspaper accounts.

Subtitled "Some Boyhood Dreams Realized". [6-3/4x10 format] Essentially an autobiography centering on the history of the Blackmore Printing Company, and therefore also a lot about the community of Grand falls. Often fascinating - often humorous.

A first person memoir of the Newfoundland Regiment in WWI, with a wraparound of history added to put it all together. Suffers a bit from poor editing, as it is oft times repetitive in providing the same information in both the history and the memoir portions, often in almost the exact same words.

A memoir of growing up in Curling, near Corner Brook, from around 1930 to 1949. The author details her life and the lives of others around her, from her earliest years until her family's move to St. John's in 1949. Always seen through the eyes of the author, even to conversations around her as a youngster, and covers events both big and small. Written in a nice chatty style, and although a lot of it would be mostly of interest to family and friends, still an interesting read. Includes a section of black&white family photos.

Subtitled "From Carbonear to Battle Harbour to Frenchman's Island". The author retells his work experiences in the 1950s and 1960s, both for various employers on shore and on boats, with emphasis on activities involving boats. Includes lots and lots of names of relatives, friends and co-workers, and numerous black&white photos. Probably primarily of interest to those who know the names or shared the experiences, but includes enough interesting items to make it an entertaining read.

A memoir, starting with growing up with the family alternating between wintering in Trinity and fishing in Blanc Sablon, and then followed by descriptions of various events that occurred during the author's life.

Originally a series of columns in the Monitor (newspaper) from 1972-1976. A series of the author's glimpses of outport life, primarily in St. Jacques.

Subtitled "from stories told by Charles Warren Pieroway". Stories told to the author by her father, with more than four dozen topics covered, most in less than two pages each. Short and to the point, and hitting a much wider range of things than the typical memoir.

Covers the period under French control, 1662-1713, with an emphasis on the period 1690-1713. Includes various charts and maps of the fortifications. Appears to be a copy of a typed original, and reads like an academic thesis, including numerous footnotes. Translated from the original French, but unfortunately for a non-Francophone, still contains a considerable amount of French language.

Subtitled "The Story of the Iron Ore Miners of Bell Island". Relies heavily on an anecdotal history based on some interviews.

Subtitled "'tis in me blood b'y - The salt sea is in me blood". A collection of fourteen essays about various aspects of life and events in outport Newfoundland, most appearing to be gathered from other people and visits to the library. The emphasis is on fishing and boats.

Subtitled "The Story of the Moose in Newfoundland". The story of the moose, including his introduction to Newfoundland, management, collisions with cars, hunting tales, poaching, poems & songs, recipes, .. and more. Includes black&white photos - mostly of hunters. Overall a good read.

Subtitled "A History Of Newfoundland Fighting Forces in the Second World War". Includes those who served in all services, including the Canadian and British, and all branches, such as the armies, air forces, navies and merchant navies. A well narrated story, very readable, with photos, maps and personnel lists. A sequel to "The Fighting Newfoundlander".

About four dozen brief stories (1 to 3 pages each), mostly on historical topics, such as early explorers, colonization, and the French presence in Placentia. Includes some photos and a chapter on suggested class projects. For younger grade schoolers.

Subtitled "The Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada". The author contends that Confederation in 1949 was largely brought about by conniving between Canada and Great Britain, and that Canada's interest in Newfoundland was entirely one of self-interest, mainly to acquire Newfoundland's natural resources and to keep Newfoundland away from the Americans, and that any apparent altruism toward Newfoundland and it's people was a sham. The author documents his case in fair detail back to the 1860s. Agree or not, well written and readable! [a rare book about Newfoundland in that there appears to be no public grant of money involved to subsidize the writing or publishing]

Subtitled "The Story of the NFFAWU" (the Newfoundland Fishermen, Food and Allied Workers' Union), from inception in 1969 to 1981. A blend\ of detailed union history and side trips to other more or less related topics, mainly political and historical. Good coverage of the Burgeo fish plant strike. Often a good read, but often weighted down with trivial details. Better at less length.

Non-fiction. A memoir of Elliston and women's roles.

A well written biography of a Newfoundland educator, a Rhodes scholar who had long time involvement with Memorial University in various administrative roles, including the presidency. Written by a close associate, and pretty much in the vein of a homage rather than a more critical look, but nonetheless very readable. Probably not of great interest outside of academic circles.

A collection of more than three dozen short essays and poems about people and happenings in Norman's Cove, TB, where the author was born in 1943.

An academic treatise on outport crime in general, but concentrating on poaching, homebrew and vandalism. The author states that he studied two northeast coast outport settlements (all people and place names have been disguised) for ten years. More of a social work than any sort of history, and containing many facile conclusions based on (or preceeding) a selection of mostly anecdotal evidence - evidence which looks more like a sampling of local growsing and paybacks than balanced research. Yet all in all still a fairly entertaining read! Includes a section of Notes and a Bibliography at the back.

[9-1/2x9 format] A slim (32 pages) children's picture book consisting of the words to the 1973 title song (made famous by the musical duo Simani) surrounded by wonderful color drawings. A familiarity with the song enhances the enjoyment.

A slice from the life of an 11-year old boy growing up in a small Newfoundland community. Friends, family, good times, bad times. Nothing out of the ordinary, but well told. Life as seen through his eyes and the eyes of those around him.

A mystery novel, where "Nine years ago, two teenaged girls are kidnapped and brutally assaulted by a member of their own community". The man is paroled unexpectedly, and one of his victims has sworn revenge. Set in an outport.

Subtitled "Growing Up With The Honourable Joseph R. ("Joey") Smallwood". A slim book by his 16-year younger brother, and more about the author than about Joey. Nothing heavy, plenty of fond anecdotes; mostly concerns their various farming ventures.

Des Voeux served as Governor of Newfoundland in 1886-1887. The pages concerning Newfoundland are 133-183 and 340-349. Mainly presented through edited diary entries, and often very interesting, including both weighty and trivial matters. The Governor is personally pro-confederation with Canada, and very much both officially and personally in favor of the Bait Bill being pushed at the time (to limit French access to bait caught in Newfoundland waters). He also shows concern for the destitute, and worries about a local dissatisfaction with Britain and sentiment toward annexation by the United States. An appendix contains the text of his report to his superiors in Britain pushing the Bait Bill.

Memoirs written in 1955, but this first volume (has a second volume ever appeared?) only includes the first 28 years, and much of the action didn't take place in Newfoundland. Some of his descriptions of WWI are interesting, but the book is generally tedious. Those many years of hindsight seem to have distanced the writer from the events.

A novel for the age group that enjoys the Hardy Boys. Centered on a 13-yr old mainland boy who is sent to visit an Aunt in a small Newfoundland outport at Christmas. Strange happenings and a touch of the supernatural make for an entertaining adventure.

Subtitled "Stories / Poems / Songs". A collection of fifteen of the author's short stories, six of his poems, and eight of his songs, including "The Squid-Jiggin Ground". Some of the stories appear to be somewhat autobiographical, some tend toward the serious, most are humorous, but all are interesting takes on times that the author has seen. [Note - mostly republished in 1990 in Scammell's "Collected Works".]

A mystery novel for pre-teens, similar to a Hardy Boys adventure. The main characters are three young siblings, the oldest a 14 year old girl, visiting their cousins in Newfoundland (providing a handy excuse for the cousins to narrate a survey of Newfoundland history and so presumably make this book of interest to a wider geographic circle). The adventure centers on a trouting expedition to St. Mary's Bay, where they stumble upon a mysterious hidden cave opening onto a secluded cove. This book has been reprinted with the title "Mystery of the Secret Tunnel".

Subtitled "A Dylan Maples adventure". The central character is a 12-year old boy who embarks with his parents on a sea kayaking expedition to an abandoned community - a ghost town to his eyes - on a small island in eastern Newfoundland, and encounters both mystery and danger. Along the lines of a "Hardy Boys" story.