Subtitled "A Newfoundland and Labrador Alphabet". [11-3/8x9-1/4 format] A slim illustrated alphabet, with one or two pages for each letter. To quote from the jacket, "Take an alphabetic tour through the province with simple poems for younger readers combined with expository text ... for the more curious". An eclectic selection of items to fit the alphabet, but neither the poetry nor the text is compelling.

Subtitled "An Illustrated History of Newfoundland & Labrador". [9x12 format] A disjointed survey of Newfoundland history, told as a series of stories within a group of general themes. Indexed, but only a minimal table of contents. All black-and-white, with many newspaper and book illustrations and many photos. Portraits of many people, including the famous and not-so-famous. Lots of breadth, but not much depth.

Subtitled "The Story of the Partridgeberry and its Fruitworm". [11x8-1/2 format] The story is narrated by a moth, who in his larval stage lived inside a partridgeberry. Well illustrated with color drawings and photos. A vibrant style. Perhaps a bit advanced at times for younger readers, but offers a wealth of information. Includes a section of student letters and drawings.

Subtitled "Literature of Nerwfoundland and Labrador, Book 3". An anthology of poems and short stories for junior high school students. Organized into four broad themes, with each story preceeded by an introduction and followed by questions or suggestions for further reading. All stories are about Newfoundland.["Openings" and "Stages" are the companion volumes]

A self-promoting view of the past, detailing how everyone before him did it all wrong, combined with a rosy vision of the future, where he (at the time of the writing he was Premier), would do eveything right! Unintentionally humorous as history has played out.

Subtitled "The Story of William and Emma McKirdy". A biography of the author's parents, a Methodist minister and his wife, who married in Newfoundland in 1920. Well written and very readable, but unfortunately the couple are transplants to Newfoundland, and left after a relatively brief stay and moved to upstate New York.

Subtitled "History of the Foundation of the Sisters of Mercy in Newfoundland 1842-1984". A very detailed history of the order, including even the most mundane items, complete with the names of every nun who ever participated in anything.

Subtitled "Historic Tales of Old St. John's". A compendium of various articles by the author about various aspects of St. John's history, full of detail and much seemingly based on information culled from newspaper archives. Often looking to be a bit embellished, and not all nuggets, but generally entertaining.

A novel for young adults, featuring Patience, who was orphaned while a baby and is growing up in a small outport while living with her grandparents. The story goes forward through the end of high school.

Subtitled "The Impact of Second World War Canadian and American Bases in Newfoundland". Another slim book containing a single essay. Extensive notes and three appendices. The author's usual mainland bias, but entertaining nonetheless.

A sporadic survey of Newfoundland, with glossy, and often not quite accurate, generalities interspersed with anecdotal stories. Reads like a survey of other peoples' writings. Includes a dozen color illustrations. Covers most topics, such as the fisheries, sealing, whaling, resources, and the people, but little about settlement and nothing about politics. Pretty much an advertisement for the glories of Newfoundland. A generally interesting read, but uneven.

[8-1/2x8-1/2 format] A very slim (25 pages) tale to be read to a young child. Profusely illustrated. A young girl finds a green lobster in her family's trap and sets it free.

An in-depth history of Newfoundland's first postage stamps. Many photos, but unfortunately none in color.

Subtitled "Essays on Newfoundland and Labrador". Actually a posthumously produced collection of fourteen of Story's essays and addresses, originally written between 1957 and 1994. Some previously published, some from live addresses. Academic in style, with references listed for each item. Covers a wide range of topics, including language, Judge Prowse, Confederation, and J P Howley, but all in a stiff and generally uninteresting way. Not an enjoyable read.

Subtitled "on the trail of the Newfoundland Railway". A walk along the abandoned rail bed in 1993, from Port-aux-Basques to St. John's, with historical information added along the way. Entertaining.

Subtitled "on the trail of the Newfoundland Railway". A re-publication of "The People's Road" from 1995, with a couple of dozen pages of chapter introductions and updates added. A walk along the abandoned roadbed of the railway in 1993, from Port-aux-Basques to St. John's, with historical information added along the way. As before, entertaining.

Subtitled "Training in England and Fighting in North Africa and Italy with the 166th (Newfoundland) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery". An autobiography of the author's main military experiences in WWII. Offers close-up and very personal views of combat, including details about the author and his comrades. Suffers somewhat from its one-sided tellings of various battle actions.

A novel about the 1892 disaster on the ice in Trinity Bay involving small boat sealers.

Subtitled "Agricultural and Industrial Newfoundland" and "Souvenir Guy Ter-Centenary Celebration, Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, 1910. Harbor Grace Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, and Newfoundland General Exhibition, 1910." Seventy-five or so pages of black&white photos, most from the Harbor Grace vicinity, with an emphasis on local buildings, local industries, and the Exhibitions.

Subtitled "A guide to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in World War One". Follows the regiment through it's war actions in Europe, engagement by engagement. Many maps and diagrams. Extensive lists of who received honors and who is buried - and where. Includes up to date (1994) instructions to tour the battlefields.

Subtitled "A Litany of Canada's most Nototious Pirates". Seems to include everyone who ever even came near to Newfoundland and was ever called a pirate by anyone. Consists of four chapters that are further divided into some forty-nine sub chapters, each about a single pirate. There is considerable overlap and duplication when more than one pirate is involved in the same incident, to the point of providing conflicting views of some incidents. An interesting blend of folklore and history.

A hodgepodge of poorly organized references to place names, many of which appear in more than one chapter, without an index to the page numbers on which the names occur. Mostly lists of where particular place names occurred in old maps and papers, often without identification as to specific locales or origins of the names. Not very interesting to read end to end, and of very limited use for reference.

Subtitled "Community Order and Everyday Space in Calvert, Newfoundland". An academic veneer is applied to create a "study" from what is essentially an overblown town history, with many of the specifics applicable to many outports. Lots of photos, but overall probably of little interest to anyone without ties to the locale. [8-1/4x10-1/4 format]

A sequel to "The Military History Of Placentia", but covering the first century of British control. The author attempts to provide a more complete view of the settlement, including its life and the fishery, but the fortifications are again the central theme. Appears to be a copy of a typed original, and reads like an academic thesis, including numerous footnotes.

Subtitled "In Search Of Newfoundland's Resettled Communities". [8-1/2x9-1/2 format] In search of a few of the communities, anyway. Some old photos, some new ones of abandoned places, but the narrative is more the author's travelogue than a history.

An encyclopedia of the flora of Newfoundland shores. Fair descriptions, but the use of simple line drawings as illustrations, and a total lack of photographs, limits its usefulness.

A novel revolving around a pregnant 20 year old who leaves her native Newfoundland and relocates to Ireland, her ancestral land. Looks to be a good read, but the Newfoundland content is less than 10%.

To quote "This volume contains the prize-winning poems in the O'Leary Newfoundland Poetry Award 1944-1952". Six to eight poems for each year. Mainly for contestants, their friends and families - and maybe poetry buffs.

Mostly excerpts from various authors - from speeches, newspaper articles, books, minutes of meetings, etc. Often interesting for the historical perspective provided by the entries, but disjointed, and obviously selective. Divided into "Capitulation 1929-1934", "Recovery 1934-1945", "Confederation 1945-1949" and "Canadianization 1949-1972".

A fairly detailed fairly academic treatment of politics in Newfoundland in the 20th century, through the days of Colony, Dominion, Commission, and Confederation, up to 1970. A wealth of information, with copious footnotes. Stuffy for a relaxing read, but always informative and generally interesting and entertaining.

[8-1/2x11 format] A fairly slim volume, profusely illustrated in black&white, detailing the surcharged postage stamps of Newfoundland. Published by the British North America Philatelic Society.

Long held as the bible of Newfoundland philately and postal history!

Subtitled "A Folk-history of New Harbour, Trinity Bay". A slim history and remembrance, with black&white photos and drawings. A large part - and the best part - is memories of early life. "Potheads" are whales, while "drum hoops" hold barrels together.

A slim (87 pages) nostalgic look back at various generally interesting bits of life in St. John's, and at a few people both in St. John's and around Newfoundland. The book's strength is in the many old black&white photos, which, however, deserve larger pages and better quality paper to really look their best.

Subtitled "Writings of Gregory J. Power". Some poems and selected pieces of political satire and political analysis from Power's newspaper columns. Even with brief introductions to some of the pieces, the topical humor doesn't age well when removed from its original time, although the analysis pieces aged somewhat better. Covers a wide period, from around the time of Confederation (the heaviest satire pieces) to the 1980s. Nowhere near as good as Horwood's introduction claims.

A slim memoir of growing up Pentecostal in the 30s and 40s - mostly in St. John's. Contains a rather large dose of boasting and self-justification, along with chapters about family and religion. Likely to be of little interest except to relatives and friends of the author.

Subtitled "Standoff at Voisey's Bay". [6x9 format] From the outset, a heavy handed 'Inco bad, natives good' treatise, at times almost childish in gleefully relating anything that could show Inco in a bad light. Essentially, the Innu and Inuit campaign to stop development of Voisey's Bay until they were given what they wanted. Out of date, and off target as far as the author's confident predictions as to how things would play out.

A novel set in modern day Placentia, about the day to day lives of two fishing families being affected by the downturn in the fishery. Lots of local color.

Some early (circa 1908) Grenfell history woven into a barely cohesive story. Not a colorful writer, and invents seemingly numberless conversations for his characters (and all quoted in textbook correct syntax) to relate the story. The title character is a crippled teen who was treated by Grenfell. Includes a photo section. Tedious.

A novel featuring a doubting priest starting over as the parish priest in a small Trinity Bay outport, a locale where shortly after his arrival a local teen is run down and killed by a car - apparently a tragic accident. A fairly good read; there is a mystery tale here, but the solution is telegraphed long before the end of the story.

Subtitled "An Account of Bonavista's Early Years". A history of Bonavista from earliest discovery up to the 1830s. Contains some general Newfoundland history, but mostly sticks to Bonavista. Loaded down with the names of seemingly every local person found in any type of record. While at times quite interesting, would probably be mostly of interest to those with ties to the area.

A novel in historical settings, relating the tale of Sheila NaGeira, the legendary Irish princess of Newfoundland, from the time of her capture by the pirate Peter Easton through her death in 1753 at the age of 105. Weaves the history of Newfoundland, concentrating on the Bristol's Hope / Carbonear area of Conception Bay, presenting a readable, if fanciful, biography. Reads like a romance novel, in that the story often bogs down in needless details and so progresses at a snail's pace.

[12-1/2x10-1/2 format] A book of mostly color prints of Pratt's drawings, generally presented less than full page size, and accompanied by often interesting comments and abundant blank space.

The second part of a multi-part 'growing up' memoir, covering most of the author's teen years. The author adds dishonesty and crankiness to the faults that he reveals - and flaunts. More self-indulgent than the prequel, "Human Beans".

Subtitled "Writing in Adult Basic Education Programs". A slim volume providing the framework of one of the authors' programs, extolling its virtues and providing sample lesson overviews. The thought is that given training, anyone can - and apparently should - write stories, poetry, memoirs, etc.