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Spring 2020, Breakwater Books

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Series: The Little Red Shed Paperback Adam Young 9781550818338 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 May 15, 2020

Once upon a fine morning, a little shed awakens to discover she isn’t quite the same as she used to be. Uncertain and feeling as if she no longer fits in, she decides to leave home and sets out to sea. All alone on the wide, wide ocean, she meets an extraordinary new friend who sees how special she really is, and with newfound confidence, the little red shed returns home and inspires everyone to cherish their differences.
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Series: No Place for a Woman The Life and Newfoundland Stories of Ella Manuel Paperback Antony Berger 9781550818369 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 29, 2020

As a young woman, the late Ella Manuel left the busy shipping community of Lewisporte, Newfoundland, for the wider world in the 1920s, but eventually returned to the island, as a single mother, to settle in Bonne Bay. An accomplished writer, broadcaster, journalist, advocate for peace, and staunch feminist, Manuel would leave an indelible mark on the culture she documented and celebrated in her work. Here, biographer Antony Berger expertly chronicles the life of Ella Manuel and incorporates unpublished radio scripts and brilliant extracts from ... + Read More
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Series: Dirty Birds Paperback Morgan Murray 9781550818079 $22.95 FICTION Jul 31, 2020

***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** ***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021*** In late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario – not to be confused with Milton, Ontario – leaves his parents’ basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Euro-lite electric sexuality of Montreal; to bask in the endless twenty-something Millennial adolescence of the Plateau; to escape the infinite flatness of Saskatc... + Read More