Congratulations to
Gary Collins.
Soulis Joe's Lost
Mine has been
selected for the
Canadian Aboriginal
Books for Schools
2010–2011.
August 30, 2010
Book Launch The
Badger
Confession
by J. A.
Ricketts will be
launched on
Saturday,
September 11, at
7:00 pm
at the
Badger
Community
Centre, 17C
Maple Street,
Badger,
and on
Thursday,
September 16,
at
7:00 pm
at
Chapters, 70
Kenmount Road,
St. John's. The
book will be
available for
purchase. The
author will be
present to read
and
sign. Refreshments
will be served.
Everyone
welcome! For
more
information,
please contact
Flanker Press at
709-739-4477
(toll-free at
1-866-739-4420).
August 26, 2010
Book Launch
Hooking Our
Heritage by the
Irish Connections
Rug Hooking Group
will be launched on
Thursday, September
9, at
7:00 pm
at the
LSPU Hall, 3
Victoria Street.
The book will be
available for
purchase. The
authors will be
giving a
presentation. There
will be refreshments
and a cash bar.
Everyone welcome!
For more
information, please
contact Flanker
Press at
709-739-4477
(toll-free at
1-866-739-4420).
In August 2009, a
group of
twenty-eight women
came together to
design and hook rugs
under the guidance
of
organizer/initiator
Laura Coultas and
artist/rug hooking
consultants Sheila
Coultas, Frances
Ennis and Maxine
Ennis. Inspired by
the strong Irish
heritage on the
Southern Shore,
known as the Irish
Loop, the women
decided to create a
body of work that
would illustrate
Newfoundland and
Labrador’s strong
connection with
Ireland. Hooking
Our Heritage
uses text and
pictures to trace
the progress of the
rugs and tell the
story behind each
one.
Hilda Chaulk
Murray’s
More Than 50%
is an important
piece of Atlantic
folklore that
encapsulates a
woman’s role in the
Newfoundland and
Labrador outport
community. Murray’s
hometown of
Elliston, Trinity
Bay, in the early
twentieth century is
the setting for this
book, in which she
gives a guided tour
of the female’s
unique and
ever-changing roles,
from girlhood to
womanhood, in the
outport way of life.
Jeremy Bennett is a
motivational
speaker, mentalist,
and entertainer who
has appeared in
television series
filmed in Canada,
the U.S., and the
U.K. In this book he
speaks out for the
first time about his
struggle with
obsessive-compulsive
disorder.
July 15, 2010
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Tom Dawe for
winning the 2010 Canadian Authors' Association Poetry Award!
Blending local
history, folklore, eyewitness interviews, and archival research,
Haunted Waters
is the latest collection of ghostly tales from one of Canada’s
finest, and creepiest, storytellers.
