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“j a ricketts”

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  • The Badger Riot

    by J. A. Ricketts ...
    In 1959, the small town of Badger was the centre of a labour confrontation that forever changed the social and political landscape of Newfoundland. For two and a half months, loggers had been striking for better wages and working conditions. Led by the International Woodworkers of America (IWA), the strike reached its climax when national and provincial police forces stormed the town in an attempt ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Badger Confession

    by J.A. Ricketts ...
    The sequel to the critically acclaimed bestselling novel The Badger Riot. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Badger Redemption

    by J. A. Ricketts ...
    The Badger Redemption is the third and final instalment in J. A. Ricketts’s masterpiece series that focuses on the far-reaching consequences of a small town’s actions. As with some endings, this book also serves as the beginning of something new: a legend. Bill Hatcher’s confession has set off a chain of events that has forced the residents of Badger, Newfoundland, to re-evaluate their own lives, ... Read more

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    Working in the Lumber Woods

    by Byron White ...
    Inspired by True Events “Men who weren’t hard workers didn’t last long at the lumber woods.” Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador have someone in their family who has worked “in the woods.” Some of these workers were employed seasonally—they fished in the summer and headed to the lumber camps in the winter—while others were full-time loggers who worked year-round. Stan White runs Camp 13 on ... Read more

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  • A Day on the Ridge

    by Gary Collins ...
    Among the bays, inlets, and communities of the province, author Gary Collins has earned a seat at the head of the table as Newfoundland and Labrador's favourite storyteller. Now, with six books under his belt, the “Story Man” from Hare Bay is ready to tell you a little bit about himself. The tales that make up this volume are pockets of memories taken from diary entries he recorded during the ... Read more

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  • Corner Boys

    by Robert Hunt ...
    Corner Boys is Robert Hunt’s memoir of growing up on the mean streets of St. John’s in the 1950s and ’60s. Within the working-class neighbourhoods that are central to this tale, trouble seemed to lurk behind every corner, ready to be found by those who were looking for it. This dark yet humorous coming-of-age story follows a young and mischievous boy along the sidewalks and into the backyards of a ... Read more

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  • Landslide: The Jack Hickey Story

    The Jack Hickey Story

    by Bruce Stagg ...
    The residents of Harbour Breton, a small fishing village in Newfoundland, claimed that it rained for forty days and nights. For forty days and nights, a prevailing southwest wind off the Grand Banks brought persistent rain, drizzle, fog, and sometimes torrential downpours. Root crops rotted in the ground, paint peeled off houses and fences, brooks and rivers overflowed their banks, and ponds and ... Read more

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  • Fish For Dinner: Tales of Newfoundland and Labrador

    Tales of Newfoundland and Labrador

    by Paul O'Neill ...
    A collection of Newfoundland folk tales from beloved author Paul O'Neill ... Read more

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  • Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster

    The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster

    by Maura Hanrahan ...
    The dramatic incredible story of the South Coast Disaster of 1929. ... Read more

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  • The Doryman

    by Maura Hanrahan ...
    The Doryman follows the true story of Richard Hanrahan from age nine when he is ripped away from the safety and comfort of the schoolroom to the seasonal shore fishery on Newfoundland's South Coast in the late 1800s. Later, hardening into premature manhood in the Banks fishery, he at once strives to mould himself into the stern shape of his fisherman father, yet longs to escape and find a better ... Read more

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  • Ghost of the Southern Cross

    by Nellie P. Strowbridge ...
    “Your life story didn’t begin with you. It reaches back to the beginning of time. You rose from the bodies of your ancestors. You’re the witness to their existence.” There is nothing more alive than the sea, nothing more deadly . . . Two childhood friends, Maggie and Elizabeth, are irrevocably joined by their love for one man lost on the Southern Cross, a brother to one and a groom-to-be of the ... Read more

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  • Rosie O'Dell

    by Bill Rowe ...
    Warning: Graphic Content and Mature Subject Matter Rosie O’Dell is a creature of beauty, brilliance . . . and unspeakable secrets. When she was young, terrible crimes had been committed against her. Tom Sharpe became Rosie O’Dell’s high school sweetheart, and in revenge for the transgressions against her, the two young lovers committed their own crime of passion together, which ultimately ripped ... Read more

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