Grandfather Christmas

Children's Books

Brian Pilkington

Literature & Fiction

Breakwater Books, Limited

This Dear and Fine Country

Guy, Ray

Selected By Eric Norman

Maud's House

William Gough

Only the Gods Speak

Harold Horwood

In rhyming couplets, Obed tells the ballad-like tale of Borrowed Black, an imaginary creature who lives on the coast of Labrador. Borrowed Black, a huge being made of parts borrowed from other creatures, has bear paws, seaweed hair, seashell ears, wolf eyes, a gull nose, seal flipper feet, and a wind heart. The borrowed parts that form the Frankenstein-like creature are held together by wind. One night, greedy Borrowed Black borrows the silver moon, and when it breaks, he buries the "billion and four" pieces in the sea and the land is cloaked in darkness. Seventeen seasons pass, but one night an eclectic crew of personified characters, who sail a boat built in the back of whale, finds Borrowed Black's shack. They steal Borrowed Black's sack of wind and negotiate a trade the moon pieces for the sack of wind. However, Borrowed Black's demise is inevitable when the wind, "thoughtful of night and its kin," remains with the moon to hold the pieces together. As night turns to day, Borrowed Black is no more as his borrowed pieces blow away.

Borrowed Black

Obed, Ellen Bryan & Hope Yandell (Illustr.)

In 1945 seven men, once among the most powerful on earth, were locked away in a vast prison built to hold more than 600 inmates, surrounded by every conceivable escape-proof precaution. Tried and convicted for attempting to enslave the world, they were the last of what Winston Churchill had called the Hitler gang. Long Knives and Short Memories examines the seven men themselves - their private lives, their motivation, their machination's inside Spandau, their conversations with their families, lawyers, friends and enemies, and , in some cases, the men themselves, from visits to Berlin made with their wives, from letters written in prison, both authorized and smuggled, and from authentic conversations between the prisoners, this aspect of the book is in itself a gripping study in human corruption. Long Knives and Short Memories is an unique and formidable piece of research into an unprecedented event in world history. Its photographs alone bear historic witness to the fallibility of human integrity.

Long Knives and Short Memories: The Spandau Prison Story

History

FISHMAN, Jack

Military

Sooshewan : Jeune Beothuk

Gale, Donald

<p>Hibernia is a platform which will lead to the development of a new offshore oil and gas industry for Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada). The official Hibernia book is a record of the highly commendable effort by so many groups and individuals, from geophysicists and provincial politicians to Hibernia management, staff, and workers, to fully realize the opportunity of the Hibernia project. A generous selection of impressive photos by Ned Pratt and Greg Locke complemented by engaging text records the many facets of the undertaking: faces and feats, construction progress and milestones at the Bull Arm site. These varied elements are combined in a record of history in the making, a quality keepsake chronicling the inception and development of a great enterprise fuelled by a remarkable blend of perseverance and skill.</p>

Hibernia: Promise of Rock and Sea

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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