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“xaiver campbell”

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  • Black Harbour

    Slavery and the forgotten histories of Black people in Newfoundland & Labrador

    by Heather Barrett, Xaiver Campbell ...
    It has been largely assumed that Black people are only recently settlers in Newfoundland and Labrador. In fact, the sordid history of Black slavery within the British colony—and the role of Newfoundland merchant families in promoting the trade in human beings—has been denied, obscured and forgotten.With contributions from historians, folklorists and other experts, Xaiver Campbell and Heather ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • A Single Dreadlock

    by Xaiver Michael Campbell ...
    Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes ...
    When Lovie moves from Jamaica to Newfoundland, his classmates make fun of his single dreadlock. But with Grandma's help, Lovie learns to care for his hair — and himself.Lovie never thought he looked different until he and his dads moved to Spruce Cove. Back in Jamaica, Grandma would tend Lovie’s curls with her special hair-taming grease, but no one in Spruce Cove can manage his hair. Over the ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scandal Bag

    by Xaiver Michael Campbell ...
    An extraordinarily affecting debut novel from a Writers’ Trust of Canada “rising star”—a writer who grew up on one island in the Caribbean (Jamaica) and immigrated to a very different one in the North Atlantic (Newfoundland), and whose work is uniquely informed by both places.Xaiver Campbell’s debut novel Scandal Bag is a brilliant, fresh take on the classic bildungsroman. It tells the coming-of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World

    by Mark Kurlansky ...
    Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Captive Paradise

    A History of Hawaii

    by James L. Haley ...
    The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Sugar in the Blood

    A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire

    by Andrea Stuart ...
    In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Taste of Empire

    How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

    by Lizzie Collingham ...
    A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the worldIn The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Sugar in the Blood

    A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire

    by Andrea Stuart ...
    In the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner.With George Ashby's first crop, the cane revolution was underway and would go on to transform the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches, establishing a thriving worldwide ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

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  • Newfoundland and Labrador

    A History

    by Sean Cadigan ...
    Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of Newfoundland and Labrador joining Canada, Sean T. Cadigan has written the book that will surely become the definitive history of one of North America's most distinct and beautiful regions. The site of the first European settlement by Vikings one thousand years ago, a former colony of England, and known at various times as Terra Nova and ... Read more

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  • Dark Laboratory

    On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

    by Tao Leigh Goffe ...
    **A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.“Goffe’s ear is tuned to songs of resistance, to what it looks like to make life amid (and after) colonial subjugation…noble and necessary.”—The New York Times Book ... Read more

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  • A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818

    by Shannon Ryan ...
    The waters off Newfoundland, in the North Atlantic, held the world’s most abundant supply of codfish, which, when discovered, was in great demand. Unlike the fur trade—the other major early commercial activity in what is now mainland Canada—the production of codfish did not require year-round residence. It did, however, require numerous men, young and old, for the fishing season, which ran from ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Nova Scotia Book of Everything

    by John MacIntyre ...
    Series series Book of Everything
    From the number of kilometers of coastline to the stories behind those weird place names (hello Ecum Secum) to profiles of Joe Howe and Alexander Keith, there is no book as comprehensive as the Nova Scotia Book of Everything. There is also no book more fun. Well known Nova Scotians like Premier Rodney MacDonald weigh in on subjects like the five Nova Scotians he admires most; Ashley MacIssac ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD