Kirby Walsh’s A Trip to Labrador Ranking #4 on the Chronicle Herald’s Bestseller list!

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Books/1129600.html

Select praise for A Trip to Labrador:

“Kirby’s book is heart-rending … Engagingly readable and highly recommended … A revealing read for anyone interested in Labrador history.”
-Darrell Squires, The Western Star

“A fascinating read for anyone with the slightest interest in Labrador or the Grenfell mission … Moore gives us a warts-and-all portrait of a man [Grenfell] who has been alternately demonized and deified in Newfoundland and Labrador.”
- Robin McGrath, The Telegram

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More Great Press for Trudy Morgan-Cole’s By the Rivers of Brooklyn!

 ” This novel includes multiple characters and an ambitious timeline, but it coheres around a core of ‘home.’ Home is a place — St. John’s, newfoundland — and also an idea and an ideal that keep the characters in orbit, to that city, and to each other … This novel is a novel both meaty and delicate; you can dig right into it, and still find yourself savouring turns of plot, turns of phrase … The writing is deft and enjoyable … as well, the detailed descriptions of so many settings, including Coney island in July 1928, or the St. John’s airport in March 1983, continuously and vividly bring the story alive.”

 - Joan Sullivan, The Telegram

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Nicole Lundrigan Receives Honourable Mention for the 2009 Sunburst Award

We’re thrilled for Nicole, whose book has received nothing but praise since its release last September. So much so that Globe critics and awards jurors seem to be blurring the lines between genres just to rave about her!

“[The Seary Line] is a character-driven tale and Lundrigan’s gift is to create memorable ones.”                               – The Globe and Mail

“Richly rendered through a crafted style that is never affected or merely ornamental … something extra permeates this novel.”                                                                 – Atlantic Books Today          

“The novel’s greatest strength, and the reason to read it, is to experience the lives of such intricately wrought characters.”                                                                                     – Newfoundland Quarterly              

(Breakwater would also like to congratulate local author Kate Story for making the longlist as well!)   

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Morgan-Cole’s Latest Novel Worth Fighting For!

Breakwater has been informed that two customers were spotted fighting over the last copy of Trudy Morgan-Cole’s latest novel, By the Rivers of Brooklyn, at Chapters in St. John’s last week. This book is barely a month out on the shelves, and already readers have been going out of their way to give us, and the author, glowing feedback.

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Get Out to Some Breakwater Signings This Month and Buy Your Summer Reads

July 03 – Calvin Evans, Silk Sails. 7-9. Coles in the Avalon Mall, St. John’s.

July 04 – Calvin Evans, Silk Sails. 2-4. Chapters, St. John’s

July 04 – Joan Edwards, This is Our Place … 2-4. Coles, Avalon Mall, St. John’s

July 05 – Trudy Morgan-Cole, By the Rivers of Brooklyn. 2-4. Coles, Avalon Mall, St. John’s

July 05 - Glen Carter, Angels of Maradona. 1-3. Chapters, St. John’s.

July 05 – Calvin Evans, Silk Sails. 1-3. Costco, St. John’s

July 11 - Kirby Walsh, A Trip to Labrador. 1-2. Coles in Halifax Shopping Centre.

July 11 – Kirby Walsh, A Trip to Labrador, 3-4. Chapters in Sunnyside, NS.

July 12 – Trudy Morgan-Cole, By the Rivers of Brooklyn. 1-3. Costco, St. John’s.

July 18 – Glen Carter, Angels of Maradona. 1-3. Costco, St. John’s

Breakwater Author Makes Jeopardy Audition in New York!

Breakwater’s Trudy Morgan-Cole, author of the recently released and well-received novel, By the Rivers of Brooklyn, is in New York this week auditioning for Jeopardy! That does not happen every day! We are pretty excited for her here, as she goes through the next round of contestant selection, and sits for a few book signings in The Big Apple while she’s down there. Her book being partially set in Brooklyn and all.

Click here to read about her Jeoprdy adventures on her website: http://trudymorgancole.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/i-lost-on-jeopardy-baby-part-2b/#more-1171

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The Telegram “Still Hungry for More” of Morgan-Cole’s By the Rivers of Brooklyn

“A must-read. When I finished the last chapter, I was still hungry for more … Her newest book has taken years of research, and it shows … Morgan-Cole has a phenomenal gift for descriptive passages that makes you feel that you are there … I hated to close the last page.”

- Shirley Newhook, The Telegram

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The Telegram Features Trudy Morgan-Cole in the Article “Writer Finds Inspiration in Lives of Ancestors.”

“There’s a scene in Trudy Morgan-Cole’s new book where a character goes to a Brooklyn cinema to see a movie at the height of the second world war. Watching a piece about the war during the pre-movie news reel, the person recognizes someone they know being carried, injured, on a stretcher, though they haven’t yet received word that their loved one has been injured or killed.

While the majority of the book is historical fiction, that scene is based on a real-life event.

‘That happened to my great-uncle,’ Morgan-Cole explained. ‘He saw his brother in a news reel and made the projectionist play it over and over until he was sure it was his brother … that’s the kind of thing that you couldn’t make up, but if it actually happened, it’s too good not to put in the story.’”

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Where Genesis Begins Featured on CBC’s The Next Chapter, as a “Category-defying Book.”

 

 

Click on the audio link, directly beneath the header for June 20th. The piece on Where Genesis Begins starts about thirty minutes in (you can drag the cursor along to skip right to the spiel on Where Genesis Begins).

http://www.cbc.ca/thenextchapter/

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Memorial University Runs an Article on Trudy Morgan-Cole, and Her New Novel By the Rivers of Brooklyn

Read the full article here: http://today.mun.ca/news.php?news_id=4720

Trudy Morgan-Cole’s New Book Makes Chapters’ Top Fifty List!

Click here to see the list: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/Todays-Top-50/top50-giz.html

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Get out to Some End-of-June Breakwater Readings, and Start in on Your Summer Reads!

 

June 13th – Tom Dawe & Gerry Squires’ Where Genesis Begins – Conception Bay Regional Community Centre in Carbonear. 2-3:30

June 14th - Glen Carter’s Angels of Maradona - Costco in St. John’s. 1-3.

June 17th – Tom Dawe & Gerry Squires’ Where Genesis Begins - The Rooms in St. John’s. 5:30-7:30

June 17th - Elizabeth Murphy’s An Imperfect Librarian – The Railway Coastal Museum in St. John’s. 7-9.

June 20th - Kirby Walsh’s A Trip to Labrador – The Mic Mac Mall in Halifax. 12-2

June 20th – Kirby Walsh’s A Trip to Labrador - Chapters in Bayer’s Lake. 3-5

June 21st - Trudy Morgan-Cole’s By the Rivers of Brooklyn – Chapters in St. John’s. 1-3.

June 28th – Trudy Morgan-Cole’s By the Rivers of Brooklyn – Costco in St. John’s. 1-3.

Gerald Squires & Tom Dawe Are at The Rooms This Wednesday Night. Make a Night of It: Take in The Rooms and the Reading!

 

Wednesday, June 17th, 5:30-7:30.

Join Breakwater for the launch of Trudy Morgan-Cole’s Much Talked-about Novel, By the Rivers of Brooklyn!

Bianca's, June 16th, 7-9 p.m.

Breakwater Releases Trudy Morgan-Cole’s Highly Praised Family Saga, By the Rivers of Brooklyn

“With this novel, Trudy Morgan-Cole has broken new ground. It is permeated with memorable characters and a strong sense of place. A finely nuanced novel that is a pleasure to read.”
- Joan Clark, award-winning author of An Audience of Chairs and Latitudes of Melt. 

“Morgan-Cole has a fine eye for significant detail, a keen ear for preciseness of time and place and an overall ability to mine the emotions of her characters.”
- M.T. Dohaney, award-winning author of A Marriage of Masks and The Corrigan Women.

“You will be swept away by this story.”
- Tina Chaulk, award-winning author of This Much Is True

“By the Rivers of Brooklyn is one of the most satisfying novels I’ve ever read…[it] establishes her as a writer to be reckoned with. I literally could not put it down.”
- Helen Porter, award-winning author of january, february, june or July and Finishing School

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