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 [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Breakwater Author Makes Jeopardy Audition in New York!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Telegram “Still Hungry for More” of Morgan-Cole’s By the Rivers of Brooklyn
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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.”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
Where Genesis Begins Featured on CBC’s The Next Chapter, as a “Category-defying Book.”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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/
Click here to read more about this book.
Memorial University Runs an Article on Trudy Morgan-Cole, and Her New Novel By the Rivers of Brooklyn
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Click here to see the list: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/Todays-Top-50/top50-giz.html
Click here to buy or read more about By the Rivers of Brooklyn
Get out to Some End-of-June Breakwater Readings, and Start in on Your Summer Reads!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Breakwater Releases Trudy Morgan-Cole’s Highly Praised Family Saga, By the Rivers of Brooklyn
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
“Want to read of a total eclipse of the sun in a fog-shrouded land? Grab a copy of A Trip to Labrador and knock yourself out.”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s the bits and pieces, the scraps of information and observances that make the book worthwhile.”
- Harold Walters, The Packet
Read the full article here
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“A Fascinating Read”: The Telegram’s Robin McGrath Declares A Trip to Labrador is “A Fine Little Book.”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“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.”
” In 1905 Rev. Edward Caldwell Moore volunteered to travel along the Labrador coast with Sir wilfred Grenfell … He also [...]
