Boulder Publications imprint: 8 books

Ben Tucker's Truck

and Other Stories

by Azzo Rezori
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017

Ben Tucker’s oil truck drives toward a fishing outport, never to arrive. A surprise visit forces a widow to face her husband’s murder, 20 years later. A chief coroner tackles his last case, willing it to be anything but boring. An impenetrable manuscript and the mysterious couple who may—or...

A Doyle Reader

Writings From Home and Away

by Marjorie Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013

A Doyle Reader is a lively collection of personal writings, columns, and commentaries from a nationally known Newfoundland-born author and broadcaster. Doyle tackles a range of topics without pulling punches: her St. John’s girlhood, Confederation, music, culture, and travel (whether as a sullen...
by Frank Leaman, Crowell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

Nova Scotia’s maritime heritage is brought to life in the story of an adventurer who traveled the world on an epic solo voyage in a 23-foot sailboat in the 1930s. With only his dog, Togo, as a companion, Captain William Crowell overcame the challenges of an unforgiving ocean. Decades later,...

Dear Everybody

A Woman's Journey from Park Avenue to a Labrador Trap Line

by Anne Budgell
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013

In 1947, Manhattan socialite Barbara Mundy left a life of privilege and travelled deep into the interior of Labrador, as a volunteer with the Grenfell Mission. She quickly became enamoured with the area’s natural beauty and found it more intriguing than her life among New York’s social elite. She discovered a love for hunting, canoeing, and camping—and for fur trapper Russell Groves.

Dying Hard

Industrial Carnage in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland

by Elliott Leyton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004

Dying Hard: Industrial Carnage in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland is a series of first-hand accounts by miners suffering from industrial diseases contracted while working in the fluorspar mines of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. It tells the stories of men waiting for death to relieve them from the continuing...
by Thomas Rendell Curran
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Gunshots shatter the stillness of a rainy night in an upscale neighbourhood in St. Johns Newfoundland. Harrison Rose a businessman and war veteran lies dead. To find the killer Inspector Eric Stride confronts the gritty side of post-World War II St. Johns: a lady of the evening who appears on his...

Empty Nets

How Greed and Politics Wiped Out the World's Greatest Fishery

by Gus Etchegary
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013

From the boardroom the once mighty Fishery Products International, Gus Etchegary witnessed the historic decimation of cod stocks in the northeast Atlantic. During a 40-year career in the industry, Etchegary battled to save his business, ultimately brought to its knees by overfishing, government mismanagement, and political interference.

Island in an Empire

Education, Religion, and Social Life in Newfoundland, 1800-1855

by Phillip McCann, Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

The first half of the nineteenth century brought two major revolution, the British Industrial Revolution and the French political revolution, which devastatingly heralded the modern world. In Newfoundland, an important strategic outpost island within the powerful British Empire, the period brought...
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