Breakwater Books
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Holding the LineFrom: No One to Tell |
In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo describes the weight of her work stress and how it manifested physically. She describes some joy she was able to find in her friends. | Janet Merlo | 8 | 2013 | $0.80 Add |
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From  One of the Good Ones |
This chapter profiles a woman who struggled with drugs and alcohol, and now suffers from PTSD. Now in recovery, she has left sex work behind and receives support from the Blue Door Program. | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Relations between the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq in the Early 1800’sFrom: The Beothuk |
This chapter describes the evolving relationship between the Beothuk at Notre Dame bay and the Mi’kmaq community who lived there in the early 1800s | Ingeborg Marshall | 3 | 2009 | $0.30 Add |
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From  The Future is an Unlocked DoorFrom: About Face |
On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Jim Conley | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Woody PointFrom: No Place For A Woman |
Getting My Bearings Again – Building My House on the Hill – The Electricity Kerfuffle – Jinny-Down-by-the-Bow – Spring: Back Home Again – A Summer of Wonders – … | Antony Berger | 60 | 2020 | $6.00 Add |
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From Dealing with PTSD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain and Harm ReductionFrom: About Face |
On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Melissa Cook | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
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From Friends and NeighboursFrom: No Place For A Woman |
The Wonderful Emma Tapper – Hugh McKenzie’s Granddaughter – Cantankerous Uncle George – Jim Shears of Rocky Harbour – Nan Harding Remembers – More of My … | Antony Berger | 45 | 2020 | $4.50 Add |
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From Saying GoodbyeFrom: No One to Tell |
In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo describes the increasingly toxic work environment at the Nanaimo RCMP, and the author uncovers more aspects of a system that breeds it. It … | Janet Merlo | 13 | 2013 | $1.30 Add |
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From  SloshedFrom: Rock Paper Sex |
This chapter covers the perspectives of a few women who work as bartenders in strip clubs in St. John’s Newfoundland. A discussion of the policies and etiquette at strip clubs as well as … | Keri Cull | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From The Devil Gets into Me |
This interview profiles a woman who engaged in street-based sex work for about 7 years. She felt that drug use was the main reason women engaged in that kind of sex work. | Kerri Cull | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From William Eppes Cormack and the Boeothick InstitutionFrom: The Beothuk |
This chapter recounts the firsthand experiences of William Eppes Cormack in the early 19th century | Ingeborg Marshall | 3 | 2009 | $0.30 Add |
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From Beyond Bonne BayFrom: No Place For A Woman |
Down to Sally’s Cove – The New Road Northward – Centennial on the Upper Humber – Chasing the Herrings – Back to Exploits – Among the Scots of the Codroy … | Antony Berger | 42 | 2020 | $4.20 Add |
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From Enough of the Party DrugsFrom: About Face |
On Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Casey Dalton | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From Losing the LightFrom: No One to Tell |
In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo recounts her continued abuse, even on stress leave. New leadership at the RCMP motivated her to bring her situation to light. This chapter also … | Janet Merlo | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From People Don’t Make This Shit Up |
In this chapter, Cull interviews a woman who fell into sex work and exploitation through a relationship. After a suicide attempt, she lived in a shelter in Saint John’s, where she received … | Kerri Cull | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From ShanawdithitFrom: The Beothuk |
This chapter describes the life of the last known Beothuk individual, a woman named Shanawdithit. | Ingeborg Marshall | 6 | 2009 | $0.60 Add |
