St. John's & The Avalon: shopping

The best bets are the stores downtown, on Water Street and Duckworth Street, and some in the Murray premises. There are some indoor malls --- the Avalon Mall, Village Shopping Centre and Mount Pearl Square. Also Churchill Square and Atlantic Place, and a Zellers near Torbay Road (on the way to the airport). Also there are box stores on Stavanger Drive, Kelsey Drive and in Mount Pearl.

Record Stores

Fred's on Duckworth Street and O'Brien's on Water Street offer the widest selection of local artists, though other stores such as Music World, HMV and SAM in the malls and even Wal-Mart are now offering at least a few local folk titles. Fred's has more of the local pop, rock and alternative titles in addition to folk ones, while O'Brien's has many hard-to-get folk titles, plus instruments and songbooks.

Bookstores

Old Victorian Shoppe/Breakwater (local writers, including my sister, Mary Dalton) is on Duckworth St. They might now be called Newfoundland Publishers' Bookstore or something like that, and have more than just Breakwater books.
Afterwords (used, Duckworth St.)
Second Page (used, Topsail Road)
The Tickle Trunk on Water Street has some used books
Sylvia's Treasure Chest on Water Street has some used (maybe some new too) books, also crystals, tarot readings, more.
Granny Bates Books. children's books. They have readings and often music performances for children often, most often Sundays at 2 p.m.
Bennington Gate is a fairly good bookstore in Churchhill Square but (2008) may be going out of business.
The Downhome Shop on Water Street has some local books.
The Memorial University of Newfoundland bookstore is on the second floor of the University Centre.
and some Coles and maybe Classics and W.H. Smith, in the malls, plus a Chapters (with a Starbucks inside) on Kenmount Road west of The Avalon Mall.

The biggest non-university public library is in the Arts and Culture Centre but there are other branches. Also Memorial University has a well-stocked academic library.