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Series: Unheralded Artists of BC The Life and Art of Mary Filer Paperback Christina Johnson-Dean 9781896949550 $35.95 ART Sep 15, 2016

Mary Filer (1920-2016) trained as a nurse and an artist and lived a vibrant and intellectually stimulating life creating dazzling pioneer work in ‘cool’ glass art sculpture in Victoria and Vancouver. During the 1950s, Filer studied under Group of Seven artist Arthur Lismer and painter John Lyman and taught university art. Her involvement with architects and her partnership with Harold Spence-Sales, who started the first School of Urban Planning in Canada at McGill University, led to a honourary doctorate from Simon Fraser University in 1991 and... + Read More
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Series: Bill Reid Collected Paperback Martine J. Reid 9781771621151 $19.95 ART Apr 30, 2016

In this third instalment of the Collected series, the work of Bill Reid is showcased with beautiful photographs of his many sculptures, carvings, jewellery and paintings inspired by the culture and themes of his Haida Gwaii heritage. Over his lifetime, Bill Reid created many historic pieces of art including the large bronze sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, nicknamed the Jade Canoe and displayed at the Vancouver International Airport, and The Raven and the First Men, a yellow cedar carving. Both are featured on the Canadian $20 bill. In ... + Read More
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Series: Yakuglas' Legacy The Art and Times of Charlie James Paperback Ronald W. Hawker 9781442626751 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 14, 2016

Charlie James (1867–1937) was a premier carver and painter from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation of British Columbia. Also known by his ceremonial name Yakuglas, he was a prolific artist and activist during a period of severe oppression for First Nations people in Canada. Yakuglas’ Legacy examines the life of Charlie James. During the early part of his career James created works primarily for ritual use within Kwakwaka'wakw society. However, in the 1920s, his art found a broader audience as he produced more miniatures and paintings. Through a ba... + Read More
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Series: Highlights Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives Paperback Gerald Truscott 9780772667335 $14.95 ART Feb 03, 2017

Highlights lets you explore British Columbia?s natural and human history through dazzling photographs and interesting stories about our objects and displays. Who knows, you may even learn a museum secret or two.
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Series: Colour the British Columbia Coast Paperback Yvonne Maximchuk 9781550177732 $19.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Jul 02, 2016

From the burnt-orange bark of the arbutus trees and jewel-green ferns, to the vibrant ochre sea star and the gradated hues of magical sunsets, the colours of British Columbia's coast have long inspired painters, including Yvonne Maximchuk, a versatile artist who is reknowned for her expressive depictions of the land, sea and wildlife. Working from her remote Echo Bay studio, Maximchuk has joined the adult colouring-book craze and created forty original illustrations for colourists to enjoy. Colour the British Columbia Coast is inspired by the... + Read More
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Series: British Columbia from Scratch Recipes for Every Season Hardcover Denise Marchessault 9781770502345 $40.00 COOKING Sep 23, 2016

A celebration of British Columbia through a cook's palate and a photographer's lens, this cookbook highlights the province's diverse edible landscape, from the Pacific Ocean's seafood to Okanagan fruit. The seasonal layout pairs an eclectic collection of made-from-scratch recipes with evocative images, paying tribute to wholesome unprocessed foods and the skilled farmers who grow them. Seafood lovers will find plenty of ideas for enjoying the Pacific's bounty with recipes for halibut, salmon, oysters, mussels, clams and spot prawns. B.C.'s pri... + Read More
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Series: Araxi Roots to Shoots: Farm Fresh Recipes Hardcover James Walt 9781927958735 $37.95 COOKING Aug 22, 2016

Gordon Ramsay calls it the best restaurant in Canada. The chefs at Araxi Restaurant and Oyster Bar call it a celebration of where they live. In this follow-up to their James Beard?nominated cookbook, award-winning chef James Walt and his team share 80 classic recipes from Araxi?s dining room and signature Longtable events, all adapted for delicious home cooking.
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Series: CinCin Wood-Fired Cucina Hardcover Andrew Richardson 9781927958742 $37.95 COOKING Oct 03, 2016

What is the essence of Italian cuisine? CinCin?s renowned Chef Andrew Richardson believes it is cooking in rhythm with the seasons and allowing fresh, local ingredients to shine. CinCin: Wood-fired Italian Cucina showcases the restaurant?s signature wood-oven cooking techniques and Chef Richardson?s traditional Italian dishes married with seasonal West-Coast flavours.
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Series: Les Faux Bourgeois Paperback Andreas Seppelt 9781772140514 $26.95 COOKING May 30, 2020

Les Faux Bourgeois Bistro is an award-winning French bistro situated at the awkward intersection of Kingsway and Fraser Street in an equally disjointed neighbourhood in East Vancouver. Founded in 2007, Les Faux Bourgeois soon became a beacon of French bistro "amor" and garnered a loyal clientele and critical acclaim to match. Selected by the Georgia Straight as "Best French" in 2013, 2014, and 2015; Mia Stainsby of the Vancouver Sun proclaimed: "It either makes you pine for Paris, or transports you there!"; and, Vancouver Magaz... + Read More
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Series: The Farmers Market Cookbook The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce Paperback Julia Shanks 9780865718227 $29.95 COOKING May 01, 2016

Farmers markets and CSAs are among the best places to find high-quality, diverse, and exciting vegetables and fruits. But the rich array of unusual varieties can be confusing and overwhelming. From detailed produce descriptions to storage tips, preparation techniques, and over 200 flavorful recipes, The Farmers Market Cookbook has the answer to every prospective locavore's perennial question, "What do I do with this?"Featuring a range of traditional favorites alongside innovative creations showcasing the stunning flavors of heirloom fruits and ... + Read More
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Series: A Taste of Haida Gwaii Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World Paperback Susan Musgrave 9781770502161 $39.95 COOKING Oct 21, 2015

In addition to winning lifetime achievement awards as a writer and poet, since 2010 Susan Musgrave has been the proprietor of Copper Beech House, a beautiful bed and breakfast that has for decades played host to authors and prime ministers, artists and adventurers who visit the remote archipelago of Haida Gwaii. In her first cookbook, the famous poet uses her humour and incisive wit to bring cooking and living on the former Queen Charlotte Islands to life with stories gathered over decades. With its evocative tales and wild cuisine, this book o... + Read More
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Series: Brewing Revolution Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement Paperback Frank Appleton 9781550177824 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 17, 2016

The inspiring story behind today's craft beer revolution is the subject of this lively memoir by Frank Appleton, the English-trained brewmaster who is considered by many to be the father of Canada's craft-brewing movement. Appleton chronicles fifty years in the brewing business, from his early years working for one of the major breweries, to his part in establishing the first cottage brewery in Canada, to a forward look at the craft-beer industry in an ever more competitive market. Disillusioned with the Canadian brewing scene in the early 1... + Read More
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Series: Red Robinson The Last Deejay Hardcover Robin Brunet 9781550177695 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 22, 2016

Red Robinson details the life and career of Red Robinson, one of Canada's most celebrated pioneers of rock and roll. Robinson began spinning hits while in high school in the early 1950s, laying the foundation for what would become a glamorous, impossible-to-stop and ultimately fulfilling career that has made him a household name west of the Rockies. Raised by a single mother, Robinson worked as a delivery boy to help support the family. From such humble beginnings, he developed a strong work ethic and unflappable moral core that enabled him to ... + Read More
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Series: Wade Davis Photographs Hardcover Wade Davis 9781771621243 $39.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 22, 2016

Inspired by artists such as Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who wrote that great photographs come about in the decisive moment when the head, heart and eye find perfect alignment in an axis of the spirit, celebrated anthropologist and photographer Wade Davis has travelled the world in pursuit of the wonder of the human imagination as brought into being by culture. In Wade Davis: Photographs, Davis selects 150 of his favourite photographs from the thousands he has taken in the course of his forty-year career. Intimate... + Read More
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Series: None of This Was Planned The Stories Behind the Stories Hardcover Mike McCardell 9781550177787 $29.95 HUMOR Oct 08, 2016

Mike McCardell has spent his life tracking down thousands upon thousands of stories, from the uplifting to the sobering, from the bizarre to the sublime. As the author of many books and a lifelong reporter, he has stored up a vast collection of anecdotes and is never short of a tale to tell.With None of This Was Planned, McCardell takes us behind the scenes to show the sometimes agonizing, sometimes accidental, always reaffirming experience of hunting down a good story with the clock ticking toward air time.Between the frantic race to find stor... + Read More
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Series: Boats in My Blood A Life in Boatbuilding Paperback Barrie Farrell 9781550177558 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 19, 2016

The name Farrell is synonymous with quality boats to those in the know up and down the British Columbia coast. Working in and around Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast, Barrie's father, Allen Farrell, was a much loved eccentric and noted wooden boat builder who created offshore sailing vessels from beachcombed lumber using only basic hand tools. Barrie built his first boat, an eight-foot rowboat, in his early teens using only an old hammer with one claw, a dull handsaw and a rusty block plane. Dozens of speedboats, work boats and fish boats f... + Read More
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Series: The Woods A Year on Protection Island Paperback Amber McMillan 9780889713291 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2016

"Amber McMillan's writing balances an eye for the unusual and resiliently beautiful with a sympathy for the frailties common to all her islanders." -Kevin Chong, author of Baroque-a-Nova, Neil Young Nation and Beauty Plus Pity * The Woods: A Year on Protection Island is a personal memoir that probes the unique and sometimes unsettling tenor of life on one of BC's smallest gulf islands. The measure of one's success here, the author discovers, doesn't rely on status or income, but on the ability to adapt both the rigorous outdoors of the Paci... + Read More
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Series: I Am a Metis The Story of Gerry St. Germain Hardcover Peter O'Neil 9781550177848 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 05, 2016

Gerry St. Germain's story begins in "Petit Canada" on the shores of the Assiniboine, growing up with his two younger sisters, his mother and his father--a shy Metis trapper and construction worker who sometimes struggled to put food on the table. St. Germain was initially troubled in school, scrapping with classmates and often skipping out to shoot pool, but an aunt and uncle with some extra cash paid his tuition to Catholic school, where a nun recognized his aptitude for math and encouraged him to pursue his dreams. He would go on to become an... + Read More
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Series: Gently to Nagasaki Paperback Joy Kogawa 9781987915150 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 19, 2016

Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life. As a child during WWII, Joy Kogawa was interned with her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government. Her acclaimed novel Obasan, based on that experience, brought her literary recognition and played a critical role in the movement for redres... + Read More
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Series: Crossing Home Ground A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia Hardcover David Pitt-Brooke 9781550177749 $32.95 NATURE Nov 12, 2016

Like John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morning--a long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia. He went in search of beauty and lost grace in a landscape that has seen decades of development and upheaval. In Crossing Home Ground he reports back, providing a day-by-day account of his journey's experiences, from the practical challenges--dealing with blisters, rain and dehydration--to sublime moments of discovery and reconnection with the natural world. Through t... + Read More
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Series: The Sustainability Dilemma Essays on British Columbia Forest and Environmental History Paperback Richard A. Rajala 9780772669742 $0.00 HISTORY Oct 16, 2016

While some of the historical events we recount have been largely forgotten by the public and largely unexamined by scholars, they reflect an understanding of larger power dynamics that goes beyond the practice of sustained-yield and multiple-use forestry to touch upon important themes in the province?s social and cultural history?themes still relevant today. ? from the Introduction In The Sustainability Dilemma, historians Robert Griffin and Richard A. Rajala delve into two of the more controversial issues British Columbians have faced over the... + Read More
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Series: The Peace in Peril The Real Cost of the Site C Dam Paperback Christopher Pollon 9781550177800 $24.95 NATURE Nov 26, 2016

In the next decade, a 60-metre-high wall of compacted earth will stretch more than a kilometre across the main stem of the Peace River, causing the waters behind it to swell into a 93-square-kilometre artificial lake, drowning the best topsoil left in the BC north. The waters will swallow fifty islands and a valley that is home to farmers, ranchers, trappers and habitat to innumerable creatures big and small. Over four days in late September 2015, Christopher Pollon paddled the 83-kilometre section of the river that will be destroyed by the S... + Read More
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Series: The Last Gang in Town The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551526713 $24.95 HISTORY Sep 27, 2016

Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize finalist; Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize for BC winner Decades before organized crime syndicates brought sensational drug wars to Vancouver, street gangs held sway over its unruly east side. None was considered tougher or more feared than the Clark Park gang, a wild, two-fisted crew of characters from Vancouver's post-1960s counterculture. In 1972, after a number of headline-making riots and clashes with police--including an infamous altercation outside a Rolling Stones concert--the Clark Pa... + Read More
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Series: Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons British Remittance Men in the Canadian West Paperback Mark Zuehlke 9781550177459 $24.95 HISTORY May 14, 2016

Beginning in 1880, thousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from British society. Still supported by their families, thus earning them the title "remittance men," these men set out to continue their lives of leisure in this new land. With education, respectable breeding and the belief "from birth that they were superior beings," the remittance men descended upon Western Canada with expectations of accomplishing something great and increasing their wealth. In reality, they h... + Read More
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Series: The Queen of the North Disaster The Captain's Story Paperback Colin Henthorne 9781550177619 $24.95 HISTORY Nov 05, 2016

Few recent events in British Columbia have seized the public mind like the 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Across Canada, it was one of the top news stories of the year. In BC it has attained the status of nautical legend. Ten years later, questions are still being asked. How did a ship that sailed the same course thousands of times fall victim to such an inexplicable error? Was the bridge crew fooling around? Why doesn't anybody in the know come forward and tell the truth? Nobody knew the ship, the crew an... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History Capturing Hill 70 Canada’s Forgotten Battle of the First World War Hardcover Douglas E. Delaney 9780774833592 $34.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2016

In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and in three harrowing days defeated twenty-one German counterattacks. This spectacularly successful but shockingly costly battle was as innovative as Vimy, yet few Canadians have heard of it or of subsequent attempts to capture Lens, which resulted in nearly 3,300 more casualties. Capturing Hill 70 marks the centenary of this triumph by dissecting different facets of the battle, from planning an... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Canadian Military History The Weight of Command Voices of Canada’s Second World War Generals and Those Who Knew Them Hardcover J.L. Granatstein 9780774832991 $34.95 HISTORY Aug 01, 2016

Three-quarters of a century after the Second World War, almost all the participants are gone. This book contains interviews with and about the Canadian generals who led the troops during that war. Edited and introduced by one of the foremost military historians of our time, this carefully curated collection brings to life the generals and their wartime experiences. The content is revealing and conversations frank. Peers and subordinates alike scrutinize key commanders of the war, sometimes offering praise but often passing harsh judgment. We le... + Read More
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Series: A Perfect Eden Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island Hardcover Michael Layland 9781771511773 $39.95 HISTORY Oct 04, 2016

Shortlisted for two 2016 BC Book PrizesFinalist for the 2016 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical WritingA compelling history of the earliest explorers to Vancouver Island, brought to life with illustrations and maps. In 1842, when explorer James Douglas encountered the rugged natural paradise that would become Vancouver Island, he described it as “a perfect Eden." This book gathers the early recorded histories and personal accounts left by Chinese seafarers, Spanish and British naval officers, traders seeking sea otter pelts, colonial su... + Read More
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Series: Niagara Motel Paperback Ashley Little 9781551526607 $17.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2016

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to unforgettable eleven-year-old Tucker Malone--the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper--who believes his father is Sam Malone from Cheers. He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street. Tucker is sent to live in a youth group home where he meets Meredith, a pregnant sixteen-year-old with ... + Read More
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Series: The Conjoined A Novel Paperback Jen Sookfong Lee 9781770412842 $18.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

Longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary AwardA masterful and gripping novel from “an undeniably talented writer” (Globe and Mail) On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery — two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng — troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver’... + Read More
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Series: Fire Paperback C.C. Humphreys 9780385679893 $17.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2016

First came Plague, now comes Fire. The epic tale of the hunt for a serial killer threatening London's rich and poor during the Great Fire of London. Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom and Conn Iggulden.Fires don't start by themselves. They need someone to light them. What are friends for? As the Great Plague of London loosens its grip at last, Charles II's court moves back to the city, the theatres reopen and a new year arrives. 1666. It cannot be more terrible than the previous year, surely? But it can. For many will strive to make it... + Read More
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Series: Bozuk Paperback Linda Rogers 9781550965971 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2016

When Madeleine Turka looks in her mirror, what does she see? A girl who lost her father at an early age, a young woman who supported a grieving alcoholic mother, and as a middle-aged sex/massage therapist for seniors, someone all alone. Then an unexpected inheritance arrives, and she determines now is the time to pick up and discover herself through a quest that takes her back to the land of her parents. The quiet, awkward Madeleine finds herself amid a tumultuous mix of pluralism, soul-searching matters of family breakdown, personal fragility,... + Read More
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Series: The House of Wives Paperback Simon Choa-Johnston 9780670069477 $24.95 FICTION May 03, 2016

Two women compete for the affections of their opium merchant husband in a tale of friendship, fortune and rivalry in colonial Hong Kong In 1862, a young Jew from Calcutta named Emanuel Belilios leaves his dutiful wife Semah and sets sail for Hong Kong to make his fortune in the opium trade. There, he grows into a prosperous and respectable merchant, eventually falling in love with his Chinese business partner's daughter Pearl, a delicate beauty twenty years his junior. As a wedding present, he builds for her the most magnificent mansion in Hong... + Read More
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Series: The Heaviness of Things That Float Paperback Jennifer Manuel 9781771620871 $22.95 FICTION Apr 02, 2016

Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. This is a place where truth and myth are deeply intertwined and stories are "like organisms all their own, life upon life, the way moss grows around poplar trunks and barnacles atop crab shells, the way golden chanterelles spring from hemlock needles. They spread in the cove with the kelp and the eelgrass, and in the rainfore... + Read More
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Series: The Dancehall Years A West Coast saga from Bowen Island, 1939 Paperback Joan Haggerty 9781896949543 $23.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2016

“Joan Haggerty (Daughters of the Moon) is such a strong writer… She’ll be read with appreciation for her talent.” –John Irving "With the splendid flexibility of her narrating voice and empathetic heart, Joan Haggerty has conjured up a richly textured world in order to explore the dreams, heartbreaks, adventures, and surprises of a unique collection of west-coasters. A major accomplishment.” –Jack Hodgins, author of Broken Ground “The Dancehall Years is an elegy to a coastal culture almost lost—island cottages with views of the Union Steamships ... + Read More
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Series: By Gaslight Hardcover Steven Price 9780771069239 $36.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2016

Longlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller PrizeNo. 1 National BestsellerGlobe and Mail's "20 Books to Read in 2016," Maclean's bestseller, Toronto Star bestseller, Ottawa Citizen's "Best on the Shelf," Huffington Post's "Best Fall 2016 Books," Publishers Weekly "Books of the Week," National Post bestseller, Vanity Fair 2016 "Must Read Books of the Fall""A dark tale of love, betrayal and murder that reaches from the slums of Victorian London to the diamond mines in South Africa, to the American Civil War and back. Superb storytelling." --Kurt Pa... + Read More
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Series: The Dad Dialogues A Correspondence on Fatherhood (and the Universe) Paperback George Bowering 9781551526621 $17.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Oct 01, 2016

Charles Demers is a thirtysomething comedian and the author of three books; George Bowering is eighty, Canada's first poet laureate, and the author of more than eighty books. Charlie and George are also the best of friends. And the fathers of daughters. In this unique book of correspondence, these two men from different generations write to each other about the burdens, anxieties, and singular joys of parenthood. The letters begin as Charlie and his wife discover they will become parents; he expresses his hopes and fears of impending fatherhoo... + Read More
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Series: The Performance Paperback Ann Eriksson 9781771621250 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2016

Naive and talented, Hana Knight is a young classical pianist who has been gifted with a musical upbringing, a magnificent Steinway piano, a place at Juilliard and a patron who arranges everything, from her Manhattan apartment to her first European tour. In the midst of her meteoric career, Hana becomes increasingly aware of an unusual follower, a homeless woman named Jacqueline who sells handmade mittens and collects empties to buy tickets to Hana's concerts. She manages to track down the evasive woman and they develop a tenuous friendship.... + Read More
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Series: The Two of Us Paperback Kathy Page 9781771960991 $19.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2016

Longlisted for the 2016 Giller PrizeThe stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs, couples, dyads: intense one-on-one relationships. Lovers, spouses, siblings, hairdresser and client, mother and baby, teacher and pupil, girl and fox—these are the characters who animate Kathy Page's stunning new collection. While undergoing medical tests, tending the garden, starving themselves, touring museums, travelling, considering suicide, and falling pregnant, they drive each other towards moments where the true shapes of their lives are glimpsed. With humou... + Read More
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Series: Teardown Paperback Clea Young 9781988298016 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2016

In Teardown, Clea Young navigates the whitewater of relationships - familial and romantic, between friends new and old. Her stories seize on instances that, at the outset, appear benign - a woman encountering an old boyfriend on a BC ferry, a father chaperoning his daughter's class on a field trip, a young waitress' burgeoning friendship with a co-worker - but are in fact fraught, often pivotal times in her characters' lives. The stories in this arresting debut collection are populated with people you know and people you've been. They're argui... + Read More
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Series: A Day Of Signs And Wonders Paperback Kit Pearson 9781443443999 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Aug 30, 2016

Can your whole life change in a single day?Emily dreams of birds. She feels constrained by nearly everything—her overbearing sisters, the expectation to be a proper young lady, and even her stiff white pinafore.Kitty feels undone. Her heart is still grieving a tragic loss, and she doesn’t want to be sent away to a boarding school so far away from home.When the two girls meet by chance, on a beach on the outskirts of Victoria, BC, in 1881, neither knows that their one day together will change their lives forever.Inspired by the childhood of accl... + Read More
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Series: Northwest Coast Legends Peace Dancer Hardcover Roy Henry Vickers 9781550177398 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 May 28, 2016

The children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a powerful storm. The rain floods the Earth and villagers have no choice but to abandon their homes and flee to their canoes. As the seas rise, the villagers tie themselves to the top of Anchor Mountain, where they pray for days on end and promise to teach their children to value all life. The storm stops and th... + Read More
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Series: In the Red Canoe Hardcover Leslie A. Davidson 9781459809734 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Oct 11, 2016

Fish and herons, turtles and dragonflies, beaver lodges and lily pads—a multitude of wonders enchant both the child narrator and any other nature lovers along for the ride in this tender, beautifully illustrated picture book. Baby ducklings ride their mama’s back; an osprey rises with a silver fish clutched in her talons; a loon cries in a star-flecked night. Rhythmic, rhyming quatrains carry the story forward in clean paddle strokes of evocative imagery. In the Red Canoe celebrates the bond between grandparent and grandchild and invites natur... + Read More
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Series: Scholastic Canada Hardcover Series Notes from the Life of a Total Genius Hardcover Stacey Matson 9781443148238 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Aug 30, 2016

A new year, a new controversy, and another way to make Kennedy mad . . .Arthur Bean is back! With Robbie in another city (thank goodness for texting) and Kennedy as his co-editor of the school newspaper, Arthur's final year at Terry Fox Jr. High is off to a rocky start. A chance to produce his own play gives him visions of fame and (finally!) the respect he is sure he deserves, but that's all dashed when the new principal challenges the content of Arthur's play.Never one to take no for an answer, Arthur uses his wit (and his own column in the s... + Read More
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Series: A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius Hardcover Stacey Matson 9781443133173 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 2014

Gordon Korman meets Word Nerd in this totally (and completely) genius debut! Arthur Bean, soon-to-be a rich and famous author, has set two goals for himself: to win the school writing contest and to win the heart of his secret crush, Kennedy. But his life has had some major twists and turns lately, and the recent loss of his mother definitely complicates things. Arthur is in turns outrageous, defiant, and unintentionally hilarious as we peek over his shoulder at his reading journals, notes from his long-suffering teachers, his offbeat article... + Read More
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Series: Scholastic Canada Hardcover Series Scenes from the Epic Life of a Total Genius Hardcover Stacey Matson 9781443133883 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Sep 01, 2015

Lights. Camera. Action! Arthur Bean's life has taken a turn for the adventurous - two girlfriends to deal with, and a blockbuster film to co-write, produce and direct. How crazy can one school year get? Arthur and Robbie have called a truce now that the writing contest and school play are over.but plans go astray when Arthur's new girlfriend Anila gets jealous of his friendship with Kennedy. And then there's that little problem of the movie camera Arthur and Robbie borrowed to film their upcoming blockbuster movie. As Arthur's life goes off t... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Gift A Christmas Story Hardcover Kallie George 9780553524819 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 18, 2016

This Christmas-themed picture book about four animals delivering a lost package for Santa already feels like a classic! It’s Christmas Eve, and Bird, Rabbit, Deer, and Squirrel are eagerly waiting for Santa to fly overhead. When he does, a gift tumbles out of his sleigh, landing in the woods. The friends find the gift and read the tag: “For the new baby at the farm. Love, Santa.” And so, in spite of Squirrel’s grumbling—“It’s not our baby”—they set off on a long journey to deliver it. Sweet, poignant, and starring a cast of truly adorable ch... + Read More