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Series: The Girl with No Name The True Story of a Girl Who Lived with Monkeys Paperback Marina Chapman 9781771001175 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 22, 2013

The riveting account of a girl who was abandoned in the jungle and lived among monkeys In the early 1950s, in a remote mountain village in South America, as a small girl Marina Chapman was abducted while picking pea pods near her home. Her kidnappers then abandoned her deep in the Colombia jungle, and for approximately the next five years she lived with a troop of capuchin monkeys, eating what they ate, copying what they did, and gradually becoming feral. Eventually, she was taken from the jungle by a pair of hunters and sold as a slave to a... + Read More
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Series: Ballerina Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection Hardcover Deirdre Kelly 9781926812663 $29.95 PERFORMING ARTS Sep 07, 2012

A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012...spellbinding yet harrowing...—Publishers WeeklyA controversial look at the brutal backstage existence of some of the world’s most celebrated ballerinas.Throughout her history, the ballerina has been perceived as the embodiment of beauty and perfection. She is the feminine ideal — unblemished and ethereal, inspiration incarnate. But the reality is another story. Beginning with the earliest ballerinas, who often led double lives as concubines, Deirdre Kelly goes on to review the troubled lives of nineteenth... + Read More
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Series: Joni The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell Paperback Katherine Monk 9781553658375 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 23, 2012

From the moment Joni Mitchell's career began ? with coffee-house bookings, serendipitous encounters with established stars, and a recording contract that gave her full creative control over her music ? the woman from the Canadian wheat fields has eluded industry cliches. When her peers were focused on feminism, Mitchell was plumbing the depths of her own human condition. When arena rock was king, she turned to jazz. When all others hailed Bob Dylan as a musical messiah, Mitchell saw a fraud burdened with halitosis. Unafraid to "write in her own... + Read More
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Series: No Easy Ride Reflections on My Life in the RCMP Paperback Ian Parsons 9781927527160 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 15, 2013

On July 3, 1961, Ian Parsons reported to RCMP Depot Division in Regina as a raw recruit. It was the beginning of a 33-year adventure that took him from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and many points between. By the time he retired with the rank of inspector, Parsons had a policeman’s trunk full of colourful stories and insightful observations that he now shares in this memoir. Parsons writes candidly of his many roles within the RCMP, from postings in rural detachments, where he dealt with diverse policing issues, to stints teaching at the Ca... + Read More
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Series: Mountie Makers Putting the Canadian in RCMP, 2nd edition Paperback Robert Gordon Teather 9781894384797 $14.95 HISTORY Jan 01, 2004

Bob Teather entered RCMP Basic Recruit Training in 1967 with no idea of what he was getting into. Along with 31 other confused young men, he found himself in Regina, Saskatchewan, as a lowly member of Troop 18. Bald, intimidated, and soon to be bruised, Bob began a six-month ordeal that he candidly recalls in this engaging book. Corporal Teather's story brings you close to six recruits from across the country—Prairie Dog, André, Lumchuck, Francois, weird Harold Burl and Teather himself, a scrawny kid from Hamilton who often learned the hard way... + Read More
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Series: Honoured in Places Remembered Mounties Across Canada Paperback William J. Hulgaard 9781894384391 $9.95 HISTORY May 01, 2002

Ever since the Canadian prairies were first settled and the Mounties marched west to establish and maintain law and order, the names of individual officers have left their mark on the national landscape. Their long tradition has been honoured in many of the place names of Canada, especially in the West. In this collection, over 250 of the NWMP, RNWMP and RCMP members who died while on duty, or who enjoyed long or extraordinary careers, are remembered. Other place names are connected to a Mountie-related event or were named by a pioneering Moun... + Read More
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Series: A Cait Morgan Mystery The Corpse with the Golden Nose Paperback Cathy Ace 9781927129883 $14.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2013

A heartfelt plea to look into the death of a world-famous vintner goes hand in hand with the opportunity to attend an exclusive gourmet event in British Columbia's stunning wine country. How can overindulgent foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan resist?Sure that the award-winning owner of a family-run vineyard was murdered, Cait shares her findings with Bud Anderson, a retired homicide cop. But he is convinced that the woman took her own life, whatever her grief-stricken sister might say. That is, until death strikes once again, in the neat row... + Read More
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Series: A Cait Morgan Mystery The Corpse with the Silver Tongue Paperback Cathy Ace 9781927129098 $14.95 FICTION Mar 06, 2012

In the south of France where hatred simmers in the heat, a man seemingly admired, and certainly feared, drops dead at a dinner party. All of the guests fall under suspicion, including Welsh-Canadian professor Cait Morgan. A criminologist who specializes in profiling victims, Cait sets out to solve the murder—and clear her name. Add to this the disappearance of an ancient Celtic gold collar said to be cursed and there you have the ingredients for a Nicoise salad of death, secrets, and lies. Will Cait find the killer before she too falls victim t... + Read More
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Series: Act of Evil Paperback Ron Chudley 9781926741147 $12.95 FICTION Aug 17, 2011

Hal Bannatyne is a successful actor in town to shoot a big-budget film. Spotting an old flame, Mattie, he immediately becomes involved with her family. When Mattie’s father-in-law tries to protect his land from the hands of a fervent land developer, Bannatyne soon finds he is mixed up in the conflict. Thus the intrigue begins, with a crooked land-development scheme, where someone is willing to stop at nothing to get what is wanted. Things take a turn for the worse with an attempted murder. Soon, the lives of all are in danger. With a cast of c... + Read More
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Series: The Third Riel Conspiracy Paperback Stephen Legault 9781927129852 $14.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2013

It is the spring of 1885 and the Northwest Rebellion has broken out. Amid the chaos of the Battle of Batoche, a grisly act leaves Reuben Wake dead. A Metis man is arrested for the crime, but he claims innocence. When Durrant Wallace, sergeant in the North West Mounted Police, begins his own investigation into the man’s possible motives, he learns there were many who wanted Wake dead. What Durrant uncovers is a series of covert conspiracies surrounding Metis leader and prophet Louis Riel. And, during the week-long intermission in Riel’s trial, h... + Read More
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Series: The End of the Line Paperback Stephen Legault 9781926971049 $18.95 FICTION Sep 03, 2011

It's the winter of 1884, and five hundred Canadian Pacific Rail workers have halted their push through the Rockies at Holt City, an isolated shantytown in the shadow of the Continental Divide. The men are tired and cold, and patience is as scarce as the rationed food. Then, Deek Penner, a CPR section boss, is brutally murdered at the end of the track. His body is found frozen on the banks of the Bow River. Durrant Wallace, a veteran of the celebrated March West by the North West Mounted Police a decade earlier, is returned to active duty to inv... + Read More
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Series: The Slickrock Paradox Paperback Stephen Legault 9781927129395 $18.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2012

Silas Pearson is looking for answers. It's been more than three years since his wife, Penelope de Silva, disappeared while working on a conservation project in Utah's red rock wilderness. Law enforcement authorities have given up hope of finding the adventurous Penelope alive. And some suggest that she may not have vanished into the desert at all, but simply left Silas for another man. Silas moves to Moab, where his wife was last seen, with one purpose: finding his wife, dead or alive. His search takes him into a spectacular wilderness of red r... + Read More
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Series: Unholy Rites Paperback Kay Stewart 9781927129821 $14.95 FICTION Mar 12, 2013

The third book in the Danutia Dranchuk mystery series reunites RCMP constable Danutia Dranchuk with her friend, drama critic Arthur Fairweather. Danutia is observing a youth rehabilitation program in England when Arthur returns to the Peak District to attend his mother's funeral. Suspecting foul play in her death, Danutia and Arthur question the feuding villagers. They soon discover the dark and dangerous side of ancient Celtic rituals still practiced in the town.In a region with chilling reminders of child labour during the Industrial Revoluti... + Read More
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Series: Sitting Lady Sutra Paperback Kay Stewart 9781926741239 $9.95 FICTION Aug 17, 2011

RCMP Constable Danutia Dranchuk is investigating a mysterious death at Sitting Lady Falls. The evidence she gathers points to three separate stories, leaving her with more questions than answers. Is this murder connected to two earlier killings of Aboriginal women? Are all three the work of the same killer? Some of the details are hitting a little too close to home, and Danutia is forced to examine her friendship with forensics head Corporal Surinder Sharma and his family. Deftly woven into Danutia’s investigation are the stories of two other ... + Read More
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Series: Always Kiss the Corpse on Whidbey Island Paperback Sandy Frances Duncan 9781926741130 $14.95 FICTION Aug 17, 2011

Sandro Vasiliadis, a nurse at the Whidbey Island General Hospital, has died of an apparent heroin overdose. When his grieving mother bends over to kiss her son’s corpse at the viewing, she shrieks, “That’s not Sandro!” Convinced that her son must still be alive, Maria Vasiliadis hires Kyra Rachel and Noel Franklin to solve the mystery. With questions of foul play continuing to swirl around the death, the detectives’ inquiries lead them deeper into Sandro’s life and eventually to a medical clinic that specializes in transgendering. The secon... + Read More
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Series: Highball Exit Paperback Phyllis Smallman 9781927129791 $18.95 FICTION Oct 30, 2012

Sherri Travis is three months behind on her mortgage and it will be last call for the Sunset Bar and Grill if she doesn’t come up with some cash. So when Aunt Kay offers to pay Sherri to ask a few questions about Holly Mitchell’s death, it sounds like easy money. But it quickly descends into a dangerous world of drugs, sex workers, and perversion. Did Holly really take the highball exit, or was she murdered? And what happened to her baby?Set in small beach towns along the western coast of Florida, the Sherri Travis Mysteries follow Sherri Travi... + Read More
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Series: Death as a Fine Art Paperback Gwendolyn Southin 9781927129425 $9.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2012

Journey into the fashionable art world of 1960s Vancouver as Margaret Spencer and Nat Southby return in Death as a Fine Art, the fifth book in the Margaret Spencer mystery series. The owner of the Silver Unicorn Art Gallery is dead, and Southby and Spencer, Private Investigators are back at work in search of the killer. With plenty of suspects and twists and turns along the way, Maggie and Nat have their work cut out for them.The cast of memorable characters are no match for the investigators. Maggie trusts her instincts as they take her from t... + Read More
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Series: A Casey Holland Mystery Deadly Accusations Paperback Debra Purdy Kong 9781927129067 $9.95 FICTION Mar 06, 2012

Transit cop Casey Holland is back investigating crime on Mainland Public Transit buses. Someone is smashing the windows of moving buses on the M6 line, while racial hatred between preteens on the M10 threatens to erupt into all-out war. The murder of Casey's co-worker Jasmine Birch escalates the hostilities, and the staff begins to suspect one another. The situation grows even more serious when gunshots threaten children's lives. And Casey soon discovers there was more to Jasmine's life than anyone previously knew. Did Jasmine know her killer, ... + Read More
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Series: Eat Your Heart Out Paperback Katie Boland 9781926972930 $19.95 FICTION Mar 05, 2013

With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in common—a need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories in Eat Your Heart Out are about the haunted and heartbroken, about dreamers, losers and love-lost souls. From a sixteen-year-old autistic savant who’s sleeping with his best friend’s mother, to a tattooed beauty coming to terms with an alcoholic parent, to a newspaper man forever changed by a tender drifter, to a grief coun... + Read More
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Series: The Canterbury Trail Paperback Angie Abdou 9781897142509 $19.95 FICTION Feb 08, 2011

Winner of a 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold MedalIt’s the last ski weekend of the season and a mishmash of snow-enthusiasts is on its way to a remote backwoods cabin. In an odd pilgrimage through the mountains, the townsfolk of Coalton—from the ski bum to the urbanite—embark on a bizarre adventure that walks the line between comedy and tragedy. As the rednecks mount their sleds and the hippies snowshoe through the cedar forest, we see rivals converge for the weekend. While readers follow the characters on their voyage up and over th... + Read More
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Series: Catch Me When I Fall Paperback Patricia Westerhof 9781897142516 $19.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2011

Welcome to Poplar Grove, a farming community with three generations of Dutch-Canadians. Life in the New World has not become less complicated as the decades have passed, and now, a set of dying customs is about to collide with the ways of a new generation. The balance is shifting between people comfortable holding hymnals and cleaning cows’ teats and those who are uneasy with traditional expectations. A young woman grapples with contradiction between the pious appearance of her best friend’s family and the bits of reality she hears in her fri... + Read More
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Series: The Unfinished Child Paperback Theresa Shea 9781927366028 $19.95 FICTION Mar 19, 2013

Finalist for a 2014 Alberta Literary AwardShortlisted for the 2014Edmonton Public Library Alberta Readers' Choice AwardWhen Marie MacPherson, a mother of two, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at thirty-nine, she feels guilty. Her best friend, Elizabeth, has never been able to conceive, despite years of fertility treatments. Marie's dilemma is further complicated when she becomes convinced something is wrong with her baby. She then enters the world of genetic testing and is entirely unprepared for the decision that lies ahead.Intertwined thro... + Read More
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Series: Cadillac Couches Paperback Sophie B. Watson 9781926972909 $19.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2012

Winner of a 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold MedalCadillac Couches is a picaresque road trip novel that journeys from prairie to big city and back again. A quixotic tale set in the late nineties and framed by the popular Edmonton Folk Music Festival, it follows two music-smitten twentysomething women as they search for love and purpose. Annie Jones is trying to put her big love, Sullivan, behind her and squash her demons of anxiety and compulsion. In a post-fest funk, she and her more worldly sidekick Isobel jump in Annie's 1972 Volks... + Read More
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Series: The Apple House Paperback Gillian Campbell 9781926972879 $19.95 FICTION Sep 04, 2012

Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she has lived with her husband, Thomas, above his family's historic shoe shop, immersed in village life. When Thomas dies in a car accident, she is shattered and her hard-won mastery of the French language deserts her. Isolated and grief-stricken, she retreats to her childhood home. There she discovers that a petty dr... + Read More
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Series: South of Elfrida Paperback Holley Rubinsky 9781927366059 $19.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2013

The nature of relationships is skilfully illuminated in this collection of stories by award-winning author Holley Rubinsky. South of Elfrida delves into the lives of those coming face to face with personal truths that require resilience, humour and the ability to change.With a clear eye for the complexities of the human heart, Rubinsky’s stories take the reader to deeper understandings about the nature of love, loss and longing. Spare and rich with wit, these stories celebrate the act of self-renewal.
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Series: The Tinsmith Paperback Tim Bowling 9781926972435 $21.95 FICTION Mar 06, 2012

During the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, Anson Baird, a surgeon for the Union Army, is on the front line tending to the wounded. As the number of casualties rises, a mysterious soldier named John comes to Anson's aid. Deeply affected by the man's selfless actions, Anson soon realizes that John is no ordinary soldier, and that he harbors a dangerous secret. In the bizarre aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, this secret forges an intense bond between the two men. Twenty years later on the other side of the continent, Anson dis... + Read More
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Series: The Woman She Was Paperback Rosa Jordan 9781926972466 $21.95 FICTION Mar 06, 2012

Celia Cantú, a pediatrician in Havana, is trying to live a regular life in today's Cuba. She is engaged to her childhood friend Luis and lives with her 16-year-old niece, Liliana. Celia's life is disrupted when Luis's brother, Joe, returns from Miami flaunting his American ways. Joe's arrival and Liliana's adolescent restlessness force Celia to examine the discrepancy between her country's revolutionary ideals and its reality.As this family drama unfolds, Celia is unnerved by moments when her mind and body seem to be taken over by Celia Sánchez... + Read More
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Series: Rosina, the Midwife Paperback Jessica Kluthe 9781927366110 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 12, 2013

Finalist for a 2014 Alberta Literary AwardBetween 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States, in search of work. Many of them never returned to Italy. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina, a Calabrian matriarch, who worked as a midwife in an area where only one doctor served three villages. She was also the only member of the Russo family to remain in Italy after the mass migration of the 1950s. Written by Rosina’s great-great- granddaughter, Ro... + Read More
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Series: A Cowherd in Paradise From China to Canada Paperback May Q. Wong 9781926972404 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 03, 2012

In 2006, the Prime Minister apologized to the Chinese people for the legislated discrimination created by Canada’s head tax laws in the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the far-reaching and long-term consequences it has had on their families. A Cowherd in Paradise is the story of one such family. The book chronicles the remarkable lives of Wong Guey Dang (1902–1983) and Jiang Tew Thloo (1911–2002). Ah Dang was born into an impoverished family and sold as a child. In 1921, his adoptive father paid a five-hundred-dollar head tax... + Read More
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Series: I Am Full Moon Stories of a Ninth Daughter Paperback Lily Hoy Price 9781897142387 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2009

In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cariboo country of northern British Columbia. The ninth daughter in a family of 12 children, Lily is an observant child who tucks away every image of life in rugged Quesnel during the 1930s for one unforgettable tale after another. She has carefully selected many of her father's early photographs to illustrate her stories. The celebrated pioneer photographer Chow Dong Hoy left a legacy of more the 1,500 ... + Read More
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Series: Choosing Hope A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Survival Paperback Ginny Dennehy 9781771000345 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 23, 2013

A chronicle of family love, unspeakable loss, and the power of healingGinny Dennehy was living the dream: a good marriage, two wonderful teenagers, a fulfilling career. Life in Whistler, B.C., seemed tailor-made for her outgoing, athletic family of four. But in 2001, the world turned upside down when her son, Kelty, committed suicide at the age of seventeen, hanging himself in the loft of their family home. Lost in a fog of grief, Ginny found the strength to go on. She poured her energy into the Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation, raising both fu... + Read More
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Series: Who Killed Mom? A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles Paperback Steve Burgess 9781553658337 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 21, 2011

A Globe & Mail Top 100 Selection One of Canada's funniest writers, Steve Burgess, tackles his mother's life and death in a profound, entertaining story. Memoir, biography, and outrageous comedy make for a perfect blend in the debut book from acclaimed writer. Telling the tale of his mother's life and death, and along the way laying bare his own struggles as a troubled teenager, Burgess delivers a moving meditation on life and family.The author's mother, Joan, barely survived her thirteenth birthday: a rare disorder had made it almost impossible... + Read More
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Series: Requiem for My Brother Paperback Marian Botsford Fraser 9781553653783 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 16, 2008

Marian Botsford Fraser's brother, Dave, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1992. Eight years later, as he struggled with increasing disability, he discovered that he had melanoma, which quickly metastasized. In this poignant sibling memoir, Botsford Fraser describes her brother's illness, their deepening relationship after years apart, her role as caregiver in his final months, and, finally, the curious mix of sorrow and soaring she feels in the hour of his death. She also remembers their childhood growing up in a mining town in the North... + Read More
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Series: Bog Tender Coming Home to Nature and Memory Paperback George Szanto 9781927366080 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 05, 2013

A tribute to nature’s influence on the creative process, Bog Tender is a stunning memoir that explores nature and the act of writing, and where the two intersect. Accomplished fiction author George Szanto lives and writes on a bog that cuts his property in two. Rather than filling in the wetland, he has embraced it as a site of inspiration. Pieced together in 12 chapters—one for each month of the year—this enchanting narrative explores how Szanto’s writing process is affected by the bog’s transformations throughout the seasons. Through each cha... + Read More
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Series: Adrift on the Ark Our Connection to the Natural World Paperback Margaret Thompson 9781897142417 $19.95 NATURE Aug 05, 2009

Adrift on the Ark is a collection of personal essays by Margaret Thompson that offers a straightforward study of the complex relationship between human beings and the natural world. The essays look at a wide range of beings—from spiders to peacocks—and cover issues such as our irrational phobias, our fascination with zoos, and the myths and stories we have created around the other occupants of this earth. They also observe the joy animals bring to us as our pets and the altruistic relationship between caregivers and companions. With lively anec... + Read More
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Series: Falling from Grace Paperback Ann Eriksson 9781897142462 $19.95 FICTION Feb 22, 2010

Winner of a 2011 Independent Publisher Book Award Silver MedalSometimes it’s the little things in life that make all the difference, like chromosomes, sperm, bugs or an endangered seabird that nests in old-growth forests. But, what’s big or what’s little depends entirely on your perspective. Faye Pearson is a three-and-a-half-foot tall female scientist doing entomological research in the tallest trees on Vancouver Island, who is pit with a ragtag group of protesters against the might of a multinational logging corporation. The story of Faye an... + Read More
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Series: Down the Drain How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources Hardcover Chris Wood 9781926812779 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 23, 2013

An incisive critique of Canada’s drinking water gatekeepers.Canada is celebrated for its abundance of fresh water, and few Canadians question the safety of the water that comes from our taps. But is this trust justified? One study estimates that contamination of drinking water causes 90,000 cases of illness and ninety deaths every year.In this authoritative review of decades of legislation, research, and independent regulatory critiques, accompanied by riveting stories of the many failures of our water supply, award-winning journalist Chris Woo... + Read More
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Series: Climate Cover-Up The Crusade to Deny Global Warming Paperback James Hoggan 9781553654858 $20.00 SCIENCE Sep 29, 2009

Talk of global warming is nearly inescapable these days ? but there are some who believe the concept of climate change is an elaborate hoax. Despite the input of the world’s leading climate scientists, the urgings of politicians, and the outcry of many grassroots activists, many Americans continue to ignore the warning signs of severe climate shifts. How did this happen? Climate Cover-up seeks to answer this question, describing the pollsters and public faces who have crafted careful language to refute the findings of environmental scientists. ... + Read More
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Series: David Suzuki Institute Empire of the Beetle How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests Paperback Andrew Nikiforuk 9781553655107 $19.95 NATURE Aug 20, 2011

Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The beetle didn't act alone. Misguided science, out-of-co... + Read More
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Series: The Endangered Species Road Trip A Summer's Worth of Dingy Motels, Poison Oak, Ravenous Insects, and the Rarest Species in North America Paperback Cameron MacDonald 9781553659358 $19.95 NATURE Jul 23, 2013

Bill Bryson meets John Vaillant in this life list quest to see the rarest species in North America.Crammed into a minivan with wife, toddler, infant, and dog, accompanied by mounds of toys, diapers, tent, sleeping bags, and other paraphernalia, Cameron MacDonald embarks on a road trip of a lifetime to observe North America's rarest species. In California, the family camps in the brutally hot Mojave, where he observes a desert tortoise?"the size and shape of a bike helmet and the colour of gravel” sitting motionless in the shade of a scrubby sag... + Read More
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Series: David Suzuki Institute Eating Dirt Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe Paperback Charlotte Gill 9781553657927 $22.95 NATURE Jul 24, 2012

Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award"Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nobility that soars. This is the best book, on several fronts, that I've read in a long time."-Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book CompanyDuring Charlotte Gill’s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilizat... + Read More
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Series: Breakfast at the Exit Cafe Travels Through America Paperback Wayne Grady 9781553658269 $19.95 TRAVEL Aug 06, 2011

What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew. For Wayne Grady, the thrill of landscape and history is tempered by memories of racism and his own family roots. Merilyn Simonds, her ear tuned for the offbeat, finds curious echoes of the ex-pat promised land she grew up with. Together they travel against the tide of American history, following in the literary tire tracks of John Steinbeck, William Least Heat Moon, and Francis Trol... + Read More
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Series: Birds of British Columbia A Photographic Journey Hardcover Glenn Bartley 9781927051696 $35.95 NATURE Apr 01, 2013

More species of birds breed in British Columbia annually than anywhere else in Canada. Additionally, hundreds of migratory birds spend a portion of the year here, making BC a birdwatcher’s paradise. It doesn’t matter if you’re a gung-ho, out-in-the-field birdwatcher or if you enjoy winged friends from the serenity of your back porch, Birds of British Columbia is an easy way to get the best views of more than 100 of the different birds in this province. From the rare Marbled Murrelet to the common Steller’s Jay, ferocious falcons to timid towhee... + Read More
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Series: Birds of Vancouver Island A Photographic Journey Hardcover Glenn Bartley 9780981321219 $35.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 15, 2010

Vancouver Island is one of the "birdiest" places in all of Canada. With over 350 species known to have been found on the island there are always new birds to discover and enjoy. What makes Vancouver Island such a great place to watch birds is that they are abundant here year-round. Whether it is the migrating birds in the spring or fall, our summer breeding residents, or the dozens of species of waterfowl that seek food and shelter on Vancouver Island each winter - there is always something to look for.
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Series: Raptors of the West Captured in Photographs Paperback Kate Davis 9781927051030 $29.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Jun 15, 2011

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Design and Artistic Merit "Quite simply, it's among some of the best action bird photography ever published." With their striking looks, keen vision and hunting prowess, birds of prey—eagles, hawks, falcons and owls—have long captured the human imagination. This book is a collection of some of the most remarkable, action-packed raptor photographs ever taken. A collaboration between award-winning photographers Rob Palmer and Nick Dunlop and author/photographer Kate Davis, Raptors of the West highlights ... + Read More