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Series: Workboat Designs for the World The Robert Allan Ltd Story Hardcover Robert G. Allan 9781550179873 $99.95 HISTORY Nov 26, 2022

Along the West Coast waterfront and in ship-handling circles around the world, few names are more respected than that of Robert Allan Ltd., the marine architecture firm that has been based in Vancouver for nearly a century. Founded in 1928 by the original Robert Allan, the firm got its start designing stealth speed boats used in rum running, classic fishing boats, small ferries and sumptuous yachts. Under Robert F. (Bob) Allan, the firm began transforming the coastal tug fleet from wood to steel and developed unique innovations such as self-lo... + Read More
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Series: British Columbia in the Balance 1846–1871 Hardcover Jean Barman 9781550179880 $36.95 HISTORY Oct 29, 2022

Esteemed historian Jean Barman brings new insights on the seemingly disparate events that converged to lay the foundation of the present-day province. By examining newly accessible private correspondence exchanged with the Colonial Office in London, Barman pieces together the chain of events that caused the distant colony of British Columbia to join the Canadian Confederation as opposed to the very real possibility of becoming one or more American states. Following the division of the Pacific Northwest between Britain and the United States in ... + Read More
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Series: Tsqelmucwilc The Kamloops Indian Residential School - Resistance and a Reckoning Paperback Celia Haig-Brown 9781551529059 $22.95 HISTORY Sep 27, 2022

In May 2021, the world was shocked by news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in British Columbia, Canada. Ground-penetrating radar confirmed the vestiges of children as young as three on this site of the infamous residential school system, which systematically removed children from their families and brought them to the schools. At these Christian-run, government-supported institutions, they were subjected to physical, mental, and sexual abuse while their Indigenous la... + Read More
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Series: Kechika Chronicler The Northern BC & Yukon Diaries of Willard Freer, 1942-1978 Paperback Jay Sherwood 9781773860909 $26.00 HISTORY Oct 14, 2022

In Kechika Chronicler, award-winning historian Jay Sherwood delves into the diaries of reclusive packer Willard Freer to uncover daily life in one of the most remote areas of BC.Willard Freer lived in remote areas of northern BC for most of his life. Born in Kamloops in 1910 and raised in the Peace River country, Freer came to the Kechika River valley in 1942, where he worked for a number of years with famed packer and guide Skook Davidson. He then built a cabin about 35 kilometres to the north and spent the rest of his life in the valley, and ... + Read More
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Series: Echoes of the Supernatural The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson Hardcover Gary Wyatt 9781773271903 $60.00 ART Oct 18, 2022

Over six decades of brilliant prints and paintings from the most prominent Northwest Coast artist of his generation.Since leaving Haida Gwaii to study art in Vancouver - where he carved argillite with Bill Reid in a department store and hand-sold prints on the UBC campus - Guud sans glans, Robert Davidson has moved between two worlds. As a host of Potlaches, carver of masks and totem poles, and performer and teacher of traditional Haida songs and dances, he has been one of the driving forces in the resurgence of Haida culture in the aftermath o... + Read More
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Series: Cold Case BC The Stories Behind the Province's Most Sensational Murder and Missing Person Cases Paperback Eve Lazarus 9781551529073 $22.95 HISTORY Oct 11, 2022

In her BC bestseller Cold Case Vancouver, crime historian and reporter Eve Lazarus used investigative skills to shine a light on the city's most baffing unsolved murders. In Cold Case BC, Lazarus casts her gaze more widely on long forgotten and unsolved murder cases throughout British Columbia. These include teenager Molly Justice, who was murdered on the outskirts of Victoria after taking the bus home from work, and a follow-up to the tragic 1953 Babes in the Woods story of two children found murdered in Stanley Park, whose names were finally ... + Read More
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Series: Incredible Crossings The History and Art of the Bridges, Tunnels and Inland Ferries That Connect British Columbia Hardcover Derek Hayes 9781550179903 $46.95 HISTORY Nov 26, 2022

Historian and bestselling author Derek Hayes brings hundreds of colour photographs, archival images and illustrations together with a meticulously researched commentary on the bridges, tunnels and inland ferries that connect British Columbia. The very nature of the topography of BC has meant that engineers have had to be innovative in their solutions to formidable barriers, and the province is home to a multitude of rivers and mountain torrents that had to be bridged to create both railway connections and the modern road network. Their vital na... + Read More
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Series: Alone in the Great Unknown One Woman’s Remarkable Adventures in the Northwestern Wilderness Paperback Caroll Simpson 9781550179941 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2022

The inspiring story of how an urban woman came to own and operate a remote fishing lodge nestled deep in the British Columbian wilderness. When Caroll Simpson fell in love with a cabin located on pristine Babine Lake in BC, many miles away from her home in Washington State, she knew her life was about to change. After convincing her husband to abandon their dream of living aboard a sailboat, they began the complicated process of buying the lodge and moving north. For two years, their adventure was a blissful dream. Then, tragedy struck. Followi... + Read More
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Series: All the Bears Sing Stories Paperback Harold Macy 9781990776007 $24.95 FICTION Nov 05, 2022

Harold Macy’s story collection highlights the particular magic of the West Coast, reﬂecting on how we both shape—and are shaped by—the land we inhabit.Whether he’s chronicling first-growth fallen monarchs sprawled on a steep slope up-coast, the brassy orchestra of trumpeter swans, or the ecstasy of a smokejumper’s fall from the sky, Harold Macy contemplates the beauty of all that British Columbia has to offer with graceful lyricism and appreciation for the natural world.It is the human ties to the land that shine in Macy’s stories: everyday fis... + Read More
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Series: River of Mists People of the Upper Skeena, 1833-1930 Paperback Geoff Mynett 9781773860930 $26.00 HISTORY Sep 16, 2022

A collection of extraordinary stories of ordinary people from BC’s wild frontier.In River of Mists, best-selling author and award-winning historian Geoff Mynett returns to the Skeena River community of Hazelton to shed new light on the wide spectrum of characters who left their mark on the area. Delving as far back in time as the early 1820s, Mynett covers over a century of change in the small community which, due to its location at the forks of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers and proximity to mountain ranges, seems destined to be a hub of activi... + Read More
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Series: Bent Back Tongue Paperback Garry Gottfriedson 9781773860961 $20.00 POETRY Sep 16, 2022

In his latest collection, Secwépemc rancher and renowned poet Garry Gottfriedson explores the fraught mechanics of contemporary masculinity, politics and love.Bent Back Tongue is a raw examination of love, identity, politics, masculinity, and vulnerability. Through sharp honesty and revealing satire, Gottfriedson delves into Canadian colonialism and the religious political paradigms shaping experiences of a Secwépemc First Nations man. This is a book that tears through deceptions that both Canada and the church impose on their citizens. G... + Read More
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Series: Dancing on Mountains Women of the Kootenays Paperback Luanne Armstrong 9781773860893 $26.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 01, 2023

In the style of Gumboot Girls and Dancing in Gumboots, Dancing on Mountains is an inspiring collection of first-hand stories from women of the Kootenays and Sinixt and Ktunaxa Nations.Nestled among pristine lakes, powerful rivers and awe-inducing mountain ranges, the Kootenay region of British Columbia has always drawn a distinctly adventurous crowd. The dramatic and somewhat isolated landscape has long been a fertile ground for artists, musicians, back-to-the-landers, hippies, environmentalists, free thinkers, and those seeking to escape the c... + Read More
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Series: To Share, Not Surrender Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia Paperback Peter Cook 9780774863834 $37.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 15, 2022

To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel’aṉ’en – “our culture, the way of our people” – this multivocal work of essays traces the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. The collection also publishes translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-... + Read More
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Series: The Birds of Vancouver Island’s West Coast Paperback Adrian Dorst 9780774890113 $37.95 NATURE Aug 15, 2022

The west coast region of Vancouver Island encompasses mountainous terrain, rainforest, mudflats, and ragged coastlines that bear the brunt of storms spawned by an immense ocean. Remote and inaccessible until well into the twentieth century, the “wild west coast” is also one of the most spectacular bird habitats in the world. Here one can observe multitudes of oceanic birds passing offshore, or venturing ashore to breed, and witness the countless avian migrants travelling north and south each year along the great Pacific Flyway.The Birds of Vanc... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Performance Documents and Debates A Sourcebook Paperback Anthony J. Vickery 9781772126044 $79.99 DRAMA Aug 24, 2022

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material to explore what these documents tell us about the values, debates, and priorities of artists and their audiences from the past 400 years. Analyses throughout rethink the significance of theatre, dance, opera, circus, and other performance genres and events. This landmark coll... + Read More
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Series: Hard is the Journey Stories of Chinese Settlement in BC’s Kootenays Paperback Lily Chow 9781773860749 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 2022

Award-winning writer Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay through first-hand stories that are devastating, heartfelt and inspiring.In Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC and uncovers the history of the Chinese labourers who completed the deadly work of blazing the Dewd... + Read More
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Series: Using Power Well Bob Williams and the Making of British Columbia Paperback Bob Williams 9780889714243 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 25, 2022

The compelling memoir of former British Columbia cabinet minister Bob Williams weaves his political and economic insights with the story of his unconventional life. In Using Power Well, former provincial politician Bob Williams tells his atypical life story. Beginning with his childhood in the working-class east end of Vancouver, Williams goes on to describe his early years as a planner in Delta, BC, his political life on Vancouver City Council and in the BC Legislature—including a major impact on the first NDP government in the 1970s—and his m... + Read More
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Series: Whelks to Whales Coastal Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest, Newly Revised and expanded Third edition Revised Third Edition Paperback Rick M. Harbo 9781550179835 $28.95 NATURE May 28, 2022

Newly revised and updated with additional photographs and up-to-date names, this full-colour field guide to the marine life of coastal British Columbia, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and northern California is perfect for divers, boaters and beachcombers. It is a ready reference to more than 400 of the most common species: the fascinating local sponges, jellyfish, crabs, shrimp, barnacles, clams, snails, seals, fish, whales, sea algae and hundreds of other living things that can be observed and identified without being disturbed. The book is arran... + Read More
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Series: Wilson Duff Coming Back, a Life Hardcover Robin Fisher 9781550179750 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 28, 2022

The fascinating origin story of Wilson Duff, the pioneering BC anthropologist and museologist remembered for his contributions to research on First Nations cultures of the Northwest Coast. Wilson Duff was born in 1925 in the city of Vancouver and his turbulent early years were shaped by the Great Depression and the Second World War. An intelligent child, he quickly progressed in school. After one year at the University of British Columbia, he signed up for the Air Force. An analytic thinker, Duff excelled as a navigator on a Liberator bomber b... + Read More
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Series: Ben the Sea Lion Hardcover Roy Henry Vickers 9781550179736 $22.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8 May 14, 2022

Tsimshian storyteller and artist Roy Henry Vickers shares an adventure from his childhood in the Indigenous village of Kitkatla, on BC’s north coast. When Uncle Johnny accidentally catches an orphaned sea lion pup in his fishing net, young Roy and his cousin Bussy take responsibility for nursing the tiny creature back to health. They name the pup Ben, short for Teeben—the Tsimshian word for sea lion. With the boys’ loving care, Ben eats and eats and grows and grows, getting up to all sorts of fun in Kitkatla, including towing the boys in their ... + Read More
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Series: Wayfarer Blue Portugal and Other Essays Paperback Theresa Kishkan 9781772125993 $24.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 06, 2022

Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, colour theory, horticulture, and textile production, Kishkan weaves a pattern of richly textured threads, welcoming readers to share her intellectual and emotional preoccupations. With an intimate awareness of place and time, a deep sen... + Read More
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Series: Nevertheless Walking Poems Paperback Gillian Jerome 9780889714120 $19.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2022

Award-winning poet Gillian Jerome's long-awaited second collection is a meditation on rediscovery and reconnection. How do we restore relationships between land and people? Gillian Jerome’s poems suggest that we might plant a garden, put one foot in front of the other. In Nevertheless, a collection about love, grief, friendship, aging, neighbours and neighbourhoods, Jerome roams into ordinary places inside and outside of the city of Vancouver to find beings and states of being to sing about.
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Series: Return to Solitude More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others Paperback Grant Lawrence 9781550179712 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 30, 2022

The long-awaited sequel to Grant Lawrence’s bestselling memoir Adventures in Solitude. It's been over a decade since renowned broadcaster and indie rock musician Grant Lawrence launched his writing career with the award-winning Adventures in Solitude, yet some things never change—including the winding Sunshine Coast Highway, close calls at the BC Ferries ticket office and carsick children. But this time, Lawrence returns as a husband and father, not as the vomiting and nerdy kid dragged along by his athletic and unflappable parents. In his inim... + Read More
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Series: Cut to Fortress Poems Paperback Tawahum Bige 9780889714168 $19.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2022

A stunning debut poetry collection confronting colonialism, relationships, grief and intergenerational wounds. Cut to Fortress considers the possibility of decolonization through a personal lens, urging for a resistance that is tied using cord and old-growth tree roots; a resistance that tethers us all together in this contemporary existence. With an upbringing in Surrey, fraught familial conflicts, the passing of his older brother and its influence on his world view, Bige slices through the forts built overtop occupied Turtle Island to examine... + Read More
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Series: All That We Say is Ours Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation Now in paperback! Paperback Ian Gill 9781771623278 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2022

Haida Gwaii, the ancient territory of the Haida people, is a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty and rich species diversity. But that natural bounty, since European contact, has also been a magnet for industry. In the mid-1970s, the Haida rallied with environmentalists to end the rapacious logging of their monumental old-growth forests—and to reassert their title and rights to their homeland. Ian Gill traces the struggle from its early days. The battle became epic, stretching from the backwoods of British Columbia to the front ben... + Read More
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Series: The Quiet in Me Poems Paperback Patrick Lane 9781550179811 $18.95 POETRY Apr 02, 2022

A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier. In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies—the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river—ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him. Together, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the bod... + Read More
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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series Arborophobia Paperback Nancy Holmes 9781772126020 $19.99 POETRY Mar 29, 2022

Arborophobia, the latest collection by award-winning poet Nancy Holmes, is a poetic spiritual reckoning. Its elegies, litanies, and indictments concern wonder, guilt, and grief about the journey of human life and the state of the natural world. When a child attempts suicide and western North America burns and the creep of mortality closes in, is spiritual and emotional solace possible or even desirable? Answers abound in measured, texturally intimate, and often surprising ways. The title sequence, named for a word that means “hatred of trees,” ... + Read More
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Series: Royal BC Museum Handbook Bats of British Columbia 2nd edition Paperback Cori Lausen 9780772679932 $34.95 NATURE Mar 25, 2022

Bats live on every continent except Antarctica and in virtually every type of habitat, from desert to forest. With more than 1,400 species worldwide, bats fill important ecological roles around the globe by controlling insect populations, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds and even providing humans with medicines--the saliva of the famous vampire bat can be used to treat strokes! Yet despite their importance to the planet?s ecosystems, there remains more misinformation than fact and more fear than respect for these diminutive guardians of the... + Read More
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Series: Talking to the Story Keepers Tales from the Chilcotin Plateau Paperback Sage Birchwater 9781773860800 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 25, 2022

In Talking to the Story Keepers: Tales from the Chilcotin Plateau, writer and journalist Sage Birchwater gathers dozens of stories spanning decades in the Cariboo Chilcotin from those who hold onto stories passed through generations. These stories reflect on the story keepers themselves as well as our collective humanity, tying everything from the small, almost forgettable moments, heroic deeds and colourful characters, to the greater significance of our histories. Each story contains insight, wisdom, knowledge or entertainment, connecting the ... + Read More
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Series: Robert Kroetsch Series You Might Be Sorry You Read This Paperback Michelle Poirier Brown 9781772126037 $19.99 POETRY Mar 16, 2022

You Might Be Sorry You Read This is a stunning debut, revealing how breaking silences and reconciling identity can refine anger into something both useful and beautiful. A poetic memoir that looks unflinchingly at childhood trauma (both incestuous rape and surviving exposure in extreme cold), it also tells the story of coming to terms with a hidden Indigenous identity when the poet discovered her Métis heritage at age 38. This collection is a journey of pain, belonging, hope, and resilience. The confessional poems are polished yet unpretentious... + Read More
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Series: One Inch from Disaster True Tales from the Wilds of British Columbia Paperback Kelly Randall Ricketts 9781550179262 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 05, 2022

Kelly Randall Ricketts has spent over half his life in the Campbell River area of Vancouver Island and lived in almost every region of BC, and like many rural British Columbians, he has tried his hand at an astonishing array of occupations from logging to mining to wrangling horses. Add to this a passion for the outdoors, heavyweight boxing, performing his own music and storytelling, and you have the makings of a very lively memoir. In One Inch from Disaster, Ricketts shares his closest calls, most daring feats and most embarrassing mistakes wi... + Read More
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Series: Cambium Blue Paperback Maureen Brownlee 9781550179309 $22.95 FICTION Mar 05, 2022

Set in the British Columbia Interior, the novel Cambium Blue is an homage to resource towns, independent women and local newspapers. In 1994, at the outset of the bark beetle epidemic that will decimate millions of acres of pine forest in western North America, a fiercely independent lumber town faces a bleak future when its only sawmill is shuttered. Encouraged by a provincial government intent on transitioning the region from timber to tourism, the town council embraces a resort developer as their last, best hope. A failure to anticipate the... + Read More
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Series: A Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide, Volume 3 Vancouver, Howe Sound & the Sunshine Coast (4th Edition) Revised edition Paperback Anne Yeadon-Jones 9781771623308 $49.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 26, 2022

Updated in 2021/22 to reflect a changing coast, with new microbreweries, marinas, parks and restaurants to explore! Discover an ever-evolving coastline with confidence, guide in hand. These popular cruising companions offer charts, tips and data that will enhance the enjoyment and safety of any voyage. The guides feature informative and charming hand-drawn shoreline plans of selected marinas and small boat anchorages, ranging from safe all-weather havens to secluded picnic spots and marine parks. Intended to complement official hydrographic cha... + Read More
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Series: Deadly Neighbours A Tale of Colonialism, Cattle Feuds, Murder and Vigilantes in the Far West Paperback Chad Reimer 9781773860732 $26.00 TRUE CRIME Feb 18, 2022

A revealing and thoughtful examination of one of Canada’s most shocking and misunderstood moments of violence—the lynching of Louie Sam.On a cold night in February, 1884, just metres north of the border on Sumas Prairie, BC, an Indigenous boy named Louie Sam was lynched by a mob of mounted vigilantes. The vigilantes had ridden up from Nooksack Valley in Washington Territory, hell-bent on avenging the murder of one of their neighbours, which they had pinned on Sam. The American origin of the mob, and the fact that Sam's murder was one of only tw... + Read More
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Series: Lot Poems Paperback Sarah de Leeuw 9781773860763 $20.00 POETRY Feb 11, 2022

In Lot, award-winning poet Sarah de Leeuw considers the ways in which words and languages form and embolden coloniality and create unequal imaginings of--and power in--place.In Lot, award-winning poet and essayist Sarah de Leeuw returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the racial complexities of colonial violence in those spaces. Following loosely as a companion to Skeena (Caitlin Press, 2015), Lot is written entirely of couplets, mirroring the two main islands of Haida Gwaii, and draws on lyric traditions, assemblage, and inv... + Read More
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Series: White Space Race, Privilege, and Cultural Economies of the Okanagan Valley Hardcover Daniel J. Keyes 9780774860048 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 15, 2021

Much attention has been paid to the changing culture and construction of the Canadian metropolis, but how are the workings of whiteness manifested in rural-urban spaces? White Space analyzes the dominance of whiteness in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia to expose how this racial notion continues to sustain forms of settler privilege. Contributors to this perceptive collection move beyond appraising whiteness as if it were a solid and unshakable category. Instead they powerfully demonstrate how the concept can be re-envisioned, resisted, ... + Read More
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Series: Vancouver Vice Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551528694 $27.95 HISTORY Dec 07, 2021

Aaron Chapman's latest Vancouver book explores the gritty history of the West End in the 1970s and '80s. Aaron Chapman, the two-time Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award-winning author of such bestselling Vancouver-themed books as Vancouver after Dark and The Last Gang in Town, turns his gaze toward the city's tumultuous West End in his latest opus. The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the w... + Read More
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Series: To Share, Not Surrender Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia Hardcover Peter Cook 9780774863827 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2021

To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel’aṉ’en – “our culture, the way of our people” – this multivocal work of essays traces the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. The collection also publishes translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SENĆOŦEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-... + Read More
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Series: A Liberal-Labour Lady The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith Hardcover Veronica Strong-Boag 9780774867245 $89.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2021

A Liberal-Labour Lady restores British Columbia’s first female MLA and the British Empire’s first female cabinet minister to history. An imperial settler, liberal-labour activist, and mainstream suffragist, Mary Ellen Smith (1863–1933) demanded a fair deal for “deserving” British women and men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She strove to shift Liberal parties leftward to benefit women and workers, while still embracing global assumptions of British racial superiority and bourgeois feminism’s privileging of white women. In... + Read More
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Series: Possessing Meares Island A Historian's Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound Hardcover Barry Gough 9781550179576 $36.95 HISTORY Nov 13, 2021

A fascinating account that links early maritime history, Indigenous land rights, and modern environmental advocacy in the Clayoquot Sound region by award-winning author and historian Barry Gough. Centred on Meares Island, located near Tofino on Vancouver Island’s west coast, Possessing Meares Island weaves a unique history out of the mists of time by connecting eighteenth century Indigenous-colonial trade relations to more recent historical upheavals. Gough invites readers to enter a dramatic epoch of BC’s coastal history and watch the Nuu-chah... + Read More
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Series: Haunting British Columbia Ghostly Tales from the Past Hardcover Mike McCardell 9781550179552 $34.95 HUMOR Oct 30, 2021

Broadcaster and bestselling author Mike McCardell haunts British Columbia’s past in order to summon spellbinding tales of Western Canada. Reprising his 2013 bestseller Haunting Vancouver, Mike McCardell summons the ghost of real-life pioneer Jock Linn to provide hair-raising and humorous versions of what really happened during some of the formative events that shaped British Columbia. In Haunting British Columbia, McCardell’s ghostly narrator explains how Victoria became BC’s capital (spoiler, it’s all because Governor James Douglas couldn’t st... + Read More
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Series: Deep, Dark and Dangerous The Story of British Columbia’s World-Class Undersea Tech Industry Hardcover Vickie Jensen 9781550179200 $36.95 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Oct 30, 2021

How British Columbia became an international hotspot for submarines, submersibles, Newtsuits, underwater robotics, Arctic sonar and a host of other cutting-edge undersea technologies. In Deep, Dark and Dangerous, maritime historian Vickie Jensen explores the fascinating story of British Columbia’s rise to become a world leader in the underwater tech industry. She profiles both trailblazing innovators and newcomers to the field, and traces BC’s colourful history and bright future as a front runner in the world of subsea technology innovation. Th... + Read More
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Series: The Science and Spirit of Seaweed Discovering Food, Medicine and Purpose in the Kelp Forests of the Pacific Northwest Paperback Amanda Swinimer 9781550179613 $28.95 NATURE Oct 23, 2021

Sustainable Pacific Northwest-based seaweed harvester Amanda Swinimer describes the ecology, culinary uses, evidence-based health benefits and climate change-resisting potential of seaweed and shares highlights from her remarkable life beneath the waves. Related to the most ancient living organisms on earth, seaweeds are incredible and unique life forms, sharing qualities with both plants and animals, as well as fungi. They have been prized as a nutrient-dense food source for millennia and contain essential vitamins, minerals and fatty acids, p... + Read More
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Series: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History A Long Way to Paradise A New History of British Columbia Politics Hardcover Robert A.J. McDonald 9780774864718 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 15, 2021

The political landscape of British Columbia has been characterized by divisiveness since Confederation. But why and how did it become Canada’s most fractious province? A Long Way to Paradise traces the evolution of political ideas in the province from 1871 to 1972, exploring British Columbia’s journey to socio-political maturity. Robert McDonald explains its classic left-right divide as a product of “common sense” liberalism that also shaped how British Columbians met the demands and challenges of a modernizing world. This lively, richly detail... + Read More
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Series: Surviving Samsara A Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental Illness Paperback Kagan Goh 9781773860329 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 14, 2021

A frank and touching memoir celebrating the resiliency of the spirit in the face of mental illness, psychotic breakdowns and stigma in society.“Samsara is defined as the ‘round of rebirth’ or ‘perpetual wandering’ … a continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering and dying.” —Buddhist Dictionary by Nyanatiloka MahatheraIn Kagan Goh’s debut memoir, he recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness. From an honest and personal perspective, Surviving Samsara traces Goh’... + Read More
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Series: The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded Paperback Gord Hill 9781551528526 $21.95 HISTORY Oct 12, 2021

A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas. When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day. Eleven years later, author and artist Gord Hill has revised and expanded the book, which is now available in colour for the first time. The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book powerfully... + Read More
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Series: Murders on the Skeena True Crime in the Old Canadian West, 1884–1914 Paperback Geoff Mynett 9781773860671 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Oct 07, 2021

Part history, part true crime, Murders on the Skeena: True Crime in the Old Canadian West, 1884–1914 contains the true accounts of murders, crimes, and scandals—some of which remain unsolved to this day—in small-town northern British Columbia. With a focus on the victims as much as the cases themselves, award-winning author Geoff Mynett relates untold stories of BC's deadly history while providing both the natural and social history of the region. Hazelton, situated where the Bulkley River joins the Skeena River, was one of the most important s... + Read More
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Series: No Man's Land Paperback John Vigna 9781551528663 $22.95 FICTION Sep 28, 2021

A sprawling saga set in the Canadian wilderness of the late 19th century, about a teenaged girl named Davey, a charismatic fraudster, and the unbearable weight of fate. In this powerful, panoramic novel set in the late 1890s, in a sliver of rugged British Columbia wilderness, a fourteen-year-old girl named Davey - too young to be given a chance at creating her own life - finds herself raised by a group of eccentric, hostile misfits who rescued her as an infant on a bloody battlefield. She roams the countryside with them, led by Reverend Brown,... + Read More
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