1.
Series:
Exploring Vancouver
Ten Tours of the City and Its Buildings (Fifth Edition)
Paperback
Harold Kalman
9781990776274
$29.95
ARCHITECTURE
May 27, 2023
This new edition of the classic urban guidebook brings the city’s architectural story up to date. Harold Kalman and Robin Ward, long-time chroniclers of Vancouver, offer an authoritative and highly readable book about Vancouver’s most interesting places and explain how, why and by whom the city’s urban environment was created. Containing more than four hundred entries, ten self-guided tours highlight significant buildings from all eras in the city and its metro region, and feature new projects that transform the skyline more radically than eve...
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2.
Series:
The Science and Superpowers of Seaweed
A Guide for Kids
Paperback
Amanda Swinimer
9781990776199
$24.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 12
May 06, 2023
A middle-grade and family-friendly introduction to the enchanting world of seaweed. Young readers will be delighted to learn about the wonderful, watery world of seaweed, where emerald-green kelp forests grow as tall as trees and rainbow seaweeds shimmer like gemstones in the sunlight. Seaweed can be fun too, providing tasty snacks like nori crisps and cool things to do: hunt for dead man’s fingers to squeeze like a squirt gun, have a popping contest with rockweed or make seaweed art. Seaweeds are also critical to the health of the planet—they...
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3.
Series:
Sheltering in the Backrush
A History of Twin Islands
Paperback
Jeanette Taylor
9781990776113
$24.95
HISTORY
Apr 22, 2023
Coastal historian Jeanette Taylor unveils the unique past of Twin Islands. Twin Islands form part of the lacey fringe at the southern edge of the Discovery Islands archipelago, where it meets the north Salish Sea. This is the interface between wilderness and urban settlement. To the north, heavily treed slopes rise vertically from the sea and fast tides churn through the constricted passages of a maze of islands and inlets. Navigating these waters is a white-knuckle challenge many recreational boaters avoid, ending their travels to the east in...
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4.
Series: First Voices, First Texts
Legends of the Capilano
Paperback
E. Pauline Johnson
9781772840179
$27.95
FICTION
Apr 14, 2023
Bringing the Legends homeLegends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first time. This new edition celebrates the storytelling abilities of Johnson’s Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) collaborators, Joe and Mary Capilano, and supplements the original fifteen legends with five additional stories narrated solely or in part by Mary Capilano, highlighting her previously overlooked contributions to the book.Alongside photographs and biographical entries for E. Pauline Johnson...
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5.
Series:
The Whole Animal
Paperback
Corinna Chong
9781551529158
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 11, 2023
A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences, growths, and protrusions, and the dangerous ways we play with their power to inflict harm on ourselves and on others. Throughout The Whole Animal, flawed characters wrestle with the complexities of relations...
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6.
Series:
White Riot
The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver
Paperback
Henry Tsang
9781551529196
$32.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 04, 2023
Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city's Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. Emblematic of a systemically racist era, White Riot reveals the social and political environment of the time, when racialized communities w...
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7.
Series:
Pascal's Fire
Paperback
Kristina Bresnen
9781771965439
$19.95
POETRY
Apr 04, 2023
An unnamed speaker navigates a world where God comes in the shape of a cardinal, speaks in the voice of Georgia O’Keeffe, and paints the desert with bones. Driven by sound, heartbreak, and a baffling sense of the limits and possibilities of language, the speaker of this poetic prose meditation sets out into a strange, dream-like wilderness where lyric and narrative meet, time dissolves, and figures as various as Moses, the apostle Paul, Virginia Woolf, Blaise Pascal, Flaubert’s Félicité, Zora Neale Hurston, and Hestia gather in a colloquy to f...
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8.
Series:
Snorkelling Adventures Around Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands
The Ultimate Guide
Paperback
Sara Ellison
9781990776151
$26.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Mar 11, 2023
The very first guidebook written just for snorkellers exploring these unique ecosystems. The chilly waters surrounding Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are rich in colourful and diverse marine life. Scuba divers have long been aware of this submarine cornucopia, and Jacques Cousteau himself recognized the Pacific Northwest as one of the world’s premier temperate diving destinations. But scuba diving is an elite hobby, requiring training and costly equipment, and consequently is accessible only to a relatively small number of people. Snorke...
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9.
Series: Dreamspeaker Cruising Guides
Desolation Sound & the Discovery Islands
Revised Fifth Edition, 2023
Revised Fifth Edition, 2023
Paperback
Anne Yeadon-Jones
9781990776069
$49.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Feb 18, 2023
The information-packed Dreamspeaker Cruising Guide series covers the most significant and accessible cruising areas of the southern inside passage, and has become standard reference for British Columbia boaters.Volume 2 covers one of the most sought-out cruising areas of the Pacific Northwest: the protected waters of Desolation Sound and the surrounding network of the Discovery Islands. World-famous for its pristine and spectacular natural beauty, the interconnecting waterways encompass large tracts of accessible wilderness that entice boaters,...
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10.
Series:
This Place Is Who We Are
Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands
Paperback
Katherine Palmer Gordon
9781990776137
$39.95
NATURE
May 06, 2023
This Place Is Who We Are profiles Indigenous communities in central and northern coastal BC that are reconnecting to their lands and waters—and growing and thriving through this reconnection. Indigenous peoples and cultures are integrally connected to the land. Well-being in every sense—physical, social, environmental, economic, spiritual and cultural—depends on that relationship, which is based on a fundamental concept: when the land is well, so are the people. With increasing strength, Indigenous peoples in this vast region of BC—which spans...
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11.
Series:
Printer's Devils
The Feisty Pioneer Newspaper That Shaped the History of British Columbia's Smelter City 1895-1925
Paperback
Ron Verzuh
9781773861036
$28.00
HISTORY
Mar 10, 2023
Journey back in time through the lives of six young Trail News editors—the “printer’s devils”—and uncover how their influence shaped the establishment of BC’s Smelter City.The grisly murder of a nurse, a crippling 1917 strike, death on the wartime battlefield, the 1918–19 flu pandemic, life on the home front—these are just some of the historic events covered in the early days of the Trail Creek News. In Printer’s Devils, historian Ron Verzuh offers both a study of pioneer journalism and a social history of the smelter city of Trail as it grew i...
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12.
Series:
Dancing on Mountains
Paperback
Luanne Armstrong
9781773860893
$26.00
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
May 05, 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...
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13.
Series:
Tilling the Darkness
Paperback
Susan Braley
9781773861067
$20.00
POETRY
Feb 10, 2023
A fierce debut examining the tension of gender dynamics amidst the firm immutability of the church and the cyclical nature of rural life on a farm in the 60s. In Susan Braley’s debut poetry collection, Tilling the Darkness, a young woman born into a family of eleven navigates the inequities of gender roles on the farm and in the church. In this dramatic rural setting—birth and death sudden in the barn, the seasons vivid over the fields—she experiences first-hand how swiftly seedlings become stalks ploughed down, how easily she and her sist...
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14.
Series:
The Broken Heart of Winter
Paperback
Judy LeBlanc
9781773861050
$24.95
FICTION
Feb 24, 2023
Three generations of Acadian women grapple with the impacts of dislocation, exile, and violence in award-winning writer Judy LeBlanc’s debut novel, The Broken Heart of Winter.Lise, Appoline and Anne are related, though they live on opposite coasts at different moments of time, with the vast geography of Canada and decades of change in between. The three women are linked by generations of hardship, displacement, and an eighteenth-century French musket that has been passed down through the LeBlanc family since the time of the Acadian expulsion. I...
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18.
Series:
Workboats for the World
The Robert Allan 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...
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19.
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...
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20.
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 fallen old-growth 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 fishe...
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22.
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 ...
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23.
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 25, 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 ...
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25.
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...
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26.
Series:
Kechika Chronicler
Willard Freer's Northern BC and Yukon Diaries, 1942-1975
Paperback
Jay Sherwood
9781773860909
$26.00
HISTORY
Feb 24, 2023
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 ...
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27.
Series: Wayfarer
Blue Portugal and Other Essays
Unabridged edition
Downloadable audio file
Theresa Kishkan
9781772126839
$32.99
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 13, 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...
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30.
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...
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31.
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...
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33.
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...
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34.
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...
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36.
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...
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37.
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-...
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38.
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...
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40.
Series:
Hard Is the Journey
Stories of Chinese Settlement in British Columbia's Kootenay
Paperback
Lily Chow
9781773860749
$26.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dec 16, 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...
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41.
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...
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42.
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...
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43.
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...
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44.
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 ...
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45.
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...
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47.
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.
48.
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...
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49.
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...
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50.
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...
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51.
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...
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52.
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,” ...
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53.
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...
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54.
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 ...
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55.
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...
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56.
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...
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57.
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...
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58.
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...
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59.
Series:
Deadly Neighbours
A Story of Colonialism, Cattle Theft, Murder and Vigilante Violence
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...
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60.
Series:
Lot
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...
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