1.
Series:
Fortune Knox Once
More Musings from the Edge
Paperback
Jack Knox
9781772034172
$22.95
HUMOR
Oct 18, 2022
Victoria’s favourite humourist returns with a hilarious collection of observations on Island living.For more than twenty-five years, Jack Knox’s weekly humour column has captured the essence of life in BC’s picturesque capital city, a.k.a. Dysfunction-by-the-Sea. In Fortune Knox Once, as in his previous humour collections, Knox gathers together his favourite Time Colonist pieces that best sum up the absurdity of our times.The subject matter is all over the map: the lost art of handwriting, the sexiness of the Canadian accent, phone addiction, ...
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2.
Series:
Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives
An Island Memoir
Paperback
Margot Fedoruk
9781772033953
$22.95
Oct 18, 2022
Part love story, part survival story, part meditation on family dysfunction, this offbeat memoir chronicles the unpredictable life of a young wife and mother on Gabriola Island.In 1989, twenty-three-year-old Margot Fedoruk left Winnipeg and her volatile Slavic-Jewish family for the wilds of BC to work as a tree planter and to contemplate her mother’s untimely death from cancer. There, she met Rick Corless, a burly, red-headed sea urchin diver, and soon found herself pregnant and cooking vegetarian meals for meat-eating divers on Rick’s ...
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3.
Series:
The Russian Refugees
A Family's First Century in Canada
Paperback
Michael Andruff
9781772034196
$26.95
HISTORY
Oct 18, 2022
A sweeping family history, chronicling the journey of a group of Russian refugees who settled in rural Alberta in 1924, this book pays tribute to countless people who have found a safe haven in Canada over the past 100 years.Every refugee has a story. This book follows the life of Nikifor Andriev, driven from his homeland in 1924, to settle in Canada as part of a group of 116 privately sponsored Russian refugees. Their new home, the aptly named Homeglen, Alberta, was a symbol of promise and prosperity. With a newly Anglicized name, Niki...
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4.
Series:
In Our Youth
The Lives, Adventures, and Sacrifices of Early Canadian Flyers
Paperback
Angus Scully
9781772034219
$29.95
HISTORY
Oct 18, 2022
A fascinating, photo-rich exploration of early aviation in Canada, told through the backstories of pilots who flew, fought, and risked their lives in the First World War, through the interwar period, and beyond.In Our Youth explores the lives of thirty-two young Canadian military and civilian flyers, viewed through the medium of archival photography. All of these young men were pilots in the First World War, a time when flying was pure adventure and danger. Some of them were from humble origins, some from e...
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5.
Series:
From Denmark to the Cariboo
The Epic Journey of the Lindhard Sisters
Paperback
Linda Peterat
9781772033939
$26.95
HISTORY
Oct 18, 2022
A captivating account of the lives of Laura, Christine, and Caroline Lindhard, three sisters who left their home in Stege, Denmark, in 1870 due to war, political turmoil, and limited opportunities, and sought out new lives in the Cariboo region of British Columbia.There are few stories of entrepreneurial, business class women in nineteenth century BC. They didn’t keep diaries or save letters like the ruling class women often did, and they were usually overlooked in newspaper reports. Yet many came into Brit...
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6.
Series:
Bloom Where You Are Planted
50 Conversations with Inspiring British Columbians
Hardcover
Beka Shane Denter
9781772034295
$39.95
PHOTOGRAPHY
Oct 04, 2022
A celebration of fifty talented, creative, passionate people (forty-nine women and one nonbinary person) working in the fields of visual art, dance, photography, music, design, comedy, storytelling, food, fashion, beauty, wellness, and advocacy.Bloom Where You Are Planted is a collection of interviews and photography that honours a group of innovative, hard-working, diverse people, whose creative and business ventures inspire, support, and infuse others’ lives with purpose and positivity. These are people who are passionate about work, communit...
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7.
Series:
Her Courage Rises
50 Trailblazing Women of British Columbia and Yukon
Hardcover
Haley Healey
9781772034257
$22.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 12
Oct 04, 2022
A beautifully illustrated collection of inspiring life stories of fifty extraordinary historical women from BC and Yukon. This fascinating, informative, and charming book introduces young readers to a diverse group of women who changed the face of history in unexpected ways and defied the expectations and gender norms of their times. Through charming illustrations and concise biographies, Her Courage Rises features social activists and politicians, artists and writers, scientists and healers, pioneers and prospectors, athletes and entrep...
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8.
Series: Little Wolf Series
Abalone Woman
Paperback
Teoni Spathelfer
9781772034271
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Oct 18, 2022
A vivid dream teaches Little Wolf about courage and acceptance of those who are different, and inspires her to show her daughters their classmates how to be proud of their diverse cultural backgrounds.Throughout her life, Little Wolf has been troubled by the injustice she sees all around her. When she was young, she was bullied for her Indigenous heritage. Her mother, White Raven, spent ten years in a residential school, separated from her family and isolated from her culture. Little Wolf’s own children are growing up in a different, mor...
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9.
Series:
ka-aciwikicik / The Move
Paperback
Doris George
9781772034288
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Oct 18, 2022
A magical children’s picture book, written in Cree and English, depicting the transformation of a barren landscape into a rich natural world where an elderly couple can spend their remaining days.Rooted in the historical displacement and relocation of members of the Chemawawin First Nation from their ancestral homeland, The Move is a bilingual story of two Cree Elders adjusting to life in their new environment. The story presents two contrasting landscapes of the old community—the homeland of the Chemawawin People—and the new community of ...
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