The woman who first brought the issue of spousal abuse to the forefront in Canada presents her memoirs in this interesting, informative, entertaining and often humourous book. Margaret Mitchell is a social activist who pioneered...
British Columbia Collection
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Auteur:Mitchell, MargaretSommaire: - Auteur:Butler, DaveSommaire:
Park warden Jenny Willson is in a dangerous race for answers that could create an irreparable rift in her own organization. When Park Warden Jenny Willson initiates a covert inquiry into a proposed ski hill in Yoho National Park, she’s...
- Auteur:Morton, AlexandraSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a...
- Auteur:Raglin, RodSommaire:
Crazy for You?Maggie talks to trees. Dieter talks to corporations. Maggie embraces mystery and flirts with magic. Dieter adheres to logic and the doctrine of Nietzsche.Dieter's client wants to destroy the trees. The trees want Maggie to...
- Auteur:Hobson, Richmond P.Sommaire:
Epics of the West don't all belong to the last century. Here's a true tale of ranching in British Columbia told by a man who has built a cattle empire out of unexplored wilderness. In his first book, Grass Beyond the Mountains, Rich...
- Auteur:Ellis, SarahSommaire:
Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature Award. Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog...
- Auteur:Chudley, RonSommaire:
Resting on what was left of the bench was something else, lighter in shade than the background, round, about the size of a cabbage. There were two large holes close together, a smaller pair below, then two rows of wedge-shaped objects....
- Auteur:Adams, JohnSommaire:
August 12, 2003, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir James Douglas. Although he played an integral role in British Columbia's history, in many ways Douglas remains misunderstood and an enigma. He is known for his...
- Auteur:Carney, PatSommaire:
A collection of stories chronicling the characters and dramas that capture life in small coastal communities. In this story collection, Pat Carney follows the rhythms of day-to-day life in coastal BC. Featuring a revolving cast of...
- Auteur:Jean, BarmanSommaire:
“The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied,” writes Jean Barman, “and it is up to each of us to act as best we can.” The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable...
- Auteur:Cameron, StevieSommaire:
Looks at a series of missing women cases in Vancouver in 1998, focusing on the victims' families' and friends' pleas to start criminal investigations and describing how they led to the arrest of Robert William Pickton.
- Auteur:Horvath, PollySommaire:
Shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. Selected for the Bankstreet College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year 2013. Readers rejoice -- Primrose Squarp is back!...
- Ootsa Lake odyssey : George and Else Seel--a pioneer life on the headwaters of the Nechako WatershedAuteur:Sherwood, JaySommaire:
From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the western shore of Ootsa Lake. Like many early twentieth century settlers who migrated to...
- Auteur:Francis, Daniel, Hewlett, GilSommaire:
Winner of Foreword Magazine's Best Nature Non-Fiction Award.
In 1964 when the Vancouver Aquarium obtained its first killer whale, Moby Doll, the prevalent attitudes towards killer whales was that they were fierce and vicious man-...
- Auteur:Vickers, Roy HenrySommaire:
Thousands of years ago in the village of Kitkatla, four hunters leave home in the spring to harvest seaweed and sockeye. When they arrive at their fishing grounds, exhaustion makes them lazy and they throw their anchor overboard without...
- Auteur:Smith, Lisa Anne, Rogers, BarbaraSommaire:
When a young black man named Seraphim “Joe” Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could have possibly suspected that one hundred years later he would be voted “Citizen of the Century.” Our Friend Joe is...
- Auteur:Kopas, CliffSommaire:
Babes in the woods. That’s how Ruth and Cliff Kopas were described by one of many colourful characters the pair encountered on their amazing journey across the Rockies through to British Columbia’s west coast in 1933. Married on the day...
- Auteur:Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy HenrySommaire:
The children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Spectacular imagery adorns this fascinating anthology of the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations stories and legends. The book is a unique commemorative collection that celebrates the four host First Nations...
- Auteur:Stonier-Newman, LynneSommaire:
Powerful and diligent, Peter O’Reilly played a role in shaping British Columbia in the last quarter of the 1800s. An immigrant from Ireland, O’Reilly landed in Victoria during the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush and was appointed gold...
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