Here are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women—driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and actions made them rebels in society’s eyes. Many faced hardship and ridicule as they pursued...
British Columbia
- Author:Mole, RichSummary:
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
In Platinum Blues, Oliver Gulliver is a small-town lawyer in northern California, and he's slowly going broke. He's a plodder and a dreamer, has never tested himself in a big trial, and is immensely protective of his two teenage girls....
- Author:Stonier-Newman, LynneSummary:
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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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...
- Author:Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy HenrySummary:
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...
- Author:Kopas, CliffSummary:
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...
- Author:Smith, Lisa Anne, Rogers, BarbaraSummary:
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...
- Author:Buday, GrantSummary:
"In Grant Buday's new novel, three captivating stories intertwine at the site of the New Brighton Hotel on the shores of Burrard Inlet. In 1858 the serious and devoted Sir Richard Clement Moody receives the commission of a...
- Author:Vickers, Roy HenrySummary:
"A retelling of an ancient story that will captivate readers young and old."--Inside jacket cover
- Ootsa Lake odyssey : George and Else Seel--a pioneer life on the headwaters of the Nechako WatershedAuthor:Sherwood, JaySummary:
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...
- Author:Horvath, PollySummary:
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!...
- Author:Bentley, Peter J. G.Summary:
- Author:Sasges, MichaelSummary:
"“Our well beloved dead who died that we might live.” In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia’s Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Those men came from a...
- Author:Carney, PatSummary:
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...
- Author:Adams, JohnSummary:
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...
- Author:Chudley, RonSummary:
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....
- Author:Ellis, SarahSummary:
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...
- Author:Vernon, CaitlynSummary:
A hands-on guide to the magic and majesty of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, with suggestions for activism in any community.
- Author:Hobson, Richmond P.Summary:
- Author:Olsen, SylviaSummary: