British Columbia
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Auteur:Boreham, BrendaSommaire: - Auteur:Siemens, J. T.Sommaire:
Disgraced ex-cop Sloane Donovan has relied on her job as a fitness instructor to keep her mental illness and PTSD in check-until she finds a close friend dead, apparently by her own hand. Obsessive demons triggered and doubtful of the...
- Auteur:Buxton, Lesley, Harper, SuzanneSommaire:
Go on… be a time traveller, an anthropologist, an archeologist, an artist, or an explorer! Be everything at once! When you visit a museum, you enter an amazing world where you are limited only by your imagination. The books in the Time...
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Auteur:Roberts, Ken, Franson, LeanneSommaire:A Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection and an SSLI Honor Book. Thumb and Susan come up with an ingenious plan that will take all of the village's nine school-aged kids on the trip of a lifetime. They'll form a baseball team, win the...
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Auteur:Collier, EricSommaire:In 1930, Collier, his wife and young son reached the Stack Valley in B.C., where they lived in an abandoned cabin. He and his wife had promised her grandmother to bring the beavers back to the area that she knew as a child before the...
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Auteur:Patterson, R. M.Sommaire:Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of...
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Auteur:Twigg, AlanSommaire:For his third volume about BC literary history, Alan Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the...
- Auteur:Pollon, Earl K., Matheson, Shirlee SmithSommaire:
This Was Our Valley was a phenomenal success when first released in 1989, winning the Alberta Culture Nonfiction prize as well as the Silver medal for the Roderick-Haig Brown BC Books award. Construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam...
- This place is who we are : stories of Indigenous leadership, resilience, and connection to homelandsAuteur:Gordon, Katherine PalmerSommaire:
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...
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Auteur:Carr, Emily, Switzer, Ann-LeeSommaire:Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection.. Carr began to write...
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Auteur:Sellars, BevSommaire:Xat’sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to “civilize” Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition,...
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Auteur:Lane, PatrickSommaire:Lane is not only an accomplished writer, he is also an avid gardener; and he is an alcoholic. In 1999, he went into rehab, then returned to his beloved garden, shaky but alive. For a year, he stayed close to home, gardening and slowly...
- Auteur:William, GerrySommaire:
A magical landscape as close as your own backyard, populated by the spirits of the animals and people, The Woman in the trees is a mythical exploration of the first contact between the Okanagans (the syilx) and early settlers, between...
- Auteur:Donovan, Natasha, Huson, Brett D.Sommaire:
In the fifth book of the Mothers of Xsan series, award-winning author Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) introduces young readers to a pack of grey wolves. New pups have just begun to open their eyes, one of which is a striking black...
- Auteur:Pearson, KitSommaire:
In 1932, after the death of their father, ten-year-old Polly and her older sister Maud must leave their home in Winnipeg and begin a new life with their grandmother on a remote island off the coast of B.C. Maud goes off to boarding...
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Auteur:Christie, JackSommaire:This concise, thorough, and easy-to-use guide gives readers all the information they need to enjoy the Whistler area’s incredible range of year-round recreational opportunities. It features detailed descriptions of camping, hiking,...
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Auteur:Haig-Brown, Roderick L.Sommaire:An exciting story of a boy's growth to manhood which gives an excellent picture of the life and culture of the North Pacific Indians in the Pre-Columbian period.
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Auteur:Reid, DonaldaSommaire:It’s the 1960s – the time for equal rights, peace, and love. But for Ellen Manery, it’s the time to work hard and finish high school early. She’d rather be helping out at the university’s medical lab than listening to rock and roll and...
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Auteur:Forsythe, Mark, Dickson, GregSommaire:In 1858, over eight decades had passed since Captain James Cook claimed the shores of what would become British Columbia for the British crown, but European settlers had shown little interest in the new lands. The non-aboriginal...
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Auteur:Roberts, Ken, Franson, LeanneSommaire:Leon and his friend Susan live in New Auckland, a small isolated fishing village on the coast of British Columbia. One day, the village receives an unexpected gift from the Government of Canada -- a fire truck. But New Auckland is...
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