A full-colour field guide for the curious amateur naturalist, traveller, or hiker who wishes to learn to identify flowering plants that may be encountered while in the outdoors of South-Central British Columbia during the usual blooming...
British Columbia
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Auteur:Jennings, Neil L.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Deverell, WilliamSommaire: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....
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Auteur:Harcourt, Mike, Lekich, JohnSommaire:An inspiring and revealing memoir by one of Canada's most revered public figures. Mike Harcourt fought back from a near-fatal accident that doctors initially thought could leave the former B.C. premier permanently confined to a...
- Auteur:Horvath, PollySommaire:
By Newbery Honor author Polly Horvath, comes a sequel to her popular middle-grade novel Pine Island Home about orphaned sisters who find a way to make a new family. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha and Charlie McCready have been adopted by their...
- Auteur:Horvath, PollySommaire:
From Newbery Honor— and National Book Award—winning author Polly Horvath comes a story of four sisters searching for home. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha, and Charlie McCready are left on their own when their missionary parents are washed away...
- Auteur:Bridge, Kathryn AnneSommaire:
In 1924, Phyl Munday did what no woman had done before - reached the summit of Mt. Robson, the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies. She climbed nearly 100 mountains; her physical prowess legitimized her in the largely male world of...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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-...
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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...
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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!...
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Auteur:Bentley, Peter J. G.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Sasges, MichaelSommaire:"“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...
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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: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...
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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...
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