A guide to understanding the Indian Act and its impact on generations of Indigenous Peoples, as well as an examination of how Indigenous Peoples can return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance.
BC Book Prizes 2019
The BC Book Prizes have been celebrating the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers since 1985. For more information about the Prizes, please visit the BC Book Prizes website.
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Author:Joseph, Robert P. C.Summary: - Author:Shaw, Rob, Zussman, RichardSummary:
A breathtaking behind-the-scenes look at the dramatic rise and fall of Christy Clark's BC Liberals, the return to power of the NDP, and what it means for British Columbia's volatile political climate going forward. British Columbia's...
- Author:Rustad, HarleySummary:
Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition. On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. His job was to survey the land and...
- Author:Cox, Sarah, Neve, AlexSummary:
Breaching the Peace tells the story of the ordinary citizens who are standing up to the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that has propelled it forward. Starting in 2013, journalist Sarah...
- Author:Page, KathySummary:
"Born between the wars on a working-class London street, Harry Miles wins a scholarship and a chance to escape his station, but discovers instead that poetry is what offers him real direction. While searching for more of it he meets...
- Author:McLeod, DarrelSummary:
A powerful story of resilience-a must-read for all Canadians. Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family's history. In shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha,...
- Author:Lazarus, EveSummary:
When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther's funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter,...
- Author:Oelke, LianneSummary:
"Jane Sinner snarked her way into my heart, and she's never leaving. Prepare to fall hard for this hilarious, heartfelt gem of a book."-Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens AgendaIt's Kind of a Funny Story meets Daria...
- Author:Ramji, Shazia HafizSummary:
The poems in Port of Being hold modern technology—surveillance, shipping, the Internet—to examine communication, migration, and identity. Preoccupied with the city, virtuality, reflexivity, and the ways we watch ourselves, Shazia Hafiz...
- Author:Ruurs, MargrietSummary:
Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural world to life on the canvas. A naturalist and painter from his youth, Robert has for decades used his recognition to shed light on environmental...
- Author:Fisher, Erin FrancesSummary:
In settings that range from the old American West to pre-revolutionary France, from a present-day dig site in the high tablelands of South America to deep space, That Tiny Life is a wide-ranging and utterly original collection of short...
- Author:Van Camp, Richard, Gray Smith, Monique, Gear, AlisonSummary:
From award-winning authors Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith come two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a 'flip-book' format, which offers...
- Author:Hicks, Faith ErinSummary:
The Nameless City--held by the rogue Dao prince Erzi--is under siege by a coalition of Dao and Yisun forces who are determined to end the war once and for all... Rat and Kai must infiltrate Erzi's palace and steal back the ancient and...
- Author:Wong, LindsaySummary:
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up...
- Author:Horvath, PollySummary:
Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.
- Author:Leslie, AlexSummary:
We All Need to Eat, is a new collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver, chronicling her attempts to come to grips with herself, her family and her...
