The author's spirited account of her solo two-month journey by canoe to Alaska and through some of the most treacherous waters of the Inside Passage, at a time when much of the area was wild and inaccessible. The travels with minimal...
Public Library InterLINK 2015
These 85 audiobooks were originally produced by Public Library InterLINK, some funded by the BC government's Libraries Branch. They were converted by NNELS from large-format reels in 2015 — more information about this collection is included in our August 2015 news release.
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Author:Carey, Betty LowmanSummary: - Author:Bridge, Kathryn AnneSummary:
Four nineteenth century women, Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods lived and traveled in British Columbia very much as a minority - white and female. Bridge looks at each of these pioneering women,...
- Author:Coates, Kenneth, Morrison, BillSummary:
In 1918, the steamer Princess Sophia left Alaska for Vancouver, but during a storm she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef - there were no survivors. Tracing the stories of many of the 353 aboard the Sophia - how they had gone to the north,...
- Author:Holmes, W. Leslie, Northorp, Bruce L.Summary:
In the summer of 1981, as teenagers in British Columbia's lower Mainland disappeared, members of the RCMP swung into action. When they started discovering bodies, they began to wonder if this was the work of a single person. A...
- Author:Young, TerenceSummary:
Fergus, owner of Goodlake's Deli, is having an affair with a much younger woman - a relationship that starts out carefree but eventually collapses the foundations of everything in his life. The crisis is by turns humourous, tragic and...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Now, after six years of retirement, Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is dragged back to court to defend an old client, Nick "the Owl" Faloon. He must nail the right suspect in a trial...
- Author:Knighton, RyanSummary:
Knighton tells the story of his 15-year descent into blindness. Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, and into adulthood, he provides a window into the human condition. He is powerful and irreverent in words and...
- Author:Southin, GwendolynSummary:
Vancouver, 1960. A growing city with a suspicious underbelly. After a veterinarian's assistant's body turns up in a local cranberry bog, details about the victim's double life emerge and a seemingly endless list of suspects forms. Soon...
- Author:Converse, CathySummary:
M. Wylie Blanchet's book "The Curve of Time", introduced an adventurous woman who cruised the coast in a 25-foot boat with her five children and their dog. Who was this skipper, this mother, this writer? These questions motivated Cathy...
- Author:Scoones, AnnySummary:
In her best-selling first book, Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (2005), Anny Scoones introduced readers to historic Glamorgan Farm. In Home and Away, Anny presents more stories about the joys and sorrows, excitements and mishaps and also...
- Author:Whyte, JackSummary:
In 1088, one young knight, Hugh de Payens, is inducted into a secret society in his father's castle in Anjou. He is commanded by the Order to join the Crusade to redeem the Holy Land. Sickened by the slaughter of innocents, Hugh and a...
- Author:Fraser, GailSummary:
Tucked into the foothills of the Rockies lies the charming village of Lumby, where quirky but tolerant townsfolk usually make the best of any situation. Not a week goes by without some humorous mayhem occurring under the watchful eyes...
- Author:Hauka, Donald J.Summary:
Could a horde of American miners have delivered British Columbia into the hands of the United States in 1859? In "McGowan's War," Donald J. Hauka argues that the new colony was a rifle shot away from war and annexation during the...
- Author:Boudreau, JackSummary:
In the backwoods of British Columbia, Boudreau tells of adventures gone awry, bizarre encounters with creatures in the wilds, and the results of friendships gone sour. When men went missing, or furs were stolen, it was often up to the...
- Author:Mitchell, MargaretSummary:
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...
- Author:Kogawa, JoySummary:
Through the eyes of a child, the novel tells the moving story of Japanese Canadians during W.W.II. Naomi is five years old when Pearl Harbour changes her life and she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens,...
- Author:Nicol, EricSummary:
Is impotence contagious? At what age should a senior be surgically separated from his automobile, or obligated to donate his sex toys to the Salvation Army?
These and other timely questions are among those not answered in Eric...
- Author:Poole, MichaelSummary:
When Nathan and Leah meet in Silva Landing, on the Sunshine Coast, in 1913, it is love at first sight; but they find their passion tested at every turn. Leah engages in a battle of wills with her mother, who feels she is too young for a...
- Author:Levy, PaulSummary:
Few men can honestly be said to have attained the status of living legends in the BC business world, and even fewer women, but Lucille Johnstone, fondly known as "Tugboat Annie," was a notable exception. Lucille was twenty-three years...
- Author:Hume, StephenSummary:
In 1808, seeking a route to the western sea, Simon Fraser descended the great river that now bears his name. Stephen Hume followed in Fraser's footsteps for four years. He studied fading maps and diaries, interviewed the descendants of...
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