Out of print for more than 40 years, this is an intimate and heartwarming biography that throws a whole new light on one of Canada's most beloved and iconic artists. In 1916, Emily Carr wasn’t...
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Author: Pearson, CarolSummary:
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Author: Jenkins, CarrieSummary:
Finalist for the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. A queer psychological thriller from a beguiling, fresh new voice. Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who...
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Author: Klerks, CatSummary:
This is the story of a rebellious girl from British Columbia who travelled the world in pursuit of her calling only to find her true inspiration in the Canadian landscape she’d left behind. Both a...
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Author: Mofford, Glen A.Summary:
A rowdy, rollicking popular history that celebrates the tales of Victoria’s drinking establishments in their heyday. From the raunchy saloons that lined Victoria’s notorious Johnson street to the...
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Author: Macdonald, Ian, O'Keefe, BettySummary:
This lively biography of Bishop Edward Cridge and his wife Mary paints a vivid picture of early Victoria as it developed from an isolated Hudson's Bay Company post into the bustling capital of...
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Author: Downie, Mary Alice, Robertson, Barbara, Errington, Elizabeth Jane, Carr, EmilySummary:
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early...
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Author: Pearce, JacquelineSummary:
Young Emily Carr has no interest in learning to be a lady. She loves animals and the outdoors, and she is beginning to discover that what she loves most of all is drawing and painting. Will she...
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Author: Pearce, JacquelineSummary:
In the sequel to Discovering Emily, Emily Carr is determined to become an artist. But her parents have died, and she and her siblings are ruled by the iron-willed eldest, Dede. Dede is more...
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Author: ADAMS, JaneSummary:
To Robert Carr, Anna is a mystery. She has alway been an enigma and over the past thirteen years, his imagination has fed on his last parting kiss goodbye before turning to leave.
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Author: Holubitsky, KatherineSummary:
Fourteen year old Pamela Collins is struggling to come to terms with her mother's death. Somewhat shy, Pamela is thoughtful, full of passion, often funny and sometimes tearful as she learns to...
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Author: Brouwer, SigmundSummary:
The disappearance of his soccer team's leading scorer during the championship finals leads sixteen-year-old Matt to investigate and entangles him in a possible kidnapping. If the Mavericks win...
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Author: Scoones, AnnySummary:
A vividly wrought memoir, Last Dance in Shediac is a collection of the author’s personal memories of her mother—celebrated Canadian artist Molly Lamb Bobak—and a tender meditation on life and...
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Author: Young, Kathryn A., McKinnon, Sarah M.Summary:
What force of will and circumstance drove a woman from a comfortable life painting china tea services to one of hardship and loneliness in the battle zones of France and Belgium following the...
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Author: John le CarřSummary:
"Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre?'s ... novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the...
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Author: Carr, CalebSummary:
An epic account about the kingdom of Broken follows the efforts of a solitary noble soldier to confront legendary medieval adversaries to save a fortress city from internal and external dangers....