Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature Award. Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog...
British Columbia
- Author:Ellis, SarahSummary:
- Author:Hobson, Richmond P.Summary:
Epics of the West don't all belong to the last century. Here's a true tale of ranching in British Columbia told by a man who has built a cattle empire out of unexplored wilderness. In his first book, Grass Beyond the Mountains, Rich...
- Author:Ishiguro, LauraSummary:
Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into...
- Author:Raglin, RodSummary:
Crazy for You?Maggie talks to trees. Dieter talks to corporations. Maggie embraces mystery and flirts with magic. Dieter adheres to logic and the doctrine of Nietzsche.Dieter's client wants to destroy the trees. The trees want Maggie to...
- Author:Morton, AlexandraSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a...
- Author:Butler, DaveSummary:
Park warden Jenny Willson is in a dangerous race for answers that could create an irreparable rift in her own organization. When Park Warden Jenny Willson initiates a covert inquiry into a proposed ski hill in Yoho National Park, she’s...
- 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...
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Like all First Nations languages, Lillooet (Lil'wat) is a repository for an abundantly rich oral literature. In These Are Our Legends, the fifth volume of the First Nations Language Readers series, the reader will discover seven...
- Author:Leiren-Young, MarkSummary:
Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me that some people I was writing about might try to test the strength of my skull with a...
- Author:Perrin, DavidSummary:
Veterinarian Dave Perrin is building his dream home in the peaceful community of Lister, B.C., and puts in overtime to deal with some of the most improbable clients and frustrating cases of his career: snakes with indigestion, alcoholic...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
As the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, shakes off a long hard winter, famous photographer Rudolph Steiner arrives to do a feature on mountain tourism. Steiner is accompanied by his assistant and his sexy young wife, but he...
- Author:Williams, MauriceSummary:
The Kettle Valley Railway played a vital role in developing the southern interior of British Columbia. This is the story of the unnamed labourers who physically built this incredible railway line, working long hours for not much pay....
- Author:Sterling, ShirleySummary:
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots....
- Author:Innes, RoySummary:
RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a frozen corpse on a snowy slope just outside of town. There are no signs indicating how the body...
- 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:Skogan, JoanSummary:
- 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:Wright, L.R.Summary:
A housewife's murder draws a Canadian detective into a twisted family drama in this mystery thriller - the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Maria Buscombe was a housewife living in Sechelt, British...
- Author:Robinson, EdenSummary:
The Haisla community on the north west coast of British Columbia is devastated when the pride of their village, young Jimmy Hill, disappears at sea in a boating accident. Jimmy's sister Lisamarie reflects on the effect his death has on...
- Author:De Vries, MaggieSummary:
On April 14, 1998, Sarah de Vries disappeared from her usual spot on the corner of Princess and Hastings in Vancouver. She became one of the many women who had vanished from the Downtown Eastside—women, most of them sex workers and drug...