A history of two centuries of sea lore and detailed misadventure along the Pacific coast of British Columbia.
British Columbia
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Author:Rogers, FredSummary: -
Author:Kane, AlanSummary:Having sold more than 40,000 copies of previous editions, this authoritative climbing guide has been completely revised, updated and redesigned for a whole new generation of mountaineers. The original edition of Scrambles in the...
- Author:Raglin, RodSummary:
Kimberley James is hoping her new assignment will jumpstart her stalled career with a New York corporate relations firm. Her client wants to develop a mega ski resort in northern Canada. Her job is to convince the current owners of the...
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Author:Mole, RichSummary:On October 1, 1917, prohibition came into effect in the province of British Columbia. Washington and Oregon had gone dry the previous year. The ban on liquor sales led to deadly conflict and legal chaos in the Pacific Northwest, and the...
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Author:Edwards, IsabelSummary:Biographical account of pioneer life in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia, near Lonesome Lake in the 1930s and 1940s, including trapping and fishing.
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Author:Manson, AinslieSummary:As Rick Hansen wheels around the globe on his incredible Man in Motion World Tour, the children he meets are encouraged to dream their own dreams and work to make them come true. Readers also discover little-known facts about the great...
- Author:Williams, JimSummary:
After the death of his wife, Peter abandons his life in Toronto for one of exile in Rock Reject, a mountain-top asbestos mine in northern British Columbia. He soon witnesses the devastating effects of mining on the health of his fellow...
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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...
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Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:In this new edition of Jack Hodgins’ Governor General–winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean...
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Author:Thistle, JohnSummary:"Explores the ecology and history of the grassland and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the claims of 'range improvement' and 'rational land use, ' Thistle uncovers more complicated stories...
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Author:Juby, SusanSummary:Prudence Burns is an overly idealistic Brooklyn girl who has inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm. Her motley crew of farm hands consists of Earl, an elderly, reclusive bluegrass legend; Seth, an agoraphobic heavy-metal...
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Author:Gray, NowickSummary:A wilderness cabin becomes a dream-box of catastrophe and survival, in this true adventure with a paranormal twist. Will hikes with a companion to meet his wife and three-year-old daughter in B.C.’s remote Jumbo Pass. An overnight storm...
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Author:Virk, ManjitSummary:Shortlisted for the 2009 George Ryga Award. This is the story of an average family that has never been the same . . . since its eldest child was swarmed and killed by her peers on a moonlit night, November 14, 1997 . . . It is the story...
- Author:Lane, PatrickSummary:
An epic novel of unrequited dreams and forestalled lives, Red Dog, Red Dog is set in the mid-1950s, in a small town in the interior of B.C. in the unnamed Okanagan Valley. The novel focuses on the Stark family, centring on brothers Eddy...
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Author:Mole, RichSummary:Here are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women—driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and actions made them rebels in society’s eyes. Many faced hardship and ridicule as they pursued...
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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:Wright, L.R.Summary:
A "stunning mystery" in the Edgar Award-winning series that launched the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town - "the ending is a real killer" (The New York Times). In this masterpiece of psychological...
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Author:Scott, Tracie LeaSummary:In 1999 the Nisga’a First Nation in northwestern British Columbia signed a landmark agreement which not only settled their land claim but outlined significant powers that could be exercised by its government. The Nisga’a Final Agreement...
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Author:Jennings, Neil L.Summary: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...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
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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