A freshly designed, new edition of a funny weekly chronicle that offers a year-long, intimate view of the flora and fauna populating the West Coast. A Year on the Wild Side is a witty commentary on the social and natural history of...
BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2020
The BC Book Prizes have been celebrating the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers since 1985. The BC and Yukon Book Prizes has a mission to recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC Book Prizes and related programs.
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Author:Penn, BrionySummary: - Author:Wickwire, WendySummary:
At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the northwestern United States. From his base at...
- Author:Flett, JulieSummary:
** IBBY Canada 2022 Honor List ** When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of arts and crafts. Can the girl navigate...
- Author:Lycopolus, Emily, Acken, DLSummary:
Homegrown, modern recipes that feature the most treasured local ingredients from Vancouver Island's forests, fields, farms and sea. Off the shore of Canada's west coast lies a food lover's island paradise. Vancouver Island's temperate...
- Author:Manthorpe, JonathanSummary:
Tells the story of Canada's failure to construct a workable policy towards the People's Republic of China. In particular the book tells of Ottawa's failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to...
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for...
- Author:Czaga, KaylaSummary:
In the title poem of award-winning poet Kayla Czaga's sophomore collection, the speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience - hovering there confidently before the world plunges her into the frigid waters of adult life. Czaga...
- Author:Richardson, BillSummary:
From one of Canada's most beloved radio personalities comes this delightful collection set around Christmastime in Vancouver's beloved West End neighbourhood. The eight linked stories in Bill Richardson's I Saw Three Ships take their...
- Author:Knott, HelenSummary:
Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds...
- Author:Joseph, Cynthia F., Joseph, Robert P. C.Summary:
We are all treaty people. But what are the everyday impacts of treaties, and how can we effectively work toward reconciliation if we're worried our words and actions will unintentionally cause harm? Hereditary chief and leading...
- Author:Maclear, KyoSummary:
Gyo Fujikawa's iconic children's books are beloved all over the world. Now it's time for Gyo's story to be told--a story of artistic talent that refused to be constrained by rules or expectations. Growing up quiet and lonely at the...
- Author:Price, StevenSummary:
In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. With a firm devotion to the...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences. Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn't make it any less...
- Author:Cassidy, SaraSummary:
Resourceful fourteen-year-old Odette is on the move again, traveling as a stowaway on a cheese cart with her hapless mother, Anneline. They are in Burgundy, France, in 1799, fleeing yet another calamity caused by Anneline (who is prone...
- Author:Dandurand, Joseph A.Summary:
This powerful collection, all too relevant today, tells a story that needs to be told. The author writes, "This is the truth of what has happened to my people. The Kwantlen people used to number in the thousands but like all river...
- Author:L'Abbé, SonnetSummary:
In 'Sonnet's Shakespeare,' one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use 'the master's tools' on the Bard's 'house,' attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her psyche and in the poetic canon. In a...
- Author:McAllister, IanSummary:
Along the coast between Vancouver Island and Alaska lies 250 miles of forested island and inlets. Ian and Karen McAllister spent seven years photographing and mapping this forgotten wild ecosystem. Their informative text and remarkable...
- Author:Nobel, JuliaSummary:
With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit inches. But then she finds a box of mysterious...
- Author:Smith, HeatherSummary:
When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father. Sadly, he was not alone. Everyone lost someone the day the big wave came. With the villagers silenced by grief, Makio's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his...
- Author:Vo, NancySummary:
In this memorable and beautifully illustrated story, a ranger comes across a fox caught in a trap. The ranger frees the fox and promises only to tend to its wounds. The fox recovers and remains curiously close to the ranger, and when...
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