For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem—each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her own family's experience of...
BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2017
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.
For more information about the Prizes, please visit the BC Book Prizes website.
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Author:Bitek, Juliane OkotSummary: - Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:
Most of us see trees every day, and too often we take them for granted. Trees provide us with everything from food, fuel and shelter to oxygen and filtered water. Deep Roots celebrates the central role trees play in our lives, no matter...
- Author:Cherry, KathleenSummary:
When a new friend challenges Alice, who has Asperger's, to step outside her comfort zone, Alice decides to revise her rules in this novel for middle readers.
- Author:Kogawa, JoySummary:
Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it...
- Author:Barclay, AdeleSummary:
If I Were In A Cage I'd Reach Out For You is a collection that travels through both time and place, liminally occupying the chasm between Canadiana and Americana mythologies. These poems dwell in surreal pockets of the everyday...
- Author:Aguirre, CarmenSummary:
Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she...
- Author:Little, AshleySummary:
Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to eleven-year-old Tucker Malone-the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper-who believes his father is Sam...
- Author:Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
Longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award
A masterful and gripping novel from “an undeniably talented writer” (Globe and Mail)
On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica...
- Author:Leiren-Young, MarkSummary:
The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale—a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them.
Killer whales had always been seen as...
- Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:
Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank...
