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It’s especially cold and snowy, that last winter of the Second World War. With the Red Army expected to thunder through the Third Reich at any moment, a sense of doom pervades Katya’s world where everyone is expected to believe in the Nazi’s final v...
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GOLD, GRIT, GUNS is the first book based on the only four surviving diaries written by miners who sought their golden fortunes on British Columbia's Fraser River in 1858. What was life like for those adventurers? How did their actions impact the cre...
When 12-year-old Teddy makes a plan to sneak away from the Remembrance Day ceremony, little does he know where his scheme will take him! Teddy really doesn’t want to go to the boring Remembrance Day ceremony, especially when the comics store is host...
FORGET-SADNESS-GRASS, Antony Di Nardo’s sixth collection, takes its name from the Chinese ideogram for daylily, that tawny orange blossom, “an escape of Asiatic origin,” which bursts its borders in the summer and, in this book, finds its way into po...
A string of trade beads, originally manufactured on the island of Murano near Venice, is passed from generation to generation, from Captain Cook at Nootka Sound to a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry hearing in Northern British...
In 1970, Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein were hired as childcare workers at the Alert Bay Student Residence (known as St. Michael’s Indian Residential School) on northern Vancouver Island. Shocked when Indigenous children are forcibly taken from thei...
In the summer of 1865 when Captain Edward Stamp began to organize the construction of a small saw milling operation on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, he likely never realized that a future metropolis was in the making. The fledgling Stamp’s Mill,...
This collection offers a cycle of poems about the poet who, as a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has had to live with the memories of the Holocaust all her life. The first section describes the evils of suffering and prejudice, of war and destr...
The Jewish Independent calls OUT OF HIDING a "fascinating" overview of British Columbia Holocaust literature.There will soon be no eyewitnesses to the Holocaust. As Tolstoy famously put it, “What is to be done?” One answer is OUT OF HIDING, a cross-...
Selected Best Book for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children’s Book CentreThis young reader historical novel begins with a high school field trip to the former gold rush town of Yale in British Columbia. Here Zach, Kyle, and their eccentric teacher, Mis...
The sixth volume of the Forging a Nation series by Jean Rae BaxterThe year is 1793, and a law has just been passed to end slavery in Upper Canada. The new law is not perfect; it will leave hundreds enslaved for the rest of their lives. But it is eno...
Nominated for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature The year 1983 began like any other year in Canada’s West Coast province. Then everything suddenly changed. The newly elected provincial government announced an avalanche of far-r...
For Kelsey Andrews, the metal-scarred Vancouver skyline is an emblem of distance from her family home in Grande Prairie, Alberta, where nothing breaks the sky but the curve of the Earth. As she adjusts from a thirsty countryside filled with little w...
Selected Best Book for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children’s Book Centre It’s 1937, and Katya is working as a servant girl on the Trakehner horse breeding estate in East Prussia where she is caught up in the Nazi spirit of the time. One hot June day,...