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Literary Nonfiction. 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 a...
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Literary Nonfiction. Every March between 1826 and 1854, the York Factory Express began its journey from the Hudson's Bay Company's headquarters on the Pacific Ocean, from which the express-men would paddle their boats up the Columbia River to the ba...
Fiction. Young Adult. FIREBIRD explores a period in our history—one year in particular (1915–1916)—when a massive number of newcomers were deemed "enemy aliens," arrested and put into internment camps set up all across Canada. Alex Kaminsky, a fourt...
Literary Nonfiction. The Fraser River and Cariboo gold rushes were defining moments, not only in the history of British Columbia but also Canada. With the influx of over 25,000 European and Chinese miners to the Fraser River in the spring of 1858, t...
Poetry. "I'm going to get you, my pretty!" The enigmatic SICK WITCH lures the narrator on a metaphoric/literal vision quest through the hallucinatory terrain of undiagnosed and undiagnosable medical afflictions in poems that playfully explore connec...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In ITINERARIES, Philip Resnick focuses on the influences that have shaped his intellectual life. He begins with his early years, growing up Jewish in Montreal and his subsequent break with organized religion. He describe...
Literary Nonfiction. Norwegian-born Dr. Louise Aall of Tsawwassen, British Columbia, studied medicine in Germany, France and Switzerland before working solo as an itinerant bush doctor in rural Tanganyika (now Tanzania). There, she pioneered the tre...
Fiction. Young Adult. SECRETS IN THE SHADOWS, a young adult/crossover novel, is the story of best friends Michael and Wolfie who are boys growing up in Nazi Germany. Both of them are delighted to join the Hitler Youth. But by the time the boys are t...
Literary Nonfiction. His name was Horace Wrinch. It was 1880. He was fourteen years old, a farmer's boy from England travelling on his own to Quebec. Twenty years later, a qualified doctor and newly married surgeon, he arrived in Hazelton on the Ske...
Fiction. Short Fiction. Jack Hodgins' acclaimed short story collection now appears in a new edition, along with a new Hodgins story never before published. The collection as a whole immerses us in the lives of characters at once larger than life and...
Poetry. These poems featuring the brilliant, the misfit, and the music of the stars summon us into the heart of what it means to be human and passionate on this wild ride we call life on Earth. Mileva Einstein, the forgotten genius; Josef Stalin's o...
Literary Nonfiction. Hamilton Mack Laing was an illustrious early British Columbia writer and naturalist. But few know him as how he described himself in his mid-thirties: a motorcycle-naturalist. For several years beginning in 1914, Laing used the ...
Poetry. Native American Studies. Garry Gottfriedson's CLINGING TO BONE digs into the marrow, heart and soul of the human condition. Looking deeply into the Secwepemc (Shuswap) world of today, he examines betrayal, grief, love and survival. He pictur...
Fiction. From award-winning author David Starr comes a timely and gripping novel, set in east Africa, about two women forced to navigate a broken refugee system in a human crisis the world has forgotten. Victoria Deng was sixteen when her school was...
Poetry. Acclaimed for his superior craftsmanship ("half the meaning of a lyric poem is in the music") and his summoning of sentiment without sentimentality, John Donlan in his sixth collection confronts our inevitable sense of loss and mourning as w...