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Series: Surviving Samsara A Memoir of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Mental Illness Paperback Kagan Goh 9781773860329 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 14, 2021

A frank and touching memoir celebrating the resiliency of the spirit in the face of mental illness, psychotic breakdowns and stigma in society.“Samsara is defined as the ‘round of rebirth’ or ‘perpetual wandering’ … a continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering and dying.” —Buddhist Dictionary by Nyanatiloka MahatheraIn Kagan Goh’s debut memoir, he recounts his struggles with manic depression, breaking the silence around mental illness. From an honest and personal perspective, Surviving Samsara traces Goh’... + Read More
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Series: First West Coast Books A Is for Anemone A First West Coast Alphabet Board book Roy Henry Vickers 9781550179477 $14.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Interest age, years from 1 - 3 May 29, 2021

With crisp, luminous illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, and a simple rhythmic text, this sturdy board book introduces the alphabet using iconic imagery of the West Coast, creating a book that will be cherished by young readers and their families. Starting with colourful sea anemones waving in the ocean current, and closing with a snoozing grizzly bear (Zzz), this board book supports both early literacy and children's awareness of the natural world. Publishers Weekly described Vickers' previous collaboration with Ro... + Read More
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Series: To Share, Not Surrender Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia Hardcover Peter Cook 9780774863827 $89.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 15, 2021

To Share, Not Surrender offers an entirely new approach to assessing Indigenous-settler conflict over land, opening scholarship to the public and augmenting it with First Nations community expertise. Informed by cel’a?’en – “our culture, the way of our people” – this multivocal work of essays traces the transition from treaty-making in the colony of Vancouver Island to reserve formation in the colony of British Columbia. The collection also publishes translations/interpretations of the treaties into the SENCOTEN and Lekwungen languages. An all-... + Read More
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Series: Sisters of the Ice The True Story of How St. Roch and North Star of Herschel Island Protected Canadian Arctic Sovereignty Paperback R. Bruce MacDonald 9781550179286 $19.95 HISTORY Apr 24, 2021

This book is a biography of two British Columbian ships that performed legendary service in the Canadian Arctic. The St. Roch, now on permanent display at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, is the better known of the two, although North Star of Herschel Island is still sailing and still adding to her legend. Historian Bruce Macdonald—who, along with his wife, owns North Star of Herschel Island—has meticulously researched the origins and service logs of each ship and created a book that will enthrall old Arctic hands, maritime history buffs and anyo... + Read More
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Series: Unravelling Canada A Knitting Odyssey Paperback Sylvia Olsen 9781771622868 $24.95 TRAVEL Apr 17, 2021

Author and knitter Sylvia Olsen explore Canada's history, landscape, economy and social issues on a cross-country knitting-themed road trip. In 2015, Sylvia Olsen and her partner, Tex, embarked on a cross-Canada journey from the Salish Sea to the Atlantic Ocean to conduct workshops, exchange experiences with other knitters and, Olsen hoped, discover a fresh appreciation for Canada. Along the way, with stops in over forty destinations, including urban centres as well as smaller communities like Sioux Lookout, ON, and Shelburne, NS, Olsen obser... + Read More
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Series: Here on the Coast Reflections from the Rainbelt Paperback Howard White 9781550179248 $24.95 HUMOR Mar 27, 2021

No matter where people live on the BC coast, says Howard White, they have certain shared experiences: frustration with rain and ferries, familiarity with gumboots, bumbershoots, seagull droppings and barnacles in the wrong places. But each little community clings to its own sense of uniqueness and considers itself the true West Coast. As a case in point, White offers fifty funny sketches of life as he has come to know it in sixty-odd years of living along that hundred-mile stretch of monsoon-prone shoreline ironically known as the Sunshine Coas... + Read More
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Series: Soft Zipper Objects, Food, Rooms Paperback George Bowering 9781554201723 $19.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 25, 2021

This engaging memoir relates stories about George Bowering's small-town BC upbringing and his parents — his father long dead and his mother more recently passed on at the age of 100 — while at the same time honouring the author's other "parents": Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, and Roland Barthes.Borrowing a structure and some precepts about writing from Stein, Bowering remains true to his inimitable self, relating his recollections and observations, his ever-curious mind travelling across the decades as he recounts some of the objects, food, ro... + Read More
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Series: Pinkerton’s and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot Double Murder, Secret Agents and an Elusive Outlaw Paperback Geoff Mynett 9781773860503 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Mar 11, 2021

An intriguing and riveting true crime tale of alleged murderer Simon Gunanoot, evading and outwitting the infamous Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency.Pinkerton’s and the Hunt for Simon Gunanoot throws new light on the extensive manhunt for an accused murderer in northern British Columbia in the early 1900s. After a double murder in 1906, Gitxsan trapper and storekeeper Simon Gunanoot fled into the wilderness with his family. Despite lack of proof, the police pursued Gunanoot for nearly three years, sending search parties and police operative... + Read More
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Series: Return of the Forest Spirit The Repatriation Journey of the G'psgolox Totem Pole Paperback Anders Björklund 9780772678300 $29.95 HISTORY Nov 13, 2020

"Finally our people are recognized as human beings, our people [are] finally recognized as people, not objects of archaeology or objects of anthropology."?Derek Wilson, totem pole carver, in the film Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole, 2003 In the 1870s Chief G'psgolox of the Kitlope people in British Columbia encountered a spirit in the forest and erected a commemoration totem pole. In 1928 a Canadian Indian agent cut down the pole, which was then sold to a Swedish museum. Transported triumphantly to Stockholm, the pole soon ended up in ... + Read More
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Series: Deep and Sheltered Waters The History of Tod Inlet Paperback David Gray 9780772672568 $29.95 HISTORY Nov 06, 2020

A vivid social history of a remarkable place, drawing on research as deep as thewaters themselves.This book brings to light the fascinating story of a community and place: Tod Inlet, near Victoria, BC. From the original inhabitants—the Tsartlip First Nation—to the vanished community of immigrant workers from China and India, from traditional fishing ground to company town to parkland, the wealth of history in this rich area reflects the history of the entire province. The story of Tod Inlet and its communities spans from Vancouver Island north ... + Read More
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Series: Go Do Some Great Thing The Black Pioneers of British Columbia 3rd edition Paperback Crawford Kilian 9781550179484 $26.95 HISTORY Nov 06, 2020

Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America’s legalized racism when abolitionist Julia Griffith encouraged him to “go do some great thing.” These words helped inspire him to become a successful merchant in San Francisco, and then to seek a more just society in the new colony of Vancouver Island, where he was to become a prominent citizen and elected official. Gibbs joined a movement of Black American emigrants fleeing the increasingly oppr... + Read More
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Series: Tranquility Lost The Occupation of Tranquille and Battle for Community Care in BC Paperback Gary Steeves 9780889713864 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 17, 2020

In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses, were alarmed by the lack of any Ministry of Human Resources planning for the future of the residents and the ministry’s stated intention to use newly tabled legislation ... + Read More
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Series: Notice Paperback Dustin Cole 9780889713840 $21.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2020

It’s summer 2017 in Vancouver, BC, where economic imperatives are making space less and less accessible to low-income residents. The rental crisis is intensifying, ravenous real-estate development is thriving and there is a province-wide forest fire emergency blanketing the city in smoke. Notice is the Kafkaesque story of a man under threat of renoviction, caught in the gears of bureaucracy in a city where economic inequality runs rampant; displacement and petty frustration abound. Dustin Cole writes with a documentarian sensibility from the un... + Read More
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Series: Step into Wilderness A Pictorial History of Outdoor Exploration in and around the Comox Valley Hardcover Deborah Griffiths 9781550178937 $39.95 HISTORY Oct 03, 2020

The spectacular landscapes in and surrounding the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island have long shaped the lives of the valley’s diverse inhabitants. From expansive shorelines to snowy mountain peaks, the region contains a wide variety of attractions to lure people over their thresholds for sustenance, recreation and survival, including such landmarks as Forbidden Plateau, Paradise Meadows, Comox Glacier, Mt. Washington and Miracle Beach. Step into Wilderness features never-before-seen photos from the Courtenay and District Museum collection, show... + Read More
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Series: Vancouver Exposed Searching for the City's Hidden History Paperback Eve Lazarus 9781551528298 $32.95 HISTORY Sep 21, 2020

As the author of such BC bestsellers as Cold Case Vancouver, Murder by Milkshake, and SensationalVancouver, Australian-born Eve Lazarus has become adept at combining her well-honed investigative skills with an abiding love for her adopted city. These qualities are on full display in her latest book, an exploration of Vancouver’s hidden past through the city’s neighbourhoods, institutions, people, and events. Vancouver Exposed is a nostalgic romp through the city’s past, from buried houses to nudist camps, from bellyflop contests to eccentric mu... + Read More
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Series: British Columbia in Flames Stories from a Blazing Summer Paperback Claudia Cornwall 9781550178944 $26.95 NATURE Sep 19, 2020

Like many British Columbians in 2017, Claudia Cornwall found herself glued to the news about the disastrous wildfires across the province. Her worry was personal: her cabin at Sheridan Lake had been in the family for sixty years and was now in danger of destruction. Cornwall, a long-time writer, was stricken not just by her own experience, but by the many moving stories she came across about the fires—so she began collecting them. She met with people from BC communities of Sheridan Lake, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, 16 Mile House, Lac La Hache, Quesn... + Read More
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Series: Slashburner Hot Times in the British Columbia Woods Paperback Nick Raeside 9781550178982 $12.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 19, 2020

Nick Raeside worked at many jobs in the logging business but the one that he specialized in was starting fires—small, (hopefully) controlled fires used to clean up logging slash or debris-laden sites left after the merchantable timber had been removed. It was a crude way of reducing fire hazard and clearing the ground for replanting, and there was a constant danger that the controlled burns would get away and become real wildfires, destroying millions of dollars’ worth of standing timber. Raeside found this challenge irresistible. In Slashburne... + Read More
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Series: Big Promises, Small Government Doing Less with Less in the BC Liberal New Era Paperback George M. Abbott 9780774864879 $32.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

When Gordon Campbell’s Liberal government won a massive majority in British Columbia in 2001, the premier immediately fulfilled his pledge to cut personal income taxes. Big Promises, Small Government reveals the consequences of dramatic tax policy changes on social programs. Campbell expected lower taxes to spur investment and growth. Instead, cutting taxes, while exempting health and education, left smaller ministries scrambling to absorb the cuts to maintain a balanced budget, with disastrous effects. This insider recounting of the real-world... + Read More
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Series: Planning on the Edge Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development Paperback Penny Gurstein 9780774861670 $34.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 01, 2020

Vancouver is heralded around the world as a model for sustainable development. In Planning on the Edge, nationally and internationally renowned planning scholars, activists, and Indigenous leaders assess whether this reputation is warranted. While recognizing the many successes of the “Vancouverism” model, the contributors acknowledge that the forces of globalization and speculative property development have increased social inequality and housing insecurity since the 1980s in the city and the region. By evaluating policies at the local, provin... + Read More
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Series: They Write Their Dream on the Rocks Forever Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia Paperback Annie York 9781772012200 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 30, 2020

In They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever, ‘Nlaka’pamux elder Annie York explains the red-ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley in British Columbia. This is perhaps the first time that a Native elder has presented a detailed and comprehensive explanation of rock-art images from her people’s culture. As Annie York’s narratives unfold, we are taken back to the fresh wonder of childhood, as well as to a time in human society when people and animals lived together in one psychic dimension.This book descri... + Read More
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Series: Royal BC Museum Handbook Sharks, Skates, Rays and Chimeras of British Columbia Paperback Gordon McFarlane 9780772673350 $24.95 NATURE May 28, 2020

The only current field guide to sharks and rays of the West Coast of British Columbia. Sharks! The very mention of the word conjures up images of dangerous creatures with a voracious appetite. This public image couldn?t be farther from the truth for a vast majority of shark species: most are cautious and placid, and many inhabit waters that exclude them from human contact. Much fear of sharks is driven by media reports or films that sensationalize shark attacks, despite the rarity of such occurrences. So much about sharks, and their relatives, ... + Read More
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Series: Spirits of the Coast Orcas in Science, Art and History Hardcover Martha Black 9780772677686 $29.95 NATURE May 15, 2020

"A magnificent journey alongside orcas, bringing these beautiful creatures to life."?Jay Ritchlin, David Suzuki Foundation Spirits of the Coast brings together the work of marine biologists, Indigenous knowledge keepers, poets, artists, and storytellers, united by their enchantment with the orca. Long feared in settler cultures as "killer whales," and respected and honored by Indigenous cultures as friends, family, or benefactors, orcas are complex social beings with culture and language of their own. With contributors ranging from Briony Penn... + Read More
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Series: First West Coast Books Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak Board book Roy Henry Vickers 9781550179040 $9.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, months from 1 - 20 May 08, 2020

With bright and bold illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, this sturdy board book introduces iconic sounds of the West Coast and supports the language development of babies and toddlers. From the the crackle of a beach campfire to the swoosh of canoe paddles, the rustle and creak of cedars in the wind, the roar of sea lions and the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean, the rhythmic text, vibrant illustrations and glossy tactile finish of Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak will delight the very youngest readers.
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Series: A Feminist History Society Book The Abortion Caravan When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose Paperback Karin Wells 9781772601251 $24.95 HISTORY Apr 21, 2020

In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they “occupied” the prime minister’s front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors’ galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened. The seventeen were a motley crew. They argued, they were loud, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. T... + Read More
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Series: The Keeper of Wild Words (Nature for Kids, Exploring Nature with Children) Hardcover Brooke Smith 9781452170732 $26.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 5 - 8 Mar 10, 2020

A touching tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter exploring and cherishing the natural world.Words, the woods, and the world illuminate this quest to save the most important pieces of our language—by saving the very things they stand for.When Mimi finds out her favorite words—simple words, like apricot, blackberry, buttercup—are disappearing from the English language, she elects her granddaughter Brook as their Keeper. And did you know? The only way to save words is to know them.• With its focus on the power of language and social change,T... + Read More
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Series: Neon Road Trip Hardcover John Barnes 9781423654070 $35.99 ART Mar 03, 2020

Take to the road to discover the history and artistry of North America’s disappearing neon signs.Neon Road Trip chronicles the history of the commercial neon sign with a curated collection of photographs capturing the most colorful and iconic neon still surviving today.The vivid photographs are arranged according to the signs' imagery, with sections such as Spirit of the West, On the Road, Now That’s Entertainment, and Ladies, Diving Girls & Mermaids. Sixteen of the most iconic landmark signs include brief histories on how that unique sign came... + Read More
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Series: The Kissing Fence A Novel Paperback B. A. Thomas-Peter 9781773860237 $24.95 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

Two generations grapple with identity, oppression, and redemption rooted in the chilling history of the 1950s and 60s conflict between the BC government and the Doukhobor community. 1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC. Forcibly removed from their homes by the RCMP, the children attend mandatory school. They must speak in English and observe Canadian customs and religious practi... + Read More
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Series: Pocket Lonely Planet Pocket Vancouver 3 3rd Ed. Paperback John Lee 9781787017573 $19.99 TRAVEL Feb 18, 2020

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet'sPocket Vancouveris your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stroll around dramatic Stanley Park, peruse deli treats at Granville Island Public Market, and walk high among the trees in Capilano Suspension Bridge Park - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Vancouver and begin your journey now!InsideLonely Planet'sPocket Vancouver:Full-colourmaps and images throughoutHighlightsa... + Read More
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Series: Once Well Beloved Remembering a BC Great War Sacrifice Paperback Michael Sasges 9780772672551 $17.95 HISTORY Oct 18, 2019

"Our well beloved dead who died that we might live." In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia?s Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Those men came from a Nicola Valley that had been suddenly and dramatically settled just a decade before by the will of railway executives and the arrival of British colliers. Twelve of those soldiers are the subject of these pages?and through them, we meet the men, women and children of the Nicola Valley, the dead and their survivors... + Read More
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Series: By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer Women of the British Columbia Frontier 2nd edition Paperback Kathryn Bridge 9780772673107 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 28, 2019

The vivid, personal accounts of four women who lived and travelled as settlers in early British Columbia. ??a cloud passing away from the face of the moon revealed a band of wild horses bearing down upon us at a full gallop. As they came near and saw us they divided into two groups, passing by on either side. Had the moon not come out they would probably have become entangled in our tent ropes, and we should not have lived to tell the tale.??Violet Sillitoe, between Osoyoos and Penticton The women in this book were trailblazers. The frontiers... + Read More
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Series: Henry & Self An English Gentlewoman at the Edge of Empire 2nd edition Paperback Kathryn Bridge 9780772672612 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 17, 2019

An intimate portrait of privilege and struggle, scandal and accolade, from the Old World to the new colonies of Vancouver?s Island and British Columbia. At the age of 33, Sarah Crease left her home in England to travel with her young family to a farflung outpost of the British Empire on the Pacific coast of North America. The detailed journals, letters and artwork she created over the next half century as she and her husband, Henry, established themselves in the New World offer a rich window into the private life and views of an English colonis... + Read More
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Series: Lure Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the West Coast Paperback Ned Bell 9781773270876 $29.99 COOKING May 07, 2019

Eating sustainable seafood is about opening your mind (and fridge) to a vast array of fish and shellfish that you might not have considered before - and the Pacific Coast is blessed with an abundance of wild species. With Lure, readers embark on a wild Pacific adventure and discover the benefits of healthy oils and rich nutrients that seafood delivers. This stunning cookbook, authored by chef and seafood advocate Ned Bell, features simple techniques and straightforward sustainability guidelines around Pacific species as well as 80 delicious rec... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Repatriation Handbook Paperback Jisgang Nika Collison 9780772673176 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 29, 2019

A reference for BC Indigenous communities and museums, created by and for Indigenous people working in repatriation. ?Our late friend and brother Rod Naknakim said, ?Reconciliation and repatriation cannot and should not be separated. The two must anchor our conversation and guide our efforts as we move forward collectively with common purpose and understanding.???Dan Smith, BCMA Indigenous Advisory Chair, Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre We are in a new era of reconciliation that involves repatriation?the return of Indigenous objects and Ancestral r... + Read More
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Series: The Little Island Bake Shop Heirloom Recipes Made for Sharing Hardcover Jana Roerick 9781773270630 $34.99 COOKING Mar 18, 2019

Baking is as much about feeding someone's heart and soul as it is about nourishing their body. It's also about kindness and generosity: whether it's a pie or a tray of cookies, baking is always meant to be shared. The Little Island Bake Shop by Jana Roerick features a collection of 80 easy recipes designed to satisfy almost any craving. Freshly baked muffins are a perfect start to the morning, while grab-and-go cookies make delectable treats throughout the day. Looking to make celebratory occasions even more special. Jana's signature pies and... + Read More
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Series: Before We Lost the Lake A Natural and Human History of Sumas Valley Paperback Chad Reimer 9781987915587 $24.95 HISTORY Nov 23, 2018

For thousands of years, the broad expanse between Sumas and Vedder Mountains east of Vancouver lay under water, forming the bed of Sumas Lake. As recently as a century ago, the lake's shores stood four miles across and six miles long. During yearly high water, the lake spilled onto the surrounding prairies; during high flood years, it reached from Chilliwack into Washington State. Then, through the 1920s, a network of dykes, canals, dams and pumphouses was erected and the lake drained?"reclaimed" in the words of projects supporters. A new lands... + Read More
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Series: Seven Seasons on Stowel Lake Farm Stories and Recipes that Nourish Community Hardcover Lisa Lloyd 9781989025086 $40.00 COOKING Oct 16, 2018

Told through the voices of four women at the heart of the project, Seven Seasons on Stowel Lake Farm is a multi-layered, evocative exploration of life on a sustainable organic farm that has been at the forefront of North America's slow living and local eating movements. Stunning photographs and transporting descriptions of nature feature alongside mouthwatering yet uncomplicated recipes and crafting tips. Through a bounty of personal stories of Early Spring, Late Spring, Summer, High Summer, Autumn, December, and Deep Winter, the rich life of... + Read More
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Series: Freshly Picked A Locavore's Love Affair with BC's Bounty Paperback Jane Reid 9781987915792 $26.00 COOKING Oct 06, 2018

Take a delightful journey through BC's extraordinary bounty and explore the secrets of locally grown fruits and vegetables. In Jane Reid's new book, FRESHLY PICKED, foodies, locavores and gardeners will discover fascinating information about the plentiful harvests that BC farmers produce every year. In this beautiful colour edition, Reid shares valuable tips on where and when to find the freshest fruits and veggies, plus storage hints and simple recipes that bring out the full flavour of BC's offerings one fruit and vegetable at a time. With he... + Read More
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Series: I Saw Santa I Saw Santa in Vancouver Hardcover JD Green 9781492668923 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 4 - 8 Oct 01, 2018

Santa's not planned his vacation this year. Mrs. Claus says, "How 'bout Vancouver, my dear? You always say it's your favorite place, but remember, the children should not see your face." Santa and Mrs. Claus want to go on a vacation—but can someone as famous as Santa stay out of sight? Snuggle up and read what happens when things don't quite go as planned.This Christmas regional series combines a fun and festive story with search-and-find artwork that will have children looking for Santa, Mrs. Claus, and Reindeer amongst Vancouver's most iconic... + Read More
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Series: Dancing in Gumboots Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley Paperback Lou Allison 9781987915761 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 21, 2018

After the extraordinary success of Gumboot Girls comes the sequel anthology, Dancing in Gumboots. Having relocated to Comox, Jane encountered a new group of women who travelled to the Comox Valley in the 1970s. Fascinated by their stories, Lou Allison and Jane Wilde return to their dynamic partnership to bring us an anthology that shines a light on these trailblazing women and their unique stories. The 1970s was a time of intense cultural shifts for women all over North America. Freedom from traditional gender roles and expectations encouraged... + Read More
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Series: Vancouver Eats Signature Recipes from the City's Best Restaurants Hardcover Joanne Sasvari 9781773270364 $38.95 COOKING Sep 04, 2018

Filled with mouthwatering recipes and beautiful photographs, Vancouver Eats presents 90 recipes from 45 of the city's best restaurants. With recipes for salads (Fable's Heirloom Tomato Salad with Burrata), soups (Tacofino's tortilla soup), brunch (Cafe Medina's fricassee champignons), mains (David Hawksworth's cherry tomato, olive, and arugula pizza), desserts (Thomas Haas's hazelnut praline éclair), and cocktails (The Botanist's Appleseed cocktail), this inspired anthology boasts a collection of original and innovative dishes by chefs who've p... + Read More
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Series: Tiny the Easter Bunny Tiny the Vancouver Easter Bunny Hardcover Eric James 9781492659723 $14.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 4 - 8 Feb 01, 2018

It's Easter morning in Vancouver,and Tiny is out for a jog,but he STOPS in his tracks and discoversthe Easter Bunny STUCK in a log!With the Easter Bunny trapped, it's up to Tiny to save Easter in Vancouver! But being a bunny isn't as easy as it looks, especially for an elephant. In this fun and playful story, find out how Tiny uses his own special talents to save Easter!
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Series: City Map Lonely Planet Vancouver City Map 1 1st Ed. 1st Edition Folded sheet map Lonely Planet 9781786576606 $11.99 REFERENCE Sep 19, 2017

From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisherDurable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format,Lonely Planet Vancouver City Mapis your conveniently-sized passport to traveling with ease. Get more from your map and your trip with images and information about top city attractions, walking tour routes, transport maps, itinerary suggestions, extensive street and site index, and practical travel tips and directory. With this easy-to-use, full color navigation tool in your back pocket, you can truly get to the hea... + Read More
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Series: Lure Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the West Coast Hardcover Ned Bell 9781927958926 $38.95 COOKING Sep 15, 2017

Eating sustainable seafood is about opening your mind (and fridge) to a vast array of fish and shellfish that you might not have considered before—and the Pacific Coast, is blessed with an abundance of wild species. With Lure, readers embark on a wild Pacific adventure and discover the benefits of healthy oils and rich nutrients that seafood deliver. This stunning cookbook, authored by chef and seafood advocate Ned Bell, features simple techniques and straightforward sustainability guidelines around Pacific species as well as 80 delicious recip... + Read More
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Series: Okanagan Table The Art of Everyday Home Cooking Hardcover Rod Butters 9781773270029 $37.95 COOKING Jul 21, 2017

The Okanagan Valley, 125 miles long and 12 miles wide, is home to some of B.C.’s most historic farmland, and every summer, the region explodes with apricots, peaches, sweet cherries, pears, plums, nectarines, grapes, and apples. There is no greater pleasure than seeing the reaction to true, honest cooking, and home cooks know this feeling, too. The Okanagan Table is a cookbook celebrating the local flavours: creating exceptional meals by connecting with the freshest, highest quality food. Featuring more than 80 illustrated recipes, the book is ... + Read More
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Series: Travel Guide Lonely Planet Pocket Vancouver 2nd Ed. 2nd Edition Paperback Lonely Planet 9781786576989 $19.99 TRAVEL Jun 20, 2017

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Pocket Vancouver is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Browse Granville Island Public Market, see an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, or pop into the bars, restaurants and boutiques of Gastown -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the best of Vancouver and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Pocket Vancouver: Full-color maps and images throughout Highl... + Read More
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Series: West Coast Wild West Coast Wild A Nature Alphabet Hardcover Deborah Hodge 9781554984404 $19.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Interest age, years from 4 - 7 Sep 01, 2015

Celebrate the Pacific west coast with this gorgeous nature alphabet book. This stunning nature alphabet book explores the fascinating ecosystem of the Pacific west coast — a magnificent area that combines an ancient rainforest, a rugged beach and a vast, open ocean, and where whales, bears, wolves, eagles and a rich variety of marine species thrive in an interconnected web of life. Author Deborah Hodge has spent more than forty years on the west coast, frequently visiting the Pacific Rim region, and she knows it intimately. From A to Z she desc... + Read More
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Series: Halloween Scare A Halloween Scare in Vancouver Hardcover Eric James 9781492624066 $13.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years to 10 Aug 01, 2015

A fun and funny Halloween romp for children and parents alike! It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army of monsters, on broomsticks, buses, and bikes, all clamoring in the darkness. What is it they want? Are they coming for you?This humorous, creative story is the perfect Halloween adventure for children and parents to share.
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Series: Littlest Bunny The Littlest Bunny in Vancouver An Easter Adventure Hardcover Lily Jacobs 9781492612223 $13.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 0 - 7 Nov 28, 2014

It's Easter morning, and the littlest bunny has a big secret: he's actually the Easter Bunny! He has a lot of work to do! Join him as he hides eggs high and low, with a final stop at your house!
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Series: A Salmon for Simon Hardcover Betty Waterton 9781554983926 $14.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 3 - 6 Oct 01, 2013

Simon has always longed to catch a salmon. But when his luck suddenly changes and an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own.All summer long, Simon, a young First Nations boy, has been desperate to catch a salmon. He goes fishing every day, but has no luck. Then one day a high-flying eagle drops a salmon into a clam hole right before his eyes, and Simon must decide whether to take it home or let it go.This simple story, with its evocative watercolor... + Read More
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Series: Santa is Coming... Santa Is Coming to Vancouver Hardcover Steve Smallman 9781402275425 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 4 - 8 Oct 01, 2012

It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over:?Vancouver Lookout (Harbour Centre)?Hotel Vancouver?Sheraton Wall Centre?Canada Place?Capilano Suspension Bridge?Science World?Stanley Park Totem Pole(s)?Vancouver Public Library?Robson Square ?Shangri-La ?Lions Gate Bridge "Ho, ho ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Vancouver!"