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  • Burning water
    Author:
    Bowering, George
    Summary:

    First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in...
  • Caprice
    Author:
    Bowering, George
    Summary:

    In the mid 1890s, a whip toting cowgirl is bent on getting revenge on the man who murdered her brother. In the rough country outside Kamloops, B.C. she comes face to face with his killer.
  • E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake : collected poems and selected prose
    Author:
    Johnson, E. Pauline
    Summary:

    E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was a Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, an independent woman during the period of first-wave feminism, a Canadian nationalist who also advocated strengthening the link to imperial England, a...
  • Family walks and hikes on Greater Vancouver's North Shore
    Author:
    Crerar, Harry
    Summary:

    "Family Walks and Hikes is an exciting new series of books written specifically for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. These accurate, attractive guides feature expertly curated routes, informative maps, and colour...
  • Great expectations : reflections on museums and Canada
    Author:
    Lohman, Jack
    Summary:

    "A provocative, progressive rejoinder to the status quo, from the perspective of a disrupter and global leader in the museum world. The challenge to transform museums is unapologetically real and complicated. But everything we learn...
  • Lost lagoon/lost in thought : prose poems
    Author:
    Warland, Betsy
    Summary:

    "After moving to Vancouver's West End in 2014, The Human is drawn to a small body of water called Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. Daytime visits, with a surprising array of wildlife, are quietly revelatory; but so is suddenly waking in the...
  • Museums at the crossroads? : essays on cultural institutions in a time of change
    Author:
    Lohman, Jack
    Summary:

    In this collection of illuminating essays, Jack Lohman, chief executive officer of the Royal British Columbia Museum, shares his views on the role of museums in the various cultures of the world, on the importance of architecture and...
  • Once well beloved : remembering a British Columbia Great War sacrifice
    Author:
    Sasges, Michael
    Summary:

    "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...
  • Orphans of empire : a novel
    Author:
    Buday, Grant
    Summary:

    "In Grant Buday's new novel, three captivating stories intertwine at the site of the New Brighton Hotel on the shores of Burrard Inlet. In 1858 the serious and devoted Sir Richard Clement Moody receives the commission of a lifetime when...
  • Paradise won : the struggle to create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
    Author:
    May, Elizabeth
    Summary:

    Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve is located in the southernmost part of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), 130 kilometres off the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Gwaii Haanas protects an archipelago of...
  • Raincoast Jews : integration in British Columbia
    Author:
    Nördlinger McDonnell, Lillooet
    Summary:

    Explores the lives and contributions of five leading Jews living in British Columbia between 1860 and 1970. Cecelia Davies Sylvester, Hannah Director, Leion Koerner, Harry Adaskin, and Nathan Nemetz are memorable for their contributions...
  • San Josef : a novel
    Author:
    Macy, Harold
    Summary:

    "For Clayton Monroe, the last hope for refuge is a struggling setttlement at the far northwest corner of Vancouver Island. San Josef is his sanctuary from the imagined demons and real enemies who have pursued him for three decades, from...
  • Shoot
    Author:
    Bowering, George
    Summary:

    A fictionalized account of the McLean Gang, halfbreeds who terrorized the Canadian West in the 1870s. The novel traces their idealistic beginning--stealing cattle and guns with the intention of starting an Indian rebellion--to their...
  • Takaya : lone wolf
    Author:
    Alexander, Cheryl
    Summary:

    An enchanting and evocative look at the unique relationship between a solitary, island-dwelling wolf and a renowned wildlife photographer.A lone wild wolf lives on a small group of uninhabited islands in British Columbia's Salish Sea,...
  • The kissing fence
    Author:
    Thomas-Peter, B.A.
    Summary:

    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,...
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