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A sharp, funny, heartfelt memoir by a career-driven baby boomer who enters semi-retirement and explores the joys, challenges, and never-ending surprises of being a "young" granddad.One su

A clear, concise guide to more than 130 edible and medicinal plants and funghi that grow wild throughout the west coast of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest states.The coastal Pacific Nort

This fictional coming-of-age story traces a young girl’s reluctant journey by canoe through the ancestral lands of the Tłı̨chǫ People, as she gradually comes to understand and appreciate their cult

A dynamic retelling of the deadly 1906 sinking of the SS Valenciaoff the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, one of the worst maritime disasters in Canadian history.There are few places on earth t

A delightfully frightful collection of spooky stories set across Canada, appropriate for all ages and perfect for reading aloud around the campfire.In this spine-chilling companion to Campfire Stor

An in-depth look at the origins and operations of a pioneering transportation company that moved people and goods across the province throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.At

An engaging, informative, and visually stunning tour of the numerous native, introduced, and ornamental tree species found in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, combining a wealth of botanical knowledge wit

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement.

A young translator travels from his home in Toronto to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo.

The poems in Without Ceremonycelebrate the fleeting everyday encounters of city life as well as the layers of history that are revealed when we attempt to hold on to those encounters.

Zigzagging across the globe, Kate Sutherland's fourth book is poetry by way of collage: pieced-together excerpts from travellers' journals, ships' logs, textbooks and manuals, indivi

Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real Worldis not a book of advice.

A fable for our times, Joni Murphy's Talking Animalstakes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing job

Spawnis a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec.

Juxtaposing the diction of surrealism with Ovid, Callimachus, and popular music—punk and new wave—the poems in Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheartconcern themselves with various as