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Winner of the 2020 Basil Stuart Stubbs Prize—winner of the 2019 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing.

This joyful and soothing book about ocean sounds for kids 3–7 will transport readers to the seaside.

This joyful book about nature sounds for kids 3–7 will transport readers up a magnificent mountain. The mountains have lots to say—if you listen. It's time for a hike in the mountains!

This playful yet calming book about wonderful forest sounds is the perfect gift for introducing kids to loving—and respecting—the natural world around them. The forest has lots to say...

Huxley the cat lives on a houseboat with his human companion, Robin. One day, while they are camping, Huxley gets lost.

Emily Carr’s journals from 1927 to 1941 portray the happy, productive period when she was able to resume painting after dismal years of raising dogs and renting out rooms to pay the bills.

City of Vancouver Book Award winner—Lambda Award winner. Amber Dawn's sophomore book reveals a poignant and personal landscape—the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride.

Curious about the previous inhabitants of the lake community where her family has vacationed for over one hundred years, author Shelley O'Callaghan starts researching and writing about the are

Strange things done in the midnight sun... Ready for romance and adventure, two sisters take summer jobs as live-in waitresses on the edge of the Arctic Circle.

A mother's beautiful elegy to her son lost to overdose.

In 1983, at nineteen, Greg Nolan was hired (reluctantly) by his older sister's boyfriend—a treeplanting contractor based in Northern British Columbia.

High Clear Bell of Morning is the gripping tale of a father's love and the extent to which he will go to protect his daughter.

The powerful story of a mother's struggle to save her son from addiction—and the strength and hope for change that she found in her grief.

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 a

Finalist, 2023 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize—BC and Yukon Book Prizes.