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Author:Antonson, Rick
Summary:Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Travel writingAvailable Formats:
Author:Swinimer, Amanda
Summary:A middle-grade and family-friendly introduction to the enchanting world of seaweed.
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Author:Ferguson, Ian.
Summary:A completely satirical yet oddly practical guide to surviving and thriving in Canada's westernmost province. So you've arrived in British Columbia.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Humour, GuidebooksAvailable Formats:
Author:Hayter, Roger
Summary:Aligned with global trends in post-industrialization, the economy of Metro Vancouver is changing, but along its own trajectory.
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Author:Dobie, Pat.
Summary:45th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest Winner. In the city of Vancouver, even dirt costs.
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Gainer, Terry
Summary:The Soo Line's Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains.
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Author:Denham, Joe.
Summary:Joe Denham's debut novel The Year of Broken Glass follows struggling crab fisherman Francis “Ferris" Wichbaun's journey across the Pacific Ocean to deliver a legendary glass fishing
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Nelson, Randy
Summary:A lively collection of wilder-than-fiction poaching stories from across Canada and the US, including insights from investigating officers involved in real poaching situations.
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Author:Gray, John MacLachlan
Summary:Vancouver is in an uproar over the death by gunshot of a Scottish nanny, Janet Stewart. An almost deliberately ham-handed police investigation has Constable Hook suspecting a cover-up.
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Author:Basran, Gurjinder
Summary:You're invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.
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Author:Hammond-Kaarremaa, Liz.
Summary:The pelt of a dog named "Mutton" languished in a drawer at the Smithsonian for 150 years until it was discovered, almost accidentally, by an amateur archivist.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Biographies and autobiographies, History and geography, Indigenous materialsAvailable Formats:
Author:Proctor, Bill
Summary:Billy Proctor, resident legend of Echo Bay, BC, recounts almost a century's worth of experience with this collection of stories, memories and local knowledge of the central BC coast region aro
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Author:Peach, Hilary
Summary:For more than two decades, Hilary Peach worked as a transient welder, and one of the only women, in the Boilermakers Union.
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Author:Newman, Carey
Summary:For more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada.
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Author:Buxton, S. Lesley
Summary:The third volume in a series of guidebooks designed for kids and families looking for museum adventures throughout British Columbia.
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