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The Story of Dunbar: Voices of a Vancouver Neighbourhood draws on interviews with more than 350 local residents, including recent arrivals, descendants of pioneer settlers and the aboriginal inhabi

Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories.

These poems lead the reader into a world that reveals a balancing act between the familiar and known, the mysterious and wild.

The fifth volume in the “Forging a Nation” series begins in 1791. The year a new province is created in the country that will one day be called Canada. The year Hope Cobman’s life turns around.

Philip Resnick’s Footsteps of the Past constitutes a powerful set of reflections on the modern human condition.

Drawing on his experience as a two-term MP and former Parliamentary Secretary, Ted McWhinney addresses the need for modernization to meet the radically new demands of the plural, multicultural Cana

The first book-length study of whether cannibalism existed on the Pacific Northwest coast.

Recently granted registration papers for his submarine, Alfred is no longer an outlaw and is filled with conviction to become an active environmentalist.

What thirteen-year-old boy wants to travel on a hopeless quest to India with his grandmother?

Following the success of First Invaders (Ronsdale, 2004), Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing more than 300 books by more than 170 mostly unheralded British Columbia

Lois Donovan’s new historical fiction, The Journal, begins in 2004 when thirteen-year-old Kami receives a bizarre offer involving a historic house in Edmonton, from her estranged grandfather.

How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us?

In this lavishly produced hardcover volume, Plaskett has created an autobiography as colourful as his finest paintings.

The second volume in the trilogy that revisions Homer’s Odyssey is once again told from the viewpoint of Alexi, the young Trojan boy.