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A beautifully illustrated reimagining of the origins of hockey from an Indigenous lens. Killer Whale and Brown Bear are arguing: Brown Bear says he can beat Killer Whale at any challenge, yet Killer Whale disagrees. When Powerful Mena overhears their bickering, he comes up with a solution: a game on the ice, played with sticks, nets, and a star for a puck. But who will win and earn the trophy? For kids aged 4–8, The Game features: An introduction to Musqueam language and culture – Beautiful watercolor artwork from a celebrated Haida artist – Detailed backmatter and a pronunciation guide.

Seven years after a brutal encounter with the Hells Angels, two ex-lovers, Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin, return to their Doukhobor religious community in the mountains of British Columbia to heal and start new lives. Jonah is a twenty-five-year-old from a disgraced family, and now injured and battling PTSD from his time as a Marine. Ruby, practically Doukhobor royalty, is a rock star with a substance use disorder. Jonah finds his mother, Sharon, still struggling with an eating disorder stemming from her terrorist upbringing in the Doukhobor splinter sect known as the Sons of Freedom.

In this beautiful picture book inspired by real events, a young girl works to rescue her horse after a devastating flood. Dancer is a gentle and loving horse. He got his name because of how he moves his hooves—happily, like he's dancing. Every day when the girl rides on his back, it feels like she is flying—until the rain descends and won't let up. Everything floods and the girl and her family flee... leaving Dancer behind. But while sheltering at the community center, the girl can't stop worrying about Dancer. She knows there must be a way to save him too.

#1 Canadian Bestseller on CBC Books. "Iona Whishaw's Lane Winslow is much more than B.C.'s answer to Armand Gamache. A smalltown sleuth with a background in international espionage, Winslow's latest escapade takes her from Nelson to France and Mexico on her most thrilling adventure yet." —Sam Wiebe, author of The Last Exile and the B.C. Bestseller Ocean Drive. The latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls "highly entertaining" sees Lane trekking through Mexico while the team back in Nelson pursue an open and shut and then open again kidnapping.

The legendary Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as an author. She wrote seven popular, critically acclaimed books about her journeys to remote Native communities and about her life as an artist—as well as her life as a small child in Victoria at the turn of the last century. The Book of Small is a collection of 36 short stories about a childhood in a town that still had vestiges of its pioneer past.

In her debut short story collection, Quednau offers unsettling examinations of "what really happened" with rich, complex characters that might equally arouse our suspicions or sympathy: we pay attention.

The fourth thrilling instalment of the Wakeland detective series, exploring the depths of Vancouver's criminal underworld. The mayor's brother is missing. A transit cop lies beaten and blinded, her service weapon stolen. A new series of graffiti tags are appearing, linked to an underground group calling themselves The Death of Kings. Class warfare has broken out on the streets of Vancouver, and PI Dave Wakeland finds himself on the front lines—but unsure which side he's on.

Wayde Compton's debut story collection is imbued with the color of speculative fiction. One strand of stories follows the emergence of a volcanic island, which alternatively becomes the site of a radical Native peoples' occupation, a real-estate development, and finally a detention center for illegal immigrants. Moving from 2001 through to 2025, The Outer Harbour is at once a history book and a cautionary tale of the future, condensing and confounding our preconceived ideas around race, migration, gentrification, and home. Wayde Compton is the author of three poetry collections.

PI Dave Wakeland returns to the streets of Vancouver for his most dangerous case yet. Maggie Zito is being held for murder. The volatile single mother is accused of killing the retired leader of the notorious Exiles motorcycle gang and his wife aboard their million-dollar houseboat. With a mystery witness putting Maggie at the scene, and the Exiles baying for her blood, it's unlikely she'll make it to the trial alive. Desperate, Maggie's lawyer, Shuzhen Chen, calls in a favour to Dave Wakeland: Find evidence of Maggie's innocence and get her client out of custody.

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. Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran delivers a wide-ranging but intimate portrait of a vibrant, complex Sikh community.