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From record-breaking tea clippers to rum runners and sea monsters, life on the west coast has never been dull.

Through the eyes of a child, the novel tells the moving story of Japanese Canadians during W.W.II.

The author's memoirs of growing up in Nova Scotia, the hardship of life on the prairies, her marriage, her children, and her working life as a teacher.

The old buildings and historic places of B.C. form a "roadside memory", a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of our history.

Follows Kiam-Kim as he learns the responsibilities and rewards of family and community, as he approaches adulthood in 1930s and 1940s Vancouver, a city much divided, as he faces decisions about wha

Now, after six years of retirement, Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C.

In 1997, when a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an Alaskan island north of the Canadian border, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest.

The murder of Reena Virk is one of the most notorious - and heartbreaking - cases in Canadian history.

When Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri walked out of a Vancouver courtroom as free men in March 2005, the nation gasped in disbelief.

Called to the deathbed of Claude, her long-ago first love, Evelyn succumbs to a cascade of grief for Claude, and their estranged son Tom.

Fergus, owner of Goodlake's Deli, is having an affair with a much younger woman - a relationship that starts out carefree but eventually collapses the foundations of everything in his life.

The inside story of Bill Bennett's time as premier of British Columbia and his government's extraordinary accomplishments, told anecdotally through the eyes of one of the province's

Her parents' hidden past in wartorn Asia continues to shadow Gail Lim's life.

The author travels from her childhood Nova Scotia home where she collects periwinkles to be eaten with a pin, to Toronto, where she discovers pizza and the miracle of canned cream of mushroom soup,

Knighton tells the story of his 15-year descent into blindness. Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, and into adulthood, he provides a window into the human condition.