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In these lectures, given a few months before his death, Dr.

Tell: Poems for a girlhood is a collection based on the story of Reena Virk, who was murdered on November 14th, 1997, in a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia.

Long ago, a boy named William trapped a young cockatoo. He called the cockie Barney.

A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this classic work by the author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street that p

It all began with the egg. If the egg hadn't been so hard, Ethel wouldn't have needed to stretch her legs.

James Hillyer, a retired university professor whose life was evocatively described in Wright's novel October, is now barely existing after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties.

A political insider takes a revealing look at the public and private life of BC's controversial premier.

When a young black man named Seraphim “Joe” Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could have possibly suspected that one hundred years later he would be voted “Citize

Graham Marshall looked upon himself as one of the winners in the rat race, comfortable and content, with a secure future.

For more than twenty-five years, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has made children her passion and her cause.

Stagecoach West is a comprehensive history of stagecoaching west of the Missouri.

From our present Governor General, a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr

Brook Benton was a magnificent singer who could handle handle anything from blues, jazz and soul to country, pop and standards.  His version of Tony Joe White’s ‘Rainy Night In Georgia’ - an i

Other twelve-step programs make small changes to the original Twelve Traditions used in Alcoholics Anonymous and offer interpretations specific to their programs.