National Network for Equitable Library Service

We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Reconciliation belongs to everyone.

Summer camp isn't quite what Henry expected. Henry was ready for a fun summer with friends at a mountain bike camp in the wilderness.

Charlie Hope was not expecting to spend his summer trying to solve a murder. Helping his mother run the family hotel doesn't usually offer much excitement.

The unusual and moving tale of Muggins, a famed fundraising dog who became a mascot of the Canadian Red Cross during the First World War.

Indigenous artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells a tale of a salmon and a sea otter who learn it's ok to say "I don't know" and to ask for help.

A fascinating tour through BC's historical gold rush trails, focusing on the nineteenth-century churches that were pivotal to the establishment of early settler communities.

A whimsical exploration of Vancouver's favourite family landmark, filled with gorgeous illustrations and fascinating facts.

Broadcaster and bestselling author Mike McCardell haunts British Columbia's past in order to summon spellbinding tales of Western Canada.

Hastings–Sunrise is a love letter to a fleeting place and time. Bren Simmers's second collection captures her old East Vancouver neighbourhood in the midst of upheaval.

Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America.

Elizabeth May was born to be an activist. As a young girl, Elizabeth was worried about the health of the planet and believed it was her job to protect it.

This autobiography by Emily has been called "probably the finest...

At age nineteen, Pat Ardley packed up her belongings and left Winnipeg for Vancouver, looking for adventure.

The first book to reveal the 1858 mining milieu by those who witnessed it firsthand. Only four extensive miners' journals are known to have survived from 1858.

Living in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, young Black activist Mifflin Gibbs was feeling disheartened from fighting the overwhelming tide of White America's legalized racism when abolitionist Juli