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From an exciting new publisher are some great books which will be enjoyed by both children and adults alike. Beautiful rhyming story of Boris the Bee lost his buzz and then got it back. Colourful illustrations and beautifully written. Great fun for kids and parents to read at bedtime.Written in delightfully rhyming text by Dan Douglass and Illustrated by award-winning designer Mark Beech.Boris is the busiest honey bee in the hive.Until one day...

It has often been observed that the First World War jolted Canada into nationhood, and as Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson show in this compelling book, no province participated more eagerly in that transformation or felt the aftershock more harshly than British Columbia. In From the West Coast to the Western Front, Forsythe, host of CBC Radio's mid-day show BC Almanac, marks the 100th anniversary of World War I by teaming with historian Greg Di...

This portable 8-fold guide is the perfect companion to Phillipa Hudsons easy-to-use Coastal Flowers of the Pacific Northwest, and features 112 spectacular photos of flowers found from the mid to alpine elevations on Vancouver Island and the Coast Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Organized into a two-sided colour coded chart with a ruler printed on the back cover, this handy guide will aid in the quick identification of almost any flower one...

Arthur Black's latest trademark storytelling!

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Now available in paperback, Bijaboji is a BC bestseller and a classic of boating literature.

Winner of the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Prize now available in Tradepaper!

Rafe's back tackling controversial issues with his keen sense of humour and critical insight.

>Written with all the warmth and ironic humour his fans have come to know and love, Cardboard Ocean is an affectionate evocation of a childhood in a rough setting, but with the thrills, chills and loves that will be familiar to anyone who was ever young. McCardell was raised by a working mother in the borough of Queens where even the grade schoolers ran in gangs, fiercely protecting their turf from intrusion by the tykes a few blocks away. The...

What if Mike McCardell -- beloved reporter of glasses half-full and the brighter side of life -- is actually dead... or, more specifically, un-dead? Suppose he has continued to walk among the living ever since he was a sapper with the famous detachment of Royal Engineers who came to British Columbia in 1859 and was known as Jock Linn -- the namesake for North Vancouver's misspelled Lynn Creek. And then imagine that after Linn died or, more acc...

The colourful autobiography of Thom Henley: environmentalist, human rights advocate and co-founder of the Rediscovery wilderness program for youth. In 1970, twenty-two-year-old Thom Henley left Michigan and drifted around the northwest coast, getting by on odd jobs and advice from even odder characters. He rode the rails, built a squatter shack on a beach, came to be known as "Huckleberry" and embarked on adventures along the West Coast and ab...

Call me Chick. I've been called Chick since I was six years old. If you call me Donald, I'll know you don't know me. In this story, I'll tell you how my life unfolded over the last eight decades: how I got that nickname, how I met and married the most beautiful girl in the world, and how I came to own and operate S & R sawmills in Surrey, British Columbia. By the end of this book, I'm pretty sure you'll know me well enough to call me Chick." -...

Few recent events in British Columbia have seized the public mind like the 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Across Canada, it was one of the top news stories of the year. In BC it has attained the status of nautical legend. Ten years later, questions are still being asked. How did a ship that sailed the same course thousands of times fall victim to such an inexplicable error? Was the bridge crew fooling aroun...

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Gerry St. Germains story begins in Petit Canada on the shores of the Assiniboine, growing up with his two younger sisters, his mother and his fathera shy Metis trapper and construction worker who sometimes struggled to put food on the table. St. Germain was initially troubled in school, scrapping with classmates and often skipping out to shoot pool, but an aunt and uncle with some extra cash paid his tuition to Catholic school, where a nun rec...

Like John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morning--a long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia. He went in search of beauty and lost grace in a landscape that has seen decades of development and upheaval. In Crossing Home Ground he reports back, providing a day-by-day account of his journey's experiences, from the practical challenges--dealing with blisters, rai...

Healing in the Wilderness" is an intriguing account of the United Church's 115 year-long commitment to providing medical aid to people scattered throughout Canada's vast wilderness.

Publishing sensation and popular Global TV personality Mike McCardell returns with a new collection of hilarious, heart-warming and honest stories. These are stories of the defender of a handicapped parking spot, a woman who has delivered home-made Valentine cards to neighbours for twenty years, and love between a widower and a woman who had never been on a date before. They are the stories that never make front page headlines, but that Mike, ...

Trucks are everywhere crowding the highways, lining up for the ferries, roaring down dusty logging roads and yet trucking is often left off the list when talk turns to British Columbia's major industries. It shouldn't be, as this gorgeous new illustrated history celebrating the BC Trucking Association's 100th anniversary shows. With annual revenues of $1.88 billion and 60, 000 employees, trucking is among BC's five largest industries. Accompan...