The crows pick at the waste on the asphalt.The men push jingling shopping carts. Or stand and mimic lifein a prison yard. The wild white swan is dead. Where I caughttrout as a child, no trout swim now
Jane Stevenson’s new book, A Trail of Two Telegraphs, is a fascinating collection of historic tales that portray the strong pioneering spirit of BC’s rugged North from Prince George to Prince Rupert.
What would you do if your child was a furry feral creature or your new love interest a potential serial killer (or worse, a fictitious cliche)? In The Odious Child, Carolyn Black invents her own blend
In her first book of poetry, Ursula Vaira captures the rugged and challenging beauty of the West Coast landscape in three poignant stories.The first, told through a set of linked poems, describes her
I was driving back at night from Fulford, having done a house call. There was a guy lying beside the road. He was big, but I was fairly strong at that time, so I put him in the car and got to the hos
Afternoon tea conjures up both feelings of elegance and gentility. It is, after all, synonymous with civility and blessed with the endearing quality of being part of the world's enduring cup of humani
A Beer Drinkers Guide to Knowing and Enjoying Fine Wine is a friendly, arm-around-the-shoulder wine primer that educates and enlightens from a beer drinkers point of view. No snotty disquisition, no h
With unique insight and straightforward prose, "Wingwalkers" tells the saga of Canada's other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changes--Canadian Airways
Biographical essays on Nelson Symonds, Sonny Greenwich, Claude Ranger and eleven other influential Canadian jazz musicians. Essential to the library of every Canadian music buff.
The southwest region of British Columbia offers a motherlode of unique rockhounding experiences for both amateur and more seasoned prospectors. This revised and expanded edition of Rick Hudson's bests
Samuel "Pond Ball" Clintock, his father, and his two best friends begin restoring a long-abandoned golf course during summer vacation and dredge up years worth of pleasant and unsavory memories.
As a furious squall swept down Lake Michigan on June 23, 1950, a DC-4 with 58 souls on board flew from New York toward Minnesota. Minutes after midnight Captain Robert Lind requested a lower altitude
An edited collection of letters, this book documents the long correspondence between two well-known Canadian poets who were also personal friends. Both had long careers, and the letters from each to t
First Nations are the fastest growing population in the country. There are thousands upon thousands of young First Nations people growing up today who, together with the kind of individuals whose stor
End Zones and Border Wars is the story of the CFL's ill-fated periodof expansion into the United States during the early to mid-1990s. It was a time filled with intriguing characters, from JohnCandy t
This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes s
Reinforces letter and vowel identification and letter formation and sequence. Develops visual memory, improves visual-auditory perception, reinforces word comprehension, and provides practice with rhy
Provides information on fashion drawing and design techniques, including the oval and triangle technique, figure templates, drawing from life, clothing design, fabric rendering, and design presentatio
An interactive book and Web site experience presents evidence of ghosts and haunted places found in Michigan and offers readers the experience of becoming part of the ghost hunt with paranormal invest
Jane Timbrill must find a way to save Jacob and her long-lost sister while fleeing from the Adherents and ensuring that the Divide between the worlds of myth and science remains in place.
Poetry. "Marni Ludwig has a vast and original mind and spirit, which along with her quiet, sometimes sharp humor, and her tenderness, implicate everyone. Her skill is like a good horse, who becomes on
Fiction. Pascal's Wager and performing fleas. The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch and an old dockside bar. Raceway Park and a pristine 1971 Plymouth Road Runner. A cat named Altamont. These are all tha
In this humourous and refreshing collection of short stories, David Thompson reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon.Talking at the Woodpile is a masterful blend of fact and fiction, history a
Crows Do Not Have Retirement, David Zieroth's sixth book of poems, explores the many lives of the spirit and the flesh: lives that challenge, bewilder and excite. With the fluidity of language and sha
Book 14 is packed with all the trivia, puns and fun that solvers love (and sometimes love to hate!). Thirty-four Canadian-themed crosswords key on well-known places, people and events, with titles inc
These rollicking ballads and poems come from the great oral tradition of BC woodsmen during the first half of this century - when real men not only read poetry but wrote it and recited it and bought i
Jean Pritchard is a supermarket cashier, a news junkie and the mother of three: two teenagers who still live at home and another who speaks in italics and seems to have moved out. Then her kids start
The author of Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle Again returns with a new collection guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and make you scratch your head at the absurdities of life in the earl
Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this series helps students master skills in reading, mathematics, penmanship, writing, and grammar. Each book provides activities that are great fo
A/Z Does It is a collection of conceptual wordplays and concrete puns, by an innovative writer who literally draws the line between impractical fictions and improbable art.
Poetry. Italian-American. Sexual Abuse. "Peter Covino's first book is spacious, wonderfully unpredictable, and insistent on ambition and scope. CUT OFF THE EARS OF WINTER is not simply an autobiograph
"This uniquely American book combines Sharon Chmielarz’s ear for language, eye for detail, and appetite for history to create the past and present moment along the Yellowstone Trail. Sparked by imagi
Poetry. African-American Studies. "This versatile poet blinks at nothing under thestars. Speaking and singing in the many voices and key signatures of poetry,our primal human language, Kocher shines a
More and more North Americans have been moving away from a meat-centred diet, for health, ideological, environmental and/or economic reasons. This latest book by Jeanne Marie Martin, an internationall
Cousins Henry and Dylan and their friend Arla's summer plan to mine for gold is sidelined when they launch an investigation into an eighty-year-old mystery that puts them in danger.
