Best of intentions
At the start of the new school year, Molleigh is bluntly asked by one of her new students, “Teachers always… FULL STORY
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A temple of the soul
“Debbie Bateman takes an unflinching look at what our bodies get up to when our minds are riddled with conflicts,… FULL STORY
Surviving residential school
“We were children witnessing trauma twenty or thirty times a day. We saw kids as young as three or four… FULL STORY
Capturing Canada’s highest mountain
Joined by naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing, who went to collect specimens, a climbing expedition faced a maze of towering ice… FULL STORY
The missing beehive mystery
Leo and his sister Lizzie “bumble” around with grandpa’s friends looking for the beehive thief and in the process, learn… FULL STORY
A “Gone Viking” excursion … in BC
Arnott’s series of travel memoirs retracing Viking journeys all lead back to British Columbia where he sees similarities in Indigenous… FULL STORY
Funny about murder
In the second Priscilla Tempest Mystery series installment, the plucky heroine is a murder suspect but can’t provide an alibi… FULL STORY
Bamboo water pipes in the Kootenays
Facing hardships and systemic racism, early Chinese settlers in the Kootenays forged new lives for themselves, some even prospered although… FULL STORY
Lessons from the bard
Dickson co-authored a book examining four of Shakespeare’s plays that she says “engage in conversations about hope, empathy and love,… FULL STORY
Living the dream, off-grid
The Neads used solar power and internet communications to create a modern lifestyle while enduring long winters, wicked storms, forest… FULL STORY
Naval architects to the world
The company bearing Robert Allan’s name managed to survive the Great Depression and eventually thrive. Three generations later, Robert Allan… FULL STORY
Doukhobor lovers in a dangerous time
In July, 1998, two teenagers are running away from a tragedy involving Hell’s Angels bikers. Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin… FULL STORY
Great mind, sad life
A new biography of Ron Thom is an insightful and enlightening examination of a brilliant Canadian architect who returned from… FULL STORY
The big tree seeker
Nelson features rare old trees in his new book, many of which are an easy walk from a forest service… FULL STORY
Dreams of glory, lives of hardship
If the miners were lucky, they could find enough gold to buy a home or build a business. But gold… FULL STORY
The might of “We”
John Restakis presents new ideas that can “tame power and make it the currency of our collective life – not… FULL STORY
Exiled and invisibilized
“Survival is an ugly game, and our objects are all the world really values of our people. Our objects and… FULL STORY
Holocaust graphic novel wins award
“Visual storytelling in graphic narratives is especially effective for life stories of survivors who were children during the Holocaust, as… FULL STORY
Vancouver’s ‘unsung’ rock icon
One of Canada’s greatest mysteries—on a par, perhaps, with the Oak Island money pit or why anyone would willingly eat… FULL STORY
The father of BC Anthropology
His efforts, along with a select group of other academics & artists in the 1950s and ’60s, brought Pacific Northwest… FULL STORY
