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
Bewitched by dead poets
Roger Farr takes an avant-garde approach to a subversive 15th century French poet; Arleen Paré fell in “love at first… FULL STORY
The sawmill that became a city
Later called Hastings Mill, a company town grew up around Captain Stamp’s venture when he built a store to supply… FULL STORY
Picture of a killer
She was able to put a human face to the atrocious and horrific deed. “I can come no closer to… FULL STORY
The quiet reckoning
Reviewing The Quiet In Me: Poems by Patrick Lane, Trevor Carolan writes “This is the receding artist’s sayonara, when love… FULL STORY
