This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on wo...
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The British Columbia and Yukon Book Prizes
Александра Кассандра238 книг
Александра КассандраThe British Columbia and Yukon Book Prizes
“The book was a small, octavo volume, bound in dark leather and held closed by a brass clasp. The cover was heavily stained. Bylot breathed deeply and ran his gnarled fing...
When an accident leaves teenage cousins Meline and Jocelyn parentless, they come to live with their unknown and eccentric Uncle Marten on his private island. They soon dis...
Frances, a manager for a large corporation, appears to be very successful. But Frances finds her piece of mind unravelling as she becomes overwhelmed by the destructive bu...
Winner of the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Rita Wong's new collection of poems explores how ecological crises relate to the injustices of our international political...
The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartm...
A “soucouyant” is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders...
Longlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize at the 2008 BC Book Prizes
The colony of British Columbia, 1863. Bost...
Later, when Daisy remembered that night, she could smell the scent of honeysuckle at the window and see the moon on the floorboards. But in her memories Keiko wasn’t banda...
Runner-up for the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite side...
It is the Great Fire of 1666. The imposing edifice of St. Paul's Cathedral, a landmark of London since the twelfth century, is being reduced to rubble by the flames that e...
From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition — and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Br...
A heartbreaking story of loss and love.
As autumn turns toward winter in 1938 Berlin, life for Marianne Kohn, a young Jewish girl, begins to crumble. First there was th...
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My One Hundred Adventures
Winner of the 2009 BC Book Prizes' Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
In 1808 seeking a navigable route to the western sea for the North West Company, Simon Fraser descen...
Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poery Prize
Finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award
“You remember — what is it you remember? / the feel of home, that moment of com...
To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start…
Featured on Russell Brand’s podcast Under the Skin
Dr Gabor Mate is one of the world’s most revered thinkers on the ps...
On the eve of her first day of senior high, May Sutherland’s mother gives her a diary in which to record her experiences. It’s 1948 and the entire student body at Magee Hi...