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Books from Vancouver Island, in BC.
The Tartarus House on Crab

The Tartarus House on Crab

by George Szanto
edition:eBook
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Jack Tartarus, a photographer, has returned to his family’s house on Crab, an island off the east coast of Vancouver Island. After mulling it over for ten years, Jack has decided to tear his family’s house down, board-by-board, just as his father built it up. He purchases a wrecking bar. Struggling with the first piece of siding, his wrecking bar jammed between ancient planks, it seems the house is determined to remain. The people on Crab Island are also angrily opposed to his plan—includi …

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Barclay Family Theatre, The

Barclay Family Theatre, The

by Jack Hodgins
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : short stories (single author), literary

With The Barclay Family Theatre, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrous world of human warmth and comic energy. There is Barclay Desmond, caught between the ambitions of his mother, who wants him to become a concert pianist, and his father who wants him to follow in his steps as a logger. There is Mr. Pernouski, a real estate agent and the fattest man to ride a B.C. ferry, who …

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Invention of the World, The

Invention of the World, The

by Jack Hodgins
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : fairy tales, folk tales, legends & mythology, dystopian

Jack Hodgins begins The Invention of the World with a ferry worker waving you aboard a ship that will take you not only to Vancouver Island but into a world of magic. The far west coast of Canada has always been regarded as a “land’s end” where the eccentrics of the world come to plot out the last best utopia. Hodgins both invents a world and shows how we continually invent that world in all its multiplicity.

Past and present intermingle while hilarious farce rubs up against epic tragedy. I …

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Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, The

Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, The

Or a Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles
by Jack Hodgins
edition:Paperback
tagged : literary

In this new edition of Jack Hodgins' Governor General–winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean and whose people have long been in a continuous slumber. Everything changes, however, when a beautiful sea nymph is washed ashore from a stranded freighter. People begin grasping at new possibilities. There's the giant cactus the mayor installs to attractthe tour …

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Spit Delaney's Island

Spit Delaney's Island

by Jack Hodgins
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback Paperback
tagged : short stories (single author)

Jack Hodgins‘ first book, published originally in 1976, is once again in print — in a new edition. Winner of the Eaton's Book Prize and nominated for the Governor General's Award, Spit Delaney's Island, a collection of short stories, put Vancouver Island on the map as a Canadian literary locale and set Hodgins off on his literary career. Hodgins' prose brings Vancouver Island to life in its touch, its taste and the sound of its dialects — a determinedly real world. At the same time he imbu …

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Unholy Rites

Unholy Rites

by Kay Stewart & Chris Bullock
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : police procedural, women sleuths

The third book in the Danutia Dranchuk mystery series reunites RCMP constable Danutia Dranchuk with her friend, drama critic Arthur Fairweather. Danutia is observing a youth rehabilitation program in England when Arthur returns to the Peak District to attend his mother's funeral. Suspecting foul play in her death, Danutia and Arthur question the feuding villagers. They soon discover the dark and dangerous side of ancient Celtic rituals still practiced in the town.

In a region with chilling remind …

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Father August Brabant

Father August Brabant

Saviour or Scourge?
by Jim McDowell
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : historical, post-confederation (1867-)

Father August Brabant (1845–1912) was the first Roman Catholic missionary to live and work among indigenous peoples on the west coast of Vancouver Island during the colonial period. He endured long periods of isolation, built a number of log churches and undertook extraordinarily difficult trips along the west coast in dugout canoes. His thirty-three-year-long effort to transform Nuu-chah-nulth culture gives us a provocative case study of the dynamics that shaped, and continue to define, the s …

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Fishing the River of Time

Fishing the River of Time

by Tony Taylor
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : essays, personal memoirs, fishing

At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney, Australia, to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned. The trip is an opportunity for Tony to return to a landscape that has had a profound effect on his life and his way of thinking, and to share this place with his grandson. As Tony teaches Ned the patient art of fly-fishing, a lifetime of memories, thoughts, and stories unspool in peaceful reflections by the water's edge.

Fishing the River of Time is an …

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