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Created by ABPBC on September 19, 2016
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Titles featured as part of Read Local BC 2016, project to celebrate the extraordinary depth of BC publishing.
Peace Dancer

Peace Dancer

illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers, by Robert Budd
edition:Hardcover
tagged : canadian

The children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a powerful storm.

 

The rain floods the Earth and villagers have no choice but to abandon their homes and flee to their canoes. As the seas rise, the villagers tie themselves to the top of Anchor Mountain, where they pray for days on end and promise to teach their ch …

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Red Robinson

Red Robinson

The Last Deejay
by Robin Brunet
edition:Hardcover
tagged : entertainment & performing arts, personal memoirs, rock

Red Robinson details the life and career of Red Robinson, one of Canada's most celebrated pioneers of rock and roll. Robinson began spinning hits while in high school in the early 1950s, laying the foundation for what would become a glamorous, impossible-to-stop and ultimately fulfilling career that has made him a household name west of the Rockies.

Raised by a single mother, Robinson worked as a delivery boy to help support the family. From such humble beginnings, he developed a strong work eth …

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Stalking Salmon & Wrestling Drunks

Stalking Salmon & Wrestling Drunks

Confessions of a Charter Boat Skipper
by Peter L. Gordon
edition:Paperback
tagged : fishing, personal memoirs

Each fisherman steps onto the docks, sees Peter Gordon's boat the MV Kalua, glances at the other members of the charter and feels a rush of anticipation. The challenge is on to see who will catch the biggest fish.

 

Told with a skipper's authority, Stalking Salmon and Wrestling Drunks recounts the highs and lows of fishing with tourists, including dealing with rowdy guests, bad weather, near death experiences, lost fish, tangled lines, and sometimes even tragedy. Gordon's humour and tenacity shine …

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What Grandma Built

What Grandma Built

by Michelle Gilman, illustrated by Jazmin Sasky
edition:Paperback
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Grandma finds the perfect spot for her home on the shore of a lake. As her family gets bigger, the house grows too--and eventually becomes a castle! Bursting with toys, bunk beds, bedrooms and pies, the castle is a magical place full of love and traditions. Whole walls are reserved for family photos and grandchildren's drawings, and a huge playground fills the yard. Grandma and her family love boating, watching the loons, and having meals together in Grandma's giant dining room.

 

The castle is bu …

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Carnival of Secrets

Carnival of Secrets

Grim Hill, Book Six
by Linda DeMeulemeester
edition:Paperback
tagged : fantasy & magic, paranormal, adolescence

In this thrilling conclusion to the Grim Hill series, Cat has lost everything she holds dear. Sookie has gone over to dark magic and is a diabolical threat. A sinister carnival has crept into town and has everyone under its thrall. Only Cat's fairy friend Lea thinks there might be a sliver of hope that all the harm can be undone. But even she quakes at the danger. Still, Cat is determined to do whatever it takes, except this time even the gang isn't prepared for the most harrowing adventure of a …

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Forest of Secrets

Forest of Secrets

by Linda DeMeulemeester
edition:eBook
tagged : paranormal, adolescence, fantasy & magic

When Cat and her friends are taken hostage and find themselves stranded in Headless Valley, it's clear they will need a miracle to get back home. Although they find an abandoned cabin for shelter, their supply of food and water is running out fast, their kidnappers are not on their heels, and a sinister threat lurks in the loft of the cabin. Cat has to make an impossible choice: risk the group's chance of survival, or risk her sister, who may be able to summon help using her magical skills. But …

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Hard Knox

Hard Knox

Musings from the Edge of Canada
by Jack Knox, foreword by Ian Ferguson
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : essays, editors, journalists, publishers

2017 long-list finalist, Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour Writing

In Hard Knox, seasoned columnist and consummate everyman Jack Knox offers up his uniquely hilarious views on Canadian life as seen from the western fringes of the country—in particular from the “Island of Misfit Toys” as he aptly calls his Vancouver Island home. This treasure trove of west-coast wit and wisdom touches on everything from “smug anti-Americanism” to extreme weather to flagrant public displays of affection in …

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Soviet Princeton

Soviet Princeton

Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners' Strike
by Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : post-confederation (1867-), labor & industrial relations, communism & socialism

The winter of 1932-33 saw the small interior town of Princeton, BC divided. Charges of outside agitators and charges by mounted provincial police into picket lines of workers, Ku Klux Klan threats and a beating and cross-burning, the kidnapping of legendary labour organizer Slim Evans who was bundled onto the next train out of town (though he returned soon enough) — Princeton's few thousand citizens saw much of the human drama of the Great Depression play out right in their own lives over the …

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