An otherworldly uncanniness haunts the margins of Darren Bifford's debut collection, "Wedding in Fire Country." Bifford is exceptionally adept at capturing the beauty of the mundane, and his poetry of
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs locked in the trunk of a car?The answer is not “Jack.”It’s Richard Trench.In the opening scene of Imperfections, a new novel by Bradley Somer, Richard T
Catch Canucks fever and celebrate over 40 years of Vancouver Canucks hockey! This must-have collection--jam-packed with 80 pages of puzzles, crosswords, games, trivia, facts and fun for towel-waving f
While interest in sustainable food practices is spreading, for urban dwellers who don't have much space or suburbanites who aren't ready to rip out the front lawn and replace it with hills of potatoes
On the wild west coast of Vancouver Island, those days still exist, as this book reveals in vivid detail. Relating the trials and tribulations of what surely must be the last of Canada's historic coas
After his beloved pet Koko has passed away, Ricky meets Buster, a messenger dog, who flies him to the Rainbow Bridge where all pets happily wait for their human companions.
The collection explores Wayman's view that Canada's military intervention in a civil war between two odious sets of combatants has degraded Canadians' quality of life by, among other means, the confli
Mushroom expert Daniel Winkler has returned with another easy-to-use field guide to help hunters track down their favourite fungi in California! Use this region-specific guide to identify over thirty
This time round, Arthur Black turns his critical eye and warped funny bone to the world beyond Salt Spring Island, lambasting the amateur ballplayer who sued because the sun was in his eyes, the craze
Gubby, a salmon fisherman whose boat is worn out after a long season, commissions his friend, a Japanese-Canadian boat builder, to construct a new one.
By far the largest of the Raincoast Chronicles collections at 420 pages, "Fourth Five" is living proof that some things just keep getting better. Containing thirty-two inimitable stories, poems and ar
"Dirt of Ages" is the highly anticipated second book of poetry by Gillian Wigmore, whose debut collection "soft geography" (2007) captured the ReLit Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Doroth
The poems in Chris Jennings's long-awaited debut poetry collection are linked at their core by a preoccupation with the ways objects or moments become charged with meaning. Narrative occupies the terr
With his restless intellectual curiosity tempered by a dash of witty self-deprecation, Hutchinson deftly manoeuvres through hallowed halls of academia with humour and grace. Three stylistically distin
Towboats have been a part of British Columbia's history since 1836, when the Hudson's Bay Company's ungainly sidewheeler "S.S. Beaver" made the first powered tow up the coast. Over the years, tugs and
With gorgeous full-colour photos arranged in an easy-to-use colour coded chart for quick identification, this pocket-sized laminated pamphlet is perfect for taking along on walks and hikes through the
Texada is the largest island in the Strait of Georgia, a long strip of richly mineralized granite and limestone dividing the upper gulf. Travel time from Vancouver is six hours via three ferries. A ne
Publishing sensation and popular Global TV personality Mike McCardell returns with a new collection of hilarious, heartwarming and honest stories. These are stories of the defender of a handicapped pa
The Dalton Trail, controlled by outdoorsman Jack Dalton during the Klondike gold rush era, was actually a trail created by the Native American Tlingit tribe. Dalton used violence to usurp control of t
Plants thrive thanks to back-sparing and thrifty techniques for propagation, fertilization and transplanting, plus tips on beneficial fungi and bugs, magical mulches, edible weeds, water-wise wildflow
