McDiarmid, Jessica
Summary: In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers <i>I'll Be Gone in the Dark <i>and <i>The Line Becomes a River<i>, this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MCDGodfrey, Rebecca
Summary: "One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home ... Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls--and boy--accused of a savage murder"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitecap 2005
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Summary: Presents information about the harbor seals and other marine mammals that seek refuge in a seal garden in the Great Bear Sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.9 REASummary: This annually updated travel guide to Alaska and Northwest Canada is a must-have resource for travelers to these areas. "The Milepost" provides maps, diagrams, photographs, and an almost mile-by-mile travelogue of what to expect along the main roads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morris Communications Company, LLC 2023
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Summary: Encounters with the trappers, traders, prospectors, and explorers who opened the last frontier, British Columbia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sierra Club Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.1104 HOAGoldsworthy, Kaite
Summary: Describes the environment, history, industry, tourist attractions, arts, sports, and cultural groups that make British Columbia unique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weigl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971 GOLVanderRee, Kayleen
Summary: Two kittens were abandoned in a park. The women who found them were about to head off on a mountain trek. And the animal shelter was closed. The cats seemed game so their intrepid rescuers brought Bolt and Keel (so named) along for the adventure. It was the first of many. Kayleen VanderRee, an avid photographer, chronicled their trips on Instagram,and soon the cats’ adventures went viral. Stars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 VANAbler, Amanda
Summary: "A heart-warming and true story about an orphaned orca named Springer who was found swimming alone in the Puget Sound in 2002. The book takes us on Springer's journey from being near starvation to rescued to then the challenges of her release, eventual adoption, and the start of her own family."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.53 ABLChan, Vanessa
Summary: "Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC CHADe la Tour, Shatoiya
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.7 DELFunk, Carla
Summary: "A funny and whip-smart memoir about a feisty young woman's quest for independence in an isolated Mennonite community. Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging ever closer to the flames. Coming of age in a remote and forested valley--a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands--she knows her destiny is to marry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FUNK, CARLA FUNHarden, Blaine
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 HARFeiling, Tom
Summary: "The Island that Disappeared tells, for the first time, the story of the passengers aboard the Mayflower's sister ship (the Seaflower) who in 1630 founded a rival Puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence--so small it doesn't appear on most maps. Chaos ensued, and the great experiment failed. One-hundred years later the disaster repeated itself. Traveling to the island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9 FEISides, Hampton
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDMowat, Farley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.011 MOWLevin, Daniel
Summary: "An account by an armed-conflict mediator searching for a missing person in Syria over twenty tense days-at the end of which he will either find "proof of life" or not"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9104 LEVHempstead, Andrew
Summary: Canada resident and avid outdoorsman Andrew Hempstead offers his firsthand advice on experiencing the Canadian Rockies, from rafting on the Bow River and hiking Lake O'Hara to staying in a remote log cabin. Hempstead includes unique trip ideas, such as A Week Under the Stars and Exploring the Canadian Rockies with Children. Complete with details on escaping the crowds at Lake Louise, viewing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.1 CANRussell, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Key Porter Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.78 RUSRojas Contreras, Ingrid
Summary: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: A travel guide with information on hotels, restaurants, historic buildings and landmarks, attractions, and entertainment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel US PacificGould, Stephen Jay.
Summary: Explains why the diversity of the Burgess Shale is important in understanding our past and evolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.9 GOUJagger, Steph
Summary: "In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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Summary: "This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023