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A portrait of an independent cowboy - an outlaw, rancher, lover, and father - living amidst the vastness of Canadian prairie life.

This is a gripping suspense novel about a young female law student, Darby Shaw, who builds a case against a powerful suspect accused of murdering two Supreme Court judges. Shaw evades attempts on her own life by going underground while continuing to expose the truth.

St. Pierre writes in favour of war, lying, a Canadian monarchy, teenaged sex, Henry Ford, - and against righteous men, ecologists and sanitized language. His observations spring from his experiences as a newspaper editor and columnist, politician, diplomat, police commissioner, h...

In the backwoods of British Columbia, Boudreau tells of adventures gone awry, bizarre encounters with creatures in the wilds, and the results of friendships gone sour. When men went missing, or furs were stolen, it was often up to the local police officer or game warden to don hi...

An inspiring and revealing memoir by one of Canada's most revered public figures. Mike Harcourt fought back from a near-fatal accident that doctors initially thought could leave the former B.C. premier permanently confined to a wheelchair. His powerful and inspirational story sho...

The book recalls the drama and confusion arising from the initial contacts between Europeans, Americans and the First Nations on Canada's West Coast. The hub was Friendly Cove in Nootka Sound where Chief Maquinna oversaw the wheeling 'n' dealing - and where modern British Columbi...

From record-breaking tea clippers to rum runners and sea monsters, life on the west coast has never been dull. Rich in seafaring legend and adventure, these stories will take you on a voyage of discovery into the past and around the world.

Fergus, owner of Goodlake's Deli, is having an affair with a much younger woman - a relationship that starts out carefree but eventually collapses the foundations of everything in his life. The crisis is by turns humourous, tragic and epic, involving not only his own story but th...

At age 18, Bob Henderson abandoned his privileged life for the challenges of the mountains of northern B.C. Mentored by the Tlogot'ine Indians and a few veteran guides, he adapted to the vagaries of packhorses, float planes, grizzly bears and bureaucrats. His stories recount fo...

Travelling by horse and canoe, Dawson was a groundbreaker in the Geological Survey's opening up of the Canadian West in the late 1800's. He was an avid photographer, amateur painter, poet and professional geologist. Over mountainous physical odds, he became one of the most resp...

RCMP Corporal Paul Blakemore is jolted from his mundane policing duties in the Monashee Mountain village of Bear Creek by the discovery of a frozen corpse on a snowy slope just outside of town. There are no signs indicating how the body got thereno footprints or drag marksnothing...

Artist Toni Onley's serene and spectacular landscapes are known to millions, but the man behind the brush has remained an intriguing enigma - until now. Here, Onley paints a self-portrait in words, a sweeping canvas that stretches from the Isle of Man to a plane wreck on a Britis...

The author captures the voices of Coast Guard Skippers, coast pilots, commercial fishermen and divers, tugboaters and deep-sea drillers. Fishermen recall the pandemonium of a fishery opening. A former Coast Guard captain tells a heart-rending story of trying to rescue the crew o...

Covering the entire history of the English language, we learn about the quirks and byways of the world's most important and baffling language. Among other things, it examines unphonetic spelling and many so-called "rules" of grammar. It is written to amuse the reader. 1990.

Tales of the voyages of men against the sea between Greenland and James Bay, Frobisher, Hudson, and Captain James. Mowat links records of 600 years of Arctic exploration for the Northwest Passage into a moving saga. Read by Bryon Johnsen.