When Flora Oakden leaves her English home in 1912 for the fledgling community of Walhachin in British Columbia's interior, she doesn't expect to fall in love with a charismatic labourer who is working in the orchard. When her lover and all the men return to Europe and the battlefields of France, Flora remains behind, pregnant and unmarried.

Rumi, a geology student and climber, is drawn to the legend of Hooker and Brown. The two peaks had been forgotten since they were first discovered and marked on maps in the 1800s. Compelled to see the mountains for himself, Rumi sets out on a journey that challenges both mind and body.

The ninth daughter in a family of 12 children, Lily is an observant child who tucks away every image of life in rugged Quesnel during the 1930s. In this lyrical memoir, she writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cariboo country of northern British Columbia.

Tells a tale about coming to terms with one's past. This title presents a vivid coming-of-middle-age story set in today's Ireland. It embraces the contradictory but inseparable twins of the Irish sensibility: grand humour in the face of ultimate tragedy.

Tells the remarkable story of one family's enduring connection to the dramatic history of western Canada. This title traces the author's ancestry directly to an early French-Canadian voyageur and his Cree-Metis wife who lived in Rupert's Land after 1800.

A collection of essays that offers a study of the complex relationship between human beings and the natural world. It looks at a wide range of beings - from spiders to peacocks - and cover issues such as our irrational phobias, our fascination with zoos, and the myths and stories we have created around the other occupants of this earth.

The stories of the people who cleared the land, raised the money and erected the buildings are, in fact, the story of Alberta. This title tells their stories of good times and hard times, sad times and comical times.

In British Columbia's remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, 'Everything is slow'. Everything is happening at the same speed, which is no speed at all. This lyrical, evocative memoir of life in the Cariboo crackles with humorous, often startling observations of birds and men set amidst the wild beauty of British Columbia.

You might think that ignorance comes naturally, but on the contrary, the world conspires to cram our heads full of useless and dangerous 'know-ledge' every day. This book helps to join the ranks of those who understand that a lack of understanding is unimportant.

Greece is 'a country where clarity / is inescapable unless it forces your lids shut.' This title features poems that take the everyday world as their point of departure, but the place of arrival 'is never the shore you started from'.

Between the Fourth Meridian and the Continental Divide is a vast land with some of the most varied landscapes, difficult terrain, and treacherous climates in Canada. This book captures the grand arcs and the fascinating details of the dramatic centuries-long struggle to find and mark place.

A collection of 25 stories based on the true stories of named children of the past and present. It provides first person creative non-fiction narratives from the region's children, many of whom went on to be influential adults.

Presents the story of European immigration to Canada's 'dark places of the earth' and an exploration of the roots and effects of colonialism.

Lonesome Hero is a comic classic, and an award-winning smartass novel. This edition restor

Trevor Wallace is en route to Africa on business. In the Frankfurt airport he stumbles over the bag of Constance Ebenezer, an old lady who is travelling with extraordinary contraband in her luggage. Marooned briefly in Cairo together, these two embark on an emotional journey that turns Trevor's predictable and well-ordered world upside down.