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The Expanded Reilly Method

The Expanded Reilly Method

by Mike McCardell
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Mike McCardell's bestselling books about finding rays of pure sunshine among the dark byways of the big city have a full measure of heartwarming tales but this time he declares, "I have found the answer to enjoying an incredible life, no matter who you are or where you are or what you are doing or how much you weigh."

In his 2008 book, Getting to th …

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I Like It Like That

I Like It Like That

True Stories of Gay Male Desire
edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
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Lambda Literary Award Finalist

Shortlisted for a TLA Gaybie Award (Best Gay Erotica)

From the editors of the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer come these intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men's desire. The stories push at the parameters of queer erotic life, featuring contributors both novice and well-known; subject matter ranges from s …

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Black is the New Green

Black is the New Green

by Arthur Black
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Those who have been following Arthur Black's award-winning publishing ventures over the past few years, or remember him from his long-running CBC radio show, Basic Black, will have come to appreciate the hilarious and unique vision of the world through the eyes of Canada's Blackest humourist. No less hilarious is his newest collection of observatio …

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Adrift on the Ark

Adrift on the Ark

Our Connection to the Natural World
by Margaret Thompson
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Adrift on the Ark is a collection of personal essays by Margaret Thompson that offers a straightforward study of the complex relationship between human beings and the natural world. The essays look 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 sto …

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Kaleidoscopes and Butterfly Dreams

Kaleidoscopes and Butterfly Dreams

by Nancy Hundal
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Born that Way

Born that Way

by Susan Ketchen
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Desert Rose, Butterfly Storm

Desert Rose, Butterfly Storm

by David Manicom
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In the Bear's House

In the Bear's House

by Bruce Hunter
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The Big Picture

The Big Picture

Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
by David Suzuki & David Taylor
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Whether he's discussing how to reconcile economy with ecology, why a warmer world will result in more poison ivy, why Britney Spears gets more hits on Google than global warming does, or why we might need to start eating jellyfish for supper, David Suzuki points the direction we must take as a society if we hope to meet the environmental challenges …

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Second Person Queer

Second Person Queer

edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
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First Person Queer, an anthology of non-fiction essays written in the first person by a variety of gay and lesbian authors, was a snapshot of LGBT life and experience in the modern age. Published in 2007, it received wide acclaim, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies and the Independent Publisher Award (Gold) for Gay & Lesbian Books.

Se …

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What Species of Creatures

What Species of Creatures

Animal Relations from the New World
by Sharon Kirsch
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The Europeans who colonized North America more than three centuries ago encountered fantastical creatures: flying squirrels, ruby-throated hummingbirds, the easily tamed beaver. Their literature of discovery — by turns comic, cruel, and adulatory — provides a revealing glimpse of the taxonomies they carried with them into their so-called New Wo …

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My Natural History

My Natural History

The Evolution of a Gardener
by Liz Primeau
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Written with the author's trademark blend of enthusiasm and insight, My Natural History describes how gardening has always been Liz Primeau's therapy, obsession, and reward. Full of fascinating gardening lore, personal history, and practical insight (including what to do when you notice your son is growing funny tomatoes among your seedlings), this …

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A Mountain Year

A Mountain Year

Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller
by Chris Czajkowski
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Nominated for ForeWord Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Award - Nature Category

In 1988, Chris Czajkowski walked into British Columbia's Central Coast Mountains to build a homestead, a business, and a life. A Mountain Year is a beautifully produced art book full of original paintings, sketches and diary entries, offering an awe-inspiring glimpse int …

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Getting to the Bubble

Getting to the Bubble

Finding Magic Amid the Urban Roar
by Mike McCardell
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Mike McCardell, the legendary Vancouver reporter who tries to restore people's faith in living after they've finished watching the appalling mayhem on the evening news, is back with another collection of simple but irresistible stories: there are the ownerless shoes, sitting day after day in a washroom used mainly by big-time celebrities. There are …

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Reconquering Canada

Reconquering Canada

Quebec Federalists Speak Up for ChangeQuebec Federalists Speak Up for ChangeQuebec Federalists Speak Up for Change
edited by André Pratte, translated by Patrick Watson, foreword by John Ralston Saul
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Fourteen of Quebec's leading thinkers dare to reimagine their province and its role within the Canadian federation.

 

Reconquering Canada is a breath of fresh air in the ongoing debate over Quebec's status within Canada. Fourteen leading Quebec personalities - politicians, militants, intellectuals, federalists all - invite Quebecers and other Canadi …

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Hiding Places

Hiding Places

by Timothy Brownlow
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Early in the Season

Early in the Season

A British Columbia Journal
by Edward Hoagland, introduction by Stephen Hume
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A great essayist's portrait of British Columbia in the 1960s, following Notes from the Century Before.

 

In 1968 Edward Hoagland embarked on his second trip to British Columbia. The following year he published the journal from his first trip as Notes from the Century Before, a classic that is still in print today. Early in the Season is the never-bef …

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Writing the West Coast

Writing the West Coast

In Love with Place
edited by Christine Lowther & Anita Sinner
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This collection of over thirty essays by both well-known and emerging writers explores what it means to "be at home" on Canada's West Coast. Here the rainforest and the wild, stormy cost dominate one's sense of identity, a humbling perspective shared in memoirs by individuals who come to see themselves as part of a larger ecological community.

Alexa …

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A Passion for this Earth

A Passion for this Earth

Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment
edited by Michelle Benjamin, foreword by Bill McKibben
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Twenty influential writers and scientists contribute personal, practical, and political essays celebrating our planet.

In this powerful collection of original essays, twenty of the world's most influential journalists, writers, scientists, and environmentalists lend their voices to inform and engage those who are committed to the survival of the Ear …

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A Passion for This Earth

A Passion for This Earth

Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment
edited by Michelle Benjamin, contributions by Rick Bass; Alan Weisman; Richard Mabey & Helen Caldicott
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David Suzuki's lifelong work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and scientist have influenced countless others in their fight to save the planet, 20 such devotees of them have contributed to this inspiring collection. These journalists, scientists, writers and environmentalists have taken their enthusiasm for Suzuki's philosophy and funneled it in …

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What the Bleep is Going on Here?

What the Bleep is Going on Here?

by Rafe Mair
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Lawyer, politician, radio broadcaster--and crusader! That's Rafe Mair. Even at 75 he is still fighting to save the planet, this country, this province, the Pacific salmon, our public health care and our electoral system. He castigates lawyers for cashing in on the compensation to aboriginals abused in the residential schools, slaps the wrists of st …

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An Ecology of Enchantment

An Ecology of Enchantment

A Year in the Life of a Garden
by Des Kennedy
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For the past 36 years, Des Kennedy and his family have lived largely outside their hand-built house in intimate contact with the Earth — its creatures, its changing seasons, and its weather patterns. In this charming book’s 52 chapters, Kennedy brings readers deep into his garden, week by week, from winter’s dormancy to summer’s splendor. Wi …

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Black to the Grindstone

Black to the Grindstone

by Arthur Black
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Longlisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book Prize

Arthur Black--bestselling author, three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, beloved radio personality, and newspaper columnist-- proves in his latest sidesplitting collection of tales, Black to the Grindstone, that, without a doubt, you not only get better but funnier with age.

Demon …

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Nomad's Hotel

Nomad's Hotel

Travels in Time and Space
by Mr Cees Nooteboom, introduction by Alberto Manguel, translated by Ann Kelland
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Since making his first voyage as a sailor-to earn his passage from his native Holland to South America -- Cees Nooteboom has been captivated by foreign countries and cultures and has never stopped travelling. This collection of his most enjoyable travel pieces ranges far and wide, informed throughout by the author's humanity and gentle humour. From …

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How to Be a Canadian

How to Be a Canadian

Even If You Already Are One
by Will Ferguson & Ian Ferguson
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When Margaret Atwood suggested Will Ferguson follow up his runaway best-seller Why I Hate Canadians with a "tongue-in-cheek guidebook for newcomers on how to be Canadian," Will thought it was a swell idea, and he quickly recruited his brother, comedy writer Ian Ferguson, creator and executive producer of the television series Sin City. Together, th …

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An Enchantment of Birds

An Enchantment of Birds

Memories from a Birder's Life
by Richard Cannings
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In these delightful meditations, biologist and bird lover Richard Cannings weaves stories of his personal encounters with birds into fascinating descriptions of their behavior, anatomy, and evolution. He muses over the meadowlarks' ability to hide their nests so completely that he has seen only two in a lifetime spent searching for them; the trumpe …

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Comfort Food for Breakups

Comfort Food for Breakups

The Memoir of a Hungry Girl
by Marusya Bociurkiw
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Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection
Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Autobiography/Memoir
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Women's Memoir/Biography
Shortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award
One of Quill & Quire's

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Pause

Pause

A Sketchbook
by Emily Carr, introduction by Ian Thom
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Unique among the artist's published works for its combination of words and drawings, this charming addition to the Emily Carr Library presents a poignant yet wry account of her convalescence in the English countryside.

 

While studying at the Westminster School of Art in London, England, Emily Carr so undermined her health by overwork that she was se …

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Home and Away

Home and Away

More Tales of a Heritage Farm
by Anny Scoones
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In her best-selling first book, Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (2005), Anny Scoones introduced readers to historic Glamorgan Farm. In Home and Away, Anny presents more stories about the joys and sorrows, excitements and mishaps and also takes readers farther afield, sharing with them her travels to other parts of Canada, to New York and to such pla …

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Over the Mountains

Over the Mountains

More Thoughts on Things that Matter
by Rafe Mair
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"I'm no good at writing," says Rafe Mair, paraphrasing Robert Benchley, "but by the time I realized that, I was too famous to stop." He didn't begin writing until he was fifty, but since that time he has won the coveted Michener Canadian Media Award, the Hutchison Award for Lifetime Contribution to BC Journalism and has been inducted into the Broad …

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Nobody's Mother

Nobody's Mother

Life Without Kids
edited by Lynne Van Luven
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Finalist for the 2007 BC Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award

Statistics say that one in 10 women has no intention of taking the plunge into motherhood. Nobody's Mother is a collection of stories by women who have already made this choice.

 

From introspective to humorous to rabble-rousing, these are personal stories that are well and ho …

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The Passionate Gardener

The Passionate Gardener

Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb
by Des Kennedy
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In this rollicking read, Des Kennedy demonstrates his unerring skill with a satirical pitchfork. The 13 short pieces here roam widely and wildly, examining, among other things, common idiosyncrasies and the collective chaos of garden clubs. The book hilariously ponders the host of psychopathologies that afflict “plants people,” from weather phob …

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Hard Talk

Hard Talk

by Rafe Mair
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BC's most outspoken broadcaster and writer is back with a collection of all-new essays that are sure to provoke, enrage and entertain. Rafe tackles controversial issues such as the Liberal Party sponsorship scandal, the election of a new Pope and the Anglican Church's debate on same-sex marriage. He suggests that pedophiles should be found Not Gui …

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Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed Grafters

Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed Grafters

A Bob Edwards Chrestomathy
by Bob Edwards, edited by James Martin, introduction by Allan Fotheringham
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Bob Edwards, the Great White North's equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in Wetaskiwin, Leduc, High River, Strathcona, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, and most famously Calgary, skewered politics, society, and business leaders with a fearlessness and outrageousness rarely seen then, now, o …

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The Short Version

The Short Version

An ABC Book
by Stan Persky
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In a volume inspired by Czeslaw Milosz, Stan Persky appropriates the format of the alphabet book as a springboard for musings both personal and philosophical. The Short Version — which, at 300-plus pages is the author's longest book — is a literal ABC: Persky covers only topics that begin with those three letters, though he can't resist tweakin …

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Curious by Nature

Curious by Nature

One Woman's Exploration of the Natural World
by Candace Savage
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Curious by Nature showcases Candace Savage's exploration of the varied ways we relate to wildlife, from our retelling of fairytales about the big, bad wolf to our struggles to find a balance between harvesting trees and allowing grizzly bears the space to roam. Creating a livable future for ourselves and for other species calls for both knowledge a …

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Growing Pains

Growing Pains

The Autobiography of Emily Carr
by Emily Carr, introduction by Robin Laurence
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Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of her life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an artist in San Francisco, England and France. She writes about the frustration she felt at the rejection of her art by Canadians, of the years of despair when she stopped paintin …

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The Heart of a Peacock

The Heart of a Peacock

by Emily Carr, introduction by Rosemary Neering
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A collection of 51 short stories by the legendary writer and painter Emily Carr, arranged in themes such as her experiences with Native people, her adventures with various beloved creatures and her love of nature. Together, they underline Carr's place as a writer with the sharp yet tender eye of an artist, with a deep feeling for the tragedies of l …

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Black & White And Read All Over

Black & White And Read All Over

by Arthur Black
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Like a well-delivered punch line, Black & White And Read All Over, the tenth book by award-winning writer Arthur Black, is guaranteed to make you laugh. The beloved radio personality and newspaper columnist tackles a range of subjects from Sasquatch hunters to nose jobs to the legalization of pot. Known for his delight in the bizarre and derision o …

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The House of All Sorts

The House of All Sorts

by Emily Carr, introduction by Susan Musgrave
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Before winning recognition for her painting and writing, Emily Carr built a small apartment building with four suites that she hoped would earn her a living. But things turned out worse than expected, and in her forties, the gifted artist found herself shoveling coal and cleaning up other people's messes.

 

The House of All Sorts is a collection of f …

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The Book of Small

The Book of Small

by Emily Carr, introduction by Sarah Ellis
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The legendary Emily Carr was acclaimed as both an artist and a writer. Her first book, Klee Wyck, won the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction in 1941.

The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl in the frontier town of Victoria. She no …

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Flash Black

Flash Black

by Arthur Black
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The author of Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle Again, both winners of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, returns with a new collection guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and make you scratch your head at the absurdities of life in the early years of the new millennium. In slyly ironic, pointedly witty essays, Black takes aim at the …

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When the Wild Comes Leaping Up

When the Wild Comes Leaping Up

Personal Encounters with Nature
by David Suzuki
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These essays describe childhood memories, everyday walks transformed into life-changing events, being in the grip of a great force, startling encounters with wild animals and even one fantasy. They are funny, sad, reflective, optimistic, nostalgic, exciting, pessimistic and outlandish. Each one presents a singular experience of enlightenment, awe, …

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Off the Map

Off the Map

Western Travels on Roads Less Taken
by Stephen Hume
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In his third collection of essays, veteran journalist Stephen Hume demonstrates yet again that his understanding of British Columbia - and beyond - runs as deep as Hecate Strait and as far-reaching as the Rocky Mountains. In Off the Map, Hume takes his readers on a wondrous journey through western Canada, stopping at little-known places along the w …

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A Century of Grant MacEwan

A Century of Grant MacEwan

Selected Writings
by Grant MacEwan, edited by Lee Shedden
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August 12, 2002 would have marked the 100th birthday of one of Western Canada's most beloved, exemplary, idiosyncratic and admired citizens, the Hon. J.W. Grant MacEwan. A Century of Grant MacEwan: Selected Writings is published to mark the centenary of the author's birth, and showcases the writing achievements of this remarkable man. From his firs …

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Chasing the Story God

Chasing the Story God

by Mike McCardell
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Some say Mike McCardell's "feel-good" stories that cap the six o'clock evening news on BCTV are the best part of the program - the only reason they watch the news. One thing is certain, over the years McCardell has earned the loyalty of hundreds of thousands of fans. In this, his first book, he presents an intriguing and often hilarious behind-the- …

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Desire in Seven Voices

Desire in Seven Voices

by Lorna Crozier
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This gorgeous little book challenges prevailing myths about women and love, women and lust, women and words. "When do you follow your desire?" writers were asked. "When do you censor it? When it is a source of power, and when a source of distress?" The result is a daring, funny and highly literate collection of personal essays that presents female …

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Justice is Blind—and Her Dog Just Peed in My Cornflakes

Justice is Blind—and Her Dog Just Peed in My Cornflakes

by Gordon Kirkland
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From "surviving ground zero in the nuclear family," to "feeling fear at the Fall Fair," to "quelling a taste for champagne on a tap-water budget," Gordon Kirkland writes about survival - survival in the '90s, that is.

Looking back, Kirkland acknowledges his life has always been filled with laughter. He comes from a family who was like "Monty Python …

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