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An uncensored look at the life of a first responder-and what really happens behind closed ambulance doors.

In the summer of 2017, wildfires dominated the headlines in British Columbia. As a low pressure weather system continued start new fires, strong winds fanned the existing ones. Czajkowski's is an exciting eyewitness chronicle of a summer in wildfire country..

Renaissance Normcore belts like a classically trained riot grrrl, composing catchy tunes in the key of fear and desire. Building on the dreamy emotional landscapes she plumbed in If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You, Barclay navigates even sharper peaks and valleys in her second collection to examine the links between intimacy and power. Tracking the paradoxical impulses of anguish and joy that underpin daily life in our hostile neoliberal climate, these poems are both abject and sweet as they repurpose loss into life and test the bounds of how much a poem can hold.

Horses and wilderness survival come together in this exciting middle grade debut.

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A photographic history of early wilderness exploration in the Comox Valley and surroundings, from Qualicum to Campbell River.

Two young grizzly bears pay a surprise visit to Alert Bay, BC, in a picture book based on true events.

Middle school readers can journey into the prehistoric world of tyrannosaurs and discover what it was like to excavate the world's largest T. rex skeleton.

A lively, hair-raising memoir about working in the British Columbia logging industry back in the days when anything went.

A moving personal and journalistic account of wildfire season in British Columbia.

The Sasquatch, spirit of the great cedar forest, eludes human hunters, falls in love, fathers a lovely daughter and saves his little family from a forest fire by dousing the flames with water stored in baskets carefully woven by his mate.

Born on the twin backs of torpidity and obsession, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation is a voyage into the mind of one of the Canadian literary undergroundrsquos most unruly writers.

Pluviophile veers through various poetic visions and traditions in search of the sacred within and beyond language.

Part memoir, part essay, part poetic investigation, the text guides readers through kaleidoscopic meditations on disability, access, vision, redaction, pain, illness, and death. Set primarily in the central Okanagan, it is a codex of references, artifacts and associations that, taken as whole, revisions access as process and art as experience.

The author crisscrosses the Canadian-American border to understand dilemmas that occur across a variety of scales, from global spheres to the most intimate domestic spaces. She digs through grief, loss, aging, technological frustration, environmental degradation, nationalism, and confusion to grasp the state of the world.

From actual cataclysms such as meteor collisions and volcanic eruptions to everyday failures and accidents, these inventive poems collide with the perpetual unease created by life's unpredictability while contemplating mortality, fragility, gratitude, and hopefulness.

A new trade paper edition of television chef and author Barber's classic book featuring more than 100 simple yet gourmet recipes to enjoy while out on the water.

Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when Rex Terpening started out in arctic aviation. As an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northwest Territories, Terpening took the right-hand seat in the cockpit and flew "on operations" daily, warming the oil and the engine on winter mornings, refuelling, and inevitably mending both engine and aircraft when things went wrong. Terpening's beat stretched from Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean, and his remarkable bush-flying stories tell of planes wandering lost over unmapped muskeg, perilous rescue missions to retrieve stranded missionaries, dogged searches for downed flyers lost on the Barrens and emergency landings in blizzards on nameless pothole lakes. But there is humour, too, in tales of a drunken wolverine, a planeload of rambunctious sled dogs and a trip in a tiny Fairchild with a Catholic priest and the wife of an Anglican minister. And there are vivid evocations of the sheer joy of flying over the Arctic's raw beauty.Rex Terpening not only kept a meticulous journal from which these stories are derived, he carried his camera everywhere, snapping pictures of downed machines, their step-by-step resurrections, the men who flew them and those who fixed them. Most of those men and machines are gone now, but they live on in Bent Props and Blow Pots.