Funny, insightful and captivatingly honest, this is the story of one young woman's astonished discovery of the complicated experiences of motherhood.
 

This is a candid, moving and beautifully written account of her survival and recovery. The Bear’s Embrace is a story of love and rage, of bravery and terror, of what it means to look different in a culture that values perfection. Above all, it is a celebration of life in all its many complexities.
 

Book Guy is unique. It's a librarian's story of getting books into the hands of rural school children and people in isolated places in the Peace River country and up the Alaska Highway.
 

This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.
 

Author - Frank Oberle

Franz (Frank) Oberle was nine years old when his family was relocated from Germany to Poland. There, he was taken from his parents to an isolated school where adolescents were being indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth.
 

Eighty-six-year-old Merve, the Moses of North American eco-forestry, has spent a lifetime proving that logging a forest doesn't mean cutting down all the trees.
 

As told in this lively and engaging autobiography, Joe Garner’s life spanned the modern history of BC.
 

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.
 

An unsentimental look at a war-time union, Old Stones is an inquiry into a woman’s two very different selves, as well as a candid examination of a cultural divide.
This is a work of creative non-fiction.
 

The Order of British Columbia was established in 1989 to recognize and honour ordinary citizens who have made a difference in the lives of others. This book is an inspirational reminder that we all have the ability to find our dream, stay true to it, and live it.
 

Art lovers and outdoor enthusiasts alike will be captivated by this stunning, full-colour biography that celebrates and showcases the life and work of an extraordinary man—artist Stewart Marshall.
 

It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations and observations of growing up and discovering where he belongs.
 

Grainger had a gently humorous talent for describing his friends, his much-loved horses, and the simple joys of life in the open air.
 

After the restrictions of an Edwardian girlhood, Beryl Smeeton cherished the freedom to travel alone, and became a globetrotter on an epic scale.
 

Frances Barkley was the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of Canada. She was just 17 when, in 1786, she left England to embark on an adventurous, round-the-world voyage that was to last eight years.