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1	Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History more books like this by Stephen Jay Gould add to wishlist Centres on a sensational discovery in the field of palaeontology - the existence in the Burgess Shale of 530-million-year-old-fossils, unique in age, preservation and diversity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.48! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed more books like this by John Vaillant add to wishlist The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. Vaillant profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic environmentalist who toppled the famous tree. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	I Heard the Owl Call My Name more books like this by Margaret Craven add to wishlist One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools. A young priest is sent to an isolated Indian village in British Columbia. His life is doomed, and so are the traditions of the tribe amongst whom he works. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.88! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Field Guide to Western Birds more books like this by Roger Tory Peterson add to wishlist This classic guide includes all species found in North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico. With 165 color paintings showing more than 1,000 birds from 700 species, with summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds and other data on easy-to-read maps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Lessons from a Sheep Dog more books like this by W. Phillip Keller add to wishlist Phillip Keller, author of the bestselling A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, draws spiritual truth from his experience in training and using a sheep dog named Lass on his sheep ranch in the American West. The result is a moving modern parable. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.62! \| first editions
6	A Chill Rain in January more books like this by Laurali R Wright add to wishlist Set in a small Canadian community, this thriller tells of two women both on the run. One is fleeing from a hospital she hates and the other is fleeing from her hatred itself. Together they collide in a fatal incident. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.07! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Everything on a Waffle more books like this by Polly Horvath add to wishlist Silent, imaginative 11-year-old Primrose is the only person who believes that her parents, who have been lost at sea, are still alive and will someday return home. In the meantime, she must live with her Uncle Jack, a free-spirited bachelor who sells real estate. As Primrose waits for her parents to resurface, she seeks comfort at a local ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Smoke and Shadows more books like this by Tanya Huff add to wishlist The acclaimed fantasy author returns with this first novel in a new trilogy, featuring a popular character from her acclaimed Blood series. Tony, a former street kid-turned-producer, is behind a new TV series about a vampire detective. But what is real and what is fantasy? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Birth House more books like this by Ami McKay add to wishlist Filled with details as compelling as they are surprising, this story of a Nova Scotia midwife is an unforgettable tale of the struggles women have faced to have control of their own bodies and to keep the best parts of tradition alive in the world of modern medicine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Concubine's Children more books like this by Denise Chong add to wishlist This is the true story, culled from letters, photographs, and memories, of the author's grandmother, brought to America from China as a young concubine by a traveler. It is also the story of the same man's abandoned wife and children, and of author Chong's discovery of those children 60 years later. One man's exploits resulted in a family living ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming more books like this by Stephen Eaton Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C Keller add to wishlist On the West Coast, few subjects are as controversial as salmon farming. Every week, new studies raise alarming questions about the safety of farmed fish and the risk farms pose to the environment. But federal, provincial and state governments continue to support expansion of fish farms all along the coast. People are justifiably confused. Just ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $15.11! \| first editions
12 view cover	Nothing too good for a cowboy more books like this by Richmond P Hobson, Jr. add to wishlist A true adventure story of a man who built a four-million acre cattle empire in the remote ranges of the British Columbia Interior. see all copies from $8.36! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Grass beyond the mountains: discovering the last great cattle frontier on the North American continent more books like this by Richmond P Hobson, Jr. add to wishlist Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted montain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s. see all copies from $2.88! new only from $8.36! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Frommer's Vancouver & Victoria more books like this by Donald Olson add to wishlist You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
15 view cover	Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West more books like this by Gregory L Tilford, Michael Moore (Foreword by) add to wishlist Full-color photographs face detailed descriptions of 250 plant species in the western United States and Canada, covering field identification, habitat and range, edibility, medicinal uses, and more. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $13.22! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Three against the wilderness more books like this by Eric Collier add to wishlist Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent homesteading in the isolated Chilcotin wilderness made for an international best-seller and one of the most famous books ever written about British Columbia. In the early 1930s, Collier and his family moved to Meldrum Creek, where the couple ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $20.83! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Michelle Remembers more books like this by Michelle Smith add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Rancher Takes a Wife more books like this by Richmond P Hobson, Jr. add to wishlist Told with wit and wisdom, this is Hobson's tale of bringing his city-bred interior-decorator bride to the harsh life of the British Columbia Interior. see all copies from $5.46! new only from $7.93! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Northwest Coast Indian Designs more books like this by Madeleine Orban-Szontagh add to wishlist Over 270 designs from art of Nootka, Kwakiutl, Tlingit, other groups. Stylized plants, abstracts, repeating patterns, totemic images, more. see all copies from $3.49! new only from $4.35! \| SVS
20 view cover	Fowl Prey more books like this by Mary Daheim add to wishlist Leaving the Hillside manor in capable hands, bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle heads north to Vancouver's Hotel Clovia with her irrepressibly voracious cousin Renie for a pre-Thanksgiving getaway. But when an addled and impoverished popcorn vendor is murdered -- along with his foul-mouthed pet parakeet -- a local copper's suspicious gaze ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Strangers Among Us more books like this by Laurali R Wright add to wishlist A teenager kills his family and starts a chain reaction of violence in Vancouver that Karl Alberg and his team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police must stop. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northw more books like this by Muriel Wylie Blanchet add to wishlist The author writes about a boating trip she and her five children took in the late 1920s in the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest. see all copies from $3.20! new only from $59.94!
23 view cover	Eclipse of the Sun more books like this by Michael O'Brien add to wishlist In this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the second in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government. Set in the near future, the story describes the rise of a police state in North America in which every level of society is infected ... see all copies from $5.98! new only from $16.07! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Field Guide to Western Trees: Western United States and Canada more books like this by Roger Tory Peterson (Editor), George A Petrides, Olivia Petrides (Illustrator) add to wishlist This newly designed edition of a popular Peterson Field Guide features detailed descriptions of 387 species, arranged in six major groups by visual similarity. The 47 color plates and five text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 295 color range maps accompany the species descriptions. see all copies from $5.77! new only from $6.14! \| SVS
25 view cover	Monkey Beach more books like this by Eden Robinson add to wishlist This first novel, a prize-winning critical success in Canada, takes place on an Indian reservation 500 miles north of Vancouver, where Lisa Hill is visited by ghosts and animal spirits as she searches for the brother she knows is dead. Eden Robinson, the author, is a Haisla Indian from British Columbia, and MONKEY BEACH is the first work of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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