Julian Gough’s delightful Rabbit and Bear: Attack of the Snack involves misunderstandings, apologies, and friendship. Best friends Bear and Rabbit are enjoying a summer swim when a mysterious creature crashes into their lake. With the... Read More

Martin Schleske’s powerful The Sound of Life’s Unspeakable Beauty links the pursuit of beautiful music with that of finding God. Describing the process of building a violin—picking the perfect piece of wood; shaping the wood;... Read More

Phyllis Barber’s "The Desert Between Us" is a historical love story about the American West and the need for human connections. Set in the wilds of rural Nevada after the Civil War, the novel focuses on Geoffrey, a road builder tasked... Read More

Molly McCully Brown’s collection of essays, Places I’ve Taken My Body, describes what it’s like to live in a body that is often classified as disabled. Brown relates what it was like growing up with cerebral palsy and shares the... Read More

A gripping and timely work of investigative journalism, Brian Deer’s "The Doctor Who Fooled the World" unveils the elaborate fraud perpetrated by Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who falsely linked the MMR vaccine to autism and... Read More

When Jeremy meets Alexandra, he believes her light may be enough to eclipse the shadows of his past. Once an operative in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, Jeremy was given a new identity as a social worker, counseling clients and... Read More

An enthralling fantasy drenched in magic, Alicia Jasinska’s "The Dark Tide" pushes and pulls its heroines to their limits. The island city of Caldella is imperiled as the sea claws at its banks. Every year, the tide demands a... Read More

In "Spirits of the Coast", the companion book to the Royal British Columbia Museum’s 2020 feature exhibition Orcas: Our Shared Future, orca experts, artists, storytellers, and Indigenous wisdom keepers issue an invitation to... Read More