One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875–1912) came of age in the fading years of a gilded era, determined to have more ...

The spirited stories in Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin capture the severity and grace of the distinct pioneer culture that resides in British Colum...

The Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin anthology celebrates this beautiful and remote region of British Columbia. From the days of the gold rush throug...

This is a delightful collection of tales by authors from British Columbia's rugged Cariboo-Chilcotin region, and a few "outsiders." Joining well-kn...

Many books have been written about Heinrich Himmler and the SS though, strangely, no photographic study has ever been assembled. Contained within t...

Major Helmut Wick failed to return from a mission over the English Channel on 28 November 1940 and is listed as missing to this day. This fate ende...

Unique among foreigners in nineteenthcentury Japan, Australianborn professional storyteller (rakugoka) Henry Black (1858-1923) enthralled audiences...

In January 1942, Xan Fielding landed on German-occupied Crete with orders to disrupt the resupply of Rommel's Afrika Korps and establish an intelli...

This 2 part book, originally published in 1890, was written to help students of morals comprehend the significance of morals. The questions with wh...

This two volume book, originally published in 1890, was written to help students of morals comprehend the significance of morals. The questions wit...

The aim of the History of Julius Caesar is to prove that, when Providence raises up such men as Cæsar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon, it is to trace o...

The aim of the History of Julius Caesar is to prove that, when Providence raises up such men as Cæsar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon, it is to trace o...

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...

The people of the Nechako region are not unfamiliar with hardship, environmental devastation and protecting what they hold dear. June Wood chronicl...

Those who seek to understand the character and achievement of Abraham Lincoln must begin with a study of the man's honesty. At the base of his natu...

Set in the Canadian Rockies, Hooker & Brown is an evocative adventure story about one man's quest to put to rest a historical mystery. While re...

In his first true crime memoir, undercover operator Norm Boucher recounts eight months spent infiltrating Vancouver’s heroin scene, a world of para...

The purpose of this book is to give, not only a portrait and a description of the birds, but a summing up of the beneficial and injurious habits of...

In the winter of 1948, only a few months before the establishment of the State of Israel, the tension mounted between the Haganah and the Irgun, tw...

Scriptures and holy books are not understood in their right perspective unless one becomes an initiate or twice born. However great a scholar one m...

This book is more than just a love story, though a love story it certainly is. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock b...

Racism crushes bodies and souls. In Human Rights and Human Wrongs Colin Tatz - a world authority on racial conflict and abuse, a key figure in Abor...

In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cari...

Pilot, scholar, daredevil, general . . . James "Jimmy" Doolittle was one of America\s greatest heroes. In a life filled with adventure and achievem...

In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. R...

Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. Aged six, she accompanied her father on a ceremonial journ...

This book utilises the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-19...

At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canad...

Don't let the quaint and homespun title fool you. This book is a beautifully written and engaging homage to Evelyn Losack, a woman farmer and water...

In this expanded revision, one of Inayat Khan’s disciples sketches from her experience several aspects of being in his presence. These Images of In...

In Impact, 21 women writers consider the ramifications of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the p...

The day her fiancé died suddenly of a heart attack, Katie Swenson retreated to "Bohemia," the third-floor loft that the couple had renovated in the...

An unflinching memoir that honours the girls and women that influenced Kirkpatrick as they are forced to deal with life crisises that are often kep...

Living is a process of continuous transformation: we have been embryos, children, adolescents, thin, fat, sick, better again. And as humans, we are...

C J Wills was an English physician who travelled widely in Iran from 1866-81 while working for the Indo-European Telegraph Department. With a disce...

Simply and without bitterness, Shuguba tells his story: he speaks of the Chinese invasion and Tibetan military resistance against overwhelming odds...

"In the Skies of Europe" is an eyewitness account of an important chapter in the history of German military aviation. When WWII started, Scholz was...

Folk hero Elfego Baca (1865-1945) is best remembered for his single-handed standoff against an estimated 80 Texas cowboys who fired a reported 4,00...

The Book is a story of survival and hope in the Central Canadian Arctic. Father Raymond's first hand accounts of survival and life with the Eskimo....