featured book:
Energy-Wise Landscape Design: A New Approach for your Home and Garden
by Sue Reed

Energy-Wise Landscape Design is overflowing with practical ideas for reducing residential energy use. Enhance your property value while lowering your fuel consumption, utility payments, and carbon emissions.

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Book Passage

Take a trip on a BC Ferry this summer and discover a bounty of reading riches to while the time away. En route to Nanaimo, Prince Rupert, Haida Gwaii, or Vancouver, all 15 of the following BC books can be found aboard any ship with a Passages Gift Shop.

Book Passage with BC Books on BC Ferries

Writing & Art

Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow

edited by Zsuzsi Gartner, ISBN 978-1-55365-492-6, $21.95

DarwinsBastardsThese 23 stories take us on a twisted, wild ride into dystopian futures and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged international actuarial forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of survival of the fittest.
www.dmpibooks.com

Delivery: A Novel

by Betty Jane Hegerat, ISBN 978-088982-257-3, $19.95

DeliveryWhen Lynn’s daughter Heather announces an adoption plan for her three-week-old baby, Lynn does what any desperate grandmother would do. With the baby in a laundry basket, she drives to a cabin on Quadra Island. There she wrestles with an old secret while waiting for Heather’s arrival.
www.oolichan.com

Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual

edited by Bruce Grenville & Scott Steedman, ISBN 978-1-55365-500-8, $40.00

Untitled-1From the earliest days, artists have played a critical role in recording and shaping the public perception of BC. Visions of British Columbia introduces the province through the art of its most notable visual and literary artists, whose visions reveal the extraordinary diversity of the region and its many people and places.
www.dmpibooks.com


Creative Non-Fiction

Flights of Imagination: Extraordinary Writing about Birds

edited by Richard Cannings, ISBN 978-1-55365-535-0, $22.95

FlightsofImaginationA stellar collection of superb writing about birds and birdwatching from a foremost birder and natural historian. This timeless evocation of our passion for birds features 20 works from such esteemed writers as Terry Tempest Williams, Ellen Melroy, Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Mabey, Diane Ackerman, and William Fiennes.
www.dmpibooks.com

Island Kids

by Tara Saracuse, ISBN 978-1-89714-243-1, $12.95

IslandKids cvr 3inAmazing kids have always lived on the islands off British Columbia’s coast. Now it’s their turn to tell their stories. With 22 stories told by real-life kids—from ancient times to today—Island Kids is your whirlwind tour of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Carefully researched. Dramatically told.
www.brindleandglass.com

The Way of a Gardener: A Life’s Journey

by Des Kennedy, ISBN 978-1-55365-417-9, $22.95

WayofaGardenerA personal and revealing exploration of a life lived close to the earth, from one of Canada’s best-loved gardeners. “Green-thumb rogue” Des Kennedy describes his life journey from a childhood of strict Irish Catholicism in Britain to a charmed existence amid the gardens of his Gulf Island home in British Columbia.
www.dmpibooks.com


BC in Pictures

Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line: Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West

by Rodger D. Touchie, ISBN 978-1-89497-486-8, $19.95

EdwardCurtisOften thought to have done all of his work in the United States, Edward Curtis also cruised Puget Sound, the British Columbia coast and ventured into the lands of the First Nation tribes of Alberta. With over 150 images from these areas, this is a beautifully illustrated biography of one of North America’s most important photographers.
www.heritagehouse.ca

The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest

by Ian McAllister & Nicholas Read, ISBN 978-1-55469-205-7, $18.95

Salmon
Extensively illustrated with Ian McAllister’s magnificent photographs, Salmon Bears explores the delicate balance that exists between the grizzly, black, and spirit bears that inhabit the last great wilderness along the central coast of British Columbia and their natural environment.
www.orcabook.com

Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver

by James P. Delgado, ISBN 978-0-98093-043-6, $24.95

waterfrontThe sea and a mighty river dominate Greater Vancouver. This book is a magnificently illustrated, authoritative, and lively tour of the dynamic ebb and flow between the water, the surrounding land and, above all, the people who strove and dreamed along the waterfront.
www.s-a-d-publishers.ca


Outdoor BC

Coastal Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of Coastal British Columbia and Vancouver Island

by Neil L. Jennings, ISBN 978-1-89752-202-8, $26.95

Coastal
Coastal Beauty explores the wildflowers and flowering shrubs commonly found in the coastal regions of British Columbia, including Vancouver Island, and also Coastal Washington and Oregon. Coastal Beauty is conveniently arranged by flower colour and by plant family and includes exceptional photographs.
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Hiking Trails 2: South-Central Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands

by Richard Blier, ISBN 978-0-96976-677-3, $26.00

HikingTrailsThe completely revised and updated (new trails and colour maps added) 9th edition of Hiking Trails 2 is your guide to south-central Vancouver Island. This bestselling classic continues to be one of three essential hiking guides to one of the most spectacular islands in the world.
www.orcabook.com

Parks and Nature Places Around Vancouver

by Nature Vancouver, ISBN 978-1-55017-464-9, $24.95

parks_and_nature_placesA guide to 61 locations around the Lower Mainland, every one of which includes simple routes via public transportation. Tips on where to go to see marine life or majestic old growth giants are offered by over 40 naturalists from Nature Vancouver, a society working to study and protect British Columbia’s nature spots.
www.harbourpublishing.com

Plants of Haida Gwaii

by Nancy Turner, ISBN 1-55039-144-5, $38.95

Plants of Haida GwaiiA detailed and insightful record of the uses and importance to the Haida of over 150 species of native plants. It explains the knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands from one generation to the next for thousands of years. Richly illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and illustrations.
www.sononis.com

The Secret Beaches of Greater Victoria: View Royal to Sidney

by Theo Dombrowski, ISBN 978-1-89497-497-4, $26.95

SecretBeachesofGreaterVicDiscover the unexplored parts of Victoria in this comprehensive review of nearly 100 beaches on the Saanich Peninsula and in the Greater Victoria area. Find and enjoy the tiny pocket beaches and obscure coves just slightly off the beaten path with this companion book, Secret Beaches of Southern Vancouver Island: Qualicum to the Malahat.
www.heritagehouse.ca

Waterfalls of British Columbia: A Guide to BC’s 100 Best Falls

by Tony Greenfield, ISBN 978-1-55017-462-5, $26.95

waterfalls-SCA unique guidebook, which reveals the power of nature in one of its most awe-inspiring mediums: the waterfall. British Columbia is rich with waterfalls, from the large and fearsome to the quiet falling stream. Waterfalls of British Columbia provides up-to-date maps and trail descriptions for one hundred of these natural wonders.
www.harbourpublishing.com