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Salmon The First Nations of British A Scientific Memoir Columbia, Third Edition An Anthropological Overview Jude Isabella Robert J. Muckle Passage Salmon investigates a narrative that is important to the identity of the Pacific This authoritative overview of BC’s First Northwest Coast—the salmon as an iconic Nations peoples and cultures covers the species. It also tells the story of scientists history, diversity, and complexity of First with bc on bc ferries gathering data and how their work echoes Nations to provide a context for contemporary Rocky Mountain that of coastal indigenous people who have concerns and initiatives. This latest edition of UBC Press Available in BC Ferries’ Passages Gift Shops Books harvested salmon since the end of the last the classic work has been fully revised, with $20.00 PA $27.95 PA ice age. new chapters added and arguments reframed in light of current developments.

British Columbia Knitting Stories A Natural History of its Origins, Ecology, and Personal Essays and Seven Coast Diversity with a New Look at Climate Change Salish-inspired Knitting Patterns

Richard Cannings and Sydney Cannings Sylvia Olsen

An award-winning guide to the natural history Master storyteller, historian, expert knitter, of ’s most ecologically diverse province and Cowichan sweater expert Sylvia Olsen that highlights the effects of climate change Sono Nis Press spent fifteen years buying and selling Greystone Books and explores the future of BC’s biodiversity. $28.95 PA Cowichan sweaters in a shop behind her home $34.95 PA on the Tsartlip Reserve. Her essay collection is both personal and political, historical and practical. Includes seven stunning Coast Salish-inspired knitting patterns.

The Trees of Calan Gray Orca Chief

Danial Neil Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, illustrations by Roy Henry Vickers Calan Gray talks to trees. They speak back to him. Not in words, exactly; he hears the is the third in a series of Harbour Publishing Orca Chief language of trees. It is 1964, and the world $19.95 HC bestselling Northwest Coast legends featuring is a harsh place for those who are different. brilliant illustrations by Roy Henry Vickers. Calan struggles to understand a worldview in In this captivating tale, the great Orca Chief which an intimate relationship with the land is compassionately teaches people on the coast something to value, not denigrate. how to treat the ocean’s resources in Oolichan Books a sustainable way. $19.95 PA

Anvil Press - Caitlin Press - Douglas & McIntyre - Greystone Books Harbour Publishing - McKellar & Martin Publishing Group - Oolichan Books This brochure was produced by The Association of Book Publishers of . Orca Book Publishers - Rocky Mountain Books - Self-Counsel Press www.books.bc.ca (2015) Cover Photo: Queen of Coquitlam, BC Ferries Sono Nis Press - Talonbooks - Tradewind Books - UBC Press We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Books Fund (CBF) for this project. green living stories children

The Flour Peddler That Went by Fast Dolphin SOS A Global Journey into Local Food from My First Hundred Years Roy Miki and Slavia Miki, illustrations by Julie Flett Canada to South Sudan Frank White Chris Hergesheimer and Josh Hergesheimer Based on true events, Dolphin SOS recounts Fascinating and frequently hilarious, this the story of three dolphins trapped in an ice- Part grain-chain analysis, part bare-all memoir written by centenarian Frank White covered cove on the coast of Newfoundland. exposé, The Flour Peddler explores the sifts through sixty years of Frank White’s After the government fails to provide trends and issues of local food systems and many adventures as a pioneer truck driver, Tradewind Books assistance, some young boys take matters the challenges and power of alternative food boat builder, excavating contractor, garage $17.95 HC into their owns hands in order to save the Caitlin Press movements. It is also a gripping adventure, Harbour Publishing mechanic, camp owner and husband to the distressed dolphins. $24.95 PA from broken-down market vans, fraudulent $32.95 HC sophisticated and well-connected New Yorker bus tickets and hungry bears to a Russian writer Edith Iglauer. helicopter, an attempted coup and a heart- wrenching homecoming.

Greening Your Home I, Bartleby Jessie’s Island Successful Eco-Renovation Strategies Meredith Quartermain Sheryl McFarlane, illustrations by Sheena Lott Thomas Teuwen and Laura Lynn Parker In these quirky, imaginative stories about A lyrical celebration of island life. This We all want a more environmentally smart writing and writers, Bartleby, scrivener (a.k.a. reissue of Jessie’s Island, which was originally home, but many of us worry it will cost too Quartermain), goes her stubborn way haunted published over twenty years ago, will much, be too difficult to fix or maintain, by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Orca Book Publishers introduce a whole new generation of children and not worth the bother. Not so. This Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and other forebears. $10.95 PA to the joy of unstructured play and the book identifies the practical path to a more Who is writing whom, these stories ask in pleasures to be found in the natural world. sustainable household. their musing reflections—the writer or the Self-Counsel Press Talonbooks written? The thinker or the calligrapher? $12.95 PA $14.95 PA

The Urban Homesteading Cookbook Confidential Taan’s Moons Forage, Farm, Ferment and Feast for A Haida Moon Story John Belshaw, Editor a Better World Alison Gear, illustrations by Kiki van der Heiden Michelle Catherine Nelson, photos by Alison Page Vancouver Confidential is a collaboration with the Children of Haida Gwaii of writers who plumb the shadows of civic In this beautifully illustrated cookbook memory looking for stories that don’t fit into This is a story woven together by the featuring 70 recipes, Nelson explores the mainstream narratives. By focusing on stories McKellar & Martin community on Haida Gwaii. Alison Gear world of foraging wild urban edibles, eating of common people rather than headliners, Publishing Group based this engaging story on one version of Douglas & McIntyre invasive species, keeping micro-livestock, Vancouver Confidential shines a light on the $19.99 HC the Haida Moon cycle. Taan (“bear” in the $26.95 PA growing vegetables in pots, and preserving Anvil Press lives of Vancouverites that have for so long Haida language) experiences and shares the produce. Nelson believes that by taking more $20.00 PA been ignored. wonder of the unfolding seasons. Kiki van der control of our own food we will become better Heiden worked with 70 Kindergarten children empowered to embrace sustainable lifestyles. on Haida Gwaii to create the stunning felted artwork. Includes Skidegate and Old Massett

Environmental savings by using 611 lbs of Arbor Plus Gloss 80lb, 30% post-consumer waste, FSC certified: 2 trees saved, 4 lbs of water-borne waste not created, 2476 litres of wastewater Haida , and a Foreword by award- flow saved, 72 lbs of solid waste not generated, 142 lbs net greenhouse gases prevented, 1,090, 635 BTUs of energy not consumed. winning author Richard Van Camp.