Ages 10 years & Over. Two-and-a half millennia after it was created, Homer's Odyssey remains one of humanity's most memorable adventure stories. In this re-creation of Homer's classic as a young adult novel, we see the aftermath of the Trojan War through the eyes of Alexi, a fifteen-year-old... More Info

Jack Hodgins begins The Invention of the World with a ferry worker waving you aboard a ship that will take you not only to Vancouver Island but into a world of magic. The far west coast of Canada has always been regarded as a "land's end" where the eccentrics of the world come to plot out the last... More Info

Joining the many captivating adult books set in India comes Follow the Elephant, an exciting Indian adventure quest for children ten years and up. Thirteen year old Ben Leeson who is grieving the recent death of his father, is burying himself in computer games. Reluctantly he agrees to travel... More Info

Alan Twigg turns his attention to First Nations writers, unearthing over 300 books by over 150 mostly unheralded aboriginal authors. Taking the reader from residential schools to art galleries, this lively and unprecedented panorama of British Columbia includes many authors, nearly half being... More Info

Literary Nonfiction. Biography. In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders. Incredible escapes from the Gestapo followed while some 20,000 radio messages were sent by his group to London, among them those about the pending invasion of the... More Info

Poetry. Native American Studies. Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and nonfiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. He begins with an immersion in the unforgettable world where "the ancient ones stand at... More Info

George and ingeborg Woodcock (above) met the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, in 1961, and founded a humanitarian aid society that is still going strong, after more than 300 projects in the Himalayas and southern India. Alan Twigg Reveals the hitherto unknown private lives of this extraordinary... More Info

Running through this collection is a disturbing sense that even the clearest perceptions -- shaped by habits of speech and thought -- can be treacherous, and standing on the highest rock is a perilous act of faith. Intense, unsettling and strangely enough, reassuring, "Charlatan" holds images and... More Info

Bill New's wonderfully zany poems, illustrated in full colour by Vivian Bevis, portray children putting on a dream helmet and travelling to worlds where anything is possible.  More Info

When twelve-year-old Jolene's seemingly senile grandfather shows her his secret of time travel, they go back in time to 1903, just days before a disastrous landslide nearly destroys the small coal-mining town of Frank in the western province of Alberta.  More Info