Ted Harrison: Painting Paradise by Katherine Gibson, Crown Publications This moving biography of the much-celebrated artist is written by a bestselling author and merges the artist's compelling life story with images of his most important works. The book was released in a beautiful collector's limited edition in the fall of 2009 and has garnered much attention. It is the first-ever biography of a painter whose vivid paintings of the Yukon have transcended regional art to become iconic of Canada itself.
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Ted Harrison: Painting Paradise by Katherine Gibson, Crown Publications This moving biography of the much-celebrated artist is written by a bestselling author and merges the artist's compelling life story with images of his most important works. The book was released in a beautiful collector's limited edition in the fall of 2009 and has garnered much attention. It is the first-ever biography of a painter whose vivid paintings of the Yukon have transcended regional art to become iconic of Canada itself.
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor, Forge, New York This novel, dubbed “Herriot for humans,” was on the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks in 2008 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize when it was released in Canada as The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty. “Taylor’s eye for the details of ordinary people in their kitchens and pubs, trying to live normally, is extraordinary.” —The Globe and Mail
Us and Them: A Memoir of Tribes and Tribulations by Sid Tafler, NetBC Publishing This poignant memoir written by a popular Victoria writer and media consultant traces the evolution of Canada's racial ethos over the past 50 years through the experiences of his Montreal family. "While Tafler's book is non-fiction, it has a linear, narrative structure that reads like fine fiction." —Victoria News
In Search of the Miraculous by Eliza Mada Dalian Expanding Universe PublishingThis multi-award-winning book by a well-known Vancouver spiritual teacher, healer and medical intuitive was featured on the Deepak Chopra website and has been recognized as a important tool for transformation. Here's what Chopra had to say, "It has the ring of authenticity and offers a simple and elegant map of the path of enlightenment."
The Horizontal Everest: Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island by Jerry Kobalenko, Penguin Books Canada This creative non-fiction book was named Best Adventure Travel Book for 2002 at the Banff Mountain Book Festival “The Horizontal Everest is refreshingly free of the hubris that marks much of adventure writing, and the reader never feels assaulted by Kobalenko’s daring, only inspired by it.” —The New York Times Book Review
The Gallant Cause: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Mark Zuehlke, Wiley, 2009 (originally published by Whitecap Books) This moving portrait of Canadian soldiers in the Spanish Civil War was a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection. “The Gallant Cause is a poignant lesson, a gracefully written account of war . . ." —Brian Nolan, Esprit de Corps
A Heart at Leisure from Itself: Caroline Macdonald of Japan by Margaret Prang, University of British Columbia Press "In this fine book, so gracefully written, Prang has extended Macdonald’s influence a little further."—Phyllis Airhart, Touchstone magazine
Take it to the Xtreme series by Pam Withers, Whitecap Books This series of eight (and counting) best-selling young adult novels has been a hit with young sports enthusiasts.
The Gallant Cause: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Mark Zuehlke, Wiley, 2009 (originally published by Whitecap Books) This moving portrait of Canadian soldiers in the Spanish Civil War was a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection. “The Gallant Cause is a poignant lesson, a gracefully written account of war . . ." —Brian Nolan, Esprit de Corps
A Heart at Leisure from Itself: Caroline Macdonald of Japan by Margaret Prang, University of British Columbia Press "In this fine book, so gracefully written, Prang has extended Macdonald’s influence a little further."—Phyllis Airhart, Touchstone magazine
Take it to the Xtreme series by Pam Withers, Whitecap Books This series of eight (and counting) best-selling young adult novels has been a hit with young sports enthusiasts.
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