The Read Local BC’s Bestseller list highlights the titles of independent, B.C.-owned publishers sold in independent B.C. bookstores. Discover a few of their picks for the month of December:
Never Boring: The Up and Down History of the Vancouver Canucks
by Ed Willes
Veteran hockey writer Ed Willes takes an irreverent look back at the sometimes thrilling, often infuriating and always fascinating history of the Vancouver Canucks.
Slumach’s Gold: In Search of a Legend—and a Curse
by Brian Antonson, Mary Trainer and Rick Antonson
Newly expanded and revised, Slumach’s Gold: In Search of a Legend—and a Curse chronicles Canada’s most enduring lost-mine mystery. For more than 130 years, people have been captivated by the story of a secret cache of gold with nuggets “the size of walnuts,” supposedly buried near Pitt Lake in southwestern B.C. Knowledge of its exact whereabouts died with Slumach, a Katzie Nation man executed for murder in 1891. Slumach, according to rumours that spread like wildfire in the years following his death, placed a curse on the hidden motherlode to protect it from interlopers and trespassers.
The Curve of Time: New, Expanded Edition
by M. Wylie Blanchet
A Pacific Northwest classic, in an expanded new edition, including maps and previously unpublished photographs.
The Curve of Time gathers the summers of the late 1920s and 1930s into a memoir that has inspired generations to seek out their own adventures on the wild West Coast. First published in 1961, less than a year before the author died, Blanchet’s captivating work has become a classic of travel writing and one of the bestselling books in B.C. of all time.
Gumboots in the Straits: Nautical Adventures from Sointula to the Salish Sea
Edited by Lou Allison and compiled by Jane Wilde
Returning to the fascinating 1970s migration of young people to B.C.’s West Coast, Gumboots in the Straits gathers more stories of the romance of the sea and the demographic and personal change of that time. As many young men made their way to Vancouver Island and the many other islands scattered throughout the Salish Sea and beyond in search of opportunity and new adventures, they discovered paths beyond the reach of roads and new horizons, both physical and metaphorical, where all seemed possible.
The Animal People Choose a Leader
by Richard Wagamese
Accompanied by award-winning illustrator Bridget George’s luminous artwork, this tradition-steeped story from renowned author Richard Wagamese meditates on the unifying powers of wisdom, kindness and respect with all the visionary clarity of our most essential legends.
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