by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
JAJ: A Haida Manga Michael Nicoll YahgulanaasPublisher: Douglas & McIntyre Book Description With gorgeous imagery, visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Out of the Dark Julie LawsonPublisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited Book Description A follow-up of the bestselling, Geoffrey Bilson Award—and Victoria Book Prize—nominated A Blinding Light, focusing on the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion and the onset of the Great...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future Wayne McCroryPublisher: Harbour Publishing Book Description The Chilcotin’s wild horses are romantic and beautiful, but they are also controversial: they are seen by government policy as intruders competing...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Landbridge: Life in fragments Y-Dang TroeungPublisher: Alchemy by Knopf Canada Book Description In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to relocate to Canada. As...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Crushed Wild Mint Jess HoustyPublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of...
