John E. Marriott

Everyday Mediterranean

Vanessa Perrone

Wisdom of the Elders

International Journal of Indigenous Health

Beyond Inclusion

SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue

I Will See You Again

Allison Crawford/ Lisa Boivin

What Comes from Spirit

Richard Wagamese

Spirit Magazine

St. Margaret’s School

Player-Coach

Val Markos/ Tammy Martin

Look, Look, Look, Look, Look Again

Kevin Thomas Townley, Jr.

Henry & Self

Kathryn Bridge

Arne Quinze

Arne Quinze et al./ with photography by Dave Bruel

The Magic Boat

Kit Pearson/ Katherine Farris/ Gabrielle Grimard

UBC: The Next Century

Tyee Bridge

A Bartender’s Guide to the World

Lauren Mote/ James O. Fraioli

The Bomb and America’s Missile Age

Christopher Gainor

Introduction to Clinical Psychology

John Hunsley/ Catherine M. Lee

Salmon

Rowena Rae

Exploiting Hope

Jeremy Snyder

Let’s Talk about Suicide

BC Ministry of Advanced Education/ University of British Columbia/ BC Campus

Asking for My First Legacy Gift

Tiny Frog Strategies

Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please

Joseph Kimble

Keeping Aboriginal Kids Safe

Legal Services Society

Atelier

Marc Lepine

Service on the Skeena

Geoff Mynett

Wild Horses

Linda L. Richards

Honouring

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

The Digital Matrix

Venkat Venkatraman

21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act

Bob Joseph

Follow-up on the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Office of the Auditor General of BC

Vignettes of Japan

Antonia Huber

The Credit Game

Richard Moxley

Raymond the Buffalo

Lou Beauchesne/ Kate Chappell

10 Days that Shaped Modern Canada

Aaron W. Hughes

Powwow

Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane

Bodies of Enchantment

Nicola Levell

Leaving Abuse

Legal Services Society

The York Factory Express

Nancy Marguerite Anderson

Lobsters and Fruit Flies and Me, Oh My!

Ed Kravitz

Code of Ethics

Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia

First Nations Planning Guide for Freshwater Fisheries Habitat Restoration Projects

First Nations Fisheries Council of BC

Moving from Within

Dianne L. Woodruff

Income Assistance on Reserve in British Columbia

Legal Services Society

Secret Life of the City

Hanna Bjørgaas

An Architect’s Address Book

Robert Lemon

The Krause Berry Farms Cookbook

Sandee Krause

A Spartan at Sea

James McCann

The Smallest Objective

Sharon Kirsch

Matters of Life and Death: Public Health Issues in Canada

André Picard

Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder

Julia Zarankin

Concrete Playground

Giulia Riva/ Tristan Manco/ Dries Van Melkebeke

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey

Author: Margriet Ruurs, Artist: Nizar Ali Badr

Glasgow Museums: The Ship Models

Culture and Sport Glasgow

Kah-Lan and the Stink-Ink

Karen Autio/ Emma Pedersen

The Science and Spirit of Seaweed

Amanda Swinimer

Little You

Richard Van Camp/ Julie Flett

Partners for Climate Protection: National Measures Report

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

My Paddle’s Keen and Bright

Rika Ruebsaat

The Unceasing Storm

Katherine Luo

The Curious Passage of Richard Blanshard

Barry Gough

Fault Lines

Johanna Wagstaffe

Divine Threads

April Liu

Open Every Window

Jane Munro

Hawksworth, the Cookbook

Chef David Hawksworth

Nature Out of Balance

Merrie-Ellen Wilcox

Navigating the Messy Middle

Ann Douglas

Bill Burns

Walls

Orac Decor

Wag

Zazie Todd

Folklife and Superstition

Sandra Rollings-Magnusson

Applied Marketing

Rochelle Grayson/ Daniel Padgett/ Andrew Loos

George Paginton: Painting a Nation

Sharona Adamowicz-Clements and Darrin J. Martens

The Well Teacher

Wade Repta/ Andrée Repta

Vanishing Fish

Daniel Pauly

Saving Seeds

Dan Jason

All the World’s a Mall

Rinny Grimaud

Peak Season

Deirdre Buryk

Maenam

Angus An

Understanding Financial Accounting

Christopher D. Burnley

Journey After Midnight: India, Canada and the Road Beyond

Ujjal Dosanjh

Mushrooms of British Columbia

Andy MacKinnon/ Kem Luther

Philosophers’ Walks

Barry Baugh

The State of Canada’s Forests: Annual Report

Natural Resources Canada

Echo

Elisa De Wyngaert/ Lou Stoppard/ Ellen Sampson/ Charlie Porter

The Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain’s Story

Colin Henthorne

A Year in the Woods

Torbjørn Ekelund

No Place for the State

Christopher Dummitt/ Christabelle Sethna

The Good Lands

Victoria Dickenson et al.

The National Parks of the United States

Andrew Thomas

Spastic Diplegia

Lily Collison

Plain Language Techniques for Clear, Targeted Writing

Workshop for Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC)

Growing Up Trans

Dr. Lindsay Herriot / Kate Fry

Warriors and Heroes of a Different Kind

Priscilla Stanbury

Faster than Truth

K.L. Denman

Nanihtsulyaz ‘int’ en (Do things gently)

BC Campus

Upstream, Downstream

Rowena Rae

Pulling Together: A Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions

BCcampus

Heart Matters

Children’s Heart Network of BC Society

Stantec: Airports

Trevor Boddy

Finding Our Own Way: The Story of MNP’s First Sixty Years

Lana Okerlund

Blue + White

From the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Collection

Understanding the Early Years

Martin Family Initiative

Mushrooming

Diane Borsato/ Kelsey Oseid

The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi

Keith Seifert

The Preservatory

Lee Murphy

Pandemic Spotlight

Ian Hanomansing

Sharks, Skates, Rays and Chimeras

Gordon McFarlane/

Jackie King

Wayi Wah!: Indigenous Pedagogies

Jo Chrona

Plasticus Maritimus: An Invasive Species

Ana Pêgo/ Bernardo P. Carvalho/ Isabel Minhós Martins

A Journey Back to Nature

Catherine Marie Gilbert

New Indian Basics

Preena Chauhan/ Arvinda Chauhan

Appealing to the Crowd

Jeremy Snyder

Alberta’s Cornerstone

Shari Peyerl

The Mind-Body Cure

Bal Pawa

What Young Children Need You to Know

Bridgett Miller

Conservation Canines

Isabelle Groc

Theatrum Mundi

Anthony Alan Shelton

Habitat Matters

North American Waterfowl Management Plan

Mirror Horse

Tamara Williamson

A Girl Called Echo, Omnibus

Katharena Vermette/ Scott B. Henderson/ Donovan Yaciuk

Mudflat Dreaming

Jean Walton

Yawd

Adrian Forte

Pure Grit

Lily Collison/ Kara Buckley

Teacher Guide for Sugar Falls, A Residential School Story

Christine M’Lot

The Larder of the Wise

M. Anne Wyness

Hakai Magazine

Voices from the Skeena

Roy Henry Vickers/ Robert Budd

Zazie Todd

Wendy Wickwire

David Waltner-Toews

Christy Goerzen

Rosie Daykin

Calling Stones (Conversations)

Faye HeavyShield

Adriana Barton

Dr. Michele Kambolis

Fuyubi Nakamura

David A. Neel

Conserving the Legacy

G. Wayne Pepper

Kazuo Nakamura

John Hatch

Me Tomorrow

Drew Hayden Taylor

Los Angeles Interiors

Corynne Pless/ Tim Hirschmann/ Ye Rin Mok

Hakai Magazine

See You in the Sky

Jeri Ross

You Got That Right! The Story of Wendy McDonald and BC Bearing Engineers

Lana Okerlund

BC Medical Journal

Doctors of BC

My New Table

Trish Magwood

On Boards

Lisa Dawn Bolton

On the Rocks with Jack Knox

Jack Knox

Howie Tsui

Alice Ming Wai Jim/ Diana Freundl/ Howie Tsui

Fisheries Indigenous Knowledge

First Nations Fisheries Council of British Columbia

On the Cusp of Contact

Jean Barman

The HBC Brigades

Nancy Marguerite Anderson

Capacity to Connect

Government of BC/ Vancouver Island University/ BCCampus

After Us the Deluge

Kadir van Lohuizen

Great Bear Rainforest

Ian McAllister/ Alex Van Tol

Kwanlin Dün

Kwanlin Dün First Nation

Take the Torch

Ian Waddell

The Heart Protection Kitchen

Tracy Severson/ Sergio Fazio

Preventing Slips, Trips and Falls in the Workplace

WorkSafe BC

Onscreen Proofreading: Professional Standards, Tips, and Tools

Workshop for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women

Megan Ramos

No Right Thing

Laura Langston

A Matter of Confidence

Richard Zussman/ Rob Shaw

The Valiant Nellie McClung

Barbara Smith/ Nellie McClung

The Three Spartans

James McCann

Canada and Colonialism

Jim Reynolds

Cougar Companions

Judith Williams

Protecting Water Our Way

First Nations Fisheries Council of British Columbia

Dominique Prinet

Derek Hayes

Rosie Daykin

Tracy Kasaboski/ Kristen den Hartog

New Capital

Nick Hannes

The Brideship Wife

Leslie Howard

Luschiim’s Plants

Dr. Luschiim Arvid Charlie/ Nancy J. Turner

Leading Meaningful Change

Beverley Patwell

Unravelling Canada

Sylvia Olsen

Possessing Meares Island

Barry Gough

Return to Solitude

Grant Lawrence

My Paddle’s Keen and Bright

Rika Ruebsaat

105 Hikes in Southwestern British Columbia

Stephen Hui

The Early Childhood Educator

Early Childhood Educators of BC

Chemical World

Rowena Rae

Last Flight to Stuttgart

Lisa Jean Russ

Upholding Indigenous Economic Narratives

Shalene Wuttunee Jobin

Tales from the Homestead

Sandra Rollings-Magnusson

Palm Tree Destinations

Skye Sherman

A Guide to Aboriginal Harvesting Rights

Legal Services Society

Chasing Rivers

Tamar Glouberman

Vile Spirits

John MacLachlan Gray

Picking Up the Pieces

Carey Newman/ Kirstie Hudson

The BC Wine Lover’s Cookbook

Jennifer Schell

Belgian Architects Today

Agata Toromanoff

This Place

Created by Christine M’Lot

Homo Digitalis

Thierry Geerts

Braided Learning

Susan D. Dion

Liminal

Jordan Mounteer

Calling Bullsh*t on Busy

Andrew Mellen

Talk 2 More People

Tony Esteves

Built to Last: Smith Bros. & Wilson at 125 Years

Lana Okerlund

Impressions

University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry

Hakai magazine

Heart of the Coast

Tyee Bridge

British Columbia Early Learning Framework

BC Ministry of Education

Benchers’ Bulletin

The Law Society of British Columbia

Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community

Robin Stevenson

SkyNews

Aboriginal Peoples and the Law

Jim Reynolds

Proud To Be Me

Polly Daktilly

Strengthening Understandings: Elder Knowledge and Early Childhood Research and Practice Project

BC Regional Innovation Chair for Aboriginal Early Childhood Development

The Trylowsky Collection

The Famous Five

Barbara Smith

Well Aged

Ralph Milton

Boone & Kurtz Contemporary Business

Michael H. Khan et al.

Have Bassoon, Will Travel

George Zukerman

Hand Drawn Vancouver

Emma Fitzgerald

The Basics of Writing Effective Briefing Notes

Hollywood in the Klondike

Michael Gates

In Search of April Raintree

Beatrice Mosionier

Baking Day with Anna Olson

Anna Olson

Métis Rising

Yvonne Boyer/ Larry Chartrand

Sheet Pan Everything

Ricardo

Victory Gardens for Bees

Lori Weidenhammer

British Columbia in Flames

Claudia Cornwall

Why We Need Vaccines

Rowena Rae

Getting the Message Across: Tips for Clear Writing

Workshop for Halton Region Health Department

Whose Chinatown?

In Good Company

Corbin Tomaszeski

Manabu Ikeda: Flowers from the Wreckage

Audain Art Museum

East Bay Cooks

Carolyn Jung

The Fire Still Burns

Sam George

Liberal Arts and 55+ Brochure

Simon Fraser University

Outside

Sean McCammon

The World’s Best Swimming Pools

Stefanie Waldek

Hamaka

Speaking Our Truth

Monique Gray Smith

British Columbia in the Balance, 1846–1871

Jean Barman

Starting a Conversation about Mental Health

BC Ministry of Advanced Education/ University of British Columbia / BC Campus

Making Seaker

Karen Autio

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