'The Giscome Chronicle' is a locally produced book by Kent Sedgewick exloring the rich history of the Giscome area.  It was featured in the Prince George Citizen and has been flying off the shelves ever since.  It sells for $20, but we are out of stock until mid-January sometime as the original print run of 250 copies has all sold out and we are waiting for the second print.

This book chronicles the history of the community of Giscome, one of 40 small sawmill towns that flourished for a time along the "East Line," the railway line east of Prince George. Historical geographer Kent Sedgwick presents a timeline of the major events affecting the community, from 1912 to 1976 when the sawmill and town was closed. The book includes b&w photos, and a colour photo section with comparison views of some of the buildings and landscape before and after the townsite closure.

'Eye in the Sky' is a brand new DVD featuring thousands of aerial photos of Prince George, including a list of the top 100 PG Landmarks.  We have plenty of copies on hand for $9.95.

The youngest daughter of the legendary Pan Phillips, Phillips based her popular autobiography on decades of journals kept by her mother, and herself. A frank-spoken person, Phillips has recorded events such as Pan Phillips’ final cattle drive 1969, before the historic ranch was sold. She witnessed her father deliver calves, she remembers when horses were the only mode of transportation.

Born to a father known for establishing, with his partner Rich Hobson, the most isolated ranches in British Columbia, Diana Phillips’ memories have given readers an exciting glimpse of the rugged, adventuresome experiences of our ancestors.

The book sells for $34.95

'From the Ground Up: A Horticultural Guide for Northern Gardeners' has just been released by local nursery owner Barbara Rayment.  This is an update of her original publication which came out in 2001.  It is a must have for anyone planning to any landscaping or gardening in the north.  It sells for $34.95 and we have plenty in stock.

Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero

by Mike Nash

 

 

 

Mike Nash knew George Evanoff for many years, and during those years the two developed a friendship. They shared a passion for the great mountain wilderness just outside Prince George, hiking the rugged, unknown terrain. Evanoff was a pioneer in ecotourism, avalanche and back country safety and public consultation on land use issues. The beloved mountain man died from a grizzly bear attack, but his name lives on, particularly at Evanoff Provincial Park in the Hart Mountain Range. Join us at Books & Company, Friday, April 3 at 7 p.m. to meet Mike and learn more about the adventurous life of George Evanoff. Copies of The Mountain Knows No Expert: George Evanoff, Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero are at Books & Company.

In the early 20th century, a man named Charlie Hudson raised racing pigeons in Derby, England. In 1913, he entered his best bird in a race all the way from Rome. A devastating storm came through on the day of the race and all the pigeons disappeared — all but Charlie Hudson’s pigeon, which found international acclaim as the "King of Rome.” This lovely picture book follows the true story of Charlie and his amazing pigeon, and the hope they brought to his working class world. Gorgeous pencil and crayon illustrations capture both the era and the sense of flight.

Jeremy Stewart's first book, (flood basement, is a young poet's search for and discovery of his place in the local landscape. The poet is haunted by the legacy of colonialism and propelled by the struggles of a community seeking its own identity. (flood basement is the raw, shocking and innocent journey of an emerging artist in a seemingly inflexible world. In this collection Stewart shares a collage of fragments that amount to a portrait of the Prince George of his youth, a transcription of a midnight audio journey, and an introspection of the fluctuating and sometimes fragile identity of the writer. Stewart's work pushes the boundaries of innovative and experimental poetry while weaving a visual narrative of the world in which he lives.

Betsy Trumpener's raw fiction hits quickly, cuts deeply and lingers on in the imagination. Her urgent, unique voice pushes fiction north of what's real. The Butcher of Penetang carves up rare slices of savory stories that are both tough and delicious. A child missing in a dangerous part of town; a draft dodger with bloody hands; a robber armed with a hairbrush; a refugee who rescues poetry from his prison cell; moose hunters chasing snow flakes. The people in these edgy stories cut cocaine into comfort food, push sex into the snow and chase speeding ambulances in the dead of winter. Trumpener's debut collection is aching, funny, powerful and sharp.

In 1934 international entrepreneur and filmmaker Charles Bedeaux hired a team of Canadian men to trail blaze from Edmonton, Alberta, to Telegraph Creek, BC. What started out as adventure for Carl Davidson and Bob Beattie soon became a treacherous and heartbreaking journey.  After five years of misadventure and virtually no communication from Bedeaux, Beattie and Davidson were informed that the mission had been called off, just before Bedeaux was arrrested for espionage. The ill-fated trip is just one of many stories gleaned from the memories of pioneers who settled the interior of British Columbia during the first half of the twentieth century. Hardships and misfortune were the norm, but as Boudreau discovers, many possessed an intangible mettle and a sense of humour that saw them through rough times. In Trappers and Trailblazers Boudreau has preserved stories in danger of disappearing, and his extraordinary research has also uncovered a collection of intriguing and previously unpublished photographs.

This book provides an overview of the Carrier language – where it is spoken, by whom, and what it is like. It is not a reference grammar or a textbook but rather is intended to acquaint the reader with the general character of the language and with some particularly interesting aspects. It is intended to be accessible to the non-specialist reader: secondary school students, college and university students, those interested in local history and culture, tourists, and language buffs. The author has a Doctorate in Linguistics and is currently a Research Consultant to the Yinka Dene Language Institute

This volume deals with individuals, corporations and just plain adventurers, who have been involved with aviation around Prince George and beyond. Aviation has formed a part of Prince George life since 1920, because of circumstances occurring in many parts of North America. The community has responded by accommodating the air sojourners with landing strips, essential supplies of all kinds, and a generous hospitality.

You like to think that your company would succeed if it were bigger. While you're dreaming about growth, you might be missing a huge opportunity: new ways of communicating are changing how we connect with customers. These methods give small companies like yours a great advantage.

You're agile, fast, and passionate; now you just have to harness that power. So put down whatever you're doing and read this book. Speak Human will help you leverage the power you already have. (And if you're a big company, it's time to think “small” and get personal.)

Described as a raw and frank exposé into adolescent relationships and the world of witchcraft, and set against the backdrop of the beautiful west coast of British Columbia and the streets of London, the story follows two girls, Aileen and Lactavia, through their uneasy rites of passage into womanhood. Suspense builds as one of the girls, Aileen, tries to conceal the dark secret of a ghost in her life. Ultimately, she discovers the shocking truth about her friends, her lover, herself, and the world as it spins ever closer to the dawn of a new era. The destiny of the Ancients and Edenites unfold in Absolution with edgy humour and dark passion.

by Diana Gerdenits

In the Millennium is a thirteen-part sequence written over the last ten years that measures a wide range of the poet's experience. The writing emerges in response to human processes, conditions and places: love, sex, death, the insecurities and pressures of the inner and outer world, and the politics of person and place that act as prompts for whatever he, as the poet, is given to reveal.

Much of the poetry in In the Millennium is also informed by the abrasive grit and beauty of the north, especially in the poems "Head Out," "Prince George (Part 1)," and "Prince George Core."

"Bolivia/Peru" is a long poem that documents a trip to the poorest places in South America. But no matter what the contexts, In the Millennium articulates McKinnon's belief that contemporary poem has to resemble the various and fractured realities it addresses to make whatever is at hand, no matter how complex, emotionally visible.

A terrorist threat is looming; an attack that would dwarf any other. This time, the government knows it's coming, but doesn't know where… or how.

From a stunning new voice in international intrigue comes a dramatic story of high-stakes missions, treachery, honor, an unlikely hero, and the ultimate terrorist attack…

Six hundred sixty tons of Semtex is detonated in a massive explosion in Libya – the last of a deadly stockpile. The operation seems to have gone smoothly, but within minutes of the explosion, CIA agent Richard Lawrence discovers that one shipment of the explosive was hijacked en route to the destruction point.

For much of his life, Ken Belford has lived in the north, in the pristine region of the headwaters of the Nass River. His careful (de)compositions disclose the land as a complex living organism, articulate the names of it, see the whole of it. Yet the landscape of these poems is not a matter of latitude and longitude, but that unroaded place which begins at the edge of the rancher’s field, wherever that boundary is, and looks back at “civilization” with a vision and a voice that is unique and new. These poems catch their readers up in a surprising social engagement that is at once larger and other than the consumer discourse of trade and ownership.