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  • Saving Wolfgang

    ★“A story of grief, forgiveness, healing, and friendship, this book will skate into readers’ hearts. Would make a fantastic read-aloud for classrooms and a great pick for book club discussions.” — School Library Journal (SLJ), starred reviewWhen Wolfgang’s father dies, everything changes.Wolfie and his mother move to Calgary to stay with his grandfather, and Wolfie starts at a new school. Consumed ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Our Crumbling Foundation

    How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER · WINNER OF BC BOOK PRIZE GEORGE RYGA AWARD FOR SOCIAL AWARENESS · FINALIST FOR THE BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY · FINALIST FOR THE BC BOOK AWARDS HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE · A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK · A HILL TIMES BEST BOOK“Gregor Craigie’s *Our Crumbling Foundation...*is so chockful of solutions that it makes you want to shake politicians and policymakers and ... Read more

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  • Why Humans Build Up

    The Rise of Towers, Temples and Skyscrapers

    Illustrated by Kathleen Fu ...
    Series Book 1 - Orca Timeline
    ★**“This great STEAM offering has multiple applications and will be useful for report writers and aspiring architects alike.”—Booklist, starred review**★**“Finely detailed inside and outside...Broad in scope, perceptively organized, and enriched with fascinating entries.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review**Why did they build it so high?People have been constructing tall buildings for thousands of ... Read more

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  • Radio Discord

    Two days before Christmas, CIFU Radio’s news director Malcolm McDonald is called in early to work.Under pressure from the conservative station owner George Caulfeild, Malcolm reluctantly fires CIFU’s star morning show host, Stephen Millburn, whose only fault — if it can be called that — is going against Caulfeild’s orders not to report on a shady scheme to pay homeless people to leave Victoria, BC ... Read more

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  • On Borrowed Time

    Finalist, 2021 Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyThe Big One and what we can do to get ready for it.Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world’s biggest earthquakes and tsunamis. In the eastern part of the continent, small cities ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Radio Jet Lag

    “A gem of a novel.” — Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Leacock Medal for HumourLonglisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for HumourStephen Millburn moved halfway across the country, from Ottawa to Victoria, to fulfill his dream of being an early-morning radio host, but he’s barely holding it together. Trying to balance parental duties (he and his wife have a newborn son) with his ... Read more

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  • Sticking to the Facts

    10 Ways to Fight Misinformation

    Illustrated by Bithi Sutradhar ...
    Series Book 3 - Orca Take Action
    These days, finding information is a simple click away. But how can you tell if what you're reading is true or false? Or if it’s fact versus fiction? With fake news on the rise, fighting misinformation is more important than ever.But spreading false information isn’t only a product of the internet era—the human tendency to lie or mislead has been around as long as we’ve been sharing stories. Did ... Read more

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  • Walls

    The Long History of Human Barriers and Why We Build Them

    Illustrated by Arden Taylor ...
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    Building walls that separate us from others is as old as humanity.People have built walls to keep others out for thousands of years, from the Great Wall of China to Hadrian's Wall to security fences along the US-Mexico border. But did you know they've also been built to keep people in, to grow food, to control nature and to collect taxes? Sometimes they've helped people and kept communities safe, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Radio Jet Lag

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    “A gem of a novel.” — Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Leacock Medal for HumourStephen Millburn moved halfway across the country, from Ottawa to Victoria, to fulfill his dream of being an early-morning radio host, but he’s barely holding it together. Trying to balance parental duties (he and his wife have a newborn son) with his work schedule leaves Stephen running on coffee fumes and falling ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Our Crumbling Foundation

    How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis

    Narrated by Gregor Craigie ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER · WINNER OF BC BOOK PRIZE GEORGE RYGA AWARD FOR SOCIAL AWARENESS · FINALIST FOR THE BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY · FINALIST FOR THE BC BOOK AWARDS HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE · A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK · A HILL TIMES BEST BOOK“Gregor Craigie’s *Our Crumbling Foundation...*is so chockful of solutions that it makes you want to shake politicians and policymakers and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Saving Wolfgang

    Narrated by Gregor Craigie ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 49 min

    ★“A story of grief, forgiveness, healing, and friendship, this book will skate into readers’ hearts. Would make a fantastic read-aloud for classrooms and a great pick for book club discussions.” — School Library Journal (SLJ), starred reviewWhen Wolfgang’s father dies, everything changes.Wolfie and his mother move to Calgary to stay with his grandfather, and Wolfie starts at a new school. Consumed ... Read more

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    On Borrowed Time

    North America's Next Big Quake

    Narrated by Gregor Craigie ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    **Finalist, Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and Victoria Butler Book PrizeA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookThe Big One and what we can do to get ready for it.**Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world’s biggest earthquakes and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD