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Wayne McCrory wins 2024 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize for Wild Horses of the Chilcotin
Wayne McCrory wins 2024 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize for Wild Horses of the Chilcotin

Wayne McCrory has won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his book The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future. The $3,500 prize, given by UBC ...

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Tim Blackett shortlisted for Two Saskatchewan Book Awards
Tim Blackett shortlisted for Two Saskatchewan Book Awards

Nightwood Editions author Tim Blackett has been shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards—the Fiction Award and the First Book Award—for his debut story collection, Grandview Drive. The shortlist was presented in partnership with the Regina Public Library on Friday, March 1, 2024.

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This Place Is Who We Are Wins Jeanne Clarke Local History Award
This Place Is Who We Are Wins Jeanne Clarke Local History Award

BC-Bestselling author Katherine Palmer Gordon has won the Jeanne Clarke Award for her book, This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands.The award, mean...

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Happy Family Literacy Week!
Happy Family Literacy Week!

Family Literacy Week takes place across the Canada from January 21-28, to celebrate adults and children reading and learning together. We're celebrating with an automatic 20% discount on all children's title...

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Kids Bond With Nature Through Books for All Ages
Kids Bond With Nature Through Books for All Ages

What better way of creating a love of reading than by focusing it on the natural world all around us?

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Sunset and Jericho
Sunset and Jericho Shortlisted for 2023 Crime Fiction Lover Award

The readers have voted, and Sam Wiebe’s Sunset and Jericho has made the shortlist for a Crime Fiction Lover Award. Sunset and Jericho is the fourth installment of the Wakeland detective series that explores ...

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Gripping fiction from Harbour redraws boundaries
Gripping fiction from Harbour redraws boundaries

 by Brian Lynch, November 2023 Resonating with our troubled times and uncovering hidden sources of our humanity, this group of recent novels from Harbour Publishing crosses generations and widely different w...

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A Kid's Guide to Plants of the Pacific Northwest makes longlist for 2024 Hands-On Science Book Award
A Kid's Guide to Plants of the Pacific Northwest makes longlist for 2024 Hands-On Science Book Award

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the longlist for the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books, and Philippa Joly's A Kid’s Guide to Plants of the Pacific...

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Finalists for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry: The Ridge and Old Gods
Finalists for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry: The Ridge and Old Gods

The 2023 Governor General's Literary Awards have been announced. In the poetry category, Harbour Publishing author Robert Bringhurst is a finalist for his book, The Ridge, which is intensely focused on the e...

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The Science and Superpower of Seaweed Nominated for Yellow Cedar Award
The Science and Superpower of Seaweed Nominated for Yellow Cedar Award

Amanda Swinimer's book, The Science and Superpowers of Seaweed: A Guide for Kids has been nominated for the Forest of Reading® Yellow Cedar Award for nonfiction aimed at grades 5-8. This colourful, activity-...

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Harbour Titles Recognized by Moonbeam Awards
Harbour Titles Recognized by Moonbeam Awards

BC authors Samantha Beynon, Philippa Joly, and Amanda Swinimer Awarded Top Honours in the 2023 Moonbeam Prize! Gold Medal in the Cultural Experience Category Oolichan Moon by Samantha Beynon, illustrated ...

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Honouring Voices for the Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Honouring Voices for the Day for Truth and Reconciliation

We would like to recognize this Day for Truth and Reconciliation. As publishers, we will continue to work to bring the truths of Indian Residential Schools—as well as the truths about the infringement of the...

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