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Whitey’s Journey has been called a “poignant, memorable and informative story” that celebrates the loyalty of animal companions during the Second World War.

Available October 2025. https://shorturl.at/7ilDh
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“This beautifully illustrated book is an important contribution to true stories about animals in the Second World War. A poignant, memorable and informative story.”
—Miriam Halahmy, award-winning author of Rip to the Rescue

Whitey’s Journey is the inspiring true story of a loyal collie who befriended a troop of Canadian soldiers and served in the Second World War.

Available October 2025. https://shorturl.at/7ilDh
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“Often, the most inspiring stories are true tales of friendship and bravery, such as Whitey’s Journey, a historical account of one very determined pup. Lonie captures Whitey’s courage and determination in a way that will have young readers and pet lovers alike looking at their canine friends with newfound admiration.”
—Blake Hoena, author of Stubby the Dog Soldier: World War I Hero

Ken Mather didn’t know when he took a job at the O’Keefe ranch in the 1980s that it would turn into a book in the 2020s. Read all about one family's tumultuous rags-to-riches story in The O’Keefes of O'Kanagan.
https://youtu.be/q93iNPeGU60

A charming new picture book that takes readers young and old on a whimsical adventure through the natural world, The Thing About Birds is now available.
https://heritagehouse.ca/products/the-thing-about-birds

#TheThingAboutBirds #Birding #CanadianReads #CanadianChildrensBooks

Meet our authors this October! Check out the event dates and locations, and visit our website for more information.
https://heritagehouse.ca/blogs/events

In The Thing About Birds by Christy Obalek, two best friends find a mysterious red feather and ask, “what makes a bird, a bird?” Happy Publication Day to this charming book that invites young readers to more closely observe nature. Available online or at your local bookstore.
https://heritagehouse.ca/products/the-thing-about-birds
#CanadianPictureBooks #Birds #NewRelease #PubDay

September 30th is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to honour the Indigenous survivors of residential schools and their communities.
We are honoured to help uplift the stories of Indigenous authors, illustrators, and storytellers today, and every day.

Today is the 15th anniversary of Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools by the late Theodore (Ted) Niizhotay Fontaine (1941-2021). Read more about this powerful memoir of survival and healing: https://heritagehouse.ca/blogs/news/celebrate-the-15th-anniversary-of-broken-circle

Three of our fall titles were spotted in the Vancouver Writers Fest 2025 Program Guide! Hidden Flowers, Trading Fate, and Separated From Santo look great amongst fellow BC books.
Find more at www.writersfest.bc.ca
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#VancouverWritersFest #BCAuthors #ReadLocalBC

We are so excited to see that A Haida Wedding has won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize! Congrats to Terri-Lynn Williams, Robert Davidson, and all the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prize winners!
#HaidaHistory #CanadianBooks #CanadianBookAward

#DYK BC almost became part of the USA? You can read all about the summer of 1789, when BC's future was uncertain, in Trading Fate by Graeme Menzies. Happy #PubDay to this uniquely west-coast take on Canada's origin story! https://heritagehouse.ca/products/trading-fate

This fall, Trading Fate asks us to ponder the events that shape a nation as we go back to the first time British Columbia faced the very real possibility of being ceded to the United States.

Available September 2025.

#TradingFate #CanadianBooks #ReadLocalBC
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“If Canadians are ever to have an origin story they all can embrace, we need more books like Trading Fate, which tells the overlooked story of how the west coast narrowly escaped becoming American.”
—Madelaine Drohan, author of He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada

Called “essential reading for British Columbians”, Trading Fate is a uniquely west-coast take on Canada’s origin story.

Available September 2025. https://buff.ly/7RPlYWQ
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#TradingFate #ReadCanadian #ReadLocalBC

"This timely and important book transports the reader back to the very beginnings of what would become British Columbia, demonstrating just how close BC came to being annexed into the USA. Extremely engaging and well written, Trading Fate is essential reading for British Columbians."
—Eric Brighton, award-winning co-author of Lost Kootenays: A History In Pictures, content creator and founder of Lost BC

Happy Pub Day to The Trophy Hunter! 🐟 A hilarious, nostalgic journey that will stick with readers longer than barnacles on the hull of a boat.
https://buff.ly/ARjrbNd
#TheTrophyHunter #ChroniclesOfAWestCoastFishingGuide #ReadLocalBC

"A brave and timely book that pulls no punches,” What Friends Are For by award winning author Harriet Zaidman is a powerful and nuanced YA novel focusing on Canada’s 1983 abortion debate.
https://buff.ly/gQzUdZd
#WhatFriendsAreFor #YABooks #ReadLocalBC

"A brave and timely book that pulls no punches. Abortion is never easy to decide upon, go through, or write about. For all those who think a story about abortion is too tough for teenagers, think again. Knowledge is power."
—Karin Wells, journalist, lawyer and award-winning author of Women Who Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women's Rights in Canada

This Fall, Harriet Zaidman brings us to the 1980s debate on bodily autonomy in Canada in her latest YA book, What Friends Are For.
https://buff.ly/gQzUdZd
#WhatFriendsAreFor #YABooks #ReadLocalBC

“Zaidman takes a complicated issue and makes it easier to understand. Young readers will see themselves in Leesa, and they will come away from the book with a sense of compassion for those who are struggling with this difficult choice.”
—Deborah Ellis, author of The Outsmarters

Peter Smith wanted to tell the history of BC’s silver rush for over 20 years. Now, he has written Mining Camp Tales of the Silvery Slocan, a work full of historical facts, anecdotes, & archival material on a chapter of mining history that has been largely overlooked. https://youtu.be/Z-2BHHZoKoU

Named “a master storyteller” by award-winning journalist Bruce Masterman, David Giblin’s The Trophy Hunter will be swimming onto shelves September 2nd!

https://buff.ly/8coB1Tt
#TheTrophyHunter #WestCoast #ReadLocalBC

“David Giblin is a master storyteller. He weaves deep soul, vivid description and rollicking
narrative through this touching yet entertaining book. Populated by a cast of colourful characters
like Troutbreath and Wet Lenny, The Trophy Hunter is about West Coast fishing, to be sure, but it is more about life itself.”
—Bruce Masterman, award-winning outdoor writer, journalist, and author of One Last Cast: Reflections of an Outdoor Life

Called “charming and richly imagined”, David Giblin’s The Trophy Hunter promises a compelling and nostalgic wrap up to the Chronicles of a West Coast Fishing Guide series.
https://buff.ly/8coB1Tt
#TheTrophyHunter #WestCoast #ReadLocalBC

"A Leacock-worthy tale, The Trophy Hunter features a fascinating cast of characters as they navigate the ebb tides and eddies of life, searching—like all of us—for that next big fish. Charming and richly imagined, well-written—and very funny. It will make you want to pull up stakes and head for the coast."
—Will Ferguson, three-time winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour and author of Beyond Belfast: A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet

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