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c2011., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Chr Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Brilliantly sure-footed, strikingly original, tender, and funny, this memorable collection of nine linked stories follows a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters - from bank manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to mental patient to web designer to car thief - as they drift through each other's lives like ghosts in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. A powerful and affecting debut."--Publisher.
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By Teed, Josie2023., Dundurn Press Call No: NEW QWF Bio T258b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A job as a heritage interpreter at a remote gold rush site propels an insecure and anxious twenty-four-year-old to find what she truly desires from life. Unsure of her next steps after graduation, twenty-something Josie Teed accepts a position at Barkerville, a remote heritage site in British Columbia showcasing the nineteenth-century gold rush. She lives in the adjacent village of Wells, population 250. There is no cell reception and the grocery store is an hour away by car. Once a thriving gold mining community in the 1930s, Wells has become a haven for white Gen-X artists and flower children, struggling actors-turned-heritage-interpreters, and transient miners. Eager for respite from her competitive and lonely city life, Josie dives headlong into the slow and steady pace of the town. Faced with the prospect of remaining long-term, she must decide if she will fight to carve a place for herself in Wells's idiosyncratic community. What follows is the story of a young woman trying to find her purpose in the twenty-first century while living in a village seemingly frozen in the past.
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c2014., General, McClelland & Stewart Call No: IND Fic Wag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tells the universal story of a father/son struggle in a fresh, utterly memorable way, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's 16 years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner.
