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By June, Philip's view of English Bay, what's left of it, will be utterly gone. It was always going to happen. For years now, it's been getting harder and harder to see what's out there. For years now, it's been getting harder and harder to know what to do.
From one of Canada's most beloved personalities comes this delightful collection set around Christmastime in Vancouver's West End neighborhood. The eight linked stories in Bill Richardson's I...
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A celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of the Interior Salish people of North America. This collection chronicles not only the treasure house of a vibrant First Nations culture, but also the sweeping changes which took place in that culture as it began to interact with new colonists. With his approval, Wickwire recorded his stories.
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Many of the stories in Okanagan storyteller Harry Robinson's second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or "nature helpers" that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who use these powers to heal themselves; others tell of Indian doctors with the power to heal others. Still others tell of power encounters of various kinds.
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