british columbia

The McCready sisters have just settled into their new home on Pine Island when they get word that an unwelcome houseguest is coming to visit for months.

An introduction to the geography, economy, history, culture, and activities of British Columbia.

"Travelling to Canada to work as a tour guide was supposed to help Lewis figure out what to do with his life. But hitting British Columbia's Cariboo gold rush trail with a group of seniors goes from a chore to plain dangerous when a girl without a past joins in and brings a stream of trouble in her wake. Soon, grouchy clients are the least of Lewis's worries, as he's confronted with a tangled mess of lies, accusations, and feelings he was totally unprepared for..."--Back cover.

"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar,an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for oneof her endless series of environmental protests: attempts atatonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violenttimber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple syrup camp squat when he hears the criesof an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime that will cling to his family for decades"--Provided by publisher.

Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors.

With playoffs ahead and a chance to play a few games in the National Hockey League, Josh hesitates to get involved when he finds more than a dozen dead cattle on his dad's ranch.

Leon and his friend Susan discover something suspicious going on in their tiny little village of New Auckland, and soon find themselves involved in an archeological mystery.

Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.

A fictionalized account of the 1884 lynching of fourteen-year-old Louie Sam, a Native American, by a group of men from the Washington Territory, told from the point of view of fifteen-year-old George Gillies and his best friend, whose fathers were part of the lynch mob that traveled into British Columbia to get what they saw as justice for the murder of a white Washington settler.

Two British Columbia rival teams are merged into one, and the players must learn to work together.