Book Guy is unique. It's a librarian's story of getting books into the hands of rural school children and people in isolated places in the Peace River country and up the Alaska Highway.
 

In a province where mountain ranges are at odds with road and rail builders, and its capital city and a large portion of its population are on an island, it’s no surprise that the provision of an effective transportation system has been a challenging undertaking—or that mistakes have been made.
 

Author - Norman Lee

The latest addition to TouchWood Editions’ Classics West Collection, this is the colourful tale of a formidable trek undertaken by legendary Cariboo rancher Norman Lee.
 

Over the past 130 years, the electorate of British Columbia, sometimes swallowing hard, has watched 32 different individuals sworn in as premier. William Rayner has studied both them and their tenure, and he has painted a fascinating portrait of the province's leaders up to the end of the 20th century.
 

Riverboats carrying stagecoaches to the Cariboo were not uncommon sights in the 19th century.
 

Author - Ervin Austin MacDonald

This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer — the next title in TouchWood’s Classics West series — tells the story of a hard-won wilderness home and of the self-sufficient father and brothers who built it.
 

It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations and observations of growing up and discovering where he belongs.
 

Author - Diana Wilson

Rich in story, the scenic Crowsnest Pass in the southern Rocky Mountains bears evidence of many tragedies, both man-made and natural, as well as one monumental triumph.
 

This is the tale of how Canada’s high northern wilderness was brought into civilization’s fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung between poles and trees for hundreds of desolate miles. It started in 1897, when gold was discovered in the Yukon and the government needed a faster way to communicate with its remote northern territory. The isolated residents, too, wanted a more reliable connection with the outside world. Thus was born the Yukon Telegraph.