1. Had a Glass 2010: Top 100 Wines for 2010 under $20, $25, and $30  James Nevison & Kenji Hodgson  9781552859995  Whitecap Books

Kenji Hodgson and James Nevison are back with the fifth anniversary edition of everybody’s favorite wine guide. For Had a Glass 2010, the Wine Guys combed the shelves to bring you their list of the absolute best bottles for 2010 not just under $20, but also wine you can find in the under-$25 and -$30 range. James and Kenji still bring you their unpretentious and irreverent reviews, as Had a Glass 2010 celebrates five years of wine appreciation, presented in the offbeat style you have come to know and love.

2. The Expanded Reilly Method  Mike McCardell  9781550175004  Harbour Publishing

In his 2008 book, Getting to the Bubble, McCardell described meeting the inspirational figure behind the Method, an autistic nine-year-old named Reilly, who had a sensationally runny nose and was perfectly convinced he could catch a fish in a polluted urban pond with a stick and a piece of string. Over the following year McCardell tried to face down deadline terrors and impatient bosses by imitating Reilly’s unshakeable faith—and found it worked. Sort of. Most of the time. If you held your brain the right way.

3. A Life in the News  Tony Parsons  9781550174618  Harbour Publishing

To say that Tony Parsons is a household name and that his is one of the most recognizable faces in BC are almost understatements. Having served over 35 years as anchor of the News Hour, the province’s most popular television news program, Parsons is a virtual member of millions of BC families. Many British Columbians really don’t believe a thing until they have heard Tony say it. Modest, informative and amusing, just like Tony himself, A Life in the News offers revealing insights into the life of one of BC’s most visible media personalities as well as fascinating views of behind-the-scenes life at BC’s most watched news show.

4. Whitewater Cooks at Home  Shelley Adams  978-0-9811424-0-1  Alicon Holdings Ltd.

FINALLY – a stunning new collection of tasty treats! These recipes, like snowflakes – each one unique, each one dancing out of the heavens to melt on our tongues- have been gathered with love from friends, family, local celebrities and the ‘box in the back’ of the Fresh Tracks Cafe to ensure that for years to come, Whitewater Cooks at Home.

5. Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life  Brian Brett  9781553654742  Greystone Books

An irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of the affectionately named Trauma Farm, with numerous side trips into the natural history of farming. Brett tells a story that’s poetic, passionate, practical, and frequently hilarious, providing an unforgettable portrait of one farm and our separation from the natural world, as well as a common-sense analysis of rural life.

6. Mountain Timber: The Comox Logging Company in the Vancouver Island Mountains  Richard Somerset Mackie  9781550391718 Sono Nis Press

On one level the story of loggers and their machines – cold deckers, skidders, geared locies and many more- Mountain Timber is also a dense and engrossing social history of central Island in the mid-20th century. The book’s nine chapters alternate revealingly between logging and social history: between working landscapes and the communities they supported. A stunning visual feast, this richly illustrated history contains 340 photographs of the men, women, families and communities supported by logging.

7. Best of Chef at Home: Essential Recipes for Today’s Kitchen Michael Smith 552859843 Whitecap Books

The Food Network’s Chef Michael Smith provides recipes for the comfort food he adores. Simple, easy to adapt meals reflect his contention that food is about relaxing and enjoying company. A long-awaited follow up to his first book, Chef at Home.

8. The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia  Andrew Scott  9781550174847  Harbour Publishing

In 1909 Captain John T. Walbran published one of the most beloved and enduring of all BC books, British Columbia Coast Names. Harbour Publishing celebrates the hundredth anniversary of that landmark work by presenting the first book to update Walbran’s classic, Andrew Scott’s Raincoast Place Names. Richly illustrated with photos and maps, this book is an essential reference work, a must-have guide for boaters and mariners and a standard companion for anyone interested in BC history.

9. One More Time: The Dal Richards Story  Dal Richards & Jim Taylor  9781550174922  Harbour Publishing

Dal Richards and author Jim Taylor recount the life story of the legendary bandleader in One More Time: The Dal Richards Story. These are Dal’s memories of the stars and the wannabes, the hustlers and bootleggers and hat-check chicks, all of whom paraded through his life in the days when Vancouver’s nightclub scene rivaled San Francisco’s and Hollywood’s big-name performers made it a regular tour stop.

10. Everyday Indian: 100 Fast, Fresh and Healthy Recipes  Bal Arneson  9781552859483  Whitecap Books

This exciting new cookbook introduces a modern concept in Indian cuisine-it can be simple, quick and delicious. With most of the healthy recipes in Everyday Indian: 100 Fast, Fresh, and Healthy Recipes ready in less than 25 minutes, Bal Arneson proves that Indian cooking doesn’t have to be complicated. Her recipes use everyday spices and common techniques to create simply mouthwatering dishes that the novice cook and experienced home chef alike can whip up at home.

Children’s Titles

1. Miga, Quatchi and/et Sumi: The Story of the Vancouver 2010 Mascots  Michael Murphy & Vicki Wong  9781552859582  Whitecap Books

This is a very colourful and heartwarming story profiling the three chosen mascots and their sidekick for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympics. The mascots were inspired by the legends of the Pacific Northwest First Nations. Miga, a sea bear, Quatchi, a sasquatch, Sumi, a guardian spirit, and Mukmuk, a marmot are all described in terms of habitat, diet, activities and how they were chosen for the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics. The entire story is written in both English and French with full-page illustrations. Additional information regarding the Olympics and Paralympics is provided with pictures of all events. This book is co-published with VANOC.

2. A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles  Eileen Van der Flier-Keller  9781550173956 Harbour Publishing

Have you ever been walking at the beach and wondered what that pebble or rock is, or do you ever wonder what stories rocks tell? If so, then this is the guide for you. The Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles, a full colour, laminated, accordion folded, easy to use guide with over 80 beautiful photographs of pebbles from beaches and rivers. Use the photos to identify over 28 different types of rocks and minerals.

3. A Boy in War  Jan de Groot  9781550391671  Sono Nis Press

When Jan is seven, Nazis attack and take over Holland. At first, not much changes. Soon, though, war starts taking things away: important things like neighbours and friends, trust and respect, even clothing, fuel, and food. Through it all, Jan is still a boy, finding ways to play with friends and paddle his sailing canoe in the canals. But he must also filch food and help protect his father’s “guests” from the enemy. Then the enemy takes his father away. Jan and his mother are on the run. They dodge bombs, sleep in haystacks, work for their food … all the while desperately searching for refuge and hoping for normal life—and Pa—to someday, somehow, return. An exciting, touching true story of the Second World War, told by the Dutch Canadian who lived it.

4. A Moose in a Maple Tree: The All-Canadian 12 Days of Christmas  Troy Townsin  9780973774863  Polyglot Publishing

A Moose in a Maple Tree captures the imagination of readers with its quirky twist on the original Christmas classic while providing visually exciting stimuli that surprise and delight readers. The book can be sung or read aloud and is designed as a learning tool that will instigate discussion about all things Canadian. With Canadian icons, animals and activities this fun story is all set to become a year-round favourite.

5. Mountain Machines  Sara Leach  9780978281816  Poppy Productions

Two to five-year-olds will love Mountain Machines and its colorful view of the antics of the gondolas, groomers, bull wheels and pipe dragons that run a ski resort. Vibrant illustrations and whimsical words teach tots to count and name the machines cavorting in the snow. Each machine has it own personality and on every page Marty Marmot observes the fun. A lively book for little ones to learn numbers and new vocabulary, as well as for anyone who loves snow, snow sports, winter or machines.

* This list is compiled using data provided by TBM BookManager Ltd.

ADULT TITLES

1. Everyday Indian: 100 Fast Fresh and Healthy Recipes  Bal Arneson  978-1-55285-948-3 Whitecap Books

This exciting new cookbook introduces a modern concept in Indian cuisine-it can be simple, quick and delicious. With most of the healthy recipes in Everyday Indian: 100 Fast, Fresh, and Healthy Recipes ready in less than 25 minutes, Bal Arneson proves that Indian cooking doesn’t have to be complicated. Her recipes use everyday spices and common techniques to create simply mouthwatering dishes that the novice cook and experienced home chef alike can whip up at home.

2. The Doctor is In(sane): Indispensable Advice from Dr. Dave  Dave Hepburn MD  978-1-51536-540-8  Greystone Books

Irreverent yet authoritative, Dr. Dave Hepburn’s practical medical advice for everyday ailments in The Doctor Is In(Sane)is entertaining and informative. In the style of Dave Barry and Rick Reilly, GP and well-loved syndicated columnist Dr. Dave takes on all kinds of health issues, including smoking (“the nicotine patch works best when placed directly over the mouth”), dandruff (“a funny little fungus called malassezia furfur—need a real unique name for the next kid?”), and the body mass index (“useless, corrupt and irrelevant, the Chicago Cubs of measurements”).

3. Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent  Andrew Nikiforuk  9781553654070  Greystone Books/David Suzuki Foundation

Combining extensive scientific research and compelling writing, Andrew Nikiforuk takes the reader to Fort McMurray, home to some of the world’s largest open-pit mines, and explores this twenty-first-century pioneer town from the exorbitant cost of housing to its more serious social ills. He uncovers a global Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine dealers, aimless bush workers, American evangelicals, and the largest population of homeless people in northern Canada. He also explains that this micro-economy supplies gasoline for 50 percent of Canadian vehicles and 16 percent of U.S. demand.

4. Tidal Passages: A History of the Discovery Islands  Jeanette Taylor  978-1-55017-460-1  Harbour Publishing

In this book Jeanette Taylor brings the old history back to vivid life, starting in the days when First Nations held sway and progressing through the peak years of European settlement in the mid-twentieth century to modern times. What emerges from Taylor’s colourful pageant is a view of pioneer life that is quintessentially coastal: of potlatches, longhouses, stumpranchers, handloggers, beachcombers, seagoing missionaries, isolation that brought out the worst in some people and the best in others, and through it all the watery element of dugouts, steamships, ferries and tides that pulsed through islander life like a heartbeat.

5. Country Roads of British Columbia: Exploring the Interior  Liz Bryan  9781894974431  Heritage House

In Country Roads of British Columbia, Liz Bryan explores and celebrates the amazing landscapes of British Columbia and traces the early history of this, Canada’s westernmost province. Through 18 picturesque country journeys, mostly in the Interior between the Rockies and the Coast Mountains, she takes readers through some of the most diverse and beautiful scenery in the country.

6. Had a Glass: Top 100 Wines for 2009 under $20  James Nevison & Kenji Hodgson  9781552859377 Whitecap Books

Alongside the under $20 reviews (and a special splurge section for when you’re feeling flush), Had a Glass delivers pretty much every other morsel of information the casual, yet dedicated, wine drinker needs to know. Along with easy charts that decode varietals and offer suggestions, a glassware glossary and a section of food and wine pairings, Hodgson and Nevison even suggest wines to match your frame of mind. Where can you find a good Wednesday wine for your middle of the week blues? Only in Had a Glass.

7.Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop  Mike McCardell  9781550174434  Harbour Publishing

Mike McCardell, the legendary Vancouver reporter who tries to restore people’s faith in living after they’ve finished watching the appalling mayhem on the evening news, is back with another collection of simple but irresistible stories: there are the ownerless shoes, sitting day after day in a washroom used mainly by big-time celebrities. There are the big cajones one daren’t mention and the magic dachshund whose poop can clear the snow off driveways.But most of all there’s the tireless reporter combing the streets of his modern big city, looking for inspiring acts of humanity amid the urban roar. And always, always finding them.

8. Legacy in Wood: The Wahl Family Boat Builders  Ryan Wahl  9781550174335  Harbour Publishing

Centuries before steel, fibreglass, aluminum and automation were applied to shipbuilding, early twentieth century British Columbian shipwrights hand built fish boats entirely out of wood. Legacy in Wood is an illustrated story of one of those shipwrights, Ed Wahl. With the help of his six sons, Wahl created the most successful commercial fish-boat building enterprise on British Columbia’s north coast, and one of the most well known boat shops on the entire British Columbia coast. Threaded with memories of Ed’s sons and the crew of the Wahl boatyards, Legacy in Wood provides a unique look into a family business that enabled the fishing industry to be a mainstay of British Columbia’s economy.

9. Beyond the Chilcotin: On the Home Ranch with Pan Phillips  Diana Phillips  9781550174472  Harbour Publishing

Pioneers Pan Phillips and his partner Rich Hobson carved their places in ranching history when they discovered “grass beyond the mountains” in the far reaches of the Chilcotin and founded some of the most isolated ranches in North America. This is the story of Pan Phillips’ youngest daughter Diana, who learned to trap muskrat when she was little more than a toddler, worked with haying crews before she was into her teens and was renowned far and wide as the only person feisty enough to best her legendary father in a slanging match. Beyond the Chilcotin is both an unparalleled chronicle of the old time rancher’s annual round and the testament of a remarkable woman.

10. Rowboat in a Hurricane: My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic Ocean  Julie Angus  9781553653370  Greystone Books

In 2005–06, Julie Angus rowed 10,000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first woman in the world to travel from mainland to mainland in a rowboat. She was accompanied by her fiancé at the time, Colin Angus, who was completing a round-the-world expedition using human power only. Rowboat in a Hurricane is a gripping adventure story of a woman’s difficult and courageous journey with her partner in a cramped vessel. More important, it is a unique record of an amazing ecosystem, its fascinating inhabitants, and the many threats they face.

CHILDREN’S TITLES

1. A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles  Eileen Van der Flier-Keller  9781550173956 Harbour Publishing

A full colour, laminated, accordion folded, easy to use guide with over 80 beautiful photographs of pebbles from beaches and rivers.

2. Miga, Quatchi and/et Sumi: The Story of the Vancouver 2010 Mascots  Michael Murphy & Vicki Wong  9781552859582  Whitecap Books

This is a very colourful and heartwarming story profiling the three chosen mascots and their sidekick for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympics. The mascots were inspired by the legends of the Pacific Northwest First Nations. Miga, a sea bear, Quatchi, a sasquatch, Sumi, a guardian spirit, and Mukmuk, a marmot are all described in terms of habitat, diet, activities and how they were chosen for the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics. The entire story is written in both English and French with full-page illustrations. Additional information regarding the Olympics and Paralympics is provided with pictures of all events. This book is co-published with VANOC.

3. Welcome Song for Baby  Richard Van Camp  9781551436616  Orca Book Publishers

From renowned First Nations storyteller Richard Van Camp comes a lyrical lullaby for newborns. Complemented with stunning photographs, this evocative board book is perfectly suited as a first book for every baby.

4. Jessie’s Island  Sheryl Mcfarlane  9780920501761  Orca Book Publishers

Jessie shares the beauty of her island home. Jessie’s Island reminds us of the joy of unstructured play and the pleasures to be found in the natural world around us.

5. Ramp Rats: A Graphic Guide Adventure  Liam O’Donnell & Michael Deas  9781551438801 Orca Book Publishers

Fresh from his adventures in Wild Ride, Marcus is back and helping his cousin, Bounce, learn to skate. Between learning how to ollie and do a 50-50 grind, Bounce and his friends also have to avoid the skate-park goons and take on the outlaw bikers who are terrorizing the small town. Excitement, action and some radical skating tips. Hang on for another wild ride!

* This list is compiled using data provided by TBM BookManager Ltd.