Moving with her mother from Vancouver to Wells, British Columbia, Elizabeth Connell longs for the excitement of the city and her father, brother, and friends left behind. While she is in the peaceful graveyard of nearby Barkerville she finds a small gold ring that has very special powers. By twisting the ring on her finger, Elizabeth is transported to the nineteenth century during the heyday of the gold rush. Caught between her present life with family and friends and a love in the past, Elizabeth learns more than history.

Your Time, My Time

Children's Books

Walsh, Ann

History

Dundurn Press

Short-listed for the 1990 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Moving to Soda Creek, a former Gold Rush boomtown in the Cariboo region of interior British Columbia, Kelly Linden and her father try to begin their lives again after a tragic family accident.

The Ghost of Soda Creek

Literature & Fiction

Short-listed for the 1999 Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature and Geoffrey Bilson Award  Ann Walsh’s sequel to Moses, Me and Murder (Pacific Educational Press) continues the adventures of Ted, now 14. Still tormented by the ghost of murderer James barry, Ted apprentices to the eccentric doctor J.B. Wilkinson, whose dependency on opium for his patients and for his own demons reveals a past intertwined with the life and death of an enigmatic woman named sophia Cameron.

Doctor's Apprentice, The

SandCastle Books

Ann Walsh has selected fourteen captivating stories written by accomplished authors from across Canada for this historical anthology. Each of the stories focuses on a "first-time" historical experience, with many of the stories featuring real historical people while others introduce fictional characters to depict the historical situations of earlier times. The volume also contains an appendix with substantial accounts of the historical context of each story. The contributors include Ann Walsh, Barbara Haworth-Attard, Beverley Brenna, Constance Horne, Margaret Thompson, Anne Metikosh, Carolyn Pogue, Margaret Florczak, Jean Rae Baxter, Catherine Goodwin, Victoria Miles, Susan Lee, Laura Morgan and Cathy Beveridge. A vibrant introduction to Canada’s history through the eyes of some of its youngest participants.

Beginnings: Stories of Canada's Past

Ronsdale Press

ARCHIVE's spoken-word CD features four seances with the long-departed Italian aristocrat Virginia Versasis, aka the Countess of Castiglione. Until recently the cache of portraits taken by her lover in the mid-1800s were completely unknown. Once found, they have become noted as the first fashion images in the history of photography. These recorded seances finally give the Countess a chance to begin correcting her record from the Great Beyond!

Conversations With the Countess of Castiglione

Kubick, Chris

Biographies & Memoirs

Ram Pubns & Dist

This second volume in ARCHIVE's Art After Death series features a spirited dialog with the outspoken and brilliant 20th-century French artist Yves Klein. The artist is contacted through several medium-directed seances. A truly informative and hilarious experience!

Yves Klein Speaks: Art After Death

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

During seances in front of Joseph Cornell's work at the Whitney Museum, ARCHIVE explored the meanings of the artist's work, his relationships and his opinions on spirituality, literature and love. The result is an audio portrait in the delicately collaged spirit of Cornell's art and films. The CD is packaged in a hand-printed, letterpress folio, and includes an 18-page booklet of images and texts.

Visits With Joseph Cornell: Art After Death

Once again Callie is forced to take part in her mom's latest crusade. They head to the country to camp--bloodthirsty mosquitoes, stinky outhouses and all--to save a rural school. Callie hates camping and wants nothing to do with the protest. To make

Horse Power (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

In the first novel in the Barkerville Mystery series, protagonist Ted MacIntosh tries to unravel a suspicious murder with possible fatal consequences. 
lt’s summer in 1866 in the Cariboo gold fields, and a man has disappeared. Young Ted learns from the local barber, Moses, that his friend Charles, who was travelling to the gold fields, has failed to arrive. And a forbidding stranger named James Barry has arrived in town wearing a gold nugget pin that belonged to the missing man. What could have happened to him? Was James Barry responsible for his disappearance? Moses and Ted are suspicious – but they’re also afraid for their own safety. Slowly, with several adventures and close calls, they unravel the story of a cruel murder. But have they identified the right criminal? Shortlisted for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, based on true events, and set against the exciting backdrop of the Gold Rush era, Moses, Me, and Murder offers a captivating tale of betrayal, thievery, and redemption.

Moses, Me, and Murder: A Barkerville Mystery (A Barkerville Mystery, 1)

Has a protest to save a tree gone too far? Callie's mother has chained herself to the neighbor's tree and is living inside the treehouse. She refuses to come down until the neighbor, Mr. Wilson, agrees to leave the tree standing. Soon reporters arrive, followed by an activist group called the Singing Grannies and a gang of bikers--each group adding to the chaos. Callie doesn't want to deal with any of them but she needs to figure out how to get her mother to come down from the tree so that her life can return to normal.

Flower Power (Orca Currents)

Humor

Orca Book Publishers

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