Jan Peterson: 4 books

Any community that has ever been labelled a “mill town” carries both the promise of prosperity and the constant threat of collapse, its fortune hinging on a single industry whose performance is as much related to the whims of a global economy as it is to the abundance of a key natural resource....

When the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish its new Pacific coast headquarters at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1843, the Island was a pristine paradise—or an isolated wilderness, depending on one's point of view—that had sustained its First Nations inhabitants for millennia. It...

An insightful look at the first mayor of Nanaimo, BC, drawing heavily on his prolific and insightful written observations. Mark Bate, elected Nanaimo’s first mayor in 1875, was a renaissance man. He loved music, writing, literature, the outdoors, community affairs, and of course politics....

Pour sauver Connor, de Ann Voss Peterson Si vous prévenez la police de mon appel, jamais vous ne reverrez votre fils vivant… Megan vit dans la terreur depuis que Connor, son petit garçon de trois ans, a été enlevé dans un centre commercial. Qui se cache au bout du fil, derrière la voix...