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Join the Okanagan Regional Library for a Valleywide reading program that will spur community dialogue and enrich community connections. 

Shoot!, a western novel set in the Thompson Okanagan in the late 1800s by award-winning Okanagan author and Canada’s first Poet Laureate, George Bowering, has been selected as the book for Okanagan Reads. Bowering has published more than 80 books of fiction, history, plays and poetry

With powerful imagery and crisp narration, author George Bowering delivers a dramatic commentary on race relations in the harsh environment of the Canadian West.

Get your copy of Shoot! Book club kits also available. 

--Thank you to everyone who participated in Okanagan Reads--

 

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Recommended Reads:

Outlaw Authors: Reinventing the Western

Cowboys & Cowgirls: Real-life stories

 

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Cover image of Shoot! By George Bowering