Trevor Carolan
ISBN:9781897535295
Distinguished in part by its attention to language of place, natural science, local flora and fauna, land and seascapes, and receptivity to aboriginal forebears...
Format:Paperback Pages:272
USD $21.46
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Harold Rhenisch
ISBN:9781897535288
"A Room in the City" is a self revelatory journey into a world of darkness and light, a place of blatant lies and transcendent truths. Photographer Gabor Gasztonyi presents a Vancouver with deep roots in an otherwise forgotten past...
Format:Paperback Pages:144
USD $42.93
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George McWhirter
ISBN:9781897535028
In Vancouver the avenues are numbered and the streets named. That's a feature of Vancouver. Vancouver's Poet Laureate, George McWhirter, has taken on the task of creating an anthology on those features that give the face of Vancouver its identity. East Hastings could fill an anthology...
Format:Hardcover Pages:200
USD $59.27
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Alexandra Leggat
ISBN:9781897535011
In a style reminiscent of Raymond Carver, the stories contained in "Animal" depict people on the brink of major life change. They stand at crossroads they are often oblivious to; they suck thick air in rooms filled with palpable tension Leggat's characters often seem captured in a cinematic slo-mo...
Format:Paperback Pages:169
USD $19.32
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Clint Hutzulak
ISBN:9781895636390
Finalist, Books in Canada/ Amazon.ca First Novel Award
"The Beautiful Dead End" is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on an existential journey to the "e;other side"e; and almost back again. In a bizarre...
Format:Paperback Pages:210
USD $12.82
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Tammy Armstrong
ISBN:9781895636376
GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD NOMINEE
"Bogman's Music" is a debut collection of poetry that is both elegiac and sensitive in its exploration of family dynamics...
Format:Paperback Pages:96
USD $11.65
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Bart Campbell
ISBN:9781895636369
Finalist BC Book Prize (Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize)
Finalist City of Vancouver Book Prize
"The Door Is Open" is a compassionate...
Format:Paperback Pages:144
USD $11.76
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Robert Strandquist
ISBN:9781895636468
"The Dreamlife of Bridges" is the debut novel from Vancouver writer Robert Strandquist. Leo is a middle-aged, divorced handyman capable of mending almost anything outside of himself. The denial of his son's death...
Format:Paperback Pages:216
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Grant Buday
ISBN:9781895636291
We've all had good, bad, and sometimes ugly experiences on public transit. "Exact Fare Only" is an anthology of real life stories about heading out...
Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Ian Cockfield;David Suzuki
ISBN:9781895636550
Back with more, "Exact Fare Only 2" is the follow-up collection of the weird, the wild and the wonderful of commuter literature. Whether by land...
Format:Paperback Pages:180
USD $15.22
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Andrew Buchanan Jackson
ISBN:9780856463631
Awarded the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2003
One of ten poets chosen for Anvil New Poets 3' (2001), A.B. Jackson was singled out by John Greening in Poetry Review' for his 'demanding and ambitious work: direct...
Format:Paperback Pages:61
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Tom Osborne;Tom OsborneOsborne
ISBN:9781895636642
"Foozlers" is a 24-hour "e;Odyssey"e; that runs a juggernaut through the high- and lowlands of Vancouver. Jerry Lowe is the reluctant driver of a getaway car for two sketchy junkies on the make...
Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Owne Catherine
ISBN:9781897535004
In Greek mythology the muses preside over the arts and inspire writers and artists to produce works of genius. In "Frenzy," Catherine Owen pays homage to the muses in a six-part compilation of muse-quests...
Format:Paperback Pages:105
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Dennis Edward Bolen
ISBN:9781895636154
From the author of "Stupid Crimes," "Krekshuns" and "Stand in Hell" come more fictional wanderings. "Gas Tank & Other Stories" casts disparate characters into tumultuous scenes of moral terror...
Format:Paperback Pages:186
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Charles Tidler;Shawn Shepherd
ISBN:9781895636598
"Going to New Orleans" is the story of Lewis King, a jazz trumpet player who lands a gig in the Big Easy. King is a genius on cornet, but his private life is emotionally...
Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Guillaume Apollinaire;Oliver Bernard
ISBN:9780856463594
FRENCH LANGUAGE.
Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters...
Format:Paperback Pages:171
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Clarkes Lincoln;Barbara Clarkes LincolnHodgson
ISBN:9781895636451
Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
The Heroines Series is an epic photographic documentary of the addicted women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In 1997...
Format:Paperback Pages:152
USD $23.41
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Tom Walmsley;Sandy McClelland
ISBN:9781895636574
"Honeymoon in Berlin" examines the extremes of human desire, and investigates the human fascination with limits, the line between courage and fear, life and death....
Format:Paperback Pages:62
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Jarman Mark Anthony
ISBN:9781895636192
"In The Trenches: The Best of subTerrain" represents ten years of alternative writing, as featured on the pages of Vancouver's literary renegade magazine...
Format:Paperback Pages:312
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Robert Strandquist
ISBN:9781895636338
"The Inanimate World" is an affecting suite of stories, with a novella-length piece at its core. The stories within "The Inanimate World" traverse both rural and urban landscapes...
Format:Paperback Pages:182
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Alan Twigg
ISBN:9781895636475
One night in April, after a Sunday soccer game, Alan Twigg couldn't remember the names of his two sons or his wife--and he couldn't hold a pen...
Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Marguerite Pigeon
ISBN:9781895636970
"Inventory" is a collection of 58 object poems. Taking as a starting point the reciprocal relation between subjects and objects, the book explores the unique way that objects appear in an individual consciousness. Each object in this inventory exists on its own and also reflects the author's experience...
Format:Paperback Pages:71
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Dennis E Bolen
ISBN:9781897535059
"Kaspoit " is a novel of our times, told in the language of our times. It s set in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver. The time is now and gangland crime is rampant. Seemingly random murders and takedowns are exploding at a disturbing rate. Criminals are brazen...
Format:Paperback Pages:258
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Mark Giles;W Mark Giles
ISBN:9781895636505
Winner of the W.O. Mitchell/City of Calgary Award
A debut collection, these stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall...
Format:Paperback Pages:238
USD $15.22
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Olav H Hauge;Robin Fulton
ISBN:9780856463570
Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation
In this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range...
Format:Paperback Pages:143
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Mike Hoolboom
ISBN:9781895636987
The Pacific Cinematheque Monograph Series was initiated to explore the spectrum of contributions and innovations of Western Canadian filmmakers...
Format:Paperback Pages:106
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Grant Buday
ISBN:9781895636079
"Monday Night Man" is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds. Horst Nunn, Ray Bunce, and Boyle Rupp are a trio of middle-aged, underemployed...
Format:Paperback Pages:172
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Friedrich Holderlin;Michael Hamburger
ISBN:9780856462443
Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition...
Format:Hardcover Pages:748
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John Belshaw
ISBN:9781895636994
"Private Grief, Public Mourning" is an historical investigation of mourning sites and practices within the context of the province of British Columbia. The authors are concerned...
Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Heidi Greco
ISBN:9781895636437
Whether considering the simplicity of a butterfly in flight or the terror of a cancer diagnosis, Heidi Greco confronts the world head-on, yet always with the fresh eyes of the stranger in our midst. The issues she addresses belong to the world; the settings she employs are international.
At times funny and irreverent...
Format:Paperback Pages:76
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Mark Anthony Jarman
ISBN:9781895636567
Debut novel from the author of "19 Knives" and "New Orleans is Sinking." "Salvage King, Ya " is a gritty, down-to-earth story of a hockey player's last few years in the minors. Drinkwater...
Format:Paperback Pages:300
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Heather Haley
ISBN:9781895636543
Heather Haley's poetry is tough, irreverent, and in-your-face. She asks all the questions that a nice girl's not supposed to ask. Down back roads and highways...
Format:Paperback Pages:84
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Bonnie Bowman
ISBN:9781895636321
Winner of the 1999 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest
Winner: Inaugural ReLit Award, 2001
Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, "Skin" is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love story...
Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Chris Millis
ISBN:9781895636352
Winner of the 2000 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest
A capricious comedy of errors, "Small Apartments" resonates with tremulous energy and memorable characters. Franklin is a fully realized and sympathetic protagonist in the vein of Ignatius Reilly ("A Confederacy of Dunces")...
Format:Paperback Pages:128
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David Zimmerman
ISBN:9781895636420
Winner 2001 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest"
"Socket" tells the gripping tale of Ronald Percy, an international aid worker who travels to Ethiopia to assist with an irrigation project for the African Development Organization. Upon arrival...
Format:Paperback Pages:120
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Geoffrey Bromhead
ISBN:9781895636536
Meet Finnigan Heller, drifter: reclusive, abrasive, and clairvoyant. He's also been struck by lightning more times than you've had hot dinners. It happens in every town he passes through. But is he following the weather or is the weather following him?
Heller's bizarre "e;gift"e; has him on the run from a scientist...
Format:Paperback Pages:110
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Jenn Farrell
ISBN:9781897535066
"The Devil You Know" is the follow up volume to Farrell s acclaimed debut collection, "Sugar Bush Other Stories."
The stories in "The Devil You Know" deal with the familiar...
Format:Paperback Pages:125
USD $17.17
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Victor Hugo;Harry Guest
ISBN:9780856463457
Victor Hugo, the most prolific and versatile of the French Romantics, is one of the greatest nineteenth-century writers. Partly because of its enormous range and variety...
Format:Paperback Pages:250
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Susan (Ed) Musgrave;Susan Musgrave
ISBN:9781895636482
With a thousand members throughout the province, the Federation of BC Writers is one of the most active and vigorous writers' organizations in the country. "The Fed Anthology...
Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Philip Quinn
ISBN:9781897535042
"The Skeleton Dance" takes place on th emean, formerly clean streets of Toronto before the century ticked over into the new millenium. The story follows Robert Walker...
Format:Paperback Pages:168
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Sherry MacDonald
ISBN:9781895636871
The year is 1964 and first$#45;time film director Alan Schneider is about to embark on a project combining the talents of Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett. When Alan visits the home of Keaton to discuss the project...
Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Robert Strandquist
ISBN:9781897535073
Some waterbirds can live away from land for months at a time, taking all of their food and rest from the ocean. However, these birds are not true creatures of the sea...
Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Jim Christy
ISBN:9781895636499
When jazz musicians of the '30s and '40s were gettin' down, when things were really cookin' they'd say, Yeah, make it tight like that. It meant things were good...
Format:Paperback Pages:202
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Jodi Lundgren
ISBN:9781895636253
"Touched" renders the emotional and intellectual implosion experienced by Jade King, a young university student. This debut novel challenges the social stigma attached to such altered states and traces the effects of physical violation and psychic trauma...
Format:Paperback Pages:170
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Tom Cone
ISBN:9781895636529
"True Mummy" is a compelling drama, which presents provocative ideas and poses difficult questions connected to issues of life and death, morality and art...
Format:Paperback Pages:84
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Tammy Armstrong
ISBN:9781895636604
"Unravel" addresses our universal experiences of time and place, and how those places shape who and what we are. "Unravel" challenges our sometimes-complacent perceptions and justifies what we all hold dear: an address and an identity....
Format:Paperback Pages:92
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Mari-Lou Rowley
ISBN:9781895636581
"Viral Suite" explores our relationship with self, other, environment, space, and time. The sensual and the cerebral. How the we/here/now is evolving and mutating with each downloaded packet....
Format:Paperback Pages:100
USD $14.05
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Grant Buday
ISBN:9781895636208
Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize
A blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery. Dickensian in magnitude...
Format:Paperback Pages:294
USD $15.16
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Mark Harris
ISBN:9781897535035
Pacific Cinematheque Monograph Series #2 features Nettie Wild, one of the leading documentarians working in Western Canadian cinema today. Her work and her interests span the globe and also encompass issues of regional interest to the broader Western Canadian/British Columbian community. She is best known for her feature length documentary films...
Format:Paperback Pages:111
USD $16.10
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Rod Filbrandt
ISBN:9781897535301
"Wombat" is a cartoon strip from Vancouver artist Rod Filbrandt and the precursor to his long lived and much loved strip, "Dry Shave." In "Wombat: The Collected Comic Strip" the reader witnesses the development of a cartoon strip and the characters that fill its frames...
Format:Paperback Pages:143
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