Fiction. Mystery. Jack Minyard is a Private Dick down on his luck. He's badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He's lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind too. After narrowly esca
In the Sedgewick lecture for 2012, Professor Deborah Cameron investigates the age-old question of whether men and women are different kinds of beings, both physically and intellectually. She begins by
Dr. Frank Arthur Calder of BC's Nisga'a First Nation was the first aboriginal person to be elected to any Canadian governing body. For twenty-six years he served as an MLA in the legislature of Britis
An old joke goes like this: What's the difference between a good girl and a nice girl? Answer: The good girl goes to a party, goes home then goes to bed, whereas the nice girl goes to the party, goes
In this new edition of Jack Hodgins' Governor Generalwinning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town
Fiction. THE INCOMPARABLES is the debut novel from the Trillium nominated author of Animal. Virginia Templar is obsessed with fabric, the texture and weight of cloth. Through fabrics, curtains, costum
Fiction. Art, love, and history furnish the setting in this tale of fate and destiny. Set in Vancouver in 1962, we follow Cyril Andrachuk, son of immigrant parents from the former Ukraine, as he makes
Fiction. Art. Illustrations by Maryanna Hardy. The characters in I'm not Scared of You or Anything are invigilators, fake martial arts experts, buskers, competitive pillow fighters, drug runners, and,
Fiction. MIRROR ON THE FLOOR was first published in 1967 by McClelland and Stewart, the first novel from a young writer named George Bowering. Now with over 100 publications to his credit, we are prou
Fiction. In this daring act of self- examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start, but still, s
Poetry. SOME BIRDS WALK FOR THE HELL OF IT is the third volume of poetry and prose from artist C.R. Avery. In his take-no-prisoners style of verse and performance, Avery celebrates the virtues of the
Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. Includes a Walking Tour map of historic Strathcona and Chinatown. History books typically show Vancouver as a pioneer city built on forestry, fisheries, and touris
Literary Nonfiction. Includes essays from Tom Carter, Aaron Chapman, Jesse Donaldson, James Johnston, Lani Russwurm, Eve Lazarus, Diane Purvey, Catherine Rose, Rosanne Sia, Jason Vanderhill, Stevie Wi
Fiction. Nate has chosen wrestler Randy Savage as his hero. As he finishes high school and Savage's popularity starts to wane, Nate begins to see the wrestler's downfall mirrored in his own life. SAVA
When sixteen-year-old Sarah from Toronto learns that she is to spend the summer with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, she is convinced that it will be the most tedious summer ever. She gets off to a r
Pete's Gold, a novel for readers ten and up, is a captivating book of adventure that will appeal in particular to boys. Armstrong takes the classic adventure story of the search for gold and updates i
Fiction. Often drawing comparisons to comic classics like John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and Charles Portis's The Dog of the South, SMALL APARTMENTS follows the misadventures of corpulen
Poetry. WOOD is a pop-culture meditation on parenthood and all its complexities and complications. In her third collection, Harper deftly inhabits the lives of sons and daughters, fathers and mothers—
This warm-hearted memoir tells the story a dream held by many North Americans: to leave a dull job and journey into the wilderness to live off the land. Sunny Wright does exactly that when she decides
Fiction. FIVE LITTLE BITCHES chronicles the intertwining lives of five young women, each of whom is plagued by her own unique demons, and all of whom are devoted to music, the punk-rock lifestyle, and
