Contemporary Canadian Literature with a Distinctly Urban Twist
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Mayan Horror: How To Survive the End of the World in 2012
Non-Fiction | Bob Robertson
November 2011 | 160 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-87-5
$16 CAN / $16 US
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A Credit To Your Race
Fiction | Truman Green
October 2011 | 160 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-86-8
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Who Killed Janet Smith?
Non-Fiction | Edward Starkins
October 2011 | 406 pp | 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-897535-85-1
$24 CAN / $24 US
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Shag Carpet Action
Fiction | Matthew Firth
October 2011 | 160 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-84-4
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960
Non-Fiction | Diane Purvey & John Belshaw
November 2011 | 224 pp | 7.5 x 9.5
ISBN 978-1-897535-83-7
$25 CAN / $25 US
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Exit
Fiction | Nelly Arcan (translated by David Scott Hamilton)
Spring 2011 | 192 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-66-0
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Hard Hed
Fiction | Charles Tidler
Spring 2011 | 192 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-69-1
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Afflictions & Departures
Non-Fiction | Madeline Sonik
Spring 2011 | 184 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-67-7
$20 CAN / $20 US
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The Song Collides
Poetry | Calvin Wharton
Spring 2011 | 80 pp | 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-68-4
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Galaxy
Poetry | Rachel Thompson
Spring 2011 | 104 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-71-4
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Nondescript Rambunctious
Fiction | Jackie Bateman
Spring 2011 | 204 pp | 5.5 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-70-7
$20 CAN / $20 US
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The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers
Non-Fiction | Myrl Coulter
Spring 2011 | 214 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-72-1
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Ravenna Gets (Winner, 2011 ReLit Award!)
Fiction | Tony Burgess
Fall 2010 | 96 pp | 5.25 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-32-5
$16 CAN / $16 US
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The Mountie at Niagara Falls
Fiction | Salvatore Difalco
Fall 2010 | 144 pp | 5.5 x 8
ISBN 978-1-897535-33-2
$18 CAN / $18 US
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Vs. (Finalist, Acorn-Plantos Award)
Poetry | Kerry Ryan
Fall 2010 | 96 pp | 5 x 7
ISBN 978-1-897535-34-9
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Spaz
Fiction | Bonnie Bowman
Fall 2010 | 368 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-27-1
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Spat the Dummy
Fiction | Ed Macdonald
Fall 2010 | 272 pp | 5.25 x 8.25
ISBN 978-1-897535-31-8
$20 CAN / $20 US
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Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature
Non-Fiction | Trevor Carolan
Fall 2010 | 272 pp | 5.75 x 8.75
ISBN 978-1-897535-29-5
$20 CAN / $20 US
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A Room in the City
Art/Photography | Gabor Gasztonyi
September 2010 | 160 pp | 7 x 11
ISBN 978-1-897535-28-8
$40 CAN / $40 US
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The Devil You Know
Fiction | Jenn Farrell
Spring 2010 | 128 pp | 5.75 x 8
ISBN 9781897535066
$16 CAN / $16 US
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Wombat: The Collected Comic Strip
Art/Photography | Rod Filbrandt
Spring 2010 | 144 | 5.75 x 7.75
ISBN 9781897535301
$16.00 CAN / $16.00 US
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Afflictions & Departures
By Madeline SonikAfflictions & Departures is a collection of first-person experiential essays. However, this is not the realm of traditional memoir—in addition to incidents and feelings recaptured from memory, Sonik seeks out connections between the microcosm of the daily events of her childhood and adolescence, and the social, historical, and scientific trends of the time.
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A Credit To Your Race
By Truman GreenSet in Surrey, BC circa 1960, A Credit to Your Race is a story about innocent love awakening between a fifteen-year-old black porter’s son and the white girl next door. The novel is a disturbing and convincing portrayal of how the full weight of racism and bigotry came to bear on a youthful, interracial couple.
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The Devil You Know
By Jenn FarrellThese stories deal with sex, love, work, birth, and death in alternately moving, shocking, funny, and at times devastating ways. Whether these characters are facing the death of a parent, bad love choices, the possibility of unwanted pregnancy, the rupture of friendships, teen violence, or the exploration of sado-masochistic sex, Farrell exposes their ticking cores and pulls the reader along every step of the way.
“Farrell excels at very short, sharply realized tales that display a startling repertoire of styles and structural innovations.”
— Vancouver Review
Make no mistake; The Devil You Know belongs on the shelf alongside Nights Below Station Street.
— Elizabeth Bachinsky
Exit
By Nelly Arcan (translated by David Scott Hamilton)Exit is at once a profound examination of what it is that drives someone to want to end their life, as well as how that urge can be turned on its head against all odds. Written with her signature brio and acerbic wit, Nelly Arcan’s last novel is a hymn to life.
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Galaxy
By Rachel ThompsonGalaxy is “emotional biography”—as Magaret Laurence called it—(Sometimes I have breathed flame, / I admit that my words—provoked— / have burned) where the facts are fabricated (“tell it slant,” said Emily Dickinson), but the feelings are authentic.
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