Anticipated Results

By Dennis E. Bolen
Categories: All Titles, Fiction

Here are some lost members of the Boomer Generation-chronic underachievers
at work and love-recurring characters in Dennis E. Bolen's Anticipated Results, his first story collection with Arsenal Pulp ...

As Fresh As It Gets

By Star Spilos & Christian Gaudreault
Categories: Cooking

Bronze Winner, Independent Publisher Book Award, Best Cookbook

Received an Honourable Mention from the 2007 Cuisine Canada Award in the category of Canadian Food Culture

Named one of the best cookbooks ...

A Feast for All Seasons

By Andrew George Jr. & Robert Gairns
Categories: Cooking, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

Traditional North American Native peoples'
cuisine has existed for centuries, but its central
tenet of respecting nature and its bounty have
never been as timely as they are now. Andrew
George, of the ...

Artificial Cherry

By Billeh Nickerson
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Poetry

Finalist, Vancouver Book Award

Billeh Nickerson is one of Canada's showiest poets; colourful, witty, and wise, with undertones of sexy. By turns outlandish and poignant, Artificial Cherry heralds the return ...

Automaton Biographies

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Automaton Biographies is the first full-length solo poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl).

With an ear to the white ...

A Modern Life

Edited by Ian Thom & Alan Elder
Categories: British Columbia, Visual Arts, Canada

In 1949, the forest magnate, H. R. MacMillan, opened an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery entitled "Design for Living," a show which brought together design and artistic communities to create four ...

a place called No Homeland

By Kai Cheng Thom
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Poetry

Winner, Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers; American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book; Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle Award for ...

A Little Rebellion

By Bridget Moran
Categories: Canada, British Columbia, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Biography & Memoir, History, Social Issues

In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W. A.C. Bennett, charging the welfare department with gross neglect ...

A Very Lonely Planet

By Ryan Bigge
Categories: Humour, Popular Culture

Welcome to the Very Lonely Planet: the kingdom of single guydom, a place for men to discuss women problems--the problem being, there aren't any women. It's a place where doggy-style sex means drooling ...

Bad Jobs

Edited by Carellin Brooks
Categories: Humour, Anthologies, Social Issues, Popular Culture

Bad Jobs is an anthology of tales--both humorous and tragic--about the worst jobs people have ever held.
This collection of stories, comics, and photographs depict, in gory true-life detail, examples ...