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Time of the Kingfishers
A rich, elegiac novel about family, friendship, and loyalty featuring Watmough's protagonist Davey Bryant. As the compassionate and witty narrator, Davey leads the reader through various upheavals in the life he shares with Ken, his companion, and their friends. At the heart of their journeys is Davey's own plaintive recollections of a past we all …
The Little Black Leather Book of Rock 'n' Roll
Quotations on the mythology, sensation, and hype that is rock music.
I won't be happy until I'm as famous as God. “Madonna
Little Lavender Book
Historically revealing quotations tracing the evolution of gay and lesbian desire amid the myriad struggles for acceptance.
I am the love that dare not speak its name. -Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover
Imagining Ourselves
Imagining Ourselves gathers together selections from Canadian non-fiction books that in some way have had a major impact on how we view ourselves as Canadians, revealing how the national identity has been shaped and informed by the written word. Included are selections from such well-known Canadian books as Wild Animals I Have Known (Ernest Thomas …
I Can Fix Anything
These disarming, dark-humoured stories are populated by men and women who are strangers to each other as well as to themselves, grappling with rules of conduct in order to find reasonable ways to live their lives. In these strange, intensely personal worlds, the lines between bliss and heartache, between landscape and dreamscape, are increasingly b …
Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City
For better or worse, postmodernism has become the master concept for thinking about the culture of our time. Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City examines how Vancouver has been represented through literary and iconic narratives of power, morality, and ethnicity. Included are essays on the city and its representations in architecture, litera …
Witness to Wilderness
An all-star collection of essays, poems, and photographs by 120 writers and artists to celebrate the ancient forests of Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island. Contributors include: Don Coles, Susan Crean, Lorna Crozier, Des Kennedy, Joy Kogawa, Patrick Lane, Mary Meigs, Susan Musgrave, P.K. Page, Al Purdy, Raeside, Phyllis Webb, and George and Inge W …
Tender Agencies
Tender Agencies explores the ephemeral yet tangible presence of language in our lives, and the manipulation of language and meaning; chaotic, confrontational, and laced with black humour.
Queeries
The first anthology of gay male prose ever published in Canada, acknowledging the dynamic growth of innovative and politically concerned writing from Canada's gay male community. The AIDS crisis and its devastating effects on the gay community have politicized and invigorated gay culture beyond the spectre of sexuality. The gay community has respon …
The Little Book of Wrinkles
Getting older is not one of life's greatest pleasures. Or is it? Judge for yourself with The Little Book of Wrinkles, a charming and enlightening elixir on getting old(er).
If you survive long enough you're revered-rather like an old building. -
Lucille Ball
Shades
A mass murderer, a musician, a dominatrix, and a private eye gather around a game of Snakes and Ladders on New Year's Day. Lenore is waiting to murder, A.J. is waiting to die, Roxanne waits to usher in the end of the world. And all McGraw wants for Christmas is Doctor Tin. Some of them will die. Some of them have died before.
Enter, if you will, t …
Guy's Guide to the Flipside
A visionary tour of Vancouver's "other side--the bars, coffee shops, strip clubs, dog salons, and other assorted entertainments and diversions in the heart of Lotusland.
The Little Blue Book of UFOs
Quotations, both speculative and factual, on the important debate over the existence of unidentified flying objects in Canada.
A Little Rebellion
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 in addressing the problems of the province's needy. This very public dispute formed a small part of Bridget Moran's "little rebellion" against a sy …
Don't Say No Just Let Go
POWER PARENTING!
Like you, Maria Von Couver has learned the hard way that pleasing, crying, threatening, and understanding are equally ineffective in dealing with your teens. That's why she's developed the Power Parenting method, which teaches you how not to deal with your teens. A few of Maria's revolutionary techniques: Co-Teening No More!; Goo …
Dog Years
A remarkable novel that tests the relationship between free will and moral responsibility within the context of the AIDS crisis. An HIV-positive man seeks to come to terms with a life not fully lived through his encounters with a beautiful young man and his sister in the Ukraine.
NESA Activities Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 2
This is the second of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.
The Native Education Services Associat …
Quotations For A Nation
Canada has always been something other than what it might seem to be. This collection is a contribution to the official discussion of who we are.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
-Al Capone
NESA Activities Handbook for Native and Multicultural Classrooms, Volume 3
This is the third of three volumes of educational activities for use in First Nations and multicultural classrooms. The activities stress the importance of culture in students' lives, and teaches them basic personal and community-related skills so they may become more self-reliant and culturally responsible.
The Native Education Services Associate …
Company Town
The poetic record of the last year in the life of a fictional salmon cannery on the northern coast of British Columbia: a remarkable, multi-voiced document that, in text and photographs, tells the poignant tale, through Turner's anthropological insight, of an industry and a culture under siege.
Judgement at Stoney Creek
Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC. The resulting inquest into what might have been ju …
Resistance and Renewal
One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School(KIRS) in the British Columbia interior. Interviews with thirteen Natives, all former residents of KIRS, form the nucleus of the book, a fra …
Stoney Creek Woman
The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective. A mother of twelve, Mary endured much tragedy and heartbreak--the pangs of racism, poverty, and the deaths of six children--but …
How It All Began
How It All Began is the personal testimony of Michael "Bommi" Baumann, a man who, in the late 1960s and early '70s, was a member of the June 2nd Movement, one of the most spectacular urban guerrilla organizations in West Berlin.Of this book, Baumann said: "Others should understand why people take the road of armed struggle, how they come to it, ho …