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<p>The year is 1964 and first-time film director Alan Schneider is about to embark on a project combining the talents of Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett.

<p>Dodging down back-alleys in bomb-torn Beirut. Wheeling past God and traffic in Mombassa, Kenya.

<p><i>Atomic Storybook</i> is a novel about a young painter named Owen who is regularly abducted by beings he calls “the space pricks.” These otherworldly visitors perform experim

<p>Kobzar Literary Award, Finalist</p> <p>Eric Hoffer Award, Shortlist</p> <p>City of Victoria Book Prize, Finalist</p> <p>Vancouver, summer 1962.

<p>Winner of the W.O.

<p>Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize</p> <p>Finalist, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction</p> <p>Nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian No

<p>In prose that’s as sharp as broken glass and shot through with poetry, Teresa McWhirter unlocks the extraordinary subculture of urban adults in their twenties and early thirties.

Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, Mr.

Being expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution. But it was also the only way a man could qualify for&#x2014;The Legion of Lazarus

Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasts a thousand moons...

A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845.

The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History is a 1909 book by James E.

A collection of twelve heart warming stories for children.

Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick.

Fifty years ago the word &#x201c;Byzantine&#x201d; was used as a synonym for all that was corrupt and decadent, and the tale of the East-Roman Empire was dismissed by modern historians as d