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What will endure...love, revenge, or Archibald? It's the summer of 1990 in West Vancouver.

Hilarity and queer magic realism twist the throttle when Jackie, a loner with a secret bank-robbing persona, meets Vespa: sexy, sculpture-welding artist and collector of vintage motorbikes.

Robin MacFarland is a smart, funny, self-deprecating journalist who works for the Home and Garden section of a major Toronto newspaper while she grapples hilariously with her weight, drinking and s

Christian McPherson's second collection of short stories serves up a boozy menu of mixed cocktails.

Meet Marcus O, a man who's feeling older but not much wiser as he sets jaded eyes on that last vigorous stretch before the dreaded sunset years.

The stories in Farnsworth’s The Things She’ll Be Leaving Behind explore what it means to be a woman in the modern world, struggling against circumstances that are often unfair, inexplicable, and de

Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once renound for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he struggles to stage a single play.

Every writer know you can't go home again. But that's just what is required of West Texas expatriate Dee Bennett-Kaufmann when her mother is badly injured in a mysterious car accident.

Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as trusted companion and partner to P.I.

Partonville marks its centennial plus thirty--by arguing over the best way to celebrate it.

A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives a couple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world.

"Stupendous...' novel that seems to have been created in real time, reflecting with perfect comedy and horrible tragedy exactly what America feels like right this minute."'Elizabeth Gilbert The be

Don't leave Earth without this hilarious international bestseller about the end of the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow ...

On a Caribbean island, we meet Felix Hoenikker, a physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic bomb.