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Sequel to Good to Know It's been almost a year since William lost his parents and left the only life he knew for a new home in Canada. But now there's nothing William loves more than being with his two new dads. His uncle Jerry McKenzie adopted him and then married David Loewenberger, and William is learning what it means to be part of a family. But despite all the love and care the two men lavish on him, William is still lonely.

Quinn Donahue will do anyone once, so when Aaron Miller spots Quinn making his moves in a Vancouver gay bar, Aaron thinks he's found just the guy to relieve him of his unwanted virginity. Quinn, however, has apparently decided to make an exception to his usual open-bed policy. He may be an unrepentant connoisseur of one-night stands, but he's not going to disappoint a sweet kid like Aaron by giving him a hot night and then leaving while the sheets are still warm.

Callum Walker is feeling listless in his life in London. When his job takes him to Canada to install communications software for a new sports arena, he’s glad for a change of scenery. During his stay, he befriends Noah Lukas, the strikingly handsome star player of the Toronto Bobcats professional hockey team.  Callum knows nothing will ever come of it, but he can’t stop his attraction.

<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.

<p>Winner of the W.O. Mitchell/City of Calgary Award</p> <p>A debut collection, these stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall, the office, the subdivision. It’s these settings that W. Mark Giles exploits—locking his sights on eerily familiar characters, excavating their fears, intimacies, and the dark machinery behind their actions. He taps into our collective longing for moments of clarity and awe, recognizes our thwarted potential for wonder, and sees our secrets played out in cruelty.

<p>Kobzar Literary Award, Finalist</p> <p>Eric Hoffer Award, Shortlist</p> <p>City of Victoria Book Prize, Finalist</p> <p>Vancouver, summer 1962. Cyril Andrachuk and Connie Chow are seventeen and in love.</p> <p>Cyril is the only Canadian-born member of the Andrachuk family, his parents and older brother having survived Stalin’s systematic starving of the Ukraine. His brother’s brittle bones are not the only legacy of Stalin.

<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 experiments on him, befuddle him with an absurd riddle about the moon, and show him scenes from his previous lives — one as a 12th century English monk; in another he shares the ward with Albert Einstein’s son, Eduard, in the Burghölzli mental hospital.</p> <p>Through all of this, and his lengthy existential conversations with physics professor, Chesley Keeping, Owen comes to doubt the nature

<p>From the author of <i>Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit</i> and <i>Foozlers</i> comes another tale of madcap human folly.</p> <p>Louella Debra Poule is doing an eighteen-month stint on a weapons charge at a minimum-security institution up the Fraser Valley. Her drug-dealing, sometime-boyfriend Jimmy Flood and his sidekick, Blacky Harbottle, should have taken the rap, but their list of ?priors? would have put them in the slammer for quite a little stay. Louella ?did the right thing?

<p><i>Five Little Bitches</i> chronicles the rise and fall of the all-woman band, Wet Leather. Each of the women is plagued by her own unique demons, but their devotion to music and the punk lifestyle keeps them pushing on. As the band progresses, they tour Canadian, American and European towns and cities—and all the alleys, gutters, back stages, vans, hotel rooms, highways and airways in between.</p> <p>Part punk rock travelogue, <i>Five Little Bitches</i> is full-throttle grit-lit.

<p>Longlisted for the ReLit Award</p> <p>Best Fiction 2006, <i>Ottawa Xpress</i></p> <p><i>Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit</i> is a singularly Canadian novel featuring crime, culture, and sports. Written in the vein of John Kennedy Toole (<i>Confederacy of Dunces</i>) and JP Donleavy, <i>Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit</i> is set in Vancouver during an early 80s Grey Cup weekend. Tourists and sports aficionados have descended on the city in record droves.