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Wayde Compton's debut story collection is imbued with the color of speculative fiction. One strand of stories follows the emergence of a volcanic island, which alternatively becomes the site of a radical Native peoples' occupation, a real-estate development, and finally a detention center for illegal immigrants. Moving from 2001 through to 2025, The Outer Harbour is at once a history book and a cautionary tale of the future, condensing and confounding our preconceived ideas around race, migration, gentrification, and home. Wayde Compton is the author of three poetry collections.

When the first edition of Raincoast Chronicles was produced by a couple of novice publishers in the unlikely location of Pender Harbour in 1972, it boldly announced that it was going "to put BC character on the record." Printed in sepia ink and decorated with the rococo flourishes characteristic of that extravagant era, the unclassifiable journal-cum-serial-book about life on the BC coast struck a nerve and in time became something very close to what it set out to be—a touchstone of British Columbia identity.

"an excellent anthology ... a lovely project" —Silver Donald Cameron Given that Canada has the longest coastline in the world and its motto is "From Sea unto Sea," it is not surprising that virtually every Canadian writer has been inspired to write about some aspect of the sea at some point in their work. As this book shows, those watery passages are some of the very best writing the nation has produced.

A collection of connected short stories set in a fictional town in BC's Gulf Islands where attitude is everything, and everybody has one. For years "Spinner's Inlet" was a beloved serialized newspaper column created by Don Hunter that ran in the Province , Vancouver's newspaper. Eventually, Hunter compiled the columns and turned them into Spinner's Inlet , the bestselling book published in 1989. Now, thirty years later, Hunter is revisiting the quirky inhabitants of this fictional coastal community, who are ready to entertain a brand-new generation of readers.

Des personnages qui sortent des sentiers battus. Ils foncent dans la vie et se prennent en main, ou s'enfoncent et délirent. Les mots, bouillonnant telle une rivière tumultueuse, se font entraîner vers la sortie par le courant irrésistible d'un imaginaire bien singulier. Trente récits culottés, cuisinés avec autant de sensibilité que d'humour noir, sans détours ni gants blancs, épicés d'une pointe d'ironie et d'un soupçon de sarcasme. À consommer avec le sourire... ou bien l'estomac pincé.

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction - A New York Times Best Book of the Year. "A master comedian with a virtuoso prose style has produced an audacious, original and highly disturbing book...an incandescent satire." - Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine. From the Whiting and O. Henry-winning author of Private Citizens ("the first great millennial novel," New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.

A New York Times Bestseller. "This may be Towles' best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef's main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart." – Los Angeles Times. "The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into tableaus of deceit and desire. Beneath his coifed prose Towles is a master of the shiv, the bait and switch; we see the flash of light before the shock wave strikes, often in the final sentence...Table for Two delivers the kick of a martini served in the Polo Lounge." – The New York Times Book Review.

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. With an introduction by Tayari Jones. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America.

Welcome to Anoka, Minnesota, a small city just outside of the Twin Cities dubbed "The Halloween Capital of the World" since 1937. Here before you lie several tales involving bone collectors, pagan witches, werewolves, skeletal bison, and cloned children. It is up to you to decipher between fact and fiction as the author has woven historical facts into his narratives. With his debut horror collection, Cheyenne and Arapaho author Shane Hawk explores themes of family, grief, loneliness, and identity through the lens of indigenous life.

Here there be gods and monsters—forged from flesh and stone and vengeance—emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavour is tested to the limits. These are cosmic realms and watery domains where old offerings no longer appease the ancient Gods or the new and hungry idols. Deities and beasts. Life and death. Love and hate. Science and magic. And smiling monsters in human skin.