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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.

A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost." Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination.

In a series of reflections focused on his uneducated yet hard-working Mennonite family and touching on childhood exploits from shoplifting and go-kart racing to the juvenile fear of dying (which sp

After her mothers suicide, Maja Cleary turned her back on her family and Duved Cove, Minnesotauntil a desperate phone call reveals that her father has been murdered and her brother Jonas is the pri

The untold story of scandal and political intrigue in early Toronto. Anna Jameson arrives in the tiny settlement of Toronto in November, 1836.

Inspector Green explores a web of betrayal and deceit. In the dead of night, the phone rings in the missing persons unit of the Ottawa Police.

Anger is simmering under the bucolic facade of Tanglewood vineyard… All Ben Taylor wants is to get away from the police force where he worked undercover for years.