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White Lie by Clint Burnham 9781772141740
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Part travelogue, part autofiction, part record of living under Western regimes that torture, kidnap, and murder its own citizens and those who wish to cross its borders, White Lie is a collection of... -
Sugar Bush & Other Stories: Stories of Sex, Discovery, & Emancipation on the Canadian Shield by Jenn Farrell 9781895636765
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03The stories in 'Sugar Bush & Other Stories' deal with gender relations, love, and sex in a frank way. Most of the pieces feature female protagonists who navigate their young adult years in some... -
Afflictions & Departures by Madeline Sonik 9781897535677
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14'Afflictions & Departures' is a collection of first-person experiential essays by writer and academic Madeline Sonik. Although Sonik explores some of the salient personal experiences of her young... -
Lonesome Monsters by Bud Osborn 9781895636086
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.58'Lonesome Monsters' is a collection of prose and poetry from Vancouver writer Bud Osborn. Mr. Osborn's writing is as much chronicle, confession, testimony, as it is poetry-an unwavering account of... -
No Flash, Please!: Underground Music in Toronto, 1987-92 by Derek von Essen 9781772140378
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $20.09The music scene in the mid-eighties was in transition, just as the entire music business was, unaware that it was all about to change in 1991 when Nirvana's watershed release, Nevermind would... -
I Cut My Finger by Stuart Ross 9781895636796
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03'I Cut My Finger' is Stuart Ross's first full-length poetry collection since his acclaimed 'Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected' (2003). The poems here show Ross's ever-expanding breadth,... -
Chalk by Doug Diaczuk 9781772140781
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Winner of the 38th Annual 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest "You" and L, a mysterious third gender runaway, hit the road on a mission to find the meaning of life. Traveling by plane, bus and car, You run... -
Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse by Kevin Spenst 9781772141498
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66In language that twists together hobo slang and flights of troubadourish diction, Hearts Amok scrutinizes the history of the love sonnet in Surrey, England and simultaneously celebrates the tickings... -
Trobairitz by Catherine Owen 9781897535974
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Twenty-first century metalheads; twelfth century troubadours and their female counterparts, the trobairitz- what could they possibly have in common? The creation of an often misunderstood and at... -
Siren Tattoo: a poetry triptych by Heidi Greco 9781895636048
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.58An often challenging, sometimes harsh book of disparate poetic images, this triptych travels the full arc through desire, lust, loss, memory, anger, discovery, and celebration. From the distinctly... -
Body Speaking Words by Loree Harrell 9781895636093
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76'Body Speaking Words' is a novel about-what else-writing a novel in three days, at the same time offering insights into family, friendship, growing up female, and delighting in strange foods; a... -
This Drawn & Quartered Moon by klipschutz 9781927380451
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66This Drawn & Quartered Moon takes pre-millenial San Francisco as its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named... -
Stolen by Annette Lapointe 9781927380499
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14Rowan Friesen has made a career of drug dealing and small-time thievery. He lives a loners life on the outer reaches of Saskatoon, selling cystal meth to highschoolers and hawking his pilfered loot... -
Whitetail Shooting Gallery by Annette Lapointe 9781897535981
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14'Whitetail Shooting Gallery', a new novel from award-winning author and Giller Prize nominee, Annette Lapointe, is set in the outer urban, often desolate, landscape of the Saskatchewan prairie... -
Ignite by Kevin Spenst 9781772140538
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66A finalist for the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, Ignite is a collection of elegiac and experimental poetry powder-kegged with questions about one man's lifelong struggle with schizophrenia. Born into a... -
Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960 John Belshaw 9781897535837
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.84'Vancouver Noir' looks at the period from the 1930s to the 1960s, an era in which there was intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and restrictions. These are visions of the city,... -
The Devil You Know by Jenn Farrell 9781897535066
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85'The Devil You Know' is the follow-up volume to Farrell's acclaimed debut collection, 'Sugar Bush & Other Stories'. The stories in 'The Devil You Know' deal with the familiar, yet ever-engrossing,... -
Mutant Sex Party by Ed Macdonald 9781897535936
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85'Mutant Sex Party' is Ed Macdonald's first collection of plays. As well as the title piece, this collection includes 'The Escape Artist, Erratica, Gemini, Smoke & Blood, Hot Meat,' and 'Titus... -
Brave New Play Rites: Highlights plays from UBC's Creative Writing Department by Bryan Wade 9781895636758
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.44'Brave New Play Rites' presents twenty years of original and startling theatre from Canadas best young writers. The book is a collection of short one-act plays written by students in the Creative... -
Cabalcor: An Extracted History by Sun Belt 9781772140033
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.62The debut work by Sun Belt is a genre-bending almanac depicting the rise and fall of a company town that, within the span of a century, becomes a desert wasteland. A full-length album of dusty,... -
Who Killed Janet Smith? by Edward Starkins 9781897535851
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.62'Who Killed Janet Smith?' examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian History: the 1924 murder of twenty-two-year-old Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith. Originally... -
Snatch by Judy MacInnes Jr. 9781895636277
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76'Snatch' is a hilarious and creepy collection of poems that may not even be poetry at all. Like a comic novel from an alternate universe, or a fragmented hoax of an autobiography, 'Snatch' picks at... -
Sensational Vancouver by Eve Lazarus 9781927380987
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.62History books typically show Vancouver as a pioneer city built on forestry, fisheries, and tourism, but behind the snow-capped mountains and rain forests, the Vancouver of the first half of the 20th... -
The Song Collides by Calvin Wharton 9781897535684
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85'The Song Collides' takes the reader on a highly personal and internal metaphysical investigation into the state of the natural world-and then back again via more lyrical and local enquiries that... -
Vancouver Confidential by John Belshaw 9781927380994
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14Most civic histories celebrate progress, industry, order, and vision. This isn't one of those. Vancouver Confidential is a collaboration of artists and writers who plumb the shadows of civic memory... -
True Mummy: A Play by Tom Cone 9781895636529
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76'True Mummy' is a compelling drama, which presents provocative ideas and poses difficult questions connected to issues of life and death, morality and art, ritual versus utilitarianism, and the... -
Unravel by Tammy Armstrong 9781895636604
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85'Unravel' addresses our universal experiences of time and place, and how those places shape who and what we are. 'Unravel' challenges our sometimes-complacent perceptions and justifies what we all... -
Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer by Stuart Ross 9781772140187
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is a continuation of the columns and essays that comprised Stuart's 2005 release, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Again, equal parts literary... -
Suburban Pornography by Matthew Firth 9781895636772
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66'Suburban Pornography' is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped-minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories revolve... -
Budge by Tom Osborne 9781897535998
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14From the author of 'Dead Man In the Orchestra Pit' and 'Foozlers', comes another tale of madcap human folly. Louella Debra Poule is doing an eighteen-month stint on a weapons charge at a minimum... -
Spat the Dummy by Ed Macdonald 9781897535318
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14At forty, deeply iconoclastic Spat Ryan is recently divorced, unemployed, and frequently intoxicated. Inspired by the cliche "we're only as sick as our secrets," he decides to reveal himself a piece... -
Bounce House by Jennica Harper 9781772141405
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Bounce House is a collection of small containers for the uncontainable. Restrained in form but not feeling, Harper's fourth book explores the cyclical nature of grief, imperfect parenting, and our... -
Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer by Stuart Ross 9781895636659
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85'Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer' is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade. Ross has been active in the Canadian literary underground for a quarter... -
Monday Night Man by Grant Buday 9781895636079
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39'Monday Night Man' is a back alley view of East Vancouver netherworlds. Horst Nunn, Ray Bunce, and Boyle Rupp are a trio of middle-aged, underemployed, intelligent "plungers" striving for redemption... -
Struck: 25th annual 3-day novel contest winner! by Geoffrey Bromhead 9781895636536
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76Meet Finnigan Heller, drifter: reclusive, abrasive, and clairvoyant. He's also been struck by lightning more times than you've had hot dinners. It happens in every town he passes through. But is he... -
Tacones: High Heels by Todd Klinck 9781895636840
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85'Tacones' is a hangout for a subculture of outlaws and rejects-crackhead murderers, transvestite prostitutes, biastogerontophiles, hustler boys, and addicts-all painfully beyond denial, searching for... -
The Beautiful Dead End by Clint Hutzulak 9781895636390
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03'The Beautiful Dead End' is a visceral crime thriller that takes the reader on an existential journey to the "other side" and almost back again. In a bizarre, shadowy interzone populated by... -
Suicide Psalms by Mari-Lou Rowley 9781895636925
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03'Suicide Psalms' is both hymn and visceral scream-of loss, despair, hope and ultimately redemption. These poems are drawn out with quick precision, as if they were indeed written in haste, or... -
I'm Not Scared of You or Anything by Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781927380949
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14The characters in I'm not Scared of You or Anything are invigilators, fake martial arts experts, buskers, competitive pillow fighters, drug runners, and, of course, grad students. This collection of... -
Straight Circles by Jackie Bateman 9781772141146
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14IPPY Gold Medal (Independent Publisher Book Awards). Domestic satire meets gripping suspense in Straight Circles, the final, explosive chapter of The Lizzy Trilogy. The original and eccentric cast of...