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Kaspoit! by Dennis E. Bolen 9781897535059
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14'Kaspoit!' is a novel of our times, told in the language of our times. It's set in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver. The time is now and gangland crime is rampant. Seemingly random murders and... -
The Most Heartless Town in Canada by Elaine McCluskey 9781772140354
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14Myrtle is not one of those communities with a town historian or a roster of famous residents. Myrtle does, however, have a poultry plant, and looming above the plant are the eagles, massive birds... -
Door is Open, The by Bart Campbell 9781895636369
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85'The Door Is Open' is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver's downtown eastside. In an area... -
Frenzy by Catherine Owen 9781897535004
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03In Greek mythology the muses preside over the arts and inspire writers and artists to produce works of genius. In 'Frenzy', Catherine Owen pays homage to the muses in a six-part compilation of... -
Escape from Wreck City by John Creary 9781772140965
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66da Vinci Eye Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards. Escape from Wreck City is a debut collection of poetry from Calgary author John Creary. There are poems about nature, poems about love and relationships,... -
Sleep of Four Cities, The by Jen Currin 9781895636703
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03Powered by lush imagery and lyricism, the poems in 'The Sleep of Four Cities' use the city as a metaphor for the complexity of self. This book invites the reader to take a journey through multiple... -
Intensive Care: A Memoir by Alan Twigg 9781895636475
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76One night in April, after a Sunday soccer game, Alan Twigg couldn't remember the names of his two sons or his wife-and he couldn't hold a pen. An emergency CAT scan revealed a large brain tumour... -
Ruby, Ruby by Bradley Harris 9781895636239
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76Meet Jack Minyard, a nice, liberal, milk-drinking, hockey-playing white-bread Canuck from Saskatoon who's stuck down in Memphis, Tennessee workin' for a security company and moonlighting as a private... -
You Exist. Details Follow. by Stuart Ross 9781897535929
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85Each new volume by Stuart Ross is a more confounding grab bag than the last. In 'You Exist. Details Follow.', his seventh full-length collection of poetry, Stuart Ross veers in opposite directions:... -
Skin by Bonnie Bowman 9781895636321
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, 'Skin' is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love... -
Wood by Jennica Harper 9781927380642
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prizes) Wood is a pop-culture meditation on parenthood and all its complexities and complications. In her third collection, Harper deftly inhabits the... -
Singer, An Elegy by George Fetherling 9781895636611
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76'Singer, An Elegy' is a long poem memorializing the author's father and, equally, the now-obsolete industrial culture that shaped him. 'Singer, An Elegy' has rhetorical lightning flashes but aspires... -
Valery The Great by Elaine McCluskey 9781897535899
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14'Valery the Great' is a crackling, electric collection of dark humour that follows the bizarre and beautiful lives of its eccentric protagonists. Sometimes sweet and gentle, sometimes sharply... -
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... -
Serpentine Loop by Elee Kraljii Gardiner 9781772140545
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66"Writers, like skaters, score the blank sheet and test the edge of inclusion and exclusion. Most of these poems begin with a word from skating and push off to another topic. Others revisit ideas of... -
The Encyclopedia of Lies by Christopher Gudgeon 9781772140750
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14In these sixteen stories, Christopher Gudgeon, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Song of Kosovo, takes a heartbreaking and hilarious look into the lives, loves, sexual obsessions and... -
Black Rabbit: & Other Stories by Salvatore Difalco 9781895636789
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03'Black Rabbit & Other Stories' is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike possibility... -
Garage Criticism: Missives in the Age of Distraction by Peter Babiak 9781772140507
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) In Garage Criticism Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural sacred cows of our time. From Fifty Shades of Grey ("Hot for Teacher:... -
Jettison by Nathaniel G. Moore 9781772140477
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.14Nathaniel G. Moore follows up his 2014 ReLit Award win for Savage with a diverse collection of short fiction, his first, Jettison, featuring stories which dangle somewhere between horror and romance... -
A Small Dog Barking: & Other Stories by Robert Strandquist 9781895636697
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03Following the success of his novel, 'The Dreamlife of Bridges', Robert Strandquist makes a much-awaited return to the short story form. As always, Strandquist's works explores relationships both... -
Assdeep In Wonder by Christopher Gudgeon 9781772140521
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Assdeep in Wonder is a collection of new poems that explore the idea of identity in a myriad of contexts: personal, sexual, cultural, national, literary, and poetic. The poems are raw and immediate,... -
Touched: a Novel by Jodi Lundgren 9781895636253
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39'Touched' renders the emotional and intellectual implosion experienced by Jade King, a young university student. This debut novel challenges the social stigma attached to such altered states and... -
Bogman's Music by Tammy Armstrong 9781895636376
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76'Bogman's Music' is a debut collection of poetry that is both elegiac and sensitive in its exploration of family dynamics, the enduring power of childhood experience, and the healing ability of faith... -
Vs. by Kerry Ryan 9781897535349
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85'Vs.' is a collection of poems chronicling the author's foray into the world of amateur boxing. A shy, bookish woman you'd never expect could hit someone in the face, Ryan was soon hooked on the... -
Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food by Rachel Rose 9781772141016
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.84Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food will bring to the table some of Canada's best contemporary writers, celebrating all that is unique about Vancouver's literary and culinary scene... -
Wild at Heart: The Films of Nettie Wild by Mark Harris 9781897535035
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.74Pacific Cinematheque Monograph Series #2 features Nettie Wild, one of the leading documentarians working in Western Canadian cinema today. Her work and her interests span the globe and also encompass... -
A Credit to Your Race by Truman Green 9781897535868
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.66A longtime resident of Surrey, Truman Green wrote 'A Credit to Your Race' (1973), in which a fifteen-year-old black porter's son falls in love with, and impregnates, the white girl next door. Set in...