Books that speak loudly.


The New Granville Island Market Cookbook

By (author) Judie Glick and Carol Jensson


Vancouver's Granville Island Public Market, established in 1979, is one of Canada’s largest and most popular public markets. Featuring over fifty food retailers and day vendors, the Public Market is ...more

One in Every Crowd

Stories

By (author) Ivan E. Coyote


Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's best-loved storytellers; her honest, wry, plain-spoken tales of growing up in the Yukon and living out loud on the west coast have attracted ...more

The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book

From the WTO to the G20

By (author) Gord Hill


In recent years the world has borne witness to numerous confrontations, many of them violent, between protesters and authorities at pivotal gatherings of the world's political and economic leaders. While ...more

A Little Distillery in Nowgong

By (author) Ashok Mathur


This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India from the late 1800s to present ...more

Impact

The Titanic Poems

By (author) Billeh Nickerson


Billeh Nickerson is a Vancouver-based poet well-known across Canada for his playful, witty observations on sex and culture. In Impact, his third poetry collection from Arsenal, Billeh turns his attention ...more

Hoopla

The Art of Unexpected Embroidery

By (author) Leanne Prain
Photographs by Jeff Christenson


A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Alcuin Society Book Design Award winner (1st place, reference books) Hoopla, by the co-author of the bestselling Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & ...more

V6A

Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Edited by John Mikhail Asfour and Elee Kraljii Gardiner


"V6A" is the postal prefix for what is often described as "the poorest neighbourhood in Canada"―Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). Statistics about the area depict conditions related to crime, drugs, sex work, ...more

Basement of Wolves

A novel

By (author) Daniel Allen Cox


In this taut, beautifully layered novel by Lambda Literary, ReLit, and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist Cox (Shuck, Krakow Melt), Michael-David is a paranoid actor who feels that fame has ruined him. ...more

We Sure Can!

How Jams and Pickles Are Reviving the Lure and Lore of Local Food

By (author) Sarah B. Hood


We Sure Can! celebrates the ongoing "Canvolution," in which urban "preservationists," local-food aficionados, rural picklers and jammers, and food bloggers are rediscovering the vanishing art of home canning jams, pickles, ...more

David Spaner: Something Wild at VanCity Theatre (May 2012)


David Spaner, author of Shoot It!, will present a screening of the 1961 film Something Wild at Vancouver's VanCity Theatre on May 24. ...more

Dirt Chronicles, Persistence are Lambda Award finalists (Mar 2012)


Kristyn Dunnion's story collection The Dirt Chronicles and the anthology Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme have been named Lambda Literary Award finalists. ...more

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