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Series: Beauty Plus Pity Paperback Kevin Chong 9781551524160 $17.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2011

"Beauty plus pity--that is the closest we can get to a definition of art." --Vladimir Nabokov In this tragicomic modern immigrant’s tale, Malcolm Kwan is a slacker twentysomething Asian-Canadian living in Vancouver who is about to embark on a modelling career when his life is suddenly derailed by two near-simultaneous events: the death of his filmmaker father, and the betrayal of his fiancée who has left him. Soon he meets Hadley, the half-sister he never knew existed--the result of his father’s extramarital affair--and as their tentative relat... + Read More
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Series: A Little Distillery in Nowgong Paperback Ashok Mathur 9781551524610 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2012

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 day. The narrative follows the family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America. The novel begins in 1899 with the birth of a boy named Jamshed to a rural Parsi family in central India. As he com... + Read More
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Series: After Delores With a new introduction by the author. Paperback Sarah Schulman 9781551525150 $15.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2013

Sarah Schulman's surprising novel about a brokenhearted waitress looking for love in New York's Lower East Side. In this new edition of Sarah Schulman's acclaimed 1988 novel, the unnamed narrator is a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in New York's bohemian Lower East Side who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her for another woman. Over the course of a few days, she goes on the prowl looking for love, only to find herself immersed in a tangled web of seduction, deceit, and murder. Along the way, she meets a diverse ... + Read More
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Series: American Whiskey Bar Revised edition Paperback Michael Turner 9781551521596 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2004

American Whiskey Bar is a remarkable faux memoir about the un-making of a film--a film which Michael Turner was commissioned to write. However, whether or not this film was ever made is debatable. And only one print is said to exist. Nevertheless, American Whiskey Bar, a film seen by only a handful of people, is well on its way to becoming a curious footnote to cinematic history. American Whiskey Bar, the book, is an attempt to set the record straight--a story of sex, violence, lies, ambition, power, paradox, dreams, and regret. Consider yours... + Read More
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Series: Anatomy of a Girl Gang Paperback Ashley Little 9781551525297 $17.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2013

A sharp and gritty novel told in multiple voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful story of a gang of teenage girls in Vancouver called the Black Roses, a.k.a. "the city?s worst nightmare": Mac, the self-appointed leader and mastermind; Mercy, the Punjabi princess with a skill for theft; Kayos, a high-school dropout who gave birth to a daughter at age thirteen; Sly Girl, who fled her First Nations reserve for a better life, only to find depravity and addiction; and Z, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist. Cast out by mainstream society, the... + Read More
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Series: and a body to remember with Paperback Carmen Rodriguez 9781551520445 $12.95 USD FICTION Sep 01, 1997

and a body to remember with effectively combines elements of our Pulp past and Arsenal Pulp present. This is a collection of stories about rebellion and activism, while at the same time stories about the immigrant experience and emotional turmoil. Carmen Rodríguez explores place and language in this illuminating short-story collection based on her life as a political exile in Canada. The stories also form an intriguing document of self-translation: Carmen has lived in Chile and Canada, speaks Spanish and English, has written these stories in... + Read More
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Series: Anticipated Results Paperback Dennis E. Bolen 9781551524009 $18.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2011

Here are some lost members of the Boomer Generation-chronic underachievers at work and love-recurring characters in Dennis E. Bolen's Anticipated Results, his first story collection with Arsenal Pulp Press. Seeking solace in each other's dysfunctional company; conducting ill-organized interventions; throwing disastrous dinner parties; trying to fix their cars: all the disparate behaviours of a societal subset whose demeanour masks a disquieting rage at how they've lost their way and an impotent desire to try to find it again. Written with un... + Read More
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Series: Basement of Wolves A novel Paperback Daniel Allen Cox 9781551524467 $15.95 FICTION Mar 12, 2012

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. When a film shoot with wolves for co-stars takes a troubling turn, he disappears shortly before the premiere and barricades himself in an L.A. hotel, convinced that he's cursed and must ride it out in hiding. There he befriends a skateboarder whose curious knowledge of chemicals can only mean protection for the both of them. Meanwhile, the film's direc... + Read More
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Series: Little Sister's Classics Blackbird New edition Paperback Larry Duplechan 9781551522029 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2006

First published by St. Martin's Press in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset over losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet. As if that weren't enough, his best friend has been beaten badly by his father, and his girlfriend is pressuring him to have sex for the first time. All the while, he's intrigued by Marshall MacNeill, whom he meets at an audition and is surely the sexiest ... + Read More
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Series: Bluesprint Black British Columbian Literature and Orature Paperback Wayde Compton 9781551521183 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 01, 2002

In the spring and summer of 1858, 600 blacks moved from San Francisco to the colonies that would eventually become British Columbia. The move was in part initiated by an invitation penned by the governor of the British colonies, James Douglas, who is commonly believed to have had African ancestry, a rumour he neither confirmed nor denied. His appearance was such that he could "pass" for white. By 1871, after swelling to over 1,000, the Black population in BC had dwindled to fewer than 500. But in the late 19th century, and on into the twentieth... + Read More
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Series: Blue Is the Warmest Color Paperback Jul Maroh 9781551525143 $19.95 Sep 01, 2013

A New York Times bestseller The live-action French film version of Blue is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude, Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar wher... + Read More
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Series: Bow Grip Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551522135 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2006

Winner of the ReLit Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for Women's Fiction An American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book Ivan E. Coyote is acclaimed as one of North America's most beguiling storytellers; Ivan's honest, down-to-earth tales, many of which are based on personal experience, are compelling for their simple human truths. Ivan's 2005 story collection, Loose End, was also shortlisted for the prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction. Bow Grip, Ivan's long-awaited first novel, is a breathtaking story... + Read More
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Series: Bull Head Paperback John Vigna 9781551524900 $15.95 FICTION Aug 29, 2012

Danuta Gleed Literary Award runnerup A line-dancing aficionado visits his brother in jail in hopes of mending their relationship, and instead discovers his own unwitting role in his brother's failed life. After the death of his wife and children, a logger tries to survive the Thanksgiving weekend on his own. A delinquent teen's life is changed forever by a work-camp placement with a violent older boy. A truck driver seeks sanctuary from his abusive wife in a fantasy world of strip clubs and personal ads. Bristling with restlessness and brut... + Read More
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Series: Carnal Nation Brave New Sex Fictions Paperback Carellin Brooks 9781551520834 $21.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2000

Sex, once the great unspoken, is now regularly commodified and prepackaged for wide consumer consumption, on TV, in films, on billboards. In this context in which nothing is shocking--no boundary too sacred to cross--what does sex mean, particularly to those born under these conditions? Carnal Nation collects stories about sex by an exciting new generation of writers who boldly push the narrative envelope. These are not your typical bump-and-grind tales, but stories written in a startling new language, bringing fresh meaning to the term "polymo... + Read More
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Series: Class Warfare New edition Paperback D.M. Fraser 9781551524283 $15.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2011

D.M. Fraser, one of Canada's best unknown writers, was born in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, the son of a Presbyterian minister and an English teacher. He moved on his own to the west coast at the age of twenty and become part of Vancouver's nascent literary community, specifically the motley beer-and-anarchy collection of writers, poets, and misfits associated with Pulp Press (established forty years ago in 1971). Class Warfare is Fraser's first book, published in 1974 (with a second edition published in 1976), the result of his friendship with Pul... + Read More
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Series: Close to Spider Man Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551520865 $14.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2000

Close to Spider Man marks the debut of an exciting new literary talent: a collection of connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives for themselves amidst the lonely, breathtaking landscape of the Yukon. The young people in Ivan Coyote's deeply personal stories are looking to make a break from their circumstances, but the North is in their bones: so is their connections to family, friends, and acquaintances. Like the protagonist in the title story, a waitress whose attempts to help a young co-worker saddled with a lunatic father find... + Read More
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Series: Contra/Diction New Queer Male Fiction Paperback Brett Josef Grubisic 9781551520568 $18.95 FICTION Sep 01, 1998

Contra/Diction is an anthology of gay men's fiction to re-establish the queer in queer. The book is a gay men's fiction anthology that represents the plurality of gay identity; an attempt to show that not all gay men "drive to Ikea, go to the gym, and buy new ties for their management-level positions before taking in the latest stage hit," as suggested in such well-known men's anthologies as the Men on Men series. Instead, the stories found in Contra/Diction are not easily digestible; their writers ask difficult questions of themselves and t... + Read More
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Series: Crossings New edition Paperback Betty Lambert 9781551524276 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2011

Crossings was Betty Lambert's only novel; published by Pulp Press in 1979, it was revolutionary for its frank and unsettling portrayal of Vicky, a female writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s, an educated and intelligent woman who struggles to come to terms with herself as she navigates an emotionally abusive relationship with Mik, a violent logger and ex-con. Their physical, often violent affair offers an honest and unflinching look at relationships and female suffering. The book caused a furor when it was first published, and in fact was ban... + Read More
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Series: Day Shift Werewolf Paperback Jan Underwood 9781551522081 $14.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2006

The quotas have been going up every year. Time was when most of us made a decent living by putting in a reasonable number of hours, you know? Guys like Lobo and Jack, they were table setters. And I was one of them. A little on the low side in terms of the numbers, but nothing to be ashamed of. And the work environment was supportive; it was comradely. It wasn't this cutthroat competition. But then they started bringing in these big beefy guys, guys like Harry, guys like Major. Sluggers who drove the quotas through the roof. Guys that made the r... + Read More
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Series: Little Sister's Classics Empathy New edition Paperback Sarah Schulman 9781551522012 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2006

Provocative, observant, and daring, this 1992 novel by one of America's preeminent lesbian writers and thinkers is being reissued for the Little Sister's Classics series. Anna O. is a loner in New York, an office temp obsessed with a mysterious woman in white leather; Doc is a post-Freudian psychiatrist who hands out business cards to likely neurotics on street corners, and is looking for his own personal fulfillment. They befriend each other in the netherworld of the Lower East Side, two unlikely people drawn together by their confusion about ... + Read More
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Series: Escape to Gold Mountain A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America Paperback David H.T. Wong 9781551524764 $24.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Oct 01, 2012

Winner, Chinese American Library Association Best Book Award winner (Fiction) The history of Chinese immigration to Canada and the US over the past 100-plus years has been fraught with sadness and indignity; newcomers to North America encountered discrimination, subjugation, and separation from loved ones. As well, in Canada the Chinese head tax was introduced after the Canadian Parliament passed the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 to discourage Chinese immigrants, while in the US, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act outright banned Chinese immigra... + Read More
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Series: Little Sister's Classics Finistere New edition Paperback Fritz Peters 9781551522111 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2006

Mechanically, watching the land disappear into the sea, the word Finstère came to mind. Finis-terre. Land's End. From here it really looked it . . . it was the end of Brittany, the end of France. The end of the earth. . . . A lyrical gay coming-of-age story first published in 1951, acclaimed by many including Gore Vidal and The New York Times, about Matthew, a young American who moves to France with his mother following his parents' divorce. In boarding school and on trips with his mother into the countryside, Matthew navigates his budding se... + Read More
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Series: First Spring Grass Fire Paperback Rae Spoon 9781551524801 $14.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2012

Lambda Literary Award FinalistTransgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012's I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in Alberta. The narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family before discovering the music that becomes their salvation and means of escape. As their father's schizophrenia causes their par... + Read More
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Series: Fist of the Spider Woman Tales of Fear & Queer Desire Paperback Amber Dawn 9781551522517 $18.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2009

Lambda Literary Award Finalist Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even vampy, powerful female villains, such as the classic noir "spider women," use their sexual prowess to seduce and overwhelm married men. Fist of the Spider Woman is a revelatory anthology of horror stories by queer and transgressive women and others that disrupts reality as queer women know it, instilling both fear and arousal while turning tradit... + Read More
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Series: Flat Paperback Mark Macdonald 9781551520902 $14.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2000

A dead man is discovered in his apartment, surrounded by notes, books, and other assorted fragments of his life. A distant acquaintance is called in to clean up the mess, clear out the space, and try to make sense of the suicide, which leads to his own world being turned upside down. As he sifts through the evidence of his friend's life and death, the things he once thought of as certain cannot now be taken for granted, subsumed by the anonymous urban chaos of Vancouver's West End, a world populated by voyeurs, exhibitionists, and lonely outcas... + Read More
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Series: Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers The Cha-Cha Years Paperback Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco 9781551520988 $17.95 FICTION Jan 01, 2001

An extravagant, tragicomic novel, Flesh Wounds & Purple Flowers takes us into the world of Latino machos and cha-cha divas of Santiago's gay underground, full of dreamers and schemers looking for salvation abroad. One of them is Camilo, a strong-willed queen who makes it out of Chile in the early eighties, but en route to New York lands in Vancouver, where he decides to stay. All the while he maintains contact with a starry network of machos and maricones in Chile, Cuba, and America: an exiled gringa with a mysterious past; a straight lover lef... + Read More
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Series: Little Sister's Classics Franny, the Queen of Provincetown New edition Paperback John Preston 9781551521909 $17.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2005

In Franny, The Queen of Provincetown, John Preston created one of his most memorable characters from the more than 30 books he authored or edited over his storied career. Franny is a proud, protective friend to the gay men of Provincetown, Massachusetts, as they fight their battles against self-hatred and ostracism. Haunted by the loss of his first love, Franny vows never to let fear and anger consume those who are treated differently for who they are. It's Franny's goal to ensure that there is a place in the world for everyone who feels they d... + Read More
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Series: Girl Unwrapped Paperback Gabriella Goliger 9781551523750 $22.95 FICTION Jul 01, 2010

Winner, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction A powerful tale of the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole, Girl Unwrapped is a coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal. Toni Goldblatt's awakening to taboo desire conflicts with the expectations of her Holocaust-scarred parents and with the conservative mores of her times. Yearning to re-invent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn't save her; instead, she finds the realities of life in the Middle East more compl... + Read More
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Series: Got 'til it's Gone Paperback Larry Duplechan 9781551522449 $17.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2008

Winner of a Lambda Literary Award (gay romance) As funny, warm, and sexy as its protagonist, Got 'til it's Gone is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter-ego Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock. When we first met Johnnie Ray in the 1986 novel Blackbird--the first gay black coming-out novel ever published--he was a gay teenager in love with the star of a high school play; now he's forty-eight, still handsome and gym-built but admittedly vain and looking down the short... + Read More
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Series: Grey Stories for Grown-Ups Paperback Judy MacDonald 9781551521091 $18.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2001

From Judy MacDonald--author of the novel Jane--is a startling collection of stories called Grey. Grey is a baby. Grey is a bad date. Grey battles a tornado, flies past giant monkeys, and pauses to watch an old woman with her lists. These stories toy with fact and fiction, autobiography and invention, memory and make believe. Grey proves that a misunderstood colour can be far from dull. Read about a girl falling in love with a giraffe. Learn about one young boy's favourite breastfeeding scenarios. Observe several kinds of relationships. Join... + Read More
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Series: Hard Core Logo New edition Paperback Michael Turner 9781551523415 $17.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2009

Hard Core Logo is an epistolary novel that portrays a punk rock band reunited for one last shot at glory. Adapting a scrapbook approach, consisting of monologues, conversations, letters, interviews, photographs, and related paraphernalia (including posters, invoices and contracts), Hard Core Logo tells the story of Joe Dick, an unrepentant, true-blue punk rocker, whose no-holds-barred approach to music was severely undermined by the breakup of his band, Hard Core Logo, done in by changing times and fortunes. However, when he and the band are a... + Read More
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Series: Heidegger Stairwell Paperback Kayt Burgess 9781551524863 $14.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2012

Shortlisted for a ReLit Award Music journalist Evan Strocker has almost finished a book about his time with Heidegger Stairwell, an indie-rock legend from small-town Ontario whose members he has known his whole life. But the band thinks he's left a little too much of himself on the page--letting his experiences as a transgender man and his complicated "romance" with the lead guitarist eclipse the story of the group's dramatic rise and fall. Through notes and marginalia, the musicians argue over their friend's version of the truth and fight to p... + Read More
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Series: Home Paperback Mark Macdonald 9781551521107 $15.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2001

Two friends are inexplicably drawn to a carnival-like orchid garden. A man works obsessively on restoring a mansion he has inherited. An urban dweller is haunted by the echo of cries in the night. A traveller is lured by highway signs directing him to a place that he has always known. The stories in Home, the follow-up to Mark Macdonald's acclaimed novel Flat, feature characters searching for truth and clarity in a world that is sometimes deceptive, usually miraculous, and often inescapable. Full of dark compulsions and seemingly irrational t... + Read More
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Series: Hopeful Monsters Stories Paperback Hiromi Goto 9781551521572 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2004

The unbearable voices of mythic manatees, the cry of the phoenix, the whispers of kappa lovers beside a gurgling stream. The voice of the moon that is ever turned away from our gaze, the song of suns colliding. The sounds which permeate from my skin on such a level of intensity that mortal senses recoil, deflect beauty into ugliness as a way of coping. And my joy. Such incredible joy. The hairs on my arms stand electric, the static energy and the heat amplifies my smell/sound with such exponential dizzying intensity, that the plastic which surr... + Read More
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Series: In the Garden of Men Paperback John Kupferschmidt 9781551522395 $14.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2008

In the Garden of Men, an accomplished first novel by John Kupferschmidt, was named winner of the thirtieth Annual 3-Day Contest in 2007. In 1968, an inconsequential civil servant finds himself swept into the mechanism of state oppression when the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia. Put to work processing the arrest warrants of anyone who opposes the repressive regime, he falls quickly into the moral no-man's-land of repressive bureaucracy. As his humanity succumbs to the requirements of state doctrine, a series of chance encounters leads him ... + Read More
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Series: In the Inner Quarters Erotic Stories From Ling Mengchu's Two Slaps Paperback Ling Mengchu 9781551521343 $20.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2002

From translator Lenny Hu, who brought the acclaimed erotic Chinese novel The Embroidered Couch back into print, is this collection of five erotic stories, also from Ming dynasty China. Ling Mengchu (1580-1644) was a prolific writer, producing more than thirty works in various genres during his lifetime. A Confucian scholar, described as having been an "ethical hedonist," he was a product of his times. The late Ming period was characterized by increasing industrialization and urbanization, which led to a more material society, and to a desire ... + Read More
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Series: Krakow Melt Paperback Daniel Allen Cox 9781551523729 $17.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2010

Lambda Literary Award Finalist Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction Finalist Shortlisted for a ReLit Award Shortlisted for an Independent Literary Award This second novel by Lambda Literary Award finalist Daniel Allen Cox (Shuck) is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fight homophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of the fronts of the Solidarnosc revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall in 1989. It's 2005, and Poland is grappling with its newfound role as a member of the European Union; the nation dips into moral crisis as Pope Jo... + Read More
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Series: Kuessipan Paperback Naomi Fontaine 9781551525174 $17.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2013

A fictionalized, meditative chronicle of life among the Innu in rural northeastern Quebec. Kuessipan ("to you" in the Innu language) is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu people in the wilds of northeastern Quebec. Naomi Fontaine, herself an Innu, wrote this novel (in French) at the age of twenty-three; with grace and perfect pitch, she depicts a community of nomadic hunters and fishers, and of hard-working mothers and their children, enduring a harsh, sometimes cruel reality with quiet dignity. Pervading the b... + Read More
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Series: Kuroshio The Blood of Foxes Paperback Terry Watada 9781551522333 $21.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2007

Kuroshio, meaning "black current," is the name given to the Pacific Ocean current that Japanese immigrants believe brought them safely to a new life in North America. In this vividly imagined novel based on a true story that spans decades and continents, Terry Watada explores the dark reaches of Issei, or Japanese immigrant, life in Vancouver prior to World War II. An Issei woman arrives on the west coast from Japan as a picture bride--marrying a fellow Japanese immigrant whom she has never met before--but soon her dreams and expectations of ... + Read More
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Series: London Triptych Paperback Jonathan Kemp 9781551525020 $18.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2013

Rent boys, aristocrats, artists, and criminals populate this sweeping novel in which author Jonathan Kemp skillfully interweaves the lives and loves of three very different men in gay London across the decades. In the 1890s, a young man named Jack apprentices as a rent boy and discovers a life of pleasure and excess that leads to new friendships, most notably with the soon-to-be-infamous Oscar Wilde. A century later in 1998, David tells his own tale of unashamed decadence from prison, recalling life as young man arriving in the city in the mi... + Read More
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Series: Loose End Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551521923 $17.95 FICTION Oct 05, 2005

Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award (Publishing Triangle) Ivan E. Coyote has developed a reputation as one of North America's most disarming storytellers; their tales of life on the roads and trails of the North as well as rural America are rich in their plainspoken, honest truths. In Loose End, their third story collection, Ivan focuses attention on the city: urban life, specifically in the East End of Vancouver, a diverse neighborhood of all types--old, young, gay, straight, white, black, Asian--communing at local coffee bars over hot rods,... + Read More
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Series: Love Block Paperback Meghan Austin 9781551521947 $14.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2005

Love Block is the winner of the 27th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest, the annual Labour Day weekend marathon in which entrants around the world spend 72 hours writing a novel from beginning to end. The contest, inspired by the story that Voltaire wrote his novel Candide in three days, has attracted thousands of contestants over the years, undaunted by the notion of creating a narrative masterpiece on their laptops or typewriters, fueled by coffee, adrenaline, and the dream of spontaneous literary nirvana. Love Block is just like the contest itself:... + Read More
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Series: Little Sister's Classics Macho Sluts A Little Sister's Classic Paperback Patrick Califia 9781551522609 $19.95 FICTION Aug 17, 2009

When it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing. Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky potential of woman-to-woman sex (and nobody has ever done it any better). If any book is responsible for the formation of the modern lesbian leather community, this one is it. Despite its graceful language, imaginative scenarios, and abundant humo... + Read More
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Series: ManBug Paperback George K. Ilsley 9781551522036 $19.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2006

Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (Gay/Lesbian Fiction) Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Best Novel The first novel by George K. Ilsley, whose first story collection, Random Acts of Hatred, was published to acclaim in 2003. Told in dreamlike fragments, ManBug unfolds as a love story between Sebastian, an entomologist with Asperger's Syndrome (similar to autism), and Tom, a spiritual bisexual who may or may not be recruiting Sebastian for a cult. They explore the world through their relationship, seeking meaning and v... + Read More
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Series: Missed Her Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551523712 $18.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2010

Ivan E. Coyote is a master storyteller and performer; their beautiful, funny stories about growing up queer in the Canadian north and living out loud on Canada's west coast have attracted big audiences, whether gay, straight, trans, or otherwise. In their passionate and humorous new collection, Ivan takes readers on an intimate journey, both literal and figurative, through the experiences of their life: from their year spent in eastern Canada, to their return to the west coast, to travels in between. Whether discussing the politics of being but... + Read More
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Series: Missouri Paperback Christine Wunnicke 9781551523446 $14.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2010

Written in the language of the period, this vivid and utterly transfixing love story between two men is set in the nineteenth-century American Midwest. Douglas Fortescue is a successful poet in England who flees the country for America following an Oscar Wilde-like scandal insinuating sexual impropriety; Joshua Jenkyns is a feral young outlaw who was taught how to shoot a man at age six, and who, against the wishes of his father, teaches himself how to read, a skill that then unleashes a world of possibility beyond that which he knows. The two ... + Read More
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Series: Once Upon an Elephant Paperback Ashok Mathur 9781551520582 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 1998

Once Upon an Elephant is a contemporary tale of Hindu deity Ganesh and what happens when worlds, cultures, and stories collide. A whimsical, contemporary retelling of the creation story of Ganesh--the elephant-headed Hindu deity--Once Upon an Elephant is rife with humour and political satire. When the police find unusual boy parts--a young man's head and an elephant's body--they assume a murder has been committed, and the case goes to trial. But the appearance of Vighnesvara, a manifestation of Ganesh with the body of a young man and the hea... + Read More
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Series: One in Every Crowd Stories Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551524597 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 01, 2012

Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's best-loved storytellers; their honest, wry, plain-spoken tales of growing up in the Yukon and living out loud on the west coast have attracted readers and live audiences around the world. For many years, Ivan has performed in high schools, where their talks have inspired and galvanized many young people to embrace their own sense of self and to be proud of who they are. One in Every Crowd, Ivan's eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, is their first specifically for queer youth. Comprised of new stories and other... + Read More
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Series: One Man's Trash Stories Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551521206 $16.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2002

In Close to Spider Man--which won a Danuta Gleed Literary Award--readers were introduced to the crystalline storytelling voice of Ivan Coyote. The talent evident in that first collection is confirmed with One Man's Trash, a series of connected stories about searching out new frontiers, and being on the road. The characters in One Man's Trash make evident the child in all of us, when heroes and superheroes won the day. Tales of being on the road: to the northern tundra or the southern desert, through cities and towns, on horses, in trucks and va... + Read More
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Series: Little Sister's Classics Patience & Sarah New edition Paperback Isabel Miller 9781551521916 $21.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2005

Winner of the 1969 American Library Assoc.'s first Gay Book Award One of the "Best 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time" (Publishing Triangle) Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one anoth... + Read More
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Series: Queer Fear Gay Horror Fiction Paperback Michael Rowe 9781551520841 $23.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2000

The genre of horror has in the past been the exclusive province of heterosexual writers and themes, stereotypically involving a male antagonist and a female victim. Although the incursions into the field by such writers as Anne Rich and Poppy Z. Brite have largely blurred sexual orientation boundaries, there has never been an anthology of horror stories where the protagonists are clearly gay--until now. Queer Fear is a striking and ambitious collection of gay horror fiction by some of today's hottest authors and talented newcomers, covering ... + Read More
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Series: Queer Fear II Gay Horror Fiction Paperback Michael Rowe 9781551521220 $23.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2002

Queer Fear II builds on the successes of its predecessor, Queer Fear, the groundbreaking gay-themed horror anthology that Gothic.net called "the best horror anthology of [the year]," which won the Queer Horror Award, and was a finalist for a Spectrum Award and two Lambda Literary Awards. This second volume includes among its stories new work by some stars of the first volume--International Horror Guild Award winners Gemma Files and Michael Marano, Bram Stoker Award winners David Nickle and Edo van Belkom, and screenwriter Ron Oliver. Science... + Read More
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Series: Random Acts of Hatred Paperback George K. Ilsley 9781551521527 $19.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2003

The boy sleeps and dreams and wakes and feels the same. Different, but the same. The core of his body burns bright, hazy but strong. He's never felt so strong as he does now, on the verge of something he's not sure about, and terribly excited. -from "The Boy Who Stopped" In these raw, uncompromising stories, author George K. Ilsley explores the thin line between love and hate, and the outer parameters of desire that can both heal and destroy. Random Acts of Hatred infiltrates the dark confines of decidedly queer sensibilities, in which young me... + Read More
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Series: Rat Bohemia New edition Paperback Sarah Schulman 9781551522357 $19.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2008

First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, is a bold, achingly honest story set in the "rat bohemia" of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians who bond with one another in the wake of loss. Navigating the currents of the city is Rita Mae, a rat exterminator who holds the optimism of all true bohemians--those who stand outside of the prevailing social apparatus. She and her friends seek new ways to be truthful and honest about their lives as others around them avert... + Read More
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Series: Red Light Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts Paperback Anna Camilleri 9781551521848 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2005

The female as represented in western popular culture has been a timeless yet culturally unstable image, construed and contested by men and women alike. Red Light is an anthology of essays, stories, and visual materials that identifies and deconstructs female icons, past and present, and re-imagines them for the twenty-first century. For Anna, the red light is a beacon, a warning signal that declares the incendiary power of women; the icons found in this book are red lights as well: Wonder Woman, Amelia Earhart, the Virgin Mary, Jayne Mansfield... + Read More
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Series: Roy & Al Paperback Ralf KÃ¶nig 9781551522067 $14.95 HUMOR Sep 01, 2006

Roy & Al is the first English-language book by Europe's most popular gay cartoonist, Germany's Ralf König, whose collections have sold over a million copies and been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, and Danish. Ralf's enormous popularity can be attributed to his skill at combining classic comedic situations with good old-fashioned raunch. Roy & Al is a hilarious, erotically charged series of gay comics starring two dogs whose owners are dating; Al, a small purebred, is rather fey, and treats the unsophisticated with disdain... + Read More
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Series: Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot Paperback Nicole Markotic 9781551522487 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2008

In boomtown Western Canada, a quirky young woman grows up amid a family dynamic that leaves her feeling misunderstood and left out. She's a child of immigrants from war-torn Germany and Croatia, parents who cling to vestiges of a traumatic past that never seem real enough for their daughter. To leave her stifling family behind and to forge a "new normal," she earnestly tries to fit in with her best friend Vera and family, and subsequently--crazily--an even more rigid life of Mormonism. Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot is a narrative of longing... + Read More
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Series: Shuck Paperback Daniel Allen Cox 9781551522463 $16.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2008

Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award (gay debut fiction) Shortlisted for a ReLit Award (best novel) SHUCK (noun): the outer covering of a nut or of an ear of corn; the shell of an oyster or clam; something of little value SHUCK (verb): to peel off (as in clothing) Shuck is the intense, dazzling diary of Jaeven Marshall, a quasi-homeless hustler who seeks his fame and fortune in New York, where he tries to manage his reputation as the city's porn star du jour when he's not dumpster diving, tweaking, or trying to get published. As his drea... + Read More
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Series: Skids Paperback Cathleen With 9781551522159 $19.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2006

Shortlisted for a ReLit Award for Best Story Collection I still want that imagine mother. I still want my mother. Here in the House, we're all one line of wanting mothers, being. Some days I don't even know if my real mom's alive or dead. And since I've been clean, I can't go down East Hastings cuz I'm still too shaky. Maybe Mom'll quit one day, like I did. Maybe she'll learn to care for herself. Like I'm learning to. Like the ghost said. Skid row: an impoverished neighbourhood, a phrase originating in the Depression era. Skids: tire marks in... + Read More
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Series: Smoke Show Paperback Clint Burnham 9781551521961 $18.95 FICTION Oct 20, 2005

A doll is taped to the hood of a wedding car. A list of favourite cocktails from the eighties. Hide the drugs from your parents and your kids. Kevin Costner in Waterworld: hot or not? Smoke Show is a novel that will astound readers with its audacious, stripped-down narrative set in the mid-nineties about assorted f**k-ups, diehards, and lost souls, seen through a hazy filter of bus fumes and cigarette smoke. Told in "real time," Smoke Show is raw, candid, amorphous; told through jargon and petty dialogue commonly heard in the street or on publi... + Read More