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I Saw Three Ships
By Bill Richardson

“By June, Philip’s view of English Bay, what’s left of it, will be utterly gone. It was always going to happen. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to see what’s out there. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to know what to do.” Eight…


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ISBN: 9781772012330
Pages:264
Pub. Date: September 15 2019
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Non-Fiction / LCO006000

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I'm Looking Forward to Hearing Back from You
By Jeff Derksen

I'm Looking Forward to Hearing Back from You grapples with time, asking how to fully live with the present while also being attentive to possible futures and to the lost temporalities buried within the now. It was written haltingly over a decade shaped and troubled by climate change and environmental…


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ISBN: 9781772016284
Pages:96
Pub. Date: April 15 2025
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Poetry / POE023040

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I, Bartleby
By Meredith Quartermain

In these quirkily imaginative short stories about writing and writers, the scrivener Quartermain (our “Bartleby”) goes her stubborn way haunted by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and a host of other literary forebears. Who is writing whom, these stories ask in their musing reflections – the writer…


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ISBN: 9780889229181
Pages:128
Pub. Date: April 27 2015
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5" x 0.75"
Fiction / FIC019000

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I. Another. The Space Between
By Jamie Reid

Guided by Arthur Rimbaud’s mottos “Change ton vie,” and “Je est un autre,” Jamie Reid began publishing poetry in TISH magazine at barely 20 years old, in 1961. This selection draws from those brilliantly impressionist early poems, through his contemporary writing expressive of an urban particularity within a sophisticated global…


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ISBN: 9780889225121
Pages:192
Pub. Date: September 15 2004
Dimensions: 9" x 5.9375" x 0.5"
Poetry / POE011000

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Impeccable Regret
By Judith Fitzgerald
Introduction by Thomas Dilworth

Impeccable Regret travels terrain demonstrating that, as a result of the so-called postmodern impulses driving poetic discourse, culture has replaced nature as humanity’s defining context; that, within the paradigm of the twenty-worst century, the recollection of natural environments seems anachronistic or oxymoronic. The poems in this collection respond to the…


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ISBN: 9780889229495
Pages:80
Pub. Date: September 28 2015
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Poetry / POE011000

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Imperial Canada Inc.
By Alain Deneault & William Sacher
Translated by Fred A. Reed

Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its…


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ISBN: 9780889226357
Pages:256
Pub. Date: November 15 2010
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Non-Fiction / BUS069020

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Impromptu on Nuns' Island
By Michel Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Winner 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation

An opera diva, Patricia, (almost 50) meets her Waterloo singing Salomé at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. In an impromptu get-together in her Nuns’ Island penthouse, on the afternoon of her return from Europe, her mother, a popular Montreal stage and television actress (pushing 70), and her idealistic committed-to-new-work daughter…


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ISBN: 9780889224704
Pages:96
Pub. Date: September 15 2002
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Drama / DRA013000

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Impurity
By Larry Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman

Bestselling author Alice Livingstone is dead. She leaves her philosopher husband, Antoine, to deal with her legacy, towards which he feels increasingly estranged. Confronted with his wife’s much-reported disappearance, Antoine revisits their past relationship: open and liberal on the outside, but constrained and deviant on the inside. The news of…


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ISBN: 9781772012477
Pages:160
Pub. Date: April 6 2020
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Fiction / FIC031080

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In a Blue Moon
By Lucia Frangione

When Frankie’s dad dies, her mom, Ava, can’t afford to live in the city anymore. The only asset they’re left with is a farmhouse situated on twenty acres of land far outside of town. Ava decides to move there and start an Ayurveda clinic on the property, giving her precocious…


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ISBN: 9781772010350
Pages:128
Pub. Date: November 9 2016
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Drama / DRA013000

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In a World Created by a Drunken God
By Drew Hayden Taylor

Short-listed 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama

Jason Pierce, a 31 year old Canadian half-Native man, is packing up his urban apartment to leave it all behind for his romanticized vision of a return to life on the reserve where he grew up. As he’s leaving, he is paid an unexpected visit by a 34 year old…


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ISBN: 9780889225374
Pages:128
Pub. Date: March 1 2006
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Drama / DRA013000

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In Absentia
By Morris Panych

Four seasons after her husband Tom’s disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage. She waits in anguish, not knowing whether he is dead or alive, but clinging to hope. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake – a sign? She…


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ISBN: 9780889227026
Pages:128
Pub. Date: October 15 2012
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.6875"
Drama / DRA013000

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In Piazza San Domenico
By Steve Galluccio

Steve Galluccio's newest stage triumph is a comedy set in 1952 Naples. It recounts how one broken engagement ripples throughout friends and family, affecting all of their respective lives in different ways. In a world conflicted by traditional values and postwar-era thinking, theatrical archetypes evolve into stereotypes that became hallmarks…


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ISBN: 9780889226746
Pages:128
Pub. Date: September 13 2011
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Drama / DRA013000

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In Plain Sight
Edited by Leslie Robertson & Dara Culhane

Short-listed 2005 City of Vancouver Book Award

Short-listed 2006 The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

Short-listed 2005 City of Vancouver Book Award

News stories of the less fortunate, the socio-economically disenfranchised in North America are too often presented to fascinate or horrify their consumers with a construct of stereotypes which commodify and intentionally erase the real lives of people “covered” by the popular media.In compiling this collection of seven life stories from…


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ISBN: 9780889225138
Pages:180
Pub. Date: March 15 2005
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Non-Fiction / SOC021000

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In Search of New Babylon
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
By Dominique Scali

Winner 2015 First Novel Award in Chambéry

Short-listed 2015 Governor General's Literary Award (French Fiction)

Short-listed 2015 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal

Short-listed 2015 Prix des libraires du Québec

In this atmospheric, post–Cormac McCarthy western novel, four disparate characters criss-cross the desert in pursuit of an impossible ideal. Along the way, these wily characters captivate and intrigue as they seek the American dream in a lawless town in the 1860s.Reverend Aaron is found lying unconscious on the dusty trail…


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ISBN: 9781772011241
Pages:320
Pub. Date: April 15 2017
Dimensions: 8.75" x 5.5" x 1"
Fiction / FIC033000

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In the Company of Strangers
By Mary Meigs

Winner 1992 QSPELL Award Winner for Non-fiction

Mary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a “semi-documentary” National Film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim. Meigs spent two years writing this extraordinary narrative, which begins as her story of being in the…


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ISBN: 9780889222946
Pages:176
Pub. Date: January 1 1991
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Non-Fiction / LIT025050

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In the Dog House
By Wanda John-Kehewin

In her first idiom-shattering book of poetry, Wanda John-Kehewin endeavours to “speak her truth,” combining elements of First Nations oral tradition with a style of dramatic narrative that originates from the earliest traditions of cultural storytelling and also keeps pace with the rhythmical undulations of Canadian poets such as James…


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ISBN: 9780889227491
Pages:80
Pub. Date: April 15 2012
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Poetry / POE011000

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In the Eyes of God
By Raul Sanchez Inglis
Translated by Linda Gaboriau

“There’s no business like show business,” and if you ever had any doubt about that, In the Eyes of God will bring you back to your senses. A vicious, vulgar, unsparing and grotesque look at the talent agencies that remake the Hollywood stars and tabloid personalities out of the willing…


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ISBN: 9780889225619
Pages:144
Pub. Date: January 31 2007
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Drama / DRA001000

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In the Eyes of Stone Dogs
By Daniel Danis
Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Daniel Danis’s homage to Aeschylus, the “father of tragedy,” is set on an imaginary island in the St. Lawrence River. The eccentric islanders are about to join in the outdoor “Rages” staged by the trickster Coyote—wild Bacchanalia where the participants, under the influence of his potions, lose all vestiges of…


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ISBN: 9780889225190
Pages:96
Pub. Date: March 15 2005
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Drama / DRA013000

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In the Midst
By Warren Tallman

For over 40 years Warren Tallman, reader, critic, mentor, friend, confidant, host and impresario to writers all across North America has remained “in the midst” of the poetic discourse that time and again restores the body of his great goddess, Mother Tongue. He has been almost single handedly responsible for…


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ISBN: 9780889223080
Pages:320
Pub. Date: January 1 1992
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.875"
Poetry / POE011000

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In the Shadow of the Vulture
By George Ryga

Short-listed 1986 BC Book Prize: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Set in the desert on either side of the Mexico-U.S. border, this harrowing novel was inspired by an actual event: the abandonment to starvation and death of a “shipment” of Mexican immigrant workers. The sinister shadow of the vulture falls over every character in Ryga’s story—Ramon, the flesh-merchant; Juan, the…


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ISBN: 9780889222335
Pages:288
Pub. Date: January 1 1985
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.875"
Fiction / FIC070000

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Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
By Franz Boas
Edited by Randy Bouchard & Dorothy Kennedy

Short-listed 2003 BC Book Prize: Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

Franz Boas (1858-1942), geographer, linguist, physical anthropologist and ethnologist, is considered the father of modern North American anthropology. The 1895 German publication of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikasgathered together in a single volume his earliest research in British Columbia, consisting of 250 B.C. First Nations myths and legends…


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ISBN: 9780889225534
Pages:704
Pub. Date: October 1 2006
Dimensions: 9.75" x 6.75" x 1.625"
Non-Fiction / SOC002010

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Inheritance
By Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn & Darrell Dennis

Short-listed 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama

You take your seat in the theatre. You are given a remote control. The play begins. An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man staying there instead. They ask…


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ISBN: 9781772013627
Pages:288
Pub. Date: March 14 2022
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Fiction / FIC059000

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Injun
By Jordan Abel

Winner 2017 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize

Short-listed 2017 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry

Award-winning Nisga’a poet Jordan Abel’s third collection, Injun, is a long poem about racism and the representation of indigenous peoples. Composed of text found in western novels published between 1840 and 1950 – the heyday of pulp publishing and a period of unfettered colonialism in North America – Injun then…


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ISBN: 9780889229778
Pages:96
Pub. Date: March 25 2016
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Poetry / POE011000

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inkorrect thots
By bill bissett

Winner 1993 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

WARNING each wun uv thees pomes may contain inkorrect thots these pomes have not bin kleerd by th ministree uv korrect thotsThs book contains reel storees that have reelee happend th mysteree uv pain has not bin adequatelee xplaind 2 us why memorees can cum crashing down on us robbing…


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ISBN: 9780889223035
Pages:136
Pub. Date: January 1 1992
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Non-Fiction / LAN005070

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Inside the Seed
By Jason Patrick Rothery

Winner of the 2015 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original ScriptInside the Seed is a contemporary version of Oedipus Rex reimagined as a darkly comic political thriller.Mirroring controversial real-life scientific and corporate controversies, Inside the Seed concerns a once-brilliant scientist who made a startling discovery: a bio-engineered form of rice…


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ISBN: 9780889229860
Pages:144
Pub. Date: March 29 2016
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Drama / DRA013000

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Inspecting Nostalgia
By R. Kolewe

Taking its title from a phrase in a pop-up ad, Inspecting Nostalgia is R. Kolewe’s second collection of poetry that brings together found text and fragments of various writers’ work with scraps from his own journals. Kolewe’s concerns with “nostalgia,” derived from the Greek “nostos” (return) and “algos” (pain), forge…


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ISBN: 9781772011326
Pages:144
Pub. Date: March 28 2017
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Poetry / POE011000

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Internodes
By Ken Belford

Moving with nomadic grace across the terrain of his previous book, Decompositions, the poetic language of Ken Belford in Internodes shares similar roots, traversing decades at the speed of a search query – pressing onward through Hazelton, the Bulkley Valley, and the unroaded headwaters of the Nass River in the…


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ISBN: 9780889227927
Pages:96
Pub. Date: August 15 2013
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Poetry / POE011000

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Intertidal
By Daphne Marlatt
Edited by Susan Holbrook

An early member of the avant-garde TISH group, which turned Canadian poetry for the first time to a focus on language, Marlatt’s career has spanned five decades and a range of formal styles and concerns. Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems offers Marlatt’s perceptual and Vancouver-centric work of the 1970s, her…


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Hardback
ISBN: 9781772011784
Pages:608
Pub. Date: November 30 2017
Dimensions: 9.25" x 6.25" x 3.25"
Poetry / POE024000

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Intertidal
By Daphne Marlatt
Edited by Susan Holbrook

An early member of the avant-garde TISH group, which turned Canadian poetry for the first time to a focus on language, Marlatt’s career has spanned five decades and a range of formal styles and concerns. Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems offers Marlatt’s perceptual and Vancouver-centric work of the 1970s, her…


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ISBN: 9781772011791
Pages:608
Pub. Date: November 30 2017
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Poetry / POE024000

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Iron Peggy
By Marie Clements

Peg is struggling for survival at her boarding school. Three über-cool “it” girls take aim at Peg and make her life utterly miserable. When her beloved Grandmother dies she just wants to disappear. Then an unexpected gift arrives; inside it, Peg finds three cast-iron Canadian soldiers. In despair, she throws…


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ISBN: 9781772012538
Pages:112
Pub. Date: June 25 2020
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Non-Fiction / HUM022000

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is a door
By Fred Wah

Winner 2010 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Including poetry projects, a chapbook and incidental poems previously published in magazines and by small presses, is a door makes use of the poem’s ability for “suddenness” to subvert closure: the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening—writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem-solving, collaborative events,…


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ISBN: 9780889226203
Pages:120
Pub. Date: July 24 2009
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Poetry / POE011000

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its th sailors life / still in treetment
By bill bissett

A pioneer of sound, visual, and performance poetry, bill bissett composes his poems as scripts for pure performance and has consistently since the 1960s worked to extend the boundaries of language and visual image, honing a synthesis of the two in the medium of concrete poetry. bissett’s latest collection since…


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ISBN: 9781772013917
Pages:290
Pub. Date: March 10 2022
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.8125"
Poetry / POE023020

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It’s a Big Deal!
By Dina Del Bucchia

So many things seem like a BIG DEAL: buying clothes, food trends for healthfulness and coolness, what’s trending online, your personal problems, what someone else has said, the political landscape, an Instagram post, avocado toast. This list could go on and on. What’s a big deal to someone might be…


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ISBN: 9781772012255
Pages:112
Pub. Date: March 25 2019
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.375"
Poetry / POE024000