Pulp: 714 books
Cold Case Vancouver
The Citys Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Cold Case Vancouver delves into fifty years of some of Vancouver's most baffling unsolved murders. In 1953, two little boys were found murdered in the city's storied Stanley Park, and who remain unidentified to this day. In 1975, a country singer was murdered just as she was on the verge of an amazing...
Dreaming in the Rain
How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Vancouver is now North America’s third largest center for film and television production, recently witnessing the filming of Halle Berry’s Catwoman and Will Smith’s I, Robot, among others. But Vancouver has been hosting filmmakers for years, coming into its own in the early 1970s when Robert...
Montreal Main
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
A Queer Film Classic: a great Canadian indie film from 1974 that has become a cult classic, about a photographer living among various outcasts in the Montreal neighborhood known as the Main, who becomes obsessed with the teenaged son of friends.
The Last Gang in Town
The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city’s east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this story that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals, or the police themselves.
Live at the Commodore
The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom is, like New York's CBGB's and Los Angeles's Whiskey a Go-Go, one of the most venerated rock clubs in the world; originally built in 1930, it's hosted a who's-who of music greats before they made it big: The Police, The Clash, Blondie, Talking Heads, Nirvana, New York...
V6A
Writing from Vancouvers Downtown Eastside
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
An anthology that refracts the experience of writers, new and established, who have been part of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside in some way. Their work reappropriates the coding of the area and recasts the neighborhood as a site of creative energy and human dignity.
by Brett Josef Grubisic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Equal parts bildungsroman and purported literary artifact, The Age of Cities is -really about the age of innocence. A manuscript is discovered inside a hollowed-out home economics textbook: it is the story of a young man from a small town who comes to the big city at the height of the Cold War. His...
by Ludovic Miserole
Language: French
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Premier ouvrage d'une saga historique en deux tomes "Rosalie Lamorlière - Dernière servante de Marie-Antoinette" fait état du témoignage inestimable de celle qui la connût le plus intimement, et fut au coeur des affres de la Cour.
Un destin !
Celui d'une petite provinciale, fille de cordonnier,...
AlliterAsian
Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
This anthology of Asian Canadian writing celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Ricepaper magazine, one of the few publications dedicated to literary writing by Asians outside of Asia. It includes new work by such writers as Joy Kogawa, author of the classic Canadian novel Obasan; Sky Lee, author...
Victims of Benevolence
The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century. The book's focal points are the death of a runaway boy and the...
Stoney Creek Woman
The Story of Mary John
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective. A mother of twelve, Mary endured much tragedy and heartbreak--the pangs of racism,...
Lust Unearthed
Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning book Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall, Thomas Waugh offers more historic and erotically charged drawings, depicting aspects of gay male sexuality that were once hidden from public view. The more than 200, never-before-published...
The Everyday Vegan
Recipes & Lessons for Living the Vegan Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Dreena Burton demonstrates that anyone can prepare an array of delectable vegan dishes without compromising one’s health or sense of taste. The Everyday Vegan includes recipes as well as cooking and shopping tips, meal plan suggestions, and nutritional analyses.
Word is Out
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A Queer Film Classic on the groundbreaking 1977 documentary that profiles the lives of ordinary gay men and lesbians of different ages, races, and backgrounds; it was the first of its kind to do so, and played a role in the then-nascent struggle for gay rights (being released at the same time as Anita...