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Liquor, Lust and the Law

The Story of Vancouver’s Legendary Penthouse Nightclub

by Aaron Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013

The story of Vancouver’s legendary Penthouse nightclub, founded in 1947 and active to this day. In its heyday, acts like Sammy Davis Jr and Nat King Cole performed, and stars like Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper visited; in the 1970s, the club became infamous for its exotic dancers and a lurid history that included vice squads, politicians, and con men.
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by Chris Holmlund
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017

Part of the Queer Film Classics that have included books on Strangers on a Train, Paris Is Burning, and Death in Venice. This is the first QFC title on the oeuvre of legendary gay director John Waters, best known for his camp classic Pink Flamingos and his later more commercial works such as...
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Impact

The Titanic Poems

by Billeh Nickerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012

Published on the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (which occurred on the night of April 15, 1912), Impact is an intimate and evocative poetry collection that depicts the tragedy in a series of poetic snapshots. Based on historical research the author conducted in Belfast (where...
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Strangers on a Train

A Queer Film Classic

by Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley) is about two men who meet on a train: one is a man of high social standing who wishes to divorce his unfaithful wife; the other is an enigmatic bachelor with an overbearing...
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The Imaginary Indian

The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

by Daniel Francis
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.Images of First Nations people have always been fundamental to Canadian culture. From the paintings and photographs...
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by Billeh Nickerson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009

Billeh Nickerson's first poetry book, The Asthmatic Glassblower, was shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle's Gay Men's Poetry Award. The hilarious and illuminating poems in his new collection, McPoems, are based on his years working at a particularly well-known fast-food restaurant; they paint a...
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Vancouver Was Awesome

A Curious Pictorial History

by Lani Russwurm
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014

Produced in conjunction with the website Vancouver Is Awesome, this book collects stories and photos about the people, places, events, and phenomena that collectively have infused Vancouver with a distinct flavor and flair and which laid the foundation for the eclectic city that is consistently named...
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by Bridget Moran
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002

In 1964, social worker Bridget Moran attracted widespread attention and the wrath of the BC government with her open letter to Premier W.A.C. Bennett, charging the welfare department with gross neglect in addressing the problems of the province's needy. This very public dispute formed a small part of...
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by Charles Demers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

Vancouver is at a crossroads in its history—host to the 2010 Winter Olympics and home to the poorest neighborhood in Canada, it is a young, multicultural city with a vibrant surface and a violent undercoat. In Vancouver Special, an alternative guidebook, writer and performer Charles Demers digs...
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I, Shithead

A Life in Punk

by Joey Keithley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004

Joey Keithley, aka Joey Shithead, founded legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. in 1978. Punk kings who spread counterculture around the world, they’ve been cited as influences by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Rancid and The Offspring; have toured with The Clash, The Ramones, The Dead Kennedys, Black...
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by Ivan Coyote
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016

Ivan Coyote is the author of 11 previous books, most recently the acclaimed Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon). All of Ivan’s books have gone into multiple printings. They are regarded as a premier storyteller and performer, often accompanied on stage with musicians. Tomboy Survival Guide is...
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The Woo-Woo

How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family

by Lindsay Wong
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother...
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Death in Venice

A Queer Film Classic

by Will Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011

A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel about a middle-aged man (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. The book analyzes...
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by Michael Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010

Hard Core Logo, first published in 1992, is an epistolary novel acclaimed for its realistic depiction of the life of a punk rock band. Consisting of monologues, conversations, letters, interviews, photographs, and related paraphernalia, Hard Core Logo tells the story of Joe Dick, an unrepentant, true-blue...
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