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Heidegger Stairwell by Kayt Burgess (2011)
Heidegger Stairwell
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About the Book
Music journalist Evan Strocker has almost finished a memoir chronicling 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—allowing his experiences as a transgender man and his very complicated romance with the lead guitarist eclipse the story of the group’s dramatic rise and fall. Through graphic notes and colourful marginalia, the musicians weigh in on their friend’s version of the truth and fight to put their own testimony on the record. And as Strocker’s manuscript finally comes together, both band and writer are forced to face shocking new events that once again change their fortunes.
Terroryaki! by Jennifer K. Chung (2010)
Terroryaki!
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Bronze Winner for Best Regional Fiction: West-Pacific in the 2012 Independent Press Awards.
It’s three months until the wedding, and Daisy’s Taiwanese parents are still shunning her sister’s hopelessly white fiancé. To escape the prenuptial drama, Daisy goes on the hunt for a mysterious take-out truck whose dishes are to die for. Literally. Read more about this book…
Snowmen by Mark Sedore (2009)
Snowmen
Price: $14.95
ISBN:978-1-55152-366-8
3-Day Books, 2010
About the Book
The winner of the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest tells the story of a man struggling to complete a record-setting trip across the Arctic while his unstable and resentful brother plays a deadly game of sabotage.
The Videographer by Jason Rapczynski (2008)
The Videographer
Price: $14.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-252-4
3-Day Books, 2009
About the Book
A New York film school dropout falls into a job setting up spy cams, porn shoots and street fights for a shady underground video producer. His plans to escape the underbelly of the webcasting world are sent spinning when a young runaway claiming to be his daughter shows up at his door.
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In the Garden of Men by John Kupferschmidt (2007)
In the Garden of Men
Price: $14.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-239-5
3-Day Books, 2008
About the Book
An inconsequential government worker finds himself swept into the mechanism of state oppression when the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia. As his arrest-warrant signatures send thousands to their fate, a series of encounters with a priest, a prostitute and the ghosts of the disappeared forces him to face the fundamental choice between what is right and what is safe.
The Convictions of Leonard McKinley by Brendan McLeod (2006)
The Convictions of Leonard McKinley
Price: $14.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-222-7
3-Day Books, 2007
About the Book
Young Leonard thinks his own moral failures caused his father’s heart attack and triggered an epileptic fit in his dog. As he launches himself through increasingly dangerous ethical trials, his thoughts grow darker and the stakes get higher in his constant struggle to be good.
Day Shift Werewolf by Jan Underwood (2005)
Day Shift Werewolf
Price: $14.95
ISBN-13: 1-55152-208-x
3-Day Books, 2006
About the Book
An unproductive werewolf, a claustrophobic mummy, a free-wheeling zombie, a demon with a hidden human and other incompetent monsters struggle to maintain their underworld street cred while discovering new and surprising sides to life on the dark side.
Love Block by Meghan Austin and Shannon Mullally (2004)
Love Block
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 1-55152-194-6
3-Day Books, 2005
About the Book
Through a series of correspondences, two secret agents debate, bicker and commiserate while they search for a mysterious cure for the lovelorn. Love Block explores the question of why humans surrender to the idea of true love. It’s funny, furious, sometimes crazy and always fast-moving, just like the contest itself.
Struck by Geoffrey Bromhead (2002)
Struck
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 1-895636-53-1
Anvil Press, 2003
About the Book
Meet Finnigan Heller, drifter: reclusive, abrasive and clairvoyant. He’s also been struck by lightning more times than you’ve had hot dinners. But is he following the weather, or is the weather following him?
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Socket by David Zimmerman (2001)
Socket
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-42-6
Anvil Press, 2002
About the Book
The Grand Winner in the 2001 3-Day Novel Contest tells the gripping tale of Ronald Percy, an international aid worker who travels to Ethiopia to assist with an irrigation project for the African Development Organization, just as the war with Eritrea is beginning to escalate.
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Small Apartments by Chris Millis (2000)
Small Apartments
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 1-895636-35-3
Anvil Press, 2001
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About the Book
Small Apartments is the offbeat tale of an obese, slovenly peeping tom, his odd brother, his pothead neighbour, and their quest to hide the body of an unfortunate landlord. The story is accented along the way by murder, strange fingernail collections and the occasional blast from a treasured alphorn. Small Apartments was released as a motion picture in 2012.
Skin by Bonnie Bowman (1999)
Skin
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 1-895636-32-9
Anvil Press, 2000
About the Book
Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, Skin is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional and shocking love story that won the ReLit independent fiction award in 2001.
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Ruby Ruby by Bradley Harris (1998)
Ruby Ruby
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 1-895636-23-X
Anvil Press, 1999
About the Book
Ruby Ruby is a soft-boiled murder mystery that follows the trail of an expatriate Canuck as he tries to sleuth out the answers to a puzzling series of pointless and apparently motiveless murders: Who’d want to kill a sixtyish night watchman guarding an abandoned pie factory?
The Underwood by P.G. Tarr (1997)
The Underwood
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-17-5
Anvil Press, 1998
About the Book
Holden Caufield meets Barton Fink. A hotel with a past, a place that has failed to maintain the pace of present day life and now languishes in disrepair … Enter Foster Lutz, a twenty-one-year-old pianist who lands the job of lounge entertainer in this once elegant establishment and The Underwood—including the lives of its inhabitants — is set for a spell of splendour and rejuvenation.
Tacones by Todd Klinck (1996)
Tacones
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-14-0
Anvil Press, 1996, 2008
About the Book
This rollicking expose of the violent and ambivalent nature of the Toronto “after-hours” scene and its inhabitants became an instant underground hit. First published as the winner of the 19th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest, it has now been re-released by Anvil Press as a special 10th anniversary edition.
Body Speaking Words by Loree Harrell (1995)
Body Speaking Words
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 1-895636-09-4
Anvil Press, 1995
About the Book
A novel about—what else—writing a novel in the space of three days, offers insights into family, friendship, growing up female. Body Speaking Words is a poignant, funny and sexy account of one woman’s attempt to understand what drives us to document the essential stories of our lives.
Stolen Voices/Vacant Rooms by Steve Lundin and Mitch Perry (1993)
Stolen Voices / Vacant Rooms
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 1-895636-06-X
Anvil Press, 1994
About the Book
The first and only shared prize of publication, the co-winners of the 16th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest form two books in one. One side offers a nightmarish vision of a land in decline, the other, a finely crafted piece of prose, rich in mood and evocative in its language.
Stolen Voices tells the story of Tod Coll, a painter grappling with the age old struggle of art versus commodity. Steve Lundin’s novel is visionary and hallucinatory; bitter and vitriolic; written in a style that brings to mind the writings of Celine.
Evocative in its language, Mitch Parry’s Vacant Rooms is the tale of a family history and the effects of the past on the present. The novel sifts through one family’s collective memory in an attempt to understand their sense of dissolving ties and personal loss.
A Circle of Birds by Hayden Trenholm (1992)
A Circle of Birds
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 1-895636-03-5
Anvil Press, 1992
About the Book
“It’s difficult to hold on to the present when your mind is peeling away like the layers of an onion.” A man suffering from aminesis — the death of memory — tells the story of his mind-melting descent into mental illness.
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O Father by Bill Dodds (1990)
O Father
ISBN: 0-88978-229-6
Anvil Press, 1991
Out of print. Buy online as a Kindle edition
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A fledgling mystery novelist and single dad with an addiction to James Garner reruns enrolls in a PI course to get background information for a book he is working on. But a series of events leads the hapless writer into his own real-life murder mystery, forcing him to learn the trade for real… with his three-year-old daughter in tow on his stakeouts.
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Wastefall by Stephen E. Miller (1989)
Wastefall
ISBN: 0-88978-220-2
Pulp Press, 1990
Out of Print. Find a used copy
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Forrest thinks the world is a garbage dump, a surreal wasteland in which anything can happen. A series of circumstances forces him to abandon reality and search for fulfillment amidst the debris of a disposable society. But life here ain’t all easy–kids still grow up to turn against you, and love is hard to find.
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Pawn to Queen: A Chris Prior Mystery by Pat Dobie (1988)
Pawn to Queen: A Chris Prior Mystery
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-88978-209-1
Pulp Press, 1989
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Meet Chris Prior, your not-so-average down-on-the-ropes private eye–broke, hard-drinking and cynical–and suffering from a crisis of confidence. And things don’t improve when she agrees to tackle a murder case involving an escort service and a rich, chess-playing university professor, which takes her from the seedy back streets of Vancouver to the quiet neighbourhoods of suburban Toronto.
Starting Small by James Dunn (1987)
Starting Small
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-88978-195-8
Pulp Press, 1988
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About the Book
Blind Banana Daiquiri is a guitarist accused of schizophrenia who spends his nights performing his greatest hits as mood music for strip shows. But growing up normal-sized in the Land of the Smalls (island cave dwellers who never grow taller than 4’6″) taught him a thing or two about normalcy, and as a schizophrenic, the idea that fiction can be stranger than the truth.
Hardwired Angel by Candas Jane Dorsey & Nora Abercrombie (1986)
ISBN: 0-88978-190-7
Pulp Press, 1987
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The story of a streetwise, drugged-out genius who gains notoriety as inventor of a cell-imitating computer chip and recreational booker wanted by both the Pentagon and men in need of a quick fix.
Momentum by Marc Diamond (1985)
Momentum
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 0-88978-179-6
Pulp Press, 1986
About the Book
In a west coast city preparing itself for a world exposition, a man named Still is on the move. Downwardly mobile, having lost his government job, Still plummets through a matrix of a society frenzied with hope and disappointment. Meanwhile, “The Thing” begins to take shape on the waterfront, bombarding the city with fireworks and hoopla, forcing the lost ones further and further away.
Nothing So Natural by Jim Curry (1984)
Nothing So Natural
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-88978-167-2
Pulp Press, 1985
About the Book
A 12-year-old boy longs for ordinary existence amid extraordinary circumstances. The winner of the 8th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest reads like The World According to Garp written from the other side of the tracks.
This Guest of Summer by Jeff Doran (1983)
This Guest of Summer
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-88978-151-6
Pulp Press, 1984
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About the Book
He’s a high-tech millionaire-in-progress, she’s a ballerina. Their love is as fragile as his ambitions and her bones.
Still by b.p. nichol (1982)
Still
ISBN: 0-88978-146-X
Pulp Press, 1983
Out of print. Find a used copy
About the Book
A haunting novel from one of Canada’s most distinguished avant-garde poets. A work of profound emotional depth, subtlety, and intensity.
Accordion Lessons by Ray Serwylo (1981)
Accordion Lessons
Price: $7.95
ISBN: 0-88978-122-2
Pulp Press, 1982
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About the Book
The winner of the 4th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest and its second published novel is sad, funny, eloquent and both full of tenderness for things lost and enthusiastic about what can be found.
Dr. Tin by Tom Walmsley (re-published as Shades) (1979)
Shades
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 0-88978-254-7
Pulp Press
About the Book
The original winner of the 3-Day Novel Contest. A mass murderer, a musician, a dominatrix, and a private eye gather around a game of Snakes and Ladders on New Year’s Day. Lenore is waiting to murder, A.J. is waiting to die, Roxanne waits to usher in the end of the world. And all McGraw wants for Christmas is Doctor Tin. Some of them will die. Some of them have died before.
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