Books

Ruby Ruby by Bradley Harris

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Ruby Ruby

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?

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Skin by Bonnie Bowman

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Skin

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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Small Apartments by Chris Millis

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Small Apartments

Small Apartments

Price: $12.95
ISBN: 1-895636-35-3
Anvil Press, 2001

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. Since taking the prize in the 23rd Annual 3-Day Novel Contest, Chris Millis has since adapted his novel to the big screen.

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Socket by David Zimmerman

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Socket

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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Struck by Geoffrey Bromhead

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Struck

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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Love Block by Meghan Austin and Shannon Mullally

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Love Block

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.

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