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ISBN 1-896860-60-5 Between the Meridians
(travel) 17.95
published 1999 248 pages
Between the Meridians is an eclectic mixture of fugitive travel
pieces and essays whose basic theme is an exploration of character and
culture. Tied together by Christys ironic observations on human
frailty and traditional histories, the adventures read like those of a
hip Indiana Jones. |
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ISBN 978-1-77171-073-2 The Big Thirst (poetry) 23.95
published 2014 78 pages
The poetry in this collection covers plenty of ground: to the ends of the earth and back again. The poems range from righteous honkytonk to religious mysticism. It's like Hank Williams is in the backseat of the Caddy converible picking out a tune while Francois Villon offers him lyrics. Christy can soften you up with a joke and a kind word then the dog bites and the knife slips in. |
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ISBN 1-896860-94-X Cavatinas for Long
Nights (poetry) 14.95
published 2001 120 pages
These short songs for long nights are the jazz riffs of a global wanderer.
The poems are incantations to shattered memories and a dream of romance
that is sometimes faded, sometimes bright. |
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ISBN 978-1-897430-82-8 Jackpots (stories) 24.95
published 2012 186 pages
“Things sure do happen to you,” says an aunt to little six-year-old Jimmy Christinzio, after a Hollywood cowboy tried to shoot him with real bullets. Little Jimmy grew up to be writer and raconteur Jim Christy, who has rambled the planet meeting royalty and rounders and everything in between. In Jackpots he collects fragments from the pages of an extraordinary life, sketching the memorable characters and remarkable adventures that destiny threw his way. |
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ISBN 1-896860-36-2 Junkman and Other Stories (fiction) 16.95
published 1998 226 pages
Junkman and Other Stories brings into razorsharp focus life lived
on the edge. The stories are filled with sex and death, love and hate,
the desperate dreams and transparent hopes of lowlifes, riffraff and rogues. |
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ISBN 1978-1-897430-20-0 Nine O'Clock Gun (fiction) 22.95
published 2008 156 pages
In Nine O’Clock Gun, the fourth and final novel of his
Gene Castle, hard-boiled Private Eye series, Castle’s back in his
room at the faded Rose Hotel, back at his table at Ramona’s Cafe,
but the woman in his life has taken her seamed silk stockings and walked.
Vancouver is as dangerous as ever, though, and Castle’s just the
man to solve the string of murders striking a little too close to home. |
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ISBN 1-896860-86-9 Princess and Gore (fiction) 18.95
published 2000 186 pages
In 1939 the depression is lifting and war is threatening in Europe. Private
Eye Gene Castle is back in Vancouver and theres even a client in
his office. The case seems easy enough for a cynic and seasoned gumshoe
like Castle until people start dying. |
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ISBN 1-894800-48-6 The Redemption of Anna
Dupree (fiction) 21.95
published 2005 200 pages
An aging, wicked-tongued actress finds new life through the friendship
of a young man employed in the retirement home where she resides. He helps
her escape, and they embark on a road trip to Mexico, where the elderly
actress revives and the young man finds himself opening up in unexpected
ways. |
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ISBN 1-896860-10-9 Shanghai Alley (fiction) 16.95
published 1997 200 pages
Vancouver, Chinatown, 1936. While the bread lines get longer and the
whole world goes crazy, wise-cracking gumshoe Gene Castle has his own
worries. In Shanghai Alley, while on the trail of missing union
funds, he goes fist to fist with corrupt cops, sleazy politicians and
ruthless gangsters. |
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ISBN 1-896860-02-8 The Sunnyside of the
Deathhouse (poetry ) 12.95
published 1996 72 pages
The Sunnyside of the Deathhouse takes the reader around the world
and to the bar down the street, visiting all sorts of mostly down-and-out
characters along the way. The music playing in the background might be
the Dubrovnik Philharmonic or a dumpster sextet, but usually its
jazz. |
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ISBN 1-894800-08-7 Terminal Avenue (fiction)
19.95
published 2002 200 pages
The war is in full swing and private eye Gene Castle is back on the wet
streets of Vancouver. In this third installment of the Vancouver Trilogy
Castle has to evade Nazis, a freakishly strong woman and the usual corrupt
cops to find the kidnapped daughter of a friend who is involved in the
resistance. |