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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
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Andy, Claire and Dag (who says he's a lesbian trapped inside a man's body) are overeducated, underemployed, and in search of permanence, love and home in the California desert. The book's layout (text plus photos, illustrations and sidebars) adds to its pop-culture aura.
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Girlfriend in a Coma
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A teenager falls into a mysterious coma in 1979, then awakes in the late '90s to a radically different world, including an apocalyptic virus that threatens to destroy the world.
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Microserfs
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A novel about life in the 1990s from the point of view of a computer nerd named Dan Underwood. The story he narrates follows the adventures of six "microserfs," who write software for Microsoft until it's time to strike out on their own, then form their own company, and search for love in the computer-driven world of Silicon Valley.
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All families are psychotic
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Sarah Drummond-Fournier is an astronaut, but she was a thalidomide baby who only has one arm. As she's about to be launched on a space shuttle, she confesses that she has AIDS, which she got when a bullet passed through the body of her afflicted son, Wade, and into her own, when Wade's father tried to kill him. Meanwhile, Wade and his friends ...
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Life After God
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Douglas Coupland
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The Gum Thief
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Meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker, Bethany, who's at the end of her Goth phase and realising she's facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes and replenshing the Crayola boutique in Aisle Six. One day, Bethany ...
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Jpod
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Six co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video-game-design company. Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life.
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City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver
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This irresistible little book offers a very different take on Vancouver, one of the world's most beautiful cities. Douglas Coupland applies his unique sensibility to everything from the Grouse Grind to glass towers, First Nations to feng shui, Kitsilano to Cantonese. Cleverly designed to mimic an underground Japanese magazine, this edition is ...
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Shampoo Planet
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Tells the story of Tyler Johnson, a 20-year-old, tree-hugging Reagan youth with a "shampoo museum" in his bathroom. It chronicles his six-month journey from his Lancaster hometown, to Paris, an island in British Columbia, the Redwood Forests, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Seattle and back home.
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Hey Nostradamus!
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Douglas Coupland
This account of a Columbine-ish massacre and its aftermath, is narrated by four characters: Cheryl, a highly religious teenager whose narrative leads up to the massacre (in which she is killed); Jason, the boy she was secretly married to, who survives; a woman Jason later becomes involved with; and Jason's father.
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Souvenir of Canada
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Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadiannow and imagines what it might feel like to be a Canadian in the future.
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Miss Wyoming
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A novel about a relationship between a former beauty queen and a movie producer.
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Eleanor Rigby
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Liz Dunn's quiet existence is upended by young Jeremy--the son she abandoned--who is now a charming lost soul with a terminal illness who triggers a chain of events that takes Liz to the other side of the world and back.
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Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots
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Peter York, Douglas Coupland (Foreword by)
Welcome to the fabulous lifestyles of the cruel and despotic. Running with the idea that our homes are where we are truly ourselves, Peter York's wildly original and scathingly funny look at the interior decorating tastes of some of history's most alarming dictators proves that absolute power corrupts absolutely, right down to the drapes. Mining ...
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Souvenir of Canada 2
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Douglas Coupland returns to reinventing Canada with additional proof that his bestseller "Souvenir of Canada" made clear: Canada is way more than slightly cool. Coupland's net has a colorful, lively mix of cultural commentary and images that include a tour of Nanaimo bars; unforgettable railways photos; and a double-headed goose that symbolizes ...
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Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art
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Douglas Coupland, Ralph Rugoff (Editor)
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Carte Blanche: Photography 1
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Douglas Coupland (Foreword by)
Carte Blanche is a groundbreaking collection of the work of Canada's best photographers, selected by a jury of renowned arts professionals. This unprecedented showcase displays the remarkable-but rarely acknowledged-range of photographic talent in Canada. Internationally recognized photographers such as Edward Burtynsky, Yuri Dojc, Janieta Eyre, ...
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School Spirit
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Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Coupland
The first in a new series from Dis Voir, Encounters asks a well-known contemporary artist to decide which subjects he or she wants to discuss in their book. Each artist's book therefore offers a specific experience in terms of content. In accordance with this principle, each artist also selects a person -- due to certain elective affinities -- ...
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Terry
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Douglas Coupland
In 1980, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research -- despite having lost one leg to the disease. His goal was to raise $1 from every Canadian to help find a cure, and some combination of passion, idealism, and sheer guts led to the impossible notion that he would do this on one good leg and a prosthesis. Beginning ...
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Lara's Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon
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Douglas Coupland, Kip Ward
This anthology offers exclusive strategies for never-before-seen Tomb Raider Gold Levels. Douglas Coupland, a well-known writer and '90s pop culture expert, contributes writings and insights on Tomb Raider and the Lara Croft phenomenon. The anthology features Lara rumors, previews, essays, merchandise, hype, and strategy.
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Slacker
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Richard Linklater, Douglas Coupland (Introduction by)
The complete screenplay of Slacker--a film depicting a twenty-four-hour period in Austin, Texas, in which characters wander around doing nothing--is accompanied by the director's notes that reveal how the no-budget film defined a generation. Original.
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The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada's Best Writers
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Polaroids from the Dead
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Douglas Coupland
This illustrated volume of short stories and essays includes Coupland's Grateful Dead "microstories," in which Deadheads of all ages to search for a sense of belonging, as well as other observations on modern life.
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V0n 1b0 V0n 1b0: General Delivery, Whistler, BC General Delivery, Whistler, BC
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Ian Verchere, Douglas Coupland (Foreword by)
An irreverent take on the real Whistler -- its vibe, verve and eerie lack of history -- in the style of Douglas Coupland's best-selling "City of Glass." Ian Verchere takes us behind the curtain of hype as only an insider can to reveal what makes B.C.'s only designated Resort Municipality tick.
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Terry: Terry Fox and His Marathon of Hope
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In 1980, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research -- despite having lost one leg to the disease. His goal was to raise $1 from every Canadian to help find a cure, and some combination of passion, idealism, and sheer guts led to the impossible notion that he would do this on one good leg and a prosthesis. Beginning ...
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