Name: The Hiking Book From Hell
Brand: Are Kalvø
Price: 19.95 USD
Availability: InStock

Are Kalvø

The Hiking Book From Hell

$18.95

For fans of Bill Bryson and David Sedaris comes an anti-nature memoir that will resonate with anyone who would rather stay inside with a book than venture into the mountains, from one of Scandinavia’s biggest comedians.

“A smart, funny and honest exposé of the cult of the outdoors, from the sublime to the ridiculous.”—Foreword Reviews

Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends… to the mountains. Friends who used to meet him at the pub are now hiking and skiing every weekend, and when they do show up, all they talk about is feeling at one with nature (without a hint of irony). When Are realizes he’s the only person who hasn’t posted a selfie on a mountain, he starts to wonder: does he have it all wrong?

To find out, Are buys some ridiculously expensive gear and heads into the woods. The result of his sardonic trek is at once a smart and funny take-down of outdoors culture, and a reluctant surrender to nature’s undeniable pull. An adventure, a comedy, and a tragedy, The Hiking Book from Hell is destined to become a nature writing (and nature hating) classic.

Are Kalvø

The Hiking Book From Hell

$19.95

For fans of Bill Bryson and David Sedaris comes an anti-nature memoir that will resonate with anyone who would rather stay inside with a book than venture into the mountains, from one of Scandinavia’s biggest comedians.

“A smart, funny and honest exposé of the cult of the outdoors, from the sublime to the ridiculous.”—Foreword Reviews

Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends… to the mountains. Friends who used to meet him at the pub are now hiking and skiing every weekend, and when they do show up, all they talk about is feeling at one with nature (without a hint of irony). When Are realizes he’s the only person who hasn’t posted a selfie on a mountain, he starts to wonder: does he have it all wrong?

To find out, Are buys some ridiculously expensive gear and heads into the woods. The result of his sardonic trek is at once a smart and funny take-down of outdoors culture, and a reluctant surrender to nature’s undeniable pull. An adventure, a comedy, and a tragedy, The Hiking Book from Hell is destined to become a nature writing (and nature hating) classic.

Cover image for The Hiking Book From Hell, isbn: 9781771645850

Rae Congdon

GAYBCs

$16.95

A cheeky, progressive adult alphabet book that celebrates and illuminates LGBTQ terminology.

What would happen if someone picked up a classic ABC book, crossed out the words, and replaced them with LGBTQ terms?

The result would be GAYBCs —a playful, subversive alphabet book that aims to spread awareness and demystify queer terminology for everyone. Instead of apple, ball, and chick, this book’s ABCs are ally, bisexual, and cisgender. A ladybug gains a matching girlfriend to become lesbian, kiss becomes kink, and tie gets a gender-bending twist to become transgender. Using straightforward, accessible language, GAYBCs also defines less commonly known terms, such as “femme,” “Mx.,” and “ze,” and puts LGBTQ-friendly spins on words like “wedding” and “equality.” With clear definitions and clever illustrations, this book is accessible to everyone from preteens to grandparents and those in the LGBTQ community as well as family, friends, and allies of all backgrounds. A fun and informative adult picture book, GAYBCs is a queer ABCs for our modern world.

Cover image for GAYBCs, isbn: 9781771643948

Chris Gudgeon

The Naked Truth

$14.99

Even more than hockey, what unites Canadians from coast to coast is sex. Inspired and baffled by a recent poll that ranked Canadians among the sexiest peoples on Earth, Chris Gudgeon takes an intimate look at sex and sexuality in Canada. Based on original research and interviews with historians, sexperts, and social commentators, the book covers everything from homosexuality (officially illegal in Canada until 1969)to censorship (1965, the Supreme Court determines that Fanny Hill is not obscene; would Benny Hill be next?) to Canada’s version of the sexual revolution, which saw men in Toronto freely engaging in intercourse with their spouses.

Gudgeon also peeks into the minds and bedrooms across the country, talking to people at the front lines, the cougars and mistresses, the leather freaks and swingers and shemales, to try to find what makes today’s Canadians tick, sexually speaking; and to bridge the gap between their undersexed self-image and their slightly spicy standing in the bedroom of the world.

Cover image for The Naked Truth, isbn: 9781926812205

Michael Poole

Romancing Mary Jane

$14.95

A thoroughly engaging and intoxicating blend of metaphysics, marijuana and midlife crisis.

The malaise that besets Michael Poole as he hits middle age is a familiar one. After many years as a successful documentary film producer and director, he finds himself suffering from serious burnout. But the cure Poole prescribes for himself is not so common. Retreating from the demands of the city to a waterfront acreage on British Columbia’s idyllic Sunshine Coast, he throws himself into wholesome toil: the cultivation of marijuana.

Romancing Mary Jane is an intimate, funny and eye-opening depiction of ten months in the life of a neophyte marijuana grower. It is also an entertaining examination of cannabis culture.