Product Description: '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...read more

Product Description: The poetry in 'Marimba Forever' is concerned with love and longing, which the author displays in all their multifarious guises.

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. BC Books for Everybody pick. CBC Radio Toronto selection, one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year (2008). In these pages you will encounter gamblers and adventurers, conmen and conwomen, rodomontades and ragamuffins, outright fools and outrageous liars...read more

An aging, wicked-tongued actress finds new life in the friendship of a young graduate employed in the retirement home where she resides. When Colin helps Anna escape both embark on surprising adventures in which they experience a curious revival. Partly set in Mexico this novel signals a new direction for author Jim Christy, known for the hard-boiled crime fiction of his Gene Castle, Private Detective Vancouver Trilogy.

Product Description: When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that. It meant things were good, as good as they could get. It’s a good thing in fiction, too...read more

Product Description: Book by Christy, Jim

Product Description: There’s trouble enough in the heart of Vancouver and its falling like rain at the corner of Princess and Gore... Gene Castle, private eye, is back on the streets of Vancouver! It’s autumn 1939. War is brewing in Europe. At home the Depression is lifting and he’s just escaped from the Fascists in Spain...read more

Product Description: One of the most widely read and influential American writers of the 20th century, Jack Kerouac is often misunderstood. This study examines the confessions of a 20th-century St. Augustine and traces the progress of a great pilgrim through the decline of modern civilization...read more

Product Description: There is only one human impulse as old as the desire to build a house - the desire to decorate it.From a house made entirely of embalming fluid bottles created by an ex-undertaker, to a miniature backyard Dodge City built by a devoted "Gunsmoke" fan, to a junk castle assembled from old bedsteads, metal fans, and washing machine parts for a fine arts doctoral project - these are some of the uncommon homes and gardens found throughout western Canada and the United States...read more

Product Description: A travel-related book by Jim Christy.

The construction of the Alcan highway, a fifteen-hundred-mile roadway connecting Dawson Creek, British Columbia and Fairbanks, is chronicled