Free B Fest

In celebration of Victoria Film Festival's Free B Fest - books, movies, and other treats to add to your experience in the park.


Updated August 8, 2025
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The book of Joe about a dog and his man
Price, Vincent 1911-1993
Audiobook
Actor Vincent Price won acclaim for his performances as a menacing villain in dozens of macabre horror films, such as House of Wax. Less well known, though, is Price s lifelong love of animals, especially his fourteen-year-old mutt, Joe. From his wife s passion for poodles to film set encounters...
Collected stories
Dahl, Roald
Paper Book
Includes the stories "Poison" and "The Ratcatcher," now short films from Wes Anderson on Netflix The only hardcover edition of Roald Dahl's stories for adults, the Collected Stories amply showcases his singular gifts as a fabulist and a born storyteller. * "An ingenious...
Elvis : the graphic novel
Miskiewicz, Chris
Paper Book
Legends have to start somewhere... Witness the King of Rock 'n' Roll's humble beginnings in Memphis as a young artist struggling to define his voice and break into the music industry. From the history-making Sun Studio to television sets across the nation, the...
Elvis and the Colonel : an insider's look at the most legendary partnership in show business
McDonald, Greg
Paper Book
A fresh biography of legendary entertainment manager Colonel Tom Parker, with a contrarian and corrective point of view. Colonel Tom Parker, often reviled in his time, led the strategy from the earliest days of Elvis's career. Together, they built the most legendary...
Hail to the chin : further confessions of a B movie actor
Campbell, Bruce
Paper Book
New York Times bestseller Introduction by New York Times bestselling author and famous minor television personality John Hodgman One of my dad's favorite jokes about getting older was: "I went out for coffee when I was twenty-one and when I got back...
Living dangerously : the adventures of Merian C. Cooper, creator of King Kong
Vaz, Mark Cotta.
Paper Book
Explorer, war hero, filmmaker, and cinema pioneer Merian C. Cooper-the adventurer who created King Kong-was truly larger than life. Pictures cannot be made from an executive's desk, Coop declared, and he did more than talk the talk-he walked the walk to the far corners of the globe, with a motion...
Love from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
Dahl, Roald
Paper Book
From the author of The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and many more beloved classics--a whimsical, witty, and revealing collection of the legendary children's author and writer Roald Dahl's letters written to his...
Matilda
Dahl, Roald.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and a Netflix film! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects...
Monster, she wrote : the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction
Kröger, Lisa
Paper Book
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales,from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning- horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn't exist without...
Opening Wednesday at a theater or drive-in near you : the shadow cinema of the American '70s
Taylor, Charles
Paper Book
"Movie criticism's Dostoyevsky . . . Taylor reveals a national identity forged from the innocence we claim to have lost but never had in the first place." --Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The...
Roald Dahl : teller of the unexpected : a biography
Dennison, Matthew
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary characters. Roald Dahl was one of the world's greatest...

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