1.
Series:
Chowgirls Killer Party Food
Righteous Bites & Cocktails for Every Season
Paperback
Heidi Andermack
9781551526454
$22.95
COOKING
Oct 01, 2016
With an eye for style and appreciation for seasonal ingredients, the proprietors of Chowgirls Killer Catering, one of the Midwest's leading catering companies, share their inspired ideas for delicious appetizers, small plates, and cocktails that are perfect for home entertaining. Amy and Heidi were early adopters of the local, organic, sustainable, and seasonal approach to cooking; their ethos is clearly reflected in this cookbook, which offers fun, elegant, and yet easy-to-prepare recipes arranged by season that will be the hit of your next so...
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Series:
Such a Lovely Little War
Saigon, 1961-63
Paperback
Marcelino Truong
9781551526478
$28.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 01, 2016
This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. The book opens in America, where the boy's father works for the South Vietnamese embassy; there the boy is made to feel self-conscious about his otherness thanks to schoolmates who play war games against the so-called "Commies." The family is called back to Saigon in 1961, where the father becomes Presideent Ngo Dinh Diem's personal int...
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3.
Series:
The Case of Alan Turing
The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker
Board book
Eric Liberge
9781551526508
$23.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 01, 2016
Lambda Literary Award finalist Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 saved countless lives and millions' worth of British goods and merchandise. At the same time, as a homosexual he was forced to lead a tortured, secret life. After a young man stole money from him, he went to the police, where he confessed his homose...
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4.
Series:
Becoming Unbecoming
Paperback
null Una
9781551526539
$23.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Aug 31, 2016
This extraordinary graphic novel is a powerful denunciation of sexual violence against women. As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer of prostitutes, is on the loose and creating panic among the townspeople. As the police struggle in their clumsy attempts to find the killer, and the headlines in the local paper become more urgent, a once self-confident Una teaches herself to "lower her gaze" in order to deflect attention from boys. After ...
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5.
Series:
The Dad Dialogues
A Correspondence on Fatherhood (and the Universe)
Paperback
George Bowering
9781551526621
$17.95
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Oct 01, 2016
Charles Demers is a thirtysomething comedian and the author of three books; George Bowering is eighty, Canada's first poet laureate, and the author of more than eighty books. Charlie and George are also the best of friends. And the fathers of daughters. In this unique book of correspondence, these two men from different generations write to each other about the burdens, anxieties, and singular joys of parenthood. The letters begin as Charlie and his wife discover they will become parents; he expresses his hopes and fears of impending fatherhoo...
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6.
Series:
Tomboy Survival Guide
Paperback
Ivan Coyote
9781551526560
$19.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2016
Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction; Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner; Longlisted for Canada Reads Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, about how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who...
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7.
Series:
Conflict Is Not Abuse
Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility,
and the Duty of Repair
Paperback
Sarah Schulman
9781551526430
$21.95
HISTORY
Oct 01, 2016
Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negati...
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8.
Series:
The Last Gang in Town
The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang
Paperback
Aaron Chapman
9781551526713
$24.95
HISTORY
Sep 27, 2016
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize finalist; Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize for BC winner Decades before organized crime syndicates brought sensational drug wars to Vancouver, street gangs held sway over its unruly east side. None was considered tougher or more feared than the Clark Park gang, a wild, two-fisted crew of characters from Vancouver's post-1960s counterculture. In 1972, after a number of headline-making riots and clashes with police--including an infamous altercation outside a Rolling Stones concert--the Clark Pa...
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9.
Series:
The Remedy
Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
Paperback
Zena Sharman
9781551526584
$18.95
HEALTH & FITNESS
Oct 01, 2016
Lambda Literary Award winner To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care needs, to a lesbian couple dealing with the experience of cancer, to young trans people who strug...
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10.
Series:
The Boy & the Bindi
Hardcover
Vivek Shraya
9781551526683
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 01, 2016
In this beautiful children's picture book by Vivek Shraya, author of the acclaimed God Loves Hair, a five-year-old boy becomes fascinated with his mother's bindi, the red dot commonly worn by South Asian women to indicate the point at which creation begins, and wishes to have one of his own. Rather than chastise her son, she agrees to it, and teaches him about its cultural significance, allowing the boy to discover the magic of the bindi, which in turn gives him permission to be more fully himself. Beautifully illustrated with hand paintings b...
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11.
Series:
Niagara Motel
Paperback
Ashley Little
9781551526607
$17.95
FICTION
Sep 27, 2016
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist Set in the early 1990s, Ashley Little's follow-up to her award-winning novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang introduces readers to unforgettable eleven-year-old Tucker Malone--the only child of a narcoleptic touring stripper--who believes his father is Sam Malone from Cheers. He and his mother move from motel to motel until, one night in Niagara Falls, his mother is hit by a car after falling asleep in the street. Tucker is sent to live in a youth group home where he meets Meredith, a pregnant sixteen-year-old with ...
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12.
Series:
Candyass
Paperback
Nick Comilla
9781551526645
$15.95
FICTION
Sep 15, 2016
Arthur is a young gay man in Montreal at a crossroads. He gets lost in a blizzard of boys and endless possibilities--looking to fall in love and to experience devotion--but finds himself increasingly immersed in a world of hedonism and deception, especially as he deals with the messy remains of his relationship with Jeremy, his chimerical ex-boyfriend and first love. He moves to New York in search of something more, but due to a lack of foresight and chaotic romantic entanglements, he finds he still yearns for authentic connections with others....
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13.
Series: Queer Film Classics
Arabian Nights
Paperback
Michael Moon
9781551526669
$14.95
PERFORMING ARTS
Nov 01, 2016
A Queer Film Classic on 1974's Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the controversial Italian director who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Already internationally distinguished as a poet, novelist, and outspoken social critic of the postwar period, Pasolini turned to filmmaking around 1960. In little more than a decade, he produced one of the most remarkable bodies of work in cinema history, beginning with his early film-portraits of the struggles of underclass youths and extending through his adaptations of such sacred ...
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