1.
Series:
The Scent of Pomegranates and Rose Water
Reviving the Beautiful Food Traditions of Syria
Hardcover
Habeeb Salloum
9781551527420
$32.95
COOKING
Oct 01, 2018
The traditions of Syrian cooking, which go back hundreds of years, are notable for their sensory components, in which aroma and texture are as important as taste and nutrition. Over the centuries, the unique dishes of Greater Syria (bilaad al-shaam) were preserved by those who cooked them. For cooks in imperial households, family homes, or on simple peasant farms, recipes were handed down from generation to generation. Despite centuries of occupation, economic hardships, and political strife, the people of Greater Syria continued to cook their ...
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2.
Series:
The Antifa Comic Book
100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
Paperback
Gord Hill
9781551527338
$19.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 01, 2018
The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the concurrent antifa movements that have worked fastidiously to topple it. Fascism is a relatively new political ideology, yet in its short history some of the greatest at...
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3.
Series:
The Woo-Woo
How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
Paperback
Lindsay Wong
9781551527369
$19.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2018
2019 CANADA READS FINALIST Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when they should really be on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo" -- Chinese ghosts who come to visi...
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4.
Series:
Care Work
Dreaming Disability Justice
Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
9781551527383
$19.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2018
In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with implications and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access" -- access not as a cho...
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5.
Series:
MURDER BY MILKSHAKE
An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer
Paperback
Eve Lazarus
9781551527468
$21.95
TRUE CRIME
Oct 01, 2018
When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther’s funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter, Jeannine; and Lolly’s son, Don, in the company car and took off for Disneyland. If not for the doggedness of the doctor who treated Esther, Rene, then a charismatic and handsome CKNW radio personality, would have been free to marry Lolly, who was the station’s pretty twentysomething receptionist. Instead, Rene wa...
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6.
Series:
The Tiger Flu
Paperback
Larissa Lai
9781551527314
$21.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2018
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a m...
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7.
Series:
Sketchtasy
Paperback
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
9781551527291
$19.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2018
Lambda Literary Award finalist Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-'90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and present traumas with a scathing critique of the world. Drawn to the ecstasy ...
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8.
Series:
Synchro Boy
Paperback
Shannon McFerran
9781551527444
$16.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Nov 01, 2018
Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. When he gives in to his curiosity and tries synchronized swimming, he discovers he has a natural talent -- not to mention a spark with one of the girls. So when Erika Tenaka asks him to swim the mixed duet with her, he commits to taking them all the way to the Olympics.But judges' scores and Erika's sudden decision to quit the duet threaten to ...
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9.
Series:
Chinatown Ghosts
The Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu
Paperback
Jim Wong-Chu
9781551527482
$21.95
POETRY
Aug 31, 2018
Jim Wong-Chu is a legend in the Asian Canadian writing community. As founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (and its magazine Ricepaper), he constantly encouraged and inspired writers across the country to get their work published and acknowledged, from Paul Yee and Evelyn Lau to Madeleine Thien and Catherine Hernandez. When Jim passed away in 2017, at the age of sixty-eight, he left not only a void in the Asian Canadian writing and publishing community but also a legacy of his own work that was never fully recognized. When it first a...
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