1.
Series:
Rebent Sinner
Paperback
Ivan Coyote
9781551527734
$19.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 25, 2019
Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, and longlisted for Canada Reads. In their latest, Ivan takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling a...
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2.
Series:
A Cure for Hate
A Former White Supremacist's Journey From Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion
Paperback
Tony McAleer
9781551527697
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2019
How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi groups in Canada and the United States? The Cure for Hate paints a very human picture of a young man who craved attention, acceptance, and approval and the dark place he would go to get it. Tony McAleer found an outlet for his teenage rage in the street violence of the skinhead scene. He then grew deeply involved in the White Aryan Resistance (WAR...
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3.
Series:
Major Misconduct
The Human Cost of Fighting in Hockey
Paperback
Jeremy Allingham
9781551527710
$22.95
SPORTS & RECREATION
Sep 01, 2019
Every night in hockey arenas across Canada and the United States, modern-day gladiators drop their gloves and exchange bare-fisted blows to the bloodthirsty roars of the paying public. Tens of millions of people a year, including children, watch and cheer on the fighters. Some players are paid handsomely; others barely a living wage. But either way, these fighters are lauded, valued, and considered to be essential to the game. That is, until their playing days are over. Hockey enforcers spend their lives fighting on ice to protect their teammat...
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4.
Series:
I Hope We Choose Love
A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
Paperback
Kai Cheng Thom
9781551527758
$17.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2019
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book; Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that ha...
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5.
Series:
Yarn Bombing
The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Paperback
Mandy Moore
9781551527918
$24.95
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
Sep 25, 2019
When Yarn Bombing was first published in 2009, the idea that knitted and crocheted objects could be used as a political act of resistance was brand new. Ten years and thousands of public acts of yarnarchy later, the art of knit and crochet graffiti has entered the public zeitgeist, from the "pussyhat" making the cover of Time to OLEK's crocheted bull on Wall Street symbolizing The Great Recession: a cultural phenomenon that shows no sign of slowing down. Yarn bombing is an international guerrilla movement that started underground and is now em...
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6.
Series:
The Blue Road
A Fable of Migration
Paperback
Wayde Compton
9781551527772
$22.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Oct 01, 2019
A Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She lives alone in a swamp made of ink, but with the help of Polaris, a will-o'-the-wisp, she embarks for the fabled Northern Kingdom, where she might find people like her. The only way to get there, though, is to travel the strange and dangerous Blue Road that stretches to the horizon like a mark upon a page. Along the way, Lacuna must overcome trials such as the twisted briars of the Thicket of Tickets and the i...
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7.
Series:
Swimming in Darkness
Hardcover
Lucas Harari
9781551527673
$27.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 01, 2019
An NPR Best Book of the Year Pierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject of Pierre's thesis. The mountain holds many mysteries; it was said to have a mouth that periodically swallowed people up. Pierre, sketchbook in hand, is drawn to the enigmatic powers of the mountain and its springs, and attempts to uncover the truth behind th...
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8.
Series:
I Promise
Hardcover
Catherine Hernandez
9781551527796
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 8
Oct 01, 2019
Catherine Hernandez's literary career exploded with the 2017 publication of her award-winning novel Scarborough. Her latest, I Promise, marks her delightful return to children's literature, having published her first children's book, M Is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book, in 2015. Featuring tender-hearted illustrations by renowned artist Syrus Marcus Ware, I Promise captures with love and honesty the intimate moments of parenting in all their messy glory - from dealing with a kid who doesn't want to brush their teeth to looking under the bed for...
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9.
Series:
Hustling Verse
An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry
Paperback
Amber Dawn
9781551527819
$19.95
POETRY
Sep 01, 2019
Lambda Literary Award finalist In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the expressive nuance and beauty of poetry. In a variety of forms ranging from lyrics to list poems to found poetry to hybrid works, these authors express themselves with the complexity, agency, and honesty that sex workers are rarely afforded. Contributors from Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia include Gregory Scofield, Tracy Quan,...
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10.
Series:
Vancouver After Dark
The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife
Paperback
Aaron Chapman
9781551527833
$32.95
HISTORY
Nov 01, 2019
BC Book Prize winner (Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize) In his latest book, bestselling author, musician, and cultural historian Aaron Chapman looks back at the most famous music entertainment venues in Vancouver, a city that's transforming so fast it has somehow lost some of its favourite nightspots along the way. These are the places locals are still talking about years after they closed, burned down, or were bulldozed in the face of new trends, rising rents, gentrification, and other vagaries. This raucous book tours Vancouver's legend...
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11.
Series:
There Has to Be a Knife
Paperback
Adnan Khan
9781551527857
$18.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2019
For readers of Brother by David Chariandy and Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, Adnan Khan's blistering debut novel investigates themes of race, class, masculinity, and contemporary relationships. Omar Ali is a ticking time bomb. A phone call from his ex-girlfriend Anna's father plunges him into darkness when he learns that she's committed suicide. Clueless and hurting, Omar turns to violence and petty crime to cope. His nefarious activities catch the attention of the RCMP, who pressure him into becoming an informant at a mosque they suspect...
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12.
Series: Robin's Egg Books
SO YOU’RE A LITTLE SAD, SO WHAT?
Nice Things to Say to Yourself on Bad Days and Other Essays
Paperback
Alicia Tobin
9781551527871
$17.95
HUMOR
Sep 25, 2019
With her just-right combination of sensitivity, vulnerability, and hilarity, comedian and podcaster Alicia Tobin has won fans among the biggest names in contemporary comedy, from Paul F. Tompkins to Rob Delaney. In her prose debut, the host of Retail Nightmares and Super! Sick! Podcast! takes readers through the funniest parts of sadness and the saddest parts of funniness. While tackling topics ranging from advice on how to be depressed at Christmas to traumatic memories of Velcro shoes, from Vancouver's inexplicable combination of grey rain an...
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