1.
Series:
Love after the End
An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
Paperback
Joshua Whitehead
9781551528113
$21.95
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories. Here, readers will discover bioengineer...
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Series:
Kimiko Does Cancer
A Graphic Memoir
Paperback
Kimiko Tobimatsu
9781551528199
$19.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 03, 2020
A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman. At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an instant, she became immersed in a new and complicated life of endless appointments, evaluations, and treatments, and difficult conversations with her partner and parents. Kimiko knew that this wasn't what being twenty-five was supposed to be...
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Series:
Our Work Is Everywhere
An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
Paperback
Syan Rose
9781551528151
$19.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Apr 01, 2021
A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real, and imagined queer and trans communities. In their own words, queer and trans organizers, artists, healers, comrades, and ...
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4.
Series:
The Name I Call Myself
Hardcover
Hasan Namir
9781551528090
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 9
Oct 01, 2020
A sweet and moving picture book depicting Ari's gender journey from childhood to adolescence in order to discover who they really are. Meet Ari, a young person who doesn't like to be called by their birth name Edward: "When I think of the name Edward, I imagine old kings who snore a lot." Throughout this beautiful and engaging picture book, we watch Ari grow up before our very eyes as they navigate the ins and outs of their gender identity; we see how, as a child, they prefer dolls and princess movies, and want to grow out their hair, though t...
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5.
Series:
The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly
Paperback
Sybil Lamb
9781551528175
$18.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
Oct 01, 2020
A visionary young-adult illustrated novel about Eggs, a homeless girl who knows how to fly. In a rusted unnamed city full of five-dollar hotels and flea markets, a young homeless girl named Eggs is trying to make her way in the world. She's shy and bold at the same time, and wary of strangers, but she is convinced beyond all reason that she can fly. And fly she does, from rooftop to rooftop, from chimneys to phone wires; she scurries up the sides of buildings and sneaks into secret lairs. Eggs is a loner, but she makes two friends: Grack, who...
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6.
Series:
God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Hardcover
Vivek Shraya
9781551528137
$24.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Aug 15, 2020
A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity. In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; since then, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while also working as an artist, musician, and academic. God Loves Hair is a collection of short stories that follows a tender, intelligent, and curious child who navigates the complex realms of gender creativi...
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7.
Series:
Like a Boy but Not a Boy
Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary
Paperback
andrea bennett
9781551528212
$21.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2020
A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness, mortality, creative work, class, and bike mechanics (apparently you can learn a lot about you...
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8.
Series:
Vancouver Exposed
Searching for the City's Hidden History
Paperback
Eve Lazarus
9781551528298
$32.95
HISTORY
Sep 21, 2020
As the author of such BC bestsellers as Cold Case Vancouver, Murder by Milkshake, and SensationalVancouver, Australian-born Eve Lazarus has become adept at combining her well-honed investigative skills with an abiding love for her adopted city. These qualities are on full display in her latest book, an exploration of Vancouver’s hidden past through the city’s neighbourhoods, institutions, people, and events. Vancouver Exposed is a nostalgic romp through the city’s past, from buried houses to nudist camps, from bellyflop contests to eccentric mu...
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9.
Series:
Butter Honey Pig Bread
Paperback
Francesca Ekwuyasi
9781551528236
$23.95
FICTION
Sep 03, 2020
2021 CANADA READS FINALIST Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family. Francesca Ekwuyasi's debut novel tells the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and the...
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10.
Series:
Arborescent
Paperback
Marc Herman Lynch
9781551528311
$18.95
FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
Ghosts, doppelgangers, and a man who turns into a tree: a startling fiction debut that strives to articulate the Asian immigrant body. In the beltline of a run-of-the-mill Canadian metropolis, an apartment complex called Cambrian Court has become the focal point of an outlandish unfurling, where even the laws of physics are becoming questioned. Embroiled within this psychic plot are three neighbours - Nohlan Buckles, Hachiko Yoshimoto, and Zadie Chan - complete strangers whose ordinary lives have become rife with bizarre antagonists: an ogrish...
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11.
Series: VS. Books
Burning Sugar
Paperback
Cicely Belle Blain
9781551528250
$18.95
POETRY
Aug 06, 2020
The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation. In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies. They use poetry to illuminate their activist work: exposing racism, especially anti-Blackness, and helping people see the connections between history and sys...
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12.
Series:
Render
Paperback
Sachiko Murakami
9781551528274
$18.95
POETRY
Aug 06, 2020
Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience. Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in another language or form; to translate. To deliver or pronounce formally; to cause to become; to reduce, convert, or melt down, by heating. Journey through dreamscapes in Sachiko Murakami's in...
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