1.
Series: Women’s Voices from Gaza Series
Come My Children
Paperback
Hekmat Al-Taweel
9781772126761
$24.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jul 13, 2023
Hekmat Al-Taweel (1922-2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative provides an unfamiliar perspective on Muslim–Christian relationships in Gaza, highlighting shared history, culture, customs, and traditions. In relating her life story, continuing education after marriage, volunteer work, activism, and aspirations, she invites readers to understand her experiences in a way that contradicts widespread Western orientalized stereotypes of Arab women. She also shares insights into life in Gaza during the British Mandate p...
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11.
Series:
The Whole Animal
Paperback
Corinna Chong
9781551529158
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 11, 2023
A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences, growths, and protrusions, and the dangerous ways we play with their power to inflict harm on ourselves and on others. Throughout The Whole Animal, flawed characters wrestle with the complexities of relations...
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14.
Series:
White Riot
The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver
Paperback
Henry Tsang
9781551529196
$32.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 04, 2023
Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city's Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. Emblematic of a systemically racist era, White Riot reveals the social and political environment of the time, when racialized communities w...
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25.
Series:
The Girl Who Hated Books
25th Anniversary Edition
25th Anniversary Edition
Hardcover
Manjusha Pawagi
9781772602920
$24.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 8
Feb 07, 2023
"There were books in dressers and drawers and desks, in closets and cupboards and chests. There were books on the sofa and books on the stairs," and Meena hates all of them, as does her cat Max, who is shakily balanced on a giant stack. As Meena tries to rescue Max, the books come crashing down, freeing a wonderland of characters and animals who take Meena on a fanciful and funny romp through the magic of reading. The 25th anniversary edition features an interview with the author, covers from editions of the book published around the world, and...
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30.
Series:
Mercantile Mobility
Chinese Merchants in Western Canada
Hardcover
Helen Kwan Yee Cheung
9781551954691
$39.95
HISTORY
Mar 21, 2023
This exhibition catalogue traces a group of dynamic Chinese merchants and their business activities in big cities and small towns in Western Canada after they arrived from China, covering the mid-nineteenth century into the millennium. Their movements are illustrated on various maps and chronicled in many written accounts. By managing the flow of people, products, and money at the municipal, provincial, and global levels, these individuals added to the growth of the Canadian economy. Over a span of two years, curator Helen Kwan Yee Cheung met w...
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31.
Series:
The Book of Everlasting Things
A Novel
Hardcover
Aanchal Malhotra
9781250802026
$39.99
FICTION
Dec 27, 2022
FOR FANS OF ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, A LUSH, SWEEPING LOVE STORY ABOUT A HINDU PERFUMER AND A MUSLIM CALLIGRAPHER, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF PARTITION “Monumental…A far-reaching love story.” —NPR (A Best Book of the Year)“Mesmerizing.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Exquisite.” —Library Journal (starred review)“Majestic.” —Booklist (starred review)On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family’s ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perf...
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42.
Series: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Series
Hanoi at Midnight
Stories
Hardcover
Bao Ninh
9781682831625
$29.95 USD
FICTION
Nov 05, 2022
Of the twelve short stories appearing in Hanoi at Midnight, ten are appearing in English for the first time. Bringing to life the full range of Bao Ninh’s inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran are granting to English readers Ninh’s first book-length work since The Sorrow of War.Hanoi at Midnight is about the complex outpourings of war and the way it remakes our relation to each other.Bao Ninh’s stories accentuate the gamut of human emotions: nostalgia, anguish, desolation, melancholy, poignancy, and hope. His stories wistfull...
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50.
Series:
Country of Poxes
Three Germs and the Taking of Territory
Paperback
Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay
9781773635545
$28.00
HEALTH & FITNESS
Oct 20, 2022
Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life. Pathogens are storytellers of their time. The 500-year-old debate over the origins of syphilis reflects colonial judgments of morality and sexuality that became formally entwined in medicine. Smallpox is notoriously linked ...
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51.
Series:
The Lost Century
Paperback
Larissa Lai
9781551528977
$24.95
FICTION
Oct 18, 2022
Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism, love, and loyalty during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong in World War II. On the eve of the return of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997, young Ophelia asks her peculiar great-aunt Violet about the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II, the disappearance of her uncle Raymond, and whether her grandmother, Emily, was a murderer. Emily's marriage - three times - to her father's mortal enem...
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52.
Series:
Ruby Red Skies
Paperback
Taslim Burkowicz
9781773635606
$24.00
FICTION
Oct 13, 2022
Ruby used to be a fiery, sexy, musical genius. But when she got pregnant as a teenager in the 90s, her life took a turn into banality. Now a middle-aged Indo-Canadian woman, she feels unseen and unheard by her white husband and struggles to communicate with her mixed-race daughter. When she discovers her husband cheating, she embarks on a quest to unearth exciting secrets from her past. To find what she needs, she drives straight into B.C.’s raging wildfires, accompanied only by the fantastical stories her mother used to tell about their an...
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56.
Series:
Queer Little Nightmares
An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry
Paperback
David Ly
9781551529011
$21.95
FICTION
Oct 04, 2022
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, these characters have long conjured fascination and self-identification in the LGBTQ+ community, and over time, monsters have become queer icons. In Qu...
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