1.
Series: Robin's Egg Books
Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea
How I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions
Paperback
Alex Wood
9781551528335
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2021
A wildly disarming memoir by comedian Alex Wood on how he overcame his multiple addictions. As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and drunk. At the age of twenty-eight, feeling desperate in the face of addiction and associated health problems (ulcers, pancreatitis) - which were compounded by the deaths of loved ones and even worse undiagnosed issues - he decided to do something he'd actually been ...
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2.
Series:
Green Glass Ghosts
Paperback
Rae Spoon
9781551528380
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14
May 04, 2021
From writer and musician Rae Spoon: a rollicking yet introspective young adult adventure about screwing up, finding yourself, and forging a new life on your own. At age nineteen in the year 2000, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets to of the east side where folks are just trying to get by, against the deceptively beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and sparkling ocean. Armed with only their guitar...
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3.
Series:
Travesia
A Migrant Girl's Cross-Border Journey//El viaje de una joven migrante
Paperback
Michelle Gerster
9781551528366
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Apr 06, 2021
A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who attempts to cross the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey, filled with both heartbreak and hope, begins in Tijuana, where they are transported from house to house by strangers. Here they meet the mysterious smuggler el Guero, who p...
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4.
Series:
The Street Belongs to Us
Paperback
Karleen Pendleton Jimenez
9781551528403
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
May 04, 2021
A sweet middle-grade chapter book about two best friends who transform their torn-up street into a world where imaginations can run wild. In 1984 Los Angeles, Alex is a tomboy who would rather wear her hair short and her older brother's hand-me-downs, and Wolf is a troubled kid who's been wearing the same soldier's uniform ever since his mom died. They temporarily set their worries aside when their street is torn up by digging machines and transformed into a muddy wonderland with endless possibilities. To pass the hot summer days, the two best...
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5.
Series:
How to Fail as a Popstar
Paperback
Vivek Shraya
9781551528427
$18.95
DRAMA
Feb 18, 2021
The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation. Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children's books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek's debut theatrical work, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to "not quite" pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. A reflection on the power of ...
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6.
Series:
Iron Goddess of Mercy
Paperback
Larissa Lai
9781551528441
$19.95
POETRY
Feb 18, 2021
Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them through the horror of the long now. Inspired by the tumultuous history of Hong Kong, from the Japanese and British occupations to the ongoing pro-democracy protests, the poem interrogates the complicated notion of identity, offering a prism through which the term 'Asian' can be understood to make sense of a complex set of relations. The self cry...
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7.
Series:
nedi nezu (Good Medicine)
Paperback
Tenille K. Campbell
9781551528465
$17.95
POETRY
Feb 18, 2021
A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country. nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to earth-shakingly erotic encounters under the northern stars to the ever-complicated relationship Indigenous women have with mainstrea...
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8.
Series:
Our Work Is Everywhere
An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
Paperback
Syan Rose
9781551528151
$23.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 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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