1.
Series:
Fired Up about Consent
Paperback
Sarah Ratchford
9781771133524
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Mar 01, 2021
According to the World Health Organization, one in three women will be sexually or physically assaulted in her lifetime. These rates are very similar for non-binary people and other feminized people, too. This is rape culture, and young adults are living through it here and now. Fired Up about Consent is a practical, survivor-informed primer for young people who want to learn how to build joyful, mutually satisfying sex lives and relationships. In these pages, author Sarah Ratchford defines rape and sexual assault, busts the myths behind too...
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2.
Series:
Bent out of Shape
Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work
Paperback
Karen Messing
9781771135412
$24.95
HEALTH & FITNESS
Apr 05, 2021
Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s way, choked into silence, whose physical and mental health invariably comes in second place: underestimated, underrepresented, understudied, underpaid. Should workplaces treat all bodies the same? With confidence, empathy, and humour, Messing navigates the minefield that is naming sex and biology on the job, refusing to play in...
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3.
Series:
Primo Levi
Paperback
Matteo Mastragostino
9781771135221
$21.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 22, 2021
“It’s a pretty long story,” Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, “so I’ll try to make it simple.” Translated from the original Italian, this hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi’s own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life st...
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4.
Series:
The Case for Basic Income
Freedom, Security, Justice
Paperback
Jamie Swift
9781771135474
$24.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 03, 2021
Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation—an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a liveable and obligation-free basic income. Could a basic income guarantee be the way forward to democratize security and intervene where the market economy and social programs fail? Jamie Swift and Elaine Power scrutinize the politics and...
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5.
Series:
Everything on (the) Line
20 Years of Social Movement Stories from rabble.ca
Paperback
Sophia Reuss
9781771135443
$25.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 18, 2021
On a chilly April day in 2001, some 75,000 protesters flooded the streets of Quebec City to denounce corporate globalization and a neoliberal trade deal. From that wellspring of activist anger, energy, and hope came the founding of rabble.ca: an alternative news source and community space that reported on Canadian politics from the ground, catching the attention of journalists and activists across the country. Since then, Canada has seen the rise of Harper Conservatism and its replacement by a Liberal government; a decline in union power; th...
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6.
Series:
Plantation Memories
Episodes of Everyday Racism
1st edition
Paperback
Grada Kilomba
9781771135504
$23.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 01, 2021
Plantation Memories is a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. From the question "Where do you come from?" to Hair Politics to the N-word, the book is a strong, eloquent, and elaborate piece, which deconstructs the normality of everyday racism and exposes the violence of being placed as the Other. Released at the Berlin International Literature Festival in 2008, soon the book became internationally acclaimed and part of numerous academic curricula. Known for her subversive practice ...
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7.
Series:
The Fire and the Ashes
Rekindling Democratic Socialism
Paperback
Andrew Jackson
9781771135382
$23.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 31, 2021
In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen historical analysis with a political manifesto for today. As one of the few trade union economists in Canada, Jackson brings a unique insider perspective and decades of experience to bear on his critical reflections on the history and changing fortunes of the NDP, the failures of neoliberalism, and the waning and recent renewal of the democratic socialist ...
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8.
Series:
Who Is Kim Ondaatje?
The Inventive Life of a Canadian Artist
Paperback
Lola Tostevin
9781771338295
$34.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 15, 2021
This book is a biography of artist, film maker, and photographer, Kim Ondaatje, née Betty Jane Kimbark. Born into a wealthy family, Kim's story is a reverse of the rags to riches narrative. She married two highly successful writers, Douglas Jones and Michael Ondaatje, had six children, and managed to carve a career as a respected artist whose works are in all major galleries/museums in Canada. Kim Ondaatje's life is fascinating on many fronts. She is undoubtedly talented, and has contributed significantly to the Canadian art scene. One of her p...
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9.
Series:
My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb
Paperback
Candas Dorsey
9781771338677
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 21
May 15, 2021
Corey Cobb was born intersex, but because Corey's father and stepmother didn't make a big deal of it, it isn't until Corey's dad dies suddenly and Corey is back with a disapproving mother that making a gender choice becomes an issue. Corey is now legally old enough to refuse medical intervention--but not old enough to prevent "choosing not to choose" being considered by Corey's mother to be a psychiatric problem. While in the youth psych ward, Corey meets Kim, diagnosed as anorexic but really a victim of her mom's Munchausen's Syndrome-by-Proxy...
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10.
Series:
Bloodroot
tracing the untelling of motherloss
Paperback
Betsy Warland
9781771338370
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 15, 2021
It is rare for an author to re-enter one of her books published twenty years ago. In the first edition of Bloodroot, Warland traced how a mother's shared gender with her daughter can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother's final year, Warland quietly discovered how to disentangle a crucial, concealed story that had rendered their relationship disconnected and fraught. The 2000 edition broke new ground in memoir form and uncharted storytelling. The 2020 edition includes a new essay by Warland that explores subsequent question...
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11.
Series:
29 leads to love
Paperback
Salimah Valiani
9781771338752
$18.95
POETRY
Jun 15, 2021
In a world barely beginning to recognize itself as dazzlingly multihued, the erupting ecocide is teaching that while no accounting of complexity is complete, change is true and the sky, singular. We are of parts fundamentally interconnected and overlapping. If we choose it, this overlapping can become a continuum. A continuum of movement combined with stillness, individuality reaching for the whole, loss and surrender, abandon and opening. And of falling: an ever-falling, toward the intensive care that is love.
12.
Series:
Bird Shadows
Paperback
Jennie Morrow
9781771338011
$22.95
FICTION
May 15, 2021
Bird Shadows is a playful tale of eccentricities, misconceptions, and misogyny. While working on a personal spiritual project, an irreverent artist encourages her religious sister to rethink the marriage that seems to be killing her soul.The people in the quaint little Bay of Fundy fishing village of Brood Bay will not soon forget the events of 1995. It was an outrage! A good Christian family was torn apart by the wicked influence of a mentally unbalanced, morally challenged artist. Pastor Wallace was appalled by the improper, if not evil, beha...
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13.
Series:
My Best Friend Was Angela Bennett
Paperback
Suzanne Hillier
9781771338639
$22.95
FICTION
May 15, 2021
Two high school friends take very different paths during WWII. The traditional Angie falls in love--orever--with a sailor, whose life is suddenly ended by a German torpedo, while her friend Dorothy attempts something unheard of in the forties: going to law school. Newfoundland during the wartime forties was hardly Rosie the Riveter Country. So, when Angie loses her sailor lover and marries the boy next door--who turns out to be a sexual sadist--she fears there is no way out. She turns to her friend Dorothy, a woman lawyer at a time when such as...
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14.
Series:
The Becoming
Paperback
Nicole Luongo
9781771338134
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 15, 2021
The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. A lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates explosively after the author begins a PhD at the University of Oxford, and while in hospital she is liberated through psychosis. Her journey from terror to self-acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts bio-medical approaches to a...
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15.
Series:
Daria
Paperback
Irene Marques
9781771338417
$22.95
FICTION
May 15, 2021
Daria is a novel about a young immigrant girl trying to find her way in a new (but also very old) world, where patriarchal networks abound. Daria's story is bound to multiple characters, their individual stories forcing the reader to see the world with different eyes: an Indo-Portuguese-Canadian sexual predator; an idealist and resilient Mozambican freedom fighter with an insatiable thirst for virgins; an exquisite Iberian Roma circus--Iberian Christianized Muslims and Jews; a Nubian master who knows how to capture black matter; a searching Ca...
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16.
Series:
Memory's Shadow
Paperback
Gail Benick
9781771337816
$22.95
FICTION
May 15, 2021
Set in the tumultuous 1970s when women, African Americans, gays, and lesbians fought for equality while a "New Right" mobilized in defense of political conservatism and traditional family values, Memory's Shadow is the story of a family that survived the Holocaust and their ongoing engagement with that legacy long after World War II has ended. The novella deals with memory and mourning through the lens of the adult sisters in the Berk family. Hetty the oldest, a real estate agent, is fearful of the urban black population moving into her "safe" ...
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17.
Series:
Pigeon Soup and Other Stories
Paperback
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli
9781771337939
$22.95
FICTION
May 15, 2021
The characters in Pigeon Soup & Other Stories are navigating relationships and grappling with issues of translocation, language and identity, religion and culture, and food. These tales portray the dark places they inhabit physically, emotionally, or metaphorically, with twists that sometimes provide a flicker--or even a bright beam--of hope.
18.
Series:
Lawrencia's Last Parang:
A Memoir of Loss and Belonging as a Black Woman in Canada
Paperback
Anita Jack-Davies
9781771338097
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 01, 2021
Lawrencia's Last Parang: A Memoir on Loss and Belonging as Black in Canada is a snapshot of the author's life immediately after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth between the present and the past, she examines her grief from the perspective of a Canadian-born Black woman of Caribbean descent, and she begins to question her identity and what it means to be a Black Canadian in new ways. This means exploring her childhood in Trinidad and h...
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19.
Series:
Horses in the Sand
Paperback
Lorrie Potvin
9781771338493
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 15, 2021
Horses in the Sand, the author's sequel to her first book, First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, is a collection of stories that document a queer woman's journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, teacher, and artist. With courage, humour, and frank honesty, the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from "normal" and how "coming out" became a lifelong process of self-acceptance and changing identities. The stories also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaini...
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20.
Series:
Min Hayati
Paperback
Rayya Liebich
9781771338714
$18.95
POETRY
Jun 15, 2021
This collection travels through a daughter's childhood memories in Montreal, her mother's homeland of Lebanon, and the dark realities of grief across borders. Min Hayati uncovers the well of sorrow and the depth of love discovered only through loss. In this collection, poetry pays homage to the author's maternal lineage, her mixed ethnicity, and the ways in which "mother" transcends all aspects of life. This collection advocates for a radical change in our approach to grief and the (still) taboo subjects of death, dying, and grief. Poems speak ...
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