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Series: Marvellous Grounds Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto Paperback Jin Haritaworn 9781771133647 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 18, 2018

Toronto has long been a place that people of colour move to in order to join queer of colour communities. Yet the city’s rich history of activism by queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and racialized people (QTBIPOC) remains largely unwritten and unarchived. While QTBIPOC have a long and visible presence in the city, they always appear as newcomers in queer urban maps and archives in which white queers appear as the only historical subjects imaginable. The first collection of its kind to feature the art, activism, and writings of QTBIPOC in T... + Read More
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Series: Queer Progress From Homophobia to Homonationalism Paperback Tim McCaskell 9781771132787 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 08, 2016

How did a social movement evolve from a small group of young radicals to the incorporation of LGBTQ communities into full citizenship on the model of Canadian multiculturalism? Tim McCaskell contextualizes his work in gay, queer, and AIDS activism in Toronto from 1974 to 2014 within the shift from the Keynesian welfare state of the 1970s to the neoliberal economy of the new millennium. A shift that saw sexuality —once tightly regulated by conservative institutions—become an economic driver of late capitalism, and sexual minorities celebrated... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Carousel Paperback April Ford 9781771337137 $22.95 FICTION May 08, 2020

Winner of the 2020 International Book Award for LGBTQ Fiction; Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardsMargot Wright has led a deliberate life. At 18, she left her unusual and abusive family situation and never looked back, and then two years later she devoted herself wholly to Estelle Coté, her first and only love. But now, at 45, freshly retired from a career in antique firearms dealing, and settling into a new home with her wife, Margot finds herself feeling restless. Bored. She admits this to herself on the day she visits Le... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Days of Moonlight Paperback Loren Edizel 9781771334778 $22.95 FICTION Apr 30, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Fred Kerner Book Award; Finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards for Literary FictionUpon receiving a letter and a package of journals from a dying Mehtap, her mother Nuray's close friend in Turkey, a young Toronto woman immerses herself in the old woman's memories. She uncovers Mehtap's story as a factory worker in the 1960s who is infatuated with her boss, a man she willingly lies for, and even wrap presents for that he gives to his mistress and his wife. When her friend, Nuray, moves in with her, something unexpe... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Steel Animals Paperback SK Dyment 9781771335331 $22.95 FICTION Sep 20, 2018

Hilarity and queer magic realism twist the throttle when Jackie, a loner with a secret bank-robbing persona, meets Vespa: sexy, sculpture-welding artist and collector of vintage motorbikes. Still planning elaborate revenge on a New York ex-lover, Jackie tests both her new relationship and the loyalties of her friends, a rag-tag gang of post-punk eccentrics, realizing how love changes hatred only after her scheme runs out of control. An innocent misstep and an encrypted mystery swings the romance into the dangerous orbit of a construction mogul ... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series The Heart Begins Here Paperback Jacqueline Dumas 9781771335416 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Golden Crown Literary Society Awards for General FictionThe Heart Begins Here is the story of the ever-optimistic, earnest Sara Requier and her disintegrating seven-year relationship with the cynical Wanda Wysoka. Along with her relationship struggles, Sara must contend with the drastic changes in the book industry that threaten her feminist bookstore, as well as a mother who refuses to accept her daughter's lesbianism. Then, just as Wanda decides to leave Sara, Wanda's new young lover, Cindy, is murdered. The story takes ... + Read More
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Series: Bones Paperback Tyler Pennock 9781771315210 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

2020 Raymond Souster Award Longlist * 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards Shortlist Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the traumas of our past, and about how often these experiences eliminate moments of softness and gentleness. Here, the poems journey inward, guided by the world of dreams, seeking memories of a loving sister lost beneath layers of traged... + Read More
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Series: First Paperback Arleen Paré 9781771315425 $22.95 POETRY May 01, 2021

2022 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Shortlist Governor General's Award?winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for how we might possibly understand the primal First: the beginnings of the cosmos that contains our own particular lives, beginnings and longings. This layered evocatio... + Read More
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Series: Moldovan Hotel Paperback Leah Horlick 9781771315456 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Shortlist Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism to neofascisms, Europe to the Americas to the Middle East, typhus to HIV/AIDS, genocide in Romania to land grabs in Palestine, women's lives in far... + Read More
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Series: Sotto Voce Paperback Maureen Hynes 9781771315128 $20.00 POETRY Sep 15, 2019

Poems that give full attention to a world in shambles, a world in which "mercy is failing." Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city's afflicted watershed, she turns her attention to the near and far, shifting it from the First Nations' stolen lands to Syria and the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean; from the deaths of family and friends to the newborns into whose care our endangered planet will pass; and from love'... + Read More
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Series: Meat & Bone Paperback Kat Verhoeven 9781772620337 $25.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 24, 2019

A queer slice-of-life drama about dating and eating. The story, which takes place in Toronto and originally appeared as a popular webcomic, focuses on the lives of three roommates and their interpersonal struggles. While one roommate is slowly wrestling with severe body image issues, another is trying to figure out how to navigate her new polyamorous relationships--without hurting any of her partners. Meanwhile, the third roommate practically moves into the gym, where's she's quietly working through her own problems and those of her friends. In... + Read More
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Series: Nova Graphica Paperback Laura Kenins 9781772620504 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 05, 2020

The fiddle-free side of Nova Scotia history More than the stereotypes of lobsters and fiddles, Canada's "ocean playground" of Nova Scotia boasts a vibrant history of ghost stories, folklore, industry, politics, and vibrant Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ and immigrant communities. Home or formerly home to some of Canada's biggest names in comics over the past decades, this anthology brings together 15 artists, making Nova Scotia's history come to life through a collection of graphic stories that are spooky, funny and thought-provoking. Nova Scotia and... + Read More
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Series: Pleasure of the Text, The Paperback Sami Alwani 9781772620528 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 01, 2021

In The Pleasure of the Text, Sami Alwani weaves together themes of art induced dissociation, queer intergenerational polyamory, racial capitalism and esoteric mystical experiences into 20 slice of life comic stories that are equal parts comedy and tragedy. These stories question society and individual identity. A talking baby philosophizes away his own emotions. A half-man, half-dog cartoonist's spirit burns too bright when he alienates the entire alternative comics industry, drunk on his own power. A friendly ghost survives COVID quarantine wi... + Read More
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Series: Plummet Paperback Sherwin Tjia 9781772620405 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 01, 2019

Take the plunge into a post-apocalyptic nightmare.When Amelia "Mel" Eichenwald wakes up one morning, she finds herself in endless freefall towards an Earth that is no longer there, surrounded by the junk of human existence. From high heels to houses, billions of random items drop alongside her like fallout from an exploded mall.She soon discovers she's not alone. Others have been similarly plucked out of their lives and dropped off in mid-air. But why? For what purpose? And more importantly--and urgently--what is she going to eat? Where can she... + Read More
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Series: The Collected Neil the Horse Paperback Arn Saba 9781772620153 $25.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 10, 2017

Neil the Horse ran 15 issues in the 1980s. With its tagline, "Making the World Safe for Musical Comedy" it is the world's only musical comic book. It is a totally original hybrid influenced more by Carl Barks and Fred Astaire than by the underground comics of the time. Originally produced under the name Arn Saba, Neil's creator transitioned to Katherine Collins after the last issue. Neil and his friends Soapy and Mam'selle Poupée are a struggling song-and-dance act. Neil is a happy go-lucky horse with a mania for bananas. Mam'selle Poupée is a ... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Lake Paperback Nathan Adler 9781928120247 $19.95 FICTION Dec 31, 2020

In Ojibwe cosmology there are thirteen moons, and in these pages are thirteen offerings from Ghost Lake, an interrelated cast of characters and their brushes with the mysterious. Issa lives in fear of having her secret discovered, Aanzheyaawin haunts the roads seeking vengeance, Zaude searches for clues to her brother's death, Fanon struggles against an unexpected winter storm, Eadie and Mushkeg share a magical night, Tyner faces brutal violence, and Tyler, Clay, and Dare must make amends to the spirits before it's too late. Here the precolonia... + Read More
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Series: You are Enough love poems for the end of the world Paperback Smokii Sumac 9781928120162 $16.00 POETRY Dec 31, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. In his debut poetry collection you are enough: love poems for the end of the world, Smokii Sumac has curated a selection of works from two years of a near daily poetry practice. What began as a sort of daily online poetry journal using the hashtag #haikuaday, has since transformed into a brilliant collection of storytelling drawing upon Indigenous literary practice, and inspired by works like Billy Ray Belcourt's This Wound is a World, and Tenille Campbell's #IndianL... + Read More
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Series: Company of Crows, The Paperback Karen Molson 9781927535943 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Mar 08, 2016

At thirteen, bookish Veronica Reid lives in a world inside her head, even if she isn?t entirely successful at resisting the intrusions of the world outside. It?s bad enough that she has to wear awful new glasses; it?s downright disastrous that she?ll have to spend the summer at Laughing Willows Trailer Park with her obnoxious younger brothers and unhappy mother. She can?t imagine anything worse. Lonely and bored, she begins to observe the activities of the local crows, even as she gradually finds a community among the odd denizens of Laughing W... + Read More
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Series: Home Sickness Paperback Chih-Ying Lay 9781773900445 $21.95 FICTION Feb 14, 2020

Connecting is not easy, but proximity is unbearable. The characters in these ten stories are longing for escape and attempt to leave home, but inevitably and perhaps ironically find themselves homesick. Chih-Ying Lay, a Montreal-based expatriate from Taiwan familiar with both homesickness and home sickness, probes our desperate need for home, often matched with an equally desperate need to get away from it. Lay?s characters are outsiders, whether queer, indigenous, unloved or lost, and each discovers that home is not the sanctuary it was meant ... + Read More
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Series: Philistine, The Paperback Leila Marshy 9781988130705 $19.95 FICTION Mar 10, 2018

When Nadia Eid leaves Montreal in search of her Palestinian father who has been missing in Cairo, she is far from imagining that she her true discovery will be a complex relationship with Manal, a young Egyptian artist. But what to do when nationality and personal relations refuse to coexist? With Manal's career poised to take off and her father's secret life revealed, the intifada rages across the border and Nadia must choose between family and destiny.
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Series: Natural History of Transition, A Paperback Callum Angus 9781999058876 $18.95 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic.
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Series: Dear Twin Paperback Addie Tsai 9781999058807 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Nov 15, 2019

Poppy wants to go to college like everyone else, but her father has other ideas. Ever since her twin sister, Lola, mysteriously vanished, Poppy's father has been depressed and forces her to stick around. She hopes she can convince Lola to come home, and perhaps also procure her freedom, by sending her twin a series of nineteen letters, one for each year of their lives.When not excavating childhood memories, Poppy is sneaking away with her girlfriend Juniper, the only person who understands her. But negotiating the complexities of queer love and... + Read More
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Series: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) Paperback Hazel Plante 9780994047199 $18.95 FICTION Oct 07, 2019

The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) sifts through a queer trans woman's unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire, grief, and delight, the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island.The experimental form functions at once as a manual for how pop culture can help soothe and mend us and as an exploration of oft-overlooked sources of pleasure, including karaoke, birding, and butt toys. Ultimately, Little Blu... + Read More
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Series: nîtisânak Paperback Jas Morgan 9780994047175 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 30, 2018

Jas M. Morgan's nîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care. A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also explores despair and healing through community and family, and being torn apart by the same. Using cyclical narrative techniques and drawing on their Cree, Saulteaux, and Métis ancestral teachings, this work offers a compelling perspective on the connections that must be broken and the ones that heal. Winner of the 2019 Quebe... + Read More
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Series: ZOM-FAM Paperback Kama La Mackerel 9781999058845 $16.00 POETRY Sep 10, 2020

In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning "man-woman" or "transgender" in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrativ... + Read More
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Series: Burning the Night Paperback Glen Huser 9781774390115 $19.95 FICTION May 13, 2021

From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and musicians.When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the diary her intended husband Phillip kept before his death during World War One, an obsessed Curtis examines parallels to his own life: his desire to become a skillful artist and to find fulfilling love.Timeless and essential, award-winning author Glen... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry Coconut Paperback Nisha Patel 9781774390238 $19.95 POETRY Mar 30, 2021

In her debut collection, Canadian National Slam Champion Nisha Patel commands her formidable insight and youthful, engaged voice to relay experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love. These are vitally political, feminist poems for young women of colour, with bold portrayals of confession, hurt, and healing.Coconut rises fiercely like the sun. These poems bestow light and warmth and the ability to witness the world, but they ask for more than basking; they ask readers to grow and warn that they can be burnt. Above all, Nisha P... + Read More
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Series: Nunatak First Fiction Series Melting Queen, The Paperback Bruce Cinnamon 9781988732503 $20.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2019

Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize--Literary Fiction Category!Shortlisted for Best Speculative Fiction at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Shortlisted for Best Book Design at the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Second Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen--a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who mus... + Read More
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Series: Crow Said Poetry That Light Feeling Under Your Feet Paperback Kayla Geitzler 9781988732213 $19.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2018

Finalist for The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize at the New Brunswick Book Awards!Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers. These masterfully crafted poems challenge perpetuating colonial and class relations, as well as the hedonistic lifestyle attributed to the employees of these floating resorts. Kayla Geitzler's debut collection interprets isolation, alienation, racism and assimil... + Read More
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Series: The Home for Wayward Parrots Paperback Darusha Wehm 9781988732275 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2018

Accustomed to being an only child, adoptee Brian "Gumbo" Guillemot's teenage hobby was searching for his birth parents. After years without a lead, when he finally finds his birth mother, Kim, he's unprepared for the boisterous instant family that comes with her.No one, besides Kim, knows anything about Gumbo's birth father. With Kim refusing to answer any questions, Gumbo must choose whether to continue the search, even if it means alienating his few friends and both his families. And the more he learns, the more he wonders whether some things... + Read More
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Series: Oldness; Or the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O Paperback Brett Grubisic 9781988098630 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2018

With the rapid approach of the end of his professional life, Marcus O is quietly wondering what's next. Well first there's a workplace nemesis he aspires to humiliate. And then there's a style-conscious student whose shallow interests seem calculated to aggravate Marcus alone. And finally there are the nights scouring the web and composing attractive answers to profile questions generated by a seniors' online dating site he's recently joined. Set in a near future where everything is pretty much the same--or maybe a touch worse--Oldness; or The ... + Read More
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Series: Breaking Boundaries LGBTQ2 Writers on Coming Out and Into Canada Paperback Lori Shwydky 9780994730275 $13.95 FICTION Apr 14, 2019

Breaking Boundaries: LGBTQ2 Writers on Coming Out and Into Canada is an anthology of fiction, personal essay, and poetry by LGBTQ2 writers (Canada-born, immigrated, or refugee). The common thread throughout is that for LGBTQ2 people, Canada is the place to be. Nominated for the 2019 GEORGE RYGA AWARD for social awareness. Authors: Teryl Berg, Kyle Chen, Wendy J. Cutler, Corrie H. Furst, Kevin Henry, Anne Hofland, Chantal Hughes, Masaki Kidokoro, Dale Lee Kwong, Austin Lee, JL Lori, Eka Nasution and Rainer Oktovianus (narrators), Adam Nixon, Ga... + Read More
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Series: Disabled Voices Anthology Paperback sb smith 9781775301950 $18.95 FICTION Mar 05, 2020

Written and illustrated by the Disabled community about the Disabled community in North America, Disabled Voices is an international anthology collection of short stories (both fiction and non-fiction), personal essay, poetry, and artwork. Featuring both new as well as established authors, Disabled Voices is comprised of submissions written by Canadian, American, and UK authors. A first of its kind, Disabled Voices captures life as a Disabled person: from the bad and ugly, to the good and victorious, and anything in between. Likewise, some ... + Read More
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Series: Ghost's Journey A Refugee Story Hardcover Robin Stevenson 9781775301943 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 10 Sep 01, 2019

When Indonesia becomes a dangerous place for the LGBTQ+ community, Ghost and her family are forced to leave their home and escape to freedom in Canada.Ghost's Journey: A Reugee Story is inspired by the true story of two gay refugees, Rainer and Eka, and written from the perspective of their cat Ghost, with illustrations created from Rainer's photographs. Written by award-winning author, Robin Stevenson, Ghost's Journey is a perfect fit to teach young audiences about family diversity, human rights, and social justice. Shortlisted for the 2021 S... + Read More
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Series: Kiskajeyi- I AM READY A Hermeneutic exploration of Mi'kmaq komqwejwi'kasikl poetry Paperback Michelle Sylliboy 9781775301929 $19.99 POETRY Apr 14, 2019

Kiskajeyi- I AM READY is a ground breaking Indigenous poetry book that also includes ancient Mi'kmaq (L'nuk) hieroglyphics. In 2020, Kiskajeyi- I AM READY won the Canadian Indigenous Voices Award (IVAs) for Published Poetry (English category). Indigenous artist and writer, Michelle Sylliboy blends her poetry, photography, and Mi'kmaq (L'nuk) hieroglyphic poetry in this unprecedented book.
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Series: Change Maker Series What's in it for Me? Paperback LS Stone 9781999241681 $13.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Mar 15, 2021

What's in it for Me? - Summer is only a month away, but things aren't going according to plan for fifteen-year-old Nick Bannerman. Nick dreams of making it big in music, and summer means scoring a deal for his band, mega parties, surfing in Tofino--and not much else. His best friend, Trevor, wants him to spend the summer with him in Africa building a school with a changemaker organization, but Nick isn't at all interested. Unlike Trevor, Nick has no interest in global activism, volunteering, or physical labour. So how does a teen like Nick, int... + Read More
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Series: Cypher, The Paperback Matti McLean 9781987963953 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

Penner had always considered his life ordinary-but when his lover Chess receives a divine revelation that can't be explained, he finds himself on the run from mysterious forces. Upending their idyllic life in a small town, Chess propels them on a journey to find answers to deep questions that plague his thoughts and his sanity. Partnering with Fred, a boisterous sky pirate with an enigmatic past, they head out to find the answers they need on her airship. But the closer they get to their mysterious destination, the more danger they find themsel... + Read More
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Series: Murder at the World's Fair Paperback MJ Lyons 9781987963540 $20.00 FICTION May 02, 2019

The year is 1893, and airships cloud the skies over the bustling metropolis of Toronto. The city is set to host the world's fair thanks in no small part to the work of two fantastical inventors. The New World Exhibition is to be a celebration of cultural and technological marvels; roving automatons, clockwork contraptions, the world's biggest steam-powered paddle boat, all to be fully lit by the wonder of electricity! On the day of the grand opening, young Norwood Quigley, aspiring journalist, photographer and scion of a world-famous airship ma... + Read More
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Series: Run J Run Paperback Su Sokol 9781987963519 $20.00 FICTION Apr 12, 2019

Jeremy, a high school English teacher coming to grips with a shattered marriage and haunted by the brother he lost, unexpectedly falls in love with his best friend, Zak. Attractive, wildly unconventional, and happy in an open relationship with his partner Annie, Zak seems to embody everything missing from Jeremy's life, but when the arrest and death of a marginalized student at the Brooklyn high school where they both teach trigger Zak's mental breakdown and slow descent, Jeremy and Annie are compelled to cross boundaries, both external and int... + Read More
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Series: Whispers Between Fairies Deluxe edition Deluxe colour edition Paperback Derek Newman-Stille 9781990086021 $25.00 FICTION Oct 31, 2020

Fairy tales have grown with us over history and changed over the years to capture the human experience. Yet, we often trap fairy tales in the past, calling them "tradition", and it means that certain tales don't get told. Nathan Frechette and Derek Newman-Stille bring out new tales from the old, telling stories from the voices that often aren't heard. Whispers Between Fairies is a conversation between two authors who love fairy tales and each author takes their own path to find the hidden possibilities for each fairy tale. These are tales of be... + Read More
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Series: Duct-Taped Roses Paperback Billeh Nickerson 9781771666909 $20.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2021

In Duct-Taped Roses, Billeh Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss. As a bush pilot, Nickerson's father would duct-tape his planes to keep them flying. The poignancy of his relationship with his father is celebrated here in the long poem "Skies." Other poems reminisce about love and the complex resiliency of gay men. Through his signature irreverence, honesty and wit, Nickerson explores what can be repaired, what must be celebrated, and what—inevitably—is lost to time.
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Series: Nought Paperback Julie Joosten 9781771665896 $20.00 POETRY Apr 14, 2020

Nought, a new collection of lyric poetry from Governor General's Literary Award finalist Julie Joosten, explores the intersections of body, identity, and love. These poems, in all their passions, inhabit the unfastened "and" of capacious loves and allegiances, refusing to choose between them; in Nought, thought comes alive through the materiality of body and experience, neurology and metaphysics entangled with sentient physicality—skin, eyes, mouths. Throughout, Joosten grapples with form and rhythm, crafting work that is intimately perceptive;... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Revolution Essays Paperback Gail Scott 9781771666824 $23.00 LITERARY CRITICISM May 25, 2021

Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal "A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates." From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. In conversation with other writers working in queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l’écriture-au-féminin in Québec and continental New Narrative, these essays provide an evolutionary snapshot of Scott’s ongoing prose experiment that hinges ... + Read More
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Series: Where Things Touch A Meditation on Beauty Paperback Bahar Orang 9781771665698 $20.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 11, 2020

Finalist for the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch. Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they rela... + Read More
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Series: Without Ceremony Paperback Angela Carr 9781771666299 $18.00 POETRY Oct 15, 2020

Centred on the everyday, and crafted without preamble or pretension, the poems in Without Ceremony are a literary pastiche—a thematic mosaic not unlike tracks on an album. Amidst a timeless cast of characters from Lucretius and Eva Hesse, to Joan Mitchell and St. Augustine, Carr illuminates what it means to truly know something and questions how certain knowledge becomes valued over others. Without Ceremony spotlights the gendered division of ideas and the inherent strength of language to harm and oppress, as well as elevate. Within these pages... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Cardinal Divide Paperback Nina Newington 9781771834421 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It's complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is Indigenous. But is she? How can she find out? Cardinal Divide explores the hunger for certainty and the mutability of identity, whether of gender, race or sexuality. Authenticity isn't simple. Acting as somebody else is simultaneously a way to deceive and to ... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Easily Fooled Paperback H. Nigel Thomas 9781771835817 $25.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

Less than an hour after Millington receives his permanent resident visa, he wonders if his husband Jay would now end their marriage. And Jay has multiple reasons to. Millington is an ex-Methodist minister, who once believed he could be celibate. When he fled Caribbean Methodism and came to Montreal, he thought he’d resolved the issues that made him leave, but he comes to understand that psychological trauma, childhood conditioning, parental and community expectations and his own need for community and family valorization are not easily exorcise... + Read More
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Series: First Poets Series The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak Paperback Grace Lau 9781771835879 $20.00 POETRY May 01, 2021

The poems in The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak explore the many identities, both visible and invisible, that a body contains. With influences from pop culture, the Bible, tech, and Hong-Kongese history, these pieces reflect and reveal how the stories of immigrants in Canada hold both universal truths and singular distinctions. From boybands that show the way to become “the kind of girl a girl could love” to “rich flavours that are just a few generations of poverty away,” they invite the reader to meditate on spirituality, food, and the... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Tales from the Bottom of My Sole Paperback David Kingston Yeh 9781771835411 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

#1 Best Canadian Gay Fiction on Goodreads When a long-lost sister shows up as a trans man named Luke, a series of precipitous events throws the lives of boyfriends Daniel and David into turmoil. While David attends an extravagant family reunion in Sicily, Daniel's ex Marcus plans the world-premiere of his one-man show. The couple's vertiginous exploration of sex, intimacy and love comes to a head when a shocking revelation tests their commitment and future together.
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Series: Guernica Prize This Cleaving and This Burning Paperback J.A. Wainwright 9781771835664 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Two unrelated, aspiring writers, born on the same day in the same year to parents with the same first names, grow up together and eventually gain national prominence as authors. As the years pass, the complex sexual identities of Miller Sark and Hal Pierce undermine their intense private relationship, inflicting damage that cannot be undone by the distinction of their fiction and poetry. Inspired by the lives and works of American literary giants Ernest Hemingway and Hart Crane, This Cleaving and This Burning reveals the passion and purpose beh... + Read More
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Series: Dragonfly Paperback Lara Rae 9781927922590 $15.95 DRAMA Age (years) from 15 - 99 Apr 01, 2020

In this original and poetic new work, Lara Rae tells the raw and heartfelt story of her half-century long (and counting) gender odyssey. Dragonfly presents us with two actors, one male, one female, who illuminate the inner life of a trans woman from her Scottish childhood in the 1960s to the present day. Matching our inside to our outside is always hard, but for trans people it's often a matter of life and death. Stripping away the visual cues that both define and imprison transgender people, Dragonfly is a call to all of us to forge creativity... + Read More
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Series: Such a Lonely, Lovely Road Paperback Kagiso Lesego Molope 9781988449449 $22.95 FICTION Aug 24, 2018

Winner of the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, 2019 Coming out in South Africa ... At what cost? All his life Kabelo Mosala has been the perfect child to his doting absent parents, who show him off every chance they get. Both his parents and his small community look forward to him coming back after medical school and joining his father's practice. They also plan to give him the perfect township wedding. But Kabelo's one wish has always been to get as far away from the township as he possibly can and never come b... + Read More
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Series: Bodymap Paperback Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 9781927494509 $20.95 POETRY Mar 20, 2015

Finalist for the Triangle Awards, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, 2015 Shortlisted for the ReLit Award, Poetry, 2016 In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. In this volume, Leah Lakshmi maps hard and vulnerable terrains of queer desire, survivorhood, transformative love, sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim and deserve.
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Series: Wanting in Arabic Second Edition Paperback Trish Salah 9781927494301 $20.95 POETRY Nov 15, 2013

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Fiction, 2014 Wanting in Arabic is a refusal of convenient silences, convenient stories. The author dwells on the contradictions of a transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurations of lyric, ghazal, l'ecriture feminine, and, in particular, her own sexed voice. Without a memory of her father's language, the questions her poems ask are those for a home known through photographs, for a language lost with childhood. Braiding theoretical concerns with the ambivalences of sexed and raced iden... + Read More
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Series: Dear Birch Paperback Margaret Christakos 9781989287682 $19.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

?Attachment is the puzzle." Three years after her mother?s death and on the brink of a break up, a bisexual writer sits in the company of an urban birch tree, auditing the odds of new loves entering her future. So begins Dear Birch, an intimate poem cycle that improvises within the permutability of grief, wind, reading, refusal and desire, listening for an ethos of ongoingness. Synthesizing memoir, votive and epistle, Margaret Christakos displays her trademark fidelity to writing as attentive process, imbuing her work with the polyamory of tend... + Read More
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Series: Mythical Man Paperback David Ly 9781989287354 $18.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2020

In Mythical Man, David Ly builds, and then tears down, an army of men in a quest to explore personhood in the 21st century. Tenderness, toxic masculinity, nuances of queer love, and questions of race and identity mix in Ly?s poetry, casting a spell that enters like "a warm tongue on a first date." Mythical Man is an authentic and accomplished debut.
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Series: The Nap-Away Motel Paperback Nadja Lubiw-Hazard 9781989287170 $18.95 FICTION May 15, 2019
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Series: We Are Not Avatars Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos Paperback John Barton 9781989287217 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM May 15, 2019
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Series: Acha Bacha Paperback Bilal Baig 9780369100900 $17.95 DRAMA Aug 17, 2020

For years, Zaya has delicately balanced his relationship with his Muslim faith and queer identity by keeping his genderqueer lover and manipulative mother apart. But when his mother ends up in the hospital on the same day his partner is leaving for pilgrimage, Zaya’s worlds come crashing in on each other, opening a space for traumatic memories to resurface. Acha Bacha boldly explores the intersections between queerness, gender identity and Islamic culture in the Pakistani diaspora. It’s about the way we love, the way we are loved and what it ta... + Read More
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Series: Body Politic Paperback Nick Green 9781770919747 $17.95 DRAMA May 21, 2019

The point is that we started the conversation. In 1971 Phillip was on the cusp of starting something big. Something that would make history. Now he’s an aging journalist trying to make sense of Grindr. Phillip was a founding member of The Body Politic, a gay-liberation newspaper based in Toronto. As he recounts memories of censorship battles, police raids, historic rallies, and the onset of HIV/AIDS during an intimate encounter with a younger man, their generational differences shine a light on the massive shifts in queer identity and politics ... + Read More