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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: 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... + Read More
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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: 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: 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: 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: Cane Fire Paperback Shani Mootoo 9781771667418 $20.00 POETRY Mar 15, 2022

From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves from Ireland to San Fernando, and finally to Canada. The reinterpretations and translation of this journey and its associated family history give meaning to the present. Through these deeply personal poems, and Mootoo's own artwork, we ... + Read More
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Series: Plenitude Paperback Daniel Sarah Karasik 9781771667357 $20.00 POETRY Apr 07, 2022

A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state's boardroom walls. The insurrectionary tactics of mass social movements spread, like a secret handshake, from Chile to Hong Kong to Toronto. Shaped by Daniel Sarah Karasik's experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, these poems are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world—and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory meanings of those struggles.... + Read More
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Series: Suture Paperback Nic Brewer 9781771667029 $20.00 FICTION Sep 21, 2021

To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word processor. Suture shares three interweaving stories of artists tearing themselves open to make art. Each artist baffles their family, or harms their loved ones, with their necessary sacrifices. Eva's wife worries about her mental health; Finn's teenager follows in her footsteps, using forearms bones for drumsticks; Grace's network co... + Read More
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Series: Umbilical Cord Paperback Hasan Namir 9781771667180 $20.00 POETRY Sep 14, 2021

Dear Child Once upon a timeYour baba fell in love with your dadWe got married and dreamt of having a babyA roller coaster of emotions and feelingsWe were always hopeful Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood and hope. These warm free-verse poems document the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the complexities of the IVF surrogacy process and the first y... + 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: 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: 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: First Paperback Arleen Paré 9781771315425 $22.95 POETRY May 01, 2021

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 evocation of the past—of childhood in 1950s Dorval, "a gre... + Read More
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Series: Why I Was Late Paperback Charlie Petch 9781771315579 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2021

With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places. Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer/player of the musical saw, the wo... + Read More
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Series: awâsis — kinky and dishevelled Paperback Louise B. Halfe 9781771315487 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2021

2022 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist * 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Longlist * 2022/2023 First Nation Communities Read Awards Longlist A gender-fluid trickster character leaps from Cree stories to inhabit this racous and rebellious new work by award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe. There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shape-shifting, adopting different genders, exploring the English language with merriment, and sharing his journey of mishaps with humor, mystery, and spiri... + Read More
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Series: Autowar Paperback Assiyah Jamilla Touré 9781771315630 $20.00 POETRY Nov 01, 2021

2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Longlist A visceral, vital, unblinking debut collection of poems exploring kinesthetic memory and longing, inherited violence, and the body as a geographical site. We're often told that we are given only what we can bear. For some of us our first lessons are in how much pain we're made to think we deserve—and the resulting scars are always meant to be kept secret. Assiyah Jamilla Touré's debut collection is a record of those scars—not those inflicted on us by the thousands of little wars we live in everyday, b... + Read More
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Series: Horrible Dance Paperback Avery Lake 9781771315753 $21.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2022

A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake's poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake persistently returns us to the search for love that lies at the core of relational trauma, even as she shows us how catastrophically such a search can be de... + 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: 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: 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: Shelterbelts Paperback Jonathan Dyck 9781772620689 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 01, 2022

Progress isn't always a straight line. When a non-denominational megachurch opens on the edges of a rural Mennonite community, a quiet--but longstanding battle--begins to reveal itself. For years, the traditionalists in the community have held fast to the values and beliefs they grew up with, while other community members have begun raising important questions about LGBTQ+ inclusion, Indigenous land rights, and the Mennonite legacy of pacifism. Through a series of vignettes, Shelterbelts explores the perspectives, experiences and limitations o... + 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 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: 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 Catch and Release Paperback Liana Cusmano 9781771837323 $20.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2022

About coming out and coming of age. In Catch and Release, twenty-one-year-old Lucca looks back on her childhood and adolescence as she comes to terms with both her sexual orientation and her mental illness. When she falls in love with the brilliant and beautiful Adèle, Lucca is forced to acknowledge not only that she is not and never has been straight, but also that her relationship with a teacher in high school was not as harmless as she might have thought.
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Series: Essential Translations Series Flame Out Paperback Michael Delisle 9781771837019 $20.00 FICTION Apr 01, 2022

A portrait of a violent father and an homage to poetry. When Michael Delisle was a boy growing up in Montreal’s South Shore neighbourhood of Ville Jacques-Cartier, his "uncles" – in other words, his father's friends – never said "gun" but rather "piece" or "rod" or more metonymically, "heater." In Flame Out, the poet remembers his father, a crook turned Charismatic Christian, the violent man who came to speak only of Jesus, the hated man whom he had no choice but to love, in spite of it all. Delisle writes that “reading and writing poetry help... + Read More
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Series: World Poetry Almost Love Paperback Pierre Lepori 9781771837354 $20.00 POETRY Jun 01, 2022

Corporeal, homoerotic, reified and ethereal. Pierre Lepori’s Almost Love (Quasi Amore) contains forty-five short stanzas, reminiscent of a lyric tradition extending from the Greek elegiac poets, such as Sappho and Mimnermus, to the Italian poet, Sandro Penna. The poems revolve around the word “love” as compared to the precariousness of life and the incompleteness of language, thus generating new images in a poetry that is corporeal, homoerotic, reified and at the same time ethereal. As Lepori writes, “There are forms of love – both physical and... + Read More
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Series: Essential Translations Series Choosing Eleonore Paperback Andrée Gratton 9781771836500 $17.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2021

Choosing Eleonore tells the story of a one-way friendship, of tragic loneliness. In it, award-winning Quebec author Andrée A. Gratton explores the syndrome of the delusion of being loved. Centred on two young women: Eleonore and Marianne, this is Marianne's story. From the first sentence, we feel that something is wrong in her perception of reality. "Long before we met, Eleonore had been dreaming of me," she says. But who is this Eleonore, whom Marianne had never spoken to? What is so fascinating about her? Neither humiliation and rebuffs nor r... + Read More
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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: 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: 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: 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: Slow Reveal Paperback Melanie Mitzner 9781771338981 $22.95 FICTION May 03, 2022

Set in 1990s New York, Slow Reveal paints an extraordinary portrait of artists who defy the arbiters of culture and challenge social norms. Art, addiction and family dynamics capsize the Kanes when they discover the parallel life of Katharine, film editor, mother, lover and wife."A poem is never finished, only abandoned," wrote Paul Valéry, an outcome echoed in her decade-long affair with Naomi, a lesbian poet. Katharine's marriage to Jonathan collapses in his struggle with sobriety when he's ostracized for politicizing art and abandons his car... + Read More
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Series: Horses in the Sand A Memoir Paperback Lorrie Potvin 9781771338493 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 31, 2022

A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis 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. Potvin?s tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult re... + Read More
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Series: The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb Paperback Candas Dorsey 9781771338677 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 - 21 Dec 10, 2021

It's not easy "choosing not to choose," especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007.Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn't make a big deal about it. Then Corey's dad dies suddenly. Now Corey's disapproving mother wants Corey to "pick a side". Corey's old enough to say no to medical intervention-but not old enough to avoid being held in a youth psych ward when their mom makes an issue of Corey's refusal to conform to the gender binary.In the psych ward, Corey makes friends with Kim, a teen girl diagnosed as anorexic-or is sh... + Read More
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Series: Bloodroot Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss Paperback Betsy Warland 9781771338370 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 28, 2021

In Bloodroot, Betsy Warland traces how a mother and daughter's shared gender 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. Warland weaves a common ground that moves beyond duty and despair, providing both questions and guideposts for readers, particularly those faced with ageing and ill parents and their loss.The 2000 edition of Bloodroot broke new ground in memoir form and uncharte... + Read More
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Series: The Sleep of Apples Stories Paperback Ami Sands Brodoff 9781771338813 $22.95 FICTION Sep 30, 2021

Finalist, 2022 International Book Award for Fiction ? Short StoryIn The Sleep of Apples, Ami Sands Brodoff writes with passion and consummate skill about nine closely linked characters who walk the tightrope of survival. Set in a gritty Montreal neighbourhood that's been slowly gentrifying over the last two decades, troubled teenagers and an experienced psychiatrist, a truck driver permanently scarred by a near-fatal accident and a recreation therapist struggle to build a community and make their lives-and their deaths-meaningful. Fierce, origi... + Read More
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Series: 29 leads to love Paperback Salimah Valiani 9781771338752 $18.95 POETRY Jun 24, 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 still-ness, individuality reaching for the whole, loss and surrender, abandon and opening.And of falling: an ever-falling, toward the intensive care that is love.
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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: 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: 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: Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: the Condor and the Eagle Meet Paperback Jennifer Murrin 9781928120346 $24.00 POETRY May 31, 2022

A Cross-Continental Roar! In 2021, sixteen Indigenous spoken word artists from North and South America performed their works at the Festival of the Peripheries (FLUP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) in Toronto, Canada. This anthology, featuring poems from each of the performers, is the result of this remarkable cross-border collaboration. Digitally enhanced with QR codes, Slam Coalkan links readers to the poets' performances at the festivals. From these pages the poets sing their hopes and the... + Read More
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Series: Claimings and Other Wild Things Paperback Noelle Schmidt 9781988989433 $20.00 POETRY Apr 21, 2022

Noelle Schmidt plows through the distorted shrapnel of trauma dormant and still tingling.Claimings and Other Wild Things is a brave debut poetry collection which delves into a catalog of personal struggle and identity, all the while inviting readers to imagine the "prophet in the dirty motel" or "the illusion of soft flesh giving way" or the pent up rage of a "boxed-up grenade sent round trip".This is poetry of exactitude -- honest, at times tender, a collection which reminds us how life's obstacles inform the accruing intensity of being human ... + Read More
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Series: Philistine, The Paperback Leila Marshy 9781988130705 $19.95 FICTION

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: 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: 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: Voyage, The Paperback H Nigel Thomas 9781774150566 $20.95 POETRY Nov 04, 2021

The Voyage is a collection of poems culled from a lifetime of meditations on self, family, time, and ageing; it also reflects on political and social aspects of human lives, such as hubris, abuse of power, racism and oppression.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Personal Attention Roleplay Paperback Helen Chau Bradley 9781777485214 $18.95 FICTION Nov 23, 2021

A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships--with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient. A queer metal band's summer tour unravels amid the sticky heat of the Northeastern US. A codependent listicle writer becomes obsessed with a Japanese ASMR channel.The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and th... + Read More
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Series: Good Arabs, The Paperback Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch 9781999058890 $17.95 POETRY Sep 21, 2021

Swinging from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker's communities, geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, and family both biological and chosen. The Good Arabs gifts the reader with insight into cycles and repetition in ourselves and our b... + 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