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Jonny Appleseed Paperback Joshua Whitehead 9781551527253 $19.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2018

2021 CANADA READS WINNER WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve. "You're gonna need a rock ... + Read More
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The Woo-Woo How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family Paperback Lindsay Wong 9781551527369 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2018

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when they should really be on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo" -- Chinese ghosts who come to visi... + Read More
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Butter Honey Pig Bread Paperback francesca ekwuyasi 9781551528236 $23.95 FICTION Sep 03, 2020

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada); Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; finalist, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; finalist, Lambda Literary Award An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and me... + Read More
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Scarborough Paperback Catherine Hernandez 9781551526775 $19.95 FICTION May 01, 2017

SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2022 NOW A MOTION PICTURE directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson; screenplay by Catherine Hernandez Trillium Book Award and City of Toronto Book Award finalist; Edmund White Debut Fiction Award finalist; A Globe 100, National Post and Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough... + Read More
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Vancouver After Dark The Wild History of a City's Nightlife Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551527833 $32.95 HISTORY Nov 01, 2019

BC Book Prize winner (Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize) In his latest book, bestselling author, musician, and cultural historian Aaron Chapman looks back at the most famous music entertainment venues in Vancouver, a city that's transforming so fast it has somehow lost some of its favourite nightspots along the way. These are the places locals are still talking about years after they closed, burned down, or were bulldozed in the face of new trends, rising rents, gentrification, and other vagaries. This raucous book tours Vancouver's legend... + Read More
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Murder by Milkshake An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer Paperback Eve Lazarus 9781551527468 $21.95 TRUE CRIME Oct 01, 2018

When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther’s funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter, Jeannine; and Lolly’s son, Don, in the company car and took off for Disneyland. If not for the doggedness of the doctor who treated Esther, Rene, then a charismatic and handsome CKNW radio personality, would have been free to marry Lolly, who was the station’s pretty twentysomething receptionist. Instead, Rene wa... + Read More
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I Hope We Choose Love A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World Paperback Kai Cheng Thom 9781551527758 $17.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2019

American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book; Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that ha... + Read More
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Series: VS. Books Shut Up You're Pretty Paperback Tea Mutonji 9781551527550 $17.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2019

Winner, Trillium Book Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year In Tea Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides to shave her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. These punchy, sharply observed st... + Read More
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Vancouver Exposed Searching for the City's Hidden History Paperback Eve Lazarus 9781551528298 $32.95 HISTORY Sep 21, 2020

As the author of such BC bestsellers as Cold Case Vancouver, Murder by Milkshake, and SensationalVancouver, Australian-born Eve Lazarus has become adept at combining her well-honed investigative skills with an abiding love for her adopted city. These qualities are on full display in her latest book, an exploration of Vancouver’s hidden past through the city’s neighbourhoods, institutions, people, and events. Vancouver Exposed is a nostalgic romp through the city’s past, from buried houses to nudist camps, from bellyflop contests to eccentric mu... + Read More
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From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea Hardcover Kai Cheng Thom 9781551527093 $21.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 8 Oct 01, 2017

A magical gender variant child brings transformation and change to the world around them thanks to their mother's enduring love. In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a hill. And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape they can imagine. The only problem is they can't decide what to be: a boy or a girl? A bird or a fish? A flower or a shooting star? At school, though, they must endure inquisitive looks and difficult questio... + Read More
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Little Fish Paperback Casey Plett 9781551527208 $21.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2018

Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Flett's latest, in which a trans woman learns her grandfather may have been trans himself. In this debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg who comes across evidence that her late grandfather--a devout Mennonite farmer--might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, having other problems at hand, but as she and her friends struggle to cope with the challenges of t... + Read More
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Rebent Sinner Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551527734 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 25, 2019

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, and longlisted for Canada Reads. In their latest, Ivan takes on the patriarchy and the political, as well as the intimate and the personal in these beguiling a... + Read More
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The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book Paperback Gord Hill 9781551523606 $12.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 15, 2010

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book is a powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous resistance to the European colonization of the Americas, beginning with the Spanish invasion under Christopher Columbus and ending with the Six Nations land reclamation in Ontario in 2006. Gord Hill spent two years unearthing images and researching historical information to create The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, which presents the story of Aboriginal resistance in a far-reaching format. Other events depicted include the 1680 P... + Read More
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Synchro Boy Paperback Shannon McFerran 9781551527444 $16.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Nov 01, 2018

Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. When he gives in to his curiosity and tries synchronized swimming, he discovers he has a natural talent -- not to mention a spark with one of the girls. So when Erika Tenaka asks him to swim the mixed duet with her, he commits to taking them all the way to the Olympics.But judges' scores and Erika's sudden decision to quit the duet threaten to ... + Read More
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Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice Paperback Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 9781551527383 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2018

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with implications and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access" -- access not as a cho... + Read More
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Tomboy Survival Guide Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551526560 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2016

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction; Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner; Longlisted for Canada Reads Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, about how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who... + Read More
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The Tiger Flu Paperback Larissa Lai 9781551527314 $21.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a m... + Read More
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The Boy & the Bindi Hardcover Vivek Shraya 9781551526683 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2016

In this beautiful children's picture book by Vivek Shraya, author of the acclaimed God Loves Hair, a five-year-old boy becomes fascinated with his mother's bindi, the red dot commonly worn by South Asian women to indicate the point at which creation begins, and wishes to have one of his own. Rather than chastise her son, she agrees to it, and teaches him about its cultural significance, allowing the boy to discover the magic of the bindi, which in turn gives him permission to be more fully himself. Beautifully illustrated with hand paintings b... + Read More
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Love after the End An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction Paperback Joshua Whitehead 9781551528113 $21.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Lambda Literary Award winner A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories. Here, rea... + Read More
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Disintegrate/Dissociate Paperback Arielle Twist 9781551527598 $16.95 POETRY Mar 01, 2019

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada) and the Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage and tenderness, the parameters of grief, trauma, displacement, and identity. Weaving together a past made murky by uncertainty and a present which exists in... + Read More
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Property Values Paperback Charles Demers 9781551527277 $17.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2018

The worlds of urban gentrification, overpriced real estate, and gang violence collide in this wry and sardonic crime novel by author and comedian Charles Demers (Vancouver Special, The Horrors). As a shaky truce between suburban gangsters starts to unravel, schlubby civilian Scott Clark has other things on his mind: if he can't afford to buy out his former father-in-law, Scott's about to lose the only house he's ever called home. In Vancouver's red-hot real estate market, he doesn't have a chance--until he and his best friends take the last-di... + Read More
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Death Threat Hardcover Vivek Shraya 9781551527505 $16.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 01, 2019

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Doug Wright Award In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's responses to them to startling life in Death Threat, a comic book that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. Using satire and surrealism, Death Threat is an unflinching portrayal of violent harassment from the perspective of both the perpetrator and the target, illustr... + Read More
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Conflict Is Not Abuse Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair Paperback Sarah Schulman 9781551526430 $21.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2016

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negati... + Read More
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Dear Scarlet The Story of My Postpartum Depression Paperback Teresa Wong 9781551527659 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 01, 2019

Longlisted for Canada Reads; Finalist, City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and anxieties and grasps at potential remedies, coping mechanisms, and her mother's C... + Read More
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Hustling Verse An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry Paperback Amber Dawn 9781551527819 $21.95 POETRY Sep 01, 2019

Lambda Literary Award finalist In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the expressive nuance and beauty of poetry. In a variety of forms ranging from lyrics to list poems to found poetry to hybrid works, these authors express themselves with the complexity, agency, and honesty that sex workers are rarely afforded. Contributors from Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia include Gregory Scofield, Tracy Quan,... + Read More
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Gender Failure Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551525365 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 01, 2014

Being a girl was something that never really happened for me. -Rae Spoon Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures." In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all. Based on their acclaimed 2012 live show that toured across Canada and the US and in Europe, Gender Failure is ... + Read More
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Series: Robin's Egg Books You Suck, Sir Chronicles of a High School English Teacher and the Smartass Students Who Schooled Him Paperback Paul Bae 9781551528076 $19.95 HUMOR Apr 01, 2020

The latest Robin's Egg book: hilarious and touching conversations between a teacher and his students. What happens when a stand-up comedian teaches English in Vancouver's largest public school? During his student-teaching practicum, Paul Bae assigned weekend homework to an English class. A student muttered, "You suck." Mr. Bae turned on his heel, approached the student, and sternly asked, "What did you say?" The student replied, "Sorry. You suck, sir." Mr. Bae promptly returned to his desk, took out his teaching journal, and wrote down ... + Read More
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The Antifa Comic Book 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements Paperback Gord Hill 9781551527338 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 01, 2018

The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years, and the concurrent antifa movements that have worked fastidiously to topple it. Fascism is a relatively new political ideology, yet in its short history some of the greatest at... + Read More
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The Last Gang in Town The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551526713 $24.95 HISTORY Sep 27, 2016

Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize finalist; Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize for BC winner Decades before organized crime syndicates brought sensational drug wars to Vancouver, street gangs held sway over its unruly east side. None was considered tougher or more feared than the Clark Park gang, a wild, two-fisted crew of characters from Vancouver's post-1960s counterculture. In 1972, after a number of headline-making riots and clashes with police--including an infamous altercation outside a Rolling Stones concert--the Clark Pa... + Read More
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Fighting for Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Paperback Travis Lupick 9781551527123 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2017

Winner, George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature Finalist, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prizes) Finalist, Vancouver Book Award North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick's Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city's response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city trea... + Read More
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Sodom Road Exit Paperback Amber Dawn 9781551527161 $21.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2018

Lambda Literary Award and Sunburst Award finalist; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year It's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt. But an economic downturn, mother-daughter drama, and Generation X disillusionment soon prove to be the least of Starla's troubles: a my... + Read More
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The Plague Paperback Kevin Chong 9781551527185 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2018

A modern retelling of the Camus classic that posits its story of infectious disease and quarantine in our contemporary age of social justice and rising inequity. At first it's the dead rats; they start dying in cataclysmic numbers, followed by other city creatures. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms as well as swellings in their lymph nodes. The masses react in disbelief when the official diagnosis comes in and later, when a quarantine is imposed on the increasingly terrified city. Inspired by Albert Camus' classic 1947 novel, K... + Read More
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Cold Case Vancouver The City's Most Baffling Unsolved Murders Paperback Eve Lazarus 9781551526294 $21.95 HISTORY Oct 08, 2015

The untold story behind some of Vancouver's notorious unsolved murder cases. Finalist, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (BC Book Prizes) While Vancouver is much loved by tourists and locals alike for its spectacular natural scenery and diverse culture, behind that facade lurks a violent past. Cold Case Vancouver takes a look at the city's disreputable side by revisiting some of its infamous cold murder cases from 1944 to 1996. There are literally hundreds of murders that remain unsolved in Vancouver, some dating back decades; their victim... + Read More
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Soucouyant Paperback David Chariandy 9781551522265 $19.95 FICTION Jul 25, 2007

By the award-winning author of Brother Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Literary Fiction Shortlisted for Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Shortlisted for City of Toronto Book Award Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books In Canada First Novel Award Shortlisted for the ReLit Award, Best Novel Shortliste... + Read More
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The Gospel of Breaking Paperback Jillian Christmas 9781551527970 $14.95 POETRY Feb 21, 2020

Winner, Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. Christmas draws ... + Read More
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Series: Robin's Egg Books So You're a Little Sad, So What? Nice Things to Say to Yourself on Bad Days and Other Essays Paperback Alicia Tobin 9781551527871 $17.95 HUMOR Sep 25, 2019

With her just-right combination of sensitivity, vulnerability, and hilarity, comedian and podcaster Alicia Tobin has won fans among the biggest names in contemporary comedy, from Paul F. Tompkins to Rob Delaney. In her prose debut, the host of Retail Nightmares and Super! Sick! Podcast! takes readers through the funniest parts of sadness and the saddest parts of funniness. While tackling topics ranging from advice on how to be depressed at Christmas to traumatic memories of Velcro shoes, from Vancouver's inexplicable combination of grey rain an... + Read More
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My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems Paperback Amber Dawn 9781551527932 $19.95 POETRY Feb 21, 2020

Finalist, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life. In this, her second poetry collection, Amber Dawn takes stock of the costs of coming out on the page in a heartrendingly honest and intimate investigation of the toll that artmaking takes on artists. These long poems offer dif... + Read More
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Series: VS. Books Burning Sugar Paperback Cicely Belle Blain 9781551528250 $18.95 POETRY Aug 06, 2020

The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation. In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies. They use poetry to illuminate their activist work: exposing racism, especially anti-Blackness, and helping people see the connections between history and sys... + Read More
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The Blue Road A Fable of Migration Paperback Wayde Compton 9781551527772 $22.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 01, 2019

A Quill and Quire Best Book of the Year In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She lives alone in a swamp made of ink, but with the help of Polaris, a will-o'-the-wisp, she embarks for the fabled Northern Kingdom, where she might find people like her. The only way to get there, though, is to travel the strange and dangerous Blue Road that stretches to the horizon like a mark upon a page. Along the way, Lacuna must overcome trials such as the twisted briars of the Thicket of Tickets and the i... + Read More
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even this page is white Paperback Vivek Shraya 9781551526416 $12.95 POETRY Apr 30, 2016

The first poetry collection by the author of God Loves Hair and She of the Mountains. As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya has, over the course of the last few years, established himself as a tour de force artist of the highest order. His body of work includes ten albums, four short films, and three books, including the YA book God Loves Hair (A Quill and Quire and Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book of the Year) and the adult novel She of the Mountains (a Lambda Literary Award finalist). Vivek’s debut ... + Read More
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Major Misconduct The Human Cost of Fighting in Hockey Paperback Jeremy Allingham 9781551527710 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 01, 2019

Every night in hockey arenas across Canada and the United States, modern-day gladiators drop their gloves and exchange bare-fisted blows to the bloodthirsty roars of the paying public. Tens of millions of people a year, including children, watch and cheer on the fighters. Some players are paid handsomely; others barely a living wage. But either way, these fighters are lauded, valued, and considered to be essential to the game. That is, until their playing days are over. Hockey enforcers spend their lives fighting on ice to protect their teammat... + Read More
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The Name I Call Myself Hardcover Hasan Namir 9781551528090 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Oct 01, 2020

A sweet and moving picture book depicting Ari's gender journey from childhood to adolescence in order to discover who they really are. Meet Ari, a young person who doesn't like to be called by their birth name Edward: "When I think of the name Edward, I imagine old kings who snore a lot." Throughout this beautiful and engaging picture book, we watch Ari grow up before our very eyes as they navigate the ins and outs of their gender identity; we see how, as a child, they prefer dolls and princess movies, and want to grow out their hair, though t... + Read More
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nedi nezu (Good Medicine) Paperback Tenille K. Campbell 9781551528465 $17.95 POETRY Feb 18, 2021

Indigenous Voices Award finalist A celebratory, slyly funny, and bluntly honest take on sex and romance in NDN Country. nedi nezu (Good Medicine) explores the beautiful space that being a sensual Indigenous woman creates - not only as a partner, a fantasy, a heartbreak waiting to happen but also as an auntie, a role model, a voice that connects to others walking the same path. From the online hookup world of DMs, double taps, and secret texts to earth-shakingly erotic encounters under the northern stars to the ever-complicated relationship In... + Read More
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Blood, Sweat, and Fear The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver's First Forensic Investigator Paperback Eve Lazarus 9781551526850 $21.95 HISTORY May 01, 2017

Finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award During his forty-two-year-career he helped detectives in Vancouver, Victoria, and throughout BC solve hit-and-runs, safe-crackings, and some of the most sensational murder cases of the 20th century. Vance was constantly called to crime scenes and to testify in court because of his skills in serology, toxicology, and autopsy. When Vance was first called to a crime scene in 1914, forensics was in its infancy. Vancouver was the first police department in Canada to have a scientist on staff and... + Read More
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Dead Reckoning How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Paperback Carys Cragg 9781551526973 $19.95 TRUE CRIME Sep 12, 2017

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) When Carys Cragg was eleven, her father, a respected doctor, was brutally murdered in his own home by an intruder. Twenty years later, and despite the reservations of her family and friends, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and the two correspond for a period of two years. She learns of his horrific childhood, and the reasons he lied about the murder; in turn, he learns about the ... + Read More
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Vanishing Monuments Paperback John Elizabeth Stintzi 9781551528014 $19.95 FICTION Mar 15, 2020

A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia. Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn't seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen - almost thirty years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted living facility where their mother has been for the last five years, they learn that their mother's dementia has worsened and appears to have taken away her ability to speak. As a result, Alani suddenly ... + Read More
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Dutch Feast Hardcover Emily Wight 9781551526874 $32.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2017

Taste Canada Award finalist A modern take on Dutch cuisine that highlights the ways that simple meals bring joy and comfort. In the same way that British, Scandinavian, and German food have undergone a renaissance in recent years, Dutch cuisine is going to be the next big thing, according to writer and blogger Emily Wight. Her new cookbook reimagines traditional Dutch cooking, which has always been known for its thriftiness and practicality, with an emphasis on the ways that simple meals bring joy and comfort to the people who share them. I... + Read More
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The Rat People A Journey through Beijing's Forbidden Underground Paperback Patrick Saint-Paul 9781551528038 $19.95 HISTORY Apr 01, 2020

A shocking exploration of Beijing's notorious underground where over 1 million residents live: a sobering reminder of the human cost of capitalism. In a relatively short amount of time, China has become the second largest economy in the world and is soon poised to overtake the US. In 1978, when China introduced its economic reforms, its GDP was $214 billion USD; in 2019, it is estimated to increase to $14 trillion USD. But the country's rapid growth was achieved on the backs and shoulders of its workforce, many of whom were peasant farmers tur... + Read More
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Swimming in Darkness Hardcover Lucas Harari 9781551527673 $27.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 01, 2019

An NPR Best Book of the Year Pierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject of Pierre's thesis. The mountain holds many mysteries; it was said to have a mouth that periodically swallowed people up. Pierre, sketchbook in hand, is drawn to the enigmatic powers of the mountain and its springs, and attempts to uncover the truth behind th... + Read More
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a place called No Homeland Paperback Kai Cheng Thom 9781551526799 $14.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2017

Winner, Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers; American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book; Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature This extraordinary poetry collection is a vivid, beautifully wrought journey to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam--and where the distinctions between body, land, and language are lost. In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Kai Cheng Thom draws equally from memory and mythol... + Read More
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Liquor, Lust, and the Law The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub (New and Revised) Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551527147 $26.95 HISTORY Oct 15, 2017

A new edition of the colourful history of Vancouver's Penthouse Nightclub, which celebrates its seventieth anniversary in 2017. The after-hours watering hole for the famous and infamous, the Penthouse was opened in 1947 by brothers Joe, Ross, Mickey, and Jimmy Filippone and soon became the place to see and be seen in Vancouver in the 1950s and '60s. Acts like Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, and Duke Ellington regularly performed on the Penthouse stage, and audiences often included visiting stars such as Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper,... + Read More
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Live at the Commodore The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom Paperback Aaron Chapman 9781551525662 $28.95 HISTORY Oct 20, 2014

WINNER, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (BC Book Prizes); Community History Award (BC Historical Federation) Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver, the Commodore Ballroom is one of the best-loved music venues in Canada, if not the world; it's played host to a who's-who of music greats: The Police, The Clash, Blondie, Talking Heads, Nirvana, New York Dolls, U2, and, in more recent years, Lady Gaga, Tom Waits, and the White Stripes. But the Commodore's history extends back to 1930, when it was built in the splendor of art-deco style. ... + Read More
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Modern Native Feasts Healthy, Innovative, Sustainable Cuisine Paperback Andrew George Jr. 9781551525075 $26.95 COOKING Oct 10, 2013

Contemporary, imaginative interpretations of First Nations cuisine, including lighter, healthier, and more nutritious versions of traditional recipes. Native American cuisine comes of age in this elegant, contemporary collection that reinterprets and updates traditional Native recipes with modern, healthy twists. Andrew George Jr. was head chef for Aboriginal foods at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver; his imaginative menus reflect the diverse new culinary landscape while being mindful of an ages-old reverence for the land and sea, reflect... + Read More
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The Remedy Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care Paperback Zena Sharman 9781551526584 $18.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Oct 01, 2016

Lambda Literary Award winner To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care needs, to a lesbian couple dealing with the experience of cancer, to young trans people who strug... + Read More
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One in Every Crowd Stories Paperback Ivan Coyote 9781551524597 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Mar 01, 2012

Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's best-loved storytellers; their honest, wry, plain-spoken tales of growing up in the Yukon and living out loud on the west coast have attracted readers and live audiences around the world. For many years, Ivan has performed in high schools, where their talks have inspired and galvanized many young people to embrace their own sense of self and to be proud of who they are. One in Every Crowd, Ivan's eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, is their first specifically for queer youth. Comprised of new stories and other... + Read More
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Dirty River A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home Paperback Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 9781551526003 $21.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 29, 2015

A transformative memoir by a queer disabled person of colour and abuse survivor. Lambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. They ended up in Toronto, where they were welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet they remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate, riveting memoir is a mixtape of dr... + Read More
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Blue Is the Warmest Color Paperback Jul Maroh 9781551525143 $19.95 Sep 01, 2013

A New York Times bestseller The live-action French film version of Blue is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude, Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar wher... + Read More
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Kimiko Does Cancer A Graphic Memoir Paperback Kimiko Tobimatsu 9781551528199 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 03, 2020

A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman. At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an instant, she became immersed in a new and complicated life of endless appointments, evaluations, and treatments, and difficult conversations with her partner and parents. Kimiko knew that this wasn't what being twenty-five was supposed to be... + Read More
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God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition Hardcover Vivek Shraya 9781551528137 $24.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Aug 15, 2020

A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity. In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; since then, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while also working as an artist, musician, and academic. God Loves Hair is a collection of short stories that follows a tender, intelligent, and curious child who navigates the complex realms of gender creativi... + Read More
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Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person Paperback Daniel Zomparelli 9781551526751 $15.95 FICTION Apr 01, 2017

, Winner, ReLit Award; Finalist, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) A YouTube star becomes famous after he documents his breakup online. An anxious, lactose-intolerant office worker obsesses over a stranger who says "Nice shorts, bro" to him in passing. A couple wants to open up their relationship to a ghost. A monster just wants to find love in his human skin. In these unconventional, interconnected stories--the first work of fiction by acclaimed poet Daniel Zomparelli, editor-in-chief of Poetry Is Dead magazine--gay men look for lo... + Read More