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Series: P.S. I Miss You Paperback Jen Petro-Roy 9781250294302 $10.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 11 Jan 01, 2023

A heartbreaking—yet ultimately uplifting—epistolary middle-grade novel about family, religion, and having the courage to be yourself"P.S. I Miss You is so moving! Evie'squiet strength and fierce determinationare an inspiration. " —Ann M. Martin, author ofRain Reign and the Baby-Sitters Club"Jen Petro-Roy has created a character with the potential to beas iconic as Judy Blume's Margaret." —Erin Dionne, author ofNotes from an Accidental Band GeekEvie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant sister, Cilla, away to stay wit... + Read More
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Series: Meg & Linus Paperback Hanna Nowinski 9781250145833 $14.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 - 18 Jan 01, 2022

Can friendship, Star Trek, drama club, and a whole lot of coffee get two nerdy best friends through the beginning of their senior year of high school? Find out in this debut YA novel from Swoon Reads author, Hanna Nowinski.Meg and Linus are best friends bound by a shared love of school, a coffee obsession, and being queer. It’s not always easy to be the nerdy lesbian or gay kid in a suburban town. But they have each other. And a few Star Trek boxed sets. They're pretty happy. But then Sophia, Meg’s longtime girlfriend, breaks up with Meg. Linus... + Read More
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Series: Green Glass Ghosts Paperback Rae Spoon 9781551528380 $19.95 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 May 04, 2021

From writer and musician Rae Spoon: a rollicking yet introspective young adult adventure about screwing up, finding yourself, and forging a new life on your own. At age nineteen in the year 2000, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets to of the east side where folks are just trying to get by, against the deceptively beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and sparkling ocean. Armed with only their guitar... + Read More
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Series: Our Work Is Everywhere An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance Paperback Syan Rose 9781551528151 $19.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 01, 2021

A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real, and imagined queer and trans communities. In their own words, queer and trans organizers, artists, healers, comrades, and ... + Read More
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Series: Saltus Paperback Tara Gereaux 9780889714007 $22.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2021

It’s the ’90s in a small Canadian prairie town and fourteen-year-old Aaron Gourlay, born a male, asserts that she is female, a claim that no one in her life will accept—except for her single mother, Nadine. After wrestling with the health care system and having her identity invalidated time and time again, Aaron tries to kill herself. Desperate to keep her child alive, Nadine calls on a neighbouring town’s outlier and loner, Al Klassen, to perform a radical procedure. Aaron’s attempt to jumpstart her own gender transition with Al’s assistance c... + Read More
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Series: The Queer Evangelist Hardcover Cheri DiNovo CM 9781771124898 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 20, 2021

Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legal same-sex marriage registered in Canada in 2001 as a United Church minister. This story of one queer kid will hopefully inspire other young people (queer and not) to resist the system and change it. In The Queer Evangelist, Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo (CM) tells her story, from her roots as a young socialist activist in the 1960s to ordained minister in the ‘90s to member of provincial parliament. As the New Democratic member representing Parkdale-High Park in t... + Read More
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Series: Then Now Paperback Daphne Marlatt 9781772012873 $16.95 POETRY Mar 15, 2021

Then Now was prompted by the discovery of letters written by Marlatt’s father, Arthur Buckle, a young chartered accountant who left England to join a British accounting firm in multiracial Penang in the early 1930s and continued living, working, as well as marrying there until going on leave in 1941. A sense of looming war begins to permeate his letters. When her family returned to Penang post-war, Marlatt spent almost five years of her childhood there. Her father’s letters prompted the surfacing of memories overlaid by later ones from several ... + Read More
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Series: How to Fail as a Popstar Paperback Vivek Shraya 9781551528427 $18.95 DRAMA Mar 01, 2021

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation. Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, and poetry and children's books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek's debut theatrical work, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to "not quite" pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. A reflection on the power of ... + Read More
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Series: The Fifth A Loves Story Paperback Monica Meneghetti 9781773860534 $22.95 FICTION Feb 05, 2021

A contemporary novel about polyamory, full of eclectic and refreshing characters navigating love, life, and desire among their chosen family.Critically acclaimed in the original French, The Fifth offers a refreshing take on sexuality and desire. Alice, Gayle, Camille and Simon live together in a polyamorous relationship, affectionately referred to as the Family. Camille, a trans woman, and Gayle are lovers; Simon is in a relationship with Alice; and Alice is in a relationship with everyone. But when Alice invites her seemingly straight ex-boyfr... + Read More
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Series: Proud to Play Paperback Erin Silver 9781459415126 $24.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 10 - 18 Jan 12, 2021

The 2018 Winter Olympics marked a milestone for LGBTQ+ athletes. Thirteen athletes out of 3,000 competitors were out and proud — nearly double the number who felt comfortable sharing their sexuality four years earlier at the Sochi Games. Many athletes stay closeted for their entire sports careers, often unable to compete at their highest ability because of the shame and self-doubt they feel in not being true to their orientation or identity. But coming out still means facing harassment from fans, teammates, opponents, and the media, and a lack ... + Read More
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A picture book telling the story of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, the transgender women of colour who fought for LGBTQ+ equality. Depicting the events that surrounded the Stonewall Riots, this is a playful introduction to trans identities and LGBTQ+ history for young children.
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Series: A Queer History of Adolescence Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures Paperback Gabrielle Owen 9780820357461 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 15, 2020

A Queer History of Adolescence reveals categories of age—and adolescence, specifically—as an undeniable and essential mechanism in the production of difference itself. Drawing from a dynamic and varied archive, including British and American newspapers, medical papers and pamphlets, and adolescent and children’s literature circulating on both sides of the Atlantic, Gabrielle Owen argues that adolescence has a logic, a way of thinking, that emerges over the course of the nineteenth century and that survives in various forms to this day. This log... + Read More
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Series: The Trans Self-Care Workbook A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People Paperback Theo Lorenz 9781787753433 $26.95 SELF-HELP Nov 21, 2020

A creative workbook for the trans and non-binary community, including colouring pages, journaling prompts and reflective exercises. Drawing on CBT and mindfulness techniques, topics include euphoria and dysphoria, coming out and building relationships, promoting the message that although no experience is identical to another, nobody is alone.