LPG LGTBQ Group Catalogue: Spring/Summer 2019

Are you sure you want to remove your recommendation for

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

William Holt

Thank you for your recommendation

You are recommending:

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

#/1000 characters

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You are recommending:

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You recommended this title on September 12 2019

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

You recommended this title on September 12 2019

Amber Teething Necklaces for the Gullible

Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

By William Holt

as a Loan Stars Smarchvember 2019 Adult top pick

This is a really great book that really opens your eyes to the use of hokey-pokey snakeoil based teething pain treatments that aren't Tylenol or Motrin based. Or then something else entirely that has nothing to do

0/1000 characters

Review content may be used by Loan Stars, the publisher of the title, BookNet Canada or selected third-parties at the program's discretion loanstsrs

Request a reading copy

You are requesting an advance reading copy of by

This request will be submitted to

I prefer:

Digital Print Any format

Mailing Address* required*

Requested by
Job title *required*

Please provide any additional information you would like the publisher to know that would support your request

# of 250 characters left

Reading copies are not available for all forthcoming titles, and are supplied at the sole discretion of the publisher.

* missing required field

Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate contact at

You will receive a copy of the email request. Any questions about the status of your request should be directed to the publisher contact.

Request a reading copy

You have already requested a reading copy of by

The request was made on . Any questions about the status of your request should be directed to the publisher contact:

You are exporting:

This order will be exported using the default fund codes assigned to each branch, and

Override the fund code defaults for the export

User fund code

Close this order after export

LPG LGTBQ Group Catalogue: Spring/Summer 2019

Create Template

Give your template a name Please provide a name.

Choose a base template
Single

List

Tile
- Default PDFs
  Single
  List
  Tile

DRAFT

You have items selected

Apply an action to your selections.

Copy Move Delete

1.
Quivering Land Paperback Roewan Crowe 9781894037907 $19.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2013

Roewan Crowe's compelling and haunting literary debut, Quivering Land, is a rather queer Western, engaging with poetics and politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West.Written in a sparse style, this lonely, sometimes brutal book invites the reader on a powerful journey with Clem, Violet, and a dead girl in a red dress. Clem, a lone cowboy, caught in the inevitable violence of the Western, compulsively rides through ghost towns and Monument Valley. Violet is an artist who pulls dead bodies, guns, and memory int... + Read More
2.
No Rainbow and Other Poems Paperback Laura Kooji 9781988440217 $13.95 POETRY Oct 21, 2018

Beautiful imagery infuses this collection of lyrical poetry from a rising Indigenous poet steeped in the rich culture of her ancestors.
3.
I Am a Body of Land Paperback Shannon Webb-Campbell 9781771664776 $18.00 POETRY Jan 08, 2019

I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell explores poetic responsibility and accountability, and frames poetry as a form of revisioning. In these poems, Webb-Campbell returns to her own text Who Took My Sister?, to examine her self and to decolonize, unlearn, and undo harm. By reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back upon itself to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity and belonging to cry out for community, and call in with love.Edited and with an Introduction by multiple a... + Read More
4.
Je Nathanaël Paperback Nathanael 9781771665094 $18.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 01, 2019

Je Nathanaël is an endangered text. Neither essay nor poem nor novel nor sex-show, what it takes from language it gives back to the body.In this new and updated veresion of Je Nathanaël, first published by BookThug in 2006, Nathanaël explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead a different way of reading, where words are hermaphroditic and transform desire in turn. Suggesting that one body conceals another, it lends an ear to this other body and delights in the anxiety it provokes. With parts ... + Read More
5.
War / Torn Paperback Hasan Namir 9781771664936 $18.00 POETRY Apr 10, 2019

2020 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book Lambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir';s debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer, violence, and the sensuality of love, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred. Praise for War / Torn: "War / Torn mourns, loves and burns all the derogatory impulses of... + Read More
6.
Here in There Paperback Angela Carr 9781771660327 $20.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2014

Here in There, Angela Carr's third book of poetry, is a lyrical petition to the human faculty of attention. In constant motion, the poems locate unusual instances of connection. They ask, do we give or pay attention? And what do we attend to? How do we decide what merits our attention? In a world where stillness is elusive, can we give or pay attention to anything but that which outlives our own distraction? Turning our attention to the senses, in Here in There, touch informs inscription, credit becomes an audible vibration. Carr's poems form t... + Read More
7.
Secession/Insecession Paperback Erín Moure 9781771660341 $23.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 15, 2014

Secession / Insecession is a homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato's Galician biopoetics of poet and nation, Secession - translated by Erín Moure - joins Moure's Canadian translational biopoetics, Insecession. To Pato, the poem is an insurrection against normalized language; to Moure, translation itself disrupts and reforms poetics and the possibility of the poem. In solidarity with Pato, Moure echoes Barthes: "A readerly text is something I cannot re-produce (today I cannot write like Atwood); a writer... + Read More
8.
Metaphysical Licks Paperback Gregoire Pam Dick 9781771660556 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 06, 2014

Metaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009)]. With a mix of high and low, tragic and comic, abstract and concrete, artifice and confession, Dick's playful writing takes risks. It transposes Georg's Grete (musician, fellow addict and suicide) to current-day Greta, gives her Wittgenstein and Kafka as other brot... + Read More
9.
One Hundred Days of Rain Paperback Carellin Brooks 9781771660907 $20.00 FICTION Mar 24, 2015

Did she say, at the beginning, that it rained every day? She was wrong. She misspoke. She didn't mean it.... No. It did not rain every day. But it rained for a hundred days, that year, which was enough--more than enough, even.In prose by turn haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks' One Hundred Days of Rain enumerates an unnamed narrator's encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuild a life from the bottom up. As she wakes each day to encounter Vancouver's sky and cit... + Read More
10.
Lorcation Paperback Brian Dedora 9781771661560 $18.00 POETRY Sep 09, 2015

When acclaimed Canadian writer Brian Dedora travelled to Spain in 2012 to explore "Lorca's Granada," he experienced an unexpected transformation that set him on a path of understanding -- of the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca, of the basic elements in common between the Spanish writer's life and his own, and of the tragic grandeur of Lorca's death in Granada in 1936.Lorcation progresses transformationally from prose poem to informal essay, sustained by its three vital metaphors of journey, suitcase, and crossroads. The book, presented a... + Read More
11.
Myrmurs an exploded sestina Paperback Shannon Maguire 9781771661607 $18.00 POETRY Oct 28, 2015

Myrmurs is an innovative variant of the sestina form (a medieval mechanism of desire that spirals around six end words). Connecting medieval textuality to contemporary politics and poetics, this poem explores living systems: cities and languages as self-organizing entities; ants; interspecies entanglements; strange attachments; neocolonialism and how to break free of it. Following on her critically acclaimed debut collection fur(l) parachute (published by BookThug in 2013), this is the second volume in Shannon Maguire's planned medievalist tril... + Read More
12.
Buoyancy Control Paperback Adrienne Gruber 9781771662222 $18.00 POETRY Apr 05, 2016

Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, explores themes of sexuality, sexual identity, and queerness, while confronting the feelings of loss and longing found in relationships, and the chance glimpse into a new life, while still recovering from a painfully failed connection.Metaphors of oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water, as well as the creatures that inhabit those spaces, swim and swirl their way through Gruber's languid poems, which are divided into two evocative sections. Though distinguished... + Read More
13.
The Videofag Book Paperback William Ellis 9781771663625 $20.00 DRAMA Nov 15, 2017

Longlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book AwardsIn October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub for counterculture in the city, playing host to a litany of performances, screenings, parties, exhibitions, and all manner of queer fuckery. But hosting a city in their house took its toll and eventually William and Jordan broke up, closing the space for good in June 2016.The... + Read More
14.
Holy Wild Paperback Gwen Benaway 9781771664394 $18.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2018

Winner of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for PoetryFinalist for the 2019 Trillium Book Award for PoetryFinalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards – Transgender Poetry CategoryFinalist for the 2019 Publishing Triangle Awards – Trans and Gender-Variant Literature CategoryLonglisted for the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial AwardIn her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberati... + Read More
15.
It Begins With The Body Paperback Hana Shafi 9781771664431 $18.00 POETRY Sep 10, 2018

It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi's poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity, and faith.Accompanied by Shafi's candid illustrations that share the same delightful mixture of grotesque and humour found in her poems, It Begins With The Body navigates the highs and lows of youth. It is about feeling like an outsider, and reconciling with pain and awkwardness. It's about arguing with your mum about ... + Read More
16.
We All Need To Eat Paperback Alex Leslie 9781771664196 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Finalist for the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards, The Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2020 Kobzar Book Award Finalist for the 2019 Ethel Wilson Fiction Award We All Need to Eat is a new collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver, chronicling her attempts to come to grips with herself, her family and her sexuality.Set in different moments falling between Soma's childhood and her late thirties, each story--bold and varying in its ap... + Read More
17.
Smells Like Stars Paperback D. Nandi Ohdiambo 9781771664233 $20.00 FICTION Oct 08, 2018

Kerstin Ostheim, a journalist, and P. J. Banner, a freelance photographer, have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. They are getting married in two weeks and as the wedding fast approaches, they question their compatibility while investigating mysterious horse killings that are taking place in Ogweyo's Cove, the Pacific tourist haven where they live.In the meantime, Schuld Ostheim, Kerstin's transgender daughter from her first marriage, is preparing for an art exhibit after being hospitalized for a physical assault while... + Read More
18.
Zip's File A Romance of Silence Paperback Shannon Maguire 9781771664028 $18.00 FICTION May 24, 2018

Zip's File: A Romance of Silence explores the longings and limits of bodies oriented to wacky shared futures--of language, of social formations, of gene editing--with the heart of a surrealist, the obsession of a medievalist, and the erotic frankness of a riot grrl, the narrative impulse of a web-surfer, and the anarchic glee of a futurist. From the Egyptian Pyramid texts to Heldris de Cornuälle's thirteenth century Le Roman de Silence, to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World to Guillaume Apollinaire's... + Read More
19.
transVersing Stories by Today's Trans Youth Paperback For the Love of Learning 9781550817621 $19.95 DRAMA Oct 30, 2018

Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland’s most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. Gathering the work of Violet Drake, Daze Jefferies, Fionn Shea, Perin Squires, Taylor Stocks, and Dane Woodland, and including the dramatic text by Berni Stapleton and Sharon King-Campbell, transVersing is where Shakespeare meets slam poetry and the fiddle meets soapbox rant. These are the creative and courageous voices charting our course to understanding ... + Read More
20.
Two-Man Tent Paperback Robert Chafe 9781550816600 $19.95 FICTION Oct 21, 2016

In Two-Man Tent, one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Robert Chafe, offers his long-awaited collection of short fiction. The individual stories are thematically linked by an interwoven, recurring tale of a long-distance relationship told in the form of text messages, chat sessions, and emails, as Chafe bring his singular talent for dialogue and scripting to work within new forms of communication. The results are stunning in an absorbing and thoroughly contemporary collection that reads like no other.
21.
Out Proud Stories of Pride, Courage, and Social Justice Paperback Douglas Gosse 9781550814873 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2014

Produced in partnership with Egale Canada Human Rights Trust, Out Proud: Stories of Pride, Courage, and Social Justice is the second in a series of essay anthologies designed to give attention to issues that are sometimes ignored in the mainstream media—and a voice to those most closely affected by them. Expertly edited by sociologist Dr. Douglas Gosse, Out Proud features more than fifty short essays on the experience of LGBTTIQQ2SA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgendered, Intersexual, Queer, Questioning, 2-Spirited and Allies) and ... + Read More
22.
Still No Word Paperback Shannon Webb-Campbell 9781550815887 $16.95 POETRY Mar 03, 2015

EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust OUT IN PRINT Literary Award Winner! Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within the self. Patient, searching, questioning, and at times heartbreaking—these poems reveal the deep past within the present tense and the interrelations that make our lives somehow both whole and unfinished. And though Webb-Campbell is political at times, this is not politics for the sake of politics: here, it’s a matter of the human heart. Ranging from reflective... + Read More
23.
Lake of Two Mountains Paperback Arleen Paré 9781926829876 $20.00 POETRY Apr 01, 2014

A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Paré's second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network of relationships around a lake. It maps, probes and applauds the riparian region of central Canadian geography that lies between the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence Rivers. The poems portray this territory, its contested human presences and natural history: the 1990 Oka Crisis, Pleistocene shifts and dislocations, the fea... + Read More
24.
Long Red Hair Paperback Meags Fitzgerald 9781894994958 $17.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 21, 2015

Long Red Hair is Meags Fitzgerald's follow up to her acclaimed Photobooth: A Biography. In this graphic memoir, Fitzgerald paints a childhood full of sleepovers, playing dress-up, amateur fortune-telling and renting scary movies. Yet, Fitzgerald suspects that she is unlike her friends. The book navigates a child's struggle with averageness, a preteen's budding bisexuality and a young woman's return after rejection. Fitzgerald takes us from her first kiss to a life sworn to singlehood, while weaving in allusions to witches in history and popular... + Read More
25.
Lake Jehovah Paperback Jillian Fleck 9781772620078 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 21, 2016

Lake Jehovah is a small town in northern Alberta known for its allegedly bottomless lake. It is there that Jay, a genderqueer individual, experiences a crisis of meaning regarding love in the face of a series of apocalypses. Jay's fiance leaves xim for xis old university professor Asterix. This sends Jay into a tailspin, which causes xim to spend the next few months sleeping. When xe wakes up Jay discovers xe has become a small time celebrity for writing an apocalyptic prophesy. The town's obnoxious costumed mailman Greg has been giving tours t... + Read More
26.
The Collected Neil the Horse Paperback Katherine Collins 9781772620153 $12.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 10, 2017

"Delighted at your continuing Neil the Horse efforts . . . and I'm particularly enthusiastic about your continuing probe of the medium. I welcome you as a fellow explorer." - Will EisnerNeil the Horse ran for fifteen issues in the 1980s. With its tagline, "Making the World Safe for Musical Comedy," it is the world's only musical comic book. It is a totally original hybrid influenced more by Carl Barks and Fred Astaire than by the underground comics of the time. Originally produced under the name Arn Saba, Neil the Horse's creator transitioned t... + Read More
27.
FLEM Paperback Rebecca Rosen 9781772620283 $20.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 09, 2018

Julia Marten's a mess: she's running out of inheritance money, failing out of art school, and haunted by the ghost of her depressed mother. And then there's the compulsive nose-picking thing. . . When Julia meets a group of radical feminist performance artists in a Brussels squat, she is convinced by their political perspective and enchanted by their counter-cultural lifestyle. But has she found her people. . . or lost her mind?
28.
Sweetsburg Archives, The Hardcover Jonathan Sevigny 9781894994736 $25.00 ART Oct 30, 2013

Jonathan Reid Sevigny was born and raised in Cowansville, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, a culture so unique and full of rare and local treasures that become significant to those who grew up there but perhaps seem completely foreign and often tacky to outsiders. It isn't the most glamorous town, nor does it have any particular sites or landmarks that one would go out of his / her way to visit. In Sweetsburg Sevigny is attempting to use his Quebecois boyhood as an archetype for the relationship between the individual, the hometown, and the... + Read More
29.
My Neighbour's Bikini Paperback Jimmy Beaulieu 9781894994835 $15.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS May 08, 2014

During a major power outage in the heat of a Montreal summer, two shy young neighbours finally take the time to slow down, meet, and spend time together. Beaulieau takes a microscope to the lives of a few citizens at a certain time and place and weaves their stories into a romantic tapestry. The perfect book to get you through the cold winter. Originally published in 2006 this translation is the second by Beaulieu in our BDANG imprint.
30.
Series: Essential Prose Series Fate's Instruments No Safeguards II Paperback H. Nigel Thomas 9781771832601 $25.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2018

In Fate's Instruments, picking up the story from where Paul's brother Jay left it in No Safeguards, Paul, an aspiring writer, marries Carlos, with whom he lived in Guatemala, and brings him to Montreal. Things go wrong from the beginning, and they break up. Then fate, in the form of a brain tumour, strikes Paul. He receives support from Jay, Lionel (himself a brain tumour survivor), friends, and the enigmatic Professor Bram. But it is Paul's exploration of his Vincentian childhood and new-found love that restores his equilibrium.
31.
Series: Essential Essays Series small things (a random selection of anti-essays) Paperback Sky Gilbert 9781771832939 $20.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 01, 2018

Small things is a book of mini-anti-essays, part of Sky Gilbert's project to dismantle and challenge the rigid classifications of genre, thus challenging 21st century notions of truth. Inspired by Oscar Wilde, Foucault, and the post-structuralist project, the small writings in small things are story, essay, and memoir combined. They question the notion that an essay is necessarily fact, or fair opinion, or even informed opinion, while at the same time challenging the dictum that fiction might necessarily be free of didacticism, or at least, ideas.
32.
Series: Essential Writers Series Compulsive Acts Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Work of Sky Gilbert Paperback David Bateman 9781550717204 $25.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 2014

Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays, and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, film maker, and poet Sky Gilbert through the eyes of a handful of the people who have observed his work closely over the past two decades – as audience members and arts workers. Actors, academics, performance artists, journalists, film makers, playwrights, poets and his partner of many years tackle his immense output with a queer eye for the intricacies of a unique and astute aesthetic vision – a vision that has placed him ... + Read More
33.
Series: Essential Prose Series That Summer in Provincetown Paperback Caroline Vu 9781771830355 $20.00 FICTION Jul 01, 2015

Daniel, a young French-Vietnamese man, lies dying in a Montreal hospital. Spurned by his family for contracting AIDS in Provincetown, Daniel spends his last months in despair. Only his cousin Mai stays by his side to record the darkest of family secrets. From French Indochina to present day North America, this novel follows three generations of a Vietnamese family as they endure their own folly and the whims of history.
34.
Series: Essential Prose Series No Safeguards Paperback H. Nigel Thomas 9781550719840 $25.00 FICTION Jul 01, 2015

No Safeguards, the first in a trilogy, follows Jay and his brother Paul from childhood to young adulthood. We witness the destructive impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs on their mother and father, opposition to those beliefs by the boys' grandmother and each boy's very different response to their parents' religiosity. This becomes even more poignant after they leave their grandmother's comfortable home in St. Vincent to join their mother in Montreal. The revelation that both boys are gay adds to their sense of oppression and divides the... + Read More
35.
Series: Essential Poets Series Under My Skin Paperback Orville Lloyd Douglas 9781550718492 $15.00 POETRY May 15, 2014

Under My Skin asks a lot of questions, questions that demand answers: Why are young black gay men invisible in Canada's queer and black communities? Do their lives really matter? How do young black men deal with the daily challenges of dealing with multiple oppressions in relation to our race and gender? Is Canada truly a multicultural nation? Why are the brothers dying due to gun violence on the streets of Toronto?
36.
Series: World Prose Most Precious Blood Paperback Vince Sgambati 9781771833066 $25.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2018

Fans of Anne Tyler's quirky characters and her attention to family life, or Pete Hamill's depiction of diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhoods will connect to Most Precious Blood, set in the eleventh-hour of a declining Italian-American neighborhood where complex and often destructive loyalties have dire consequences. Hard Luck Lenny is the quintessential good son, brother, and father, and he fears a calamity will derail his son's future the way his own dreams were derailed years ago, but Frankie is preoccupied with thoughts of Gennaro DiCico, the... + Read More
37.
Series: World Poetry Hard Candy / Pitch Roll Yaw Paperback Annie Rachele Lanzillotto 9781771833059 $25.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2018

Hard Candy / Pitch Roll Yaw is a flip book of two poetry collections facing each other. It reads like a bare knuckle punch from beyond the grave. Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light offers poems and prose on the eternal relationship of the poet and her mother. Pitch Roll Yaw is fourteen stations each beginning with a See, Saw poem -- Lanzillotto's one liners balanced by a fulcrum: comma, caesura, spondee, dash, or backslash, with quick shifts in weight and changes in meaning. Each station is unified by theme or form.
38.
Series: Essential Prose Series A Boy at the Edge of the World Paperback David Kingston Yeh 9781771832489 $25.00 FICTION Feb 28, 2018

Meet Daniel Garneau, your average gay hockey player from small-town Ontario. After moving to Toronto to attend university, Daniel embarks on a series of misadventures both comic and tragic, as he navigates the pitfalls of dating and relationships while juggling the needs of his eccentric family and newfound friends. A Boy at the Edge of the World is a coming-of-age novel that explores the variegations of sex, intimacy, and queer desire. It is both a rollicking dramedy and a philosophical reflection. In the end, Daniel's story is the story of ea... + Read More
39.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Steel Animals Paperback SK Dyment 9781771335331 $22.95 FICTION Sep 20, 2018

Hilarity and queer magic realism twist the throttle when Jackie, a loner with a secret bank-robbing persona, meets Vespa: sexy, sculpture-welding artist and collector of vintage motorbikes. Still planning elaborate revenge on a New York ex-lover, Jackie tests both her new relationship and the loyalties of her friends, a rag-tag gang of post-punk eccentrics, realizing how love changes hatred only after her scheme runs out of control. An innocent misstep and an encrypted mystery swings the romance into the dangerous orbit of a construction mogul ... + Read More
40.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series The Heart Begins Here Paperback Jacqueline Dumas 9781771335416 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2018

Finalist for the 2019 Golden Crown Literary Society Awards for General FictionThe Heart Begins Here is the story of the ever-optimistic, earnest Sara Requier and her disintegrating seven-year relationship with the cynical Wanda Wysoka. Along with her relationship struggles, Sara must contend with the drastic changes in the book industry that threaten her feminist bookstore, as well as a mother who refuses to accept her daughter's lesbianism. Then, just as Wanda decides to leave Sara, Wanda's new young lover, Cindy, is murdered. The story takes ... + Read More
41.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series The Size of a Bird Paperback Clementine Morrigan 9781771334570 $18.95 POETRY Sep 20, 2017

The Size of a Bird is an invocation of desire in times of violence and trauma. Refusing to shy away from difficult topics the poet tackles addiction, abuse, suicide, and sexual violence while infusing each word with a relentless drive for life. Seeking pleasure, these poems navigate dangerous terrain, staying with ambivalence and probing its depths. Queer femininity seeks heterosexual masculinity with varying results. First dates and one-night-stands, alleyways and coffee shops, forest floors and skateparks, these poems reveal a world pulsating... + Read More
42.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Between the Cracks She Fell Paperback Lisa de Nikolits 9781771332255 $22.95 FICTION Aug 20, 2015

If you loved The Girl On The Train, you will love this. Take one summer, an abandoned old school and an idyllic beach town. Meet Joscelyn who living off the grid, having lost her home, her boyfriend and her job. She clashes with a gang of street kids, befriends a disfellowshipped Jehovah's Witness and a runaway housewife who is living in her car with an enormous dog. The tension and violence escalates as the street gang kills one of their own, and it is not until Joss solves all the pieces of the puzzle, can she gather up the pieces of her own... + Read More
43.
Series: Inanna Poery & Fiction Series A Hero Paperback Charlotte R. Mendel 9781771331937 $22.95 FICTION May 15, 2015

The state war raging outside the home of the Al-Fakhoury extended family, who live in a border town buffeted by the turmoil of the Arab Spring, entwines with the familial conflict raging within. The patriarch of the family, Mohammed, is an aggressive, dominant man who bullies his wife and four children and wages paranoiac diatribes against his sister and her family. It is only when Mohammed leaves for work every morning that the house relaxes into the rich interconnectivity of familial relationships: between Mohammed's gentle wife Fatima and hi... + Read More
44.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Moments of Joy Paperback Cecelia Frey 9781771331975 $22.95 FICTION May 18, 2015

Manfred Weiszl lies dying of cancer in an upper room of a grand old Toronto house. His last wish is to see his son, Rupert, from whom he has been estranged for sixteen years, and much of the action derives from attempts to get Rupert's cooperation. Manfred's sister Pauline, the housekeeper Marie (and Marie's boyfriend Steve), as well as Manfred's dead wife, Gertrude are central to Manfred's life and each have their role to play in the unfolding drama of a family in crisis dealing with issues of death, marriage breakup, gender identity, and gene... + Read More
45.
Series: Inanna Memoir Series One Bead at a Time Paperback Beverly Little Thunder 9781771332651 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 25, 2016

One Bead at a Timeis the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder's narrative is told verbatim, her melodious voice and keen sense of humour almost audible overtop of the text on the page. Early in her story, Little Thunder recounts a dream from her early adulthood, "I stared at these... + Read More
46.
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series Widow's Fire, The Paperback Paul Butler 9781771334051 $22.95 FICTION Jun 10, 2017

The Widow's Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen's final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away for the last time and discretely gives an overview of the oncoming marriage between heroine Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth. This, it transpires in The Widow's Fire, is merely the beginning of a journey. Soon dark undercurrents disturb the order and symmetry of Austen's world. The gothic flavor of the period, usually satirized by... + Read More
47.
Yellow Vengeance Paperback Liz Bugg 9781554831029 $19.95 FICTION Apr 30, 2013

After narrowly escaping death while solving her last case, the Toronto PI is settling happily into married life with her new wife, Jess. Once again, however, trouble is looming: Jess wants a baby but Calli would rather fight a psycho with a gun than contemplate parenthood.When an old school friend asks Calli to investigate her mother's death, Calli jumps at the chance to distract herself with work. Her plans go awry when her own mother reveals a shocking secret that threatens to turn Calli's life upside down. By turns lighthearted and thrillin... + Read More
48.
Sundowner Ubuntu Paperback Anthony Bidulka 9781554831043 $19.95 FICTION Apr 30, 2013

A mother's pain. A million dollars. A missing son. Desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse? Through good old-fashioned detective work, Russell peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of traumatic childhood violence. Tracking Matthew's life from the schoolyard drug culture of a pleasant prairie city's underbelly to the stunning vistas, vibrant townships, and tinderbox safaris of Africa, Russell finds m... + Read More
49.
Aloha Candy Hearts Paperback Anthony Bidulka 9781554831142 $19.95 FICTION Oct 25, 2013

From the calm Pacific to the storm-tossed prairie, a teasing puzzle turns into a frightening game of cat and mouse for gay PI Russell Quant. Russell can't be sure whether a dead man's surprising last gift will take him on a treasure hunt or a treacherous game of life or death. With a series of clues spanning decades--from a shocking modern-day murder to Saskatoon's dark, hidden past--he revisits the harsh realities of early homesteading, investigates the blackmail of one of the literary world's most esteemed writers, and digs for clues at the s... + Read More
50.
Date with a Sheesha Paperback Anthony Bidulka 9781554831296 $19.95 FICTION Jul 31, 2014

Neil Gupta went to the Middle East looking for antique carpets. He found something equally timeless: murder. When Neil is found stabbed to death in Dubai's spice souk, his distraught father wants revenge. He hires private investigator Russell Quant to catch the killer. In his greatest case to date, Quant goes undercover to match wits with a wily museum curator, shifty souk merchants, corrupt carpet experts, and the denizens of an underground club for "fabulous" men. From the flamboyant glitz of Dubai to the scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia,... + Read More
51.
Makarska Paperback Jim Bartley 9781554831494 $19.95 FICTION May 15, 2015

Mirza has masqueraded as "Mickey" throughout his time in Canada but his own identity awaits him when he returns to spend a summer in Sarajevo with his father. His grandfather bears the physical scars of the violence. His mother's psychological wounds are hidden, but reopen when Mirza uses the war as inspiration for a new art installation.Through the eyes of three generations, Jim Bartley's much anticipated second novel tells a tale at once sweeping and intimate, an unflinching story of war, escape, heartrending loss, budding love, and the hard-... + Read More
52.
Broad Side, The Paperback Eve Zaremba 9781554831579 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 01, 2015

In her long life, EVE ZAREMBA has picked tomatoes, driven a Bookmobile, researched Canadians' junk food preferences, and written feminist detective novels. She reflects on those experiences, and the personalities and politics involved, in her memoir, MEMORY'S TRACES. Eve spent her childhood in 1930s Warsaw, the daughter of a Polish army officer. When the Nazis invaded, she and her family took refuge in England, arriving in Canada in 1952. By the 1970s, Eve was an active part of Toronto's lesbian feminist community and a founding collective memb... + Read More
53.
Queer Returns Essays On Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies Paperback Rinaldo Walcott 9781554831746 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Nov 16, 2016

Queer Returns returns us to the scene of multiculturalism, diaspora and queer through the lens of black expression, identity and the political. The essays question what it means to live in a multicultural society, how diaspora impacts identity and culture and how the categories of queer and black and black queer complicate the political claims of multiculturalism, diaspora and queer politics. These essays return us to foundational assumptions, claims and positions that require new questions without dogmatic answers.
54.
Girth Paperback Tara McGowan-Ross 9781554831760 $16.95 POETRY Nov 16, 2016

From disordered eating to tear gas to coked-out sex, Girth is an uncomfortably honest poetic account of a woman's body, suspended in the tension between action, reflection, and self-destruction. As the speaker attempts to engage in political protest and to be a meaningful part of the political process, she also must overcome her chronic eating disorder. She finds herself impeded by the stumbling blocks of identity, violence, and politics, and the way those things manifest under the skin: as memory, as habit, as pain, or as stillness. A love let... + Read More
55.
Femme Confidential Paperback Nairne Holtz 9781554831937 $19.95 FICTION Nov 21, 2017

Femme Confidential is a darkly comic examination of sexual freedom and finding yourself, your tribe, and the not-so-perfect girlfriend. Set in a gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood, the novel is told from the point of view of three lesbians. Liberty, the daughter of earnest Quaker hippies, pivots between being good, bad, and awkward as she searches for passion. Veronika, a beautiful and charismatic Hungarian whose primary dating criteria is hotness, embraces her outer mean girl--until she has a baby. Dana, a transsexual lesbian, struggles to find... + Read More
56.
Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures Paperback Mark Crawford 9781927922439 $15.95 DRAMA Oct 01, 2018

Deep in Simon's basement, there is a secret world of imagination and adventure. When his new friend Abby comes over after school to work on a class assignment, Simon steers their work toward creating a play...but Simon's older brother, Zach, is having none of it. Zach's on high alert for certain behaviours: as he reveals to Abby, Simon wishes to be a girl. As the three characters struggle through their conflicts, they improvise a fairy tale about a magic prince, an evil king, a brave young girl, and a fire-breathing dragon who's getting more re... + Read More
57.
Ga Ting Paperback Minh Ly 9781927922293 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2017

Ga Ting is a powerful and emotionally charged story about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the death of their son Kevin. When they invite Kevin's Caucasian boyfriend for dinner after the funeral, the evening devolves into a fiery cultural and generational clash.
58.
The Seat Next to the King Paperback Steven Elliott Jackson 9781927922415 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2018

In 1964, a white man walks into a public restroom in a Washington, DC park looking for sex. The next man who enters is a black man.The Seat Next to the King explores the lives of two men who literally sat next to the most powerful men in America. Bayard Rustin, a friend to Martin Luther King Jr. and the organizer of the March on Washington, and Walter Jenkins, top aide and friend to President Lyndon Johnson, meet in that restroom, although neither knows the other's identity yet. Each is a symbol of hope and change in 1964, and each is conflicte... + Read More
59.
Stag and Doe Bed and Breakfast Paperback Mark Crawford 9781927922170 $18.95 DRAMA Oct 15, 2015

Scirocco is pleased to introduce two comedies by emerging playwright Mark Crawford. In Stag and Doe, Bonnie and Brad are throwing a party to pay for their upcoming wedding. Their Maid of Honour, Dee, is still getting over being left at the altar seven years ago. Mandy and Rob are getting married today, even though their big white tent blew away in last night's storm. And Jay just found out his entire catering staff is in jail! It's all happening at the same time, in the same community hall kitchen, in the same small town. Stag and Doe offers a ... + Read More
60.
Nails, The Paperback Jason Maghanoy 9781927922484 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2019

Ally and Josh spend every summer with their father as he goes from small town to small town working for a construction company in America. But this summer is different. This is the summer they grow up. The Nails is a play about family. It is a play about faith. And it captures a world of freedom and extremism in all directions; love and cruelty exist within the same space here. Sometimes they feel like the same thing.