1.
Series:
Bronx Heroes in Trumpland
Paperback
Ray Felix
9781551528052
$14.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Feb 24, 2020
The Bronx Heroes take on their biggest foe of all, President Donald Trump, in this hilarious and boldly subversive comic book. Astron Star Soldier is an astronaut/alien warrior who first appeared in Tom Sciacca's Astral Comics #1 in 1977. Black Power is an African American superhero, war veteran, and former boxer who first appeared in Ray Felix's comic A World Without Superheroes in 1993. As the Bronx Heroes dedicated to fighting criminals and eradicating injustice, they join forces to confront their greatest foe ever - an evil supervillain na...
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2.
Series:
The Home Stretch
A Father, a Son, and All the Things They Never Talk About
Paperback
George K. Ilsley
9781551527956
$19.95
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
May 01, 2020
A moving, honest memoir about a man who returns to his rural hometown to take care of his cranky elderly father. George K. Ilsley explores his complex relationship with his aging father in this candid memoir full of sharp emotion and disarming humor. George's father is ninety-one years old, a widower, and fiercely independent; an avid gardener, he's sweet and more than a little eccentric. But he's also a hoarder who makes embarrassing comments and invitations to women, and he has made no plans whatsoever for what is inevitably coming over the ...
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3.
Series:
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...
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4.
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 ...
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5.
Series:
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 ...
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6.
Series:
We Had No Rules
Paperback
Corinne Manning
9781551527994
$17.95
FICTION
Mar 15, 2020
A defiant, beautifully realized story collection about the messy complications of contemporary queer life. A young teenager stays a step ahead of her parents' sexuality-based restrictions by running away and learns a very different set of rules. A woman grieves the loss of a sister, a "gay divorce," and the pain of unacknowledged abuse with the help of a lone wallaby on a farm in Washington State. A professor of women's and gender studies revels in academic and sexual power but risks losing custody of the family dog. In Corinne Manning's stun...
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7.
Series:
My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems
Paperback
Amber Dawn
9781551527932
$17.95
POETRY
Feb 21, 2020
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 difficult truths within their intricate narratives that...
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8.
Series:
The Gospel of Breaking
Paperback
Jillian Christmas
9781551527970
$14.95
POETRY
Feb 21, 2020
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 a circle around the things she calls "holy": the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken a...
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