BIPOC
The Boy & the Bindi
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 ...
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Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature winner
Lambda Literary Award finalist
Longlisted for Canada Reads
As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya ...
Faerie
A bold YA novel about a South Asian teenager struggling with anorexia.
Just days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult, and leaving her childhood ...
AlliterAsian
A wide-ranging anthology of Asian Canadian literature to celebrate 20 years of Ricepaper.
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Ricepaper magazine, a pioneering periodical devoted to Asian-Canadian writing. ...
Decolonize Your Diet
International Latino Book Award winner, Best Cookbook
A return to indigenous Mexican-American cooking: delicious recipes for physical and spiritual healing.
More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet ...
Dirty River
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, ...
A Superior Man
Paul Yee's first novel for adults: an historical account of a Chinese man on a journey to find the mother of his son.
For more than thirty years, Paul Yee has written about his Chinese-Canadian heritage ...
Blackbird (movie tie-in edition)
New edition of this important YA novel coinciding with the new film starring Mo'Nique.
First published in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay. Johnnie ...
The Outer Harbour
City of Vancouver Book Award Winner
In his debut story collection, poet Wayde Compton explores the concept of place and identity in which characters and space merge to make narrative. These interconnected ...
She of the Mountains
A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail)
Lambda Literary Award finalist
In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she.
Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. ...