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By A. Light Zachary
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

A book of poems and interruptions, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives.

In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power ...

Postcards from Congo

By Edmund Trueman
Foreword by Didier Gondola
Categories: Social Issues, History, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitarian ...

Cold Case BC

By Eve Lazarus
Categories: Canada, True Crime, History, British Columbia

In her BC bestseller Cold Case Vancouver, crime historian and reporter Eve Lazarus used investigative skills to shine a light on the city's most baffing unsolved murders. In Cold Case BC, Lazarus casts ...

The Lost Century

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Fiction

Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism, love, and loyalty during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong in World War II.

On the ...

In the Key of Dale

By Benjamin Lefebvre
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

For fans of the Netflix series Heartstopper (based on the bestselling graphic novels by Alice Oseman): a disarming coming-of-age novel about a queer teen music prodigy who discovers pieces of himself in ...

Together We Drum, Our Hearts Beat as One

Text by Willie Poll
Illustrated by Chief Lady Bird
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's

In this beautifully illustrated book, a determined young Anishnaabe girl in search of adventure goes on a transformative journey into a forest on her traditional territory. She is joined by a chorus of ...

Magodiz

By Gabe Calderon
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Magodiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country.

Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away ...

Queer Little Nightmares

Edited by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction, Lesbian Literature, Anthologies, LGBTQ+ Literature

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout ...

The Future Is Disabled

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Disability Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Social Issues, LGBTQ+ Literature

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? And ...

Holden After and Before

By Tara McGuire
Categories: Social Issues, Biography & Memoir

Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief: a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire's excavation and documentation of the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental ...