Fiction
Adrian and the Tree of Secrets
A bittersweet graphic novel about a nerdy teenaged boy who falls in love with the cool kid at school.
Adrian isn't very happy these days. He lives in a small town and goes to a Catholic high school. He ...
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 ...
Nothing Looks Familiar
Sharp-eyed tales about outsiders, non-conformists, and iconoclasts.
In Nothing Looks Familiar, Shawn Syms' debut story collection, characters from a wide swath of society chart paths from places of danger ...
Between
Angie Abdou's latest: a novel on the complexities of class, gender, parenthood, and desire.
Vero and her husband Shane have moved out of the sweet suite above his parents' garage and found themselves ...
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. ...
Look Who's Morphing
First published to acclaim in Australia, Look Who's Morphing by Asian-Australian writer Tom Cho is a funny, fantastical, often outlandish collection of stories firmly grounded in pop culture. The book's ...
After Delores
Sarah Schulman's surprising novel about a brokenhearted waitress looking for love in New York's Lower East Side.
In this new edition of Sarah Schulman's acclaimed 1988 novel, the unnamed narrator is a ...
Anatomy of a Girl Gang
Winner, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)
Finalist, Vancouver Book Award
A sharply observed novel told in six voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful exploration of a young girl gang in ...
Blue Is the Warmest Color
A New York Times bestseller
The live-action French film version of Blue is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.
Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur ...
Kuessipan
A fictionalized, meditative chronicle of life among the Innu in rural northeastern Quebec.
Kuessipan ("to you" in the Innu language) is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu ...