Vancouver Exposed

By Eve Lazarus
Categories: Travel, British Columbia, History, Canada

The Rat People

By Patrick Saint-Paul
Translated by David Homel
Categories: History, Cultural Studies, Social Issues

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 ...

Murder by Milkshake

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

Finalist for Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize (BC Book Prizes); Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award; City of Vancouver Book Award

When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing ...

The Antifa Comic Book

By Gord Hill
Foreword by Mark Bray
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, History, Social Issues, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Politics

The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. ...

Fighting for Space

By Travis Lupick
Categories: Social Issues, Canada, British Columbia, History, Health, Cultural Studies

Winner, George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
Finalist, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prizes)
Finalist, Vancouver Book Award

North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. ...

Liquor, Lust, and the Law

By Aaron Chapman
Categories: Music, British Columbia, History, True Crime, Canada

A new edition of the colourful history of Vancouver's Penthouse Nightclub, which celebrates its seventieth anniversary in 2017.

The after-hours watering hole for the famous and infamous, the Penthouse ...

Saigon Calling

By Marcelino Truong
Translated by David Homel
Categories: History, Biography & Memoir, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Youth Culture

A sequel to the acclaimed Such a Lovely Little War: growing up Vietnamese in swinging London as the Vietnam war intensifies.

Marcelino Truong's first book about the early years of the Vietnam war, the ...

What I Think Happened

By Evany Rosen
Categories: Humour, Popular Culture, History, Women's Literature, Politics
Series: Robin's Egg Books

A wickedly funny book in which the author recasts historical events and personalities from her own feminist perspective.

What I Think Happened, the debut book by comedian Evany Rosen, is really two books: ...

Blood, Sweat, and Fear

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

Finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award

During his forty-two-year-career he helped detectives in Vancouver, Victoria, and throughout BC solve hit-and-runs, safe-crackings, and some of the ...

Conflict Is Not Abuse

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: Politics, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, History, Women's Literature, Cultural Studies, Social Issues

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. ...