The Antifa Comic Book

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

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: Canada, Social Issues, British Columbia, Health, History

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. ...

Saigon Calling

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

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: Popular Culture, Politics, History, Humour, Women's Literature
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: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Cultural Studies, Women's Literature, History, Politics

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. ...

Such a Lovely Little War

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

This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese
diplomat and his French ...

The Last Gang in Town

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

Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize finalist; Canadian Historical Association's Clio Prize for BC winner

Decades before organized crime syndicates brought sensational drug wars to Vancouver, street gangs ...

The Case of Alan Turing

By Eric Liberge & Arnaud Delalande
Translated by David Homel
Categories: History, Biography & Memoir, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent ...

Forbidden Love

By Jean Bruce, Gerda Cammaer
Series edited by Thomas Waugh, and Matthew Hays
Categories: History, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Canada, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

QUEER FILM CLASSICS is a critically acclaimed series that launched in 2009, edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, covering some of the most important and influential films about and/or by LGBT people ...