Like a Boy but Not a Boy

By andrea bennett
Categories: Social Issues, Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body.

Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author ...

Our Work Is Everywhere

By Syan Rose
Foreword by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Social Issues, Lesbian Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Trans Literature

A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance.

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who ...

The Home Stretch

By George K. Ilsley
Categories: Social Issues, Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies

A moving, honest memoir about a man who returns to his rural hometown to take care of his cranky elderly father.

George K. Ilsley explores his complex relationship with his aging father in this candid ...

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 ...

The Cure for Hate

By Tony McAleer
Categories: Social Issues, Biography & Memoir, Politics

How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi ...

Rebent Sinner

By Ivan Coyote
Categories: Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Social Issues

Two-time BC Book Prize finalist (Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes)

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, ...

Major Misconduct

By Jeremy Allingham
Foreword by Daniel Carcillo
Categories: Canada, Social Issues, Health

Every night in hockey arenas across Canada and the United States, modern-day gladiators drop their gloves and exchange bare-fisted blows to the bloodthirsty roars of the paying public. Tens of millions ...

The Woo-Woo

By Lindsay Wong
Categories: Social Issues, Biography & Memoir, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

In ...

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. ...