Care Work

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Health, Women's Literature

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics ...

The Woo-Woo

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

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian ...

The Antifa Comic Book

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

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

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. ...

Dead Reckoning

By Carys Cragg
Categories: True Crime, Biography & Memoir, Social Issues, Women's Literature

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction

A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year

Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)

When Carys Cragg was eleven, her father, a respected ...

Conflict Is Not Abuse

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

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. ...

The Remedy

Edited by Zena Sharman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Health, Trans Literature, Gay Literature, Anthologies

Lambda Literary Award winner

To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations.

The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving ...

Tomboy Survival Guide

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

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction; Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner; Longlisted for Canada ...

Becoming Unbecoming

By Una
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, Youth Culture, Biography & Memoir, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Social Issues

This extraordinary graphic novel is a powerful denunciation of sexual violence against women. As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, ...

Thicker than Blood

By Marion Crook
Categories: Social Issues

Adoptive parents need more than the usual parenting skills. Adoption has changed drastically in recent decades with more concern for the adoptees' point of view and more education required by adoptive ...