The Woo-Woo

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

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 family who blame their woes ...

Care Work

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

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

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

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

North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent ...

Dead Reckoning

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

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: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Politics, Women's Literature, Cultural Studies, History, 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. ...

The Remedy

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

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, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Social Issues

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

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 ...