The Home Stretch

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

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: Social Issues, History, Cultural Studies

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: Politics, Biography & Memoir, Social Issues

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, Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Governor General's Literary Award finalist; BC Book Prize winner (Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes); Forest of Reading Evergreen Award finalist

Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent ...

Major Misconduct

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

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 ...

Care Work

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

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

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

The Woo-Woo

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

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: Social Issues, History, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, 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: Health, Social Issues, Canada, Cultural Studies, British Columbia, 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. ...

Dead Reckoning

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

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 ...