Dead Reckoning

By Carys Cragg
Categories: Social Issues, Women's Literature, Biography & Memoir, 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: Women's Literature, History, Cultural Studies, Social Issues, Politics, 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, Gay Literature, Anthologies, Trans Literature, Health, Disability Literature

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

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 ...

Cold Case Vancouver

By Eve Lazarus
Categories: True Crime, British Columbia, History, Canada, Social Issues

The untold story behind some of Vancouver's notorious unsolved murder cases.

Finalist, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (BC Book Prizes)

While Vancouver is much loved by tourists and locals alike ...

Foucault against Himself

Edited by Francois Caillat
Translated by David Homel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Social Issues, Biography & Memoir

A thought-provoking collection of essays on Michel Foucault that reframes his legacy.

In his private life, as well as in his work and political attitudes, Michel Foucault often stood in contradiction ...

Gender Failure

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

Being a girl was something that never really happened for me. -Rae Spoon

Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted ...

Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter

By S. Bear Bergman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Social Issues

Lambda Literary Award finalist

The celebrated essayist sheds necessary (and humorous) light on gender, sexuality, and family.

S. Bear Bergman is an acclaimed writer and lecturer who travels regularly across ...