Winner, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)
Finalist, Vancouver Book Award
A sharply observed novel told in six voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful exploration of a young girl gang in ...
A New York Times bestseller
The live-action French film version of Blue is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013.
Originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur ...
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012's I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses ...
Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's best-loved storytellers; their honest, wry, plain-spoken tales of growing up in the Yukon and living out loud on the west coast have attracted readers and live audiences ...
Lambda Literary Award finalist
A tattooed young man regains consciousness in the Don Jail, charged with his friend's murder. An anti-social office clerk falls for a handsome bike courier and abandons his ...
Shortlisted for a ReLit Award for Best Story Collection
I still want that imagine mother. I still want my mother. Here in the House, we're all one line of wanting mothers, being. Some days I don't even ...
First published by St. Martin's Press in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high ...
They were falling through time together. Moth was being clubbed by Travis in perpetual night, in foreign landscapes. It was Day One. The sky was blue and Moth was dead. He fought Travis in the ring, in ...
The fearless monsters we think are our kind
The changes we take, the evil we love
The insane things we have all done
No one has won.
-Megan
Teen suicide has long been considered one of society's darkest ...
"When I look in the mirror, I don't know who I am. "
-Kerri
Being a teenager in today's complex world is a difficult enough task, but adopted teens have a unique struggle: to discover their identity and ...