The Care We Dream Of

Edited by Zena Sharman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Health, Disability Literature, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature

What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honoured and valued queer and trans people's lives, bodies, and expertise? ...

Transland

By Mx. Sly
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+ Literature

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST

A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective

Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that delves into ...

There Has to Be a Knife

By Adnan Khan
Categories: Fiction

For readers of Brother by David Chariandy and Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, Adnan Khan's blistering debut novel investigates themes of race, class, masculinity, and contemporary relationships.

Omar ...

White Riot

By Henry Tsang
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Photography, Visual Arts, History

Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment.

White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading ...

The Woo-Woo

By Lindsay Wong
Categories: Social Issues, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's 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 Home Stretch

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

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 Tiger Flu

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Fiction, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go ...

Vancouver Vice

By Aaron Chapman
Categories: British Columbia, History, Canada

Aaron Chapman's latest Vancouver book explores the gritty history of the West End in the 1970s and '80s.

Aaron Chapman, the two-time Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award-winning author of such bestselling ...

When My Ghost Sings

By Tara Sidhoo Fraser
Categories: Women's Literature, Biography & Memoir, Disability Literature

A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated

Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-two years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after ...

40 Men and 12 Rifles

By Marcelino Truong
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

By the author of Such a Lovely Little War and Saigon Calling, a stirring graphic novel about love, beauty, and war in 1950s Indochina

40 Men and 12 Rifles is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in ...