Escape to Gold Mountain

By David H.T. Wong
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Canada, History, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Winner, Chinese American Library Association Best Book Award winner (Fiction)

The history of Chinese immigration to Canada and the US over the past 100-plus years has been fraught with sadness and indignity; ...

Dreaming in the Rain

By David Spaner
Categories: Film & Media, British Columbia, Popular Culture

Twenty years ago, Vancouver didn't exist on any map of the film world. Today, Vancouver is at the heart of two film worlds. The city's American-based film industry is powerful enough to inspire loathing ...

Dutch Feast

By Emily Wight
Categories: Cooking

Taste Canada Award finalist

A modern take on Dutch cuisine that highlights the ways that simple meals bring joy and comfort.

In the same way that British, Scandinavian, and German food have undergone a ...

Empathy

By Sarah Schulman
Introduction by Kevin Killian
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction
Series: Little Sister's Classics

Provocative, observant, and daring, this 1992 novel by one of America's preeminent lesbian writers and thinkers is being reissued for the Little Sister's Classics series. Anna O. is a loner in New York, ...

even this page is white

By Vivek Shraya
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature winner

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Longlisted for Canada Reads

As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya ...

Eat, Drink & Be Vegan

By Dreena Burton
Categories: Health, Cooking, Vegan & Vegetarian

Finalist for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Cooking category.

In Dreena Burton's first two bestselling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan!, she offered a dazzling array ...

First Person Queer

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Anthologies, Gay Literature

Winner, Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Anthologies

Winner, Independent Publisher Award (GOLD), Gay/Lesbian

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest ...

Everything But the Truth

By Christopher McPherson
Categories: Fiction

Everything But the Truth is a stunning debut of short fiction by Christopher McPherson, a carpenter by trade, who constructs, with disarming detail, stories of desire and loss, and the thin line between ...

Futureways

Edited by Rita McBride & Glen Rubsamen
Categories: Anthologies, Fiction, Popular Culture, Visual Arts
Series: Ways Books

Futureways is a unique collaboration between the Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed Matter, Inc. , and Arsenal Pulp Press. Futureways is a faux science fiction "novel"; each chapter is written by ...

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea

Text by Kai Cheng Thom
Illustrated by Kai Yun Ching & Wai-Yant Li
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A magical gender variant child brings transformation and change to the world around them thanks to their mother's enduring love.

In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon ...