Fighting for Space

By Travis Lupick
Categories: British Columbia, Canada, Social Issues, History, Health, Cultural Studies

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. ...

Facing History

Edited by Karen Love
Categories: History, British Columbia, Visual Arts, Photography

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver examines the inhabitants of a city through the camera-art of its greatest artists. Featuring a wide range of material, from historical images to documentary depictions ...

Faerie

By Eisha Marjara
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature

A bold YA novel about a South Asian teenager struggling with anorexia.

Just days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult, and leaving her childhood ...

Farewell My Concubine

By Helen Hok-Sze Leung
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic
is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige's acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century abouttwo male Peking opera stars and the woman ...

Fire

By Shohini Ghosh
Series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Film & Media, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature
Series: Queer Film Classics

Fire: A Queer Film Classic delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian
love story by Indian-born director Deepa
Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class
Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is ...

Finistere

By Fritz Peters
Introduction by Michael Bronski
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature
Series: Little Sister's Classics

Mechanically, watching the land disappear into the sea, the word Finstère came to mind. Finis-terre. Land's End. From here it really looked it . . . it was the end of Brittany, the end of France. The ...

Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers

By Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco
Categories: BIPOC, Latin American Literature, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

An extravagant, tragicomic novel, Flesh Wounds & Purple Flowers takes us into the world of Latino machos and cha-cha divas of Santiago's gay underground, full of dreamers and schemers looking for salvation ...

First Spring Grass Fire

By Rae Spoon
Categories: Fiction, Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

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 ...

Fish For Thought

By Living Oceans Society
Categories: Cooking

Our planet's oceans have provided us with an enormous array of edible delectables. But recent experiences, such as declining stocks of specific fish species, have taught us the need for responsible fishing ...

Flat

By Mark Macdonald
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

A dead man is discovered in his apartment, surrounded by notes, books, and other assorted fragments of his life. A distant acquaintance is called in to clean up the mess, clear out the space, and try ...