Suite Francaise: Storm in June

By Emmanuel Moynot
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Fiction, History

A stirring graphic novel based on the extraordinary book by Irene Nemirovsky.

Suite Francaise, an extraordinary novel about village life in France just as it was plunged into chaos with the German invasion ...

Synchro Boy

By Shannon McFerran
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Youth Culture

Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. ...

Swallowing Clouds

Edited by Andy Quan & Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: Anthologies, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Work by writers of Chinese-Canadian heritage have achieved international success: this includes books by Wayson Choy, SKY Lee, and Denise Chong, as well as the acclaimed anthology of Chinese-Canadian ...

Sub Rosa

By Amber Dawn
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, Women's Literature

Lambda Literary Award Winner

In this stunning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts and transgresses the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision not for the faint of heart. Sub ...

Travesia

By Michelle Gerster
Illustrated by Fiona Dunnett
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, BIPOC, Latin American Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border.

This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, ...

The Street Belongs to Us

By Karleen Pendleton Jimenez
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Children's

A sweet middle-grade chapter book about two best friends who transform their torn-up street into a world where imaginations can run wild.

In 1984 Los Angeles, Alex is a tomboy who would rather wear her ...

Tonguebreaker

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Disability Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature, Poetry

Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Fiction, Gay Literature

The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...

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? ...

The Future is Queer

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Anthologies, Lesbian Literature

Silver Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (Science Fiction)
Silver winner, Independent Publisher Book Award (Fantasy/Science Fiction)
Winner, 2 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, Best Book and Best ...