The Care We Dream Of

Edited by Zena Sharman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Social Issues, Trans Literature, Lesbian Literature, Health, Disability 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? ...

This Is My Real Name

By Cid V Brunet
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Biography & Memoir

The frank and bracing memoir of a woman who spent ten years as a stripper.

This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years working as a dancer at strip clubs, using the name Michelle. ...

Tonguebreaker

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

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 ...

Transland

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

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 ...

The Woo-Woo

By Lindsay Wong
Categories: Women's Literature, Biography & Memoir, Social Issues, BIPOC, Asian Literature

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: Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies, 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: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian 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 ...

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: History, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Photography, Visual Arts

WINNER, Dr. Edgar Wickberg Book Prize for the Best Book on Chinese Canadian History (Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC); FINALIST, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize (BC and Yukon Book Prizes) ...

When My Ghost Sings

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

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 ...