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Between the Lines
Between the Lines is a social movement press founded in 1977. We publish nonfiction books that expose and challenge oppression in our society. We aim to amplify the struggles of Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities; migrants; women; queer folks; and working-class people. BTL is proudly left-wing and the books we publish reflect our activist roots and our commitment to social justice struggles. BTL authors are academics, journalists, artists, and activists—all our authors hope their books will spark political and social change.
BTL has no boss, no individual owner; we are run by a small group of staff and a dedicated volunteer editorial committee. Decisions on what we publish are made by consensus. We publish books not to seek profit, but to archive and promote struggles for a better world, challenge the mainstream, and offer readers new perspectives on critical political issues.
Our press is situated in Tkaronto, traditional Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee territory subject to the Dish with One Spoon treaty. This land was stewarded by the Mississauga of the Credit River and is home to many Indigenous peoples, including the Métis, and those displaced from their homelands by Canadian extractive and other industries.
Amanda Crocker
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Civil Society in Question
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Compass Points
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Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet
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Eating Fire
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Better to Have Loved
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User Error
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Memoirs of a Media Maverick
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Booze: A Distilled History
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An Action A Day
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East Timor: Testimony
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An Unauthorized Biography of the World
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Rebels, Reds, Radicals
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The Ursula Franklin Reader
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Mission of Folly
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Some Like It Cold
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Gold Dust On His Shirt
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Reasoning Otherwise
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New World Coming
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Harvest Pilgrims
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Losing Control
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States of Race
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Our Friendly Local Terrorist
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Persistent Poverty
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Generation NGO
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Home and Native Land
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Committing Theatre
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Whose Streets?
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“Too Asian?”
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Warrior Nation
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Speaking Up
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Unlikely Radicals
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The Great Revenue Robbery
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Fear of a Black Nation
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Canadian Copyright
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Languages of the Unheard
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Unions Matter
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From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You
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Pain and Prejudice
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Bold Scientists
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A Line in the Tar Sands
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Nothing to Lose but Our Fear
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Disarming Conflict
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Fired Up about Capitalism
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Fired Up about Reproductive Rights
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Radical Transformation
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Capitalism: A Crime Story
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Symbols of Canada
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1919
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The Montreal Shtetl
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Beyond Guilt Trips
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Feminist City
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Resilience Is Futile
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Enemy Alien
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Won’t Get Fooled Again
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The Taste of Longing
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Brotherhood to Nationhood
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Jeannie’s Demise
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Fired Up about Consent
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Bent out of Shape
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The Case for Basic Income
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The Fire and the Ashes
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Code White
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Shift Change
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Testimonio
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Wonder Drug
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Unsettling Canada
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It Should Be Easy to Fix
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Disarm, Defund, Dismantle
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Women Winning Office
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
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The End of This World
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Harvesting Freedom
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Cleaning Up
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Fear of a Black Nation
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The Tenant Class
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The Bund
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Crisis and Contagion
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The Mantle of Struggle
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Beryl
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Law at Work
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Higher Expectations
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