Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, 3rd Edition

Edited by Gina Starblanket
Categories: Feminism and feminist theory

This book bridges generations of powerful Indigenous feminist thinking to demonstrate the movement’s cruciality for today. Indigenous feminists in the first edition fought for feminism to be considered ...

Ce que je sais de toi

By (author) Éric Chacour
Categories: Modern and contemporary fiction

Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensaire et le prestigieux cabinet hérité de son père, Tarek n’a que peu de place pour se poser des ...

Junie

By (author) Chelene Knight
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2024

A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships ...

Call Me Bill

By (artist) Lynette Rchards
Introduction by Emily Burton
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

A gorgeously illustrated historical graphic novel based on a real person who, defying gender expectations, left home in search of adventure and a more authentic life.
It was April 1, 1873. In the middle ...

Pass Me By: Electric Vice

By (author) Kyle Simmers & Ryan Danny Owen
Illustrated by Simmers Kyle
Categories: American / British style comic books and graphic novels
Series: Pass Me By

2022 ALBERTA BOOK AWARDS ‘GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR’

1973: a chance encounter between Ed and the captivating androgynous singer of the pulse-pounding glam rock band ELECTRIC VICE, pulls Ed into a world ...

The Strange Scent of Saffron

By (author) Miléna Babin
Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei
Categories: Fiction: general and literary
Series: Essential Translations Series

Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake an innocent country, eleven-year-old Johnny Wong uncovers an underbelly to his tight, downtown neighbourhood. He shares a room with his Chinese ...

Growing Up Trans

Edited by Lindsay Herriot & Kate Fry
Categories: Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQ+

What does it mean to be young and transgender today?

Growing Up Trans shares stories, essays, art and poetry created by trans youth aged 11 to 18. In their own words, the works illustrate the trans experience ...

The Rebellious Tide

By (author) Eddy Boudel Tan
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

FINALIST FOR THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION

Sebastien’s search for his father leads him to a ship harbouring a dangerous secret.

Sebastien has heard only stories about his father, a mysterious ...

DR SAD

By (author) David Bateman
Categories: Fiction: general and literary
Series: ISSN

DR SAD is a cross-country, cross-campus tragicomedy of manners. Leaping between queer Toronto and small-town BC, this novel interrogates art, aging, teaching, and how we create ourselves within an ever-changing ...

From the Roots Up

By (author) Tasha Spillett
Illustrated by Natasha Donovan & Donovan Yaciuk
Categories: American / British style comic books and graphic novels
Series: Surviving the City

Dez and Miikwan’s stories continue in this sequel to Surviving the City.
Dez’s grandmother has passed away. Grieving, and with nowhere else to go, she’s living in a group home. On top of everything ...