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Edited by Emiko Morita
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, History, British Columbia, Canada, All Titles

Essays about the remarkable history of Vancouver's Powell Street Festival and the proud Japanese Canadian community behind it

Paueru Gai, the Powell Street neighbourhood in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, ...

The Way Disabled People Love Each Other

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

The latest poetry collection by the award-winning author of Tonguebreaker, Care Work, and The Future Is Disabled

Lambda Award-winning poet, memoirist, and disability justice movement worker Leah Lakshmi ...

Eddy's Shadow Puppets

By Karina Zhou
Categories: All Titles, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's, Crafts & Hobbies

A charming picture book that will inspire curious little artists to follow the spark that calls to them

When Eddy meets his grandfather for the first time, he's surprised by Yeye's colourful personality. ...

Beaver Hills Forever

By Conor Kerr
Categories: Fiction, All Titles, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Poetry

An irreverent and playful novella of Metis voices that reflects the complexities of contemporary prairie life

Conor Kerr's 2024 novel Prairie Edge was a finalist for both the Giller Prize and the Atwood ...

Of Floating Isles

By Kawika Guillermo
Categories: LGBTQ+ Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Biography & Memoir, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, All Titles

An immersive journey into the author's lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to start again

Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of ...

The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded

By Gord Hill
Foreword by Mark Bray
Categories: All Titles, Social Issues, History, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Politics

With fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements

When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill's The Antifa ...

Drop in the Ocean, A

By Lea Taranto
Categories: Youth Culture, All Titles, LGBTQ+ Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Disability Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's, Young Adult

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award and Forest of Reading White Pine Award

An engaging YA novel about a girl in treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder that combats the dehumanizing stigma ...

a body more tolerable

By jaye simpson
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature, Women's Literature, Poetry, All Titles, LGBTQ+, Trans & Non-Binary Literature

Ferocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of view

a body more tolerable is a collection of powerful ...

i cut my tongue on a broken country

By Kyo Lee
Categories: All Titles, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry

A debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens

Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to ...

Searching for Serafim

By Ruby Smith Diaz
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Canada, All Titles, Biography & Memoir, History, British Columbia

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award

The life and legacy of Serafim "Joe" Fortes, a trailblazing Black lifeguard, who became a cultural icon in a racist society

Searching for Serafim is a layered ...