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"Gripping and fierce. This is much-needed fantasy with its fangs honed sharp by the power of resistance. Melissa Blair has built a tremendous world."—Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
My body is made of scars,
some were done to me,
but most I did to myself....
3) Missed Her
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD*
"A sweeping and mesmerizing story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly." —Alan Cumming
A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives.
Syria,...
5) Summer Fun
From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity.
Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B——. Gala needs to know: Why did the band...
Lambda Literary Award Winner—Best Gay Romance 2021
Bad enough the big old house Charlie Muir inherits is next door to Ian Gregg, the most gorgeous guy he's ever seen—it also happens to be occupied by Rachel, the ghost who keeps running off his dates. It's impossible to get any loving when the bed starts shaking...and not because you're having fun in it.
When Ian helps Charlie search for the source of
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: O, The Oprah Magazine • Entertainment Weekly • Southern Living • Huffington...
8) Rescue Me
Life is exciting if you're one of the top RCMP officers in the country. With a few good years under her belt and a promotion so close she can almost touch it, Staff Sergeant Kristen Bailey of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has everything figured out. Until she meets Ashleigh Paige.
Beautiful, naïve, intelligent, and trusting, Ashleigh is the perfect possible lead for Bailey's case. All she has to do is get close to her. The only problem
...NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Longlist - Toronto Book Awards
Nominee - Forest of Reading Evergreen Award
Selection - Amnesty International Book Club
From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bond of family and the magic that can happen when we meet in the middle
Like many Overseas Filipino
...10) Him: Him, #1
They don't play for the same team. Or do they?
Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wise-cracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were eighteen? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Nobody died.
Ryan Wesley's biggest regret is
...Single, slightly neurotic Steven Bartholomew Ferrante loves his sharp-tongued, loyal friends, his chaotic job as producer for the daytime soap If Tomorrow Never Comes, and his crazy Sicilian mother, not necessarily in that order. Yet at thirty-three, his life is a little like the peppermint...
In Close to Spider Man—which won a Danuta Gleed Literary Award—readers were introduced to the crystalline storytelling voice of Ivan Coyote. The talent evident in that first collection is confirmed with One Man's Trash, a series of connected stories about being queer, searching out new frontiers, and being on the road.
The characters in One Man's Trash make evident the child in all of us, when heroes and superheroes
...An addictive fantasy romance from TikTok sensation Piper CJ, now newly revised and edited. Two orphans grow into powerful young women as they face countless threats to find their way back to each other.
Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest
...14) Loose End
Ivan E. Coyote has developed a reputation as one of North America's most disarming storytellers; their tales of life as a queer person on the roads and trails of the North as well as rural America are rich in their plainspoken, honest truths. In Loose End, their third story collection, Ivan focuses their attention on the city: urban life, specifically in the East End of Vancouver, a diverse neighborhood of all types—old, young, gay,
...A single text message can change everything!
Flirting has never been Denny's strong suit, but so what if she's too shy to ask women out? She's content with her simple life, working as a cashier and helping her sister raise her niece.
But then she gets a wrong-number text message from a stranger named Eliza, asking her of all people for dating advice!
Eliza is Denny's total opposite: witty, outgoing—and straight. Despite
...One of the Best Books of 2022
NPR
"A one-of-a-kind queer horror comedy for people who watch The Bachelor and The X-Files back-to-back." —Kirkus Reviews
On this season of The Catch, contestants must compete for love. And their lives.
When the final four women
"[A] cheeky lesbian stoner fantasy . . . This is gallows humor with a light touch."—The New York Times Book Review
A 2022 Nebula Award Nominee
A 2023 Aurora Award Nominee
A NPR Best of the Year pick
A Most Anticipated Pick for Autostraddle | LGBTQ Reads
Award-winning author Kelly Robson returns with High Times in the Low Parliament, a
In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to...
20) Krakow Melt
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