Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada
By: Graphic History Collective
3.88
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poe…
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1. A Chinese Life
By: Edward Gauvin , Li Kunwu , Philippe Ôtié
3.94
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
A Chinese Life is an astonishing graphic novel set against the backdrop of the creation of the Peop… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- history
- nonfiction
2. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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- nonfiction
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
3. Palestine
By: None , Joe Sacco
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- history
- nonfiction
4. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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5. Paying for It
By: Robert Crumb , Chester Brown
3.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION Chester Brown has never shied away from tac… read more
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6. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
By: Guy Delisle
3.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most se… read more
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7. This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
By: None
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This Accident of Being Lostis the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winnin… read more
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8. Chroniques de Jérusalem
By: Guy Delisle
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Guy Delisle et sa famille s'installent pour une annee a Jerusalem. Pas evident de se reperer dans c… read more
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9. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
10. Saga, Volume 10
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they’ve made some new...frien… read more
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- comics
11. They Called Us Enemy
By: George Takei
4.42
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more
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"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy
12. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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- comics
- nonfiction
- canada
13. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
15. Saga, Volume 11
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.26
Format: 153 pages, ebook
While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
16. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
By: Sonya Renee Taylor
4.23
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
17. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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18. Borders
By: Thomas King
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A stunning graphic-novel adaptation based on the work of one of Canada’s most revered and bestselli… read more
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- comics
- canada
19. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.41
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a history of white… read more
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- history
"It's the expectations that many white men have that they shouldn't have to climb, shouldn't have to struggle, as others do. It's the idea not only that they think they have less than others, but that…"-Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
20. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
21. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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- history
- canada
22. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
By: Samra Habib
4.16
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more
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- canada
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
23. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
24. Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to… read more
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"A thing cannot be conscious without having agency, but it can have agency without being conscious."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life."-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"NK, or natural killer, cells, which, like macrophages, attack targets like microbes, do not always kill. A 2013 article reports that about half of the NK cells sit out the fight, leaving a minority o…"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
"Poor whites had always had the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were; racial subjugation was the ground under their feet, the rock they stood upon, even when …"-Barbara Ehrenreich, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
25. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.41
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more
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26. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path
By: Marcus McCann
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more
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- canada
27. The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
By: Gord Hill
3.89
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 … read more
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"Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechani…"-Gord Hill, The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
"Although the Nazis portrayed themselves as a workers' party, they were predominantly middle-class citizens. The party was also strongest in rural protestant regions. Farmers, small businessmen, artis…"-Gord Hill, The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
28. Gender Is Really Strange
By: Teddy G. Goetz
4.22
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to be trans? Non-Binary? Gender Expansive? What parts of gender come from societ… read more
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29. Blackward
By: Lawrence Lindell
4.03
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Black, weird, awkward and proud of it. Welcome to the club! Tired of feeling like you don’t belong… read more
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30. Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada
By: Graphic History Collective
3.88
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poe… read more
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- comics
- nonfiction
31. 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike
By: David Lester
3.74
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
After suffering the hardships and horrors of the First World War, workers and soldiers faced the ag… read more
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