{"title":"Canadian LGBTQIA2S+ Voices \u0026 Stories","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"daughters-of-the-deer-danielle-daniel","title":"Daughters of the Deer - Danielle Daniel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ancestors in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family link to a girl murdered near Trois-Rivières in the early days of French settlement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarie, an Algonquin woman of the Weskarini Deer Clan, lost her first husband and her children to an Iroquois raid. In the aftermath of another lethal attack, her chief begs her to remarry for the sake of the clan. Marie is a healer who honours the ways of her people, and Pierre, the green-eyed ex-soldier from France who wants her for his bride, is not the man she would choose. But her people are dwindling, wracked by white men's diseases and nearly starving every winter as the game retreats away from the white settlements. If her chief believes such a marriage will cement their alliance with the French against the Iroquois and the British, she feels she has no choice. Though she does it reluctantly, and with some fear--Marie is trading the memory of the man she loved for a man she doesn't understand at all, and whose devout Catholicism blinds him to the ways of her people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis beautiful, powerful novel brings to life women who have literally fallen through the cracks of settler histories. Especially Jeanne, the first child born of the new marriage, neither white nor Weskarini, but caught between worlds. As she reaches adolescence, it becomes clear she is two-spirited. In her mother's culture, she would have been considered blessed, her nature a sign of special wisdom. But to the settlers of New France, and even to her own father, Jeanne is unnatural, sinful--a woman to be shunned, and worse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd so, with the poignant story of Jeanne, Danielle Daniel imagines her way into the heart and mind of a woman at the origin of the long history of violence against Indigenous women and the deliberate, equally violent, disruption of First Nations culture--opening a door long jammed shut, so all of us can enter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDANIELLE DANIEL\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, an award-winning children's book author and an illustrator. Like many Francophones with origins in Quebec, she shares an ancestral link to the people who inspired \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaughters of the Deer\u003c\/span\u003e, a first novel that springs from the story of what happened to the daughter of an Algonquin woman and a soldier\/settler from France. Her picture books include \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSometimes I Feel Like a Fox\u003c\/span\u003e (winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and a Best 100 title at the New York Public Library) and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eYou Hold Me Up,\u003c\/span\u003e shortlisted for the 2018 Marilyn Baillie Award, among other honours. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and lives with her family on Manitoulin Island in Ontario.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":45037309198653,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/61eJMHB-N5L._SL1500.jpg?v=1737318695"},{"product_id":"bad-cree-jessica-johns","title":"Bad Cree - Jessica Johns","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e*The Book Archive Book Club May 2024 Pick*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA haunting debut novel where dreams, family and spirits collide\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. But she can still smell the sharp pine scent in the air, the nearest pine tree a thousand kilometres away in the far reaches of Treaty 8.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMackenzie continues to accidentally bring back items from her dreams, dreams that are eerily similar to real memories of her older sister and Kokum before their untimely deaths. As Mackenzie's life spirals into a living nightmare-crows are following her around and she's getting texts from her dead sister on the other side-it becomes clear that these dreams have terrifying, real-life consequences. Desperate for help, Mackenzie returns to her mother, sister, cousin, and aunties in her small Alberta hometown. Together, they try to uncover what is haunting Mackenzie before something irrevocable happens to anyone else around her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, fierce, an ode to female relations and the strength found in kinship,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBad Cree\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a gripping, arresting debut by an unforgettable voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Johns\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her debut novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBad Cree,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award and won the MacEwan Book of the Year award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHer fiction, poetry, and nonfiction has been published in \u003cem\u003eCosmonauts Avenue, Glass Buffalo, CV2, SAD Magazine, Red Rising Magazine, Poetry is Dead, Bad Nudes, Grain, The Fiddlehead, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Brick, Reissue, Maisonneuve, The Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBest Canadian Essays 2019\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. She has spoken at various literary and arts festivals such as The Bay Area Book Festival, WORD Vancouver, Vancouver Writers Fest, FOLD Festival, Victoria Festival of Authors, London’s Literary and Creative Arts Festival, and Blue Metropolis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eHer visual art has been featured at the 2022 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/buddiesinbadtimes.com\/show\/the-rhubarb-festival-2021\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRhubarb Festival\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/grunt.ca\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003egrunt gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, and at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latitude53.org\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eLatitude 53\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eShe serves on the editorial board for \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gutsmagazine.ca\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eGUTS – An Anti-Colonial Feminist Magazine\u003c\/a\u003e, the advisory board for the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/roommagazine.com\/the-indigenous-brilliance-reading-series\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eIndigenous Brilliance reading series\u003c\/a\u003e, and also brews kombucha as the founder of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kokomkombucha\/?hl=en\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003ekokôm kombucha\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":45055949308221,"sku":"","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/811Er9b6sDL._SL1500.jpg?v=1743972363"},{"product_id":"brighter-than-the-sun-daniel-aleman","title":"Brighter than the Sun - Daniel Aleman","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this thoughtful and timely second novel, Daniel Aleman addresses immigration and physical and emotional borders through the story of a girl who crosses into the US for school and work, but finds it difficult to return to the ones she loves in Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis timely and thought-provoking story about a teen girl shouldering impossibly large responsibilities and ultimately learning that she doesn’t have to do it alone is the perfect follow-up to Daniel Aleman's award-winning debut novel,\u003ci\u003e Indivisible\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery morning, sixteen-year-old Sol wakes up at the break of dawn in her hometown of Tijuana, Mexico and makes the trip across the border to go to school in the United States. Though the commute is exhausting, this is the best way to achieve her dream: becoming the first person in her family to go to college.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen her family’s restaurant starts struggling, Sol must find a part-time job in San Diego to help her dad put food on the table and pay the bills. But her complicated school and work schedules on the US side of the border mean moving in with her best friend and leaving her family behind. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith her life divided by an international border, Sol must come to terms with the loneliness she hides, the pressure she feels to succeed for her family, and the fact that the future she once dreamt of is starting to seem unattainable. Mostly, she’ll have to grapple with a secret she’s kept even from herself: that maybe she’s relieved to have escaped her difficult home life, and a part of her may never want to return.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardcover","offer_id":45103504228669,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9780316704472_49768.jpg?v=1682888374"},{"product_id":"pageboy-elliot-page","title":"Pageboy - Elliot Page","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Can I kiss you?\" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he'd carried for so long. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith Juno's massive success, Elliot became one of the world's most beloved actors. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels, and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do, until enough was enough. Full of behind the scenes details and intimate interrogations on sex, love, trauma, and Hollywood,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePageboy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the story of a life pushed to the brink. But at its core, this beautifully written, winding journey of what it means to untangle ourselves from the expectations of others is an ode to stepping into who we truly are with defiance, strength, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElliot Page\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Canadian actor, producer, director and author. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award nomination, two BAFTA Awards and Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and a Satellite Award. He appeared on the cover of Time in March 2021, becoming the first openly trans man to do so. His debut book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePageboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was published in June 2023.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardcover","offer_id":45352296513853,"sku":"","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71lQ4qzpP_L._SL1500.jpg?v=1720390661"},{"product_id":"len-cub-a-queer-history-meredith-j-batt-and-dusty-green","title":"Len \u0026 Cub: A Queer History - Meredith J. Batt and Dusty Green","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeonard \"Len\" Keith and Joseph \"Cub\" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly developed an inseparable relationship. Len was an amateur photographer and automobile enthusiast who went on to own a local garage and poolhall after serving in the First World War. Cub was the son of a farmer, also a veteran of the First World War, a butcher, contractor, and lover of horses. Their time together is catalogued by Len’s photos, which show that the two shared a mutual love of the outdoors, animals, and adventure. Photographs of Len and Cub on hunting and canoe trips with arms around each other’s shoulders or in bed together make clear the affection they held for each other. Their story is one of the oldest photographic records of a same-sex couple in the Maritimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLen \u0026amp; Cub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeatures Len’s photos of their life and tells the story of their relationship against the background of same-sex identity and relationships in rural North America of the early 20th century. Although Len was outed and forced to leave Havelock in the 1930s, the story of Len and Cub is one of love and friendship that challenges contemporary ideas about sex and gender expression in the early 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeredith J. Batt (they\/them) \u003c\/strong\u003egrew up in Sackville\/Moncton and earned a BA in history at the Université de Moncton. They currently work as an archivist at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Their writing has appeared in Xtra Magazine, the Canadian Historical Review, and Active History.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":45635394437437,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/91o_-d3XiiL._SL1500.jpg?v=1689025112"},{"product_id":"the-fake-zoe-whittall","title":"The Fake - Zoe Whittall","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA con artist walks into a grief support group. Chaos ensues.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the death of her wife, Shelby is suffering from prolonged grief. She's increasingly isolated, irritated by her family's stoicism and her friends' reliance on the toxic positivity of self-help culture. Then, in a grief support group, she meets Cammie, who gives Shelby permission to express her most hopeless, hideous feelings. Cammie is charismatic and unlike anyone Shelby has ever met. She's also recovering from cancer and going through several other calamities. Shelby puts all her energy into helping Cammie thrive-until her intuition tells her that something isn't right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGibson is fresh from divorce, almost forty, and deeply depressed. Then he falls in love with Cammie. Not only is he having the best sex of his life with a woman so attractive he's stunned she even glanced his way, he feels truly known for the first time in his life. But Gibson's friends are wary of Cammie, and eventually he, too, has to admit that all the drama in Cammie's life can feel a bit over the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Gibson and Shelby meet, they realize Cammie's stories don't always add up. In fact, they're far from the truth. But what kind of a person would lie about having cancer? And what does it say about Shelby and Gibson that they fell for it? From the author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Best Kind of People\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Spectacular\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes a sharp, emotional novel about lies, liars and the people who love them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZOE WHITTALL\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's fourth novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Spectacular\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was published in 2021. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e called it \"a competent and highly readable testament to the strength of the maternal bond\" and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e called it \"a singularly impressive piece of fiction.\" Her third novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Best Kind of People\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, published in 2017, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, named Indigo's #1 Book of 2016 and a best book of the year by the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Her second novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHolding Still for as Long as Possible\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, won a Lambda Literary Award for trans fiction and was a Stonewall Honor Book. Her debut novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBottle Rocket Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Award for Best Emerging LGBTQA+ novel. She has worked as a TV writer on the Emmy Awarded “winning comedy show \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchitt's Creek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDegrassi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and she won a Canadian Screen Award for comedy writing on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaroness Von Sketch Show\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Zoe Whittall has published three volumes of poetry, most recently an anniversary edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Emily Valentine Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Born on a sheep farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, she lived in Toronto for many years before moving to Picton, Ontario.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":47131273560381,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9781443455282_cfl.jpg?v=1697063093"},{"product_id":"learned-by-heart-emma-donoghue","title":"Learned By Heart - Emma Donoghue","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal,\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLearned by Heart\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmotionally intense, psychologically compelling and deeply researched,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLearned by Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world's greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Dublin in 1969,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEMMA DONOGHUE\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e sold more than two million copies and won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and the Caribbean), as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue co-wrote the 2022 screen adaptation for Netflix.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Pull of the Stars\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Donoghue's fiction ranges from the contemporary (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eStir-Fry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLanding\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTouchy Subjects\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAkin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) to the historical (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlammerkin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sealed Letter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAstray\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrog Music\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and includes two books for young readers, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lotterys Plus One\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lotterys More or Less\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardcover","offer_id":47131621491005,"sku":"","price":32.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/91RCn3Xpf8L._SL1500.jpg?v=1750964021"},{"product_id":"we-have-always-been-here-a-queer-muslim-memoir-samra-habib","title":"We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSamra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, they faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. From their parents, they internalized the lesson that revealing their identity could put them in grave danger.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen their family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of challenges: bullies, racism, the threat of poverty, and an arranged marriage. Backed into a corner, their need for a safe space--in which to grow and nurture their creative, feminist spirit--became dire. The men in Samra's life wanted to police them, the women in their life had only shown them the example of pious obedience, and their body was a problem to be solved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo begins an exploration of faith, art, love, and queer sexuality, a journey that takes them to the far reaches of the globe to uncover a truth that was within them all along. A triumphant memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Have Always Been Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt out of place and a testament to the power of fearlessly inhabiting one's truest self.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSAMRA HABIB\u003c\/strong\u003e (they\/them) is a writer, photographer, and activist. As a journalist they've covered topics ranging from fashion trends and Muslim dating apps to the rise of Islamophobia in the US. Their writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Guardian,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Advocate,\u003c\/i\u003e and their photo project, \"Just Me and Allah,\" has been featured in \u003ci\u003eNylon, i-D, Vanity Fair Italia, Vice,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post.\u003c\/i\u003e Samra works with LGBTQ organizations internationally, raising awareness of issues that impact queer Muslims around the world. \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Been Here\u003c\/i\u003e is their first book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samra Habib","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":47131829600573,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9780735235007_cfl_cfe53907-fe93-46c7-ba4a-5fa8ce3f28c2.jpg?v=1697066335"},{"product_id":"a-second-story-a-queer-cozy-fantasy-set-by-the-sea-j-a-collignon","title":"A Second Story: A Queer Cozy Fantasy Set by the Sea - J.A. Collignon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA queer, seaside, cozy fantasy, equipped with a bookstore cat.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter falling for one another as adventurers, Arileas Damaris and Finnean Goldmark begin a life together travelling around the realm. Almost a year later, they decide to take a vacation in a town called Arrowmount, where the sea and sun calls to them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnce there, they fall in love with the place and its people. Ari and Finn take a leap together and buy the local bookstore and start a life amidst the sun-soaked cobblestones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom water damage and renovations to Finn's old life haunting them, life in Arrowmount is not quite as calm as they thought. However, with some help from the locals, Ari and Finn might just find their place beside the sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCanadian Indie Author \u0026amp; Creator \u003cstrong\u003eJ. A. Collignon\u003c\/strong\u003e (AKA: Jenna, but you can call her Jenn) is a Canadian author based out of the prairies, who loves everything fantasy. You name it: fantasy books, movies, TV shows, TTRPG podcasts, and she even runs her own piratey Dungeons and Dragons campaign for her friends. Most often, she can be found on her couch with a thick fantasy book in hand.After reading Legends \u0026amp; Lattes by Travis Baldree, Jenn was introduced to the wonderful world of cozy fantasy, and has never looked back. With her first cozy fantasy book, A Second Story, being released in Spring 2023 in the upcoming Arrowmount Books series, you can rest assured that Jenn will be coming out with many more stories to cozy up with a mug of something warm soon!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":47217947771197,"sku":"","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71d2_WuctKL._SL1360.jpg?v=1697831116"},{"product_id":"dayspring-anthony-oliveira","title":"Dayspring - Anthony Oliveira","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre-at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere are few love stories in the holy books. Love is what ruins. Love is what costs. Love is a flaming sword at our backs, a garden left to ruin and to wild.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDayspring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Anthony Oliveira brings to vibrant, glorious life the gospel according to the disciple Christ loved-his companion in the days before the crucifixion, the only instrument that remembers with fidelity his sound.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSacred, profane, and rich with explicit desire and a poetic attention to form, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDayspring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e weaves electric and heart-wrenching stories of passion, grief, destruction, and survival into a narrative unmoored in space and time, one that re-examines and re-frames great and doomed figures from scripture and history, even as it casts its keen eye on the trials of modern life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeamlessly blending fiction, memoir, and verse in the exhilarating tradition of Anne Carson and Madeline Miller, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDayspring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is an immersive, mesmerizing work, one that wrenches beauty from cataclysm and finds bliss in apocalypse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Oliveira\u003c\/strong\u003e is a National Magazine and GLAAD Award-winning author, film programmer, pop culture critic, podcaster, and PhD living in Toronto.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":47384197136701,"sku":"","price":34.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9780771003820_cfl.jpg?v=1700093795"},{"product_id":"heavenly-tyrant-xiran-jay-zhao","title":"Heavenly Tyrant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestseller\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIron Widow\u003c\/i\u003e, a blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself at the seat of power in Huaxia. But she has also learned that her world is not as it seems, and revelations about an enemy more daunting than Zetian imagined forces her to share power with a dangerous man she cannot simply depose. Despite having vastly different ideas about how they must deconstruct the corrupt and misogynist system that plagues their country, Zetian must join this man in a dance of truth and lies and perform their roles to perfection in order to take down their common enemy, who seeks to control them as puppets while dangling one of Zetian's loved ones as a hostage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith political unrest and perilous forces aiming to undermine Zetian at every turn, can she enact positive changes as a fair and just ruler? Or will she be forced to rely on fear and violence and succumb to her darker instincts in her quest for vengeance? Find out in this highly-anticipated sequel to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIron Widow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, a #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e bestseller!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIRAN JAY ZHAO\u003c\/b\u003e is a first-generation immigrant from small-town China who was raised by the Internet. A recent graduate of Vancouver's Simon Fraser University, they wrote science fiction and fantasy while they probably should have been studying more about biochemical pathways. You can find them on Twitter for memes, Instagram for cosplays and fancy outfits, and YouTube for long videos about Chinese history and culture. This is their second novel, after the runaway success \u003ci\u003eIron Widow\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xiran Jay Zhao","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardcover","offer_id":47384201232701,"sku":"","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81NEa4ifx-L._SL1500.jpg?v=1736112259"},{"product_id":"daddy-lessons-steacy-easton","title":"Daddy Lessons - Steacy Easton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSteacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made them who they are: the Mormon church, an Anglican boys' boarding school where they were sent to be 'reformed' and where they were abused by a teacher, and then, later on, rodeos and bathhouses and mall bathrooms. The world Easton describes is one in which desire is complicated, where men - 'daddies' - can be loving and they can be abusive, and there isn't always a clear distinction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEaston explores the essential texts of their sexuality, from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to Neil LaBute, Kip Moore to Lorelei James, and delves into their own encounters as they came of age. These daddy lessons are blunt about the pleasures of disobedience, slippery and difficult, revelling in the funk of memory and desire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"In dangerous times, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaddy Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e dares to complicate the question of what children desire, including things that they probably shouldn't, and that adults must not exploit or manipulate. Except they do. Steacy Easton's meditations follow how such desires and disasters secrete an aesthetic and a self, and how something vivacious can spring from that muck, something like this book itself, smutty and shining and garlanded in jonquils.\" - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarl Wilson, author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLet's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaddy Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a cocky and tender reclamation of childhood and teenage wanting.\" - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVivek Shraya, author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeople Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Steacy writes about the queer pleasure-seeking body in ways both fresh and eminently familiar.\" - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJordan Tannahill, author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Listeners\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteacy Easton\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and visual artist, originally from Edmonton, who has lived in Hamilton for more than seven years. They have written on gender, sexuality, and country music for publications including Slate, NPR, and the Atlantic Online . Recent and upcoming books include Why Tammy Wynette Matters for University of Texas and a 33 1\/3 Volume for Bloomsbury. They were the 2022 Martha Street Artist Residence in Winnipeg.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":47399951368509,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9781552454732_cfl.jpg?v=1700353001"},{"product_id":"this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war-amal-el-mohtar-and-max-gladstone","title":"This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked \"Burn before reading.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRed belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common---save that they're the best, and they're alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning's that you do in war. Isn't it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmal El-Mohtar\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning author, editor, and critic. Her short story \"Seasons of Glass and Iron\" won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards and was a finalist for the World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Aurora, and Eugie Foster awards. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Honey Month\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey, and contributes criticism to NPR Books and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction has most recently appeared on \u003ci\u003eTor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUncanny Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and in anthologies such as \u003ci\u003eThe Djinn Falls in Love \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is presently pursuing a PhD at Carleton University and teaches creative writing at the University of Ottawa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMax Gladstone\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the Hugo-nominated \u003ci\u003eCraft Sequence\u003c\/i\u003e, which Patrick Rothfuss called \"stupefyingly good.\" The sixth book, \u003ci\u003eRuin of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, was released September 2017. Max's interactive mobile game Choice of the Deathless was nominated for the XYZZY Award, and his critically acclaimed short fiction has appeared on \u003ci\u003eTor\u003c\/i\u003e and in \u003ci\u003eUncanny Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and in anthologies such as \u003ci\u003eXO Orpheus: Fifty New Myths\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales\u003c\/i\u003e. John Crowley described Max as \"a true star of 21st-century fantasy.\" Max has sung in Carnegie Hall and was once thrown from a horse in Mongolia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":47968957497661,"sku":"","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9781534430990_cfl.jpg?v=1709422341"},{"product_id":"unleashed-alli-temple","title":"Unleashed","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf the crown fits, she will wear it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorgina never wanted to be a princess. Now she's free to chart her own course and love the woman who holds her heart. But Redmere's pull is strong, and the world has turned its back on the people's suffering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYet while George is ready to storm the castle, Lou won't risk everything on a doomed revolution. She'd rather search for the true heir of Redmere, a lost princess who hasn't been seen in years. If only she can convince George to be patient a little longer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe winds of change are coming, and friends and family are calling for help. To save Redmere and themselves, George and Lou must sail a united path together, or else the seas of fate will part them forever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlli\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Toronto with her very patient husband and the world’s cutest team of rescue pets. She tries to split her time between writing, exploring Toronto’s parks, and traveling anywhere that has good wine. Tragically, this leaves no time to clean the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlli writes contemporary queer romance as Allison Temple.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alli Temple","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":48253697720637,"sku":"","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71r35IfeHbL._SL1360.jpg?v=1712249651"},{"product_id":"your-driver-is-waiting-a-novel-priya-guns","title":"Your Driver is Waiting: A Novel - Priya Guns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDamani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and driving for an app that is constantly cutting her take. The city is roiling in protests --everybody's in solidarity with somebody-- but while she keeps hearing that they're fighting for change on behalf of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003epeople like her,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshe literally can't afford to pay attention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen she gives a ride to Jolene (5 stars, obviously). Jolene seems like she could be the perfect girlfriend - attentive, attractive, an ally - and their chemistry is off the charts. Jolene's done the reading, she goes to every protest, and she says all the right things. So maybe Damani can look past the one thing that's holding her back: She's never dated anyone with money before, not to mention a white girl with money. But just as their romance intensifies and Damani finally lets her guard down, Jolene does something unforgivable, setting off an explosive chain of events.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA wild, one-sitting read brimming with dark comedy, and piercing social commentary and announcing Priya Guns' feverishly original voice, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Driver Is Waiting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a crackling send-up of our culture of modern alienation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRIYA GUNS\u003c\/strong\u003e is an actor and writer previously published in short story anthologies, \u003ci\u003egal-dem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpring \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, and anonymously in the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a Creative Writing graduate from Kingston University.\u003ci\u003e Your Driver Is Waiting\u003c\/i\u003e is her debut novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":48648388018493,"sku":"","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/91QZ1z01sZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1714945660"},{"product_id":"a-little-luck-j-a-collignon","title":"A Little Luck - J.A. Collignon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter the biggest job of her life goes sideways, artifact thief Lottie Luck is out of, well, luck. With no job on the horizon and only the clothes on her back, she makes a snap decision to head to Arrowmount, where her estranged sister lives, to regroup and figure out where she’s going next.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKirandir Dulra, a favored Arrowmount town bard, is happy enough with the way her life is. By day, she’s a dishwasher for the local bar, and by night she performs for the regular townsfolk who frequent the Old’n Narrow. The routine works, but she dreams of more: a life in arcane lights with crowds calling her name.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHowever, everything is turned upside down when these two strangers get thrown together to organize the entertainment for an upcoming festival as emergency replacements one month out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the two try and find a rhythm, Lottie unearths truths about herself and Kir’s dream starts to become more realistic. In a story full of chilly autumnal nights and the golden glow of lantern light, these two women might just find more in each other than they bargained for.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. A. Collignon\u003c\/strong\u003e (AKA: Jenna, but you can call her Jenn) is a Canadian author based out of the prairies, who loves everything fantasy. You name it: fantasy books, movies, TV shows, TTRPG podcasts, and she even ran a piratey Dungeons and Dragons campaign for her friends. Most often, she can be found on her couch with a thick fantasy book in hand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":48669220864317,"sku":"","price":28.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71ZgWxZE6DL._SL1500.jpg?v=1715220681"},{"product_id":"jonny-appleseed-joshua-whitehead","title":"Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine\" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit\/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOff the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the \"rez,\" and his former life, to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The next seven days are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonny Appleseed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Whitehead \u003c\/strong\u003eis an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller and academic from Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Indigenous literatures and cultures at the University of Calgary on Treaty 7 territory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49001780740413,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9781551527253_cfl_3d9f31f3-7ffd-4872-9c0e-79c84e5d6c52.jpg?v=1719177440"},{"product_id":"the-monster-and-the-mirror-mental-illness-magic-and-the-stories-we-tell-k-j-aiello","title":"The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell - K.J. Aiello","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRevelatory memoir and cultural criticism that connects popular fantasy and our perceptions of mental illness to offer an empathetic path to compassionate care.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrowing up, K.J. Aiello was fascinated by magical stories of dragons, wizards, and fantasy, where monsters were not what they seemed and anything was possible. These books and films were both a balm and an escape, a safe space where Aiello’s struggle with mental illness transformed from a burden into a strength that could win battles and vanquish villains.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA unique blend of memoir, research, and cultural criticism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Monster and the Mirror\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e charts Aiello’s life as they try to understand their own mental illness using \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and other stories as both guides to heroism and agency and cautionary tales of how mental illness is easily stereotyped as bad and violent. Aiello questions who is allowed to be “mad” versus “sane,” “good” versus “evil,” and “weak” versus “strong,” and who is allowed to tell their own stories. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Monster and the Mirror\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores our perceptions of mental illness in a way that is challenging and tender, empathetic and knowledgeable, and offers a path to deeper understanding and compassionate care.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eK.J. Aiello\u003c\/strong\u003e is a mentally ill, award-winning writer based in Toronto, ON. Their work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, Chatelaine, The Walrus, and This Magazine. They are still waiting for their very own dragon. Sadly, this has not happened, so their cats will have to suffice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49024872907069,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81q8Y5ScUfL._SL1500.jpg?v=1719444764"},{"product_id":"iron-widow-xiran-jay-zhao","title":"Iron Widow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.​\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia​. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eXIRAN JAY ZHAO\u003c\/strong\u003e is a first-generation immigrant from small-town China who was raised by the Internet. A recent graduate of Vancouver's Simon Fraser University, they wrote science fiction and fantasy while they probably should have been studying more about biochemical pathways. You can find them on Twitter for memes, Instagram for cosplays and fancy outfits, and YouTube for long videos about Chinese history and culture. \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e is their second novel, after the runaway success\u003ci\u003e Iron Widow.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xiran Jay Zhao","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49054206034237,"sku":"","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9780735269958_cfl.jpg?v=1682618820"},{"product_id":"bloodline-jenn-alexander","title":"Bloodline - Jenn Alexander","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJenn Alexander introduces readers to a different kind of romance—think Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a coffee shop with lesbians, vampires, and a wide selection of coffinated beverages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStill reeling from the unexpected loss of her parents, Edie McLean doesn’t have time to grieve. She’s the 4th-generation owner of the McLean Family Coffee Shop, her family’s legacy. Unfortunately, this legacy is littered with decades worth of bad business, regrettable purchases, and massive debt. The McLean family motto was always that “good coffee is in our blood,” but the shop has become an eyesore and its small, loyal customer base isn’t enough to keep it afloat—and if Edie doesn’t find a way to turn business around quickly, the family’s legacy will end with her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Edie tries to pull all the pieces of her life together, she finds herself drawn to an alluring night-shift nurse who stops by for coffee every evening after sunset, while contending with a quirky new roommate who sleeps in an honest-to-God coffin. When all three worlds collide spectacularly, Edie’s eyes are opened to a new and untapped market that just may be the key to saving her family’s coffee shop. However, when her Draculattes and Cold Blood Cold Brews begin to raise more alarm than sales, suddenly the stakes involved appear to be of the wooden variety.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJenn Alexander \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born and raised in Edmonton, Canada. She graduated in 2017 with an M.S. in Counseling from the University of North Texas, and has since returned to Canada, where she is trying to reacclimatize to the frozen north.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49452875022653,"sku":"","price":27.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/61ldhl6ztkL._SL1500.jpg?v=1728055356"},{"product_id":"riders-blood-moonlit-black-myka-silber","title":"Rider's Blood, Moonlit Black - Myka Silber","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHenry’s a gunslinger, good with horses. He’s also got a secret, and he’s pretty damn sure it’s going to get him killed. He was doing well at keeping it, up until a new job – he and the Cap’n’s crew are hired to escort a magi to the capital. Nothing’s right about the job – the magi asks too many questions, she’s got a royal name, she’s travelling alone. Worst of all, she wants to detour into the Red Canyon, a place men don’t come back from.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe dark side of ambition reveals every secret of Henry and his companions as they are forced to go into the hidden depths of the canyon and face off against horrors in the darkness. Not everyone will make it out alive, but they’ve promised each other to leave no one behind. The strongest bonds are forged in blood after all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMyka Silber\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up surrounded by the forests, mountains, and ocean of the Pacific Northwest. They now live in Ontario, Canada, with a mercurial cat. Myka holds both a BA and an MA in International Relations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49515735777597,"sku":"","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71S8TTMWsbL._SL1360.jpg?v=1729721472"},{"product_id":"hes-to-die-for-a-novel-erin-dunn","title":"He's to Die For: A Novel - Erin Dunn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn 99\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emeets\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Charm Offensive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein this sparkling romantic murder it's murder cute in the first degree when a detective finds himself falling for the lead suspect in a career-making case.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 29, Detective Rav Trivedi is the youngest member of the NYPD’s homicide squad, and his future looks bright. He may be a bit of an outsider in the department – an ivy-league educated gay Brit with a weakness for designer suits – but his meteoric rise and solve rate prove he belongs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo when his CO assigns him lead on the high-profile murder of a record executive, Rav is ready for action. He won’t be distracted by TV crews, tabloids, or what’s trending on social media, nor by the ridiculously hot rock star with a clear motive and no alibi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is it, his shot, and he is not going to screw it up—certainly not by falling in love with his number one suspect…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eERIN DUNN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eloves twisty mysteries and swoony rom-coms, so she decided to combine the two. When she's not writing, you can find her playing music, cooking, or sampling other people's cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49699722461501,"sku":"","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81M7BihE7WL._SL1500.jpg?v=1734554824"},{"product_id":"we-could-be-rats-a-novel-emily-austin","title":"We Could Be Rats: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea of growing up into the trappings of adulthood, she did not graduate high school, preferring to roam the streets of her small town with her best friend Greta, the only person in the world who ever understood her. Her older sister Margit is baffled and frustrated by Sigrid’s inability to conform to the expectations of polite society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Sigrid’s detachment veils a deeper turmoil and sensitivity. She’s haunted by the pains of her past—from pretending her parents were swamp monsters when they shook the floorboards with their violent arguments to grappling with losing Greta’s friendship to the opioid epidemic ravaging their town. As Margit sets out to understand Sigrid and the secrets she has hidden, both sisters, in their own time and way, discover that reigniting their shared childhood imagination is the only way forward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat unfolds is an unforgettable story of two sisters finding their way back to each other, and a celebration of that transcendent, unshakable bond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Austin\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD, INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPACE, GAY GIRL PRAYERS, and WE COULD BE RATS. She currently resides in Ottawa\/the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Austin","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49699976085821,"sku":"","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/61MRoNbVhuL._SL1500.jpg?v=1734561933"},{"product_id":"what-i-know-about-you-eric-chacour","title":"What I Know About You - Éric Chacour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-20th-century Cairo.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family's strong women, he starts to do just that - until a patient's son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men's unsayable relationship sparks a series of events as dramatic as the Six-Day War and assassination of President Anwar Sadat playing out in the background.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe turn of the millennium finds Tarek living as a doctor in Montreal. Someone is writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will Tarek figure it out in time?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Cairo's grand boulevards and hidden alleys to Montreal's grim winter, from the reign of Nasser to the early 2000s, What I Know About You tells the heartbreaking story of a family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Montreal to Egyptian parents, \u003cstrong\u003eÉric Chacour\u003c\/strong\u003e has shared his life between France and Quebec. A graduate in applied economics and international relations, he now works in the financial sector in Montreal. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat I Know About You\u003c\/span\u003e is his first novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49744559210813,"sku":"","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/91a8ULYOaiL._SL1500.jpg?v=1736111432"},{"product_id":"role-model-rachel-reid","title":"Role Model - Rachel Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTroy Barrett has been freshly traded to Ottawa after calling out Dallas Kent during a team practice. He wants to be a better person, and the weird, scrappy energy of the struggling Ottawa team seems like the place to...well. It seems like the only place that will have Troy right now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFortunately the Ottawa team includes Ilya Rozanov and Wyatt Hayes, and also includes an adorable social media manager, Harris Drover. Harris is the opposite of Troy in every friendly, cheerful, chatty, and goofy with a booming voice, a startlingly loud laugh, and Pride pins all over his denim jacket. Definitely not the sort of person Troy would normally associate with, and yet…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Reid \u003c\/strong\u003eis the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen! Rachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press. Rachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49744609050941,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71NTZmRtLWL._SL1500.jpg?v=1736113958"},{"product_id":"common-goal-rachel-reid","title":"Common Goal - Rachel Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Admirals goalie Eric never thought his friends-with-benefits arrangement with much-younger Kyle would leave them both wanting more…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVeteran goaltender Eric Bennett has faced down some of the toughest shooters on the ice, but nothing prepared him for his latest challenge—life after hockey. It’s time to make some big changes, starting with finally dating men for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGraduate student Kyle Swift moved to New York nursing a broken heart. He’d sworn to find someone his own age to crush on (for once). Until he meets a gorgeous, distinguished silver fox hockey player. Despite their intense physical attraction, Kyle has no intention of getting emotionally involved. He’ll teach Eric a few tricks, have some mutually consensual fun, then walk away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEric is more than happy to learn anything Kyle brings to the table. And Kyle never expected their friends-with-benefits arrangement to leave him wanting more. Happily-ever-after might be staring them in the face, but it won’t happen if they’re too stubborn to come clean about their feelings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEverything they both want is within reach… They just have to be brave enough to grab it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Reid\u003c\/strong\u003e is the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49757624402237,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71LbmhCpWiL._SL1500.jpg?v=1736465716"},{"product_id":"game-changer-rachel-reid","title":"Game Changer - Rachel Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously. In this case, it’s not just a lucky smoothie he’s craving—it’s the man who made it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePro hockey star Scott Hunter knows a good thing when he sees it. So, when a smoothie made by juice bar barista Kip Grady precedes Scott breaking his on-ice slump, he’s desperate to recreate the magic...and to get to know the sexy, funny guy behind the counter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKip knew there was more to Scott’s frequent visits than blended fruit, but he never let himself imagine being invited back to Scott’s penthouse. Or kissed with reckless abandon, never mind touched everywhere all at once. When it happens it’s red-hot, incredible and frequent, but also only on Scott’s terms and always behind his closed apartment doors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScott needs Kip in his life, but with playoff season approaching, the spotlight on him is suddenly brighter than ever. He can’t afford to do anything that might derail his career…like introducing the world to his boyfriend. Kip is ready to go all-in with Scott—but how much longer will he have to remain a secret?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Reid\u003c\/strong\u003e is the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49757624860989,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71YdlQFSjoL._SL1500.jpg?v=1736465932"},{"product_id":"heated-rivalry-rachel-reid","title":"Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNothing interferes with Shane Hollander’s game—definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePro hockey star Shane Hollander isn’t just crazy talented, he’s got a spotless reputation. Hockey is his life. Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that, especially the sexy Russian whose hard body keeps him awake at night.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane’s not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he’s as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him—except Shane. They’ve made a career on their legendary rivalry, but when the skates come off, the heat between them is undeniable. When Ilya realizes he wants more than a few secret hookups, he knows he must walk away. The risk is too great.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs their attraction intensifies, they struggle to keep their relationship out of the public eye. If the truth comes out, it could ruin them both. But when their need for each other rivals their ambition on the ice, secrecy is no longer an option.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Reid\u003c\/strong\u003e is the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49757627416893,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71iwUtZjamL._SL1500.jpg?v=1736466041"},{"product_id":"the-long-game-rachel-reid","title":"The Long Game - Rachel Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sequel is finally here! Shane and Ilya’s story, first seen in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeated Rivalry\u003c\/i\u003e, continues in this long-awaited hockey romance from Rachel Reid.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the world they are rivals, but to each other they are everything.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a secret. From friends, from family…from the league. If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ehas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to remain secret. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIlya is sick of secrets. Shane has gotten so good at hiding his feelings, sometimes Ilya questions if they even exist. The closeness, the intimacy, even the risk that would come with being open about their relationship…Ilya wants it all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s time for them to decide what’s most important—hockey or love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s time to make a call.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Reid\u003c\/strong\u003e is the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49757631643965,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71w-xwMJ2QL._SL1500.jpg?v=1736466109"},{"product_id":"tough-guy-rachel-reid","title":"Tough Guy - Rachel Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey have nothing in common—so why does Ryan feel most like himself whenever he’s with Fabian?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePro hockey star Ryan Price may be an enforcer, but off the ice he struggles with anxiety. Recently traded to the Toronto Guardians, he’s determined to make a fresh start in the city’s dynamic LGBTQ Village. The last thing he expects to stumble upon in his new neighborhood is a blast from his past in the fabulous form of Fabian Salah.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAspiring musician Fabian loathes hockey. But that doesn’t stop him from being attracted to a certain burly, ginger-bearded defenseman. He hasn’t forgotten the kiss they \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ealmost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shared back in high school, and it’s clear the chemistry between them has only intensified.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFabian is more than happy to be Ryan’s guide to the gay scene in Toronto. Between dance clubs and art exhibits—and the most amazing sex—Ryan’s starting to feel something he hasn’t experienced in a long time: joy. But playing the role of the heavy on the ice has taken its toll on his body and mind, and a future with Fabian may mean hanging up his skates for good.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Reid\u003c\/strong\u003e is the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49757632725309,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71qPl5wSzQL._SL1500.jpg?v=1736466178"},{"product_id":"the-moon-the-sun-forgot-b-j-wagner","title":"The Moon the Sun Forgot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the vast, lawless ocean beneath the thick surface ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa, independent undersea miners compete against megacorporations for natural resources, and pirates hunt for unwary prey.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKassia McCullough will stop at nothing to enact revenge on Pretorious Grant, the man she holds responsible for her father’s suicide. When Grant's half-brother escapes from prison, Kassia may just have her chance to capture her elusive and powerful enemy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEarth Detective Max Danzig has his own reasons for pursuing the nefarious siblings. The newly escaped convict, Somerled Rhone, murdered his partner, and Max is determined to bring him in alive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrought together by their mutual quest for vengeance, Kassia, Max, and an outlawed AI named Alex embark on a perilous journey, dodging bounty hunters, corporate mercenaries, and dangerous undersea creatures along the way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerfect for fans of expansive sci-fi adventures, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moon the Sun Forgot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an immersive tale of love and retribution, set in the mysterious and gorgeously imagined depths of Europa’s subsurface ocean.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBJ Wagner\u003c\/strong\u003e's love for the natural world came from growing up in the Canadian Rockies, and his imagination was shaped by parents who chose the bedtime stories of Tolkien to Seuss. Although he enjoyed the hobby of writing, it was discoveries by NASA's Galileo spacecraft that focused his creativity on Jupiter's moon Europa. Before moving to Calgary, Alberta, BJ wrote a novel to share with family and friends. Then, years after life and marriage took him to new and exciting destinations, he decided to revisit his work and explore ways to sharpen his skills.​\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B.J. Wagner","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":49958987071805,"sku":"","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71xkezSDxrL._SL1500.jpg?v=1740763422"},{"product_id":"a-treachery-of-swans-a-b-poranek","title":"A Treachery of Swans - A.B. Poranek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enthralling sapphic retelling of Swan Lake, for fans of Allison Saft and V.E Schwab.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagic has long been outlawed in Auréal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e. Odile has always known she’d be the one to restore it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRaised by a sorcerer, Odile has spent years preparing for the heist of a lifetime. It’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eperfectly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e simple. Impersonate a princess, infiltrate the palace, steal the king's enchanted crown and restore magic to the kingdom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut when the King is unexpectedly murdered, she’s forced to recruit the help of Marie d'Odette, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ereal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprincess, and the two begin to unravel a web of lies and deceit that leaves Odile uncertain of who to trust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoon though Odile must decide – her mission or the girl she’s falling for?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fate of the Kingdom depends on her making the right choice. . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA. B. Poranek\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in Canada but spent her summers in the Polish countryside, reading under apple trees and helping care for her grandfather's chickens. Her love of animals led her to pursue a degree in veterinary medicine, though she never stopped writing along the way. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eWhere the Dark Stands Still\u003c\/i\u003e, is an ode to Poland's wild woodlands, wilder folktales, and the girls who were raised by them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardcover","offer_id":49974723576125,"sku":"","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/8159Ar9vjYL._SL1500.jpg?v=1741201940"},{"product_id":"crooked-teeth-a-queer-syrian-refugee-memoir-danny-ramadan","title":"Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir - Danny Ramadan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” So begins this electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he’d rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStarting with his family’s humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the city’s underground network of queer safe homes; to a clandestine party at a secluded villa in Cairo; through Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East, a reckless hoax that threatens the safety of Syria’s LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver that’s not as smooth as it promised to be; and ultimately to a life of hard-won comfort and love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat emerges is a powerful refutation of the oversimplified refugee narrative—a book that holds space for joy alongside sorrow, for nuance and complicated ambivalences. Written with fearless intimacy, Crooked Teeth is a singular achievement in which a master storyteller learns that his greatest story is his own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanny Ramadan (He\/Him) \u003c\/strong\u003eis a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker and adovate for LGBTQ+ refugees. His debut novel, The Clothesline Swing, was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, longlisted for Canada Reads, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50047952683325,"sku":"","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71t7YlB0EzL._SL1500.jpg?v=1742932676"},{"product_id":"the-shots-you-take-rachel-reid","title":"The Shots You Take - Rachel Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweet and sexy hockey romance about two ex-teammates and former best friends with benefits who are about to discover whether you can ever really have a second chance, from the USA TODAY bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeated Rivalry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Long Game.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter moving back to his hometown ten years ago, Riley Tuck thought he had left his major league hockey career—and his broken heart—far behind. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes, it brings ex-teammate and former best friend with benefits Adam Sheppard back into his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComing to the small town of Avery River, Nova Scotia, might have been a mistake. Adam’s not sure he’ll ever win back Riley’s trust after the way they left things—and the attention he’s getting as a huge hockey star isn’t exactly helping. Yet the chemistry that crackles between them is undeniable, even now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Adam helps Riley navigate his grief, long-buried feelings start to resurface. But they’ll have to square off with their complicated past if they’re going to have a real shot at a new beginning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Reid \u003c\/strong\u003eis the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen! Rachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press. Rachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50048423756093,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81RG99jkL4L._SL1500.jpg?v=1742942852"},{"product_id":"a-two-spirit-journey-the-autobiography-of-a-lesbian-ojibwa-cree-elder-ma-nee-chacaby","title":"A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder - Ma-Nee Chacaby","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Two-Spirit Journey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and by her teen years she was alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counselor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in her adopted city, Thunder Bay, Ontario.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMa-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humor, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a child, \u003cstrong\u003eChacaby\u003c\/strong\u003e learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and by her teen years she was alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counselor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in her adopted city, Thunder Bay, Ontario.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50191267660093,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81IYBTLqotL._SL1500.jpg?v=1743975805"},{"product_id":"what-wakes-the-bells-elle-tesch","title":"What Wakes the Bells - Elle Tesch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by an ominous Prague legend,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Wakes the Bells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a lavish gothic fantasy by debut author Elle Tesch.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBuilt by long-gone Saints, the city of Vaiwyn lives and breathes and bleeds. As a Keeper, Mina knows better than most what her care of Vaiwyn’s bells means for the sentient city. It’s the Strauss family’s thousand-year legacy―prevent the Vespers from ringing, or they will awake a slumbering evil.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne afternoon, to Mina's horror, her bell peals thirteen times, shattering the city’s tenuous peace. With so much of the city's history and lore lost in a long-ago disaster, no one knows the danger that has been unleashed―until the city begins to fight back. As the sun sets, stone gargoyles and bronze statues tear away from their buildings and plinths to hunt people through the streets. Trapped in Mina’s bell, the soul of a twisted and power-hungry Saint festered. Now free of his prison, he hides behind the face of one of Vaiwyn’s citizens, corrupting the city and turning it on itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTime is running out, and the only chance Mina has to stop the destruction and horrific killings is finding and destroying the Saint’s host. Everyone is a suspect, including Mina's closest loved ones. She will have to decide how far she’ll go to save her city―and who she’s willing to kill to do it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElle Tesch \u003c\/strong\u003ehas lived just east of Vancouver, British Columbia her entire life. Surrounded by forests and mountains, it was inevitable that she would daydream about what might lurk in those trees. She twists places she loves and writes what she knows best: hungry monsters, casually cruel villains, and ace-spec girls in the stories they deserve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardcover","offer_id":50233062424893,"sku":"","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81_nAHJbyrL._SL1500.jpg?v=1745424775"},{"product_id":"the-fort-christy-k-lee","title":"The Fort - Christy K. Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's the height of the fur trade in Canada, and Abigail Williams leaves her home in England and travels deep within the rugged wilderness to escape her scandalous past. With her young son in tow, Abby imagines a life on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, in the rugged but beautiful Fort Edmonton, where she can mend horseshoes in her father’s blacksmith shop and her past will not be a hindrance to her happiness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLife has other plans. The interest of Henry, an officer at the fort, and Gabriel, a French trapper, are not what she expected. While she wrestles with what future either man can give her, her past comes to haunt her, and she and her son must flee with a ragtag group of voyageurs to Montreal. The winter journey is fraught with dangers, from raging rivers to the chaos that is Lake Superior. But Abby is determined to create a new life for herself, whatever the barriers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Fort features the iconic Hudson's Bay Company and rival North West Company, English-French tensions, a heartfelt love story, LGBTQ+ representation, and impeccably-researched historical detail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristy K Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e is a lifetime writer and storyteller. She is obsessed with stories of women who break all the rules, and is sometimes a bit of a rule breaker herself. When she's not writing, she can be found spending time in her classroom, in the local library digging through historical archives, or having a bevvie with a friend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50318416576829,"sku":"","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81pTeLut8oL._SL1500.jpg?v=1746731337"},{"product_id":"messy-perfect-tanya-boteju","title":"Messy Perfect - Tanya Boteju","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for fans of Mason Deaver and Becky Albertalli, this tender, raucous novel follows a rule-following, perfectionist teen who starts an underground GSA club at her conservative Catholic high school, from the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eKings, Queens, and In-Betweens\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCassie Perera is a star student in St. Luke's junior class. But the new school year brings an unwelcome surprise—the return to St. Luke's of Cassie's former friend, Ben, who left a few years ago after a homophobic bullying incident Cassie knows she didn't do enough to prevent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStill harboring guilt from her inaction, Cassie decides, in her usual, overzealous way, to team up with the neighboring public school to found an underground Gender and Sexuality Alliance—as a complicated strategy for making things up to Ben. Secretly, Cassie is also tempted by the possibility of opening up about her own sexuality for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Cassie’s new friends urge her out of her comfort zone, she unlocks a kind of joy and freedom she’s never felt before—even as she struggles to balance these experiences with her typical tightrope of being the perfect daughter, student, and Catholic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCassie’s perfectly curated life unravels into turmoil, but can she embrace the mess enough to piece together something new?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTANYA BOTEJU\u003c\/strong\u003e lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). Part-time, she teaches English to clever and sassy young people. The rest of her time, she uses writing as an excuse to eat pastries. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardcover","offer_id":50332584378685,"sku":"","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71POH-GZUhL._SL1500.jpg?v=1747152010"},{"product_id":"crash-test-amy-james","title":"Crash Test - Amy James","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormula 1 meets\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed, White, \u0026amp; Royal Blue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein this contemporary romance in which an F1 phenom battling for the championship is sent spinning after his secret love is involved in a massive crash.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwenty-four-year-old Formula 1 driver Travis Keeping is halfway through an incredible racing season, with the championship well within his sights. But when a massive crash in Formula 2 leaves driver Jacob Nichols in critical condition, Travis’s world is flipped upside down. No one knows, but he and Jacob have been dating for almost a year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow the only boy he’s ever loved is clinging to life, his F1 team can’t understand why his performance is faltering, and he’s locked in a cold war with Jacob’s parents, who want him as far away from their son as humanly possible. Travis is sure everything will get better when Jacob wakes up, but he soon realizes he’s underestimated Jacob’s parents’ influence on their son.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the F1 season barrels on, Travis and Jacob find themselves alone and miserable on opposite sides of the globe. But with some new friends by their sides, both drivers will be pushed outside of their comfort zones and onto a journey of self-discovery—one that just might lead them back to each other in the end.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmy James\u003c\/strong\u003e lives with her husband and dog on the east coast of Canada. Her debut romance novel, A FIVE-LETTER WORD FOR LOVE comes out from Avon Books on December 3rd, 2024. Her second romance novel, CRASH TEST, comes out from Avon Books on July 1st, 2025.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50455932666173,"sku":null,"price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81GJuCG_8nL._SL1500.jpg?v=1751391202"},{"product_id":"milktooth-jaime-burnet","title":"milktooth - Jaime Burnet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSorcha is over the hook-ups and gay haunts of her twenties. At thirty-one what she wants, more than anything, is to have a baby. Then she meets Chris― with her buttoned-up plaid, 90s heartthrob hair, and grand romantic gestures― and things get serious. Fast. Though Sorcha's friends find her new partner problematic, Sorcha has an explanation for everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs Chris's moods turn volatile and Sorcha becomes increasingly isolated, Chris paints an idyllic picture of domestic bliss in Cape Breton. Sorcha is all in: if her conservative religious upbringing taught her anything, it's how to save. Plus, Chris promises Sorcha the thing she wants most― a baby.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut when Sorcha becomes pregnant and Chris's abuse escalates, Sorcha realizes she must escape the life they've built together, just as she escaped her own stifling family years before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Sorcha's estranged Aunt Agnes, a retired midwife, messages Sorcha out of the blue, her bothy in the Scottish Highlands seems the perfect place to hide. As the bundle of cells in Sorcha's belly diligently divides, she daydreams that Agnes will deliver the baby and they'll stay in Scotland, where Chris can't find them. And where, just maybe, Sorcha could build the sort of family she's always ached for.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExploring the clandestinity of queer abuse, the fierceness of friendship, and the magic of found family, milktooth is a bold, inventive, lyrical and darkly funny story about finding the strength to cut away what's harmed you and create something entirely new.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJaime Burnet\u003c\/strong\u003e's first novel, Crocuses Hatch From Snow, was published by Vagrant Press in 2019. Crocuses was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the ReLit Award. Her second novel, milktooth, will be published by Vagrant in May 2025.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50521601835325,"sku":null,"price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/91yqvtOkiOL._SL1500.jpg?v=1753370441"},{"product_id":"a-sweet-sting-of-salt-a-novel-rose-sutherland","title":"A Sweet Sting of Salt: A Novel - Rose Sutherland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOnce a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll have to fight to keep herself—and the woman she loves—safe in this stunning queer reimagining of the classic folktale\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Selkie Wife.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen a sharp cry wakes Jean in the middle of the night during a terrible tempest, she’s convinced it must have been a dream. But when the cry comes again, Jean ventures outside and is shocked by what she discovers—a young woman in labor, already drenched to the bone in the freezing cold and barely able to speak a word of English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlthough Jean is the only midwife in the village and for miles around, she’s at a loss as to who this woman is or where she’s from; Jean can only assume she must be the new wife of the neighbor up the road, Tobias. And when Tobias does indeed arrive at her cabin in search of his wife, Muirin, Jean’s questions continue to grow. Why has he kept his wife’s pregnancy a secret? And why does Muirin’s open demeanor change completely the moment she’s in his presence?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThough Jean learned long ago that she should stay out of other people’s business, her growing concern—and growing feelings—for Muirin mean she can’t simply set her worries aside. But when the answers she finds are more harrowing than she ever could have imagined, she fears she may have endangered herself, Muirin, and the baby. Will she be able to put things right and save the woman she loves before it’s too late, or will someone have to pay for Jean’s actions with their life?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn and raised a voracious reader of anything she could get her hands on in rural Nova Scotia, \u003cstrong\u003eRose Sutherland\u003c\/strong\u003e has an overactive imagination and once fell off the roof of her house pretending to be Anne of Green Gables. She’s continued to be entertainingly foolhardy since, graduating from theater school in New York City, apprenticing at a pâtisserie in France, and, most recently, moonlighting as an usher and bartender in Toronto, where she is currently based.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50521611403581,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81uA48EJ9qL._SL1500.jpg?v=1753370687"},{"product_id":"a-favored-fey-j-a-collignon","title":"A Favored Fey - J.A. Collignon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the past few decades, Meriwen has created a life for herself tucked away in the forest bordering Arrowmount surrounded by her lush garden and many creatures — both mundane and magical. She chose a life tasked with managing and balancing the magic flowing through ley lines that have bundled themselves into powerful nexuses.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZanve is a town guard perfectly content with his life. He has his friends, his job - despite hating one of his coworkers - and his somewhat secret shifter powers. One night on duty, Zanve sees a bright light from near Meri’s cottage; he decides to investigate and finds Meri injured and a tiny unknown creature at her side.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter Zanve locks this creature in Meri’s greenhouse, causing it to panic and to destroy nearly all of Meri’s plant stores, Meri misses an essential ritual to keep the ley lines in balance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZanve offers help to repair her greenhouse, the two of them start unraveling the mysteries of the little creature, and they plan to fix the magic storming around the little seaside town of Arrowmount — all the while they get to know one another and realize that there could be more to the life they already know.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCanadian Indie Author \u0026amp; Creator \u003cstrong\u003eJ. A. Collignon\u003c\/strong\u003e (AKA: Jenna, but you can call her Jenn) is a Canadian author based out of the prairies, who loves everything fantasy. You name it: fantasy books, movies, TV shows, TTRPG podcasts, and she even runs her own piratey Dungeons and Dragons campaign for her friends. Most often, she can be found on her couch with a thick fantasy book in hand.After reading Legends \u0026amp; Lattes by Travis Baldree, Jenn was introduced to the wonderful world of cozy fantasy, and has never looked back. With her first cozy fantasy book, A Second Story, being released in Spring 2023 in the upcoming Arrowmount Books series, you can rest assured that Jenn will be coming out with many more stories to cozy up with a mug of something warm soon!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50689227292989,"sku":null,"price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71BiXyqYJfL._SL1500.jpg?v=1756844182"},{"product_id":"the-tiger-and-the-cosmonaut-eddy-boudel-tan","title":"The Tiger and the Cosmonaut - Eddy Boudel Tan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCasper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia. Now an adult, living in Vancouver with a boyfriend whose privilege he quietly resents, Casper rarely returns to his hometown, the site of a grief his family doesn’t discuss: the loss of his twin, Sam.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver twenty years have passed since Sam went missing, and a pressing crisis has brought Casper and his siblings back. Their father has vanished, only to be found wandering the vast woods beyond the family home, confused and clutching a pair of scissors, seemingly trapped in the memory of that tragic night. In order to move forward, the Han family, accustomed to fleeing their problems, must stay put and finally confront the past—untangling the mystery of what really happened to Sam.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCombining the atmosphere and intrigue of a cracking good suspense novel with the depth of a rich character study, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tiger and the Cosmonaut\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003etells the story of a family whose members have long made themselves small and quiet and obedient—and what happens when the cycle is finally broken.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEddy Boudel Tan \u003c\/strong\u003ehas been a finalist for the Edmund White Award, the ReLit Best Novel Award, and the Ferro-Grumley Award for his novels After Elias and The Rebellious Tide. He was named a Rising Star by Writers’ Trust of Canada in 2021. His short stories can be found in Joyland, Yolk, and various literary journals and anthologies. The Tiger and the Cosmonaut from Penguin Canada is his third novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":50758003130685,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81yS5PjgsSL._SL1500.jpg?v=1758227001"},{"product_id":"iris-and-the-dead-miranda-schreiber","title":"Iris and the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis haunting exploration of love and desire, disability and madness, and trauma and recovery, is a diaristic marvel for fans of Annie Erneaux.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeaving personal memory with magic realism and folklore, Iris and the Dead asks: What if you could look back and tell someone exactly how they changed the course of your life?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor our narrator, that someone is Iris, the counsellor with whom she developed an unusual, almost violent bond. There are things she needs to tell Iris: some that she hid during the brief time they knew each other, and some that she has learned since. She was missing her mind the autumn they spent together and has since regained it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIris and the Dead unfurls the hidden power dynamics of abuse, offering a beguiling inquiry into intergenerational trauma, moral ambiguity, and queer identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMIRANDA SCHREIBER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Toronto-based writer and researcher. Her work has appeared in places like the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/span\u003e, the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWalrus\u003c\/span\u003e, the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/span\u003e, BBC, and the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNational Post\u003c\/span\u003e. She has been nominated for a digital publishing award by the National Media Foundation and was the recipient of the Solidarity and Pride Champion Award from the Ontario Federation of Labour. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIris\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eand the Dead \u003c\/span\u003eis her debut book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miranda Schreiber","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":51089446338877,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/61MUuos26DL._SL1000.jpg?v=1764623489"},{"product_id":"seasons-of-glass-and-iron-amal-el-mohtar","title":"Seasons of Glass and Iron","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFull of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeasons of Glass and Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFull of Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award-winning and nominated stories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeasons of Glass and Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes \"Seasons of Glass and Iron,\" \"The Green Book,\" \"Madeleine,\" \"The Lonely Sea in the Sky,\" \"And Their Lips Rang with the Sun,\" \"The Truth About Owls,\" \"A Hollow Play,\" \"Anabasis,\" \"To Follow the Waves,\" \"John Hollowback and the Witch,\" \"Florilegia, or, Some Lies About Flowers,\" \"Pockets,\" and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAmal El-Mohtar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Hugo Award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, poetry and criticism, and the co-author of the\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e bestseller \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis is How You Lose the Time War\u003c\/span\u003e, written with Max Gladstone, which has been translated into over ten languages. Her reviews and articles have appeared in the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e and on\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e NPR Books\u003c\/span\u003e. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amal El-Mohtar","offers":[{"title":"New - Hardcover","offer_id":51170088780093,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/91Mu-pZfzjL._SL1500.jpg?v=1765828774"},{"product_id":"be-gay-do-crime-sixteen-stories-of-queer-chaos-molly-llewellyn-and-kristel-buckley","title":"Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA follow-up to their runaway success \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBe Gay, Do Crime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":51175280410941,"sku":null,"price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/814I4k3mFpL._SL1500.jpg?v=1765999884"},{"product_id":"untitled-anonymous","title":"Unrivaled - Rachel Reid","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReserve your copy now! Expected release is June 1, 2027. Will ship on or after June 1, 2027. Limited copies available.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEveryone's favorite hockey players are back! Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander continue the romance that began with viral sensation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHeated Rivalry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—now streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the US—in the highly anticipated seventh book in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA line has been drawn—and the hockey world is divided.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the first time in their professional hockey careers, Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander have nothing to hide. For more than a decade, they kept their love a secret, but now they’re out, married, and even playing on the same team. The support is incredible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMost of the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey’ve gotten a lot of love from fans who are thrilled for them. But some people in the hockey world are still reeling from their relationship reveal, and the backlash—led by popular hockey podcast Top Shelf and the #TakeBackHockey movement—is getting louder.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIlya and Shane are finally able to stand together in the light, the way they’d always wanted. And now they might be facing their biggest challenge yet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eRachel Reid is the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen! Rachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press. Rachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"Expected Release - June 1\/27","offer_id":51243992744253,"sku":null,"price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/71k3ggc-3nL._SL1500.jpg?v=1768242070"},{"product_id":"you-and-me-scott-godwin","title":"You and Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eYou and Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a haunting, lyrical debut novel that captures love in its most intimate, raw, and unforgettable form. Scott Godwin explores the fragile beauty of connection, the weight of trauma, and the piercing ache of loss through the lives of two men whose bond is as tender as it is profound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story begins in a quiet rural town in Ontario, January 2024, as an early morning run turns into a nightmare. The narrator is left to confront grief, guilt, and the unimaginable void of life without the one who made him whole. Godwin’s narrative then unfolds in memory: a relationship that began years earlier in a bustling city gym, where guardedness met vulnerability, and affection blossomed amid curiosity, longing, and shared histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough non-linear storytelling, Godwin traces the evolution of a love that is playful, steady, and transformative. From pre-dawn runs and shared silences to intimate conversations about identity, fear, and past wounds, the novel illuminates the quiet rituals that define a life together. Moving between city and countryside, past and present, joy and heartbreak, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eYou and Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals the courage it takes to love fully and the devastation of losing someone irreplaceable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a story of queer love in all its complexity—intimate, flawed, and beautiful. It is a meditation on memory, masculinity, and the fragility of life, capturing the moments that make a relationship endure in the heart long after it ends. Readers will be drawn into the tender, vivid, and at times devastating world Godwin creates—a world where love, once found, leaves a mark that time cannot erase.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eYou and Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is for anyone who has loved fiercely, lost deeply, or wondered how we carry those who have shaped us. It is a celebration of intimacy, resilience, and the enduring power of memory and affection. With stunning prose and emotional precision, Scott Godwin delivers a debut that is at once heartbreaking, unforgettable, and depicts love as both an anchor and a wound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFor fans of Hanya Yanagihara's emotional scope and Garth Greenwell's lyrical intimacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA forty-something daydreamer who grew up in Kemptville, Ontario, then lived in Kingston, Ottawa, and Toronto, \u003cstrong\u003eScott Godwin\u003c\/strong\u003e now co-owns the award-winning Bubba \u0026amp; Bugs Coffee Bar in his hometown. He worked in the arts for many years before deciding it was time to finally sink his teeth into writing. Scott lives in Kemptville with his husband and business partner, Luc. Any downtime he has is spent writing, reading, and hiding out in the backyard with the couple's two dogs, Moose and Sweet Pea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scott Godwin","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":51257672433981,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/619tkBpMvIL._SL1360.jpg?v=1768259743"},{"product_id":"we-were-never-here-sophia-hannan","title":"We Were Never Here - Sophia Hannan","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReserve your copy now! Expected release is July 28, 2026. Will ship on or after July 28, 2026. Limited copies available.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe remaining members of a ghost hunting show return to the haunted manor that may have killed their friend in this atmospheric, contemporary gothic debut perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting and Delicious Monsters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn July, Georgia Perry and Jules Park—secret girlfriends, covert art thieves, and cohosts of a popular YouTube ghost hunting show—step into a haunted house to steal a priceless painting. A few short hours later, there’s a knife in Jules’s chest and Georgia is waking up in a pool of blood with no painting and no memory of how she got there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow it’s October, and Georgia is underwater. She hasn’t been to class in weeks, and she’s avoiding her old crew—and only friends—like the plague. But when the three remaining thieves get a call from the man who paid a hefty sum to keep them out of jail, demanding that they return to finish the job, Georgia has no choice but to return to her old life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the estranged friends scramble to steal the painting with no cover story and no leader, they quickly realize that something is very, very wrong, and it’s not just the suffocating memory of Jules or the prying eyes of their viewers. Between the strange shadows that begin to trail them and the nightmares plaguing Georgia’s sleep, only one thing is certain: something followed them home from De Lys manor, and it will do anything to keep them from going back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSophia Hannan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Canadian author of YA fiction. When she’s not writing about ghosts and the girls they haunt, she can be found studying English literature and forcing her friends to watch horror movies with her. Her debut novel, We Were Never Here, comes out in 2026 with Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"Expected Release - July 28\/26","offer_id":51291528364349,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81gHeSdPdEL._SL1500.jpg?v=1768860862"},{"product_id":"time-to-shine-rachel-reid","title":"Time to Shine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA merry and bright hockey romance about finding your place, finding your people and finding your way back to the one you love the most. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Landon Stackhouse, being called up from the Calgary farm team is exciting and terrifying, even if, as the backup goalie, he rarely leaves the bench. A quiet loner by nature, Landon knows he gives off strong “don’t talk to me” vibes. The only player who doesn’t seem to notice is Calgary’s superstar young winger, Casey Hicks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCasey treats Landon like an old friend, even though they’ve only interacted briefly in the past. He’s endlessly charming and completely laid-back in a way that Landon absolutely can’t relate to. They couldn’t have less in common, but Landon needs a place to live that’s not a hotel room and Casey has just bought a massive house—and hates being alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs roommates, Casey refuses to be defeated by Landon’s one-word answers. As friends, Landon comes to notice a few things about Casey, like his wide, easy smile and sparkling green-blue eyes. Spending the holidays together only intensifies their bromance-turned-romance. But as the new year approaches, the countdown to the end of Landon’s time in Calgary is on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Reid \u003c\/strong\u003eis the pen name of Rachelle Goguen. She chose it because it is much easier to say, spell and remember than Rachelle Goguen! Rachel writes cute, romantic smut, mostly about hockey players. Her Game Changers m\/m hockey romance series is available from Carina Press. Rachel\/Rachelle lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. She has always lived there, and it's looking like she probably always will. She has two boring degrees and two interesting kids.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Reid","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":51296147472701,"sku":null,"price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/816v-mhn3DL._SL1500.jpg?v=1768957859"}],"url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/collections\/canadian-lgbtqia2s-voices.oembed?page=4","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}