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{"id":6899077054523,"title":"Me, Myself, They","handle":"me-myself-they","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom renowned trans activist, Luna M. Ferguson, comes a work of memoir and critical analysis that embraces an inclusive understanding of sex and gender.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMe, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary \u003c\/i\u003echronicles Luna M. Ferguson’s extraordinary story of transformation to become a celebrated non-binary filmmaker, writer, and advocate for trans rights. Beginning with their birth and early childhood of gender creativity, Ferguson recounts the complex and often challenging evolution of their identity, including traumatizing experiences with gender conversion therapy, bullying, depression, sexual assault, and violence. Above all, Ferguson’s story is about survival, empathy, and self-acceptance. 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A photograph shows a person with light skin tone and dark hair with eye makeup. They wear a top made of metal scales with chains for straps. Leather-like fabric is tied around their biceps. Text: Me, Myself, They. Life Beyond the Binary. Joshua M. Ferguson. “Raw, extraordinary, and profoundly moving.” – Jazz Jennings.","id":23033321685051,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1d8dc64b-f870-431e-a765-95009e734a6b.jpg?v=1670223496"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/3374\/9051\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1d8dc64b-f870-431e-a765-95009e734a6b.jpg?v=1670223496","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom renowned trans activist, Luna M. 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By combining personal reflections on what it feels like to never truly fit into prescribed roles of male and female, and using an informed analysis of the ongoing shifts in contemporary attitudes towards sex and gender, Ferguson calls for an inclusive understanding of diverse human identity and respect for trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people. Through their honest and impassioned storytelling, we learn what it means to reclaim one’s identity and to live beyond the binary.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Me, Myself, They
A personal work of memoir and critical analysis that pushes for an inclusive understanding of sex and gender.
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Museum of Bone and Water
A provocative investigation of the human body — our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire.
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NDN Coping Mechanisms
The follow-up collection from Griffin Poetry Prize–winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work.
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Park Cruising
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex.
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Scenes from the Underground
I have just heard for the first time the expression “to make soup”: it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult.
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Something for Everyone
Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in our everyday lives.
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It's a compelling exploration of the ways a crime implicates all of us.","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"The Best Kind of People is a story with so many shades of grey that you won’t know what to believe but you’re guaranteed to feel almost every emotion possible while reading this new novel.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_1":"The Best Kind of People examines the effects of rape culture on an entire community with rare nuance and insight. Every character is fully rounded, flawed, and achingly human. It puts me in mind of a twenty-first-century Ordinary People — which, for the record, is one of my favourite novels.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_2":"Heartbreaking and complex, The Best Kind of People offers no easy answers. This is a masterly exploration of the damage an entire community incurs when the secret at the heart of its most perfect family detonates.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_3":"The jury found Zoe Whittall’s The Best Kind of People urgent and timely, nuanced and brave. This gripping story challenges how we hear women and girls, and dissects the self-hypnosis and fear that prevent us from speaking disruptive truth. With subversive precision and solid veracity, Whittall calls into question pervasive forms of silence and acquiescence.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_4":"Exquisitely emotional","OtherText_Quote_from_review_5":"Toronto author Zoe Whittall’s new novel The Best Kind of People is the best kind of book — it’s got a compelling story characters readers will recognize and come to love and writing that makes it effortless to turn page after page.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_6":"Zoe Whittall's novel gets into the hearts and minds of an ordinary family forced to confront the monstrous. 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With The Best Kind of People, Whittall has created an urgent and timely document, one that asks us to reflect on how we can best serve survivors of abuse and best support all of those who exist in its aftermath. With incredible empathy, and undeniable skill, this book is sure to spark much needed dialogue, vital debate, and richly deserved acclaim.","OtherText_Quote_from_review_9":"The Best Kind of People is all-of-a-piece and well worth the read not only for what it adds to the conversation about accusation and rape, but also for the pleasure it offers to those who like a good story.","OtherText_Quot_10":"Nuanced to the end, Whittall’s novel achieves something that’s rare in real-life cases of sexual violence. She gives a voice to the ones we never hear from: those who are collateral damage.","OtherText_Quot_11":"Fast-paced . . . but never melodramatic.","OtherText_Quot_12":"Whittall places the reader right at the centre of their pain. It’s the best depiction of female suffering I’ve read since Jane Smiley eloquently tackled sexual abuse in A Thousand Acres.","OtherText_Review_0":"Whittall places the reader right at the centre of their pain. It’s the best depiction of female suffering I’ve read since Jane Smiley eloquently tackled sexual abuse in A Thousand Acres.” — Toronto Star“Nuanced to the end, Whittall’s novel achieves something that’s rare in real-life cases of sexual violence. 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The Best Kind of People
From award-winning author Zoe Whittall comes The Best Kind of People, a stunning tour de force about the unravelling of an all-American family.
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The Couturier of Milan
In the ninth installment of the bestselling Ava Lee series, Ava investigates the dark side of the glamorous world of fashion.
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The Diamond Queen of Singapore
Ava Lee investigates a fraudulent investment scheme that sends her on the trail of illegal diamonds, drugs, and offshore banking.
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The Disciple of Las Vegas
Ava Lee goes deep inside the shady world of online gambling in the second installment of the pulse-pounding series.
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The Full Catastrophe
The Full Catastrophe is a funny and moving story of how we tell our own stories.
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It's a difficult balancing act, perhaps the most difficult of her life — the stakes have never been higher nor has failure been more costly.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487010218","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Spiderline","MetaKeywords":"the mountain master of sha tin;bonnie jack;scott thornley","NumberOfPages":"360","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAva Lee is a strong female protagonist, often compared by reviewers and fans to Lisbeth Salander and also seen as a female James Bond.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ava Lee series has received starred reviews in \u003cem \u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e and has been endorsed by Linwood Barclay, Taylor Stevens, Barbara Peters, and Richard Katz.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eOver 150,000 Ava Lee books have been sold in North America.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAva Lee titles are popular book-club picks.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eSmartly constructed, with plenty of action and intrigue (political and otherwise). … A worthy addition to a consistently strong series that could use a word-of-mouth boost.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003eHamilton gives us a look into the darker, shadier side of the movie industry. He does so with a clever plot, vivid images, and international intrigue of a historical event.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eAva Lee squares off against the Chinese government over a controversial film in the latest thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2023-01-03","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","Series":"An Ava Lee Novel","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eAva Lee squares off against the Chinese government over a controversial film in the latest thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
The General of Tiananmen Square
Ava Lee squares off against the Chinese government over a controversial film in the latest thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton.
