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Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya cover image
Anuradha Roy

Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya

$29.99
$29.99
Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory (Transgender Theory) cover image
Marquis Bey

Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory

$29.99
$29.99
The Ayatollah's Gaze: A Memoir of the Forbidden and the Fabulous
Majid Parsa

The Ayatollah's Gaze: A Memoir of the Forbidden and the Fabulous

$24.99
$24.99
Find Your Pace: How Running Changed My Life and How It Can Change Yours Too cover image
Emma Kirk-Odunubi

Find Your Pace

$24.99
$24.99
Yes I Can cover image
Sammy Davis Jr., Jane Boyar, Burt Boyar

Yes I Can

$39.99
$39.99
The Hiroshima Boy: His Heartbreaking True Story of Survival and Hope cover image
Akiko Mikamo, Shinji Mikamo

The Hiroshima Boy

$32.99
$32.99
The Traveling Tree: Lessons from a Nomadic Life cover image
Michio Hoshino

The Traveling Tree: Lessons from a Nomadic Life

$36.99
$36.99
Untitled on Syria cover image
Loubna Mrie

Defiance

$34.99
$34.99
The Flower Bearers cover image
Rachel Eliza Griffiths

The Flower Bearers

$34.99
$34.99
Book cover of 'Light and Thread' by Han Kang with a stylized leaf design on a dark blue background.
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Han Kang

Light and Thread

$29.99
$29.99
Back On My Feet: From doctor to patient, a moving and inspirational memoir of traumatic injury, faith and hope, for readers of Turia Pitt and Emma Carey cover image
Olivia Ong

Back On My Feet

$34.99
$34.99
The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained cover image
Stanley Milford Jr.

The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained

$29.99
$29.99
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland―A True Account of Her Fight Against Art theft and Tyranny in WWII Paris cover image
Michelle Young

The Art Spy

$55.00
$55.00
Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና): An Ethiopian memoir of heritage and heartache cover image
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና)

$35.99
$35.99
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China cover image
Xinran

The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China

$32.99
$32.99
Bad Bad Girl
Gish Jen

Bad Bad Girl

$42.99
$42.99
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

$29.99
$29.99
Stolen Man on Stolen Land: Being African-American in Australia cover image
Tyree Barnette

Stolen Man on Stolen Land: Being African-American in Australia

$36.99
$36.99
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning cover image
Julian Brave NoiseCat

We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning

$39.99
$39.99
Pushkin Press The Difficult Ghost. cover image
Leila Guerriero

The Difficult Ghost

$24.99
$24.99
Two Women Living Together cover image
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Kim Hana, Hwang Sunwoo, Gene Png

Two Women Living Together

$36.99
$36.99
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing cover image
Hu Anyan

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

$49.99
$49.99
A Tale Unasked cover image
Lady Nijo

A Tale Unasked

$32.99
$32.99
We Call to the Eye and the Night
Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck

We Call to the Eye and the Night

$36.99
$36.99
Genocide in Gaza
Avi Shlaim

Genocide in Gaza

$39.99
$39.99
Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide cover image
Susan Abulhawa

Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide

$29.99
$29.99
Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath cover image
S. Shakthidharan

Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath

$34.99
$34.99
Episodes: The Diary of a Recovering Mad Man cover image
Gucci Mane, Kathy Iandoli

Episodes: The Diary of a Recovering Mad Man

$49.99
$49.99
The Beauty of Your Face: One Woman's Life in a Nation at Odds with Its Ideals cover image
Sahar Mustafah

The Beauty of Your Face

$27.99
$27.99
Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide cover image
Yousef M. Aljamal, Norma Hashim, Noor Nabulsi, Zoe Jannuzi, Ahmed Alnaouq

Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide

$29.99
$29.99
Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director cover image
Angjolie Mei

Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director

$34.99
$34.99
I'll Tell You When I'm Home
Hala Alyan

I'll Tell You When I'm Home

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Hispanic Star: Pedro Pascal cover image
Claudia Romo Edelman, Karla Arenas Valenti, Marcelo Baez

Hispanic Star: Pedro Pascal

$19.99
$19.99
Simply More: A book for anyone who has been told they're too much cover image
Cynthia Erivo

Simply More

$32.99
$32.99
An End to Suffering
Pankaj Mishra

An End to Suffering

$26.99
$26.99
Diary of a Young Doctor cover image
Ezzideen Shehab

Diary of a Young Doctor

$24.99
$24.99
Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana's Sugar Plantations to Cambridge cover image
Malik Al Nasir

Searching for My Slave Roots

$52.99
$52.99
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler cover image
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Susana M. Morris

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

$55.00
$55.00
Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir cover image
Tareq Baconi

Fire in Every Direction

$34.99
$34.99
Finding My Way
Malala Yousafzai

Finding My Way

$34.99
$34.99
What Has Society Got to Do with my Pain?
Faris Ridzuan

What Has Society Got to Do with my Pain?

$32.99
$32.99
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde cover image
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

$26.99
$26.99
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter cover image
Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter

Rivers Flow

$34.99
$34.99
Bloom: Creating a life I love cover image
Mary Fowler

Bloom

$36.99
$36.99
The Bells of Nagasaki cover image
Takashi Nagai

The Bells of Nagasaki

$39.99
$39.99
Who Will Tell My Story?: A Gaza Diary cover image
Anonymous

Who Will Tell My Story?: A Gaza Diary

$26.99
$26.99
Ankami
Dr Debra Dank

Ankami

$32.99
$32.99
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap's Masked Iconoclast cover image
S. H. Fernando Jr.

The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap's Masked Iconoclast

$36.99
$36.99
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.

We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.

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