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The Heart Of A Woman
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Maya Angelou
The Heart Of A Woman
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Gather Together In My Name
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Maya Angelou
Gather Together In My Name
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All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
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Maya Angelou
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
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Hine Toa
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Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Hine Toa
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Black Duck
Bruce Pascoe
Black Duck
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Model Minority Gone Rogue
Qin Qin
Model Minority Gone Rogue
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This Is Where You Have To Go
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Lynda Holden, Jo Tuscano
This Is Where You Have To Go
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Bullet, Paper, Rock
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Abbas El-Zein
Bullet, Paper, Rock
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Becoming a Composer
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Errollyn Wallen
Becoming a Composer
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On Call
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Ineke Meredith
On Call
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Outspoken
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Sima Samar, Sally Armstrong
Outspoken
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The House of Hidden Meanings
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RuPaul
The House of Hidden Meanings
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Some People Want to Shoot Me
Wayne Bergmann, Madelaine Dickie
Some People Want to Shoot Me
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Private Equity: Coming of Age at the Height of Capitalism
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Carrie Sun
Private Equity: Coming of Age at the Height of Capitalism
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Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
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Octavia Butler, Melville House, Samuel R. Delany
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
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Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
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Amitav Ghosh
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
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Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali
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Marc Bernardin, Ron Salas
Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali
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Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
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Noo Saro-Wiwa
Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
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Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I
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Shinobu Hashimoto
Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I
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Birdgirl
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Mya-Rose Craig
Birdgirl
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Landbridge: Life in Fragments
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Y-Dang Troeung
Landbridge: Life in Fragments
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Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir
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Leslie Jones
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir
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Think You'll Be Happy
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Nicole Avant
Think You'll Be Happy
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How To Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair
How To Say Babylon
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
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Wendy Law-Yone
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
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Sugar and Slate
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Charlotte Williams
Sugar and Slate
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The Night Parade
Jami Nakamura Lin
The Night Parade
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The Atheist Muslim
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Ali A. Rizvi
The Atheist Muslim
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother
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Candice Braithwaite
I Am Not Your Baby Mother
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Barely Functional Adult
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Meichi Ng
Barely Functional Adult
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You're History
Lesley Chow
You're History
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Welcome Home
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Najwa Zebian
Welcome Home
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Life on a Knife’s Edge
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Rahul Jandial
Life on a Knife’s Edge
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Walking Through Fire
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Vaneetha Rendall Risner
Walking Through Fire
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The Girl with Seven Names
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Hyeonseo Lee
The Girl with Seven Names
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They Called Us Enemy
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George Takei
They Called Us Enemy
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I am Malala
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Malala Yousafzai
I am Malala
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A Question of Colour
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Pattie Lees, Adam C Lees
A Question of Colour
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Shanghai Acrobat
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Jingjing Xue
Shanghai Acrobat
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First They Killed my Father
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Loung Ung
First They Killed my Father
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What to Expect When You're Immigrating
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What to Expect When You're Immigrating
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Once Upon a Hong Kong
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Don Mak
Once Upon a Hong Kong
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Majak
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Majak Daw and Heath O'Loughlin
Majak
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A Quantum Life
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Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
A Quantum Life
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Bachar Houli
Bachar Houli and Waleed Aly
Bachar Houli
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Born Fighter
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Ruqsana Begum
Born Fighter
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Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey
Memorial Drive
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The Louder I Will Sing
Lee Lawrence
The Louder I Will Sing
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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.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.
