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Words for Wellness: Inspiring BC Reads for World Mental Health Day

October 10, 2024

This World Mental Health Day, explore impactful books that address mental health stigma and the challenges we face at...read more

14 BC Books that Need to Be Adapted Into a Movie or TV Show

October 3, 2024

Book lovers know: The book is always better. But that doesn’t stop us from dreaming about reliving our favourite

12 BC Books by Indigenous Authors to Read for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

September 30, 2024

These impactful books explore the histories and experiences of Indigenous peoples on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation....read more

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Current BC Bestsellers

  1. Never Boring: The Up and Down History of the Vancouver Canucks
    by Ed Willes

  2. Today is Orange Shirt Day
    by Phyllis Webstad, illustrated by Natassia Davies

  3. Untold Tales of Old British Columbia
    by Daniel Marshall

  4. The Curve of Time: New, Expanded Edition
    by M. Wylie Blanchet

  5. Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays
    by Wade Davis

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Interviews

Photo of the yellow stairs up to the bookstore in a red barn.

Meet Your Bookseller: Upstart Upstairs

The text says "Authors in Conversation: Chelene Knight and Wayde Compton" next to their pictures

Full license to play with language: Chelene Knight and Wayde Compton in Conversation

Local Poetry

Image of poet Wanda John-Kehewin alongside a cover of her poetry collection "Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead." Image of poet and interviewer Rob Taylor overlaid with the words "national poetry month 2023."

Learning a Second Language When It Should Be My First: An Interview with Wanda John-Kehewin

Image of poet Jane Munro alongside a cover of her poetry collection False Creek. Image of interviewer Rob Taylor with the text National Poetry Month 2023.

Choosing to Not Cry: An Interview with Jane Munro

TBR Themes

13 More Books to Read This Indigenous History Month

A purple background with a wavy pride flag is overlaid with the book covers of the following books in a clockwise pattern: "Its Th Sailors Life/Still in Treatment," "Emily & Elspeth," "Crip Up the Kitchen," "Any Other City," "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices," "Moving the Centre," "I Am Everything in Between," and "This Unlikely Soil."

Celebrate Pride Month with Local Books

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