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Community Salon Reading Series: West-Coast Lit with Cedar Bowers, Margot Fedoruk & Andrea Routley

Community Salon, 1129 Meares Street, Victoria 1129 Meares Street, Victoria

Victoria's only prose reading series presents West-Coast Literature in March! Cedar Bowers will read from her BC and Yukon Book Prizes shortlisted and Giller long-listed debut novel Astra, Margot Fedoruk will read from her debut memoir about life as a sea urchin-diver's wife on Gabriola Island, Cooking Tips for Desperate Fishwives: An Island Memoir, and […]

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Author Talk: Ellen Schwartz – Galena Bay Odyssey | Kaslo, BC

Kaslo & District Public Library 413 4th St, Kaslo

Laugh and reminisce about the 70s in the Kootenay region with award-winning author Ellen Schwartz. Ellen will share funny and touching stories from her new book, "Galena Bay Odyssey: Reflections of a Hippie Homesteader" (Heritage House, 2023). In her memoir, Ellen reflects on the idealistic, tumultuous, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie […]

Book Launch: Freddie by Grant Hayter-Menzies • Victoria, BC

Bolen Books #111-1644 Hillside Ave., Victoria

Join local author Grant Hayter-Menzies as he presents Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me, a book for anyone who has ever loved and lost an animal. Freddie is the moving memoir of a writer—a biographer of historical animals—whose life was forever changed when a rescue dog came into his life. Tracing their journey from […]

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