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A collage of book covers for - (1) How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (2) How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones (3) Stolen Voices by Zlata Filipović and Melanie Challenger (4) Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

Six non-fiction books that ask you to feel deeply

Peak Web - June 3, 2025

This is a cover of Natalie Lim’s book, Elegy for Opportunity

Personal reflections on the launch of Elegy for Opportunity

SFU’s artistic history comes to life in A Magical Time

Three books spread out on a flat surface in this order from left to right: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, and Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

The Book Nook: 100 years of literature on Black liberation

A book lying on a wooden table with an illustrated cover. The top half depicts colourful visuals of people dancing and playing music, while the bottom half shows police and guards trapping people with shields.

Postcards from Congo is an artful graphic history

A shelf in a book store.

Hidden Gems: Local bookshop havens

Peak Web - September 21, 2023 0

Two brothers, Black young men, sit on a bench outside in front of power lines. The sun is setting and the sky is tinted orange.

Brother is an intimately woven story of grief

Peak Web - September 14, 2023 0

A banner featuring the book covers of the titles in this list.

Fast-paced reads perfect for poolside reading

Peak Web - July 19, 2023 0

a display underneath a glass case of open books. One in sandy brown featuring a map and another has a hot pink page with a title that reads “arrival” next to a page with a photo of greenery.

A book’s journey from draft to award-winning design

Peak Web - July 14, 2023 0

An illustration from the graphic novel of 3 South east asian women reading books. Two of them are sitting on a yellow couch, and one is sprawled on the floor. They are surrounded by books, and a sage green background, with a plant and a lamp beside them. They’re dressed in colourful, business casual clothes, including a striped shirt, deep blue tights under an orange pencil skirt, and a black blazer.

Graphic novel combats racism in the publishing industry with humour

Peak Web - June 23, 2023 0

Book cover featuring an illustration of a person with brown skin and long brown hair showing from the neck-down wearing a white T-shirt with feathers printed on it.

Must-read books by Indigenous authors

Peak Web - June 13, 2023 0

Photo from below looking up at a blue, cloudy sky and the side of a gray apartment with a sign that says “Hotel Balmoral”

Anthology explores what home means to Vancouver’s unhoused and marginalized

Peak Web - June 9, 2023 0

Susan Justice and child reading a the Children in the Rain book on a grass lawn with wide smiles.

Children Who Dance in the Rain highlights privilege as...

Peak Web - June 7, 2023 0

Photo of the exterior of Vancouver Public Library on Homer street on a sunny day with many pedestrians outside. The building’s architecture is a brown “rectangular box surrounded by a free-standing, elliptical, colonnaded wall.”

Little-known library resources at your fingertips

Peak Web - May 31, 2023 0

A person sitting criss-cross between two heaping piles of books looking up with an open book in hand

The Book Nook: Five books to add to your summer reading...

Peak Web - May 16, 2023 0

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