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

Personal reflections on the launch of Elegy for Opportunity

Peak Web - May 30, 2025

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

An East-Asian woman shown twice in two different costumes: to the left is a golden set of battle armour and a royal headdress, while the right is a burgundy dress with silver web-like designs near the torso. In the background are golden dragon-like scales.

Book Nook: Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow series

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

Image of the book cover of Obasan. The title is white in a large serif font with a red line under it and the author’s name written in a smaller font underneath. The photo behind the text is of a Japanese child looking out a train window. She is wearing a red blouse with a round white collar.

In Case You Missed It: Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Peak Web - May 12, 2023 0

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