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Book Nook: Quiet books for loud times

Peak Web - July 10, 2025

It is an illustration of a portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky writing his book under a candle light in a dimly-lit room

On reading Dostoevsky

It is a photo of the spines of the listed books neatly arranged on a stack

Book Nook: Young adult queer book recommendations

The picture shows a book fair, focused on a few books on and around a table

The Vancouver Arts Book Fair returns to the city once more

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

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

Elvira Chan holds her book, displaying the cover with an illustration of two shadows of people walking against a backdrop of tall buildings on each side of the book. Between them is a watercolor gradient of a blue, cloudy sky. They are each on opposite sides of the book— one on top and one on the bottom. The one on top is upside down. Chan is smiling wearing an orange knit sweater.

Q&A with Elvira Chan on her independently-published novel

Peak Web - March 16, 2023 0

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

Predicting 2023 fiction trends

Peak Web - March 9, 2023 0

lllustration from But I Live book cover of two boys holding blankets in a forest with a blue colour scheme.

Jewish Book Festival presents a collection of vivid graphic novels

Peak Web - January 26, 2023 0

What Are Our Supports? co-edited by Joni Low and Jeff O’Brien, and co-published by Information Office, Doryphore Independent Curators Society, Richmond Art Gallery, and Art Metropole. Book is laying flat on a grey surface.

New anthology explores how Vancouver’s support structures can guide us through...

Peak Web - January 23, 2023 0

Meet Angela Sterritt: SFU Library’s 2023 non-fiction writer in residence

Peak Web - January 18, 2023 0

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