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Friends of the North Vancouver Library Big Book Sale 2013

May 13th, 2013 @ 10:24am by Rebecca Bollwitt

The Friends of the North Vancouver District Public Library are hosting their Big Book Sale this month at the Lynn Valley Main Library (1277 Lynn Valley Road). Photo credit: GlasgowAmateur on Flickr Dates and Times Friday, May 24, 2013 from 10:00am to 7:00pm Saturday, May 25, 2013 from 10:00am to 4:00pm Sunday, May 26, 2013 [...]

Friends of the North Vancouver Library Book Sale 2013

February 19th, 2013 @ 1:21pm by Rebecca Bollwitt

The Friends of the North Vancouver District Public Library are hosting their popular book sale this weekend with fantastic deals for literary enthusiasts of all ages. Photo credit: heipei on Flickr When Friday, February 22, 2013 from 10:00am to 7:00pm; Saturday, February 23, 2013 from 10:00am to 4:00pm; Sunday, February 24, 2013 from 12:00pm to [...]

My Book Launch Event at London Drugs

November 26th, 2012 @ 11:17am by Rebecca Bollwitt

Earlier this year Eric Butow and I wrote an updated version of our book, Blogging to Drive Business. It recently hit store shelves (both virtual and physical) and I’m going to be celebrating at London Drugs this Thursday, November 29th. What: Book launch for Blogging to Drive Business: 2nd Edition Where: London Drugs on Georgia [...]

A Good Book Drive

November 5th, 2012 @ 3:42pm by Rebecca Bollwitt

A Good Book Drive is running this month to help stock The Writers’ Exchange library in East Vancouver with kids books. The campaign was started by Cory Ashworth (from The Peak) and his friend Lizzy Karp (Co-Founder of Rain City Chronicles) who were inspired to help after hearing about The Writers’ Exchange program at a [...]

Vancouver Writers Festival 2012

October 5th, 2012 @ 1:09pm by Rebecca Bollwitt

The Vancouver Writers Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with its biggest line-up to date on Granville Island from October 16th to 21st, 2012. Over the course of six days the festival will host 77 events with a variety of panel discussions, interviews, musical collaborations, and more. Events Event categories include Biography/Personal Experience, [...]

Word on the Street Festival 2012

September 14th, 2012 @ 1:44pm by Rebecca Bollwitt

It will be a weekend of books, magazines, story-telling, and “literary mayhem” when the 18th annual Word on the Street Festival comes to the Vancouver later this month. The three-day festival starts on Friday, September 28, 2012 at Banyan Books & Sound and at Historic Joy Kogawa House. On Saturday there are events at the [...]

Chapters Indigo Fall Gift Guide & Giveaway

August 29th, 2012 @ 2:42pm by Rebecca Bollwitt

It’s time for students of all ages to return to school to begin another year of academic growth. I always enjoyed back to school shopping even though it meant we were that much closer to returning to class. Highlighters, binders, duo-tangs, pencil crayons, Trapper Keepers and geometry kits (always a new geometry kit even though [...]

Vancouver Public Library Book Sale 2012

May 28th, 2012 @ 11:33am by Rebecca Bollwitt

The Friends of the Vancouver Public Library are hosting their summer book sale this week with thousands of gently-used items up for grabs along with CDs and DVDs. Photo credit: Ruth and Dave, rommy ghaly, scapevision on Flickr – Submitted to the Miss604 Flickr Pool. Cookbooks, mysteries, non-fiction, children’s literature, and popular trilogies made famous [...]