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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Joseph Kidney✨ @gooselane.bsky.social

We spoke with Joseph Kidney and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community. Read here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
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Joseph Kidney has a light skin tone and wavy brown hair being swept by the wind. He’s wearing a cable knit sweater and looking to the side with the ocean in the background. “I’m very grateful to be a part of Poetry in Transit, in part because it means that I am stepping forward more directly into the modern conflict between art and advertising.” What could be stranger than looking from a cliff at animals flying beneath you? Perhaps the dead observe the living this way —Joseph Kidney, “Mori Point”
January 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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BC Bestsellers of the last week just dropped 👀 with a new book from @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social that might just become the Vancouverites new bible

explore: www.readlocalbc.ca/bc-bestselle...
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BC Bestsellers - Read Local BC
For the week ending January 10, 2025 Our weekly BC Bestseller list highlights the titles of independent, BC-owned publishers sold in independent BC bookstores. Print The List Go to full post ...read m...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Fresh BC-published titles are now available on the @readlocalbc.bsky.social bookshelf! 📚

Access these titles and much more via Libby—a free app by OverDrive that lets you borrow and enjoy digital ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines from your local public library using just your library card. #bcbooks
December 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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So excited to have been one of the winners of @readlocalbc.bsky.social and @thetyee.ca contest! My Indigenous Voices book box arrived today, and I can't wait to start reading.

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An open box with three books and a postcard propped up inside. The books are (left to right) a body more tolerable by jaye simpson (Arsenal Pulp Press), ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn (Talonbooks), and Decolonization and Me by Phyllis Webstad and Kristy McLeod (Medicine Wheel Publishing). The postcard says "Read Local BC" and features a collage of BC-themed vignettes.
December 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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January 5, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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First BC Bestseller list of 2026 is here 🎉
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January 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Way to Go is a #FoundGem and a raw coming-of-age story about friendship, pressure, and finding the courage to be yourself.

Available from @orcabook.bsky.social!

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December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Happy holidays from all of us at Read Local BC ♥️

📚 Need some BC book suggestions perfect the break? Explore them here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/12/17/c...

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December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Can you believe the year is already wrapping up so soon? 😱

Let us know the best books you read this year in the comments! 🔖

#2026
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Enjoy your holiday reading with 30+ new BC titles added to Read Local BC eBookshelf on @libbyapp.com in collaboration with the @bc.libraries.coop

✨ Free through the libby app

🌲 With BC publishers, BC authors, & BC settings
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December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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We have the perfect BC reads to not only sustain you through this break, but help you recharge⚡

Explore more: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/12/17/c...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Nothing is better than staying cozy inside with a stack of great books for the holidays in a comfy ugly sweater. 📚 👕

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December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Gathering Colour is an inspiring and informative book exploring how to respectfully wildcraft pigments from plants. From artist Caitlin Ffrench, readers will get to experiment with how to use those pigments in projects on paper and more.

Join the fun by visiting Nine Ten Publications's website!
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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We have the perfect BC reads to not only sustain you through this break, but help you recharge⚡

Explore more: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/12/17/c...
December 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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BC Bestsellers this week! With new books from @anvilpress.bsky.social @figure1publishing.bsky.social
Explore: www.readlocalbc.ca/bc-bestselle...
BC Bestsellers - Read Local BC
For the week ending December 13, 2025 Our weekly BC Bestseller list highlights the titles of independent, BC-owned publishers sold in independent BC bookstores. Print The List Go to full post ...read ...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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We are so excited to see Trading Fate is on the BC Bestsellers List for its 11th week! Congratulations Graeme Menzies!
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December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This month, learn more through the people who bring stories from the province to wider audiences. We’ve gathered books that are set in or written by BC authors from different cities across the region. ⛰️🌊🦬

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December 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This #FoundGem follows an Inuit artist and adventure enthusiast named Jenny, who returns to her hometown after a tragic incident and must confront dark family truths.

Available from Ronsdale Press!

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December 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Get a head start on your 2026 TBR list with these amazing new releases arriving in the new year! These reads will help you start your year off with refreshing ideas on personal finance and impactful prose in fiction and nonfiction that just might make your favourites list. 🤩 📚
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December 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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This year was a massive one for award-winning books from local publishers! 🤩 📕 Get caught up this month with the BC books nominated for the 2025 GG Literary awards for English literature.

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December 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Poetry in Transit spotlight: Susan Alexander✨

We spoke with Susan Alexander and the other Poetry in Transit 2025-26 poets on place, transit, and community here: www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/09/17/p...
Susan Alexander has a light skin tone, bangs, and wavy hair down to her collar bones. She wears thick-framed glasses and a black blouse, and smiles softly. I absolutely love the idea that someone will look up from their phone and read a poem—my poem or the other wonderful poems. What to do with the brave ones, these late bloomers? Hope! Hope! Hope! they shout into the grey morning storm. —Susan Alexander, “Listening to Marigolds”
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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It's the LAST DAY to shop our BC Holiday Book Boxes, don't miss out! Shop now: www.readlocalbc.ca/shop/?utm_ca...
December 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Filled with humour and candidness, Beaver Hills Forever reflects the complexities of contemporary Prairie life and the enduring spirit of a community in spite of systemic barriers.

Available now from @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

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December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM