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North Shore Writers Festival: Reporting on the environment, with Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood, Anne Shibata Casselman & Laura Lynch

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm

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Family drop-in

Monday, April 14, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

iPhone and iPad help

Monday, April 14, 10:00 am to 11:15 am

Teen open space

Monday, April 14, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Teen open space

Tuesday, April 15, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Tween spring things: Crafting

Tuesday, April 15, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

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Staff picks

Our staff do love to read! Here are some of our favourite items from City Library's collection.

Needing more inspiration about what to read? Check out our reader's advice page:

Brain & mind health Everything Vancouver! Celebrating Canadian authors Around the world in 80 books

The Elderwise Way

Activities to Do With your Parent Who Has Alzheimer's Dementia

Living With Mild Cognitive Impairment

No Time Like the Future

The Alzheimer's Revolution

Reversing Alzheimer's

Somebody I Used to Know

Living With Parkinson's Disease

Feeding My Mother

The New Parkinson's Disease Treatment Book

The Beauty of Living Twice

Floating in the Deep End

Green Vanilla Tea

Brain Rules for Aging Well

East Side Story

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Vancouver

Vancouver Confidential

Live at the Commodore

111 Places in Vancouver That You Must Not Miss

Vancouver Exposed

Inventing Stanley Park

A Thousand Dreams

This Day in Vancouver

Sensational Vancouver

Becoming Vancouver

Vancouver Is Ashes

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People

The Pull of the Stars

Moon of the Turning Leaves

Indians on Vacation

What We All Long for

Watcher in the Woods

The Island of Forgetting

Moccasin Square Gardens

The English Patient

The Florence Legacy

The Last Painting of Sara De Vos

In the Country of Others

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

Return to Valetto

Chasing the Italian Dream

The Foot Soldiers

The Sultan's Seal

Heaven and Earth

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