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Freedom to Read 2024 | Teen and Adult Books

"Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms." - freedomtoread.ca. In recognition of Freedom to Read Week, we've compiled a list of books that have been challenged or banned across North America.

Created on: February 17, 2022
National Gardening Month

This National Gardening Month, we're helping you achieve your gardening goals! Register for our online programs: STARTING A VEGETABLE GARDEN https://coquitlam.libnet.info/event/6432458 GROWING YOUR VEGETABLES https://coquitlam.libnet.info/event/6193103

Created on: April 02, 2022
Finding your Happy Place

Books and other materials to help you find a new perspective

Created on: December 30, 2020
TOP 100 2022 Reads

Your favourite Adult fiction and Nonfiction from 2022!

Created on: January 04, 2023
TOP 100 FILMS of 2022

Your favourite flicks on DVD and Blu-ray

Created on: January 04, 2023
Summer Bites

Thirteen summer cookbooks to inspire your best barbeques, picnics, and salads.

Created on: June 29, 2023
Epistolary Novels

Ever read a book told through letters or diary entries? Epistolary novels can make a book and its characters feel exceedingly intimate. Add one of these to your reading list!

Created on: August 22, 2023
A Fistful of Stories! Wild, Weird Western Fiction

As in film westerns, the western novel has been revived in newer and unconventional ways in recent years. There has been the rise in popularity of the “weird western”: a hybrid genre which blends elements of the traditional western (a lawless frontier, a hero pit against all odds) with those of other types of fiction such as noir, mystery, horror and science-fiction (namely, the alternate Victorian universe known as steampunk).

Created on: March 03, 2020
My Favorite Fictional Reads

This includes a bit of everything, from suspense, mystery and just interesting stories of people often set in different times and places

Created on: April 02, 2020
Hygge - and safe - at home

Books and more to remind you that being at home is a good thing

Created on: April 17, 2020