Books published in the United States in English, including works in translation and other significant rereleases, between November 18, 2020, and November 17, 2021, will be eligible for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards.

Dive into a world of intrigue and innovation with our curated collection of media inspired by the 2024 Best Picture Oscar Winner "Oppenheimer." From gripping films to captivating books, each piece explores the riveting saga of the Manhattan Project, World War II, and the moral complexities of scientific advancement. Experience the tension, drama, and humanity behind one of history's most pivotal moments, where science and war collide in a gripping narrative of ambition and consequence.

History books tend to focus on certain people and to ignore the stories of others. Black History Month reminds us that everyone participates in history, and everyone deserves to have their story heard.

Learn about the history of the Riverview/Essondale hospital in PoCo, and Mental Health treatment in BC. Includes resources on the history of mental illness with a focus on first person accounts. In partnership with Coquitlam Heritage's exhibition titled Riverview: an artists point of view.

A booklist to learn about Indigenous history in North America.

A mix of History, Mystery, uplifting books and others on my 'to read' list.

Canada History Week 2022 takes place from November 21 to 27. This year’s theme is Arts, Culture, and Creators! The week encourages Canadians to reflect upon and engage with Canada’s past.

Celebrate Black History Month with these titles, including fiction, non-fiction, and biographies.

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).

Films within the noir genre are quite diverse, but have a few things in common: a dark and brooding atmosphere, a cynical protagonist with a complicated past, and plotlines that are fatalistic. Noir fiction has developed alongside these films since the 1930s and 1940s and has the same characteristics. Although classic noir novels by such authors as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett are detective stories, others are written in the form of psychological thrillers, and horror, western and science-fiction novels.