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Red Cedar Book Awards

Here are the nominees for the 2023-2024 Red Cedar Book Award, British Columbia's Young Readers' Choice Award. To vote for YOUR favourite book, visit https://www.redcedaraward.ca/.

Created on: February 23, 2024
Black History Month -- Books for Kids

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.

Created on: February 11, 2023
Local History Spotlight: Riverview Hospital

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.

Created on: September 12, 2023
Best British TV series

Best mystery or thriller series

Created on: March 03, 2020
The Royals

Everything you wanted to know (or didn't want to know) about the British Royal Family

Created on: January 11, 2023
Inspired by the 2024 Oscar Best Picture Winner: Oppenheimer

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.

Created on: March 11, 2024
History and Mystery & more

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

Created on: October 01, 2020
Canada History Week for Kids

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.

Created on: October 13, 2022
Dark, Thrilling Noir Fiction

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.

Created on: March 04, 2020