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Just For You! -- Adventure and Survival
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Created on:
Jul 10, 2022
7 items
This list includes amazing survival stories and life changing adventures.
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VPL - Books Just For You - Books to help navigate depression, addictions and finding hope / purpose
Created on:
Oct 30, 2025
11 items
This VPL Books Just For You reading list has been compiled by VPL's Readers Advisory staff with the intended audience of young ...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Fast-paced and Action-packed B.C. Fiction, Mystery, and Horror
Created on:
Sep 10, 2024
12 items
This VPL Books Just For You list was selected by a Vancouver Public Library staff member for a patron with an interest in B.C. ...
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VPL -Books Just For You -Historical and Canadian Fiction -eBook Format
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Jul 24, 2023
10 items
This Books Just For You personalized reading list was prepared by a Vancouver Public Library employee for a reader with an inte...
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VPL - Books Just For You - Ebooks for a Lover of Thrillers, Horror, Science-Fiction, and Fantasy
Created on:
Jun 24, 2021
11 items
For a reader of Psychological Thrilling Novels
Get started with these titles carefully selected by the reading specialists at ...
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VPL Picks: True Crime
Created on:
Dec 31, 2025
20 items
True Crime books are about real crimes that involve real people.
Get started with this selective list of both classic and rece...
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VPL - City of Vancouver Book Award Finalists - 2025
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Sep 27, 2025
8 items
Celebrate the 2025 Winner and Finalists for the City of Vancouver Book Award!
"The annual City of Vancouver Book Award ha...
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VPL - Italian Heritage Month
Created on:
May 23, 2024
16 items
Celebrate Italian Heritage Month this June with books from VPL!
"Italian Heritage Month is an opportunity to honour the h...
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VPL - Celebrating Mennonite Heritage Week, 2023
Created on:
Aug 02, 2023
22 items
Celebrate the third annual Mennonite Heritage Week with this VPL list of titles.
"On May 29, 2019, the Government of Cana...
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VPL Picks: Asian Canadian Nonfiction
Created on:
May 01, 2023
22 items
A select list of new, popular and acclaimed non-fiction titles by Asian Canadian writers.
Get started with these titles carefu...
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VPL - 2023 BC and Yukon Book Prizes Shortlist Nominees
Created on:
Apr 13, 2023
24 items
VPL presents a list of the 2023 BC and Yukon Book Prize Shortlist Nominees, celebrating the best of fiction and nonfiction work...
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VPL - Disability Pride Month
Created on:
Mar 11, 2023
22 items
July is Disability Pride Month. What is Disability Pride Month?
"What started in the United States in 1990 has become a g...
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VPL - BC Book Day 2023
Created on:
Feb 15, 2023
16 items
It’s time to read local! Here are some books that are written by BC authors or published by a BC-based publisher. This list has...
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VPL Picks: Canadian Music History
Created on:
Aug 11, 2022
21 items
A list delving into the expanse of Canadian music history.
Canada is a vast country, with many different traditions and histo...
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VPL - Mafia Reads
Created on:
Mar 10, 2022
18 items
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the classic film 'The Godfather,' VPL has collected a list of fiction and nonfiction title...
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VPL - Black History Month 2026
Created on:
Feb 03, 2022
16 items
To celebrate Black History Month, VPL has compiled the following list of titles which explore the myriad stories of Black peopl...
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VPL Picks : Indigenous Short Stories
Created on:
Jun 17, 2021
22 items
This updated list contains current short story collections written by North American as well as international Indigenous author...
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VPL Picks: Indigenous Food & Cookery
Created on:
Jun 03, 2021
20 items
A collection of books about edible plants, cooking and community by Indigenous chefs and others.
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VPL Picks: Vancouver Playwrights
Created on:
Nov 05, 2020
22 items
Theatre has the incredible ability to invite the audience into intimate moments, to entertain and to excite, to connect emotion...
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VPL Picks: Local Small Press Gems
Created on:
Oct 08, 2020
25 items
A collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction published locally in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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VPL - B.C. Day - Reflections in Poetry and Prose
Created on:
Jul 11, 2020
12 items
New works of poetry and prose by B.C. authors evoking the stunning yet fragile landscape, diversity and troubled history of the...
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VPL - Asian Heritage Month - eBooks and Downloadable Audio
Created on:
Apr 23, 2020
16 items
In recognition of this year's Asian Heritage Month which celebrates how art and culture connect us all, here is a suggested lis...
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VPL Picks: Asian Canadian Fiction
Created on:
Feb 25, 2020
27 items
A select list of new, popular and acclaimed fiction titles by Canadian writers of Asian descent.
Asia is interpreted based on ...
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VPL Picks: Award Winning Canadian Nonfiction
Created on:
Feb 21, 2020
40 items
From the political to the personal and philosophical, this is a selection of recent award-winning Canadian nonfiction.
Get sta...
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VPL Picks: Non-Fiction That Reads Like Fiction
Created on:
Dec 18, 2019
23 items
A subset of nonfiction titles are considered to "read like fiction" in the sense that these books are accounts of tru...
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