i hope this doesn't backfire and make more people read it, especially if a bookstore offered it at a discounted price of only $15. that would be so crazy
Nova Scotia’s Department of Education says it has dropped the American young adult novel, The Hate U Give, from its Grade 8 curriculums after a handful of complaints about profanity.
Nova Scotia’s Department of Education says it has dropped the American young adult novel, The Hate U Give, from its Grade 8 curriculums after a handful of complaints about profanity.
all our stock by El Jones, Desmond Cole, and BLM Toronto is on sale for half price on our website, plus free delivery in the HRM that will go out Monday morning. there’s no excuse to be ignorant of anti-Black racism. I’d give it away if I could afford to.
#BlackLivesMatter
watching the president and CEO of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce say Halifax small businesses "will need to step up their game a little more" to compete with this new amazon warehouse has me.. feeling things. after the year we've all had? oof
oh man it's world book day!
let's do a world book day snow day give away! follow us & retweet for a chance to win one of 5 $20 gift cards and one of our new tote bags
correctly name the greatest bookstore in the world in the comments for a second entry and a virtual high five
we hope you can join us on the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation for the 4th edition launch of We Were Not The Savages with Daniel Paul, Pamela Palmater, and Cathy Martin
we'll have signs pointing you to the right building if you're unfamiliar with campus
in light of the report that indigo is "not doing well" and "bleeding cash" i have started a fundraising website called
coincidentally we now offer emailed gift cards to use on our website and charge $5 for Canada-wide shipping. lots to think about
The Grinch is behind bars! St. Anthony RCMP proudly displayed their captured villain in Christmas parades in St. Anthony and Flower’s Cove. Christmas is saved!
how about this new delivery logo? soon to be on stickers, totebags, posters, and more! artwork done by the magnificent
@paulghammond
. let's see how far I can bike across the internet, retweet for a chance at a $50 gift card for BOOKS!
Halifax is lucky to have
@ElJonesPoet
, and to celebrate her we’ve purchased 20 copies of Abolitionist Intimacies and put them in coffee shops and little free libraries all over town 💐
let us know if you find one!
the past 2(!) years have been.. not great! but it's been a real treat to get to know so many book lovers who let us be their local bookstore and to keep Halifax reading during all this! I decided to celebrate by having
@beardhero
work on a design idea I had and he killed it
they said we’d never make the Best of Halifax Independent Bookstore list!
did we listen? no!
did we do it? also no!
congrats to our pals
@venusenvyhfx
for taking the top spot! ❤️📚🥂
Announcing the 2024 Alumni Award recipients!
Nicole Feriancek, BJ(Hons)’12; Paul Atanya, BA’93, and Paul MacKay (
@kingsbookstore
) will be honoured for their achievements during our Alumni Day celebrations on June 1:
The History of Bones by
@lurie_john
was going to be called Fark Fark Indubitably. Order now and we’ll include a handmade artisanal cutout to do right by John and fix this egregious publisher mistake
anti-Black Friday sale
order any books we currently have in stock between now & the end of the weekend and we'll donate all the profits to
@otchfx
who are working hard to help our neighbours
enter 'housing' in the order comments field to participate
- instagram full of spam
- facebook 90% ads
- twitter prioritizing paid users
- tiktok insufferable and maybe banned
might be time to just scream about books on the street
1) remove all covid safety protocols for "the economy"
2) businesses don't get shipments of product because local delivery drivers keep getting covid
3) ?????
4) profit
1/8 In the interest of promoting
@DesmondCole
's book launch to people who might not see it or aren't in our immediate circles, we decided (as much as we hate giving them money) to boost the FB event to advertise what we feel is going to be an important book/conversation/event.
the awful halifax housing/apartment market is keeping me from getting a dog and calling it something like Booker or Paige and putting little saddlebags on it and using it to help deliver books to you guys and letting you pet it and say nice things to it & maybe give it a hug and
as a lead up to independent bookstore day we’re putting a prize together! follow us and retweet for a chance to win this stack of books some of Halifax’s amazing authors! we’ll also be giving away some gift cards! (draw will be done on April 24th)
there's no greater art form than real estate photos that include something that would've taken two seconds to remove and the decision to leave it makes the photo weirdly uncomfortable
i knew today would be busy but i didn’t expect to move literally double as many books today as our previous best indie bookstore day. you all went hard and i love and appreciate you but now i’m going to go sleep for a thousand years
the 2021 holiday gift guide:
gifts for him: books
gifts for her: books
gifts for them: books
gifts for kids: books
gifts for teens: books
gifts for mom: books
gifts for dad: books
sold my stock of
@beccaleat
again. you think if you keep buying it that I won't just go get more?? i'll go back to
@NimbusPub
every day, i'm not scared of you!