All Points West July 2025 - GVPL Summer Challenge

Great reads to help you get your bingo on GVPL's 2025 Summer Challenge.

Updated July 4, 2025
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Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones, brings readers a spine-tingling journey through a young boy's haunted home. Winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction! "A triumph. So emotionally raw, disturbing,...

Short and sweet: find a book that’s shorter than 200 pages.

Grab a book from the Indigenous Reads display!

Runaway wives and rogue feminists : the origins of the women's shelter movement in Canada
Goodhand, Margo
Paper Book
In the supposedly enlightened '60s and '70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn't talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 -- with no statistics, no money and little public support -- five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened...

Take a trip back in time with a book about Canadian history – fiction or non-fiction.

Short and sweet: find a book that’s shorter than 200 pages.

Shark Girl
Beaton, Kate
Paper Book
An Indie Bestseller! A laugh-out-loud picture book from bestselling comics creator Kate Beaton about a brave shark girl bent on revenge after a greedy fishing captain messes with her waters - perfect for fans of We Don't Eat Our Classmates. ...

Dive into a book about the ocean.

Stay current with a book published in 2025.


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