Salt Spring Public Library

Marissa Stapley launches The Last Resort, an instant national bestselling thriller by visiting Toronto-based author and journalist. Salt Spring public Library. 7 p.m.

Reconciliation reading circles starting in fall for 5 weeks. Join others in reading They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars. In these Reading Circles, we explore Bev Sellars’ frank and poignant memoir, in which she shares her personal account of her residential school experience and articulates her own path to healing. Library staff will facilitate the discussion to expand our understanding of local Indigenous history, impacts of colonialism and its ongoing effects on Indigenous peoples. Limited to 15 participants.…

The Salt Spring Island Public Library book club, open to all and free of charge, meets from 1 to 3 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month. This month's pick is A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.

Toronto write Eufemia Fantetti launches My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me: A Memoir — a powerful and witty coming-of-age story of fate versus free will — and Salt Spring's Brenda Brooks presents her much-anticipated second novel, the noir-ish Honey. Salt Spring Public Library. 3:30 p.m.

Reconciliation reading circles starting in fall for 5 weeks. Join others in reading They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars. In these Reading Circles, we explore Bev Sellars’ frank and poignant memoir, in which she shares her personal account of her residential school experience and articulates her own path to healing. Library staff will facilitate the discussion to expand our understanding of local Indigenous history, impacts of colonialism and its ongoing effects on Indigenous peoples. Limited to 15 participants.…

Salt Spring writers who contributed to Mother Tongue Publishing's Love of the Salish Sea Islands anthology will read at the Salt Spring Public Library. 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Featured poet Karen Lee White is Northern Salish, Tuscarora, Chippewa and Scots from Vancouver Island. Library program room. Reader sign-up 6:45 p.m., open mic at 7, featured poet at 7:30 p.m.

Second book in a trilogy by Salt Spring writer Mary Hughes is launched at the Salt Spring Public Library. 1:30 p.m. With live piano music by Susan Bull.

Today's book is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Salt Spring Public Library. 1 to 3 p.m.  The book club is open to all and meets on the fourth Thursday of each month.   

Salt Spring author Briony Penn shares Stories from the Magic Canoe, stories of Cecil Paul, an Xenaksiala elder, as told to Penn. Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m. 

Guest is North Vancouver poet and novelist Aislinn Hunter. Salt Spring Public Library. The open-mic begins at 7 p.m., with sign-up at 6:45, followed by Hunter reading at 7:30 p.m.

Poetry Open Mic at the library with featured poet Zoe Landale. Sign-up 6:45 p.m., open mic 7, featured reading 7:30 p.m.

Mada Dalian reads from and signs copies of her book, In Search of the Miraculous: Healing into Consciousness. Salt Spring Public Library. 2 p.m.

Book launch and reading for Inspired Perspectives, tales of transformation in poetry and prose. Salt Spring Public Library. 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Garry Bello shares his book and the Bello Method. Salt Spring Public Library. 2 p.m. Gary Bello’s book Enlightening Moments introduces a radical perspective that inspires refreshing responses to the way things are. Integrating Eastern wisdom and Western body-centred psychology to empower people to live to their full potential, local author Bello’s book is a sampling of the Bello Method, a system made to help people discover and change patterns of behavior and belief that prevent personal fulfillment, health, success.

Library book club, open to all and free of charge, meets on the fourth Thursday of each month. This month is Reader’s Choice, Non-Fiction. 1 to 3 p.m.

Featuring winners and honourable mentions from the library-themed poetry contest. 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room.

Brent Talbot releases Rainbow Soul Food - Heart Opening Poetry at the Salt Spring Public Library. 7:30 p.m.

All welcome to attend. This month's pick is Larry's Party by Carol Shields. Salt Spring Public Library. 1 to 3 p.m.

Guest poet is Beth Everest, who publishes work in literary journals across Canada. Her most recent book Silent Sister: the mastectomy poems (Frontenac House) was short-listed for numerous awards.Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m. Reader sign-up at 6:45.