Category: Books – Used

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January 19, 2025 / Books

It’s that time of week when we pair a book with a related record for your visual and auditory pleasure! Today we’re recommending A Memory Within a Song: Music That…

January 16, 2025 / Books

Is one of your goals for 2025 to read more? There are lots of strategies for easing back into reading if it’s a habit you’ve shelved for a while. One…

January 5, 2025 / Books

It’s Sunday and for today’s book and vinyl pairing, we’re recommending the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens alongside the Jojo Rabbit Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Caging Skies by Christine…

October 17, 2024 / Books
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We’ve brought cookbooks back to Backbeat! We currently have a small curated selection that we just added to our used book section. What’s your go-to cookbook?

August 4, 2024 / Books

Sunday means it’s time for A Nice Pair – book and vinyl pairings that share a common theme. This week, we’ve got one for the kids and/or the young at…

May 16, 2024 / Books
May 2, 2024 / Books

We’re restocking the bookshelves with some great used titles and wanted to show you just a little sample of some of the more recent publications. Have you read any/are any…

March 24, 2024 / Books

We’re replenishing today with a bunch of fresh used books so come by soon for the best selection! Here are some of the most recently published titles hitting the shelves…

March 7, 2024 / Books

Surprise packs are back! We have three-packs of used books all wrapped up and ready to read…they come in Fiction, Humour and the ultimate mystery, Mysteries/Thrillers. Just $9.95 per pack…

January 25, 2024 / Books

With all of the mess falling from the sky outside, it’s the perfect time to stay in and hibernate with a book! Here are some winter-y picks…

December 21, 2023 / Books

Stuck for time and ideas and also, what’s that? You hate wrapping? We’ve got our Backbeat surprise packs all ready to go for you! Each pack contains three pre-loved (but…

November 23, 2023 / Books

Tomorrow is the day! We know lots of you have been waiting for Black Friday to arrive and we’re just as excited as you. Some of you just want to…

October 22, 2023 / Books

We’re back today with our book and vinyl pairing that we like to call A Nice Pair…this week features Madonna, aka The Material Girl, The Queen of Reinvention, The Queen…

September 7, 2023 / Books

In honour of short attention spans, small segments of reading time, a love of small things, compact bag space, luggage weight limits and similar constraints, here are some used fiction…

August 13, 2023 / Books
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June 1, 2023 / Books

It’s June, which means for many it’s time for road trips, cottages and camping! If you’ll be travelling and unplugged, you’ll need some things to keep everyone entertained. We’ve got…

May 28, 2023 / Books

This week’s book and music pairing is for the Marvel fans out there. We’re pairing the book Black Panther: The Ultimate Guide with the movie’s original score. The book covers…

May 7, 2023 / Books

For this week’s A Nice Pair, we’re travelling back to the 90s. The EDM scene was hot and Moby was one of the top artists of that genre… His memoir,…

March 9, 2023 / Books

Yesterday was International Women’s Day. We’re continuing the celebration by sharing just a few talented Canadian female authors. Have you read any of these authors’ books?

February 26, 2023 / Books

Happy Sunday! You know what that means…it’s time for book and music matches that we call A Nice Pair! This week, we’re pairing Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits with the memoir Does…