Tag: Books

February 6, 2025 / Books
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January 23, 2025 / Books

Rebecca Yarros fans, it’s here! We have the deluxe edition of Onyx Storm currently in stock. Bonus: it’s 15% off the retail price and you’ll get a stamp towards used…

January 10, 2025 / Music

For years, Childish Gambino’s Atavista hid in plain sight. When he released an unfinished version of the record on March 15, 2020, it spent just 12 hours on his website…

December 22, 2024 / Books

It’s Sunday, it’s the holidays and today it’s time for a Christmas edition of A Nice Pair! But before we kick things off, we want to remind you that we’re…

December 3, 2024 / Books

We hope your December’s off to a good start! We have a few important dates to share here for this upcoming week… Backbeat will be CLOSED this coming Saturday, December…

November 28, 2024 / Music
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October 17, 2024 / Books
August 7, 2024 / Books

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?

July 18, 2024 / Books

We don’t judge people by their covers, but we definitely judge books. Do you? Here are some of our favourite collections that are as beautiful to look at as they…

June 16, 2024 / Books

Before we delve into today’s book and music pairing, we’d like to wish a Happy Father’s Day to those celebrating! If your celebrations involve books or vinyl – or even…

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…

January 3, 2024 / Bags

Let’s kick off the new year with a BIG sale! Our “Happy New Year To You Sale” starts this Friday! There are some amazing deals to be had, so don’t…

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 26, 2023 / Books

This week’s music and book pairing features a book about seven genres of music and one artist, Joni MItchell, one of the pioneers of a new kind of rock. Major…

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 27, 2023 / Music

It’s Friday!We’ve got lots of new and recent new releases to feature today since we skipped posting about releases last week.We know we’ll be getting asked about Taylor Swift‘s 1989…

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…

July 27, 2023 / Books