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Loan periods are 4 weeks for most materials, and 2 weeks for high-demand items such as DVDs and video games. Read about borrowing limits.

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NVCL does not charge fines on overdue materials. However, please note that we charge the replacement cost for lost items and long-overdue (6 weeks) items assumed to be lost.

There is no fee to place holds on titles in our catalogue. There is a $1 fee for holds that are not picked up and checked out.

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Drawn to the arts 2024/25 North Shore Authors Collection NYT bestsellers BC & North Van history

The Encyclopedia of Coloured Pencil Techniques

Draw 62 Magical Creatures and Make Them Cute

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals

To the "other" Ocean : |A Light-hearted Story of 42 Days and A Lifetime on the Road

The Fairy Hollow Gold Treasure Adventure

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Sketching From the Imagination An Insight Into Creative Drawing

Drawing in Black & White Creative Exercises, Art Techniques, and Explorations in Positive and Negative Design

Draw 62 Magical Creatures and Make Them Cute Step-by-step Drawing for Characters and Personality

Botanical Drawing A Step-by-step Guide to Drawing Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit and Other Plant Life

Art Starts With A Line A Creative and Interactive Guide to the Art of Line Drawing

How to Draw Sci-fi Heroes & Villains Brainstorm, Design, and Bring to Life Teams of Cosmic Characters, Atrocious Androids, Celestial Creatures -- and Much, Much More!

Botanical Line Drawing 200 Step-by-step Flowers, Leaves, Cacti, Succulents, and Other Items Found in Nature

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals More Than 200 Drawing Techniques, Tips & Lessons for Rendering Lifelike Animals in Graphite and Colored Pencil

Manga Art for Intermediates A Step-by-step Guide to Creating your Own Manga Drawings

Great Book of Dragon Patterns The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Craftspeople

Biography of A Friendship A Memoir

Soseol-eul jochneun hichihaikeo Hitchhikers in pursuit of stories

The Get A Crime Novel

Nucleus A Poet's Lyrical Journey From Ukraine to Canada

On the Surface A Thriller

The Carry-on Imperative A Memoir of Travel, Reinvention & Giving Back

Nobody Important Just A Renegade Cop

Traces of A Boy Reflections of the Unfathomable

Output Optimizing your Performance With Lessons Learned From Sport

When Women Talk 10 Influental Women Share Stories of Learning, Life and Leadership

Monsters of the Wilderness Oswalds Curse

The Historians Healing at Hidcote

In Harmony With the Tao A Guided Journey Into the Tao Te Ching

Personal Storytelling Discovering the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

The Flourishing Postpartum Planner Your Guide to the Fourth Trimester

Transitions From Farmhand to Career Diplomat

Good Spirits A Novel

Project Hail Mary A Novel

Remain A Supernatural Love Story

Twice A Novel

The Tin Men A Novel

Wreck A Novel

The Secret of Secrets A Novel

Time Travel in North Vancouver A Peek Into the Past

At the Bridge James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging

What Was Said to Me The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, A Cowichan Woman

British Columbia Land of Promises

East Side Story Growing Up at the PNE

Raincity Vancouver Reflections

Stewards of Splendour A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia

Go Do Some Great Thing The Black Pioneers of British Columbia

Sheltering in the Backrush A History of Twin Islands

Echoes Across Seymour A History of North Vancouver's Eastern Communities Including Dollarton and Deep Cove

Where Mountains Meet the Sea An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver

The Geography of Memory Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People

On the Edge of Empire Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871

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Sketching From the Imagination
An Insight Into Creative Drawing

Drawing in Black & White
Creative Exercises, Art Techniques, and Explorations in Positive and Negative Design

Draw 62 Magical Creatures and Make Them Cute
Step-by-step Drawing for Characters and Personality

Botanical Drawing
A Step-by-step Guide to Drawing Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit and Other Plant Life

Art Starts With A Line
A Creative and Interactive Guide to the Art of Line Drawing

How to Draw Sci-fi Heroes & Villains
Brainstorm, Design, and Bring to Life Teams of Cosmic Characters, Atrocious Androids, Celestial Creatures -- and Much, Much More!

Botanical Line Drawing
200 Step-by-step Flowers, Leaves, Cacti, Succulents, and Other Items Found in Nature

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals
More Than 200 Drawing Techniques, Tips & Lessons for Rendering Lifelike Animals in Graphite and Colored Pencil

Manga Art for Intermediates
A Step-by-step Guide to Creating your Own Manga Drawings

Great Book of Dragon Patterns
The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Craftspeople

Biography of A Friendship
A Memoir

Soseol-eul jochneun hichihaikeo
Hitchhikers in pursuit of stories

The Get
A Crime Novel

Nucleus
A Poet's Lyrical Journey From Ukraine to Canada

On the Surface
A Thriller

The Carry-on Imperative
A Memoir of Travel, Reinvention & Giving Back

Nobody Important
Just A Renegade Cop

Traces of A Boy
Reflections of the Unfathomable

Output
Optimizing your Performance With Lessons Learned From Sport

When Women Talk
10 Influental Women Share Stories of Learning, Life and Leadership

Monsters of the Wilderness
Oswalds Curse

The Historians
Healing at Hidcote

In Harmony With the Tao
A Guided Journey Into the Tao Te Ching

Personal Storytelling
Discovering the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

The Flourishing Postpartum Planner
Your Guide to the Fourth Trimester

Transitions
From Farmhand to Career Diplomat

Good Spirits
A Novel

Project Hail Mary
A Novel

Remain
A Supernatural Love Story

Twice
A Novel

The Tin Men
A Novel

Wreck
A Novel

The Secret of Secrets
A Novel

Time Travel in North Vancouver
A Peek Into the Past

At the Bridge
James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging

What Was Said to Me
The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, A Cowichan Woman

British Columbia
Land of Promises

East Side Story
Growing Up at the PNE

Raincity
Vancouver Reflections

Stewards of Splendour
A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia

Go Do Some Great Thing
The Black Pioneers of British Columbia

Sheltering in the Backrush
A History of Twin Islands

Echoes Across Seymour
A History of North Vancouver's Eastern Communities Including Dollarton and Deep Cove

Where Mountains Meet the Sea
An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver

The Geography of Memory
Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People

On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871