Caversham Booksellers

Workers with a crane installing a sign reading Caversham Booksellers

A sign reading Caversham Booksellers hanging on an exterior wall, next to a sign reading VINTAGE. A rack of clothing is visible nearby.

If you've been looking for a sign, here it is! Our Geary location just got easier to find. And have we mentioned we're right next door to a vintage store? Books AND clothes - one-stop shopping! 🛍️

From the jacket: "Through her painful experience of bereavement, her work intensified, resulting in this entertaining survey of the many faces of death and grief." @saraband-books.bsky.social @naomiwesterman.bsky.social

Event flyer: Anthropologist Naomi Westerman was studying death rituals around the world -- when her whole family died. Please join us Sunday, Oct 26 at 3 pm for the launch of her new book. 262b Geary Ave., Toronto. Naomi will be facilitating an open discussion space to talk about death and grief. Image: Cover of the book Happy Death Club: essays on death, grief and bereavement across cultures, with an illustration of a skull in a party hat. Image: Black and white headshot of Naomi Westerman

British anthropologist and playwright Naomi Westerman will be at Caversham this Sunday, October 26 to talk about her new book of essays, Happy Death Club.

Join us at 3 pm in our new space at 262b Geary Ave. for an open discussion with Naomi about death and grief.

Caversham Booksellers invites you to come help us celebrate our new location! Opening Weekend Saturday and Sunday, November 1 and 2 Author Events, refreshments, sales, 262b Geary Ave West of Dufferin

Images of both authors and their book covers. Lee Scott - Step Outside - Nov 1, 2 to 4 pm Sharon Sliwinski - An Alphabet for Dreamers - Nov 2, 5 to 6:30 pm

Announcing the grand opening weekend of our new space at 263b Geary Avenue! November 1 and 2. Featuring author events on both days!
#walking #dreaming #bookstore #toronto

Map showing Caversham Booksellers location

We're at 262b Geary Ave, just west of Dufferin, just north of Dupont.

The front door of Caversham Booksellers from the outside. A large, weathered sign reading BEDROOMS DININGROOMS is still visible above our door. A temporary white banner above the door, and a red one to the side, have our name.

The interior of the new bookstore, showing a red-painted ceiling, polished concrete floor, and several tall woodgrain bookcases. Many cardboard boxes of still-packed books are visible. Sunlight comes in through the glass front door

We have moved! Pardon the mess -- we still have boxes to unpack, and workers are putting the finishing touches on our accessible bathroom. But you can come in and browse! We'd love to see you!

Geart Ave Block Party - Sep 20 - graphic

Our new location at 262b Geary Ave won't be open yet for the Block Party on Saturday, Sep 20, but we'll be there, with a table and a selection of books. Swing by, say hello, and get a peek at the new space!
#gearyblockparty

Caversham Booksellers' 98 Harbord Street location: a glass bookstore window with a few bicycles locked to posts out front, and a red wooden bench. A sign in the window reads WE ARE MOVING.

It's official: our Harbord Street location is now CLOSED permanently. But don't be too sad: we will reopen soon at 262B Geary Ave! And web orders will continue as normal while our storefront is closed.

We're happy to be able to make this compelling title available!

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...and you should totally buy them at @anotherstoryto.bsky.social, @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social, or @cavershambooks.bsky.social.

If you see a lot of high-quality professional titles relating to their specific therapeutic modality, plus some interesting books on the social and ethical dimensions of therapy, it means they probably shop at Caversham and you're in good hands 😌

We're moving in September, and you know what that means: Sales! Our Rummage Sale, clearing out the books that have piled up in our basement over 36 years, is on now! Drop by and check it out!

Photo of Caversham Bookseller's shop window, with a sign saying "We are moving!", a map showing our new location at 262 Geary Avenue, and a bunch of books about moving, change, and transformation

Hey, have you heard our big news? After 36 years at our Harbord Street location, we'll be moving over the summer to a bright new space on up-and-coming Geary Avenue! We'll see you there in September!

Books have a much longer shelf life! 😀 And they're easier to ship. (We do free shipping anywhere in Canada for orders over $150.)

In support of the psychodynamic formulation of suicide, intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) reduced anger and suicidal ideation among patients who had previously attempted suicide. #AmJPsychotherapy bit.ly/425MQYH

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, April 26, 2025. Illustration of a woman riding a bike with a cat perched on the handlebars, flowers and books in the basket. Promo image provided by Canadian Independent Bookstore Association, drawn by artist and illustrator Josée Bisaillon

• Buy any book at our neighbours, @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social, then come over to Caversham and show us your receipt for a 10% discount off any regularly priced trade book. Or start here, and bring your Caversham receipt over there! (Some restrictions apply)
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Canadian Independent Bookstore Day, April 26, 2025. Illustration of a girl walking a dachshund and pulling a wagon full of books. Promo image provided by Canadian Independent Bookstore Association, drawn by artist and illustrator Josée Bisaillon

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day is coming up, and we're planning a couple of in-store special promotions to celebrate!
For one day only, on April 26:
• Buy any new book, and choose a second-hand/clearance book from our famous Super Sale Cart for free!
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We love a good book recommendation thread! A reminder that if you're looking for a title we don't currently have in the store, we can order it for you, and we ship internationally. Our staff are great at tracking down hard-to-find books, as long as they're still in print somewhere.

Who Gets to Be a Therapist? | Jess McAllen Gatekeeping is meant to ensure that future therapists are suited to the work. Some students allege it amounts to discrimination.

The vetting process meant to protect therapy clients from unethical and boundary-crossing behavior might actually be shutting out the kind of practitioners the field needs most. @jessmcallen.bsky.social writes on “gatekeeping”:

Book Club: 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life - World BEYOND War Book Club with Farzana Doctor. #WorldBEYONDWar

Are you an activist, caregiver, or community leader struggling with burnout? Join us for a 4-week virtual book club with me to explore practical self-care & community care strategies. worldbeyondwar.org/book-club-52...

My favorite bookshop in Portland is giving away free samples. Heh.

Rough Magic by Miranda Newman | Penguin Random House Canada INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A GLOBE AND MAIL READER'S FAVOURITE. A harrowing but ultimately uplifting memoir about living with borderline personality disorder—the most stigmatized diagnosis in mental...

Excited to discuss this book with @mirandanewman.bsky.social at our book club next week! Tuesday, March 4, 7 pm, in store and online. If you're not on our book club email list yet -- why not? Just email us at info [at] cavershambooksellers.com and we'll get you set up!

Alvin F. Poussaint, Pioneering Expert on Black Mental Health, Dies at 90 A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic racism.

Alvin F. Poussaint, Pioneering Expert on Black Mental Health, Dies at 90 At the invitation of Bob Moses, he moved to Jackson, Miss., where he became the Southern field director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in the 1965 Selma march, carried medical supplies www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

We're at Reading for the Love of It! Drop by, say hi, browse our curated selection. #rftloi

A stack of 16 books on a wide range of topics: attachment theory, philosophy of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, BPD, CBT, violence risk assessment. There's also On Women by Susan Sontag, A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom, and the School of Life book on Self-Hatred

Magnificent #bookstack assembled today by a customer visiting from Calgary. "Came for Taylor Swift, spent more on books!" 😁

Pro-tip for out-of-town visitors: our offer of free shipping on purchases over $150 applies in-store as well as online. So no worries about luggage limits!

Anita Archer's "Archerisms" Explicit Instruction Teach the stuff and cut the fluff. How well I teach = How well they learn I do it. We do it. You do it. Learning is not a spectator sport. Everyone does Everything Look carefully. Listen carefully. Walk around. Look around. Talk around. FEEDBACK FEEDS FORWARD Perfected practice over time makes perfect and permanent. Predictability predicts ability If you expect it, pre-correct it. Avoid the void, for they will fill it. Teach with passion. Manage with compassion.

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Bakka-Phoenix Books Science Fiction and Fantasy specialty bookstore since 1972

This sounds like a job for our next-door neighbours @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social ! (Though you may have to wait till postal service is back up)
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for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌