Take Cover Books, Peterborough, ON (2026)

06/11/2026

In just under two weeks, our Spring reading club season concludes when we meet to chat about Seven Heavens Away by Ashraf Zaghal, a heartbreaking debut novel about a Palestinian teenager coming of age amid escalating violence in Jerusalem.

🍉 After their friend Hassan is killed by an Israeli, Aziz and Mustafa are shaken to their core, drawn into the orbit of Hassan’s father—a respected community leader known for his charity and fiery speeches-as they grapple with grief, guilt, and an uncertain future. As Aziz’s forbidden feelings for Dafna, a Jewish girl, deepen and his mother searches for a way to secure his safety, he’s forced to confront painful truths about loss, survival, and what it means to find hope amid the ruins.

📣 There’s still enough time to read the book if you’re interested in joining on this round. We have a lil stack of copies on hand if you’d like to grab one. You can also bring your own copy, listen to the audiobook, or take it out from the library. We meet on the last Wednesday of each month and the club is free to join—purchase isn’t necessary! Shoot us an email ([email protected]) to be added to the club roster.

06/09/2026

The Highly Likely Festival of Music and Literature will be returning in 2027! And to prepare, we are streamlining 🖇️

Moving forward, Miracle Territory has retired, and all of our shows and events henceforth will be presented under the ‘Highly Likely presents …’ banner. The team and the spirit remain; we’ve evolved into one central operation! We now have a *dedicated* instagram account to chronicle all things Highly Likely!!

We also have a new lil logo designed my our dear friend Christopher Green ( ) and you should heap praise upon him in the comments.

Announcements are coming your way this summer, so keep an ear to the ground!

Love ya ✌️

05/12/2026

In just over two weeks, our Spring reading club season rolls on when we meet to chat about Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies by Lindsay Wong, a daring, genre-bending meditation on life, death, and the murderous cost of living in between.

👻 Poor, vicious Locinda Lo is a nobody with a powerful witch for a grandmother and an undead co**se-kid-sister as her only friend. A broke MFA dropout living in Vancouver with six roommates and zero job prospects, she’s buried so deep in debt she might as well be six feet under—and her family is in danger of being buried along with her. Desperate to escape her financial woes and save her grandmother and sister, Locinda signs a contract with a nefarious company, Joyful Coffin & Co. Matchmaking Services, to be auctioned off as a co**se bride to the highest bidder. Next thing she knows, she’s being smuggled underground into the damp caves where her training coffin awaits.

👻 As Locinda prepares for a rich, dying dearly beloved to claim her as his bride-to-be in the Afterlife, her past becomes twisted with that of her grandmother, Baozhai. A feared and revered Villain Hitter, or witchy curse-monger, Baozhai’s legacy stretches from 1920s China to the Battle of Hong Kong in the 40s to New York City thereafter. Across the generational divide, one thing becomes achingly clear to them both: you can’t outrun your ghosts.

📣 There’s still enough time to read the book if you’re interested in joining on this round. We have a lil stack of copies on hand if you’d like to grab one. You can also bring your own copy, listen to the audiobook, or take it out from the library. We meet on the last Wednesday of each month and the club is free to join—purchase isn’t necessary! Shoot us an email ([email protected]) to be added to the club roster.

04/14/2026

We are pleased to announce that Give a Sheet Press is once again opening its submission doors!

We are now accepting submissions for unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that are 2500 words or less.

See the slides for a short history of the press and special details about the books.

The link to the submission form is in our bio.
If you’re a writer interested in applying, we can’t wait to read your application! If you know a writer who may be interested, please share the application info!

The deadline is 15 May 2026.

We’re excited to read what y’all have cooked up!

04/09/2026

We’re teaming up with the young whippersnappers at arthur_online to do something real special for National Canadian Film Day!

On the evening of April 15, 2026 (that’s next Wednesday!) we’ll be screening the now-international cult hit Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie to raise funds for OneCity Peterborough!

You probably already know, but here’s a lil bit about the Film: NTBTSTM is a 2025 Canadian comedy film directed by Matt Johnson and written by Johnson and Jay McCarrol. It is based on their 2007–2009 web series Nirvanna the Band the Show and its 2017–2018 television adaptation, Nirvanna the Band the Show. The film follows the band when their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong. After that inciting incident, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Tickets are $10 and all proceeds go to One City Peterborough

Purchase is available in our events page and through the link in our bio.

These are gonna move fast, so get em while you can!

See you next week ✌️

04/02/2026

📯Bye bye, Winter! Hello, new TCRC material: THE SPRING READING CLUB LIST IS HERE!

📯A long winter has melted into a chilly spring and now it’s time to unveil the next three club titles for 2026. We are quite excited about this season. Look out below!

⚪️ April 29th @ 7pm: Hi, It’s Me by Fawn Parker

🥊 May 27th @ 7pm: Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies by Lindsay Wong

🍉 June 24th @ 7pm: Seven Heavens Away by Ashraf Zaghal

📯The TCRC meets on Google Meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 7pm. The club is free to join and purchase isn’t necessary to attend. You can take a copy out from the library, bring your own copy, or listen to the audio book on .fm. Or, if you’re going to grab a copy, you can get it from us! To join, shoot us an email ([email protected]) to be added to the club roster.

See you in the clubhouse ✌️

03/31/2026

🎥 NEW SEASON ALERT 🎥

We’re leaving this long, cold winter behind us, and we’re galloping headlong toward the sunnier, springier days where it’s okay to feel joy in public, just not too much, let’s not overdo it.

Welcome to Season 9, where we, your dearest bookstore boys, have devised a nice slate of movies to keep us happy long past the equinox: that’s right, we’re watching some musicals!

Here’s what’s on the spindle for the next three months:

April 8th @ 7pm: Weird, dir. Eric Appel

May 13th @ 8pm: Neptune Frost, dir. Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman

June 10th @ 8pm: True Stories, dir. David Byrne

**please note the 8pm start time in May and June**

But wait, there’s more!

🎊 We’re pleased to announce the fourth instalment of BLOWN TAKES! 🎊

On April 1st at 7pm, local filmmaker and friend of the store Peter Blow will screen another classic film, tell us why he loves it so, and then we’ll discuss the filmas a group. The next film is Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, a movie based on action undertaken by rebels during the Algerian War against the French government in North Africa. We’re very excited for Peter to share this one with the club!

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Do you like your local bookstore? Then you are cordially invited to join the Take Cover Film Club! We’ll meet monthly to watch a movie together in the shop, and then we’ll have a chat about it.

Film Club screenings are free, and there is no membership fee. To join, send us an email ([email protected]) and let us know you’d like to be part of the club. That’s it!

See you in the clubhouse✌️

03/16/2026

In just over one week, our Winter reading club season concludes when we meet to chat about Oil People by David Huebert, a generational and eco-gothic fable about history and family, land and power, and oil as an object of toxic wonder.

🛢️1987: Thirteen-year-old Jade Armbruster lives with her parents and older sister on the family’s vintage oil farm—a decrepit property built by her ancestor. As her parents fight about whether to sell the land and their failing business, Jade struggles to avoid her best-friend-turned-nemesis and vies for the attention of the enigmatic farmer boy. Meanwhile, the oil swirling beneath her family’s home provokes erratic behaviours and offers murky revelations about her family’s history on this land.

🛢️1862: Clyde Armbruster catches his big break, striking Lambton County’s first gusher. The discovery brings wealth and opportunity to him and his wife Lise, but his daily proximity to oil leaves him infertile and may be the cause of his alarming, otherworldly visions. At the same time, Clyde and Lise develop an alliance with their eccentric and wealthy neighbours, a relationship that promises even more success until a fateful moment intertwines the two families, locking them into a bitter rivalry that lasts generations.

As the two narratives coalesce, family secrets and deceits are slowly unveiled, and the slick spectre of oil seeps off the page, revealing a landscape smeared and stained, yet persistently alive. Intense and visceral, agile and lyrical, Oil People is a molten mirror for the petroleum age, and signals the arrival of a profound and vital voice.

📣 There’s still enough time to read the book if you’re interested in joining on this round. We have a lil stack of copies on hand if you’d like to grab one. You can also bring your own copy, listen to the audiobook, or take it out from the library. We meet on the last Wednesday of each month and the club is free to join—purchase isn’t necessary! Shoot us an email ([email protected]) to be added to the club roster.

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