Octopus Books

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A poster advertising the Ottawa launch of Interregnum by Jordan Himelfarb, with a photo of the author and the book cover. Information as per post.
Poster advertising a book launch of wîhtamawik / Tell Them by Louise Bernice Halfe - Sky Dancer. Details as per post.
Poster advertising an author talk with Curtis Chin in Ottawa, details as in post.
Poster advertising the Ottawa book launch of Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us. Details as in post.
Poster advertising a book launch for The Long Sixties with contributing authors Joan Kuyek and Lib Spry. Details as in post.
A poster advertising the book launch for Little Bee by Danny Neville, info as in post.
A sign reading "Warm up; roast chestnuts - 10% everything in store" out side of Octopus Books at dusk on a snowy evening, December 11 2025
Alex Himelfarb standing at a lectern speaking into a microphone.
Screenshot of a post by Ayesha A. Siddiqi from September 2, 2015, which reads: "every border implies the violence of its maintenance"
A poster advertising a book launch event for David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, December 6 at 7pm at the Social Innovation Atelier, 95 Clegg St. Ottawa. Details as per post.
Poster promoting an event with Alex Himelfarb discussing his book, Breaking Free of Neoliberalism, at Dominion-Chalmers Centre in Ottawa on December 2nd at 7pm. Details as in post.
A poster advertising Fall 2025 book signings at Octopus Books in Ottawa. Details as in post.
A poster advertising an author talk with Cynthia Miller-Idriss about her book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism on October 30th, 6pm-8pm, at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa.
Poster advertising the launch of We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System with author Jonathan Rosenblum at Octopus Books, 116 Third Ave, Ottawa, on October 27 at 7pm.
Poster advertising the book launch of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel by Muhannad Ayyash at the University of Ottawa on October 24 at 12pm.
Poster for the book launch of Lawless by Martha Paynter at Octopus Books in Ottawa on October 24, 2025.
Nora Loreto stands at a microphone reading from her book, Corporate Control, while Sandy Hudson looks on, smiling.
Picture of a hand holding a stack of books: - Undoing Border Imperialism edited by Harsha Walia - Freedom, A Mixtape edited by Marcel Stewart with Suitcase In Point - The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel - Border Abolition Now by River, Campbell, Whitener, and Medien - Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer And Trans Migrants Against The Deportation State edited by Luibheid - Defund: Black Lives, Policing, And Safety by Sandy Hudson
Poster: photos of the 1951 Pelican Lake Indian Residential School hockey team, the cover of Beyond the Rink, and headshots of authors Alexandra Giancarlo & Janice Forsyth. Text has event details as in post.
Photo of a sign that reads "Octopus Books voted the best independent book store in Ottawa, 1996, by audited Ottawa X Press readers' survey."
Photo of the Ottawa Public Library bookmobile bus
Month of May Day poster, text as in post. A list of events follows, details of which can be found at maydayottawa.org.
Book cover of Redress: Art, Action, and the Power of Presence, edited by Jaime Black-Morsette, shows an Indigenous woman wearing a very large flowing red outfit dancing on snowy ground in a forest.
Event poster text: The Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition invites all community members to recognize Red Dress Day with us. It is a day to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls across Canada and learn about the continuing crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls through educational displays, art displays, commemorative and creative activities. Date: May 5, 2025. Time: 10am-3pm. Location: Jean Pigott Place, City Hall, 110 Laurier Ave West, Ottawa, ON. Octopus Books will be there with books by Indigenous authors, including REDress: Art, Action, and the Power of Presence by Jaime Black-Morsette, creator of the Red Dress Project.
Event poster: a photo of author Omar El Akkad next to the cover of his book, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This".
Graphic text: If you bought books from a Canadian indie on Indie Bookstore Day, make sure to enter this draw for up to $1000 gift card! #CIBD2025 Contest for Book Lovers Buy books on April 26 and you could win up to $1000 to spend at a CIBA member bookstore!
Photo of two young Black women holding up the Golden Ticket inside Octopus Books.
Text as in post.
A picture of The Golden Ticket at Octopus Books. Behind, shelves are labeled "Canada" and "The Natural World".
A poster advertising the book launch for Our Thievery of the People by Leila Marshy on April 22 at Octopus Books.
Image showing the cover of the book Stitching Our Stories Together: Journeys Into Indigenous Social Work. Text gives event details: Thursday March 6th at 7pm, Octopus Books, 116 Third Avenue in Ottawa, Ontario.
A photo of a dog bounding joyously through the snow. Text reads: Stock up on books before the snow storm! Octopus Books is open 10am - 6pm.
Photo of a dog lying on its side in bed with its eyes closed.
A poster advertising the event, featuring the cover of the book Mother Trouble and a photo of the author Miranda Brady.
Photo: Looking down into an open cardboard box filled with copies of Rafaat Alareer's book, If I Must Die
A poster advertising the event featuring the cover of the book Got Blood to Give and a photograph of the author, Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden.
Photograph of Bryan Palmer seated at a table signing a copy of his book, Colonialism and Capitalism, in a seminar room at Carleton University.
A photograph of the panel discussing the launch of Reading the Room in a classroom at Ottawa U. Pictured are Gulzar Charania, Kelly Fritsch, Dan Irving, Natalie Kouri-Towe, & Megan Rivers-Moore.
A poster displaying the cover of Colonialism and Capitalism and a photo of author Prof. Bryan Palmer.
Poster for the Burnt by Democracy Ottawa book launch, featuring the cover of the book and a photograph of author Jacqueline Kennelly.
Rebecca Morris reads from her novel, Other Maps, to an audience inside Octopus Books. She is seated, and on her left sits Julie Lalonde.
A small group of students at Carleton University holding hand-made signs bearing slogans such as "Protect Hassan Diab" and "Trudeau, speak up for Hassan".
A photo of a bouquet of red roses overlayed with the names of the 14 women murdered at École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989.
We vote every day for the kind of world we want to live in by the way we spend our money.
Google maps image showing the route to First Unitarian due to construction detours.
A photo of Upon the Midnight Queer by 'Nathan Burgoiune on display at Octopus Books.
A screen capture of a list of books on octopusbooks.ca, including: Against the Loveless World, Parable of the Talents, Stories are Weapons, The Uses and Abuses of HIstory, On Zionist Literature, and None is Too Many.
Poster for the Octopus Books Reading Club Text reads: No assigned reading. Bring a book you want to share with others, or come sit in on the discussion. Tuesday January 7th, 7pm to 8:30pm. 116 Third Ave. in the Glebe. Hosted by Hadi, @liberationstudies on Instagram.
Niigaan Sinclair holding his book, Winipek, next to the Octopus Books book table.
Promo for Where Olive Trees Weep documentary screening.
Octopus Books storefront