Manifest Bookstore

Vendor spots are filling fast. If you are instrested.

We are now accepting vendors for our Book Fair happening March 2, 2024.

The Black Literacy Book Fair “Youth Edition” is a celebration of books and learning for Afro-Caribbean Canadian youth, promoting reading and lifelong learning.

We are looking for vendors who will offer a variety of culturally enriching products, including publications commemorating Afro-Caribbean history and educational tools.

Some categories are already filled give us a call or send us a message.

💥 Join Us this Saturday, February 10, 2024 for the 3rd session in the Local Author Series titled “Black History: A Literary Celebration” – a Black History Month edition presented by and that promises an inspiring day of culture and creativity.

Featuring Yvonne Rhoden , Ann Martino , Justin Louis-Jean & Erica London alongside a special presentation from a special guest.
📅 Taking place from 11 am to 4 pm at Manifest Bookstore in East York Town Centre (45 Overlea Blvd) This event is open to the public, and admission is FREE for all. 🎉 Don’t miss out on this opportunity to celebrate Black History Month in a literary and artistic atmosphere. See you there! 🥂📚

Gratitude to all who joined in for our Cheers to 2024 celebration🎉🥳. Your presence made it truly special✨. To all the local authors who have their books in our store thank you! ☺️ 2024 we will continue to bring your story to everyone, One book at a time! 📚 Until the next chapter, happy reading!📖

Celebrating the wisdom and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.📚✨ Join us on this special day of reflection, unity and inspiration. Let his words echo through the shelves of knowledge as we honour a visionary who shaped history🌟

📚✨Get ready for an immersive celebration of Black Literature at Manifest Bookstore’s Black Literacy Book Fair! “Youth Edition”🌟

Join us for a day brimming with enchantment as we honour the richness of Black storytelling and culture.📖✨

From captivating tales to free face painting and a delightful toddler corner, every moment will sparkle with literary magic, all while supporting the Blackstone Foundation Library.💫

Don’t miss out on registering via Eventbrite to claim your free gift.
You will be transported through pages of live readings and immersed into our unique feature Mini Intel, adding an extra layer of excitement to this literary heaven!✨🌟

Let’s unite in celebration of diverse voices and narratives, weaving together stories that inspire, empower, and connect us all. Join us in this joyous exploration of literature and community!🖤 See you there, ready to savour both words and knowledge in an atmosphere of camaraderie and discovery!📖✨

For more information,
Manifest Bookstore
Tel:6474301885
[email protected]

Breaking barriers with the language of touch. Celebrating World Braille Day and the boundless journey of storytelling.📖✨

📸 Schedule your Free Professional Headshot Photos (for All Local Authors & Local Entrepreneurs) & Lets say “Cheers to the New Year” as we toast to the tasty selections from Event Sponsor, Wise Winery () on Jan 13th @ Manifest Bookstore in East York for the daytime Mix & Mingle 🥂  . Pre-Book your FREE photo session at  https://calendly.com/emprograffix/cheers . Do you know a local author that’s looking for more exposure? Contact EPG for info on how to get featured at our new Monthly Local Author Showcase.

New month, new stories!📚✨ January brings a fresh chapter to dive into at our bookstore. Discover tales that warm the soul and ignite the imagination. Let’s make this month a literary adventure together!


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Cheers to a book-filled New Year! Wishing you chapters of joy, plots of success, and a bestseller of happiness in 2024🎉📚



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📚✨Celebrating literary greatness!🎉 Presenting our top three Canadian best sellers of 2023 by incredible authors: ‘The Adventures of Leo & Zeus’ by Lajean Lee Gordon, ‘ABC Where are We? The West Indies!’ by Ayana Francis and ‘Another Superhero Day’ by Shaneice Vassel —absolute must-reads!🌟📖

📚✨Presenting our 2023 chart-toppers!🎉 Cheers to the authors behind the captivating stories of ‘Black Roses’ by Harold Green III, ‘So Done’ by Paula Chase and ‘Crowned with Glory’ by Dorena Williamson —these stories are rewriting the meaning of captivating reads!📖✨

📚✨Presenting our 2023 chart-toppers!🎉 Cheers to the authors behind the captivating stories of ‘Black Roses’ by Harold Green III, ‘So Done’ by Paula Chase and ‘Crowned with Glory’ by Dorena Williamson —these stories are rewriting the meaning of captivating reads!📖✨

May your holiday season be filled with books, joy, and endless stories! Wishing all our amazing followers, patrons and supporters at a Merry Christmas! 📚🎄✨

Two elves embark on an adventure from Manifest Bookstore in Toronto, spreading joy and magic all the way to Montreal! Safe travels little ones✨

Hello December! Can you find Esther? Every day, our special elf Esther will be hiding somewhere in the store. Will you be able to find her? If you can come to the front and show us where she is to get a sticker! Remember, Esther is the special elf with a Manifest Bookstore sticker on her! Good luck 😉

📚✨Get ready to unwrap literary treasures at the Holiday popup Marketplace! We’re thrilled to announce that Manifest Bookstore will be there, bringing the magic of books to your festive season! Join us for a page-turning experience filled with stories waiting to be discovered!🎁📖

For Immediate Release: Manifest Bookstore and The FUNtastic Bookfair Unveil New Local Author Series with Holiday Launch Event 📚

Ontario, [November 17th 2023] – Manifest Bookstore, an independently owned African Caribbean Bookstore, is thrilled to announce the launch of their new store location with a series of events in collaboration with The FUNtastic Bookfair. Dedicated to bringing knowledge and diversity to Canadians, Manifest Bookstore offers a wide selection of books, including children’s literature, modern fiction, true crime, cookbooks, foreign language titles, and religious books.

The launch event, titled "Holiday Bliss," is scheduled for Saturday, December 16th, 2023, from 11 am to 4 pm at the new store inside East York Town Centre, 45 Overlea Blvd, Toronto (Entrance 3). This event marks the first session of the New Local Author Series and promises a delightful experience for book enthusiasts.

Event Highlights:
Local Author Showcase 🌟
Book Signing & Reading 📖
Mini Book Fair 📚
Holiday Treats 🍬
Giveaways 🎁
Holiday Photo Session with African Father Christmas, Kente Claus 📸

Upcoming Events:
📅 Sat Jan. 10th (11am - 4pm) New Year New Gear
📅 Sat Feb. 13th (11am - 4pm) Black History Month

For More Information Contact
Manifest Bookstore tel: 6474301885
Visit ManifestBookStore.ca | FuntasticBookFair.com

Follow on Instagram:

For Immediate Release: Manifest Bookstore and The FUNtastic Bookfair Unveil New Local Author Series with Holiday Launch Event 📚

Ontario, [November 17th 2023] – Manifest Bookstore, an independently owned African Caribbean Bookstore, is thrilled to announce the launch of their new store location with a series of events in collaboration with The FUNtastic Bookfair. Dedicated to bringing knowledge and diversity to Canadians, Manifest Bookstore offers a wide selection of books, including children’s literature, modern fiction, true crime, cookbooks, foreign language titles, and religious books.

The launch event, titled "Holiday Bliss," is scheduled for Saturday, December 16th, 2023, from 11 am to 4 pm at the new store inside East York Town Centre, 45 Overlea Blvd, Toronto (Entrance 3). This event marks the first session of the New Local Author Series and promises a delightful experience for book enthusiasts.

Event Highlights:
Local Author Showcase 🌟
Book Signing & Reading 📖
Mini Book Fair 📚
Holiday Treats 🍬
Giveaways 🎁
Holiday Photo Session with African Father Christmas, Kente Claus 📸

Upcoming Events:
📅 Sat Jan. 10th (11am - 4pm) New Year New Gear
📅 Sat Feb. 13th (11am - 4pm) Black History Month

For More Information Contact
Manifest Bookstore tel: 6474301885
Visit ManifestBookStore.ca | FuntasticBookFair.com

Follow on Instagram:

Dreaming of a festive season filled with books and joy! 📚 Excited to announce that we’ll be a proud vendor at the Holiday BIPOC Market. Join us for a celebration of diverse voices, meaningful gifts, and the magic of community. Let’s make this holiday season one for the books!🎄📖

As we pack up our beloved bookstore in Little Jamaica, we can’t help but feel a bittersweet mix of nostalgia and excitement. The pages of our journey here are filled with incredible stories, laughter and the warmth of the community that embraced us. Thank you, Little Jamaica, for being our home for so long. We can’t wait to start our new chapter! Stay tuned for updates on our new adventure📚❤️✨

📚 November, the perfect month to cozy up with a good book. Join us for a reading adventure! 🍁

HANDS UP!: CELEBRATING BLACK JOY EVERY DAY
This triumphant picture book celebrates Black joy by reclaiming a charged phrase and showing readers how resistance can be part of their everyday lives.

A young Black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun, reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf, and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes down a hill so fast on her bike with her hands way up. As she grows, she lives through everyday moments of joy, love, and sadness. And when she gets a little older, she joins together with her family and her community in a protest march, where they lift their hands up together in resistance and strength.
Available online www.manifestbookstore.ca and in store 2411 Eglinton Ave W York, ON M6M 1S8.

HOW TO BE DRAWN (PENGUIN POETS)
A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award

A dazzling new collection of poetry by Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead

In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes's background as a visual artist, they do not strive to describe art so much as inhabit it. Thus, one poem contemplates the principle of blind contour drawing while others are inspired by maps, graphs, and assorted artists. The formal and emotional versatilities that distinguish Hayes's award-winning poetry are unified by existential focus. Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed, How to Be Drawn is a mesmerizing achievement.
Available online www.manifestbookstore.ca and in store 2411 Eglinton Ave W York, ON M6M 1S8.

THE FIRST PART LAST
Bobby's a classic urban teenager. He's restless. He's impulsive. But the thing that makes him different is this: He's going to be a father. His girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant, and their lives are about to change forever. Instead of spending time with friends, they'll be spending time with doctors, and next, diapers. They have options: keeping the baby, adoption. They want to do the right thing. If only it was clear what the right thing was.
Available online www.manifestbookstore.ca and in store 2411 Eglinton Ave W York, ON M6M 1S8.

I TRIED TO CHANGE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO: TRUE LIFE LESSONS
An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself for who you are, embrace your flaws, and unlock your true potential.

Winner of the African American Literary Award for Memoir!

Now cohost of Fox's The Real and SiriusXM's Café Mocha, Loni Love hasn't taken the typical path to becoming America's favorite straight-talking girlfriend and comedian. She was not the child of Hollywood legends and she never wore a size 00. Rather, she grew up in housing projects in Detroit, more worried about affording her next meal than going on a diet. When she moved to Hollywood after graduating college with an engineering degree, seeking to break out in the entertainment world, there was nothing that would convince her to eat the kale salads and quinoa bowls that her colleagues introduced her to, which looked to Love like "weeds my grandma used to pay me a dollar to pull from her yard."

Still, despite the differences that set her apart in the status-driven world of entertainment where being thin, young, blond, and bubbly is sometimes considered a talent, Love spent years trying to fit in—trying to style her hair just so, dieting, dating the men she thought she was supposed to be with. In this book, she tells the uproariously funny story of how she overcame the trap of self-improvement and instead learned to embrace who she was. As Love writes, "There's a saying a lot of people live by: 'Fake it till you make it.' For me, it's always been 'fake it, and then have the whole thing blow up in your face.'" I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To explores all of the embarrassing mistakes, terrifying challenges, and unexpected breakthroughs that taught her how, by committing ourselves to our own path, we can take control of our destiny.
Available online www.manifestbookstore.ca and in store 2411 Eglinton Ave W York, ON M6M 1S8.

Embrace the crisp October air and the comforting embrace of a good book as we welcome autumn to our cozy bookstore.📚🍂✨

IN SEARCH OF US

To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonde What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father.
Available online www.manifestbookstore.ca and in store 2411 Eglinton Ave W York, ON M6M 1S8.

365 Encouraging Prayers for Morning and Evening.

A Year of Inspiring Prayers for a Woman of God The all-powerful God we serve is interested in what you have to say! ... 365 Encouraging Prayers for Morning & Evening is a daily devotional prayer book that serves as a lovely reminder for you to bring any petition before your heavenly Father. Featuring just-right-sized prayers arranged into morning and evening readings including topics like Grace, Blessings, Joy, Serving, Faith, Patience, Love, and many more, this book is perfect for anyone seeking biblical encouragement. Each prayer is perfectly paired with a relevant scripture selection a fabulous way for you to begin and end your day in quiet fellowship with your heavenly Father.
Available online www.manifestbookstore.ca and in store 2411 Eglinton Ave W York, ON M6M 1S8.

MIXTAPE POTLUCK COOKBOOK

What if Questlove threw a dinner party and everyone came?

Questlove is best known for his achievements in the music world, but his interest in food runs a close second. He has hosted a series of renowned Food Salons and conversations with some of America's most prominent chefs. Now he is turning his hand to creating a cookbook. In Mixtape Potluck Cookbook, Questlove imagines the ultimate potluck dinner party, inviting more than fifty chefs, entertainers, and musicians--such as Eric Ripert, Natalie Portman, and Q-Tip- and asking them to bring along their favorite recipes. He also pairs each cook with a song that he feels best captures their unique creative energy.
The result is not only an accessible, entertaining cookbook, but also a collection of Questlove's diverting musical commentaries as well as an illustration of the fascinating creative relationship between music and food. With Questlove's unique style of hosting dinner parties and his love of music, food, and entertaining, this book will give readers unexpected insights into the relationship between culture and food.
Available online www.manifestbookstore.ca and in store 2411 Eglinton Ave W York, ON M6M 1S8.