- Online Facebook Spotlights and In-store Events for 2026
- Wednesday, January 7th- 6:30pm- Monthly Book Swap Come by, meet and mingle, and then share and swap your favourite used books! Bring in a wrapped, gently-used book that you are willing to part with and that you know someone else will enjoy! Write a few things that you liked about the book on the front. We will draw numbers and take turns discussing our books without revealing the titles. Then each person will choose a book in the order they were presented. A book can be stolen only once.
- January 16th- 22nd- Online Spotlight. Inside Indonesia’s Big Bang by Mark Gilbert, published by OC Publishing.
- Wednesday, January 21st- 6:30pm-7:30pm- Locally Authored Book Club- see the bottom of the page for details regarding our one-of-a-kind book club.
- Wednesday, February 4th- 6:30pm- Monthly Book Swap Come by, meet and mingle, and then share and swap your favourite used books! Bring in a wrapped, gently-used book that you are willing to part with and that you know someone else will enjoy! Write a few things that you liked about the book on the front. We will draw numbers and take turns discussing our books without revealing the titles. Then each person will choose a book in the order they were presented. A book can be stolen only once.
- Friday, February 13th- 6:30-7:30pm-Blind Date With a Book Speed Dating Night with special guest Deanna Foster. For our Speed Dating event, Blind Date books use their first line(s) as their “pick-up” lines, so Deanna will be here to tell us all about first lines: how she came up with her first line and their importance. She’ll also discuss her novels. There will be games and lots of laughter. Everyone gets one of these, never seen before, specially made, high-demand Blind Dates. Dress to impress. This is an adult event. A $10.50 fee- pre-registration is required for this event to monitor numbers. You can either register at the store, or by phone with a credit card at 902-435-1207, or by etransfer at dbex1187@gmail.com.
- Wednesday, February 18th-6:30pm-7:30pm– Locally Authored Book Club- See the bottom of this page about our one-of-a-kind book club.
We are currently limiting all our in-store author or book-themed events to:
- Already well-known, established authors that we know will draw a crowd and be of interest to our local customers.
- Or to group, and themed events, where we host several authors at once.
- Or to community groups that are interested in us hosting a particular author or themed event for their group to attend.
We do offer week-long online spotlights and book giveaways for local authors
What a Spotlight entails:
What a spotlight entails is for a week (Monday- Sunday) we do posts on our Facebook page promoting the author and book. At the end of the week, we give away a copy of the book spotlighted, provided by either the author or the publisher. The authors, in advance, provide us with any interviews, reviews, or special posts about their book or of them, that we can share. The more the author/publisher provides the more that we can post.
Dartmouth Book Exchange Events Group
Authors, bloggers, aspiring authors, reviewers, publishers, editors, professional storytellers, and other supporters of local authors are more than welcome to join our Book Events group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/899347560587433
***If you are a Local Author/ Publisher interested in having an online spotlight done on our social media pages, please contact us on our contact page. Thank-you
Our Locally Authored Book Club Exchange
We generally meet on the third Wednesday of the month from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.
• Each participant will bring a locally authored novel that they have recently read and can part with. Locally authored will be defined as an author living within the Atlantic Bubble.
• During the meeting, each person will take a turn telling everyone what they liked about the book they brought and why the others should read it.
• Each book will go into a basket and at the end of the meeting, if a book sparked your interest, you’ll be able to take it home to read.
• If there is more than one person interested in reading the book, it will be brought back to the next meeting, for another person’s turn.
• We may even host an author occasionally, and Dartmouth Book Exchange may even seed the basket once in a while.
• All are welcome to come and listen during the meetings, but only the people who brought a book will be guaranteed to leave with a book.
Our Book Club aims to promote local authors, their books, and the writing of reviews. #supportlocalauthors
Meeting space
***If you are looking for a meeting place for your small group of 10 people or less, such as your book club group, we have a space. We charge a small $25 set-up and take-down fee for a 2-hour meeting, but should your group spend that or more in our store, the fee is waiv
