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10:10 Michael Trussler 9781773103389
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.03Escaping from the evils of the modern world into the vivid colours of a bird's plumage, Michael Trussler's 10:10 plunges into the mystery and horror of living at the beginning of the Anthropocene... -
River of Dreams: Impressionism on the St. Lawrence by Anne-Marie Bouchard 9781773104287
RRP: $90.28Booksplease Price: $61.45River of Dreams celebrates the unique ways that Impressionism was practised by artists in Quebec, offering a close look at the work of such luminaries as Clarence Gagnon, Henrietta Mabel May, James... -
The Reign by Shane Neilson 9781773104232
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773104232Author Shane NeilsonFormat PaperbackImprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane... -
Collective States: Worlds of Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario by Sophie Hackett 9781773104799
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $57.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773104799Author Sophie HackettFormat HardbackImprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane... -
Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides by Melynda Jarratt 9780864925190
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73Imagine you're a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you... -
Edna Taçon by Renée van der Avoird 9781773104553
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $52.79Edna Taçon became a prominent figure in Toronto during the 1940s, where she had a crucial impact on the development of abstract painting. Described as “Canada’s leading proponent of non-objective... -
The Top 100 Canadian Singles Bob Mersereau 9780864925374
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $38.58Shortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, Performing ArtsA book that gets to the heart of the matter! Whether you're a professional musician or an air guitarist, a collector or a true amateur,... -
Peter Powning: A Retrospective / Une Retrospective John Leroux 9781773101927
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $51.11A CBC New Brunswick Book List Selection"I start with an original object, break it, and transform parts of the piece into other materials. These pieces gather meaning and explanation as I work with... -
An Orange from Portugal: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland by Anne Simpson
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73It's often said that the main export of the Maritimes is Maritimers, and the same is true of Newfoundland. "Going down the road" is a way of life, but so is coming home for Christmas. It is tradition... -
Hiking Trails of Ottawa: The National Capital Region and Beyond, 2nd Edition by Michael Haynes
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $31.48"If you are a fan of the great outdoors and love to hike or would like to start hiking, Michael Haynes writes an invaluable trail guide. Go out and buy the book and then go explore. You will not be... -
Beatitudes by Hermenegilde Chiasson
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73For Hermenegilde Chiasson, every work of art is both a cry and a prayer. Beatitudes reflects this perspective by connecting everyday events - people losing their keys or their cellphone signals - to... -
Guesswork by Jeffery Donaldson
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $19.85Winner, City of Hamilton Arts Award, Established Artist, WritingBeginning with an autobiographical account of the mind, Jeffery Donaldson's marvellous new collection moves from personal history to... -
Perfecting by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $26.31With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals others and preaches pacifism while enduring the torment... -
As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier Gerry Fostaty 9780864926487
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73SUMMER, 1974 - Six teenaged boys died and fifty-four were injured in an explosion on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec. A live grenade inadvertently made its way into a box of dud... -
The Sweet Fuels by Erin Knight
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $19.85With a supple, meditative approach, Erin Knight explores the complexity of beauty in this first collection by an astonishing new talent. The Sweet Fuels also reflects on the notion of orientation --... -
Miller Brittain: When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears by Tom Smart
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $70.48Miller Gore Brittain (1912-1968) had an unerring sense of structure and composition. In the early 1930s, at the Art Students' League in New York, he experienced the pivotal moment in American art:... -
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques Poitras
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardWere the... -
The Time We All Went Marching by Arley McNeney
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73Seduced by Slim's stories of the privations of a cross-country trek that ended in the violence of an historic riot and tales of Depression-era work camps, Edie MacDonald has followed him from mine to... -
The Push & the Pull by Darryl Whetter
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.03Andrew Day embarks on a bicycle trip from Halifax to Kingston, his childhood home. As he goes, the dual narratives of Andrew's life emerge: the slow, painful death of his father and the disappearance... -
Gophers and Swans: (suffer the little children) by Gwen Hauser
RRP: $8.38Booksplease Price: $7.04Gophers and Swans is a trenchant and powerfully feminist collection of poetry by the author of The Ordinary Invisible Woman.Book InformationISBN 9780864920058Author Gwen HauserFormat PaperbackPage... -
Weathers: Poems New and Selected by Douglas Lochhead
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $28.90Douglas Lochhead is one of Canada's finest poets. In celebration of his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing Weathers: Poems New and Selected, a collection of the best of Lochhead's... -
Qummut Qukiria!: Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sapmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North Anna Hudson 9781773102245
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $51.11Winner, Melva J. Dwyer AwardHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement (Research)Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit... -
Playing the Inside Out / Le jeu des apparences by David Adams Richards
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.28Playing the Inside Out is David Adams Richard's distilled insight on the artist's struggle for full access to artistic integrity by remaining an outsider to convention. Richards conjures forth his... -
Powered by Love: A Grandmothers' Movement to End AIDS in Africa Joanna Henry 9781773100210
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $39.63Winner, 2018 Best Atlantic Published Book AwardA National BestsellerBy the time the AIDS pandemic in Africa had reached its height in the early 2000s, millions of children had been orphaned. In the... -
The Outlines of Our Warm Bodies by Pat Jasper 9780864921208
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.16Pat Jasper collects memories, peels off their labels, gives them a good wash, and transforms them into insights. She focuses on the "small close spaces" of the family -- on domestic... -
The Conception of Winter by Claire Harris 9780864921635
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.72Powerful yet serene, The Conception of Winter is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it about physical, mental, and spiritual healing.About the AuthorClaire Harris is... -
Rooms: Milongas for Prince Arthur Street by Renato Trujillo 9780864920980
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $10.88Chilean-born Renato Trujillo has published several collections of poetry in both Spanish and English. In Rooms he exhumes the floating images of his past -- his mother hanging clothes on the line,... -
Resisting the Anomie Kwame Dawes 9780864921475
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.72Resisting the Anomie is the second book of poetry by Kwame Dawes, whose collection Progeny of Air, won Britain's prestigious Forward Trust Poetry Prize for Best First Book in the fall of 1994. In... -
Temporary Shelter: Poems 1986-1990 by M. Travis Lane 9780864921482
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.72In Temporary Shelter, Travis Lane demonstrates that she is one of Canada's finest and most rigorous poets. Yet, she writes with a subtle, sometimes muted, voice and from a position refreshingly... -
Dressing for Hope by Lorna Jackson 9780864921673
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.56Lorna Jackson's characters earn every scrap of comfort they get, sexual and otherwise. In the title story of Dressing for Hope, a bar singer finds her "future is getting crowded" when two... -
The Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard by Nancy Bauer 9780864921741
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $19.85The compelling plot of Nancy Bauer's fifth novel winds through Cornwall, Quebec City, and the Eastern Townships, New England, and the Fredericton area of New Brunswick. Full of vivid description and... -
High Marsh Road: Lines for a Diary by Douglas Lochhead 9780864921925
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.28High Marsh Road, a finalist for the 1980 Governor General's Award and a beautiful example of bookmaking, is now back in print. High Marsh Road is a signficant step in the century-long artistic... -
Paddling in Paradise: Sea Kayaking Adventures in Atlantic Canada Alison Hughes 9780864923400
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73A kayak may seem an unlikely place for adventure, but that's exactly what you'll find in Paddling in Paradise. Author Alison Hughes has created the definitive guide to sea kayaking in Atlantic Canada... -
These Fields Were Rivers by Brent MacLaine 9780864924049
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73Brent MacLaine's poems, like the poet himself, are rooted in the history and landscape of Prince Edward Island. Yet, MacLaine possesses a remarkable ability to graft rural values to contemporary... -
The Lynching of Peter Wheeler by Debra Komar 9780864924179
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.73At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler - a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl - was strung up with a slipknot noose. The... -
Tattycoram Audrey Thomas 9780864924315
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $34.06Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, "Tattycoram" tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author... -
On the Eighth Day Antonine Maillet 9780864924544
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.80In On the Eighth Day, Antonine Maillet imagines a solution to the world's problems: a wider and more exuberant world, with its right more left and its left more right, created on "the day when... -
Wild Apples: Field Notes from a River Farm by Wayne Curtis 9780864924858
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.13There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions which... -
The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood Kerry Clare 9780864924872
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $26.31A CNQ Editors' Book of the YearA Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers - such as Heather Birrell, Saleema Nawaz,... -
Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life by Beth Powning 9780864928528
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $29.53Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. But one leaf is a solitude. After...