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Word, Woman and Place: Poems, 1971-1985 by Dermot McCarthy 9780864920515
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68Word, Woman and Place is McCarthy's fourth collection of poetry. Selections from his earlier works are gathered together with recent poems into this powerful new book which demonstrates McCarthy's... -
Reckonings: Poems 1979-85 by M. Travis Lane 9780864920713
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68Lane is allusive, intricate, and technically ranging, while the abiding impulses of her work remain spirituously generous and affirmative. Few contemporary poets have her command of tone, able to... -
Tiger in The Skull: New and Selected Poems, 1959-1985 by Douglas Lochhead 9780864920720
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04Tiger in the Skull makes available for the first time in a single volume the range, substance, and variety of Lochhead's work.About the AuthorIn the spring of 2001, Douglas Lochhead received the... -
In the Flight of Stars by Dorothy Roberts 9780864920973
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58In the Flight of Stars, Dorothy Roberts's seventh book of poetry and her first in more than a decade, is - in her own words - " a collection of latter-life poems," the mature work of a firm... -
Je t'aime Cowboy by T.F. Rigelhof 9780864921444
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62In Montreal, sex and politics frequently mix, and T.F. Rigelhof's stories are sexy and political. His contemporary cowboys -- immature, vulnerable men hoping to achieve masculinity by wearing cowboy... -
John Thompson: Collected Poems and Translations Peter Sanger 9780864921451
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.01During John Thompson's sadly attenuated lifetime, he completed only two volumes of poetry. At the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets and Stilt Jack (published posthumously), but seldom has... -
Between Families and the Sky by Alan Cumyn 9780864921697
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19A father's untimely death, a gothic grandfather who falls in love with his son's beautiful widow, a mysterious girl, a rogue golfer, and the watchful eyes of two young people trying to overcome the... -
With All Her Might: The Life of Gertrude Harding, Militant Suffragette by Gretchen Wilson 9780864921840
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and, when her sister moved to London in 1912, Harding... -
Badass on a Softail by T.F. Rigelhof 9780864921857
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19As David Hoffer, 44, rides his Harley Davidson Heritage Softail south on the Laurentian Autoroute to a memorial for a friend who has died of prostate cancer, he worries that he may soon join his pal... -
Studio Rally: Art and Craft of Nova Scotia by Robin Metcalfe 9780864922632
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $30.75On the first weekend in October, Nova Scotia artists and artisans throw open their studio doors, and locals and tourists alike, Studio Rally maps in hand, hit the highways and byways to pay a few... -
The Last Tasmanian by Herb Curtis 9780864923172
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98Winner, Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardShortlisted, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Canada and the CaribbeanThe Last Tasmanian has reaped more national and international recognition than any... -
Tent of Blue by Rachael Preston 9780864923424
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16Tent of Blue, Rachael Preston's richly conceived first novel, seduces readers with images of captivity and escape. Passing back and forth through time, the novel has its beginnings in England before... -
how the gods pour tea by Lynn Davies 9780864924230
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58This new collection by Lynn Davies, her first in eight years, abounds in departures: words and communities die, trout-lilies and passengers vanish, even the King and Queen of Fairies disappear. In... -
Take Us Quietly by Tammy Armstrong 9780864924605
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In Take Us Quietly, Armstrong explores life, sickness, death and the importance of paying attention to the wider world, filtered through her own unique sensibility. Nothing is taken for granted in... -
The Wind Seller by Rachael Preston 9780864924322
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16In her highly anticipated second novel, Rachael Preston tells a vibrant, compelling story of 20th century piracy. Exploring the complex struggle for freedom against a backdrop of passion and... -
Trimming Yankee Sails: Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick by Faye Kert 9780864924421
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint... -
Athena Becomes a Swallow and Other Voices from The Odyssey by Brent MacLaine 9780864925381
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Brent MacLaine's elegant, capacious, and finely crafted fourth collection, Athena Becomes a Swallow, contains twenty-seven monologues spoken by characters that appear in Homer's The Odyssey. These... -
Savage Love by Douglas Glover 9780864928511
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58The Globe and Mail Top 100Quill & Quire Book of the YearAmazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100Now magazine, Top 10 BooksChatelaine, Favourite Books of 2013"This was, hands down, the best book I read in... -
What Had Become of Us by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer 9780864928603
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.53Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's haunting "What Had Become of Us," is from her 2003 debut book of short fiction, Way Up. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of... -
Safely Home Pacific Western by Jeff Latosik 9780864928658
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58In his second collection of poems, Jeff Latosik looks to those provisional moments of arrival and anchoring in what Canadian poet Don Coles has called "the catastrophe of time." Safely Home Pacific... -
The Angel's Jig by Daniel Poliquin 9780864928672
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Long-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit AwardsFacing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is... -
Escape Velocity by Carmelita McGrath 9780864929068
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry AwardShortlisted, BMO Winterset AwardCarmelita McGrath's Escape Velocity - the long awaited follow-up to her Atlantic Poetry Prize-winning collection To the New World -... -
Mr. Jones Margaret Sweatman 9780864929143
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $24.34Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for FictionShortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and Relit Award (Novel)Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of... -
A Taste of Acadie Marielle Cormier-Boudreau 9780864921093
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16For A Taste of Acadie, Melvin Gallant and Marielle Cormier-Boudreau travelled all over Acadia, from the Gaspe Peninsula to Cape Breton, from the tip of Prince Edward Island to the Magdalen Islands,... -
The Ballad of Jacob Peck by Debra Komar 9780864929037
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God,... -
Non-Prophet by Qurat Dar 9781773104478
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.38Winner of the Claire Harris Poetry PrizeRaw, reverent, and bursting with searing vulnerability, Non-Prophet canvases the electric tension between devotion and doubt to gods both personal and... -
Fables from the Women's Quarters by Claire Harris 9780864921796
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04Fables from the Women's Quarters marked Claire Harris's blazing 1984 entry into the literary world, winning a Commonwealth Prize for poetry in its year of publication. A tribute to the women who... -
A Boy's Life of Napoleon by Alden Nowlan 9780864928573
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.53Alden Nowlan's "A Boy's Life of Napoleon" is a brilliant piece of short fiction adapted from Nowlan's first novel, The Wanton Troopers, written in 1960 but published posthumously in 1988. Published... -
Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction by Sarah Cox 9781773102887
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102887Author Sarah CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
The Top 100 Canadian Singles Bob Mersereau 9780864925374
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $23.70Shortlisted, 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: $45.14Booksplease Price: $31.40A 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58It'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: $28.37Booksplease Price: $19.34"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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58For 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: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Winner, 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: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16With 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58SUMMER, 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: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19With 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: $64.50Booksplease Price: $43.29Miller 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book AwardWere the...