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Night Street by Kristel Thornell 9780864926722
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864926722Author Kristel ThornellFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint
We Are Not in Pakistan Shauna Singh Baldwin 9780864924889
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16A Quill & Quire Book of the YearTen years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories. Migrating from Central America to the...
The Age of Confession / L'Age de la confession by Neil Bissoondath
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In this illuminating essay, Neil Bissoondath explores the powerful influence exerted by narrative on the human psyche. Storytelling is a primary activity in the human experience. The stories that we...
Ideas for a New Century by Bernie Lucht
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio's Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues -- most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy -- some...
Sanctuary: The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka by Deborah Carr
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Winner, Design Edge Regional Design AwardShortlisted, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice AwardAuthentic. Original. Inimitable. Mary Majka was one of Canada's great pioneering environmentalists...
Wanderlust: A Social History of Travel by Laura Byrne Paquet
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne Paquet...
IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958-2011 by David Moos
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $31.40Winner, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publication and Melva J. Dwyer AwardIain Baxter legally changed his name to IAIN BAXTER& in 2005. He appended an ampersand to his name...
Fragile and Fanciful: The Story of Nova Scotia Glass by Deborah Trask
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16In the last two decades of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century, glass manufacturing was a unique enterprise in Canada. Beginning with the founding of the Nova Scotia Glass...
Octaves of Narcissus by Elizabeth Harper
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.90Inspired in part by classical literature and Scripture, Elizabeth Harper's poems are literate, charged, and demanding in their emotional and intellectual range. Octaves of Narcissus is her first...
For and Against by Sharon McCartney
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Shortlisted, Next Generation Indie Book AwardHeart-corroding sex with a tin woodman. A foundering marriage like a cat on the brink of death that still manages to purr. Sharon McCartney's visceral...
The End Is in the Middle: Mad Fold-In Poems by Daniel Scott Tysdal
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102719Author Daniel Scott TysdalFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Impr
The Douglas Notebooks: A Fable by Christine Eddie
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013Romain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family's wealth...
Christopher Pratt: The Places I Go by Mireille Eagan 9780864928849
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $28.23"When you revisit a place that matters to you for the first time in a long time it is a rich, spiritual experience, but if you then revisit such a place too frequently it loses some of its power. The...
Atlantic Salmon Treasury, 75th Anniversary Edition: An Anthology of Selections from the Atlantic Salmon Journal, 1975-2020 by Charles Gaines 9781773103013
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $30.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103013Author Charles GainesFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint
Sukun: New and Selected Poems by Kazim Ali 9781773103235
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103235Author Kazim AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint
Fool by Jessie Jones 9781773101750
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Shortlisted, 2021 Raymond Souster AwardIn tarot, the Fool represents continual beginnings, not being able to see or think past the excitement and potential of a new start. The Fool is also associated...
All the Things We Leave Behind by Riel Nason 9780864920416
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864920416Author Riel NasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint
Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River Philip Lee 9781773100883
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Non-Fiction) Longlisted, Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Awards (Non-Fiction)A CBC New Brunswick Book List SelectionAn Atlantic Books Today Must-Have New...
James Wilson: Social Studies by James Wilson 9781773101880
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $28.23A CBC New Brunswick Book List Selection"The same stage, but different actors," explains Wilson. "There is something interesting to me about separating people from their environment, about keeping the...
Homage to Henry Alline and Other Poems by Douglas Lochhead 9780864921253
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04This collection marks a new stage in the long career of this renowned poet. The book consists of two long poems flanking a collection of related short poems. At once austere and rich, this book is a...
Showman: The Russ Whitebone Story by Russ Whitebone 9780864920881
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68His father was a magician; his mother trained white doves. Russ Whitebone grew up in the colourful world of the Big Top and the vaudeville stage. Showman is his story.About the AuthorRuss Whitebone...
The Sad Eye by Bradd Burningham 9780864920935
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Sackville resident Bradd Burningham's uncanny ability to inhabit the mind brings intimate revelations from characters as diverse as earthy middle-aged women and adolescent boys in The Sad Eye.Book...
Leaping Up Sliding Away by Kent Thompson 9780864920805
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68Leaping Up Sliding Away illustrates Thompson's passion for the "postcard story" - very short stories characterized by suggestion, resonance, and openness. Stories that draw the reader in... and then...
A Spy in My House by Kenneth J. Langdon 9780864920652
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68This fast-paced spy novel featured Winston Spencer, a one-legged, ex-school teacher tricked by circumstances and the SIS into acting as "keeper" for a chess-crazed KGB defector. A Spy in My House is...
Married Love by Kent Thompson 9780864920775
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68This novella charts with great comic exuberance the disasters which occur when Harry's mother, her stepson Jackie Boy, stepdaughter Elaine, and her second husband, descend upon the household - and...
Samara the Wholehearted by Nancy Bauer 9780864921031
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62In Samara the Wholehearted, Bauer transports her readers to the slightly tilted world of Summerland, a communal summer retreat, where a series of unusual encounters lead Samara to "adopt" her...
Dipped in Shadow by Claire Harris 9780864921864
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04Claire Harris is one of Canada's most powerful poets. Dipped in Shadow shows her at her strongest: the book's five poems making hard-hitting statements about women and their children. "O what are you...
Trails of Fredericton by Bill Thorpe 9780864922359
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04The beautiful little city of Fredericton has always welcomed walkers, but now that it's crisscrossed with abandoned railway lines turned into groomed trails, it's a paradise for the self-propelled...
The Greengrocer's Kitchen: Fruit and Nuts by Pete Luckett 9780864922892
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75Pete Luckett, Canada's Greengrocer, has transformed produce from an ordinary commodity into the jewel of the shopping basket. His newest cookbook is a guide to the seductive pyramids of luscious...
Deadly Frontiers: Disaster and Rescue on Canada's Atlantic Seaboard by Dean Beeby 9780864923110
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98Disaster can strike without notice. In a split-second the forces of nature, human intervention, or a simple twist of fate can place lives in jeopardy. A ship sinks, a plane crashes, a child wanders...
Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada by Ross Leckie 9780864923134
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region's finest...
A Personal Calligraphy Mary Pratt 9780864923165
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $23.31Winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Writers' Association Prize for Non-FictionMary Pratt is famous throughout Canada for her luminous paintings and prints. Her 1995 exhibition, The Art of Mary...
A Sharp Tooth in the Fur by Darryl Whetter 9780864923530
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58The thirteen provocative stories in A Sharp Tooth in the Fur, Darryl Whetter's first collection, offer lots of sex, a bit of violence, and a wickedly clever exploration of human nature.Backed into...
The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma by Jacques Poitras 9780864923769
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $23.70In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalists account of how Bernard Lord rose to the top in provincial politics and why his path...
Greetings from the Vodka Sea by Chris Gudgeon 9780864923837
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Greetings from the off-kilter world of Chris Gudgeon. In his first-ever book of fiction, the bestselling author of The Naked Truth: The Untold History of Sex in Canada offers postcard glimpses into...
Turning Back the Fenians: New Brunswick's Last Colonial Campaign by Robert L. Dallison 9780864924612
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America...
Under Budapest by Ailsa Kay 9780864926814
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Ailsa Kay lays out the literary equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle in Under Budapest, bringing into stark relief the triumphs, calamities, and desperation of two North American Hungarian families and...
six@sixty by Alden Nowlan 9780864928535
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.47And now we are 60. To mark this momentous occasion, the editors at Goose Lane have selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Authored by some of Canada's finest writers, they come...
Woman Gored by Bison Lives by Douglas Glover 9780864928559
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.53The beguiling "Woman Gored by Bison Lives" is from Douglas Glover's 1991 Governor General Award-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane...
Peter MacCallum: Documentary Projects 2005-2015 by Peter MacCallum 9780864928948
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $30.75Peter MacCallum has assembled collections of his documentary photographs of the last decade that examine the particularities of the vernacular spaces of human labour, commerce, and habitation...