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The Three Marys by Lynn Coady 9780864928580
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.53Giller Prize-winner Lynn Coady's unforgettable Christmas story "The Three Marys," is adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, published in 1993. Published on the occasion... -
Canadians at War, Vol. 1: A Guide to the Battlefields and Memorials of World War I Susan Evans Shaw 9780864928634
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75Shortlisted, Hamilton Literary Award (Non-Fiction)Ypres, the Somme, Vimy, Passchendaele, Amiens - to many, these are the names of battles far away and long ago. To thousands of soldiers, now gone,... -
The Legacy of Tiananmen Square by Michel Cormier 9780864929020
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $20.92With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead,... -
Shadow of Doubt: The Trial of Dennis Oland by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon 9780864929211
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted, Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence (Non-Fiction)On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was... -
Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses Susan Gibson Garvey 9780864929976
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $34.57"... I was able to make a simple gesture which left no permanent mark on the land."In 1979 Marlene Creates signaled her intent. In contrast to the monumental earthworks of that time, she revealed... -
Smaller Hours by Kevin Shaw 9780864929990
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks Eros,... -
Mohawk Warriors, Hunters & Chiefs Kanien'kehá Ka Ronterí Ios, Rontó Rats & Rotiiá Ner: The Art of Ne Tom Wilson Tehoháhake Rononionniánion by David Liss 9781773104072
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $24.34Tom Wilson Tehohahake is a modern Mohawk artist, Juno Award winner, best-selling author, and newly appointed member of the Order of Canada. In his 2017 memoir, Beautiful Scars, Wilson revealed the... -
The Kite W.O. Mitchell 9780864924377
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58W.O. Mitchell's critically acclaimed novel, The Kite, is a humorous yet touching story of a journalist's worst nightmare. Set in the Prairie backwater of Shelby, Alberta, seasoned reporter and minor... -
Amazing Medical Stories by George Burden 9780864923479
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62The twenty true tales in Amazing Medical Stories give a rich and entertaining picture of the ways in which medical workers (both real and fake) have used the keys to the mysterious kingdom of life:... -
Precarious Joys by Dominique Fontaine 9781773104386
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $30.75Precarious Joys accompanies the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art - a city-wide exhibition that this year focuses on artists' responses to the impact of colonialism on everyday life... -
The Kingston Prize Le Prix Kingston: Canada's Portrait Competition Le Prix Du Portrait Du Canada by Jason Donville 9781773104515
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $35.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773104515Author Jason DonvilleFormat HardbackImprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane... -
Island by Douglas Walbourne-Gough 9781773103396
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103396Author Douglas Walbourne-GoughFormat PaperbackImprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose... -
Crow by Amy Spurway 9781773100234
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75Winner, IPPY Award for Best First Book - Fiction and Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for FictionRunner-up, Leacock Medal for HumourShortlisted, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award and Kobo... -
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion by Tyler LeBlanc 9781773101187
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.16Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingFinalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Margaret and John Savage Award for... -
The South Will Rise at Noon by Douglas Glover 9780864924087
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Hot on the heels of Douglas Glover's Governor General's Award for fiction for his riotous novel, Elle, Goose Lane has brought back into print Glover's hilarious novel, The South Will Rise at Noon,... -
Jake and the Kid by W O Mitchell 9780864925237
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98When Ma, the Kid, her twelve year old son, and Jake, the hired man, first appeared on the pages of Maclean's and shortly after on CBC Radio, the lively boy and his cranky hero found their way into... -
Brit Happens: Or Living the Canadian Dream by James Mullinger
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.51One Sunday afternoon in a tiny postage-stamp garden, James Mullinger made the life-altering decision to give it all up: the London pubs, bustling city streets, and a flourishing comedy career. But... -
Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names by Soraya Peerbaye
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98In this artfully crafted collection, Soraya Mariam Peerbaye leaps onto the stage with aplomb. She examines how naming expresses our relationship with each other and the natural world and how meaning... -
Ideas on the Nature of Science David Cayley 9780864925442
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where... -
Hope Restored: The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick Robert L. Dallison 9780864923714
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some... -
Grace Helen Mowat and the Making of Cottage Craft by Diana Rees
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Knitting is a booming pastime enjoying a resurgence of interest, spawning books, movies, a brisk online trade in wool and knitted goods - even trade fairs. In Canada, Cottage Craft has long held a... -
The Darren Effect by Libby Creelman
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58An affair. A marriage. Accidental encounters. A secret spying mission masquerading as research for a short story on desire. This is the rich ground from which The Darren Effect springs, carrying us... -
The Watchmaker's Table by Brian Bartlett
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98In his most personal collection to date, Brian Bartlett meditates upon time and family. We share his son's discovery of newborn spiders and his daughter's first grasp of infinity as a concept. In... -
Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO by Wanda Nanibush
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $40.74Winner, Toronto Book AwardsMoving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO's Indigenous art collection. The volume... -
Government House Halifax: A Place of History and Gathering Christopher McCreery 9781773102016
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $32.43Government House Halifax is the home of the Sovereign's representative in the Province of Nova Scotia and the ceremonial home of all Nova Scotians. It has also served as a home away from home for... -
Unsnarling String by William Bauer
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.90A tour de force of comic ingenuity, Unsnarling String features the infamous Everett Coogler poem series.Book InformationISBN 9780864920447Author William BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 87Imprint... -
Cutting the Devil's Throat by Andrew Steeves
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04To play "cutting the devil's throat", hold a round stone as if you were going to skip it across the water, but throw it straight up into the air. If you do it right, the stone drops into... -
Questions in Bed by Stewart Cole
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Incisive and intensely felt, Stewart Cole's striking debut collection reminds us that we too live in an age of anxiety, disoriented by doubt, and up late, compelled to confront the unanswerable... -
All the People Are Pregnant by Andrew DuBois
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58"So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphor's a raft," declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present -- from "slummy memories of streets"... -
The Gunsmith's Daughter by Margaret Sweatman
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102399Author Margaret SweatmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Goose Lane... -
Close to the Fire by David Helwig
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62A snug country house, a snowy landscape in a place that could be Prince Edward Island, a small-town lawyer bumbling through an emotional crisis -- this is a winter's tale that warms the heart while... -
Atlantic Salmon Flies / Mouches pour le saumon atlantique Jacques Heroux 9780864929730
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.14The Atlantic salmon, the king of the rivers, is the ultimate prize for the angler. This beautifully illustrated volume brings together exquisite examples of nearly 300 salmon flies, tied by some of... -
Champ by Kay Burkman
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.90Part chronicle, part meditation, this witty and unusual collection of poems deals with the life and professional career of Tommy Burns, the Canadian who became Heavyweight Champion of the world.Book... -
Echoes in Silence by W.J. Keith 9780864921239
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04In his first collection of poetry, this well-known editor, historian, and critic takes memory as his overarching subject. Echoes in Silence explores Keith's memories of England, of his wartime... -
A Hinge of Spring by Patience Wheatley 9780864920768
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68This is Patience Wheatley's first published collection of poetry. Wheatley's writing is characterised by a powerful imaginative intelligence; she weaves together literary associations and responses... -
Now, the Memory by Paul Gotro 9780864920492
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68A cache of the brooding imagery and strength characteristic of Gotro's poetry.About the AuthorPaul Gotro was born in 1952. He has worked at many occupations, from soldier to editor and more recently... -
Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore by Ann Copeland 9780864921437
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62In this sequel to The Golden Thread, Claire Delaney recalls her past and steers a tricky path among mid-life joys and responsibilities.About the AuthorAnn Copeland, a native of Connecticut, lived in... -
Knowledge in the Hands by Heather Browne Prince 9780864921802
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04Heather Browne's first collection is the work of a mature poet in full control of her metier. Her poetry is sensuous, delicate, full of gesture, evocative of dance - and at the same time sense and... -
The Next Big Thing: The Dalton Camp Lectures in Journalism by Philip Lee 9780864923486
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Canadian journalist and political insider Dalton Camp left behind a powerful legacy, including books, essays, and newspaper columns on Canadian politics and public policy. To both celebrate his... -
A Good Enough Life: The Dying Speak by Susan Gabori 9780864923523
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75Philosophers, psychologists, and mystics perceive crisis as an opportunity for growth, with the most dramatic crisis being the experience of death. In A Good Enough Life, documentary film writer and...