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Mr Jones by Edith Wharton
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.35World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781771964548Author Edith WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint
Say This by Elise Levine
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.38It's a cold spring in Baltimore, 2018, when the email arrives: the celebrity journalist hopes Eva will tell him everything about the sexual affair she had as a teen with her older cousin, a man now...
If You Hear Me Pascale Quiviger 9781771962711
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son...
One Who Saw: A Ghost Story for Christmas by A. M. Burrage
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.55Originally published on Christmas in 1931 and widely regarded as A.M. Burrage's masterpiece, "One Who Saw" tells the story of a wrtier enchanted by a spectre of a weeping woman. His obsession builds...
How Fear Departed the Long Gallery: A Ghost Story for Christmas by E. F. Benson 9781771961943
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.55Biblioasis is thrilled to continue this series of beautifully illustrated, collectible, classic Christmas ghost stories designed and illustrated by world-famous cartoonist Seth.In How Fear Departed...
On Class by Deborah Dundas 9781771964814
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker's Book Award * Nominated for the 2024 Heritage Toronto Book Award * A Hamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and...
Let the Empire Down by Alexandra Oliver 9781771960786
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35In her second book, Alexandra Oliver takes us on a journey of escape from the suburbs of Canada to Glasgow, Scotland. Training her eye on the locals--on the streets, by rivers, in museums, on...
New Brunswick by Shane Neilson 9781771963053
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Heralding a new regionalism, New Brunswick interrogates the popular representations of Shane Neilson's home province. Structured as a group of serial long poems, this fifth book by the winner of the...
50 Greatest Red Wings by Bob Duff 9781771960588
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $22.64Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov, Nicklas Lidstrom, Ted Lindsay, and Brendan Shanahan. Bob Duff's 50 Greatest Red Wings is the definitive list of Hockeytown's heroes. Including members of...
My Shoes Are Killing Me by Robyn Sarah 9781771960137
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.38Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry In My Shoes are Killing Me, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the...
Lost Luggage by Salvatore Ala 9781897231951
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenback's fateful journey back to Venice and his death began with lost luggage. So also with Salvatore...
By The Book: Stories and Pictures by Diane Schoemperlen 9781927428818
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.97New from the Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Marian Engel Award and the Governor General's Award for English Fiction Once touted as compendiums of human knowledge, the encyclopedias and...
The Illustrated Edge by Marsha Pomerantz 9781926845180
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $9.68A BOSTON GLOBE BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2011 The poems in this collection inhabit several countries or no country at all, but many are concerned with boundaries: between words and silence, one person and...
Open Air Bindery by David Hickey 9781926845241
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15David Hickey's second collection builds upon the myriad strengths of his first. In a specimen book of songs, stories, and covenants, Hickey's subjects range from art and astronomy to snowflakes and...
The Signalman: A Ghost Story for Christmas by Charles Dickens
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15"This book is amazing." Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but Charles Dickens felt otherwise. He was among the many authors who set their scariest stories during the dim and...
Psychology and Other Stories by C. P. Boyko 9781926845500
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.45FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE "C.P. Boyko's second offering is brilliantly bold. Playful and dire and scholarly all at once, Psychology may...
God's Plenty: A Study of Hugh Hood's Short Fiction by W. J. Keith 9781927428474
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.98A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Marcel Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist,...
Yesterday's People by Goran Simic 9780973597172
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.65These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them, where the reality is often much more surreal than fiction.About the...
Romantic by Mark Callanan
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $9.68Drawing on Arthurian myth, the Romantic poets, the ill-fated "Great War" efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment, modern parenthood, 16-bit video games, and Major League Baseball, these poems examine...
On Property by Rinaldo Walcott
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55From plantation rebellion and Indigenous land theft to prison labor's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a...
Aubrey McKee by Alex Pugsley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A novel comprised of connected short stories about a boy coming of age in 1970-80s Halifax, Aubrey McKee is the first in a five-part series of autobiographical novels. The second novel, The...
Estates Large and Small Ray Robertson 9781771964623
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $11.09Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man's reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life. What decades of rent increases and...
On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever by Andrew Potter
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a...
On the Origin of the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years by Elaine Dewar
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95In On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years: An Investigation, prize-winning author and journalist Elaine Dewar spins a compulsive whodunnit. From the first television newscast describing...
The Sundial: A Ghost Story for Christmas by R.H. Malden 9781771963138
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.55When he returns to England from the Civil Service, a man takes up residence in an old country home. Enchanted by midsummer days in the garden, he decides to install a sundial. As he waits for it to...
My Camino by Patrick Warner 9781771962872
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15An uproarious satire of the art world and a joyful, episodic novel that will appeal to anyone looking for a non-dreary read.Book InformationISBN 9781771962872Author Patrick WarnerFormat PaperbackPage
How to Die: A Book About Being Alive Ray Robertson 9781771960946
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15"He who would teach men to die would teach them to live," writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book on Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society...
Real is the Word They Use to Contain Us by Noah Wareness 9781771961592
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35As the sickly boy dreams in bed, the shadows beneath his parlor curtain are stirring, taking shapes inexpressible even in a child's dreams. "Real keeps us silent," argues the taxidermied rabbit to...
Best Canadian Stories 2019 Caroline Adderson 9781771963275
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Now in its 49th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood,...
Menno Moto: A Journey Across the Americas in Search of My Mennonite Identity Cameron Dueck 9781771963473
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Across Latin America, from the plains of Mexico to the jungles of Paraguay, live a cloistered Germanic people. For nearly a century, they have kept their doors and their minds closed, separating...
In the Lights of a Midnight Plow by David Hickey 9781897231098
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75The poems of David Hickey's first collection, In the Lights of a Midnight Plow, glitter and startle. His is a writing deftly musical, where every detail and image has been carefully weighed, honed...
A Thaw Foretold by Mike Barnes 9781897231197
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Written between one January and the next, A Thaw Foretold is a passionate exploration of themes that are as timeless and recurrent as the seasons. In language that is both precisely vivid and...
Jane Again: Poems by Wayne Clifford 9781897231555
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15In his sixties, Yeats published the half-dozen poems that drew Crazy Jane out from his imagination to act as a profane voice against the strictures of the Church and the mores of his age. Wayne...
Sorry About the Fire by Colleen Coco Collins 9781771966139
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15A CBC Books' Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024I wanted a good bewildering, / down deep, / as the keep of a castle.With a voice as ungovernable and determined as Prometheus—who stole fire...
Unmet 9781771966573
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771966573Format PaperbackImprint BiblioasisPublisher Biblioasis
Best Canadian Poetry 2020 Marilyn Dumont 9781771963640
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95"A best poem fulfills the promise set out in its first syllable, word, syntax, line break, and soundscape to its reader/listener." “What is a best poem?” asks Best Canadian Poetry 2020 guest editor...
The Kingdom of Redonda: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda by Michael Hingston
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75In the middle of the Caribbean, there sits a small island called Redonda. But what at first appears to be an uninhabited rock turns out to also be the site of a fragmented, fiercely contested kingdom...
You Are Here by Cynthia Flood
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.38Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Flood’s career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political.In this collection, Flood...
Come Again by Richard Sanger
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15A jubilant, irreverent, generous collection by a poet facing terminal illness.Following his New York Times Best of the Year Dark Woods, Richard Sanger's fourth and final book is a clear-eyed and...
Temerity & Gall by John Metcalf
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $16.55For more than five decades, John Metcalf has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of Canadian literature and imagine its potential. A...