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Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812 Joshua M. Smith 9780864926449
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between... -
Charge by Leigh Faulkner
RRP: $5.15Booksplease Price: $4.32The first full-length collection from well-known Nova Scotian poet Leigh Faulkner.About the AuthorLeigh Faulkner was born in Bass River, Nova Scotia, in 1941. After nineteen years as a teacher and... -
Song of the Taxidermist by Aurian Haller
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19There's something fresh and fantastic in Aurian Haller's view of the world. In Song of the Taxidermist, he demonstrates both a fascination and unease with the independence of the body -- its... -
Song of Kosovo by Chris Gudgeon
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $20.92Some days, it doesn't pay to be a lapsed pretend Buddhist... particularly when you're charged with a lengthy list of war crimes. Vida Zankovic has done many things to stay alive. A wily young man... -
The STU Reader by Douglas Vipond
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58St. Thomas University has nurtured exemplary people for a century - from its first alighting in Newcastle to its current perch on a Fredericton hilltop. Here, in celebration of St. Thomas's 100th... -
Between Books / Entre deux livres: The Writer's Time / Le temps de l'A (c)crivain Monique LaRue 9780864925343
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Once a work is completed, when and how do writers and other artists embrace their next creative work? In this fascinating book, Monique LaRue gives a tantalizing glimpse of the contour of time shaped... -
Breaking the Word Barrier: Stories of Adults Learning to Read by Marilyn Lerch
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In this compelling collection of first-person stories, adults who have made outstanding achievements in adult literacy were paired with writers to tell of their transition to reading. These are... -
Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Terry Graff
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $44.32Shortlisted, Best Atlantic Published Book Award and Canadian Regional Design AwardA major publication comprising 240 pages with 75 colour plates and 60 black-and-white photographs provides extensive... -
Shadows and Light: A Physician's Lens on Covid by Heather Patterson
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $27.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102740Author Heather PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher... -
The Scare in the Crow by Tammy Armstrong
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19As Tammy Armstrong rode horseback on a one-month sojourn in Iceland, up rose the ley lines that crosshatched the landscape - ancient tracks rife with saga, myth, and human history. In this... -
True Concessions by Craig Poile
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Winner, Archibald Lampman Poetry Award and Ottawa Book AwardThese poems chart moments where the beauty of life is glimpsed like a carnival through a crack in a fence. The verse is full of living... -
Strong Hollow by Linda Little
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a profound discovery of his sense of self. Strong... -
Is That You This is Me by Elspeth Bradbury
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.90This is not a book of illustrated poetry, but an artist and a poet comparing notes - communicating by their own method and enjoying the coincidences.About the AuthorBorn in Greenock, Scotland,... -
Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China by Jan Wong
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864929617Author Jan WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose... -
Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956 Roger Sarty 9780864923738
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug... -
Ned Pratt: One Wave Mireille Eagan 9781773100869
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $31.40The world in bold; Newfoundland in abstract."It is the landscape that endures, it is the landscape that remains in control." -- Ned PrattWith Ned Pratt, there is no nostalgia, no romance,... -
Hurricanes: What You Need to Know Rebecca Leaman 9780864924537
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In 1954 Hurricane Hazel caused such destruction around Lake Ontario that it's a vivid memory half a century later. In 2003 Hurricane Juan so devastated the Halifax, Nova Scotia, area that complete... -
Polari by John Barton 9780864923868
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58"Polari," from the Italian "polare" ("to talk") is a coded language, originating in the UK and dating as far back as the 16th century. Overheard in outdoor markets, the theatre, fairgrounds, and... -
Slow Seconds: The Photography of George Thomas Taylor by Ronald Rees 9781773101361
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $23.70George Taylor's vivid New Brunswick of yesteryear comes to life.The photographs of George Taylor (1838-1913) offer viewers a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century New Brunswick. Taylor's career... -
Crime and Policing in Maritime Canada by Peter McGahan 9780864920850
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.14Fascinating accounts of criminal and police life in major centres of the Maritimes. These are very human narratives of what policing meant in different places and at different times from the 1830s to... -
Good-bye to the Sugar Refinery by Patience Wheatley 9780864920898
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68Wheatley reflects on her experience with the Canadian Women's Army Corps -- exploring her own coming-of-age and offering an historical testament to the Canadian women who joined the Corps in World... -
Desperate Stages: New Brunswick's Theatre in the 1840s by Edward Mullaly 9780864920676
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.47Desperate Stages tells the stories of a disgraced one-time playwright, a starving actor, and a failed actor-manager, whose lives crossed in Fredericton in 1845. Together they provided New Brunswick... -
Crime and Policing in Maritime Canada by Peter McGahan 9780864920812
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Crime and Policing in Maritime Canada contains fascinating accounts of criminal and police life in major centres of the Maritimes. These are very human narratives of what policing meant in different... -
Climates by HermA (c)nA (c)gilde Chiasson 9780864922748
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Climates is suffused with the single-minded desire to fully inhabit, and be inhabited by, a place: Acadie. The political push-and-pull of being Acadian is a constant, even when the mutability of... -
Planet Harbor by Brian Bartlett 9780864921024
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68Bartlett has put together a collection of poems with a strong narrative line which draws upon experiences as diverse as a bus driver's salute, the dreams of a forty-year-old batboy, a bus ride in... -
A Guide to Animal Behaviour Douglas Glover 9780864921369
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for FictionA Guide to Animal Behaviour is a stunning collection of stories by an author who is fast becoming one of the great, innovative story writers of... -
Season of Apples by Ann Copeland 9780864922106
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40Ann Copeland jumps over the convent wall with Season of Apples, a book of stories about ordinary people surprised by their own sudden growth. With their special brand of serious good humour,... -
Emergent Voices: CBC Canadian Literary Awards Stories, 1979-1999 by Robert Weaver 9780864922670
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz are among the winners of the CBC Literary Award who have gone on to become some of the biggest names in Canadian literature. They and other... -
Trails of Greater Moncton Kate Merlin 9780864923493
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview are some of the fittest areas in New Brunswick. And, no wonder, these cities have one of the best-developed trail systems in the province and people in these cities are... -
The Road to Canada: The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec W.E. (Gary) Campbell 9780864924261
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north to the St. Lawrence River through what is now New... -
Anything but the Moon by George Sipos 9780864924278
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19George Sipos is acutely aware that life, in its strangeness and beauty, will always elude whatever he can say about it. Exploring northern British Columbia, the mountains, harsh winters and human... -
Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds by Bernie Lucht 9780864924391
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.14For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program's 40th... -
Bit Parts for Fools by Peter Richardson 9780864924902
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Finalist, Archibald Lampman AwardIn this lush collection of linguistic concatenations, Peter Richardson lines up the quotidian and the metaphysical, the personal and the fictional, and assigns equal... -
The Aroostook War of 1839 by W.E. (Gary) Campbell 9780864926784
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19A little-known episode in North America's history, the 1839 Aroostook War was an undeclared war with no actual fighting. It had its roots in the 1793 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American... -
Simran by Shauna Singh Baldwin 9780864928597
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.53Commonwealth Prize winner Shauna Singh Baldwin's glittering story "Simran" is from her 1996 debut collection, English Lessons and Other Stories.Published on the occasion of Goose Lane... -
Dust or Fire by Alyda Faber 9780864929228
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber's assured debut examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us when we are... -
Stephen Andrews POV by Kitty Scott 9780864928825
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $28.23The work of Stephen Andrews has long mediated the successive crises of the contemporary world, exploring conflict, social change, and identity. For more than a decade, Andrews confronted the AIDS... -
The Witch of the Inner Wood: Collected Long Poems by M. Lane 9780864928993
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $27.58Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for PoetryA Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearLike the novella in fiction, the long poem is an oft-neglected form. Too long for publication in most literary... -
Fit to Print: New Brunswick's Papers: 150 Years of the Comic, the Sad, the Odd and the Forgotten by B.J. Grant 9780864920737
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04The wild, the woolly, and the very strange: Fit to Print contains stories of the comic, the sad, the odd, and the forgotten from 150 years of New Brunswick newspapers. By the author of Six for the... -
SakKijAcjuk: Allanguattausimajuk ammalu Sananguatausimajuk pisimajut Nunatsiavum by Heather L. Igloliorte 9780864929761
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $32.43This description is for the Inuktitut edition.Nunatsiavut, tAcnna Inuit nunakKatigengituk Canada-mit pitAclauttut namminik kavamamik 2005-imi, sanaKattajut sananguatausimajunik adjiKangitunik...