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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... -
Hiking Trails of Cape Breton, 2nd Edition by Michael Haynes
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58This revised edition has new and detailed information on 40 new hiking trails on Cape Breton Island, ranging from its very northern tip at Money Point all the way to the Ghost Beach Trail, which... -
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... -
Perfection by Patrick Warner
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Patrick Warner's Perfection - the follow-up to his award-winning Mole - makes a carnival of our most potent and dangerous obsessions. A factory outlet sells designer human parts at cut-rate prices, a... -
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... -
Behind the Orchestra: Poems and Anti-Poems by Renato Trujillo 9780864920539
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68This book presents the revelatory nature of Trujillo's English poetry. In the simplicity of these lines unfolds the mood and emotion divined by one who sees this country-made-home with the eyes and... -
The Conception of Winter by Claire Harris 9780864921635
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04Powerful yet serene, The Conception of Winter is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it about physical, mental, and spiritual healing.About the AuthorClaire Harris is... -
Wings Over the Sea: The Story of Allan Moses by L.K. Ingersoll 9780864921017
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses's fame began when he identified an albatross captured in the Bay of... -
Temporary Shelter: Poems 1986-1990 by M. Travis Lane 9780864921482
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04In Temporary Shelter, Travis Lane demonstrates that she is one of Canada's finest and most rigorous poets. Yet, she writes with a subtle, sometimes muted, voice and from a position refreshingly... -
Dressing for Hope by Lorna Jackson 9780864921673
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40Lorna Jackson's characters earn every scrap of comfort they get, sexual and otherwise. In the title story of Dressing for Hope, a bar singer finds her "future is getting crowded" when two ex-lovers... -
High Marsh Road: Lines for a Diary by Douglas Lochhead 9780864921925
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62High Marsh Road, a finalist for the 1980 Governor General's Award and a beautiful example of bookmaking, is now back in print. High Marsh Road is a signficant step in the century-long artistic... -
The Sun, the Wind, the Summer Field by Alfred Bailey 9780864921949
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04The Sun the Wind the Summer Field shows the wit, intellect, and skill with words and rhyme for which Alfred G. Bailey is famous. This collection gathers together a half-century of poems. Some are the... -
Way Up by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer 9780864923684
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58In the thirteen stories that comprise Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's canvas stretches from downtown Toronto to isolated farms, from the Canadian Shield to Nova Scotia and Europe, and even into outer... -
Tattycoram Audrey Thomas 9780864924315
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $20.92Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, "Tattycoram" tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author... -
Different Minds: Living with Alzheimer Disease by Lorna Drew 9780864924438
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Lorna Drew thought her partner was carrying his absent-minded professor status too far, until he was diagnosed with Alzheimer Disease. A thoughtful memoir and a wide-ranging handbook, Different Minds... -
Tacoma Narrows by Mitchell Parry 9780864924506
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In Tacoma Narrows, Mitchell Parry reflects on the nature of disasters, both public and private. A reflection on things lost, Parry allows himself to feel deeply, to ask what went wrong and to... -
Wild Apples: Field Notes from a River Farm by Wayne Curtis 9780864924858
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions which... -
Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life by Beth Powning 9780864928528
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.14Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. But one leaf is a solitude. After... -
Savage Love by Douglas Glover 9780864929013
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $20.92An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013Longlisted, Frank O'Connor International Short Story AwardSavage Love marks the long-awaited literary... -
Running the Whale's Back: Stories of Faith and Doubt from Atlantic Canada Andrew Atkinson 9780864929136
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale's Back presents a host of Eastern Canada's brightest literary talents, all putting pens to paper to explore the... -
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,... -
Terrarium by Matthew Walsh 9781773103327
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $14.58Raw, confessional, and often messy, Terrarium continues Matthew Walsh’s exploration of Queer identity and desire against the lonely highs and lows of depression and addiction. In this new collection,... -
War Among the Clouds: New Brunswick Airmen in the Great War by J Brent Wilson 9781773104294
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.75The Great War of 1914-18 was the first conflict in which aircraft played a significant role. It was dangerous and sometimes exciting, and it created and accelerated rapid technological change in the... -
Conversations by Hermenegilde Chiasson 9780864923196
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98Conversations, a collection of poetry that won the 1999 Governor General's Award (French Language), is a sequence of 999 numbered fragments that record the essence of verbal interactions between two... -
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... -
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... -
The Bitter Harvest of War: New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917 by Andrew Theobald
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.19In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada -- as a nation -- was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians were killed,... -
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... -
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... -
Hidden River Poems by Allan Cooper
RRP: $5.15Booksplease Price: $4.32An early collection from the author of The Pearl Inside the Body.About the AuthorBorn in Moncton, New Brunswick, and a graduate of Mount Allison University, Cooper is a full-time poet, was the editor... -
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... -
Underwater Carpentry by Brian Bartlett 9780864921338
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04Bartlett takes his readers on a meditative journey in which he encapsulates the complexity of human experience. Delighting in humour and the play of words, he induces his readers to take a new look... -
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... -
Homage to Henry Alline and Other Poems by Douglas Lochhead 9780864921253
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04Homage to Henri Alline and Other Poems 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... -
Poems: New and Selected by Fred Candelaria 9780864920294
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.68A rigourous selection from Candelaria's earlier books in addition to substantial recent work, this volume provides the first single-volume edition drawn from the full range of this highly inventive... -
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... -
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... -
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...