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The Compassion Book

Dempsey

$19.95 CAD – Sold Out

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The revered Buddhist teacher and author of When Things Fall Apart presents the lojong teachings—pithy slogans for daily contemplation—and the ways in which they can enrich our lives Welcome compassion...

The Consolations of Philosophy

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers...

The Cree Word for Love

Alpine Books

$34.99 CAD

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Bestselling author of Birdie, Tracey Lindberg, and renowned artist George Littlechild join together in a stunning collaboration of story and art to explore love in all...

The Encyclopedia of Country Living

Alpine Books

$39.95 CAD

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From homesteaders to urban farmers, and everyone in between, there is a desire for a simpler way of life: a healthier and self-sufficient natural lifestyle...

The Flame of Love

Alpine Books

$31.99 CAD

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A smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of hearts. Accompanied by illuminating commentary...

The Flow

Alpine Books

$27.00 CAD

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WINNER OF THE 2023 JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'Unparalleled.' THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A true masterpiece.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'A tour de force.' GUY SHRUBSOLE'Quietly courageous.' PATRICK BARKHAM'Lyrical, wholehearted and...

The Friend

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI...

The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice

Alpine Books

$21.99 CAD

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“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and...

The Garden

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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In 1948, Irene Willard, who’s had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires, is now pregnant...

The Garden Against Time

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD

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In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a...

The Genius in the Design

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD

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The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met...

The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

Alpine Books

$27.99 CAD

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“A classic. . . . If you want to write, paint, sing, compose, act, or make films, read The Gift.” —from the Introduction by Margaret AtwoodA...

The Girl Aquarium

Alpine Books

$25.50 CAD

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Jen Campbell’s first collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the definition of beauty. Weaving between...

The God of the Woods

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024PEOPLE...

The Goldfinch

Alpine Books

$29.99 CAD

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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize...

The Great War for Civilization

Alpine Books

$26.99 CAD

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An astonishing and timely account of 50 years of bloodshed and tragedy in the Middle East from one of our finest and most revered journalists....

The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature's Clues

Alpine Books

$33.95 CAD

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We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that...

The Histories

Alpine Books

$36.00 CAD

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“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.” —The Times Literary SupplementIn Tom Holland’s vibrant translation, one of the great...

The Hobbit

Alpine Books

$12.99 CAD – Sold Out

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The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous...

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

Alpine Books

$26.99 CAD

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Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick and Hobbes, a tiger whose idea of adventure is to...

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

Alpine Books

$27.99 CAD

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“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSONA sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York...

The Knowing

Alpine Books

$39.99 CAD

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From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family’s story and a retelling of the...

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books!"This is top-drawer science writing." —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewIn The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers...

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Alpine Books

$27.99 CAD

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"If ever there was any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent...

The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out

Alpine Books

$39.95 CAD

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The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region. When the Canadian Pacific Railway switched to diesel power, over 2,000 coal-production jobs...

The Lives of Lee Miller

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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Collected in this compelling volume are the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her...

The Living Mountain

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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“In a world of self-help, this is true inspiration, deeply admirable without the distance of heroism, bracing without stridency and, ultimately, generous. The mountain, Shepherd...

The Long Trail: Ian Tyson, My Life in the West

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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A Canadian icon on his longstanding love of the West and his life in "one of the last true cowboy countries on either side of...

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Tastes of the Past

Heritage Group Distribution

$24.95 CAD

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For fans of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain, this “surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines” (Kirkus STARRED)—from Neolithic bread to ancient Roman fish sauce—reveals why reviving...

The Making of Canada

Alpine Books

$37.95 CAD

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The Making of Canada is a bold reimagining of Canada’s past, presenting the nation’s evolution through the stories of twenty diverse and fascinating individuals who...

The Marriage Portrait

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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From the author of the breakout bestseller Hamnet—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize—an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and...

The Ministry of Time

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 • A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION • A GOOD...

The Monster's Bones

Alpine Books

$23.95 CAD

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In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s...

The Mountains of Yoho and Kootenay National Parks

Alpine Books

$12.95 CAD

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Through photographs, viewing tips and maps, this book will introduce you to 100 peaks that may be seen from our highways within Yoho and Kootenay...

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Alpine Books

$29.00 CAD

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Finalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by The...

The Path to Kindness

Alpine Books

$19.99 CAD

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Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply...

The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker

Alpine Books

$18.99 CAD – Sold Out

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Reissue of J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Alpine Books

$21.99 CAD

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“A timeless story for every young person who needs to understand that they are not alone.” —Judy Blume“Once in a while, a novel comes along...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Alpine Books

$8.99 CAD

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A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde's fascinating gothic tale.The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only...

The Places That Scare You (Chodron)

Dempsey

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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The Poisoner's Handbook

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie." —The...

The Poisonwood Bible

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD

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New York Times Bestseller • Pulitzer Prize Finalist • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the...

The Power of Story

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling. Approached by an ecumenical society representing many faiths, from Judeo-Christians to fellow...

The Price of Salt

Alpine Books

$21.95 CAD

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"A great American writer…Highsmith's writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you." —Entertainment Weekly Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the...

The Range Men

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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"The vibrancy of the frontier flows through, refusing, like the prairie wind, to be contained . . . Cowboys, outlaws, celebrated chieftains, mere murderers, disappearing...

The Reluctant Dragon

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD

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The beloved classic of a dragon battle with a pacifist twist, redesigned to appeal to a new generation.This is the tale of The Boy, who...

The Republic of Imagination

Alpine Books

$27.99 CAD

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A New York Times bestsellerThe author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply...

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Alpine Books

$26.99 CAD

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"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science...