Nothing Will Save Your Life
$18.00 CAD
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Nothing Will Save Your Life is an explosion of pop culture, femininity, sex, religion and motherhood held together with humour and lightened with fragments of...
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Old Man's Garden
$30.00 CAD
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Through pen and ink illustrations and stories, Old Man’s Garden conveys the legends and folklore connected with Southern Alberta’s wildflowers, native plants, and Indigenous culture. Originally published...
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Oldman's River
$44.95 CAD
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Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty's depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in...
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Original Highways
$21.00 CAD – Sold Out
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Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Canada's great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our...
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Our Crumbling Foundation
$25.00 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, by Balsillie Prize finalist and CBC Radio host Gregor Craigie, Our Crumbling...
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Our Place
$25.00 CAD
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A collection of essays and articles that reflect upon the ecology, conservation history, missed opportunities and emerging possibilities of a place that could have been...
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Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women's Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy
$19.95 CAD
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Many of Canada’s most famous suffragists lived and campaigned in the Prairie provinces, which led the way in granting women the right to vote and...
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Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past
$25.99 CAD
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Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of a marathon-running hermit and a journalist’s quest to solve the mystery...
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Park Bagger
$32.00 CAD – Sold Out
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An inspiring collection of thrilling personal adventures and stunning photographs sharing the incredible diversity and profound beauty of Canada's national parks. Distributed across the second-largest...
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Policing Black Lives
$25.00 CAD
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Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn...
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Pourin' Down Rain
$19.95 CAD
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The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairiesCheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in...
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Ranch Tales - Stories From the Frontier
$19.95 CAD
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Frontier historian Ken Mather is known for his fascinating, in-depth profiles of the men and women who established a distinctive ranching culture in Western Canada...
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Ranching Under the Arch
$34.95 CAD
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In the 1880s, a group of fledgling cattle ranchers descended on the plains of southern Alberta. They were drawn by the promise of the West,...
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Ranching Women in Southern Alberta
$29.95 CAD
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Settler ranching in southern Alberta conjures the image of a lone cowboy riding through the foothills or a stoic ranch hand roping errant cattle. But...
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Range Men, The
$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...
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Remember Me As You Pass By: Stories from Prairie Graveyards
$13.95 CAD
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Nancy Millar learned two things as she explored Alberta's graveyards: they contain our history, and they are never boring! In this lively and unusual history...
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Sources of the River - Tracking David Thompson
$19.95 CAD
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The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North AmericaIn this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life...
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Souvenir of the Canadian Rockies
$10.00 CAD
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Featuring 50 stunning, colour photos Souvenir of the Canadian Rockies is part of a new series of full-colour travel and tourism books celebrating the internationally renowned Canadian...
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Switchbacks
$22.00 CAD
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In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects...
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Tales from the Highwood Cemetery: Lives and Legacies of High River and Beyond
$20.00 CAD – Sold Out
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When the former Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta and respected history professor was quizzed by students looking for a good source of interesting stories, Dr. Grant MacEwan...
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The Banker and the Blackfoot: A Memoir of My Grandfather in Chinook Country
$34.95 CAD
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In his remarkable and entertaining memoir of his beloved grandfather, Ted Chamberlin conjures up vividly the never-before-told story of a particular time and place not...
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The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
$24.95 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the...
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The Curve of Time
$19.95 CAD
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A beloved Pacific Northwest classic, in an expanded new edition, including maps and previously unpublished photographs.Widowed at just thirty-five, Muriel Wylie Blanchet packed her five...
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The Hanging of Angelique
$19.99 CAD
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Writer, historian and poet Afua Cooper tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Angélique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large...
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The Last Spike
$24.95 CAD
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In the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the...
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The Last Viking
$24.95 CAD
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"An intensely researched, thoroughly enjoyable life of one of history's best explorers...A superb biography of a fiercely driven explorer who traveled across the last inaccessible...
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The Long Trail: Ian Tyson, My Life in the West
$21.00 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...
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The Skin We're In
$29.95 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2020 TORONTO BOOK AWARDA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin...
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They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters
$22.95 CAD
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A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTHNominated for the Toronto Book AwardSmartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar...
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This Wild Spirit: Women
$38.99 CAD
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In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures:“A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier,...
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True North Rising
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of...
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Truth and Beauty in the Canadian Rockies
$50.00 CAD
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Walter J. Phillips was born in Lincolnshire, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1913 at the age of 29, after spending considerable time studying abroad...
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Vistas of the West
$29.95 CAD
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Vistas of the West is a collection of poetry and visual art that celebrates the beauty and spirit of the Rocky Mountains, Western foothills, prairie...
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Where the Falcon Flies
$36.00 CAD
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From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history.Looking out his porch window one spring...
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Whisper On The Night Wind
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERSpellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer.Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near...
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Wildcat: The Untold Story of the Canadian Woman Who Became the West's Most Notorious Bandit
$24.99 CAD – Sold Out
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The little-known story of Pearl Hart, the most famous female bandit in the American West.On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised...
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Writings of David Thompson Volume , The
$40.95 CAD
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David Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life...
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