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100 Hugs: A book to warm the hearts of those in need of a hug

Alpine Books

$17.99 CAD

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A beautiful and heartwarming collection of illustrated hugs from Chris Riddell, UK Children's Laureate 2015-2017.100 Hugs is the perfect gift for a loved one, or to...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Recollections of My NonexistenceWritten as a series of autobiographical...

All Good Things

Alpine Books

$40.50 CAD

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A wondrous journey with the world-renowned art curator Stephen Ellcock.Designed to stimulate and inspire, All Good Things is an exciting, eclectic collection of over 200 images from...

Ask the Very Beasts

Marilyn Geddes

$19.95 CAD

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ASK THE VERY BEASTS: Words of Wisdom & Comfort from Unexpected Sources, is an inspired collection of magical conversations, with animals—and also some unexpected sources—that...

Be Water, My Friend

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD – Sold Out

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Bruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies—demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice...

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD – Sold Out

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The author of Anam Cara describes, in his unique style, rediscovering the true sources of compassion, serenity, and hope in our livesIn this eagerly awaited...

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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David Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement...

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD – Sold Out

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A New York Times bestseller!"I’m not sure there’s such a thing as the cultural 'center,' nor that it’s very interesting if it exists. But left of center...

Begin Again

Alpine Books

$29.99 CAD

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In his first picture book created specifically with a wider audience in mind, Oliver Jeffers shares a history of humanity and his dreams for its...

Bird by Bird

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD – Sold Out

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to...

Braiding Sweetgrass

Alpine Books

$29.95 CAD

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ANew York Times BestsellerAWashington Post BestsellerNamed a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions...

Business for Bohemians

Alpine Books

$21.99 CAD

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Everyone should work for themselves. But don't cashflow forecasts, tax returns and P&Ls all sound a bit of a faff?Fear not: help is at hand....

Comfortable with Uncertainty (Chodron)

Dempsey

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Common as Air: Revolution

Alpine Books

$31.50 CAD

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Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue...

Designa

Alpine Books

$36.00 CAD

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Following the success of Quadrivium and Sciencia, a compendium of six titles on art and design in the acclaimed Wooden Books series appears here in one volume.From the...

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Alpine Books

$30.99 CAD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington PostA...

Divine Might: Goddesses

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD

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New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar. Few writers today have reshaped...

Echoes of Memory

Alpine Books

$16.00 CAD – Sold Out

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John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality, Anam Cara. Just as To Bless the Space Between Us was being...

Embers

Alpine Books

$21.95 CAD

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A beautifully packaged collection of personal reflections from one of Canada's foremost First Nations authors. 'Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties....

Enchanted Moon

Dempsey

$25.95 CAD

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The ultimate book of authentic lunar ceremonies, spells, mythos and science, The Enchanted Moon will transform and inspire you. The alchemy of lunar science will show you how...

Enlightenment Now

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill GatesIf you think the world...

Gifts of Reading

Alpine Books

$4.99 CAD

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From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery...

Good Witch's Guide, The

Dempsey

$24.99 CAD – Sold Out

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From cleansing spells to hands-on healing to the spiritual use of herbs, witches know which magickal and natural remedies work best!The Good Witch’s Guide offers a...

Great Ideas - Days of Reading

Alpine Books

$10.99 CAD

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In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the...

Great Ideas - Of Human Freedom

Alpine Books

$9.99 CAD

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In this personal and practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life, the second-century philosopher Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, stubbornness...

Great Ideas - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Alpine Books

$10.99 CAD

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One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can...

History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse

Alpine Books

$25.95 CAD – Sold Out

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The extraordinary ways the brain can misfire‘Fascinating and compassionate’ Horatio Clare The King of France – thinking he was made of glass – was terrified...

How It Feels to Find Yourself

Alpine Books

$29.99 CAD – Sold Out

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From the author of Start Where You Are comes an illustrated guide for moving through life’s biggest transitions with purpose and clarity.   How It Feels to Find Yourself pairs...

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD – Sold Out

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Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.Who would have thought...

How the World Thinks

Alpine Books

$20.99 CAD – Sold Out

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*SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' ObserverIn this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a...

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Alpine Books

$25.95 CAD

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The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means...

If Women Rose Rooted

Alpine Books

$24.50 CAD

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In this life-changing book that blends myth, memoir and modern day mentors, renowned psychologist Dr Sharon Blackie journeys from the wasteland of modern society to...

In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD – Sold Out

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“An adventure story in the tradition of Paul Theroux and, in parts, Jon Krakauer . . . Zada is a latter-day Henry David Thoreau or...

Jealousy

Alpine Books

$5.99 CAD

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Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover’s jealous...

Journey On: Our Animal Companions Guide us Through the Circle of Life

Marilyn Geddes

$24.95 CAD

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Landmarks

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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From Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland—a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of...

Lost Spells

Alpine Books

$31.00 CAD

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The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations that evokes the magic...

Lost Words

Alpine Books

$42.00 CAD

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From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the...

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Alpine Books

$27.99 CAD

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A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their...

Man's Search For Meaning

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD

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A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was...

Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD

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How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept...

Montaigne in Barn Boots

Alpine Books

$19.99 CAD – Sold Out

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The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "The...

Myth: A Very Short Introduction

Alpine Books

$11.95 CAD

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Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean?In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches...

Nature and The Human Soul

Alpine Books

$37.95 CAD

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Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals...

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD

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"I don’t believe in God, but I miss him." So begins Julian Barnes’s brilliant new book that is, among many things, a family memoir, an...

Orwell's Roses

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography“An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times...

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD – Sold Out

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . ....

Practicing Peace

Dempsey

$10.95 CAD

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Inspiring teachings on what each of us can do to promote peace from the inside out—now available in a pocket-sized paperback editionWith war and violence...