We stock a carefully curated book collection at Bluerock - about 600 titles, many of which are not available online. If you don't see what you were hoping to find, please ask!
10% from the sales of all books by or about Indigenous Canadians will be donated to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
$24.99 CAD
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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.Immersive and gripping,...
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Birds Art Life
$22.00 CAD
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A seminal work, Birds Art Life recounts Maclear's year-long adventure of discovering inspiration in the intricacies of birds, bird-searching and bird-watching in a big city. The natural...
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Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
$25.99 CAD
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller!The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele,...
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Blankets: 20th Anniversary Edition
$45.95 CAD
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"Quaint, meditative and sometimes dreamy, blankets will take you straight back to your first kiss." --The GuardianBlankets: 20th Anniversary Edition is the story of a young man...
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Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
$24.95 CAD
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WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE • "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."—RBC Taylor Prize Jury...
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Changing My Mind
$19.95 CAD
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Bestselling author Julian Barnes illuminates the process of how minds are changed—about politics, books, words, memories, and more—in this wise and fascinating new book.“We always...
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Classic Krakauer
$23.00 CAD
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Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism.His pieces take...
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
$35.99 CAD
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The groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head—from the “brilliant, deeply original political thinker” David Graeber...
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
$24.99 CAD
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From the bestselling author of Breath, a “fascinating, informative, exhilarating” voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches (Wall Street Journal) New York Times Book...
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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
$27.95 CAD
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#1 NATIONAL BESTELLER • Shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism • Shortlisted for...
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
$27.99 CAD
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A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.Dress...
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Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
$27.99 CAD
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The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - told through her unique textile scrapbook.'Irresistable' The Times'The...
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Educated: A Memoir
$21.00 CAD
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For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future #1 International Bestseller Tara Westover was...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
$25.99 CAD
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.In...
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
$24.95 CAD
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“Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” —The Wall Street Journal From The New York...
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Energy: A Human History
$30.00 CAD
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A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming,...
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Epic Wanderer
$22.95 CAD – Sold Out
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Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.Epic Wanderer, the first full-length...
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Femina A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
$41.00 CAD
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A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it mattersThe Middle Ages are seen as a...
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Flaneuse: Women Walk the City
$21.99 CAD – Sold Out
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*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The...
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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Metis
$24.99 CAD
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#1 National BestsellerFinalist, CBC Canada ReadsA Globe and Mail Book of the YearAn Indigo Book of the YearA CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the YearIn this...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
$23.99 CAD
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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner...
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
$33.99 CAD
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2020 ALA Alex Award Winner2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor BookIn 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading...
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High Cols & Deep Canyons
$34.99 CAD
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A memoir of a life spent in wild country, learning to understand and appreciate the magnificence of nature. This book explores the relationship between family,...
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Horse Woman
$25.95 CAD
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Lee McLean was born to ride ... and to write. In these pages, you will enter the world of a master horsewoman and ride with...
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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence
$22.99 CAD
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A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedomsAfter the devastation of World War Two, the international community came together to...
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
$21.00 CAD
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An extraordinary memoir—told entirely in near-death experiences—from one of Britain's bestselling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.We are never...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
$24.99 CAD
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THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO® DOCUMENTARY SERIES#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia...
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If I Knew Then
$19.95 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERJann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain...
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In Our Youth
$29.95 CAD
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A fascinating, photo-rich exploration of early aviation in Canada, told through the backstories of pilots who flew, fought, and risked their lives in the First...
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Into the Wild
$23.00 CAD
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McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented...
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Killers of the Flower Moon
$23.00 CAD
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost...
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
$24.95 CAD
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FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLISTThe story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why...
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Memoirs of a Wildcat
$24.99 CAD
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Mary Tidlund was never able to blend in, so she embraced standing out. Labelled “unadoptable” because of the colour of her skin, the odds seemed...
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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
$37.99 CAD
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we? A passionate, provocative, blisteringly...
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
$27.99 CAD
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Winner of The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022Winner of The Michel Déon Prize 2022Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award...
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My Inventions and Other Writings: Nikola Tesla
$23.00 CAD
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The fascinating autobiography of the legendary inventor behind the radio, wireless energy, robotics, and much more.Famous for his pioneering contributions to the electronic age, his...
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Negroland
$25.99 CAD
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer...
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Not So Normal: Memoirs of a Gay Boomer
$34.95 CAD
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Growing up in post-World War II Alberta in a stable, loving home, Tom Symington didn’t feel that he was “different.” Evading early pressures of romance...
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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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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
$36.00 CAD
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by TIME, Lit Hub, Vulture, and Foreign PolicyFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad...
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Paris in Ruins
$28.99 CAD
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From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved,...
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
$22.00 CAD
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The fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis, “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day” (Los Angeles Times). Marjane Satrapi dazzles with her heartrending...
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.“A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence
$23.00 CAD
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In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender...
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Run Towards the Danger
$22.00 CAD
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE 2022 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE * A New York Times Book...
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Sad Tiger
$29.95 CAD
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Winner of multiple prizes, Neige Sinno has created a powerful literary form with Sad Tiger, a book that took France by storm and is an international phenomenon.“Reading Sad Tiger is...
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Salt Path
$22.99 CAD
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Bring nature into your home with the uplifting true story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the...
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