Gifts < $50

No One is Talking About This

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE  “A book that reads like a prose...

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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Challenges the ableism of fairy tales and offers new ways to celebrate the magic of all bodies."Leduc persuasively illustrates the power of stories to affect...

A Geography of Blood

Heritage Group Distribution

$24.95 CAD

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When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house near the Saskatchewan-Montana border, her naturalist’s instinct propels her to explore the area. She takes pleasure...

Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD

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“No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due.” — Elizabeth KolbertSay “algae” and most...

Tales from the Highwood Cemetery: Lives and Legacies of High River and Beyond

Larraine Andrews

$20.00 CAD

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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...

Half-Bads in White Regalia

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice.The Caetanos move into...

Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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Tongues: An Anthology on Longing and Belonging through Language

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be...

Losing My Reflection

Kim Owen Mazur

$17.95 CAD

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Grief is a personal journey that is unique to you. There is no right way or wrong way to grieve, only your way. This journal...

Dear Boss: Letters from the Lazy 3 Bar Ranche

Catherine Munn Smith

$20.00 CAD

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Fro the wild shenanigans in the bunkhouse to the beauty of the high country beyond, the Dear Boss Letters describe the characters and workings of...

How To Catch a Mole

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.95 CAD

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In this evocative and heart-wrenching memoir, a hard-working Welsh molecatcher reveals his double life as a poet and a dreamer • “A wonderful memoir … hands down...

Popular Day Hikes Kananaskis 2nd Edition

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.00 CAD

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Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established staging areas. This new edition...

Popular Day Hikes Waterton

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.00 CAD

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Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established staging areas. Popular Day Hikes:...

Hiking Canada's Great Divide Trail

Heritage Group Distribution

$35.00 CAD

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This fourth edition of one of RMB’s bestselling hiking guides has once again been updated with new information, contemporary photos and trail details, and a...

Trout Tracks

Heritage Group Distribution

$25.00 CAD

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A new collection of outdoor writing from one of fly fishing’s most popular essayists. Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams,...

Journal of a Traveling Girl

Heritage Group Distribution

$12.95 CAD

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FINALIST FOR TWO 2021 CANADIAN CHILDREN''S BOOK AWARDS This fictional coming-of-age story traces a young girl’s reluctant journey by canoe through the ancestral lands of...

Alberta's Cornerstone

Heritage Group Distribution

$34.95 CAD

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The fascinating exploration of a vanished settlement in Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park, told within the framework of an archaeologist’s memoir. While excavating Alberta’s most important...

Broken Circle

Heritage Group Distribution

$24.95 CAD

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A new commemorative edition of Theodore Fontaine's powerful, groundbreaking memoir of survival and healing after years of residential school abuse. Originally published in 2010, Broken Circle:...

Selected Poems of Mona Van Duyn

Alpine Books

$23.95 CAD

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This generous selection of Mona Van Duyn’s distinguished, award-winning work spans four decades. Beginning with her classic Valentines to the Wide World (1959), encompassing the intimate voice...

The Call of the Red-winged Blackbird

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD – Sold Out

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In this collection of essays Tim Bowling picks up the common questions, and beauties, of life and examines them closely. From questions of love and...

How to Forage for Mushrooms Without Dying

Alpine Books

$22.99 CAD

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With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic....

Hope Matters

Heritage Group Distribution

$24.95 CAD

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“This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane Goodall Fears about...

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

Alpine Books

$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...

Smoke from the Branding Fire

Joyce Pallister-Bronsch

$29.95 CAD

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Hank Pallister was raised on his father's ranch, at Turner Valley Alberta, the son of a recognized pioneer family. He lived his early life surrounded...

Bulls, Brands, & B.S.

Joyce Pallister-Bronsch

$29.95 CAD

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This book contains the writings of the late Hank Pallister, Supervisor of Alberta's Brand Inspection System. He captures the characters and the cowmen that played...

Lingo and Lines

Joyce Pallister-Bronsch

$25.00 CAD

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Old Man's Garden

Heritage Group Distribution

$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...

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...

Park Bagger

Heritage Group Distribution

$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...

Walking in Two Worlds

Alpine Books

$13.99 CAD

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An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect...

Leaning on the Wind (Marty)

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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A finalist for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain...

Most of Mary-Jo

HBLS Books

$18.95 CAD

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Her house burned down, she gave birth in a neighbour's house when a blizzard blocked roads to the hospital -- for Mary-Jo Burles it was...

Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women's Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy

Alpine Books

$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...

The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Alpine Books

$39.99 CAD

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A classic since 1928, this masterly encyclopedia of ancient mythology, ritual, symbolism, and the arcane mysteries of the ages is available for the first time...

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...

Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based...

Cowboy Cavalry, The

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.95 CAD

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When Native and Métis unrest escalated into the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, white settlers in southern Alberta`s cattle country were terrified. Three major First Nations...

Imagine This Valley

Heritage Group Distribution

$20.00 CAD

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Featuring essays from some of the area’s most beloved personalities, this exceptional literary anthology celebrates the landscape, culture, community and natural history of Alberta’s Bow...

Our Place

Heritage Group Distribution

$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...

Blue Horses

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday...

Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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A rich collection of ten poems, two essays, and two dozen of Mary Oliver's classic works on flowers, trees, and plants of all sorts, elegantly...

Melissa

Alpine Books

$9.99 CAD

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'Alex Gino’s award-winning children’s novel about a trans girl, George, is being renamed Melissa, after Gino and publisher Scholastic said they made a mistake in...

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeTooWomen are in a bind. In the name of consent...

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers, and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."—Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost BoysLOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER! Finalist...

Those Who Know: Profiles of Alberta's Aboriginal Elders

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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The elders in Those Who Know have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they have...

New & Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes...

New & Selected Poems, Vol. 2

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of...

The Secret History

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.Under the influence...