Gifts < $50

Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Alpine Books

$21.95 CAD

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Lambda Literary Award winner A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction...

Journey to the River Sea

Alpine Books

$17.99 CAD – Sold Out

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A special 20th anniversary edition of this award­winning classic adventure from Eva Ibbotson.Winner of the 2001 Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal. Shortlisted for the 2001...

How to Save a Queendom

Alpine Books

$11.99 CAD

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From critically acclaimed author Jessica Lawson comes a “wonderfully enchanting adventure” (Booklist) about an orphaned twelve-year-old girl who is called upon to save her queendom...

Kindness Grows

Alpine Books

$11.99 CAD – Sold Out

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Angry words can ruin friendships, but a gesture as simple as a smile can cause kindness to bloom and friendships to mend. Die-cut pages feature...

Disability Visibility

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as...

Woman, Watching

Alpine Books

$28.95 CAD – Sold Out

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From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally...

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...

On Being Ill

Alpine Books

$20.95 CAD – Sold Out

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"By turns lyrical, self-mocking, and outlandish, Woolf's meditation on the perils and privileges of the sickbed lampoons the loneliness that makes one 'glad of a...

Exhalation

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD – Sold Out

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of...

The Ecological Buffalo

Alpine Books

$39.95 CAD

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An expert on the buffalo tells the history of this keystone species through extensive research and beautiful photographs.The mere mention of the buffalo instantly brings...

That's Not My Bunny

Alpine Books

$13.99 CAD – Sold Out

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A brand new edition of this all-time best-selling title in Usborne's flagship That's Not My … series. This edition has added foiling for even more...

Our Endless Numbered Days

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel "Both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the...

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman’s life—told...

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...

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...

Do I Feel Better Yet? Questionable Attempts at Self-Care and Existing in General

Alpine Books

$25.95 CAD

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If you've ever dared to express dissatisfaction with the state of your life, you've inevitably received a variety of helpful suggestions: "Have you tried meditation?...

Goodbye to All That

Alpine Books

$12.00 CAD

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'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the...

Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die

Alpine Books

$25.50 CAD – Sold Out

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From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish...

Raven's End

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Who hasn't wondered what ravens are thinking when they dance on the wind-swirling and diving along the cliff faces of the Rocky Mountains ?And who...

Ten Days That Shook the World

Alpine Books

$35.50 CAD

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Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency and immediacy, Reed’s masterpiece lives and...

Musicophilia

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD – Sold Out

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What goes on in human beings when they make or listen to music? What is it about music, what gives it such peculiar power over...

The Log Driver's Waltz

Alpine Books

$12.99 CAD

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A beautiful, contemporary picture book adaptation of a beloved Canadian classic.If you ask any girl from the parish aroundWhat pleases her most from her head...

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

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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An original and scientifically rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind.What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our...

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...

All the Quiet Places

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD – Sold Out

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A National BestsellerWinner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada...

Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD

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Olive Kitteridge

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction...

Canadian Heritage Card - Landscape 7

Pat Borecky

$22.00 CAD

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Each card is a one-of-a-kind mini art landscape quilt; meticulously cut, fused, stitched, assembled and signed. 4.75" x 6.5"

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...

The Whale

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD – Sold Out

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“Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir.”—Mark Kurlansky The Whale by Philip Hoare is a enthralling and eye-opening...

A Simpler Life

Alpine Books

$30.95 CAD

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This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. We live in a complicated, frenzied, and noisy world, filled with...

Anxiety - The Missing Stage of Grief

Alpine Books

$22.99 CAD – Sold Out

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A groundbreaking book exploring the little-known yet critical connections between anxiety and grief, with practical strategies for healing, following the renowned Kübler-Ross stages modelIf you're...

Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD

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In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a frustrated and brilliant heiress...

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...

Janet's Story: Requiescat in Pace

Catherine Munn Smith

$20.00 CAD

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Janet's Story is a fictionalized account of the life of my great grandmother Janet Elizabeth Johnston who left England as a nineteen year old bride...

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...

Birdsong in a Time of Silence

Alpine Books

$21.99 CAD – Sold Out

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A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature."At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly...

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:...

David Thompson Highway Hiking Guide

Heritage Group Distribution

$35.00 CAD

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A classic, full-colour guide to one of Alberta’s most spectacular and underrated wilderness areas, The David Thompson Highway Hiking Guide continues to introduce adventurous tourists and locals...

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...