Gifts < $50

The Emperor of All Maladies

Alpine Books

$27.00 CAD – Sold Out

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly...

Flash Count Diary

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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"[Darcey Steinke] has written a searingly intelligent, richly imagined, deeply moving memoir and exploration of menopause . . . I love this book. I admire...

The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on...

Such a Fun Age

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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A Best Book of the Year:The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Vogue • Elle • Real Simple • InStyle • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Slate • Vox • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • BookPageLonglisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeAn Instant New York Times BestsellerA Reese's Book...

How to Love the World

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD – Sold Out

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More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World:...

Glorious Frazzled Beings

Alpine Books

$22.99 CAD

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Home is where we love, suffer, and learn. Some homes we chose, others are inflicted upon us, and still others are bodies we are born...

Station Eleven

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD

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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Winner of the Toronto Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner...

The Reason You Walk

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD – Sold Out

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A moving father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic First Nations broadcaster, musician and activist.          When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster...

Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations at the same time that it addresses misconceptions...

The North West is Our Mother

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD

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There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First...

Black Water

Alpine Books

$19.99 CAD

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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the YearA Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read...

Disorientation

Alpine Books

$25.00 CAD

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A FINALIST FOR THE 2021 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Bestselling, Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings fresh eyes and new insights to...

Life in the City of Dirty Water

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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A 2022 CANADA READS FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang...

John Keats: Selected Poems

Alpine Books

$20.00 CAD – Sold Out

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A selection of Keats's greatest poemsOver the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Alpine Books

$14.95 CAD

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Read this perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core.After decoding a scrap of paper in runic script, the intrepid Professor Lidenbrock and his nervous...

Recollections of My Nonexistence

Alpine Books

$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...

A Cowboy's Circle Address Book

Kim Taylor

$28.95 CAD

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7″ x 8″ coilbound address book. Created to back up your contacts, remember, record and reconnect with friends. The address book features images of the...

Permanent Astonishment

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD – Sold Out

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Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island...

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat

Alpine Books

$17.99 CAD

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Introducing Miss Ottoline Brown, an exceptionally inquisitive Mistress of Disguise, and her partner in crime, Mr Munroe. No puzzle is ever too tricky for the...

What We'll Build 40% off

Alpine Books

$14.39 CAD

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A spectacular new title from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers, creator of the million-copy selling, global phenomenon Here We Are! Hardcover.

Cookies I Have Loved

Julie Van Rosendaal

$19.95 CAD

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Cookies I Have Loved is a compilation of my most well-used cookie recipes —a collection that includes best-sellers from the cookie bakery I opened in the...

Tainna

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from...

Alberta Blue

Alpine Books

$11.99 CAD

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Snuggle up with your little one and enjoy this Made-in-Alberta lullaby, a tribute to our big skies and wide open landscapes. Marvel at the beauty...

Just in Case You Want to Fly

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD

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A message of love, support, and empowerment, from bestselling author Julie Fogliano and Christian Robinson, Caldecott Honoree and creator of the New York Times Bestseller You...

If You Come to Earth

Alpine Books

$28.99 CAD

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From two-time Caldecott Winner author-illustrator Sophie Blackall!If You Come to Earth is a glorious guide to our home planet, and a call for us to...

Remember Me As You Pass By: Stories from Prairie Graveyards

Deadwood Publishing

$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...

Stolen Life

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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Winner of the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction PrizeA powerful autobiography from Yvonne Johnson—the great-great-granddaughter of Cree leader Chief Big Bear.This is the unforgettable true story of Yvonne Johnson’s...

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears (Chodron)

Dempsey

$22.95 CAD

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Start Where You Are (Chodron)

Dempsey

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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Comfortable with Uncertainty (Chodron)

Dempsey

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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The Places That Scare You (Chodron)

Dempsey

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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We Remember the Coming of the White Man

Alpine Books

$39.95 CAD

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Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD

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Medicine Walk

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD

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Gather:  Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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Our Story Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past

Alpine Books

$21.00 CAD

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The Scenic Geology of Alberta

Alpine Books

$27.95 CAD

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True North

Alpine Books

$40.00 CAD

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A captivating look at modern Canadian cuisine--from coast to coast to coast--with one of Canada’s superstar chefs With a foreword by Jamie Oliver Derek Dammann...

A National Crime : The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

Alpine Books

$26.95 CAD – Sold Out

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“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)"[I]f I...

Tawaw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine

Alpine Books

$36.99 CAD

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tawâw [pronounced ta-WOW]:Come in, you’re welcome, there’s room.Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine and what it means to...

Dream Wheels

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD – Sold Out

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From the acclaimed author of Keeper’n Me and For Joshua, Dream Wheels is a vital and unsparing novel from one of the most fascinating voices in Canadian writing.Joe Willie Wolfchild...

Family Walks and Hikes in the Canadian Rockies Vol 1 Second Edition

Heritage Group Distribution

$22.00 CAD

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Family Walks and Hikes is an exciting new series of books written specifically for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and abilities. These accurate, attractive guides feature...

Cattle Kingdom

Heritage Group Distribution

$19.95 CAD

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One of the most colourful chapters in the history of North American settlement began in the 1880s when the rich Alberta grasslands spreading east from...

Wild Horses, Wild Wolves

Heritage Group Distribution

$40.00 CAD

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Established in 1967, the Ghost River Wilderness Area, located along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta, is one of only three...

Heart Waters

Heritage Group Distribution

$40.00 CAD

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Shortlisted for the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival award for Mountain & Wilderness Literature. “We could belong here too. We could be like...

Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD

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Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

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...