Gifts < $50

A Week at the Airport

Alpine Books

$23.00 CAD

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The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he...

Jewels: A Secret History

Alpine Books

$27.00 CAD

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Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks...

The Moon Apothecary

Alpine Books

$33.95 CAD

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Your lunar self-care guideFollowing on from Lorriane Anderson's (Seasons of the Witch oracle series author) best selling book Witch's Apothecary, Lorriane Anderson has created a...

Life A User's Manual: Life Advice from the Great Philosophers to Get You Through

Alpine Books

$22.99 CAD

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How should I live?What is my purpose?Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There...

The Devil's Dictionary

Alpine Books

$19.95 CAD

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"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy."In this extraordinary work of scathing satire, Ambrose Bierce provided new humorous definitions of the words that formed the lexicon...

Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)

Alpine Books

$39.00 CAD

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An astronomer "who writes like a poet" (Wall Street Journal) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" (Nature) inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For...

The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living

Alpine Books

$21.95 CAD

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The astonishing reality of living without our most important resource: money.'An inspiring and entertaining guide to escaping the money trap and reconnecting with reality.' Paul...

All That Happiness Is

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD – Sold Out

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Our society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the next test or the “best” grammar school, high school, or college they can...

Elements

Alpine Books

$47.00 CAD

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Elements is an eclectic, evocative, and resoundingly beautiful treasury of imagery exploring depictions of the elemental forces that reveal their profound significance to ancient philosophers,...

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...

Stephen Ellcock's Book of Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection

Alpine Books

$40.00 CAD

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• For the first time, social-media art-curator sensation Stephen Ellcock turns his hand to textiles and fashion • Lavishly illustrated with many previously unseen images...

Sew Witchy

Dempsey

$37.50 CAD

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Enhance your witchcraft by putting needle and thread to fabric. Part sewing manual and part grimoire, this fun and easy guide turns every craft project...

The Little Book of Mushrooms

Alpine Books

$24.99 CAD

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A beautifully illustrated guide to 75 of the most unique and fascinating mushrooms in the world, including interesting insight into their history, uses, and etymologies.From...

The Firmament of Time

Alpine Books

$25.95 CAD

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"Dr. Eiseley describes with zest and admiration the giant steps that have led man, in a scant three hundred years, to grasp the nature of...

The Book of the Raven

Alpine Books

$25.99 CAD

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Corvids play an outsize role in the human imagination. We keep ravens in towers, emblazon rooks on banners, find crows in the constellations, and make...

Witch Please

Dempsey

$26.95 CAD – Sold Out

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A modern mystic's practical guide to life, love, and creating the life you want.Learn to take control of your life and reconnect with your purpose,...

Practicing Peace

Dempsey

$10.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

Enchanted Moon

Dempsey

$25.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

The Essays

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD

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A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works,...

A History of Ideas

Alpine Books

$50.50 CAD

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A collection of humanity’s most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.    This is an unusual sort...

The School of Life On Being Nice: A guide to friendship and connection

Alpine Books

$22.95 CAD – Sold Out

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How to reclaim kindness as our greatest human strength. We’re surrounded by books telling us how to be rich, or thin. This book is different...

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...

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 . . ....

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Alpine Books

$24.00 CAD

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Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch AwardA Wall Street Journal Top...

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

Alpine Books

$25.95 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

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...

Underworlds: A Compelling Journey Through Subterranean Realms, Real and Imagined

Alpine Books

$47.00 CAD

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A darkly evocative compendium of images exploring natural, constructed, imaginary, and subconscious underworlds, curated by renowned image collector and social media figure Stephen Ellcock. Underworlds takes...

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...

A History of the World Through Body Parts

Alpine Books

$34.95 CAD

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A grab bag of historic spleens, chins, and more, this is your ultimate literary dissection of body parts throughout history!From famous craniums to prominent breasts,...

Reimagining Fire: The Future of Energy

Alpine Books

$32.50 CAD

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In this book, environmentally conscious writers, poets, and artists exert their opinions about energy transition. How can we envision the future? What actual options are...

The Sound of Being Human

Alpine Books

$26.99 CAD

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'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music...

The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in folklore, superstition and traditional medicine

Alpine Books

$23.99 CAD

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Explore the wonderful world of some of the most incredible natural forms on our planet - fungi. At the centre of countless superstitions, folkloric tales...

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...

The Book of Change

Alpine Books

$41.95 CAD

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A better world is within our grasp, let art show you the way.A collection of radically beautiful and provocative images from one of the world's...

The Compassion Book

Dempsey

$19.95 CAD – Sold Out

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The revered Buddhist teacher and author of When Things Fall Apart presents the lojong teachings—pithy slogans for daily contemplation—and the ways in which they can enrich our lives Welcome compassion...

Psychic Spellcraft

Dempsey

$25.99 CAD

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The authors of the bestselling Wiccapedia and creators of the successful Modern-Day Witch series provide an in-depth guide to the fascinating realm of psychic and divination spellcraft.For...

Witchery - Embrace the Witch Within

Dempsey

$22.99 CAD

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Everywhere, the witches are rising. Are you ready to answer the call and embrace your own inner witch?In this book, Indigenous seer, healer, and spirit...

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...

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 Call of the Red-winged Blackbird

Alpine Books

$22.00 CAD

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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...

The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology

Alpine Books

$24.95 CAD – Sold Out

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It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.No running...

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Alpine Books

$30.99 CAD – Sold Out

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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...

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge (SPO, Solnit)

Alpine Books

$19.00 CAD

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History PrizeThrough the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the...

Soulcraft

Alpine Books

$30.50 CAD

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Written for people in search of their true selves––in particular those on the verge of adulthood and those at a major crossroads such as divorce...

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 $23.95 CAD

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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...