I’m pleased to present the Earth Sky + Water Spring 2021 collection! This is an awesome gift line for people looking for beautifully illustrated nature guides, greeting cards, or posters with local flora and fauna. Works well for kids outings and nature education too. See the catalogue pdf flyer...
I just discovered a title that wasn’t catalogued that came out last March! The Half-Acre Homestead: 46 Years of Building and Gardening (Paperback) Lloyd Kahn House & Home / Do-It-Yourself – General ISBN: 9780936070810 Published: March 13, 2020 $29.50 A few of you found it online. It...
Media list for the week is here. Special Note On Our Big Media Title: Midnight Bargain We have a Canada Reads title as you probably figured out through my hedgy-secretive “award” announcements: Midnight Bargain. This is a Calgary BIPOC author and the book is a fantastic read. And...
Firefly has kept their 20 books for 55% offer (all orders to me). Offer ends March 30. I know sometimes people struggle with reorders to reach the minimum, so to help I have made a list of the perpetual sellers for you to add to your order.
We have a new book that you will need for your shelf! A rural James Herriot-likes novel set in small town BC, releasing in February and shipping via Raincoast. The author lives in Prince George, BC. Please show it off with All Creatures Great and Small! If you’d like...
This title seems to have been overlooked by many booksellers, due to bad timing and the COVID scramble, but it is shipping in February and getting outstanding advance reviews and blurbs, including from John Irving. It is a rep choice pick and Canadian, from Dundurn. Fascinating and well written,...
All Creatures Great and Small premieres this Sunday, January 10, on PBS Masterpiece at 9:00pm EST. I cannot wait for it! all those cosy sweaters and horses. A great flake out, fun, light series in these times of dark contrasts. Bookmanager list here. You can watch the trailer here....
Happy New Year! I have spoken to a few booksellers who are all expressing the same thing to me: The fall disappeared, they were treading water, but feel zonked and happy to have made it. First off, congratulations for making it through. You rock! If you still need to...
The Kent Monkman art book, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, that accompanies the national exhibit currently at the AGO is finally in stock at UTP, and it’s a beauty! This is a lead First Nations exhibit that explores First Nations resilience in colonial and post colonial Canada. The...
A roundup for you of some of the incredible coverage of books from Goose Lane Editions. The editors and reviewers at the Globe and Mail chose three Goose Lane titles for the Globe Top 100, which they’ve dubbed “the books that shaped 2020”: Unicorn in the Woods by Gordon...