The Spaniel's Tale Bookstore • 2024 Holiday Gift Guide by Great River Media inc.

What’s inside

Staff picks

Award winners

Fiction favourites

Interesting non-fiction

Fun kids books

not going to see featured by the chain bookstore or online conglomerates. No matter the publisher or author, we think all of these titles will make great gifts for your friends and family.

Maiga Doocy

Abigail Owen

Andrey Kurkov

Loghan Paylor

Danielle L Jensen

Percival Everett

Tommy Tomlinson

Henry Louis Gates

Emily Henry

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All Hookers Go To Heaven

Mag leaves her conservative Christian roots, becomes a sex worker, and seeks to redefine her identity.

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Heather O’Neil

Marissa Staple

Jenny Haysom

Louise Penny

Eric Chacour

Holly Pester

Angel B.H.

Alice Zorn

Sonia Sulaiman

Tom Ryan

Christine Cosack

Sara Power

Carol Shields Nora Foster Stovel

Connie Gault

Katie Tallo

Timothy Taylor

Fiction Favourites (cont.)

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James S.A.

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Interesting Non-fiction

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through climate crises, highlighting personal and political impacts, and advocating for radical care.

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The Serviceberry

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A bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

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Going To Seed Homing

Drawing on science, literature, poetry, and personal observation, Going to Seed asks: what might we learn about work, sustainability, and relationships if we simply slowed down?

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Explore the effects of oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through a graphic novel, highlighting the region’s environmental struggles.

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A memoir about abandoning an exhausting commuter lifestyle to move to a cabin in the woods, embracing imperfection while cultivating a life of care for self and nature. For fans of Sweetgrass:BraidingManomin teaches us how to live well in the world, sustaining relations with each other, our food, and our waterways.

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What I Ate In One Year

Stanley Tucci

A poignant memoir from award-winning actor chronicling a year’s worth of meals, reflecting on life, family, and the passage of time.

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Ottolenghi Comfort

Yotam Ottolenghi

This is a book filled with meals that are easy and exciting, familiar and fresh, new and nostalgic, revelatory yet reassuring.

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a time before our relatives began living full-time on the ground.

The lives and habitats of two majestic bird species are shared through striking space, aerial, and surface photographs to artfully convey the fragile elegance of life on Earth.

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In five knockout chapters covering Midweek Meals, Weekend Wins, OnePan Dinners, Pantry Love and Delicious Desserts, Simply Jamie exists to inspire you to get cooking.

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My Thali celebrates the South Indian cooking and the joys of thalis, both simple and homey, and grand and glorious.

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Keith Seifert

Daniel J. Levintin

Nicole Mortillaro

Dr. Roberta L. Bondar

Michael Stock

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Hot Mess

Sarah Marie Weibe

Kate J. Neville Alice Irene

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There’s Always This Year

Hanif Abdurraqib Hanif Abdurraqib blends reflectionspersonal and cultural critique, celebrating resilience and hope through the lens of basketball. $42.00 |

James The moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the

and the impossible dreams he made a reality. From former editor of New York magazine

A collection of essays on creativity featuring 21 Canadian and international writers, providing warmth, support, camaraderie, and empathy for artists.

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“Slim, dense, and compulsively readable… At once a memoir, an interrogation of 'motherhood,' and a love letter to her newborn son.”—Literary Review of Canada

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Open-Ended Run is an exploration of a life spent in the arts and a man’s search for meaning in the face of grief following the loss of his wife.

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A unique examination of anxiety in complex times, and a contribution to contemporary autofiction as formally inventive as it is full of heart. Follows Knud Rasmussen’s 19211924 Arctic expedition, documenting Inuit culture and stories. An exploration of a woman's life, with fresh, understated wisdom, without ever forgetting the shadow of mortality trailing every one of us.

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