White Pine Books

White Pine Books Formerly The Arnprior Bookshop, we are a thirty year old independent bookstore in the heart of Arnprior.

She's back at it! Happy release day to Barbara Kingsolver and Partita. Get your copy now!--Livia Cable has made her peac...
10/06/2026

She's back at it! Happy release day to Barbara Kingsolver and Partita.
Get your copy now!
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Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she’s kept at bay for a lifetime.

Shifting between past and present, Livia’s decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.

Which is cuter?? Sleek hardcover or tender paperback??---A writer alone at a retreat is faced with an unwelcome visitor....
10/02/2026

Which is cuter?? Sleek hardcover or tender paperback??
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A writer alone at a retreat is faced with an unwelcome visitor. A priest seeks solace from a romantic memory. A farmhand regrets losing the finest woman in town. In this remarkable collection of stories, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.

As an obstinately analog person, this book was a great read. An eye opener to the world and people of video games. ---Fi...
10/01/2026

As an obstinately analog person, this book was a great read. An eye opener to the world and people of video games.
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Finalist, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes (BC and Yukon Book Prizes)
An immersive journey into the author's lifelong attachment to video games, revealing how they shape us, shatter us, and give us the courage to start again
Of Floating Isles is a captivating collection of personal essays that unpack the mystifying and often intimate roles that video games play in our lives. Interweaving memoir with cultural critique, Kawika Guillermo explores the subtle yet transformative influences of video games in shaping them as a q***r and mixed-race grandson of two preachers; as a traveller, immigrant, and games scholar; and as a father, caregiver, and mourner. Through a mixture of fanciful musing, rigorous inquiry, and unflinching self-reflection, Of Floating Isles reframes the gamer's retreat from others not as social isolation, but as a quest for a different community, one where they feel seen, heard, and understood. This deep-seated longing to belong, Guillermo suggests, forms the imaginative worlds of video games and the floating isles they conjure.
By exploring their own lifelong attachment to video games, Guillermo shows how games can spark rage, confusion, and the desire to escape, but these emotions are not necessarily bad - they are the growing pains that many young people must work through. So too can games provide reflective realms to dwell, to imagine, and to build spaces for q***r, trans, racialized, and neurodiverse groups. Envisioning games as forms of poetic interaction, Of Floating Isles boldly conveys their truth-telling powers: their ability to offer guidance in times of loss and hardship, and their power to reveal the oppressive mechanisms of our "real" world

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation it is a day to learn. Take the time, even just 30 minutes!Join the Truth and Re...
09/30/2026

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation it is a day to learn. Take the time, even just 30 minutes!

Join the Truth and Reconciliation book club October 17th to discuss The Knowing by Tanya Talaga, Canadian powerhouse!

Great children's book directly addressing residential schools. ---"A young girl notices things about her grandmother tha...
09/30/2026

Great children's book directly addressing residential schools.

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"A young girl notices things about her grandmother that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak Cree and spend so much time with her family? As the girl asks questions, her grandmother shares her experiences in a residential school, when all of these things were taken away.

Also available in a bilingual Swampy Cree/English edition. Download the free teacher guide on the Portage & Main Press website."

This HAS to be my favourite duo out there!"Want" and "More" are collections of women's sexual desires. Anonymously submi...
09/30/2026

This HAS to be my favourite duo out there!
"Want" and "More" are collections of women's sexual desires. Anonymously submitted, Tactfully collected by Gillian Anderson.

"More" is out now!
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If Want sparked the fire of a quiet revolution, More gives women the fuel to let it roar. In this electrifying sequel, Gillian Anderson invites us to leave shame and fear at the door as she dials up the heat on women’s sexual fantasies and dares us to want more.

This collection of intimate letters—submitted by anonymous women across the globe, curated and introduced by Gillian—dives deeper into what women everywhere think, feel and dream about in their most private moments. Spilling out of the bedroom, the letters take us to all spaces where desire resides, from the school gates to office boardrooms, kitchen counters to forest floors. Bolder and more explicit, they come from over fifty nations and women from eighteen to eighty. Nothing is off limits: there are silken ropes and stirrups, metal collars and machines, neighbours, friends, in-laws and strangers, cravings to own and be owned, people to desire and be desired by, pleasure and pain in equal measure.

Release day is finally here!
09/30/2026

Release day is finally here!

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