Black Squirrel Books & Espresso Bar
1073 Bank St. K1S 3W9 Ottawa, ON, Canada

How about some new arrivals today? Also a peek at our Indigenous studies and Folio Society shelves? You can get these. Comment to claim. Or just say hi! McLuhan - Gutenberg Galaxy - $15 (1966 printing) Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat - $40 (1894 printing w b/w drawings by Elihu Vedder) Long Lit Woon - The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mushrooming - $20... Samra Habib - We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - $18 The World of the Orishas (Yoruba/Cuban oral traditions) - $20 - This edition is out of print Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude - $12 Tanya Talaga - All Our Relations - $15 James Joyce - Ulysses - $15 (1964 Bodley Head printing) Simone de Beauvoir - The Ethics of Ambiguity - $10 (contains underlining) The True History of the Elephant Man - $8 See more

We just want you to know: we’re here for you! Of course, now we’re there for you, and when we’re not there for you, we’re in the mail for you. Flat rate shipping via Canada Post’s Expedited Parcel service; 2 day delivery; ten dollars. Free for orders over one hundred. Books, beans, surprise boxes, stuff we post on insta, or anything else we have on offer - to your door. This is offered in addition to our regular curbside service available from 11-5. Check our website for a c...omprehensive list of what’s available at www.blacksquirrelbooks.ca. Or DM with your requests! See you soon!

Literal Boxing Day Sale! [Tag someone and win a free box? Why not! We’ll pick a random winner tomorrow afternoon] One day only: small, medium, and large Surprise Boxes. $10 for a small box w 5 books; $20 for a medium w 10 books; $30 for a large w 15 books. (Or more).... $2 a book?! Have we lost our minds? Not exactly - just clearing out older stuff, doubles, overstock, and some titles that never even hit the shelf. Completely random stuff! If you’re interested in something more customized, though, check us out next week - we’ll be re-launching our curated surprise boxes in full. It’ll be our first curbside pickup day - regular hours, 11-5. Stroll up to the front door, or give us a call. Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!

Let's get this week going with some books! Today we've got a choice selection of vintage New Direction Paperbooks, works from Grove Press' Black Circle imprint, tons of Deleuze and Guattari, and a beautiful mid-century Jane Austen boxset. Comment to claim! NDP // Arthur Rimbaud - A Season in Hell and the Drunken Boat - 10 Walter Abish - In the Future Perfect - 10... Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of Night - 15 Charles Olson - Selected Writings - 12 Ci Corman - Sun Rock Man - 11 Gandhi - On Non-Violence - 10 Bob Kaufman - Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness - 8 (wear, staining) Gregory Corso - the Happy Birthday of Death - 10 (wear) Herman Hesse - Siddartha - 12 Denise Levertov - Collected Earlier Poems - 8 Denise Levertov - The Freeing of the Dust - 10 Walter Abish - Minds Meet - 10 (wear) Tennessee Williams - the Glass Menagerie - 9 Gustave Flaubert - Bouvard and Pecuchet - 6 Jean Cocteau - The Holy Terrors - 10 The Henry Miller Reader - 15 Thomas Merton - the Asian Journals - 10 (staining) BLACK CIRCLE // Bine Strange Petersen - Anything Goes - 15 Norman Douglas - Some Limericks - 15 Munroe Howard - Call Me Brick - 15 Anonymous - Sadopaideia - 20 Anonymous - Harriet Marwood, Governess - 20 Jones, Reiter, Schultz, Shafton - 4 x 4 - 20 DELEUZE AND GUATTARI // Difference and Repetition - 24 A Thousand Plateaus - 24 Chaosophy - 16 the Anti-Oedipus Papers - 19 Desert Islands - 17 Two Regimes of Madness - 20 Soft Subversions - 16 Anti-Oedipus - 24 The Logic of Sense - 24 Jane Austen Set - 75 (wear at edges of box, a handful of pages rippled)

Hi friends! Just want to let y'all know we're still open every day from 11AM - 5PM, for book browsing on both floors, as well as takeout from our regular cafe menu. Apologies if we haven't responded to a DM, comment, or email - we love to hear from you, but we're a smaller team right now, and a bit behind. Please have faith in us! We're getting more attuned to the ~nEw NoRmaL~ every day, and want to serve you by every avenue available. If you're following up on an order you ...placed with us, or have an urgent question (life, death, or book recommendations), you can always reach us by phone during regular hours too. Also: we've had a lot of requests for a new round of Surprise Boxes, and we're excited to say they'll be back before the holiday season. Also also: you can now order most new books directly on our website. How wild is that? The digital age is upon us! Check the new www.blacksquirrelbooks.ca Hope to see ya soon! - Squirrel fam

Sunday Surprise Sale! Come out and support our friends over at Cinqhole, who are holding a Farewell Fundraiser to recover costs associated with running & renovating Ottawa’s most compelling DIY venue. They poured their hearts (and wallets) into it for two years! We have about 3,000 books from the shelves at the venue that need new homes, and all proceeds will go to the Fundraiser. The books will be sorted into broad categories, ready for pickup on tables outside. Although a ...total *surprise*, at 15-25 avg. books per box, this is a major deal for $10. 5b Fairmont Ave, in Hintonburg, from 11AM-3PM. DJ Sweven Yong and MC Joey Liquid Legs will be at the controls. The garage door will be open, and things will be safely distanced. Wear a mask! See you there!

Do you like cold brew? Come drink cold brew. #knowthyself

Happy day! We’re taking this one off, for the first time in many years, but we’ll be open regular hours tomorrow. Call Them Canadians: A Photographic Point of View by the National Film Board of Canada, 1968 - $20 Richard Wagamese - Keeper'n Me - $12 Richard Wagamese - A Quality of Light - $15... Karsh Canadians - $15 (large photo book, UTP, 1978, 31*25*3) Treasures of the National Archives of Canada - $15 (UTP, 1992, 31*25*5) George Grant - Lament for a Nation - $10 James Laxer - Tecumseh & Brock - $12 A Homeland for the Cree: Regional Development in James Bay, 1971-1981 - $12 Marie Wadden - Where the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation - $17 By Law or in Justice: The Indian Specific Claims Commission and the Struggle for Indigenous Justice - $20 Finding Dashaa: Self-Government, Social Suffering, and Aboriginal Policy in Canada - $19 Patricia Monture-Angus - Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks - $15 Kohkominawak Otacimowiniwawa / Our Grandmothers' Lives as Told in Their Own Words - $15 (Cree oral history) Alexandra Shima - Invisible North - $18 Aboriginal Well-Being: Canada's Continuing Challenge - $9 Indigenous Cultures in a Connected World - $6 Walking This Path Together: Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare Practice - $20 Harold Innis and A.R. Lower - Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1783-1885 - $50 (1933) Waubgeshig Rice - The Moon of the Crusted Snow - $13 Racism in Canada - $10 (A collection of essays from 1991) From Rinks to Regiments: Hockey Hall-Of-Famers and the Great War - $12 Canadian Houses of Romance - $20 (Macmillan 1926, black and white drawings by Dorothy Stevens; binding remains solid; interior clean; jacket has many small rips, else fine) Folk Songs of Canada - $20 (Fowke & Johnston, 1954) Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life - $20 They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever: Rock Writings in the Stein River Valley of British Columbia - $30 Gordon G Nakayama - Issei: Stories of Japanese Canadian Pioneers - $10 (1983) Racialized Migrant Women in Canada - Essays on Health, Violence, and Equity - $20 See more

Judith Butler - Gender Trouble (1990 printing) Wayne Kostenbaum - The Queen's Throat - $9 Jan Morris - Pleasures of a Tangled Life - $8... Ivan E. Coyote - Close to Spider Man - $12 Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad - $9 Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Coul Be Normal? - $12 (hardcover) Alison Bechdel - Are You My Mother? - $15 (hardcover) Mary Oliver and Molly Cook - Our World - $20 (photo book) Dany Lyne - Riding the Wave: Tales of Transformation - $15 Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-1965 - $15 The Violet Quill: The Emergence of Gay Writing After Stonewall - $10 (Edmund White, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and more) Timothy Findlay - Spadework - $9 Mary Gaitskill - This Is Pleasure: A Story - $15 Bo Huston - The Dream Life - $8 (1992 printing; Stonewall Inn Editions) When This You See Remember Me: Gertrude Stein in Person - $5 (creased, yellowed, but still intact) Gertrude Stein: Everybody's Autobiography - $5 Linda Simon - The Biography of Alice B. Toklas - $5 E.M. Forster - Howards End - $5 Gerald Clarke - Capote: A Biography - $9 John Ashberry - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - $12 Andreas Souvaliotis - Misfit - $12 Patricia Highsmith - Two Faces of January - $12 Christopher Isherwood - A Single Man - $9 Valerie Solanas - S.C.U.M. Manifesto - $10 (Verso Press edition) Maude Hutchins - Victorine - $12 (NYRB edition w intro by Terry Castle) @ Ottawa Capital Of Canada See more