Chapel Street Editions

09/21/2026

This Thursday! We would love if you could join us, Doris Kennedy, and Chapel Street Editions at the Fredericton launch of The Hartland Salmon Pool: From Bountiful Resource to Tragic Extinction.

09/21/2026

'Disappearing Before Our Eyes: Photographs and Stories from Grand Manan Island' by Peter Cunningham & Alison Hawthorne Deming it today's Featured in-store! 💕NB🇨🇦📚

"The island of Grand Manan lies at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, the largest in a string of islands that stretches down the coast into the Gulf of Maine. Peter Cunningham first came to the island in his mother’s womb, accompanying his father, who studied fog on nearby Kent Island. As a child, Cunningham would get painfully seasick when he went out on the boats, but even then he noticed that traditional ways of life were changing: yoked teams of oxen were replaced by diesel-powered bulldozers and “dead reckoning” navigation was supplanted by radar.

Disappearing Before Our Eyes chronicles the quickening change sweeping across contemporary island life through the memories of older generations and the aspirations of the young. On Grand Manan, catch from the sea is still paying the bills and public investment goes into building wharves instead of tourist amenities. Cunningham’s photographs bear witness to the struggle to maintain an island culture of self-reliant individualism in the face of the economic forces of globalization."

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Goose Lane Editions

09/19/2026

We’re set up with all our books at Buttermilk Creek in Florenceville today.

08/04/2026

08/03/2026

On the Hartland Covered Bridge with our new book about the Hartland Salmon Pool.

07/25/2026

07/23/2026

Book launch this evening at the Walter J. Chestnut Library in Hartland.

01/29/2026

"Something quite extraordinary often happens when people who are bare acquaintances have a conversation about a mutually appreciated book, or when one of them introduces a book previously unknown to the other that instantly rings a bell and sparks an animated conversation. It's as if in a loose network of associations an island of common ground suddenly appears and a sense of affinity clicks into place that leaps across the space between them."

Next Thursday, February 5th, 7 pm at the shop (88 York St.), we're excited to welcome Woodstock publisher, author, and activist Keith Helmuth in to read from and talk about his memoir Working in the Commonwealth of Books.

It's a book for anyone who reads books, talks about books, works in the book trade, or is interested in grassroots conversations about community and culture, vocation and values.

We hope you will join us.