Alberta Books Catalogue

Browse the latest titles by Alberta book publishers.

The Beauty of Vultures

by Wendy McGrath

NeWest Press

2025

The interplay between photography, nature and poetic form is on full display in Wendy McGrath’s and Danny Miles’ collaborative new work The Beauty of Vultures. This innovative collection takes readers into the surprisingly chatty world of birds, whose avian artistry and poignant plumage mimics the formally and structurally inventive tones found in each poem. The language wings…

All Wrong Horses on Fire That Go Away in the Rain

by Sarain Frank Soonias

NeWest Press

2025

A captivating search through one family’s history, ALL WRONG HORSES ON FIRE THAT GO AWAY IN THE RAIN is a stunning examination of intergenerational trauma and its effect on Indigenous voices. Aftershocks and fragmented memories ricochet through this collection, bringing with them strength, intensity and uninhibited beauty. Sarain Frank Soonias makes his poetic debut with a splash…

The Moon the Sun Forgot

by B.J. Wagner

Mythic Roads Press

2025

In the vast, lawless ocean beneath the thick surface ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa, independent undersea miners compete against megacorporations for natural resources, and pirates hunt for unwary prey. Kassia McCullough will stop at nothing to enact revenge on Pretorious Grant, the man she holds responsible for her father’s suicide. When Grant’s half-brother escapes from…

My Works, Ye Mighty

by Christian Bök

AU Press

2025

My Works, Ye Mighty expands upon the conceptual literature of Christian Bök, particularly his ongoing project, entitled The Xenotext. Based upon work conducted during his tenure as the Writer-in-Residence at Athabasca University, this essay addresses the concept of “scale” in poetry, meditating on this topic with an abundance of imagery; moreover, his essay appears alongside an epic…

The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History

by Peter Fortna

LCR Publishing

2025

This community history chronicles the processes that led to the founding of the Fort McKay Métis Nation in northern Alberta. This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses…

Transforming the Field Education Landscape: Student Handbook on Field Education

by Edited by Julie L. Drolet and Grant Charles

LCR Publishing

2025

Field education has long been an integral and valuable component of the social work curriculum for students. Field is the place where students integrate their classroom learnings about core social work theories, principles, values, and ethical behaviors into practice. It is recognized as the signature pedagogy of social work education. Transforming the Field Education Landscape: Student…

Good Victory

by Mikka Jacobsen

Freehand Books

2025

Debut stories about the absurdity of growing up and being human in the twenty-first century. A woman finds her childhood friend working in a booth at a psychic fair in the West Edmonton Mall courtyard. A lonely neuropsychology student steals cocaine from his lab rat to impress a Tinder date. Teenage girls play a dangerous…

All in the Furry Family

by Eileen O'Finlan

BWL Publishing Inc

2025

The success of Oneness Park has brought big changes for the furs and feathers of Wild Whisker Ridge and Faunaburg. Smokey is now Abigail Fluffington’s partner at Fluffington ArCATechture, Autumn Amelia is running Mama Cat’s Kitchen, the wildly popular restaurant at the park, and Greyson and Abigail are engaged. Two new neighbors have moved in…

The Remnants of Pryr

by Tobias Robbins

BWL Publishing

2025

The reclusive archivist, Isten, has taken on the unenviable task of cataloging the history of his world before time runs out and the land of Pryr comes to a devastating end. Curating this assortment challenges Isten to reevaluate his beliefs about his home and his place within it. Concepts such as faith, bigotry, love, and…

Mythologies of Outer Space

by Edited by Jim Ellis and Noreen Humble

University of Calgary Press

2025

Artists, writers, and academics imagine and examine outer space in this beautifully illustrated offering from the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories…

Little Blue

by Jay Lang

BWL Publishing Inc.

2025

New York musician Jude Rossi’s world is shattered when his 14-year-old daughter, Little Blue—a rising star in the music scene—dies unexpectedly at her record deal party. Though the coroner’s report lists “overdose,” Jude knows that his daughter’s disdain for drugs means there’s something far more sinister at play. With no means to investigate, he spirals into a…

Elements of Indigenous Style, 2nd Ed.: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples

by Gregory Younging, lead editor Warren Cariou

Brush Education

2025

The groundbreaking Indigenous style guide every writer needs A new editorial team continues the paradigm-shifting conversation started by the late Gregory Younging in his foundational Elements of Indigenous Style. Trusted by writers, editors, publishers, researchers, scholars, journalists, and communications professionals around the world, the second edition of Elements continues to offer crucial guidance to everyone…

Belle Canadienne: Quebec

by Juliet Waldron (Author) and Jay Lang (Author)

BWL Publishing Inc

2024

Before the filles du roi…Desperate to escape her past, Jeanne, a poor widow, accompanies a richer woman to Quebec. The sea voyage is long, one of privation and danger. In 1640, the decision to emigrate takes raw courage, but the struggling colony of Quebec, so far a collection of rough soldiers and fur traders, needs French…

Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma AKA The Jessica Jones Anthology

by Edited by Mary Grace Lao, Pree Rehal, and Jessica Bay

University of Calgary Press

2024

A collection of critical discussions of the Netflix Marvel adaptation Jessica Jones. Jessica Jones made her first Marvel Comics appearance in Alias #1, November 2001, and went on to star in three ongoing series. In 2015 the Netflix adaptation Jessica Jones premiered to positive reviews. Following the scarred and superpowered titular character as she struggled to run…

The Halifax Incident

by H. Paul Doucette

BWL Publishing Inc

2024

It is 1959 and the Canadian Navy is at the forefront in the area of anti-submarine warfare systems research and development. The RCMP has received information from the FBI in the States, warning of a possible Soviet plan to send agents to the port city to steal whatever they can get. The security in Halifax…

A Killer Whisky: Alberta

by Susan Calder

BWL Publishing Inc

2024

The 1918 influenza pandemic strikes Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Great War rages overseas. While her husband fights in Europe, Katharine works in a doctor’s office to support her children and her brother, a wounded veteran. One night their neighbour suddenly takes sick and dies. The attending doctor concludes the man died from influenza, but Katharine suspects…

Hockey on the Moon: Imagination and Canada’s Game

by Jamie Dopp

Athabasca University Press

2024

Fantasy and reality come together in sports and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme, Dopp offers in-depth analyses of key texts of hockey literature, with a focus on how these texts reveal the imaginative possibilities of…