Alberta Books Catalogue

Browse the latest titles by Alberta book publishers.

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…

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…

Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock

by Jaspreet Singh

NeWest Press

2024

—Deep time is time / that can not be erased With empathy and playfulness, with startle and delight, Jaspreet Singh explores the fragility, beauty, and sorrow of the dreaming and waking worlds… a work of remarkable intellect,” wrote the poet Donna Kane about How to Hold a Pebble. In Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock, Singh…

Peggy & Balmer: Two Journalists at the Edge of History

by Tom Radford

NeWest Press

2024

“Alberta is a puzzle, born in hope and anger,” William Thorsell writes in the introduction to this stunning new book by filmmaker and writer Tom Radford. Following the lives of his grandparents Peggy and Balmer Watt, Radford tells the story of two journalists who arrive in Edmonton the first day of the province’s life, September…

The Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada

by Bob Barnetson, Jason Foster

Athabasca University Press

2024

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the “how-to”) with a focus on the practical application of the most recent HRM research and best practices. Students will learn to understand, anticipate, and respond to how power, profit, and intersectionality shape the practice…

Hiroshima Bomb Money

by Terry Watada

NeWest Press

2024

Through the lives of three siblings living in Hiroshima, Japan, Terry Watada explores the sweep of history during the years 1930 to 1945. The youngest, Chisato Akamatsu, travels to Canada looking for a new life but is confronted by the brutalities of immigration, a troubled marriage and the humiliation of the Japanese internment by the…

A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019

by Lindsay McLaren, Donald W.M. Juzwishin, and Rogelio Velez Mendoza

University of Calgary Press

2024

Top health scholars explore one hundred years of public health policy, practice, activism, and scholarship in a book that offers clarity on historical contours of a complex field and a vision for a future of well-being and health equity. Public health is diffuse, divided, and poorly understood. As a policy and practice, public health promotes…

Moon Honey: Landmark Edition

by Suzette Mayr

NeWest Press

2024

Nominated for the Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book and the Georges Bugnet award for Best Novel! In this modern, magical tale, Carmen and Griffin, young and white, are goofy, head-over-heels in love. When Carmen turns into a black woman, Griffin thrills at a love turned exotic. But Carmen’s transformation means trouble for Griffin’s…

Bronco Buster

by A.J. Devlin

NeWest Press

2024

Hammerhead” Jed is back! And this time, he’s gone a little bit country… After a lumberjack games competitor is found floating face down in a pool with an axe buried in the back of his head, former pro wrestler-turned-P.I. “Hammerhead” Jed Ounstead is on the case. Investigating the Colossal Cloverdale Rodeo and County Fair with…

Juiceboxers

by Benjamin Hertwig

Freehand Books

2024

A powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and the devastating aftermath of war. “An unvarnished, intimately informed dissection of war’s physical and emotional derangements.” – Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise and American War Sixteen-year-old Plinko is attending basic training before high school starts up again in the fall. Feeling adrift from…

Homing: A Quest to Care for Myself and the Earth

by Alice Irene Whittaker

Freehand Books

2024

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. Alice Irene Whittaker was addicted to productivity, perfectionism, and discipline. She was used to rushing between multiple jobs, her demanding ballet training, and volunteering for social justice…

Strong and Free: My Journey in Alberta Politics

by Ted Morton

University of Calgary Press

2024

Politician and political scientist Ted Morton shares an insider’s view of Alberta Politics in this illuminating autobiography. Ted Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the…

Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster

by Damian Tarnopolsky

Freehand Books

2024

A risk-taking, labyrinthine, and absolutely original collection of short stories. Every Night I Dream I’m a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the human psyche that is at once explosive, funny, dark, sweet, pained, and utterly strange. From the tangled threads of a messed-up family to the timeless themes…

Colours in Her Hands

by Alice Zorn

Freehand Books

2024

A witty, layered and compelling novel about a woman with Down Syndrome, exploring textile art, sibling relationships, friendships, and good intentions gone awry. What is intellectual disability? Ask Bruno, who is at his wits’ end trying to predict what his sister, Mina, will do next. Ask Iris, who is entranced by the wildly inventive embroidery…

Attic Rain

by Samantha Jones

NeWest Press

2024

In Attic Rain, her debut poetry collection, Calgary based poet and writer Samantha Jones puts obsessive-compulsive disorder centre stage. Lines and words repeat, write over themselves, and read top to bottom and back again, emphasizing themes of self-doubt, anxiety, and negotiation for control. Attic Rain is a love story nested inside an overarching narrative of self-compassion and awareness.…

Against the Odds: The Indigenous Rights Cases of Thomas R. Berger

by Drew Ann Wake

Durvile & UpRoute

2024

“This is the story of many remarkable Indigenous people: the hunters in the White and Bob case, the Nisga’a tribal leaders in the Calder case, the Dene, Métis, and Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, and the Alaskans in the report of the Alaska Native Review Commission.” —Hamar Foster KC, from the foreword Against…

Doing Democracy Differently: Indigenous Rights and Representation in Canada and Latin America

by Roberta Rice

University of Calgary Press

2024

A comparative study of innovative approaches to Indigenous self-government. Across North and South America, Indigenous people play a dual political role, building self-governing structures in their own nations and participating in the elections of settler states. Doing Democracy Differently asks how states are responding to demands for Indigenous representation and autonomy and in what ways the ongoing…