Alberta Books Catalogue

Browse the latest titles by Alberta book publishers.

Why I’m Here

by Jill Frayne

NeWest Press

2022

Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale walks into her office with her reluctant stepmother. It’s 1995, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. Gale has been having anxiety attacks, the last one so severe…

Up the Coast: One Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia

by Kathryn Willcock

NeWest Pres

2022

Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and loggers risked their lives every single day. The author’s tales of grizzly bears, American tourists, and a couple…

Ezra’s Ghosts

by Darcy Tamayose

NeWest Press

2022

Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra’s Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within these pages a scholar writes home from the Ryukyu islands, not knowing that his hometown will soon face a deadly calamity…

Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education: Critical Perspectives

by edited by Sandra D. Styres and Arlo Kempf

University of Alberta Press

2022

Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education offers a series of critical perspectives concerning reconciliation and reconciliatory efforts between Canadian and Indigenous peoples. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars address both theoretical and practical aspects of troubling reconciliation in education across various contexts with significant diversity of thought, approach, and socio-political location. Throughout, the work challenges mainstream…

Principles and Techniques for the Aspiring Surgeon: What Great Surgeons Do Without Thinking

by Dr. Keegan Guidolin

Brush Education

2022

All great surgeons master their craft over many years in the operating room, and much of what they know is learned implicitly—by doing—over countless hours of experience performing surgery. In this must-have guide for medical students and surgical residents, Dr. Keegan Guidolin makes the implicit learning of experienced surgeons explicit so that you can learn…

The Broken Places

by Frances Peck

NeWest Press

2022

Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is combing the farm belt for local cheese and a sense of purpose. Back in the city their families go about their business: landscaping, negotiating deals, skipping school. It’s…

Bogart Creek 3

by Derek Evernden

Renegade Art Entertainment

2022

Collecting the latest and funniest of Bogart Creek, Derek Evernden’s laugh out loud funny single-panel comics of absurd and dark humour. If life scares the hell out of you one minute and cracks you up the next, you’ll feel right at home in Bogart Creek.…

To Those Who Killed Me

by J.T. Siemens

NeWest Press

2022

Disgraced ex-cop Sloane Donovan has relied on her job as a fitness instructor to keep her mental illness and PTSD in check—until she finds a close friend dead, apparently by her own hand. Obsessive demons triggered and doubtful of the official narrative, she teams up with Wayne Capson, a PI willing to bend the law,…

Screening Nature and Nation: The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939–1974

by Michael Clemens

Athabasca University Press

2022

The stunning portrayals of the Canadian landscape in the documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada not only influenced cinematic language, but shaped our perception of the environment. In the early days of the organization, nature films produced by the NFB supported the Canadian government’s nation-building project and show the state as an…

The Santa Rosa Trilogy

by Wendy McGrath

NeWest Press

2022

Wendy McGrath’s Santa Rosa Trilogy, a decade in the making, is finally available in a complete ebook-only collection. Join a young Canadian girl in mid-century Edmonton, Alberta, as she seeks answers to life’s questions and finds beauty in the mundane. Santa Rosa: What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the…

Transcribing Moonlight

by Skylar Kay

Frontenac House

2022

Transcribing Moonlight is a collection of autobiographical haibun which outlines the life of a trans woman from December 2018 to December 2019. The form of the journal itself is traditional for haibun; while experimental at times, the haibun pay attention to the physical world and are therefore able to capture the changing seasons, moons, and phases…

Finger to Finger

by Keith Garebian

Frontenac House

2022

In his tenth poetry collection, Keith Garebian writes with savage honesty about love and its discontents, art, travel, disease, and aging. The poems have revealing gestures and situations, all drawn from personal experience. Though pared down, they have edge, and their lyrical fluency, with striking turns of feeling and imagery, never obscure the poet’s beating…

Being Here: the chemistry of startle

by Barry Dempster

Frontenac House

2022

Being Here is a kind of travelogue, focusing on two trips I took to places that were not on my bucket list: Chile and Berlin. I soon started to dive deeper into history and imagination. what the locals’ lives might be like, what waited beyond their closed doors, still searching for our commonalities, but wondering about…

A Kid Called Chatter

by Chris Kelly

Frontenac House

2022

Confidence men, juvenile gang leaders, slaughterhouse impresarios, upright citizens, moonshiners, and a mysterious plague of dying jackrabbits roil in the wake of a kid called Chatter.…

Howdy, I’m Flores LaDue

by Ayesha Clough

Red Barn Books

2022

Howdy, I’m Flores LaDue is a children’s book about Canada’s little-known rodeo queen Flores LaDue (1883-1951). The story, ideal for ages 6-10, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids.…

Horuda

by Kinga White

Bayeux Arts

2022

From the acclaimed European graphic artist and author of Animalphabetical Adventures, a moving book for children.…