Alberta Books Catalogue

Browse the latest titles by Alberta book publishers.

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates: A Sourcebook

by edited by Anthony J. Vickery, Glen F. Nichols, and Allana C. Lindgren

University of Alberta Press

2022

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material to explore what these documents tell us about the values, debates, and priorities of artists and…

Until Further Notice: A Year in Pandemic Time

by Amy Kaler

University of Alberta Press

2022

In Until Further Notice, Amy Kaler records a personal account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. She documents a series of jolts to her thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and habits—an internal seismograph of living through a global emergency. Kaler’s introspection underlines the universal experience of dissonance brought on by COVID-19 and…

Ordinary Deaths: Stories from Memory

by Samuel LeBaron

University of Alberta Press

2022

In Ordinary Deaths, Dr. Samuel LeBaron reminds us of our need for human connection when experiencing death and loss. Based on more than thirty years of working with children and adults dying from cancer, LeBaron’s memoir contains stories of longing, confusion, love, and humility—often woven together. Sharing recollections from his childhood in rural Alberta and…

Education Law for Teachers and School Administrators

by Jerome G. Delaney

Brush Education

2022

In the second edition of Education Law for Teachers and School Administrators, Jerome G. Delaney provides educators with a comprehensive overview of their legal rights and of the legal issues they may face in their day-to-day jobs. Delaney tackles thorny questions and offers practical answers that help practicing teachers identify classroom situations with potential legal ramifications…

Sisters of the North

by Emily Kirkham

Dragon Hill Publishing

2022

A modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility through the lens of two impoverished sisters facing life in a Northern BC oil town similar to Fort MacMurray.…

The Right to Be Rural

by Edited by Karen R. Foster, Jennifer Jarman

University of Alberta Press

2022

In this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia through the lens of rights and citizenship, across such varied domains as education, employment, and health. The provocative concept of a “right to be rural” illuminates not only the challenges faced by rural communities worldwide, but also underappreciated…

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…

the book of smaller

by rob mclennan

University of Calgary Press

2022

rob mclennan presents a collection of sharp, challenging prose poetry that asks what can be achieved if we try a little smaller. Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems…

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…

A Snake in the Raspberry Patch

by Joanne Jackson

Stonehouse Publishing

2022

It is the summer of 1971 and Liz takes care of her four sisters while waiting to meet the sixth Murphy child: a boy. And yet, something is not right. Adults tensely whisper in small groups, heads shaking. Her younger sister, Rose seems more annoying, always flashing her camera and jotting notes in her notepad.…

Going to Beautiful

by Anthony Bidulka

Stonehouse Publishing

2022

International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange new world—a snow-swept prairie town that time forgot—a place where nothing makes sense. Cold is beautiful.…

From the Corner of Bad and Ass

by Carrie Schiffler

Durvile & UpRoute Books

2022

From the Corner of Bad and Ass is a collection of Carrie Schiffler’s memories about growing up in welfare housing to absentee and alcoholic parents. Throughout these heart-wrenching and often-hilarious stories we cheer her on as she fights to survive domestic violence, sexual abuse, and cycles of poverty and addiction — all before her 18th…

Cashmere Comes From Goats

by S. Portico Bowman

Stonehouse Publishing

2022

Was it the death of her dog, Bloom, or was she just tired of her routine as a dentist? Or perhaps her depression was the result of her (mostly) unrequited love for her former piano teacher, Bruno? As Robin contemplates a sabbatical to see puffins in Newfoundland, a fateful google search puts everything on hold.…

Letters to Singapore

by Kelly Kaur

Stonehouse Publishing

2022

Growing up in Singapore, Simran always knew what was expected of her: to learn how to be a good mother and wife. The only problem? Simran has no interest in any of this. After a close escape (almost at the altar!), Simran earns a reprieve to attend the University of Calgary in Canada. Letters exchanged back…

You Still Look the Same

by Farzana Doctor

Freehand Books

2022

A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous decade of her forties. Through crisp and vivid language, Doctor explores mid-life breakups and dating,…

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…

Wan

by Dawn Promislow

Freehand Books

2022

Narrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Written in gorgeous and spare prose, this exquisite debut novel grapples with questions of complicity and guilt, of…

Night in the World

by Sharon English

Freehand Books

2022

Brothers Justin and Oliver have never been close. Justin owns an iconic Toronto restaurant and lives with his wife and daughter in Baby Point. Oliver, a former environmental reporter, does admin for a local gym and rents an attic apartment. Yet both men know their worlds stand on the brink. With their mother’s abrupt death,…