Alberta Books Catalogue

Browse the latest titles by Alberta book publishers.

Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges: Journeys Through the Borderlands of History

by Elizabeth Jameson

University of Calgary Press

2025

Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges is a collection of essays inspired by public lectures given by historian Dr. Elizabeth Jameson during her tenure as Imperial Oil-Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies at the University of Calgary from 1999 to 2017. Together, these essays represent the intellectual evolution of an important and influential scholar told through engaging original…

Abode

by Jun-long Lee

AU Press

2025

Abode is a debut collection of interconnected poems that delve with vertiginous momentum into homes—both material and interior—lost and rediscovered from the inside looking in: they are excavations of nested domestic spheres furnished with the bricolage of ruin and decay. Lee takes readers through hallucinatory geographies, plant-haunted spaces, and dreamlike corridors flooded with water and light,…

The Longest Night

by Lauren Carter

Freehand Books

2025

A taut and uncanny thriller about one girl’s search for home, melding time travel, magic realism, horror, and literary suspense. One forty-below December night, 18-year-old Ash Hayes finds herself locked out of her home in rural Minnesota. She seeks shelter from the freezing cold with neighbours she hasn’t yet met. The next morning, everything is…

We Are All of Us Left Behind

by Bradley Somer

Freehand Books

2025

A queer coming-of-age story about a young man’s journey from Canada to Serbia in search of his roots, about the power of truth and lies, and about the persistence of hope when there’s nothing else left. Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young man yearns for a family to belong to…

That’s Where You Were, Then

by Judith Pond

Freehand Books

2025

Jen begins life as a solitary and somewhat diabolical child growing up in a rural Nova Scotia, who comes up with – at best – unusual ways of dealing with an annoying baby brother, a depressed mother, a disappearing father, and frogs that should be toads. Through the linked stories of this collection, we follow…

How to Breathe Water

by Sharon Butala

Freehand Books

2025

A road trip through the prairies prompts acclaimed writer Sharon Butala to unearth the stories of the natural world around her, and at the same time revisit her own personal histories. After an isolating and demoralizing year during the COVID-19 pandemic, a friend invites Sharon Butala to join her on a road trip – together…

Where Histories Meet: Indigenous and Settler Encounters in the Toronto Area

by Victoria Freeman

Bighorn Books

2025

Where Histories Meet is a richly illustrated and accessible historical survey of relations between Indigenous peoples and settlers in the Toronto region from the time of the Toronto Purchase to the Indian Act. Where Histories Meet traces the histories of the Toronto region’s Indigenous peoples and their relations with settlers, focusing on the period from the colonial…

What is Broken Binds Us

by Lorne Daniel

University of Calgary Press

2025

What is Broken Binds Us shares stories of loss, absence, acceptance, and hope. Returning to the page after a long absence, poet Lorne Daniel provides a unique perspective on crisis that balances raw emotion with vulnerability, thoughtfulness, and care. In seven sections, Daniel braids the stories of empire, personal traumas, addiction and family estrangement, shifting emergencies,…

Fifty-Five Ways to Survive / Cinquante-cinq voies de survie: Graphic Poetry for Strength | Poésie visuelle pour la résilience

by Laurier Tiernan

Durvile & UpRoute

2025

« J’ai traversé douze années de thérapie pour des pensées suicidaires, mais j’ai surmonté ces idées sombres. Je souhaite inspirer les gens à avancer vers la vie idéale qu’ils désirent, peu importe les obstacles sur leur chemin. » —Laurier Tiernan “I struggled through twelve years of therapy for suicidal thoughts, but I overcame these dark thoughts.…

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World

by Edited by Susanna Barnes and Laura S. Meitzner Yoder, with a foreword by Tania Murray Li and afterword by Ricardo Roque

University of Calgary Press

2025

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World explores the lasting impacts of Portuguese colonial land policies. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal lenses, it highlights how these policies continue to shape contemporary land governance, Indigenous-settler relations, and socio-economic inequalities. Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land…

Acts of Darkness: Notorious Criminals, Their Defenders, Prosecuters, and Jailers

by Written by John L. Hill | Foreword by Salvatore Caramanna

Durvile & UpRoute

2025

Acts of Darkness exposes the many faces of crime, and the many faces of injustice. Some acts of darkness are brutal and unmistakable: murder, drug wars, and violence behind prison walls. Others are more calculated: fraud, betrayal, corruption, and abuse of power. And some unfold quietly, in courtrooms, in boardrooms, or deep inside Canada’s justice…

The Next War: Indications Intelligence in the Early Cold War

by Timothy Andrews Sayle

University of Calgary Press

2025

The Next War draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the hidden history of allied intelligence networks during the early Cold War. The threat of nuclear conflict loomed menacingly over the world during the Cold War. Early warning of an attack was a crucial focus for military and political intelligence. Intelligence networks in Canada, the United…

Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education

by edited by Chelsea Temple Jones, Fady Shanouda, and Lisanne Binhammer

AU Press

2025

Online education is often heralded as a solution for accessibility to higher education; however, ableism thrives online. In this timely collection, contributors aim to trouble what online teaching looks like and think critically about how disability is addressed in online classrooms. Through narratives, poetry, interviews, and scholarly analysis, they reflect on disabled, mad, sick, and…

Rag Pickers

by Blaine Newton

University of Calgary Press

2025

Funny and heartbreaking, these stories pick at the edge of human lives and reassemble the pieces in search of meaning and connection. A sinister note sewn in the lining of a vintage jacket from a second-hand store compels a young woman to make changes in her life. A brother discovers his dying twin has been…

Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online

by edited by Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Enilda Romero-Hall, Clare Daniel, Niya Bond, and Liv Newman

AU Press

2025

Instructors across higher education require inspiring and practical resources for creating, adapting to, and enhancing, online teaching and learning spaces. Faculty need to build collaborative, equitable and trusting online learning communities. This edited volume examines the experiences that interdisciplinary and global feminist educators have had—both their successes and their challenges—in infusing feminist pedagogical tenets into their…

The Story of ii’ taa’poh’to’p: University of Calgary’s Journey Towards an Indigenous Strategy

by Grandparents of ii’ taa’poh’to’p

LCR Publishing

2025

A dynamic framework for the development of an Indigenous strategy that shares the engaging story of ii’taa’poh’to’p at the University of Calgary. The University of Calgary’s Indigenous strategy, ii’taa’poh’to’p, lays the path for a journey of transformation and renewal for truth and reconciliation through ways of knowing, doing, connecting, and being. The Story of ii’…

Beyond Touch Sites: an Anthology of the Tangible

by edited by Wendy McGrath

Laberinto Press

2025

From the moment we leave the warm seas of our mothers’ bellies to join the world of Alone, tactility defines the contours of our being. With smell, touch is the oldest of our senses. It is also, as the explorations in Beyond Touch Sites reveal, one of the most complex and intimate conduits of human…

Blue Hours

by Alison Acheson

Freehand Books

2025

A novel about fatherhood, grief, unanswerable questions, and the small, magical moments that make up life. Keith has always striven to break rules as he navigates full-time parenting and supports the career of his successful photographer wife. Her unexpected illness and death leaves both him and his son Charlie in bits. When they take a…

To Be Worthy in Honor

by Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong

BWL Publishing

2025

Nicknamed Hotspur for tirelessly thwarting threats to England, Sir Harry Percy should be riding easy. Deeply in love, he builds an idyllic life in Northumberland at Tower House, with his sweetheart, Ciarry. Trouble brews, though, under Henry IV, who became king—over Harry’s objections—by inciting a mob to make Parliament oust the venal Richard II and…

SPIRIT RIDER: A Lillian Indigenous Mystery

by Lynda Partridge Illustrations by Dave Nicholson

Durvile & UpRoute

2025

In Spirit Rider, Book 3 in the Lillian Mystery series, Lillian and her friends once again find themselves at the crossroads of spirits and secrets. When a mysterious boy on a bicycle appears outside Lillian’s window, his mischievous antics hide a deeper, more haunting purpose. With her gift of communicating with spirits, and the support of…