Alberta Books Catalogue

Browse the latest titles by Alberta book publishers.

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Boy Who Was Saved by Jazz

by Tom Bentley-Fisher

NeWest Press

2025

Robert lost his father before he’d even been born, and was quickly abandoned by his young mother to be raised by his grandparents in small-town Saskatchewan. In another sense, though, Robert never lost his father, whose ghostly presence lingers in the young boy’s life over the years by means of spectral “advice letters” on how…

Skidded and Skunked

by Dean Hovey

BWL Publishing

2025

Despite the grieving husband’s description of the event, Sergeant CJ Jensen isn’t at all convinced that a farm fatality is really an accident. With the help of Pam Ryan, Floyd Swenson, and a neighbour who raises skunks, CJ’s investigation uncovers multiple mysteries as she moves forward and puts down permanent roots in Pine County.…

Shúhta Dene: Go'diah's Quest

by Mauren Gresl

BWL Publishing

2025

Stories and legends of a medicine woman banished from her village for being accused of being a witch are told around the campfires. Tales of the wonderous gifts of plants with healing medicine in the mountains near her village make a young woman determined to find the elusive herbs and the medicine woman with the…

Love and War Western Style

by Rose Scollard

University of Calgary Press

2025

Love and War Western Style presents three radio plays commissioned by the CBC in the early 1990s. Snappy dialogue, whip-quick storytelling, and vivacious humour come together in these clever deconstructions of familiar romantic vehicles—the western, the Hollywood musical, the romance novel—featuring imaginary cowboys, wishes that go awry, and tough, unstoppable, feisty women. A pleasure to read…

ROUGH & MESSY JUSTICE: A Train Heist, Murder, & Misdeeds

by W. KEITH REGULAR | Foreword by Hon. Peter W. L. Martin

Durvile & UpRoute

2025

Rough & Messy Justice brings to life the Rocky Mountains’ Crowsnest Pass of 1920, a place of rugged geography, a mining economy, and diverse culture. Against this backdrop, an armed robbery of a CPR train leads to a dramatic shootout at the Bellevue Café between police officers and two of the three Russians bandits, recently arrived…

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…

A Story Can Be Told About Pain

by Lisa Martin

NeWest Press

2025

When an accident upends their lives, fourteen-year-old Shiloh and her mother Ruth must leave their idyllic home to make a new life in the city. They find housing — through an evangelical church operating out of a strip mall — that backs onto the grounds of the abandoned Pacific Hospital for the Mind. Their lives…

Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences

by Edited by Paul McKenzie-Jones, Sheila McManus, and Julie Young

AU Press

2025

Borders are known for their paradoxical qualities. Sometimes they are shifting and porous, lines in the sand constituted more by subjective experience than by legal definition; at other times they harden into walls, are heavily securitized, and their primary function becomes keeping the unwanted out. Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences sets out to explore the concrete, complex effects…

Howdy, I’m Singh Hari

by Kelly Kaur and illustrated by Ravina Toor

Red Barn Books

2025

Howdy, I’m Singh Hari is an illustrated children’s book about Canada’s little-known Punjabi pioneer Harnam Singh Hari (1883-1969). The story, ideal for ages 7-10, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Back in 1910, when Singh Hari arrived in Canada, the turban, beard and accent were all strange. But his sparkling green…

The Material Mind: Reduction and Emergence

by Max Kistler

University of Calgary Press

2025

The Material Mind puts the issue of understanding how the mind fits into the natural order into broad perspective, linking the question of causal efficacy of cognitive properties and events with issues of their reducibility, the reality of causal powers, and with a relevant concept of emergence. The Material Mind develops a concept of reduction…

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…

No Bass No Party: Sketches of My Life in Music

by Gary Shea

BWL Publishing

2025

You won’t read about the heads of chickens being bitten off or mounds of drugs being snorted from the naked bodies of sweaty groupies. No, what you will read about on these pages is the deep and intense journey into the very heart of rock and roll and what it takes to come out the…