The big new thrill at this year's Royal Show will be the Chuck Wagon Races, with Red Indians in full war-paint going helter-skelter around the arena, chuck wagons swaying and jostling perilously, horse teams urged with wild...
Read Alberta eBook Collection
A partnership of the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) and Alberta Municipal Affairs’ Public Library Services Branch (PLSB) launched the Read Alberta eBook Collection to make Alberta-published eBooks available to readers across the province and country. Titles are added quarterly.
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Auteur:Mannik, LyndaSommaire: - Auteur:Sommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Daffern, TonySommaire:
Popular Day Hikes: Canadian Rockies covers 37 popular, accessible trails in one of the world's most stunningly beautiful natural environments. Featuring easy short-day walks, more-strenuous full-day hikes and the occasional easy...
- Auteur:Boer, PeterSommaire:
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was created to safeguard Canada's national security, but hot on the heels of its successes have come controversies and scandals. This book reflects an edgy sensitivity to the...
- Auteur:Beaty, Bart, Sullivan, RebeccaSommaire:
What's on TV? Canadian Television Today explores the current challenges and issues facing the English-language television industry in Canada. Television in Canada has long been one of the principal conduits of national identity....
- Auteur:Gray, LarrySommaire:
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest sustained conflict of the Second World War, a critical fight for the Allies to stop Nazi U-boats and other warships from sinking supply ships to Europe. Canadians played a vital role in that...
- Auteur:Dornian, DaveSommaire:
If you find yourself in the Bow Valley for only a few days, or even an afternoon or evening, you can climb good rock a short walk from the road. The outskirts of Canmore offer some of the best-developed sport climbing in the Canadian...
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The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the "long twentieth century" offers a particularly captivating window on the lasting and varied effects of...
- Auteur:Glatt, JaneSommaire:
Dagrun and her Intelligencer friends have survived the winter, but spring does not bring safety. The mastermind behind the plot against the Fair Seas Alliance is still at large, and the assassin Rahm is playing his own game that may...
- Auteur:Galler-Smith, Barbara, Langston, JoshSommaire:
Part Two of the trilogy (Druids, Captives, Warriors) Cast into slavery, two Druids must escape and protect an ancient magic from one who would abuse it. As the spiritual heart of his clan, seer Druid Mallec is trusted and adored by...
- Auteur:Abele, FrancesSommaire:
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of...
- Auteur:Irvine, DavidSommaire:
"Caring is Everything" brilliantly fosters the notion that all of us, regardless of our education, social or economic status, can sincerely make a difference and bring joy to others, ourselves, and the community in which we serve.
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The twenty-two authors featured within Carpe Noctem descended into midnight waters to explore the deepest horrors and wildest wonders which darkness cloaks. This anthology is not for the faint of heart.
- Auteur:Portico, Bowman S.Sommaire:
"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...
- Auteur:Walton, Diane LSommaire:
Celebrate On Spec Magazine's silver jubilee with an anthology of speculative fiction.
- Auteur:Hartson, TamaraSommaire:
Super Explorers take you back in time to the medieval days when people lived in castles and knights roamed slaying dragons and rescuing beautiful maidens: - Castles were fortifications made of stone built in the Middle Ages to control...
- Cats with character : writers' cats, cats in literature, cats in power and other interesting kittiesAuteur:Sommaire:
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons." -Robertson Davies. So many of our greatest authors have had cats that it seems a cat is next to the pen in importance...
- Auteur:Frank, Elizabeth BalesSommaire:
For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight-then the fight is brought to her. Lucy Barrett...
- Auteur:Jennings, Neil L.Sommaire:
Central Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of the Southern Interior of British Columbia is a follow-up to three previous volumes on wildflowers written by Neil Jennings and published by Rocky Mountain Books. It is being published...
- Auteur:Perry, Beth, Park, Caroline, Melrose, SherriSommaire:
Many of today's learning environments are dominated by technology or procedure-driven approaches that leave learners feeling alone and disconnected. The authors of Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals...
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